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Head to distant worlds and alternate futures! Explore the limitless potential for twists and turns when stories are fueled by the infinite power of imagination! Here are twenty-four thought-provoking tales as up-to-date as tomorrow. It's new-time radio in the classic old-time-radio manner, from the mind of producer Jim French.

In this trio of sci-fi techno thrillers, a female police detective turned Interpol officer with a rare vision mutation is up against a serial killer and potential apocalyptic disaster. This set includes The Dreaming Tree, Meet Your Maker, and Out of Time.

In the title story, set five minutes in the future where you not only have a credit score but also a dating score, a woman who’s been banished from all dating apps attends a weekly help group with others who have been “banned for life,” and finds herself falling in love. In “Backwards,” a twist on Benjamin Button, a woman reconnects with her estranged father as he de-ages ten years each day they spend together. In “Welcome to Oxhead,” all the parents in a gated community “shut off” when the power goes out.

For ten millennia, the Black Templars have continued the Great Crusade, remaining true to the Emperor's dream of a galaxy free of the alien, the traitor, and the mutant. One of the few Chapters to venerate the Emperor as a god, they strive always to follow His example and secure His Imperium for all mankind. This anthology brings together seven tales of the sons of Sigismund, including an exploration of High Marshal Helbrecht's first crusade and three stories from the Third War for Armageddon.

Le idee di Clelia Farris hanno la consistenza degli aculei dei ricci di mare e un sapore, tra l'aspro e l'agrodolce, che si conficca nella mente. Nelle sue storie i personaggi possiedono identità liquide e sfuggenti come Kieser, che vorrebbe diventare se stesso mediante operazioni di “Chirurgia creativa”, oppure Yuliano, l'uomo senza gusto estetico di “Nemico segreto”, e ancora Gabola, impegnato in una lotta contro l’esproprio della collina di Piccolo Tuvu.

After Thoughts collects 12 speculative fiction tales you'll never forget.

La terza edizione dei migliori racconti della collana Future Fiction esplora alcuni temi fondamentali per la fantascienza contemporanea: dal concetto di trasferimento dell’identità, alle ultime scoperte nel campo dell’intelligenza artificiale e del ripristino della memoria danneggiata, passando per gli sviluppi tecnologici applicati all'architettura d’avanguardia.

Survival tales in the skies of Uranus, desperate struggles at the solar system's edge, and near-lightspeed interstellar expeditions await in this hard science fiction collection of seven Hayden’s World short stories.

La quinta selezione annuale dei migliori racconti pubblicati da Future Fiction vi porterà a scoprire interi mondi inesplorati, sia fisici che psicologici, e poi nuove forme di alienazione causate da tecnologie emergenti come l’uso dei visori oculari per il turismo virtuale e l’impiego di simpatici ma pestiferi animatronici da compagnia per infine con le ultime tendenze in fatto di sesso, sia a scopo riproduttivo che di puro piacere personale.

Here, you'll find some glowing fog, mad scientists, tentacled things, booze, dreaming gods, cigarettes, boats of various sizes, a bar or two, stiff upper lips, a ghosthunter, a great detective, and a multitude of universes, among other things.

The galaxy is filled with marvelous creations: both the creatures who inhabit it, and the civilizations they construct. Listeners will encounter human societies at the far reaches of the Milky Way, alien genetic engineers at the dawn of humanity, cloud-dwellers floating on rings in the skies of distant planets, industrious alien traders, and a host of adventurous humans striving to traverse these amazing storyscapes in the second volume of sci-fi stories from author P.E. Rowe.

Le venti storie che compongono questo volume spaziano nel tempo dai primi racconti rarissimi degli anni '60 al recentissimo Ontalgie. Una stupenda cavalcata attraverso i mondi dell'animo umano, che rimane uguale sulle rive del grande fiume natale come nell'immensità degli spazi siderali o nelle profondità del tempo.

Nove racconti dal futuro prossimo dell’umanità. Nove visioni straordinarie su altrettanti scenari che spaziano dagli algoritmi di compatibilità ideati per aiutare la gente a trovare l’anima gemella, alla contraffazione di qualunque merce, persino di ottima carne di qualità stampata in 3D, fino al tentativo – tra il bizzarro e il disperato – di sedurre un panda gigante da monta, che non ne vuole sapere di riprodursi, tramite un robot-panda artificiale che simula l’originale.

Songs of a Befuddled Muse contains thirteen surprising short stories that draw you into the lives of people facing life-changing inflection points in their realities. These stories reflect the quirky nooks and crannies of the author’s mind. Some are funny, some are suspenseful, some are even dark. All of them will leave you thinking.

Die STELLARIS ist ein Frachter der Minerva-Klasse, eines von vielen Millionen Raumschiffen, die zwischen den Welten der Milchstraße verkehren. Mit ihrem Rumpfdurchmesser von 200 Metern und einem Volumen von annähernd fünf Millionen Kubikmetern ist die STELLARIS eine Welt für sich... Im Paket enthalten sind folgende Kurzgeschichten: Folge 21: "Speisen mit den Bonfyers" von Wim Vandemaan, gelesen von Tom Jacobs, Folge 22: "Die Elianer (1): Vergeltung" von Roman Schleifer, gelesen von Michael Stange, Folge 23: "Die Elianer (2): Versuchung" von Roman Schleifer, gelesen von Hanno Dinger.

Die STELLARIS ist ein Frachter der Minerva-Klasse, eines von vielen Millionen Raumschiffen, die zwischen den Welten der Milchstraße verkehren. Mit ihrem Rumpfdurchmesser von 200 Metern und einem Volumen von annähernd fünf Millionen Kubikmetern ist die STELLARIS eine Welt für sich... Im Paket enthalten sind folgende Kurzgeschichten: Folge 41: "Verspielt" von Roman Schleifer, gelesen von Tom Jacobs, Folge 42: "Fracht für die Aarus" von Susan Schwartz, gelesen von Hanno Dinger, Folge 43: "Kakteen für Medusa City" von Michael G. Rosenberg, gelesen von Florian Seigerschmidt.

Die STELLARIS ist ein Frachter der Minerva-Klasse, eines von vielen Millionen Raumschiffen, die zwischen den Welten der Milchstraße verkehren. Mit ihrem Rumpfdurchmesser von 200 Metern und einem Volumen von annähernd fünf Millionen Kubikmetern ist die STELLARIS eine Welt für sich... Im Paket enthalten sind folgende Kurzgeschichten: Folge 31: "Der ewige Welpe" von Michelle Stern, gelesen von Andreas Laurenz Maier, Folge 32: "Hüllen" von Dietmar Schmidt, gelesen von Renier Baaken, Folge 33: "Lykk" von Wim Vandemaan, gelesen von Marco Sven Reinbold.

What we believe shapes what we see. Sometimes the stories we tell free us. Sometimes they trap us. Some people see things their neighbors can’t or won’t see. Are they inspired? Delusional? Who decides?

In this debut collection of body-horror fairy tales and mid-apocalyptic Catholic cyberpunk, memory and myth, loss and age, these are the tools of storyteller Jarboe, a talent in the field of queer fabulism. Bodily autonomy and transformation, the importance of negative emotions, unhealthy relationships, and bad situations amidst the staggering and urgent question of how build and nurture meaning, love, and safety in a larger world/society that might not be "fixable."

Zeiten ändern sich - Menschen jedoch nur selten. Die Errungenschaften der modernen Wissenschaft scheinen die Tore in eine aufregende Zukunft zu öffnen. Doch alle Technik des Universums kann die Menschen nicht vor ihren Sehnsüchten befreien. Um seine Schwester zu retten, lässt sich ein Polizist auf einen Handel mit einem wortwörtlich "unmenschlichen" Verbrecher ein. Die irrationale Sehnsucht nach einer KI verwischt die Grenzen zwischen Realität und virtueller Welt.