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What does it mean to be-in-kind with a nonhuman animal? Or, in Dr. Sean Kell-Luddon’s case, to be in-kind with one of the last remaining wild wolves? Using a neurological interface to translate her animal subject’s perception through her own mind, Sean intends to chase both her scientific curiosity and her secret, lifelong desire to experience the intimacy and freedom of wolfishness: to see the world through animal eyes; smell the forest, thick with olfactory messages; even taste the blood and viscera of a fresh kill; and, above all, to feel the belonging of the pack.

Only mutual communication can forge an alliance with the planet's sentient species and prove that mammals are more than tools. Forced to land on a planet they aren't prepared for, human colonists rely on their limited resources to survive. The planet provides a lush but inexplicable landscape—trees offer edible, addictive fruit one day and poison the next, while the ruins of an alien race are found entwined in the roots of a strange plant. Conflicts between generations arise as they struggle to understand one another and grapple with an unknowable alien intellect.

Dexter Poncelet has been bullied his whole life. He has never had any friends. Today is the first day of high school, and it is not going well. Frankie and his gang are overpowering the smaller and less popular teenagers. He doesn’t like his chances of surviving the day.

Ein atemberaubender Thriller aus der nahen Zukunft. Vom New York Times-Bestsellerautor Douglas E. Richards, dessen Bücher sich über eine Million Mal verkauft haben. Was wäre, wenn es möglich wäre, jahrelanges Wissen in wenigen Stunden in den eigenen Kopf zu laden? Ein Experte in mehreren wissenschaftlichen Bereichen zu werden, ein Arzt zu werden oder mehrere Sprachen zu lernen - an einem einzigen Tag? Der Nutzen für die Menschheit wäre immens. Aber das wären auch die Gefahren.

L'attesissima ed epica conclusione della tanto amata serie che ha tenuto gli ascoltatori (e i dipendenti) di Audible incollati alle cuffie; un amore a primo Bob narrato ancora una volta dall'impareggiabile Alberto Onofrietti. Essere una nave spaziale senziente dovrebbe essere molto più divertente, ma dopo aver viaggiato in lungo e in largo per lo spazio, è chiaro che Bob e i suoi cloni proprio non riescano a tenersi fuori dai guai.

L'attesissimo sequel di "Noi siamo infinito (Noi siamo Bob)", vincitore del miglior titolo di fantascienza di Audible nel 2016. Gli ascoltatori lo definiscono "esilarante", "esattamente ciò che ci si aspetta da un'opera di fantascienza" e ciò che sarebbe successo se "Andy Weir ed Ernest Cline avessero avuto un figlio". Bob Johansson non credeva nella vita dopo la morte, e riaprire gli occhi in seguito a un incidente mortale è stato per lui un grosso trauma. Come se ciò non bastasse, è tornato in vita come computer senziente e intelligenza dominante in una sonda di Von Neumann.

Am Gemini North Observatorium entdeckt die NASA-Physikerin Melody Adams in Teleskopdaten einen Himmelskörper nahe Pluto, der gar nicht existieren dürfte. Was sie für ein künstliches Objekt extraterrestrischen Ursprungs hält, wird von weiten Teilen der Wissenschaftswelt als Messfehler abgetan und die NASA scheut Ablenkungen von ihrem Artemis-Programm. Erst zwei Jahre später erhält Melody Besuch vom Secret Service. Das Objekt nähert sich Saturn und verhält sich eigenartig: Es wird langsamer.

God has given the Earth one last chance for redemption, with one condition: the best of humanity must carry the word to another world.

L’ambiente su Io, la luna di Giove, è estremamente ostile. Ci sono torrenti di lava bollente, mari di zolfo incandescenti e frequenti eruzioni vulcaniche che sembrano venire direttamente dall’Inferno di Dante, oltre al costante bombardamento di radiazioni e una temperatura superficiale di meno 180 gradi Celsius. Potrebbe davvero nascondersi su questo satellite una gran minaccia per l’intera umanità? Questo sembra essere il contenuto di un sorprendente messaggio inviato dalla creatura aliena scoperta su Encelado.

Two humans and a robot roam the universe in search of castaways. The Majestic Draght, a spaceship built by aliens and controlled by an AI, transports them from system to system at one-fifth the speed of light. But then the ship suddenly - and seemingly unstoppably - accelerates. Has the AI lost control of the propulsion system? Or is the AI pursuing its own plans? The Draght’s new course targets a planet that would not have been the destination of the human-alien crew for a long time: Earth.

"Wirklichkeit ist nur eine Möglichkeit" steht auf einem Bierdeckel, den Sala auf dem Schreibtisch seiner verschwundenen Schwester Ksen findet. In diesem Augenblick verändert sich sein scheinbar normales Berliner Studentenleben in eine unheimliche Suche. Seine Schwester, eine hochintelligente Informatikstudentin, hat nur eine verwirrende Spur zurückgelassen: das alte Porträtfoto einer jungen Frau. Sala rekonstruiert das Leben dieser Frau und erfährt dabei, dass Ksen über KIs und selbstlernende Algorithmen geforscht hat, bevor sie verschwand.

There were ten humanoid robots somewhere in the United States, each one carrying a fragment of a TC bomb. TC! The race for sheer horror in bomb-ery had ended there. TC! Total Conversion! The sun was no longer a synonym one could use. Total conversion made the sun a penny candle.

The creation of a human hybrid with our closest living relative, the chimpanzee, has not been ruled out as an impossibility, but would any laboratory want to be involved? Why invite global condemnation and raise social, moral, and legal storms? It was certainly not the intention of the Strickland family, who are innocently involved with research and a veterinary practice in rural England.

Wenn das Schicksal der Menschheit in den Händen einer Betrügerin liegt. In einem kleinen Observatorium im Südwesten der USA entdeckt die Astronomin Celia bei einer Routineuntersuchung in der Dunkelwolke LDN 63 merkwürdige Vorgänge. Alles scheint hier weitaus schneller abzulaufen, als es die Wissenschaft vorsieht. Doch niemand glaubt ihr, denn sie hat schon einmal eine angeblich bahnbrechende Entdeckung gemacht - mithilfe gefälschter Daten. Celia weiß: Die Dunkelwolke ist ihre beste Chance, ihre Karriere und ihr Leben zurückzugewinnen.

The year is 2048, and Anders Helmemyr has just started studying computer science in Uppsala, Sweden. Amidst political activism, a complicated love life, and the thrills of student nightlife, he meets Niklas, a computer genius who began his PhD in artificial intelligence at the age of 18.

Vera Elpis is a quiet young woman with a desk job, two friends, and a cozy apartment. On the surface, her life is easy. Children adore her, her inheritance sustains her, and she is safe. The only blight is her unexplained infertility, a condition that shames and enrages her.

If you could live forever, would you want to? This is the story of Anita and Kimmo's struggle against cancer, of Aender and Kiyoshi and the first interstellar war, and of An and Ki and Earth’s last days.

What Life Can Bring is three connected science fiction stories that revolve around my fascination with time. The first story, “The Journey Home”, opens with a handsome, tattooed young man who goes by the nickname “Poly” being released from jail on a beautiful August day in 1994. Poly has high hopes for a fresh start, but he’s not able to find a job. Struggling to make ends meet and keep a roof over his head, Poly can find only one option: Join up with his old crew in a bank heist. Things don’t go entirely to plan....

The United States has come to the conclusion that the Federation must be stopped! Tempers flare and war looms on the horizon while both sides jockey for position in the court of world opinion.

From the moment Sam Newman and fourteen others awaken inside metal coffins next to the burning wreckage of a spacecraft, they face a constant struggle to stay alive on a seemingly uninhabited planet light-years from home. Worse, the last any of them remember, they were back home on Earth—at a time when interstellar travel was little more than a distant pipe dream. Survival means finding out who-or what-brought them to this place. Yet what few answers they find amidst the steaming jungles and the ruins of that distant world defy all logic or sanity.