At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at an inconcei…
Mit Mitte fünfzig zieht der Erzähler zu seiner Mitte achtzigjährigen Mutter aufs Land, um dort an einem Roman über das Theater mit dem Titel »Scham und Bühne« zu schreiben. Es werden unvergleichliche,…
In a future hammered by climate change and drought, mountain snows have turned to rain, and rain evaporates before it hits the ground. In a fragmenting United States, the cities of Phoenix and Las Veg…
De grootste verspilling van onze tijd is de verspilling van talent. Iedere carrière duurt 2.000 werkweken. Hoe je die besteedt, is een van de belangrijkste beslissingen van je leven. Toch zitten miljo…
It's London, 1907. Journalist Edward Malone, rejected by the woman he loves because he is too prosaic, decides to go in search of adventure and fame to prove himself worthy of her. Soon after, he meet…
The Futurological Congress is the fourth satirical science fiction novel in the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy series from Kafka Prize–winning author Stanislaw Lem.
The artefact is a circular ribbon of matter six hundred million miles long and ninety million miles in radius. Pierson's puppeteers, the aliens who discovered it, are understandably wary of encounteri…
