Brian Delaney, génie des mathématiques, touche au but. II a trouvé une solution au fameux problème de Turing, créé une intelligence artificielle qui puisse - au moins - rivaliser avec l'intelligence humaine.Son bureau est envahi, sa machine et ses notes volées, ses commanditaires assassinés. Lui-même est laissé pour mort, la moitié de son cerveau détruit. II va lui falloir recommencer et se reconstruire lui-même, inventant la première prothèse cérébrale. Est-il encore un humain, ou plus qu'à demi une machine ? Dans ce thriller haletant, Harry Harrison (l'auteur de Soleil vert) et Marvin Minsky (le pape mondialement reconnu de l'intelligence artificielle) exploitent les idées les plus récentes sur l'un des plus profonds mystères de l'univers : le secret de l'intelligence.

Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d'un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d'origine.

It might seem a little careless to lose track of something as big as a battleship ... but interstellar space is on a different scale of magnitude. But a misplaced battleship-in the wrong hands!-can be most dangerous. The world class con man and thief known as the Stainless Steel Rat has another very big problem to solve and this science fiction novella by the great Harry Harrison will see if he can solve it and perhaps four or five more like it before this fascinating and funny tale is finished. 'Use a thief to catch a thief' sounds great but it sometimes has unexpected results.

A world that actively seeks to kill the colonists. Not a pleasant place. The hordes of ferocious animals all come with deadly poison and a will to kill as many humans as possible. Even the plants have teeth and claws and toxins dripping from every surface. They fly, crawl and run for the chance to sink something terrible into a human arm or leg. Oh, and did I mention the 2G gravity? Pyrrus is it's name. The settlers there were supermen... twice as strong as ordinary men and with instantaneous reflexes. They had to be. For their business was murder...a 3 year old Pyrrian had a loaded gun strapped to his forearm and knew how to use it or he was a dead 3 year old. It was up to Jason dinAlt, interplanetary gambler, to discover why Pyrrus had become so hostile during man's brief habitation...if he could stay alive long enough to even make a start - Summary by phil chenevert

Dis was a harsh, inhospitable, dangerous place and the Magter made it worse. They might have been human once-but they were something else now. The Magter had only one desire-Kill! Kill everything, themselves, their planet, the universe if they could-Brion Brandd was sent in at the eleventh hour. His mission was to save Dis, but it looked as though he was going to preside over its annihilation. Space derring Do. Rip roaring action. Evil Aliens. A bewildered hero. Lots of fun. Space derring Do. Lots of fun.

The human race has reached the stars, colonized many planets and done amazing things in all areas of scientific progress. But humans are still humans and remain both honorable and not so honorable; some with high ideals and others with very low ones indeed. So why hasn't war occurred in several centuries among the hundreds of planets? Has man really changed? Not on your life it hasn't! Read how science has given man peace but at what cost?

"The Ethical Engineer" also known as "Deathworld II" finds our hero Jason dinAlt captured to face justice for his crimes, but the ever-wily gambler crashes his transport on a primitive planet populated by clans that hoard knowledge. It's a difficult situation for a guy who just wants to get back to Pyrrus. - The Ethical Engineer was first published in the July and August 1963 issues of Analog Science Fact & Fiction. (Summary by Gregg Margarite)

Jason dinAlt is a professional gambler who travels between different worlds in the universe. Right now, he is gambling on the planet Cassylia. One day, he meets the ambassador of Pyrrus - the most hostile world in the universe. Kerk, the ambassador, offers dinAlt money to run a stake up for him. After Jason finally wins the needed amount, he tries to escape with the money, but gets captured. Why did Kerk offer money to dinAlt and not to someone else? What are his real intentions? Who is the gambler going to play with and how much will he win? Who will capture him and for what reason? Find all the answers in Harry Harrison's "Deathworld" from 1960. B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories. He masterfully plays with a wide array of voices and accents and has since then produced over 500 audiobooks. Now in collaboration with SAGA Egmont, his engaging narration of these famous classics is available to readers everywhere. Harry Max Harrison (1925 - 2012) was an American science fiction writer. He is best known for The Stainless-Steel Rat, a character he created. However, Harrison began his career as an illustrator and editor, working together with Wally Wood. Harry's first short story named "Rock Diver" was published in 1951. Some of his popular titles are "Make Room! Make Room!", "Soylent Gree" and "Bill the Galactic Hero".

A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2020 A Writers' Trust of Canada Best Book of the Year CBC Books: The Best Canadian Nonfiction Selection A Hill Times Top 100 Selection (2020) Silver Medal, The Miramichi Reader's "The Very Best!" Book AwardsAn exploration of the earth's last wild frontier, filled with high-stakes stories of people and places facing an uncertain future.On a life raft in the Mediterranean, a teenager from Ghana wonders whether he will reach Europe alive, and whether he will be allowed to stay. In the North Atlantic, a young chef disappears from a cruise ship, leaving a mystery for his friends and family to solve.  A water-squatting community battles eviction from a harbour in British Columbia, raising the question of who owns the water.The Imperilled Ocean by Laura Trethewey is a deeply reported work of narrative journalism that follows people as they head out to sea. What they discover holds inspiring and dire implications for the life of the ocean - and for all of us back on land. Battles are fought, fortunes made, lives lost, and the ocean approaches an uncertain future. Behind this human drama, the ocean is growing ever more unstable, threatening to upend life on land.

BnF collection ebooks - "IDAME. Se peut-il qu'en ce temps de désolation, En ce jour de carnage et de destruction, Quand ce palais sanglant, ouvert à des Tartares, Tombe avec l'univers sous ces peuples barbares, Dans cet amas affreux de publiques horreurs, Il soit encore pour moi de nouvelles douleurs ?BnF collection ebooks a pour vocation de faire découvrir en version numérique des textes classiques essentiels dans leur édition la plus remarquable, des perles méconnues de la littérature ou des auteurs souvent injustement oubliés. Tous les genres y sont représentés : morceaux choisis de la littérature, y compris romans policiers, romans noirs mais aussi livres d'histoire, récits de voyage, portraits et mémoires ou sélections pour la jeunesse.

Tandis que l'humanité s'apprête à entrer dans le troisième millénaire, la surpopulation est devenue telle que les res¬sources naturelles ne suffisent plus à couvrir ses besoins. La nourriture et l'eau sont rationnées, il n'y a plus de pétrole, plus guère d'animaux. Trente-cinq millions de New-Yorkais, pour la plupart sans emploi ni logement, se battent pour survivre. Andy Rush a un travail, lui. Tous les jours, avec les autres policiers de sa brigade, il part disperser les émeutes de la faim qui se produisent lors de chaque nouvelle distribution de nourriture de synthèse. Alors, qu'importe si un nabab aux activités louches s'est fait descendre ? S'il parvenait à attraper le meurtrier, Andy le remercierait presque pour services rendus...

Plongez dans Soleil vert, dystopie glaçante où New York, en 2022, étouffe sous la surpopulation et la pénurie. Un roman visionnaire, plus actuel que jamais, qui interroge notre avenir. À lire absolument !