На рассвете 22 июня 41-го одними из первых, кто дал бой асам Люфтваффе были летчики-истребители. Некоторые из них успели сделать свои первые боевые вылеты, кто-то прибежал на аэродром, чтобы найти на нем свой разбитый самолет.

Книга создана на основе собранных записей и интервью с ветеранами-танкистами, воевавшими на самом массовом танке времен Отечественной войны — легендарной «тридцатьчетверке».

Книга посвящена древнейшему метательному оружию луку и его более позднему преемнику - арбалету. Рассказывается об устройстве и боевых свойствах этих видов оружия, а также история их возникновения и усовершенствования.

Справочник содержит сведения о 300 образцах газового и пневматического оружия (револьверы, пистолеты, винтовки), представленного на рынке СНГ, а также об аэрозольных упаковках, боеприпасах, амуниции и бронежилетах.

"True Names" (1981), the story that began SF's cyberpunk revolution, with 11 essays showing its effect on science as well as fiction. The best are the testimonials by pioneers in virtual reality, cryptography and artificial intelligence. The most famous contributors, Marvin Minsky and Danny Hillis, also show the deepest understanding of Vinge's vision.

The 'Vampire Chronicles' were created from curiosity and desire. Anne wondered what it would be like to be a vampire, or in turn, what would a vampire have to say given the chance. So from curiosity and a short story, "Interview With The Vampire" was born and so was the beginning of many tales to follow over many years.

Tom Clancy has said of Robert A. Heinlein, "We proceed down the path marked by his ideas. He shows us where the future is." Nowhere is this more true than in Heinlein's gripping tale of revolution on the moon in 2076, where "Loonies" are kept poor and oppressed by an Earth-based Authority that turns huge profits at their expense.

Victor Mancini is a ruthless con artist. Victor Mancini is a med-school dropout who's taken a job playing an Irish indentured servant in a colonial-era theme park in order to help care for his Alzheimer's-afflicted mother. Victor Mancini is a sex addict. Victor Mancini is a direct descendant of Jesus Christ. All of these statements about the protagonist of Choke are more or less true.

This novel is the story of a disaster that is caused by ecological disaster, genetically altered plants and satellite warfare. These are such modern and relevant themes today it's amazing to consider how ahead of it's time this book was when it was written. The recent hugely successful movie 28 Days Later borrows most of it's ideas from this book

Praised as a groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary's mission to Winter, an unknown alien world whose inhabitants can choose — and change — their gender.