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Professor Lyle Peripart’s world makes perfect sense, until he is recruited by an odd industrialist and begins to see evidence of alternative universes all around him, including one in which the United States surrendered to the USSR back in the 1970s.

Un début de guerre nucléaire libère dans l’atmosphère d’immenses volumes de méthane enfoui sous les fonds marins polaires. Or le méthane est un gaz à effet de serre.

Il va faire chaud, partout sur la planète déjà torride, l’été prochain, en 2028. Des ouragans gigantesques vont parcourir les océans, se transformer en tornades au-dessus des continents, faire naître des vents supersoniques et soulever des marées de tempête de cent mètres de haut.

Et autant de passions humaines, de l’amour à la panique.

John Barnes réunit, dans ce somptueux roman-catastrophe, une science approfondie de la météorologie et de l’écologie, un sens aigu du suspense et un talent impressionnant qui lui permet de dresser le tableau d’une planète entière balayée par la mère des tempêtes. Au-delà d’une fiction, Barnes nous prévient de ce qui nous attend, sur une Terre déjà menacée par le réchauffement planétaire.

It is 2028. A strike to destroy an illegal Arctic weapons cache has a catastrophic side effect. Massive amounts of energy are liberated from the polar ice, suddenly and radically warming the Earth’s climate.

In the middle of the Pacific, a gigantic hurricane thousands of miles across is forming, larger than any in human history. A storm with winds of supersonic speed. A storm that changes direction at whim. A storm that refuses to die. A storm so vast it spawns dozens more in its wake.

Blinded by intrigue, expedience, and greed, the world’s politicians and power brokers ignore the killer storm’s threat until it’s too late. The death toll climbs to the tens of millions as it savages the Pacific coast, and the smaller storms it spawns are wreaking havoc across the planet.

While the survivors scramble for advantage, a handful of courageous men and women undertake a desperate plan to save humanity from total destruction—a plan so visionary it may alter forever the future of the human race.

This fourth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Jonathan Carroll, Neil Gaiman, Kij Johnson, Kelly Link, Paul McAuley, RJ Parker, Robert Reed, Rachel Swirsky, Catherynne M. Valente, and many others.

is your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow.

This collection of Platonov’s short fiction brings together seven works drawn from the whole of his career. It includes the harrowing novella Dzahn (“Soul”), in which a young man returns to his Asian birthplace to find his people deprived not only of food and dwelling, but of memory and speech, and “The Potudan River,” Platonov’s most celebrated story.