Showing results by author "Walter Tevis" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

In a world where the human population has suffered devastating losses, a handful of survivors cling to what passes for life in a postapocalyptic, dying landscape. A world where humans wander, drugged and lulled by electronic bliss. A dying world of no children and no art, where reading is forbidden.

Thomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from the planet Anthea, which has been devastated by a series of nuclear wars and whose inhabitants are twice as intelligent as human beings. When he lands on Earth—in Kentucky, disguised as a human—it's with the intention of saving his own people from extinction. Newton patents some very advanced Anthean technology, which he uses to amass a fortune. He begins to build a spaceship to help the last 300 Antheans migrate to Earth.

This is an essential collection from the author of The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Hustler and The Colour of Money.

In a time when America's power has been eroded by energy depletion and world control has been virtually given over to the Chinese, only one man has the courage to seek new mineral resources among the stars. He is Ben Belson, one of the richest men in the world, a man haunted by the memory of a loveless childhood and driven by needs and desires he can barely understand or control. His dream is to find the means to help America break the stranglehold of the corrupt interests who are keeping it a second-class power.

La réédition d'un classique d'une actualité saisissante. "Pas de questions, détends-toi." C'est le nouveau mot d'ordre des humains, obsédés par leur confort et leur tranquillité d'esprit, déchargés de tout travail par les robots. Livres, films et sentiments sont interdits depuis des générations. Hommes et femmes se laissent vivre en ingurgitant les tranquillisants fournis par le gouvernement. Jusqu'au jour où un homme solitaire, Paul, apprend à lire grâce à un vieil enregistrement.

Thomas Newton aterriza en Kentucky escapando de su planeta, Anthea, que ha sido devastado por las guerras nucleares y cuyos habitantes son el doble de inteligentes que los humanos. Adopta una apariencia humanoide y se pone manos a la obra para traer a sus compañeros alienígenas y salvarlos de la extinción. Pero su trabajo y la avanzada tecnología antheana que utiliza llaman la atención de Nathan Bryce, profesor de química que no tarda en presumir que Newton esconde algo bajo la superficie.