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Městské státy Nížin žily po staletí v míru, byly to kolébky civilizace, prosperity a moudrosti, ochraňované smlouvami, obchodem a vírou v rozumný úsudek svých sousedů. Ale mezitím ve vzdálených oblastech světa začalo Impérium Vos pohlcovat město za městem pomocí svých dokonale vycvičených armád, strojů a smrtícího Daru... A teď se jeho hlad po válce a dobývání stal neukojitelným. Pouze stárnoucí Stenwold Maker, šéf špionáže, řemeslník a politik, vidí, že dlouhá doba míru je u konce. Na jeho ramenou tedy spočívá úkol otevřít oči svému lidu dříve, než černozlatá vlna zaplaví Nížiny a zničí vše, co jí bude stát v cestě. Ale nejdříve musí zařídit, aby se on sám nestal další obětí Impéria.

První útok Vos se i za cenu velkých ztrát podařilo odrazit, Impérium se však nevzdává. Vosí císař má smělé plány a rozhodl se podrobit si Nížiny úplně a jednou provždy. Jeho vojáci se nyní roztahují po celé zemi a v ohrožení již není pouze jedno město, ale všechny státy. Došlo na varovná slova šéfa broučí špionáže Stenwolda Makera… nastala válka.V krvavých bojích se střetne magie prastarých vidoucích ras a moderních strojů ras vědoucích. A až na válečném poli se pozná, kdo je skutečný přítel a kdo zrádce a co všechno je schopná přestát skutečná láska. Národy Nížin jsou nuceny zapomenout na stará příkoří a spojit své síly. Ale je možné, aby Kudlanky bojovaly po boku nenáviděných Pavouků? Stenwoldovi přátelé umírají jeden po druhém, v ohrožení života je i jeho rodina - stárnoucí Brouk se tedy musí vyrovnat nejen se smrtícími útoky Vos, ale i se svým vlastním svědomím…Ve druhém díle série Stíny vědoucích rozehrává Adrian Tchaikovsky strhující partii o lidské dobyvačnosti, lstivosti a odvaze. Lidé jeho románu nejsou obyčejní - díky prastarému vývoji si nesou různé hmyzí schopnosti a vlastnosti. Agresivní Vosy tedy dovedou ze svých rukou vysílat žihadla, elegantní Vážky mohou létat a záhadní můří lidé vidí výborně ve tmě. Díky tomuto neotřelému nápadu vznikla dobrodružná série, jež si získala tisíce čtenářů po celém světě.

Roztáhněte křídla a naostřete žihadla! Ve světě hmyzích lidí se opět děje něco nekalého… Díky duchům Darakyonu se můřímu mladíku Achaesovi podařilo vysledovat ukradenou Kostku stínů do rozbahněného města Jerez. Má však jen pár dní na to, aby tento magický artefakt získal, jinak ho ztratí navždy... Vojska vosího Impéria se mezitím připravují na velký útok. Stenwold a jeho přívrženci musí v krátké době získat spojence, předtím, než se Vosy opět dají do pohybu a dobudou vše, co jim bude stát v cestě. Pokud se nedokážou sjednotit do jara, nenáviděná černozlatá zástava bude do konce roku vlát nad každým městem v Nížinách. Jestliže Kostka stínů padne do rukou vosího císaře, svět už nic neuchrání od jeho nelítostných ambicí. Třetí díl originální série Stíny vědoucích (Shadows of the Apt) nazvaný Krev Kudlanky (Blood of the Mantis) pokračuje v příbězích oblíbených „okřídlených“ hrdinů. Setkáte se s můřím mágem, vosím císařem, pavoučí špionkou a mnoha dalšími bytostmi, které spojuje jeden vytoužený a mocný cíl – Kostka stínů. Adrian Tchaikovsky opět nabízí strhující příběh o lstivosti, zákeřnosti a odvaze neskrývající snahu o podobenství světa lidí a říše hmyzu.

The first novel in the Echoes of the Fall series, The Tiger and the Wolf is an accomplished high fantasy by Adrian Tchaikovsky, and winner of the 2017 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel. Adrian Tchaikovsky is also the author of the Arthur C. Clarke award-winning Children of Time.In the bleak northern crown of the world, war is comingManiye's father is the Wolf clan's chieftain, but she's an outcast. Her mother was queen of the Tiger and these tribes have been enemies for generations. Maniye also hides a deadly secret. All can shift into their clan's animal form, but Maniye can take on tiger and wolf shapes. She refuses to disown half her soul so escapes, rescuing a prisoner of the Wolf clan in the process. The killer Broken Axe is set on their trail, to drag them back for retribution. The Wolf chieftan plots to rule the north and controlling his daughter is crucial to his schemes. However, other tribes also prepare for strife. Strangers from the far south appear too, seeking allies in their own conflict. It's a season for omens as priests foresee danger and a darkness falling across the land. Some say a great war is coming, overshadowing even Wolf ambitions. A time of testing and broken laws is near, but what spark will set the world ablaze?Shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society Best Novel Award

The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age—a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare. Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?

As the south is in turmoil, an old terror emerges in the north . . . Maniye, child of both Wolf and Tiger clans, has been named Champion of her people. But they're unsure if she's an asset - or a threat. To buy time, she joins Prince Tecuman's warband of outcasts and heads south, to help him gain his crown. She wants to discover her true place in the world, but instead heads into the jaws of a fierce new conflict. Civil war threatens as Tecuman and his twin sister battle for the throne, for only one can rule. Yet whoever triumphs will carry a heavy burden, as a great doom has been foreseen that will fall across their whole world. And soon Maniye finds herself at the heart of a political storm. Danger is also shadowing her old home, where Lord Thunder and his bear clan are attempting to unite the northern tribes. But only extreme peril will end age-old rivalries. An adversary from the most ancient of times is preparing to strike, putting their lands and their very souls in danger. And neither north nor south will be spared the terror to come. The Bear and the Serpent is the second book in Adrian Tchaikovsky's epic fantasy series, Echoes of the Fall, following The Tiger and the Wolf.

A NEW SCIENTIST BOOK OF THE YEAR. My name is Rex. I am a good dog. Rex is also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristling with heavy calibre weaponry and his voice resonates with subsonics especially designed to instil fear. With Dragon, Honey and Bees, he's part of a Multiform Assault Pack operating in the lawless anarchy of Campeche, Mexico. A genetically engineered Bioform, he's a deadly weapon in a dirty war. All he wants to be is a Good Dog. And to do that he must do exactly what Master says and Master says he's got to kill a lot of enemies. But who, exactly, are the enemies? What happens when Master is tried as a war criminal? What rights does the Geneva Convention grant weapons? Do Rex and his fellow Bioforms even have a right to exist? And what happens when Rex slips his leash?

Children of Ruin follows Adrian Tchaikovsky's extraordinary Children of Time, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award. It is set in the same universe, with a new cast of characters and a thrilling new narrative. It has been waiting through the ages. Now it's time . . . Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's great empire fell, and the program's decisions were lost to time. Aeons later, humanity and its new spider allies detected fragmentary radio signals between the stars. They dispatched an exploration vessel, hoping to find cousins from old Earth. But those ancient terraformers woke something on Nod better left undisturbed. And it's been waiting for them.

Humanity clings to life on a dying Earth in an epic, far-future SF from an award-winning author. The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, Shadrapar is a museum, a midden, an asylum, a prison on a world that is ever more alien to humanity. Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new is Stefan Advani: rebel, outlaw, prisoner, survivor. This is his testament, an account of the journey that took him into the blazing desolation of the western deserts; that transported him east down the river and imprisoned him in the verdant hell of the jungle's darkest heart; that led him deep into the labyrinths and caverns of the underworld. He will meet with monsters, madman, mutants. The question is, which one of them will inherit this Earth?

As the south is in turmoil, an old terror emerges in the north ...Maniye, child of both Wolf and Tiger clans, has been named Champion of her people. But they're unsure if she's an asset - or a threat. To buy time, she joins Prince Tecuman's warband of outcasts and heads south, to help him gain his crown. She wants to discover her true place in the world, but instead heads into the jaws of a fierce new conflict. Civil war threatens as Tecuman and his twin sister battle for the throne, for only one can rule. Yet whoever triumphs will carry a heavy burden, as a great doom has been foreseen that will fall across their whole world. And soon Maniye finds herself at the heart of a political storm. Danger is also shadowing her old home, where Lord Thunder and his bear clan are attempting to unite the northern tribes. But only extreme peril will end age-old rivalries. An adversary from the most ancient of times is preparing to strike, putting their lands and their very souls in danger. And neither north nor south will be spared the terror to come. The Bear and the Serpent is the second book in Adrian Tchaikovsky's epic fantasy series, Echoes of the Fall, following The Tiger and the Wolf.

'My most anticipated book of the year' - Peter F. Hamilton, Britain's no.1 science fiction writer Children of Ruin follows Adrian Tchaikovsky's extraordinary Children of Time, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award. It is set in the same universe, with new characters and a thrilling narrative. It has been waiting through the ages. Now it's time . . . Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's great empire fell, and the program's decisions were lost to time. Aeons later, humanity and its new spider allies detected fragmentary radio signals between the stars. They dispatched an exploration vessel, hoping to find cousins from old Earth. But those ancient terraformers woke something on Nod better left undisturbed. And it's been waiting for them. 'Books like this are why we read science fiction' - Ian McDonald, author of the Luna series All underpinned by great ideas. And it is crisply modern - but with the sensibility of classic science fiction' Stephen Baxter, author of the Long Earth series (with Terry Pratchett)

This high-stakes space-based adventure will be perfect for those who loved Children of Time, also by Adrian Tchaikovsky. The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one chance discovery . . . Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade his mind in the war. And one of humanity's heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers. Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed by an alien enemy. Many escaped, but millions more died. So mankind created enhanced humans such as Idris - who could communicate mind-to-mind with our aggressors. Then these 'Architects' simply disappeared and Idris and his kind became obsolete. Now, Idris and his crew have something strange, abandoned in space. It's clearly the work of the Architects - but are they really returning? And if so, why? Hunted by gangsters, cults and governments, Idris and his crew race across the galaxy as they search for answers. For they now possess something of incalculable value, and many would kill to obtain it. Shards of Earth is the first thrilling instalment in the Final Architecture trilogy - by the Arthur C. Clarke award-winning novelist Adrian Tchaikovsky.

From the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden is an extraordinary feat of the imagination and a page-turning adventure. They thought we were safe. They were wrong. Four years ago, two girls went looking for monsters on Bodmin Moor. Only one came back. Lee thought she'd lost Mal, but now she's miraculously returned. But what happened that day on the moors? And where has she been all this time? Mal's reappearance hasn't gone unnoticed by MI5 officers either, and Lee isn't the only one with questions. Julian Sabreur is investigating an attack on top physicist Kay Amal Khan. This leads Julian to clash with agents of an unknown power - and they may or may not be human. His only clue is grainy footage, showing a woman who supposedly died on Bodmin Moor. Dr Khan's research was theoretical; then she found cracks between our world and parallel Earths. Now these cracks are widening, revealing extraordinary creatures. And as the doors crash open, anything could come through. 'Inventive, funny and engrossing, this book lingers long after you close it' - Tade Thompson, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of Rosewater Adrian Tchaikovsky is the author of Children of Time, Children of Ruin and many other novels, novellas and short stories. Children of Time won the Arthur C. Clarke award in its 30th anniversary year.

První útok Vos se i za cenu velkých ztrát podařilo odrazit, Impérium se však nevzdává. Vosí císař má smělé plány a rozhodl se podrobit si Nížiny úplně a jednou provždy. Jeho vojáci se nyní roztahují po celé zemi a v ohrožení již není pouze jedno město, ale všechny státy. Došlo na varovná slova šéfa broučí špionáže Stenwolda Makera… nastala válka.V krvavých bojích se střetne magie prastarých vidoucích ras a moderních strojů ras vědoucích. A až na válečném poli se pozná, kdo je skutečný přítel a kdo zrádce a co všechno je schopná přestát skutečná láska. Národy Nížin jsou nuceny zapomenout na stará příkoří a spojit své síly. Ale je možné, aby Kudlanky bojovaly po boku nenáviděných Pavouků? Stenwoldovi přátelé umírají jeden po druhém, v ohrožení života je i jeho rodina - stárnoucí Brouk se tedy musí vyrovnat nejen se smrtícími útoky Vos, ale i se svým vlastním svědomím…Ve druhém díle série Stíny vědoucích rozehrává Adrian Tchaikovsky strhující partii o lidské dobyvačnosti, lstivosti a odvaze. Lidé jeho románu nejsou obyčejní - díky prastarému vývoji si nesou různé hmyzí schopnosti a vlastnosti. Agresivní Vosy tedy dovedou ze svých rukou vysílat žihadla, elegantní Vážky mohou létat a záhadní můří lidé vidí výborně ve tmě. Díky tomuto neotřelému nápadu vznikla dobrodružná série, jež si získala tisíce čtenářů po celém světě.

The unmissable follow-up space opera to the highly acclaimed Children of Time and Children of Ruin. When Earth failed, it sent out arkships to establish new outposts. So the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its precious human cargo to a potential new paradise. Generations later, this fragile colony has managed to survive on Imir, eking out a hardy existence. Yet life is tough, and much technological knowledge has been lost. Then strangers appear, on a world where everyone knows their neighbour. They possess unparalleled knowledge and thrilling new technology - for they have come from the stars, to help humanity's lost colonies. But not all is as it seems on Imir. As the visitors lose track of time and memories, they discover the colonists fear unknown enemies and Imir's own murky history. Neighbour turns against neighbour, as society fractures in the face of this terrifying foe. Perhaps some other intelligence is at work, toying with colonists and space-faring scientists alike? But not all questions are so easily answered - and the price may be the colony itself. Children of Memory by Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky is a far-reaching space opera spanning generations, species and galaxies.

Roztáhněte křídla a naostřete žihadla! Ve světě hmyzích lidí se opět děje něco nekalého… Díky duchům Darakyonu se můřímu mladíku Achaesovi podařilo vysledovat ukradenou Kostku stínů do rozbahněného města Jerez. Má však jen pár dní na to, aby tento magický artefakt získal, jinak ho ztratí navždy... Vojska vosího Impéria se mezitím připravují na velký útok. Stenwold a jeho přívrženci musí v krátké době získat spojence, předtím, než se Vosy opět dají do pohybu a dobudou vše, co jim bude stát v cestě. Pokud se nedokážou sjednotit do jara, nenáviděná černozlatá zástava bude do konce roku vlát nad každým městem v Nížinách. Jestliže Kostka stínů padne do rukou vosího císaře, svět už nic neuchrání od jeho nelítostných ambicí. Třetí díl originální série Stíny vědoucích (Shadows of the Apt) nazvaný Krev Kudlanky (Blood of the Mantis) pokračuje v příbězích oblíbených „okřídlených“ hrdinů. Setkáte se s můřím mágem, vosím císařem, pavoučí špionkou a mnoha dalšími bytostmi, které spojuje jeden vytoužený a mocný cíl – Kostka stínů. Adrian Tchaikovsky opět nabízí strhující příběh o lstivosti, zákeřnosti a odvaze neskrývající snahu o podobenství světa lidí a říše hmyzu.