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L’humanité est au bord du gouffre. Alors que la Terre s’embrase dans une apocalyptique explosion de feu et de chaos, une ingénieure réseau nommée Mégara parvient à fuir à bord d’un vaisseau-colonie. Chargée de superviser cinq IA ultra-avancées et de protéger les dernières âmes humaines, elle entame une odyssée épique à travers les profondeurs de l’espace ou elle devra également entreprendre un voyage personnel : dépasser les limites humaines. Sur un nouveau monde baptisé Illuminaria, Mégara et son panthéon d’IA s’efforcent de guider l’humanité vers un avenir plus pacifique et désintéressé.

Two and a half millennia ago in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe, the artifact appeared. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back. Diplomat Genar-Hofoen of Special Circumstances is sent to investigate but, sidetracked by an old flame and the spoiled-brat operative Ulver Seich, and faced with the systematic depravities of a race who call themselves the A­ffront, it's anyone's guess whether he'll succeed.

Experience the ultimate struggle for survival in Stanley G. Weinbaum's thrilling sci-fi adventure, Flight on Titan. When Tim and Diane Vick crash-land on Saturn's largest moon, they find themselves battling extreme cold, deadly radiation, and a hostile environment unlike anything on Earth. As they fight to stay alive, their resilience and determination are tested to the limits. Filled with tension, vivid world-building, and Weinbaum's signature imagination, Flight on Titan is a gripping tale of human endurance against the unforgiving forces of space.

Salante Fossi, inviato del Modern Times, si trova a Skagen durante il solstizio d’estate, per festeggiare il compleanno del Vecchio Cibernetico e, molto probabilmente, la sua vittoria al Nobel. Il Vecchio Cibernetico ha quasi cent’anni, è nato in Ungheria, è fuggito da Budapest con una donna mentre i carri armati sovietici invadevano la città, ha vissuto e studiato in tutta Europa e, da qualche anno, si è stabilito in Portogallo.

Years after a meteorite strike obliterated Washington, DC—triggering an extinction-level global-warming event—Earth’s survivors have started an international effort to establish homes on space stations and the Moon. The next step–Mars. Elma York, the Lady Astronaut, lands on the Red Planet, optimistic about preparing for the first true wave of inhabitants. The mission objective is more than just building the infrastructure of a habitat–they are trying to preserve the many cultures and nuances of life on Earth without importing the hate. But from the moment she arrives, something is off.

The Noah: a city-sized ship, half-way through an 800-year voyage to another planet. In a world where deeds, and even thoughts, cannot be kept secret, a man is murdered; his body so ruined that his identity must be established from DNA evidence. Within hours, all trace of the crime is swept away, hidden as though it never happened. Hana Dempsey, a mid-level bureaucrat genetically modified to use the Noah's telepathic internet, begins to investigate.

Their family reunion will be disrupted, however, when a catastrophe strikes the space station. The crew of the Edison suddenly find themselves fighting for their lives - and amongst the chaos, Taniya will discover that she's not the only member of the crew with a secret....

The catastrophic Purge War at the end of the 21st century destroys planet Earth, jeopardizing the future for the remnants of humanity. Horrific repercussions roll across the ages until, generations later, a scientific group called the Time Forward Project harnesses a deep-space wormhole in which they can travel through time. They find the portal unstable and shrinking, but they have little choice but to take desperate, drastic measures and journey back to prevent the war.

Endlich geht das spektakuläre Abenteuer weiter. Leonard und der Rest der Crew stehen vor neuen Herausforderungen. Gestrandet in einer fremden Galaxie, im Soktarsystem, müssen sie sich zusammen mit den Überlebenden der Quirin und ihrem neuen König Alvar auf dem Planeten Nekron ein neues Zuhause aufbauen.

In the distant future lies Station, an orbiting space station tethered by a cord to Earth, allowing people to use the space elevator to travel into low-orbit without rockets, allowing for unprecedented space exploration and tourism.

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.

Im Jahr 2117 wird die Welt ausschließlich von matriarchalischen Machtblöcken regiert. Der Architekt Alex Korden gerät in die Gefangenschaft gnadenloser Terroristinnen. Seine Flucht bildet den Auftakt zu höchst gefährlichen Abenteuern. Schließlich gelingt es ihm, das Multigenerationsraumschiff APEIRON zu kapern. Eine multikulturelle Gruppe risikobereiter Frauen und Männer unterstützt ihn dabei und verlässt mit ihm gemeinsam die Erde.

General Keith Brennan would rather face an army with his trusty rifle than attend another state dinner. When the president of the solar system is assassinated on Mars, Brennan is the obvious choice to investigate. If he comes up with the wrong answer, though, his career will be over.

With the invention of faster-than-light travel there is nowhere that humanity cannot go. New worlds are discovered, but with them come new dangers. At the heart of the discovery is the Fermi, mysterious beings that have survived on alien worlds for longer than humanity has existed. But now the Fermi are awakening, and they do not seem pleased to find humans in their midst. But for Lakshmi Nayak and the crew of the Fighting Chance, danger is a lot closer to home. Their search for answers will take them to places, and worlds, they never expected.

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.