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Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury. - New York : Del Rey Book : Ballantine Books, 1991. - 190, [1] strona ; 18 cm.

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Bradbury, Ray (1920-2012). Autor

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Literatura amerykańska

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Dyktatura (ustrój) Cenzura Manipulacja (psychologia) Strażacy

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Powieść Fantastyka Science fiction Dystopia

Na stronie tytułowej: Fahrenheit 451 - the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns...

Na okładce: The 50th Anniversary Edition.

Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires. And he enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs or the joy of watching pages consumed by flames, never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid. Then Guy met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think. And Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do... The classic dystopian novel stands alongside Orwell's "1984" and Huxley's "Brave New World" as a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity. Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which, decades on from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.

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Altered Carbon / Richard K. Morgan. - Wydanie 3. - New York : Del Rey Books, 2017. - [4], 389, [2] strony ; 24 cm.

(Takeshi Kovacs Novel / Richard Morgan ; 1)

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Morgan, Richard K. (1965- ). Autor Morgan, Richard K. (1965- ). Takeshi Kovacs (ang.)

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Powieść Fantasy Science fiction

Centuries from now, advances in technology have redefined life itself. A person's consciousness can now be stored in the brain and downloaded into a new body (or "sleeve"), making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen. Onetime U.N. Envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly painful. Resleeved into a body in Bay City (formerly San Francisco), Kovacs is thrown into the dark heart of a shady, far-reaching conspiracy that is vicious even by the standards of a society tha treats existence as something that can be bought and sold. For Kovacs, the shell that blew a hole in his chest was only the beginning.

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Broken Angels / Richard K. Morgan. - Wydanie 2. - New York : Ballantine Books : Del Rey Books, 2004. - 366, [1] strona ; 24 cm.

(Takeshi Kovacs / Richard Morgan ; 2)

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Morgan, Richard K. (1965- ). Autor Morgan, Richard K. (1965- ). Takeshi Kovacs (ang.)

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Powieść Fantasy Science fiction

Cynical, quick-on-the-trigger Takeshi Kovacs, the ex-U.N. envoy turned private eye, has changed careers - and bodies - once more... trading sleuthing for soldiering as a warrior-for-hire, and helping a far-flung planet’s government put down a bloody revolution. But when it comes to taking sides, the only one Kovacs is ever really on is his own. So when a rogue pilot and a sleazy corporate fat cat offer him a lucrative role in a treacherous treasure hunt, he’s only too happy to go AWOL with a band of resurrected soldiers of fortune. All that stands between them and the ancient alien spacecraft they mean to salvage are a massacred city bathed in deadly radiation, unleashed nanotechnolgy with a million ways to kill, and whatever surprises the highly advanced Martian race may have in store. But armed with his genetically engineered instincts, and his trusty twin Kalashnikovs, Takeshi is ready to take on anything — and let the devil take whoever’s left behind.

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Woken Furies / Richard K. Morgan. - New York : Ballantine Books : Del Rey Books, 2007. - 450, [13] strony ; 24 cm.

(Takeshi Kovacs / Richard Morgan ; 3)

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Morgan, Richard K. (1965- ). Autor Morgan, Richard K. (1965- ). Takeshi Kovacs (ang.)

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Powieść Fantasy Science fiction

In a world where real and virtual are one and the same and the dead can come back to life, Takeshi Kovacs was once a galaxy-hopping Envoy. Now he battles against biomachines gone wild, searches for a centuries-old missing weapons system, and endures the betrayal of people he once trusted. But when his relationship with an imperiled woman pits him against an enemy specially designed to destroy him, he knows it's time to be afraid. After all, the guy sent to kill him is himself: only younger, stronger, and straight out of hell.

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