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Lincoln is gone and it’s all her fault. NYPD Detective Sylvia Harbinger once thought the world and its WHISPs had become the place of her nightmares, but now that her baby boy has been kidnapped by bioterrorists and taken halfway around the world, she knows what true nightmare is.

Nergal e Damkina vivono in un kibbutz e per fuggire da lì, organizzano un imbroglio vendendo puntaspilli trovati su una nave affondata. Ma i molluschi hanno capacità speciali e porteranno ai protagonisti anche molti guai e scelte difficili.

Un adolescente bullizzato a scuola troverà il modo di difendersi grazie al nonno che "tornerà" in maniera futuribile per stargli accanto durante un periodo molto difficile della loro vita.

Immigrazione climatica e terraformazione si uniscono in questa storia solarpunk di Francesco Verso per restituire un po' di speranza connessa alla costruzione di un mondo migliore e più equo di quello attuale.

Una storia toccante e delicata, narrata dal punto di vista di una bambina cinese, il cui nonno, aiutato da un androide, ritroverà un posto nella società.

Anche quando l'umanità, a causa dei cambiamenti climatici, si è rifugiata a vivere nella stratosfera dentro capsule orbitali che inibiscono qualunque rapporto umano, le persone troveranno il modo di rientrare in contatto con la parte più sensibile e poetica di noi stessi.

The light ship Altares and her crew plummet through the maw of a powerful black hole and emerge in a strange new universe. Running low on fuel and in need of repairs, Captain Harry Masters pilots the spaceship into orbit around an Earth-like planet. But before the crew can make planetfall, they must first attempt a dangerous manoeuvre to reach the towering gas clouds at the limit of the star system in order to refuel.

Lt. Jade Mahelona idolizes her father, a Solar Defense Force admiral, and tries to follow in his footsteps. She excels in the Academy and is brilliant in hand-to-hand combat thanks in part to a rare ability to sense electric fields. Then an alien stargate knocks her career 500 light-years off course. Jade joins a rescue team's quest to save the remote alien colony. But her nanobiological team leader despises her, the cerebral alien scientist doesn't have a clue about humans, and the only other human on the team is a professor who thinks all soldiers are grunts.

Everything Feels Like the End of the World is a collection of short speculative fiction exploring possible futures from an Australia not so different from our present day to one thousands of years into an unrecognisable future. At the heart of each story is the anchor of what it means to be human: grief, loss, pain and love. These transformative stories are both epic and granular, and forever astonishing in their imaginative detail, sense of revelation and emotional connection. They herald the arrival of a stunning new voice.

As the Oort Federation becomes a major force in the Solar System, Braxton Thorpe passes the Federation chairmanship to former US President John Butler. Thorpe’s group offers humanity virtual immortality, but Isidor Orlov and his Udachny Enterprises oppose their every move. While terraforming Mars for more living space, the Mars Reds prove formidable as resisters. If the Asterian starship fighter pilots are released, will they align with Phoenix or Udachny, and who will develop the right FTL technology?

Matthew, they thought, was just going through a phase of talking to himself. And, like many parents, they waited for him to get over it, but it started to get worse. Mathew's conversations with himself grew more and more intense—it was like listening to one end of a telephone conversation while someone argued, cajoled and reasoned with another person you couldn't hear. Then Matthew started doing things he couldn't do before, like counting in binary-code mathematics. So he told them about Chocky—the person who lived in his head.

Hope ran deep when Smith left humanity’s first generation ship to lay roots with his wife and son in the open air of a new planet. When the colony ship broke apart on entry, however, countless lives were lost, including Smith’s beloved wife. He now fights to keep his son and his colony alive, all the while fighting off alien-induced hallucinations. Meanwhile, Smith’s apprentice Tashon seeks to discover what happened to his beloved mentor and the colony. He soon learns that the expedition’s leaders are focused on a much more imminent danger.

GSI (Gettnor Space Industries) is beginning to investigate our solar system and mine the asteroids. Aircraft and automobile companies are beginning to switch over to thrusters from their more traditional products. New uses for thrusters are popping up in the healthcare and sports industries. However, at Epsilon Eridani, a race of aliens has so overpopulated their own solar system that they must move many tens of billions of their people to another system before overcrowding destroys them.

The prophecy of the chosen one begins with the conspiracy of the order of truth to release their god, Lucifer, from his underground prison on Mars. Who is the chosen one, and can the chosen one defeat Lucifer? Or will Lucifer sacrifice the chosen one to reign over the universe and destroy mankind? AJ Snyder is thrown into trying to figure things out with the death of his friend, Zack. The only person he can trust to help him uncover the truth behind this prophecy is Sunshine Dae, a friend whose past has haunted and tormented her. Unsure who can be trusted, they begin the search.

With cislunar operations in full swing, space entrepreneur Parks Vambolent retrieves a comet. The water and other resources are desperately needed for the large-scale habitats on the Moon, and in various orbits around the Earth. But when the comet is found to contain more than what was expected, the dynamics of power begin to shift, setting off events with long-term repercussions for space enterprise and the future course of humanity. Vambolent confronts death and learns that there is more to the universe than flesh and blood.

"Ceres" de José Miguel Martínez intercala distintos relatos para crear un gran arco sobre la vida en ese planeta lejano que la humanidad colonizó desde el comienzo del tercer milenio, entregándonos su patética historia alrededor del Cinturón de Asteroides, donde queda preguntar cuál fue su destino.

With the help of NASA, a computer glitch, and a ghost, Bram Morrison, a robotics engineer, may have given science a new means to put death on hold. But despite the new landscape he’s opened up, the Great Beyond is still territory with no solid ground for science to stand on. Still helping Torula Jackson realize her dream of studying what happens to consciousness after death, Bram risks his reputation and future by revealing his growing belief in the bizarre. It will take more than apparitions in 3D glass chambers to convince scientists and doctors that the afterlife exists.

In the 1800s, a sailing ship crashes off the coast of Norway. In the 1900s, a Zepellin explores an icy canyon in Antarctica. In the far future, a spaceship sets out for an alien artifact. Each excursion goes horribly wrong. And on every journey, Dr. Silas Coade is the physician, but only Silas seems to realize that these events keep repeating themselves. And it's up to him to figure out why and how. And how to stop it all from happening again.

In 1986, physicist Timothy Straus hears voices that teach him how to create a space-warping engine that will change the world. In 2098, a fighter pilot hears voices that help him fight an authoritarian corporatist regime in the ashes of nuclear fallout. In 2155, the only self-aware robot on Mars struggles to steer humanity away from a demagogue who speaks from the shadows. Told through kaleidoscope storytelling across space and time, these three people are connected in ways they could never imagine.

How do humans survive after a massive pandemic that has devastated the population? Rather than living amid continued chaos and panic, the surviving population enjoys a thriving life thanks to the assistance of the network, a vast system that connects everything and everyone. The network protects from the virus while allowing everyone to lead their best life. Every dream and desire can easily be attained.