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Aube d'acier
Charles Stross
- Le Livre De Poche
- Le Livre De Poche Imaginaire
- 26 Novembre 2008
- 9782253122180
Ça chauffe dans la Galaxie. Une étoile a explosé, sans rime ni raison, dispersant une aube d'acier. Une civilisation a disparu, la Nouvelle Moscou. Qui a expédié en représailles vers sa rivale, Nouvelle Dresde, auteur supposé du forfait des missiles meurtriers. Il faut les arrêter car tout cela risque de déplaire à l'Eschaton, déjà rencontré dans Crépuscule d'acier. Lui seul sait la vérité. Lui, et Mercredi Brumedombre, adolescente teigneuse qu'il a choisie comme instrument et qui est demeurée sur une station menacée par l'aube d'acier. Rachel Mansour et Martin Springfield auront fort à faire pour sauver le monde d'une bande de Surhommes aussi nuisibles qu'étourdis.
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Trying to cope with the unchecked technological innovations that have rendered humankind nearly obsolete, the members of the Macx family are confronted by an unknown enemy that is systematically attempting to annihilate all biological lifeforms.
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Les princes marchands Tome 3 ; famille et cie
Charles Stross
- Le Livre De Poche
- Le Livre De Poche Science Fiction
- 14 Septembre 2011
- 9782253159858
Miriam Beckstein, journaliste, est capable de voyager entre des univers parallèles.
Elle partage ce privilège avec d'autres membres de la Famille, qui l'utilise pour se livrer à des trafics, armes et drogue, dans notre univers. L'univers de la Famille, du Clan, est médiéval. Mais Miriam a découvert un accès vers un autre univers qui correspond à notre fin du XIXe siècle. Son projet, faire évoluer le monde médiéval et le monde victorien dans un sens plus conforme à la morale, et propice au développement, en y introduisant des innovations technologiques.
Mais cela promet de bouleverser les équilibres politiques de ces deux univers. Et déchaîne la violence.
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Les princes-marchands Tome 2 ; un secret de famille
Charles Stross
- Le Livre De Poche
- Le Livre De Poche Science Fiction
- 23 Mars 2011
- 9782253159841
Miriam, jeune journaliste sur le point de livrer un scoop, a été kidnappée. Elle se trouve dans un univers parallèle proche du Moyen Age et doit s'y adapter. Miriam et sa protégée Brillana sont victimes d'attentats. Ces coups fourrés proviennent d'un troisième monde proche du XIXe siècle industriel. Miriam se donne pour but de moderniser ces deux mondes avec nos technologies modernes.
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DI Liz Kavanaugh: You realise policing internet porn is your life and your career went down the pan five years ago. But when a fetishist dies on your watch, the Rule 34 Squad moves from low priority to worryingly high profile.
Anwar: As an ex-con, you'd like to think your identity fraud days are over. Especially as you've landed a legit job (through a shady mate). Although now that you're Consul for a shiny new Eastern European Republic, you've no idea what comes next.
The Toymaker: Your meds are wearing off and people are stalking you through Edinburgh's undergrowth. But that's ok, because as a distraction, you're project manager of a sophisticated criminal operation. But who's killing off potential recruits?
So how do bizarre domestic fatalities, dodgy downloads and a European spamming network fit together? The more DI Kavanaugh learns, the less she wants to find out.
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Alex Schwartz had a great job and a promising future - until he caught an unfortunate bout of vampirism, and agreed (on pain of death) to join the Laundry, Britain's only counter-occult secret intelligence agency. His first assignment is in Leeds - his old hometown. But the thought of telling his parents he's lost his job, let alone their discovering his 'condition', is causing Alex almost as much anxiety as his new lifestyle of supernatural espionage. His only saving grace is Cassie Brewer, a student from the local Goth Festival who flirts with him despite his fear of sunlight (and girls). But Cassie has secrets of her own - secrets that make Alex's night life seem positively normal . . . James Bond meets H. P. Lovecraft in the latest occult thriller from Hugo Award winner Charles Stross, in a series where British spies take on the supernatural.
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Le cycle de la laverie - equoide - et autres horreurs
Charles Stross
- 500 Nuances de geek
- 12 Mars 2025
- 9791090692466
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Les princes marchands Tome 4 ; la guerre des familles
Charles Stross
- Le Livre De Poche
- Le Livre De Poche Science Fiction
- 24 Octobre 2012
- 9782253164616
Sur son monde, le Clan est en proie à l'hostilité du roi Egon qui veut éliminer les « sorciers » et s'emparer de leurs richesses. Il subit aussi l'assaut de services américains : le transfuge Matthias a révélé qu'il avait caché aux États-Unis une bombe nucléaire à retardement. À NewYork, à Boston ? Matthias a emporté son secret dans la tombe. Miriam s'est réfugiée dans le troisième monde, qui évoque notre époque victorienne. Mais elle y est poursuivie pour menées révolutionnaires. Tandis qu'un membre du Clan a découvert un quatrième monde, et peut-être une infinité d'autres. Paul Krugman, prix Nobel, a salué ce cycle qui comprend Un secret de famille, Une affaire de famille et Famille et Cie, dont le véritable thème est la confrontation entre sociétés de niveaux de développement différents.
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The theft of millions of pounds from an online game's bank means real world bloodshed in this compelling and timely thriller
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The third book in the 'Laundry' series - the world's only science fiction/ dark comedy/ Cold War/ IT/ Lovecraftian Horror/ spy novels!
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NEVER VOLUNTEER FOR ACTIVE DUTY . . . Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed. Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, parallel universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and the end of the world. Only one thing is certain: it will take more than a full system reboot to sort this mess out . . . This is the first novel in the Laundry Files.
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@00000400@LONDON CAN DRAIN THE LIFE OUT OF YOU . . .@00000163@@00000400@Bob Howard is an intelligence agent working his way through the ranks of the top secret government agency known as 'the Laundry'. When occult powers threaten the realm, they'll be there to clean up the mess - and deal with the witnesses.@00000163@@00000400@There's one kind of threat that the Laundry has never come across in its many decades, and that's vampires. Mention them to a seasoned agent and you'll be laughed out of the room.@00000163@@00000400@But when a small team of investment bankers at one of Canary Wharf's most distinguished financial institutions discovers an arcane algorithm that leaves them fearing daylight and craving O positive, someone doesn't want the Laundry to know. And Bob gets caught right in the middle.@00000163@
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B>A time of ambition, treachery and dangerous secrets . . . /b>Rita Douglas is plucked from her dead-end job and trained as a reluctant US spy. All because she has the latent genetic talent to hop between alternate timelines - and infiltrate them. Her United States is waging a high-tech war, targeting assassins who can move between worlds to deliver death on a mass scale, and Rita will be their secret weapon. Miriam Beckstein has her own mission, as a politician in an industrial revolution North America. She must accelerate her world's technology before their paranoid American twin finds them. It would blow them to hell. After all, they've done it before. Each timeline also battles internal conspiracies, as a cold war threatens to turn white hot. But which world is the aggressor - and will Rita have to choose a side?b>Empire Games is the first book in the exciting series set in the same world as Charles Stross' The Merchant Princes series./b>br>b>/b>br>b>'Mind-boggling, complex and truly brilliant' Daily Mail/b>
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SOME AGENTS HAVE ALL THE FUN. OTHERS SAVE THE WORLD. Bob Howard is an IT expert and occasional field agent for the Laundry, the branch of Her Majesty's Secret Service that deals with occult threats. Dressed (grudgingly) in a tux and sent to the Caribbean, he must infiltrate a millionaire's yacht in order to prevent him from violating a treaty that will bring down the wrath of an ancient underwater race upon humanity's head. Partnered with a gorgeous American agent who's actually a soul-sucking succubus from another dimension, Bob's mission (should he choose to accept it) is to stop the bad guys, avoid getting the girl, and survive - shaken, perhaps, but not stirred.
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A cutting edge space opera from the Hugo Award-winning author of Singularity Sky.
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QUANTUM OF NIGHTMARES - THE NEW MANAGEMENT BOOK 2
Charles Stross
- Orbit
- 13 Janvier 2022
- 9780356516936
It''s a brave new Britain under the New Management. The Prime Minister is an eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which they can control, and some, not so much. Hyperorganised and formidable, Eve Starkey defeated her boss, the louche magical adept and billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge, in a supernatural duel to the death. Now she''s in charge of the Bigge Corporation, just in time to discover the lethal trap Rupert set for her long ago . . . Wendy Deere is investigating unauthorized supernatural shenanigans. She swore to herself she wouldn''t again get entangled with Eve Starkey''s bohemian brother Imp and his crew of transhuman misfits. Yeah, right. Mary Macandless has powers of her own. Right now she''s pretending to be a nanny in order to kidnap the children of a pair of famous, Government-authorized adepts. These children have powers of their own, and Mary Macandless is in way over her head. All of these stories will come together, with world-bending results... ''For all of Stross''s genuine ability to spook and dismay, The Laundry Files are some of the most tremendously humane books I''ve ever read'' Tamsyn Muir, author of Gideon the Ninth
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Welcome to Britain under the New Management! The Prime Minister is an eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting, and almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which they can control, and some, not so much.
Hyperorganised and formidable, Eve Starkey defeated her boss, the louche magical adept and billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge, in a supernatural duel to the death. At least, she has reason to hope he''s dead. But though she''s now in charge of the Bigge Corporation, she''s not free of him yet. Through the fecklessness of her brother Imp, combined with the intricate feudal law of a tiny Channel Island, it would appear that unbeknownst to her, she was married to Bigge - and that proving his death and releasing herself from his arcane bindings will take years and cost millions. Then an emissary of the Prime Minister arrives with an offer that she absolutely can''t . . . well, you know.
This is the final novel in the Laundry Files spin-off trilogy that began with Dead Lies Dreaming and continued with Quantum of Nightmares.
Praise for the Laundry Files universe:
''Grim, hilarious, inventive - make the video game now please'' Tamsyn Muir
''Few do it better'' KIRKUS
''Alternately chilling and hilarious'' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
''Ferociously enjoyable'' SFX -
It''s a brave new Britain under the New Management. The Prime Minister is an eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which they can control, and some, not so much. Hyperorganised and formidable, Eve Starkey defeated her boss, the louche magical adept and billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge, in a supernatural duel to the death. Now she''s in charge of the Bigge Corporation, just in time to discover the lethal trap Rupert set for her long ago . . . Wendy Deere is investigating unauthorized supernatural shenanigans. She swore to herself she wouldn''t again get entangled with Eve Starkey''s bohemian brother Imp and his crew of transhuman misfits. Yeah, right. Mary Macandless has powers of her own. Right now she''s pretending to be a nanny in order to kidnap the children of a pair of famous, Government-authorized adepts. These children have powers of their own, and Mary Macandless is in way over her head. All of these stories will come together, with world-bending results... ''For all of Stross''s genuine ability to spook and dismay, The Laundry Files are some of the most tremendously humane books I''ve ever read'' Tamsyn Muir, author of Gideon the Ninth
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Dark State is the second book in a thrilling series - set in the same world as Charles Stross'' Merchant Princes series. This book follows Empire Games . The time for peace is ending . . . In the near future, one America is experiencing its first technological revolution - whilst in a parallel world, the United States is a hi-tech police state. But both timelines are poised for conflict. Miriam Burgeson''s America is heading for civil war. However, a high profile defection might avert this crisis, if only Miriam and her agents can arrange it in time. And Rita Douglas, rival US spy, arrives during this turmoil. Rita''s world is rocked when she realizes Miriam is her birth mother, changing her own mission irrevocably. Then her United States discovers yet another parallel earth, and the remains of an advanced society. Something destroyed that civilization, Rita''s people are about to rouse it - and two worlds will face the consequences.
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A major SF debut from a British writer who will stand alongside Banks, Hamilton and Reynolds.
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Charles Stross is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. The author of seven Hugo-nominated novels and winner of three Hugo awards for best novella, he has won numerous other awards and been translated into at least twelve other languages.>