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"What the time traveler held in his hand was a glittering framework of metal, hardly larger than a small watch, and very finely crafted. There was ivory on it and a transparent, crystalline substance. And now I must go into detail, because what follows is, unless you accept his explanation, something absolutely inexplicable. He took one of the small octagonal tables that stood around the room and placed it in front of the fire, with two feet on the hearth rug." Gröls Classics - English Edition

Englische Literatur in Reclams Roter Reihe: das ist der englische Originaltext – mit Worterklärungen am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen. Wenige Romane verdienen das Etikett ›Kultbuch‹ so sehr wie der »Hitchhiker«, dessen 1. Teil hier – mit allen nötigen Erläuterungen – präsentiert wird. Ursprünglich als Hörspielserie für die BBC entstanden, wuchs Adams’ Science-Fiction-Satire zur »Trilogy in Five Parts« an, wurde Fernsehserie, Computerspiel, Comic, Musical und Kinofilm. Sie machte ihren Autor weltberühmt. Douglas Adams starb 2001, noch nicht fünfzigjährig. Zu seinem Gedenken wird alljährlich am 25. Mai der Towel Day begangen. Englische Lektüre: Niveau B2–C1 (GER)

Der Planet Suran ist ein Paradies und bietet dem Leben beste Bedingungen. Seine vielfältigen Bewohner sind intelligent – alle. Der Legende nach soll die Erbauer, höhere Wesen, kurz nach der Erschaffung der Welt der Schöpfung Intelligenz eingehaucht haben. Die Wissenschaft sieht das anders: Biologen haben Anzeichen dafür gefunden, dass sämtliches Genmaterial suranischen Lebens in jüngerer Vergangenheit künstlich verändert wurde. Olom weiß nicht, wer recht hat, Traditionalisten oder Moderne, und es ist ihm egal, denn er hat seine eigenen Probleme. Er ist von seinen drei Eltern liebevoll aufgezogen worden, aber trotzdem fehlt ihm etwas: ein Wesen, das genauso ist wie er. Niemand anderes auf Suran hat nur zwei Beine und zwei Arme. Niemand bewegt sich so ungeschickt. Ein seltsames Foto verspricht Olom Hilfe. Doch um seine Herkunft aufzuklären, muss er Orte betreten, die noch kein Suraner vor ihm untersucht hat. Verbergen sich dort die Erbauer selbst? Die Proxima-Logbücher sind eine mehrteilige Serie, die auf der Proxima-Trilogie basiert, aber unabhängig von ihr gelesen werden kann. Raumschiff Enterprise trifft Lost in Space – mit dem wissenschaftlich-technischen Realismus von harter Science Fiction aufbereitet.

* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* The Restaurant at the End of the Universe* Life, the Universe and Everything* So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish* Mostly HarmlessSuppose a good friend calmly told you over a round of drinks that the world was about to end? And suppose your friend went on to confess that he wasn't from around here at all, but rather from a small planet near Betelgeuse? And what if the world really did come to an end, but instead of being blown away, you found yourself hitching a ride on a spaceship with your buddy as a traveling companion?It happens to Arthur Dent.An ordinary guy from a small town in England, Arthur is one lucky sonofagun: his alien friend, Ford Prefect, is in fact a roving researcher for the universally bestselling Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ... and expert at seeing the cosmos on 30 Altairian dollars a day. Ford lives by the Guide's seminal bit of advice: Don't Panic. Which comes in handy when their first ride--on the very same vessel that demolished Earth to make way for a hyperspacial freeway--ends disastrously (they are booted out of an airlock). with 30 seconds of air in their lungs and the odd of being picked up by another ship 2^276,709 to 1 against, the pair are scooped up by the only ship in the universe powered by the Infinite Improbability Drive.But this (and the idea that Bogart movies and McDonald's hamburgers now exist only in his mind) is just the beginning of the weird things Arthur will have to get used to. For, on his travels, he'll encounter Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-President of the Galaxy; Trillian, a sexy spacecadet he once tried to pick up at a cocktail party, now Zaphod's girlfriend; Marvin, a chronically depressed robot; and Slartibartfast, the award-winning engineer who built the Earth and travels in a spaceship disguised as a bistro.Arthur's crazed wanderings will take him from the restaurant at the end of the Universe (where the main dish of the day introduces itself and the floor show is doomsday), to the planet Krikkit (locked in Slo-Time to punish its inhabitants for trying to end the Universe), to Earth (huh? wait! wasn't it destroyed?!) to the very offices of The Hitchhiker's Guide itself as he and his friends quest for the answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything ... and search for a really good cup of tea.Ready or not, Arthur Dent is in for one hell of a ride!

Winner of the 2012 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for best German science fiction novel, Lord of All Things is also a story about love against all odds.They are just children when they meet for the first time: Charlotte, daughter of the French ambassador, and Hiroshi, a laundress’s son. One day, Hiroshi declares that he has an idea that will change the world. An unprecedented idea of how to sweep away all differences between rich and poor.When Hiroshi runs into Charlotte several years later, he is trying to build a brighter future through robotics. Determined to win Charlotte’s love, he resurrects his childhood dream, convinced that he can eradicate world poverty by pushing the limits of technology beyond imagination. But as Hiroshi circles ever closer to realizing his vision, he discovers that his utopian dream may contain the seeds of a nightmare―one that could obliterate life as we know it.Crisscrossing the globe from Tokyo to the hallowed halls of MIT to desolate Arctic islands and Buenos Aires and beyond―far beyond―Lord of All Things explores not only the dizzying potential of technology but also its formidable dangers.

'A giant of twentieth-century science fiction' Guardian'This Room Guaranteed BOMB-FREE. From the Management'Hapless cosmonaut Ijon Tichy has been sent back to earth to attend the Eighth Futurological Congress in smog-bound, overpopulated Costa Rica, holed up with an assortment of scientists in a luxury hotel (fully equipped with tear gas sprinklers in case things get out of hand). But when an unfortunate incident occurs involving a revolution and hallucinogenic drugs in the water supply, Tichy finds himself shot, frozen and thawed out in a future beyond anything he could ever have imagined.