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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Philip K. Dick. - London : Orion Publishing Group, 2003. - 230, [1] strona ; 20 cm.

(SF Masterworks)

Author

Dick Philip K. (1928-1982). Autor

Form of Work

Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura amerykańska

Subject

Kolonizacja kosmosu Ziemia Mars (planeta) Przedsiębiorstwo międzynarodowe Substancje uzależniające Substancje halucynogenne Przedsiębiorcy i przedsiębiorczynie

Genre/Form

Powieść Science fiction

Tytuł serii

SF Masterworks

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Orion Publishing Group

Na okładce: "For everyone lost in the endlessly multiplicating realities of the modern world, remember: Philip K. Dick got there first" Terry Gilliam.

In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the drug Can-D, which enables users to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new drug, Chew-Z. It is far more potent than Can-D, but threatens to plunge the world into a permanent state of drugged illusion controlled by the mysterious Eldritch.

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Flowers for Algernon / Daniel Keyes. - London : Orion Publishing Group, 2002. - 216 stron ; 19 cm.

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Keyes Daniel (1927-2014) Autor

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Książki Proza

Demographic Group

Literatura amerykańska

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Eksperymenty medyczne na ludziach Inteligencja (psychologia) Mózg Osoby z niepełnosprawnością intelektualną

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Powieść psychologiczna Science fiction

Tytuł serii

SF Masterworks

Instytucja

Orion Publishing Group

Na okładce: Winner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award.

Hugo Award for Best Short Story 1960 r.

Nebula Award for Best Novel 1966 r.

The story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis.

Important themes in Flowers for Algernon include the treatment of the mentally disabled, the impact on happiness of the conflict between intellect and emotion, and how events in the past can influence a person later in life. Algernon is an example of a story that incorporates the science-fiction theme of uplift.

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There are copies available to loan: sygn. O 31797 (1 egz.)

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Inverted World / Christopher Priest. - London : Orion Publishing Group, 2020. - 303 strony ; 20 cm.

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Author

Priest Christopher (1943-2024) Autor

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Książki Proza

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Literatura angielska

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Ziemia Świat przedstawiony Grawitacja

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Powieść Science fiction

Tytuł serii

SF Masterworks

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Orion Publishing Group

Na okładce: " One of the trickiest and most astonishing twist endings in modern SF' Tribune.

The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be freshly laid ahead of the city & carefully removed in its wake. Rivers & mountains present nearly insurmountable challenges to the ingenuity of the city's engineers. But if the city does not move, it will fall farther & farther behind the optimum & into the crushing gravitational field that has transformed life on Earth.

Helward Mann is a member of the city's elite. Better than anyone, he knows how tenuous is the city's continued existence. But the world he's about to discover is infinitely stranger than the strange world he believes he knows so well.

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There are copies available to loan: sygn. O 32125 (1 egz.)

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Tree of Angels / Penny Sumner. - London : Orion Publishing Group, 2004. - 342, [1] strona ; 24 cm.

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Sumner Penny Autor

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Literatura australijska Literatura angielska

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Rewolucja październikowa (1917) Bliskie związki międzyludzkie Rodzina Sekrety rodzinne Emigracja Historia Rosja Wielka Brytania Australia

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Powieść Saga rodzinna

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Orion Publishing Group

Na górze okładki: "A vivid, gripping, sensual story that sweeps you through time and space" Maggie Gee.

From the salons of pre- revolutionary Russia to war-torn Britain and the tropcal rainforests of Australia, a stunning debut novel about three generations of exiles.

A house carved fine as a jewelry box, a painted garden, an angel in a palm tree. These are only some of the marvels of the Russian estate on which Nina Karsavina grows up, surrounded by her beautiful mother, her eccentric father, her sister Katya, and the housekeeper Darya. But when her father gradually loses his sanity after the death of her mother, Nina takes the difficult decision to leave her homeland behind and marry a complete stranger.

Over the next 80 years, the family will scatter across the globe in the wake of the Russian Revolution and two World Wars. It is only when Nina’s own granddaughter Julia, an artist, begins a search for her roots that the family’s tragic history can be pieced together for the first time.

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The Shadow of the wind / Carlos Ruiz Zafón ; translated by Lucia Graves. - London : The Orion Publishing Group Ltd., 2004. - 403 s. ; 23 cm.

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Ruiz Zafón Carlos (1964-2020) Autor Graves Lucia. Tł.

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Powieść hiszpańska

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There are copies available to loan: sygn. O 21179 (1 egz.)