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Eleanor Arnason
Círculo de espadas
Format: FB2
Language: es
Series: NOVA ciencia ficción
Genre: sf_social

Isaac Asimov
Sfârşitul Eternităţii
Format: FB2
Language: ro
Genre: sf_social

Pierce Anthony
Macroscope
Format: FB2
Language: en
Genre: sf_social sf

Gene Brewer
K-PAX
Format: FB2
Language: en
Genre: sf_social

James Graham Ballard
The Subliminal Man
Format: FB2
Language: en
Genre: sf_social

John Boyne
El ladrón de tiempo
Format: FB2
Language: es
Genre: sf_social

David Baldacci
La simple vérité
Format: EPUB
Language: en
Genre: washington prose social political

Baudoin De Bodinat
la vie sur Terre t2
Format: EPUB
Language: fr
Genre: social

Zoe Cannon
The Torturer's Daughter
Format: FB2
Language: en
Genre: sf_social

Karel Čapek
La guerra de las salamandras
Format: FB2
Language: es
Genre: sf_social

Emmanuel Carrère
Limonov
Format: EPUB
Language: fr
Genre: société social political war

Gilles Châtelet
Vivre et penser comme des porcs
Format: EPUB
Language: en
Genre: social

Philip Dick
Die LincolnMaschine
Format: FB2
Language: de
Genre: sf_social

Philip K. Dick
The Adjustment Team
Format: FB2
Language: en
Genre: sf sf_social

Philip Kindred Dick
Martian TimeSlip
Format: FB2
Language: en
Genre: sf_cyberpunk sf_social sf

Alex Dalski
Парадайз.Ru
Format: FB2
Language: ru
Genre: sf_social

Ivan Efremov
Horo de Bovo
Format: FB2
Language: eo
Genre: sf_social

F. Pols M.Kornblūts
KOSMOSA TIRGOŅI
Format: FB2
Language: lv
Genre: sf_social

Jasper Fforde
Shades of Grey
Format: FB2
Language: en
Genre: sf_social

Vince Flynn
Executive Power
Format: EPUB
Language: en
Genre: war prose social political action

Gary Gibson
Against Gravity
Format: FB2
Language: en
Genre: sf_social

Jeff Gelb
Seeds of Fear
Format: FB2
Language: en
Series: Hot Blood
Genre: sf_social

Neil Gaiman
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Format: FB2
Language: en
Genre: sf_fantasy sf_social

Jan Geurtz
De verslaving voorbij
Format: EPUB
Language: nl
Genre: social verslaving education

Ruge Gerd
Unterwegs: Politische Erinnerungen
Format: EPUB
Language: de
Genre: politische erinnerungen social adventure

Frank Herbert
The Jesus Incident
Format: FB2
Language: en
Series: WorShip
Genre: sf_epic sf_social

Freds Hoils
ANDROMĒDA
Format: FB2
Language: lv
Genre: sf_social

Harry Harrison
Make Room! Make Room!
Format: FB2
Language: en
Genre: sf_social

Harry Harrison
Przestrzeni! Przestrzeni!
Format: FB2
Language: pl
Genre: sf_social

James Graham Ballard

The Subliminal Man

J. G. Ballard is a British writer who has been called a “poet of death.” But Ballard, especially in the early part of his career, also wrote excellent extrapolative science fiction on social themes, and this haunting story is one of his finest. Here Ballard speaks of the enslavement of the unconscious, of an economic system that forces people to consume against their will through the use of technology. Ballard makes an important assumption-the belief (at least implicitly) that people would not want to consume at high rates if they were not “forced” to do so. In a profound sense, “The Subliminal Man” is a basic critique of the underlying dichotomy that pervades the concept of advertising-that of needs versus wants. We all have basic needs like food, sex, clothing, and shelter. Almost everything else (including the book you are now reading) is wants, often artificially created by the culture in which we live. Think how much more difficult resistance would become if the technology of subliminal advertising were forced upon us. This threat goes beyond the financial difficulties that families would be in. We would also be threatened with dehumanization, for it is the ability to think and chose that separates us from the rest of the animal world. Ballard’s story also assumes that industry will continue to manufacture products that will easily and quickly wear out, or if this is not the case, then it will find ways to make us dissatisfied with the products we now have. There is little evidence that things will change for the better.

Format: FB2
Language: en
Genres: sf_social

David Baldacci

La simple vérité

Amazon.com Review

Rufus Harms is rotting in a Virginia military prison. As readers learn in the terse opening of The Simple Truth, he was convicted 25 years ago of the brutal killing of a young girl. Readers also learn that Rufus did not commit the crime; out of a haze of memories and with fragments of evidence, he has reconstructed the truth about the horrid event that ruined his life. He knows his discovery could cost him his life, so he breaks from prison after sending an appeal to the Supreme Court that details a massive conspiracy tied into the foundations of Washington.

The complex drama of Rufus Harms is only one of the interwoven threads in this massive, violent legal thriller that also draws from the vocabulary of hard-boiled crime fiction. Baldacci offers glimpses into the arcane politics of the high court, where Justice Elizabeth Knight wages war with the manipulative Chief Justice Harold Ramsay. And while Harms struggles to keep out of harm's way and the justices duke it out, Supreme Court law clerk Sara Evans toils with ex-cop John Fiske to discover the import of Harms's appeal (and, simultaneously, to uncover the murderer of Mike Fiske, John's law clerk-brother and the original holder of the appeal). Their interest in the document apparently draws the attention of the same deadly conspirators who manipulated Harms over two decades earlier. While the armed mayhem sometimes rises to the point of excess, Baldacci's novel continues to offer new surprises until the final pages. --Patrick O'Kelley

From Library Journal

Will Baldacci's most recent title be another Winner, like his recent New York Times best seller? Here, a man convicted of a murder he's convinced he committed suddenly realizes that he's been framed and launches an appeal that leads to more murder.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Format: EPUB
Language: en
Genres: washington prose social political

Gilles Châtelet

Vivre et penser comme des porcs

« Être passé de la chair à canon à la chair à consensus et à la pâte à informer est certes un progrès. Mais ces chairs se gâtent vite : la matière première consensuelle se transforme en une unanimité populiste des majorités silencieuses qui n'est jamais innocente. À ce populisme classique se greffe désormais un nouveau populisme yuppie - un techno-populisme - qui entend bien afficher sa post-modernité carnassière, prompte à digérer le best-of des biens et services de la planète. » Gilles Châtelet. Conduite avec la rigoureuse férocité de ses talents de scientifique, de philosophe et de polémiste, l'analyse de Gilles Châtelet décrit le procès qui a réussi à capter la richesse de l'Homme ordinaire - le « paysan libre d'Angleterre » dont parlait Marx - pour fabriquer l'homme moyen des démocraties-marchés. Peut-on imaginer que l'humanité ne soit plus que la somme statistique de citoyens-panélistes et de neurones sur pied dévorés par l'ennui et l'envie ? Loin des récentes niaiseries pseudo-humanistes, Gilles Châtelet dénonce la Triple Alliance politique, économique et cybernétique des néo-libéraux, qui cherche à rendre rationnelle et même festive la « guerre de tous contre tous ». Il réclame une philosophie de combat qui fasse « plus de vagues et moins de vogue ».

Format: EPUB
Language: en
Genres: social

Philip Kindred Dick

Martian TimeSlip

Warning: Although this the action of this book is set on Mars, it could just as easily have taken place in one of the desert communities around Los Angeles. The real action takes place inside the minds of the characters. If you're looking for all the external trappings of interplanetary Sci-Fi, you will be deeply disappointed. Approach it with an open mind, and you will be richly rewarded. What happens when one of the most powerful men on the planet Mars finds that real-estate speculators are intent on gobbling up the remote and seemingly worthless Franklin D Roosevelt mountains? Naturally he wants to find out why. A casual conversation with a psychologist followed by a chance encounter with a master repairman leads to one of those Dickian leaps: Since (1) autistic children do not respond to others because they are living in the future, (2) just build a machine to slow down time and (3) maybe even use it to go back in time and retroactively post a claim on the land before the speculators do. Well, the mechanism works, in a way. The speculators were proposing to build giant apartment blocks to help relieve overcrowding on polluted Earth. The autistic boy, Manfred Steiner, sees much further, however, to the time the apartment block would become a warehouse for the sick and dying, a "tomb world," of which he himself is a denizen. Manfred's visions have a way of bending the reality of those around him; he persistently retreats to a vision of reality as "gubble" -- entropy seen as large wormlike constructs that underlie reality, leading to pure "gubbish." MARTIAN TIME-SLIP is one of my favorite Philip K Dicks. (The problem is that I like all 15 or so I've read more or less equally.) Reading Philip K Dick tends to bend your sense of reality much as Manfred Steiner does. And one can't help looking over one's shoulder for a few hours after reading him. I see Dick as not so much a science fiction writer as a creator of disturbing and eerily plausible futures.

Format: FB2
Language: en
Genres: sf_cyberpunk sf_social sf

F. Pols M.Kornblūts

KOSMOSA TIRGOŅI

KOSMOSA TIRGOŅI F. POLS M.KORNBLŪTS fantastikas pasaulē IZDEVNIECĪBA «ZINĀTNE» RĪGĀ 1968 No angļu valodas tulkojuši M. ANDERSONE un V. JANSEVICS Mākslinieks 0. MEDNIS Mūsu planētas iedzīvotājiem uz Zemes kļuvis par šauru, tāpēc cilvēku skatieni pievērsti Venērai. Tā sola daudzas priekšrocības un ienesīgus peļņas avotus, un starp divām ASV reklāmas aģentūrām izvēršas sacensība par Venēras izmantošanas pirmtiesībām. Būtībā tā ir nevis sacensība, bet kapitālismam parastā nesaudzīgā un netīrā konkurences cīņa. Notikumu virpulī tiek ierauts arī augstākās kategorijas reklāmas darbinieks Mets Ransteds, kuru cenšas nobīdīt pie malas viņa ieceru pretinieki. Darbība risinās uz savdabīga greznības un nabadzības pasaules fona. Vienlaikus ar sarežģītas tehnikas attīstību vērojams degvielas trūkums. Tiek ražots tūkstošiem dažādu dzērienu, bet skolēni ēd «atjaunotas» gaļas bifštekus. Amerikas Savienoto Valstu pārapdzīvotības draudi vieš cilvēkos nedrošību.Spējīgajam jauneklim jāpieliek visi spēki, lai sarežģītajās situācijās saglabātu dzīvību, atgūtu agrākās tiesības un mī]otās sievietes draudzību. Vai viņam tas izdodas? Uz šo jautājumu lai atbild romāns «Kosmosa tirgoņi».

Format: FB2
Language: lv
Genres: sf_social

Círculo de espadas

Sfârşitul Eternităţii

Macroscope

Семнадцать Мгновений Вейдера

K-PAX

The Subliminal Man

El ladrón de tiempo

La simple vérité

Amazon.com Review

From Library Journal

la vie sur Terre t2

The Torturer's Daughter

La guerra de las salamandras

Vivre et penser comme des porcs

Die LincolnMaschine

The Adjustment Team

Martian TimeSlip

PULKVEŽA FOSETA PĒDĒJAIS CEĻOJUMS

KOSMOSA TIRGOŅI

Shades of Grey

Executive Power

Seeds of Fear

De verslaving voorbij

Finde den Job, der dich glücklich macht

Unterwegs: Politische Erinnerungen

ANDROMĒDA

Make Room! Make Room!

Przestrzeni! Przestrzeni!

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