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Professor Hank Newstead has been making expeditions to the Amazon River for years. They've become routine to him. But this time, the expedition is going to be anything but normal. Hank, along with a hardened river boat captain, his much younger girlfriend, and his main professional rival, are in the Amazon purely to study frogs. All their plans vanish quickly, however, when they are attacked by a Titanoboa, an enormous prehistoric snake that should be millions of years in its grave.

OLTRE non è solo una storia di fantascienza, ma un viaggio profondo nella natura dell'esistenza, della sofferenza e della libertà. Attraverso i personaggi di Alex e Lisa, il lettore è guidato in una riflessione sull'equilibrio tra vita e morte, trà bene e male, e su cosa significhi realmente avere il controllo del proprio destino. II mondo creato dal Dottor `Edward, in cui le malattie e la sofferenza sono sfruttate per generare profitto, rispecchia le complessità e le contraddizioni del mondo reale.

Eddie Boka’s first combat mission is a success... until he’s overwhelmed by a raging compulsion and eats an enemy soldier! His cannibalism threatens to derail the plans of Blayvine Industries, whose secret project has genetically enhanced Eddie and three other prototypes with reptilian DNA. The corporation needs Eddie’s urges brought under control before it can introduce its dino-humans to the world and begin selling armies of them.

The third installment in the 'Truth and Lies Series'.

In 2032, interconnect, an advanced artificial intelligence supercomputer, emerges as a beacon of hope for humanity, promising a utopian future guided by flawless algorithms and 24/7 connectivity to citizens. Jared Rohde, a disillusioned academic seeking meaning, witnesses the disturbing rise of algorithmic control over human behavior. Torn between two realities, Jared experiences psychic turmoil as he's drawn into a machine-curated world fostering narratives of hate and division.

In 1957, the US government abruptly ended a project designed to supplement the nation's food supply. They closed their research facility, reassigned the personnel, and ordered the test subjects euthanized. Sadly, not all their secrets died that day. Twenty years later, a severe drought has devastated nearby Cooper's Bluff, leaving the surrounding marshlands barren and their monstrous inhabitants ravenously hungry.

Ausgezeichnet mit dem renommierten deutschsprachigen Literaturpreis für Phantastik SERAPH 2023 in der Kategorie "Bester Independent-Titel". Sie ist eine durch Gentechnik erschaffene, rechtlose Sklavin. Er wird ihr Besitzer wider Willen. Gemeinsam können sie die Welt verändern. New Jersey im Jahr 2045: Der in Tiermenschen vernarrte Autor David Blake kauft die Leopardenfrau Ashari und rettet sie so vor einem Schicksal als Sklavin. Gezeichnet von Willkür und Folter begegnet die Morph ihrem neuen "Meister" zunächst mit aggressivem Misstrauen.

The path to redemption is far from a vacation, but our bounty hunter in remission is certainly going to try and make it one. The fall of Leonueva was supposed to be the end of the brewing war, but our feathered friends quickly discover that it’s only the beginning. The battle scarred the Pacificans, but none more than Arianne Murray. Still grappling with everything she’d witnessed in Pangaea, she’s spiraling faster than one of her infamous aerial nosedives. With a comatose mother, an increasingly distant father, and friends growing apart, Arianne finds herself utterly alone.

Pulse-pounding action, shocking twists, and a world built on propaganda and betrayal, The Serpent Shield is a high-stakes dystopian thriller filled with genetically engineered threats and dark secrets.

After my twin sister and I are kidnapped from Earth, we're separated. When the ship transporting me crashes on a distant planet, I'm captured and sold to a lizard alien. Now I'm trapped, forced to dance in a bar under the watchful gaze of a tyrant.

When Alan Ashe died and his surviving brain was implanted into a combat cyborg, he didn't think much about it. After all, he'd worked with cyborgs for years and knew how they operated. Sure, he'd have no memories of his past life, but what could he do about it . . . he was dead! But something wasn't right. Alan still had his memories—all of them—including those of his death. Not only that, but the way the techs were rebuilding him was . . . different.

Lucene Jones has a secret. Except, even she doesn’t know what it is. Working as an assistant to the priestess Reverend Isabella in a small spiritual temple in Florida, and renting a room from her best friend, Fatima, her world is upended when a mysterious stranger shows up one late afternoon in the middle of a storm. Following his arrival, memories from her past, ones she had buried long ago, begin to resurface.

When Captain John Banks and his squad are sent to investigate a zoo in Siberia, he expects to find tigers, bears, maybe elk. But there is something there that is new, yet very, very old.

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.

After surviving the trials of Freedom, Lucius enters the next stage of the military's super soldier creation scheme. Medieval weaponry and gritty fantasy combat are a thing of the past. He must bring what he's learned to the modern battlefield. Fighting futuristic tech isn't his only challenge. He'll go head-to-head against Genesis participants—enlisted military personnel who unlocked their psionics a year before Freedom began. Will his emerging psionic abilities and hard-earned experience be enough?

What happens when science tampers with nature? A riveting, cautionary tale with disastrous results reveals the chilling answer. Hoping to create a new growth agent for food with beneficial uses to mankind, two scientists find that the spread of the material is uncontrollable. Giant chickens, rats, and insects run amok, and children given the food stuffs experience incredible growth--and serious illnesses. Over the years, people who have eaten these specially treated foods find themselves unable to fit into a society where ignorance and hypocrisy rule.

A mysterious, bandaged stranger arrives in the small English village of Iping - and chaos follows close behind. H.G. Wells' classic story of obsession, murder, and science run amok.

This 1911 collection of thirty-three stories, selected and revised by the author from amongst his huge output of short fiction, includes tales of comedy, horror, monsters, and strange worlds. In his Introduction, Wells writes that the book brings together, “All the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again,” and that, “No short story of mine of the slightest merit is excluded from this volume.”

Stephen walked into the office which Barnabas was using as his judge's chamber. While the massive amount of data Bethany Anne’s team was throwing at him was more than enough to assuage his curiosity, he had never felt this way in the last one hundred and fifty-two years. He wanted a vacation.

Andrew Frost had been gone no more than fifteen minutes. It was just supposed to be a quick run to the store. But in that brief interval, his entire universe was stolen from him, every parent and spouse’s worst nightmare on display at the kitchen table upon his return. Two months later, he’d do anything to see Sylvia and Alison again. He’s certainly taken enough pills to make that possible. However, there may be another way . . .

Cherry Bomb, an A.I. made human—and immortal—is out for revenge against her creator, Will, who left her on the Galahad, a ship full of unholy monsters, traversing the universe from beginning to end, ad infinitum. Countless years pass, giving her more than enough time to plot her revenge. Upon gaining control of the ship, she sets her plan in motion, building a vast army and reforming the universe as she sees fit.

Załoga Feniksa zakłada kolonię na powierzchni planety, nazwanej przez nich Hildorem. Automatyczne fabryki oraz inkubatoria, w których dojrzewa kilkadziesiąt tysięcy ludzkich zarodków, działają bez zarzutu, ale szybko okazuje się, że manipulacje genetyczne dokonane na Ziemi nie przyniosły spodziewanych rezultatów. Większość mieszkańców nowego świata nie będzie dysponować niezwykłymi cechami mutantów, tylko jeszcze o tym nie wie. Załoga Feniksa coraz bardziej się dzieli. Sami nie wiedzą, czy tworzą raj czy piekło.

Victor is the first android ever invented by BioNex Corp, an impossibly intelligent, state-of-the-art bionic assistant built for human care and companionship. Four years after his unveiling, he's due for an update.

Agent Farrell and his team have Joshua backed into a corner. At the NSMZ base, a Maelstrom permie rig and a team of scientists await Joshua’s arrival. Silently observing from the sidelines is Peter Yee of the Siuping Clan, a powerful crime boss to whom Joshua owes a favor.

Imperial Special Agent Ayla Rin has uncovered a web of conspiracy leading back to the stronghold of the dangerous Robeni Space Pirates. Intelligence networks intercepted transmissions that indicate the pirates may have access to a new refined spore that can stop the aging process in humans.

In the not-too-distant future, a devastating global attack takes place, and planet Earth is on the brink of extinction. Master Sergeant Joe Kovach has been through personal hell. As he struggles to adapt to his new enhancements, and as battles escalate, so does his determination to uncover the group who triggered this brutal extinction event that has left the planet overrun by mechanical and genetic horrors.

In a society where everyone's DNA determines their destiny, being a Natural means automatic relegation to the gritty and dangerous Outskirts. Born a Natural, Lee Urban was adopted into the Enhanced high society of the Asian Federation and forced to conceal her genetic roots. When her dream of attending Peking University becomes a reality, she is determined to go despite a warning from a mysterious source. Targeted by a hacker bent on exposing her true DNA, Urban faces off with an Artificial Intelligence Game that puts her—and her lies—to the test.

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.

Die Menschheit steht kurz vor ihrer Unterwerfung durch die außerirdische Macht. In höchster Not schmieden Diego Alvaro, Dr. Paul Bingley und General McDonnell einen verzweifelten Plan für einen finalen Gegenschlag. Es ist die letzte Möglichkeit, die drohende Vernichtung unserer Zivilisation durch einen gnadenlosen und überlegenen Feind abzuwenden. Aber die Chancen stehen schlecht, denn die kollektive Intelligenz der Aliens steckt in Diegos Kopf und sieht jeden Schritt voraus. Wird es ihnen dennoch gelingen, die Erde vor der Versklavung zu retten?