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What if the red light wasn’t stopping traffic but stopping your life? The Red Light Never Changed is a gripping collection of twelve mysterious stories where ordinary people encounter impossible places, frozen moments, forgotten choices, and roads that should not exist. A traffic signal refuses to turn green. A phone call will not end. A train waits at a platform but never departs. A hotel hides a room that should not exist. A single day begins repeating. A town’s clocks stop at the same moment. A strange window reveals yesterday. And beyond one final red light lies a road with no way back.

First published in 1978, this collection of nineteen of J. G. Ballard's best short stories is as timely and informed as ever. This collection includes "The Garden of Time," the inspiration for the 2024 Met Gala—fashion's biggest night. His tales of the human psyche and its relationship to nature and technology, as viewed through a strong microscope, were eerily prescient and now provide greater perspective on our computer-dominated culture.

An emotional grounded sci-fi tale that speaks to the sandwich generation and the role reversal parents and their children grapple with as they age, Raising Father follows an estranged father and son who get a unique opportunity to re-do their relationship when the son elects to raise his father, born anew from a legal yet controversial reboot technology.

A collection of 6 out of this world short stories that incorporate sci fi and the unusual.. This collection of science fiction shorts, explores themes of cosmic indifference, the fragility of reality, and the heavy burden of humanity's attempts to comprehend the unknown. The narratives examine how human curiosity and the drive to control existence often lead to unintended, catastrophic consequences

A bachelor party. A machine that resurrects the dead. And a gift that should never have been opened. It was supposed to be the ultimate gift. Four friends, one last free night, and a private suite at EternaAI where the most advanced technology on earth can summon anyone from the past, breathing and present and real. For the groom, they choose a legend: a silver-screen goddess gone for half a century. They pay for the version that withholds nothing. What they encounter is not the woman from the posters. It's someone far more real...

The Silence was a forty-year lie. The Hunger is the final truth. For four decades, the world has belonged to the women. After Elara Vance’s viral "Silence" erased the male sex, humanity rebuilt itself in the image of peace. The Republic of Neo-Genoa and the New York Archive rose as monuments to a world without "friction." But the cradle was always a cage. Now, the first generation of synthetic men—the "New Men"—has reached maturity. It was supposed to be the dawn of a restored species. Instead, it is the trigger for the Vance Fail-Safe.

In a fractured world where life rises and disappears without memory, one presence remains. Rooted deep within a silent divide, an ancient tree endures—watching the endless cycles of emergence and fading that surround it. Nothing lingers. Nothing returns. Everything passes…except the tree. Shaped by isolation and time, it becomes something different. A quiet awareness forms within it—one that does not dissolve with the rest of existence. What once defined its apartness begins to reveal itself as something else entirely. Strength.

Am Rand der bekannten Galaxis stoßen zwei abgebrannte Weltraum-Schürfer auf ein verlassenes Schiff - und wecken vier formlose Wesen aus dem Kryo-Schlaf. Vor ihren Augen verwandeln sich die Kreaturen in perfekte Doppelgänger! Eine Generation danach führt Minarel Tarkin ein hochprofitables, streng geheimes Unternehmen: Sie vermietet Simipathen - Gestaltwandler mit nahezu unzerstörbaren Körpern - an die Reichen, Mächtigen und Kriminellen. Doch als eine Simipathin verschwindet, wird aus dem Geschäft ein Überlebenskampf.

A thrilling and cataclysmic collection of city-smashing titans and the desperate coalitions of humanity clinging to survival in the wreckage, from the New York Times bestselling and multiple award-winning editors. Featuring bestselling and award-winning authors such as Tananarive Due...

Centuries after a devastating war shattered Earth’s ecology, humanity clings to survival under the doctrine of “The Balance” a belief that nature must recover without human interference. But Gwendolyn Robbins, Director of Genetics at the Wildlife Foundation, sees a dying world that cannot heal on its own. Defying the Council’s orders, she dares to recreate the creatures of legend, pegasi and unicorns, from the genetic remnants of the Ancestors. As politics, fear, and faith collide, Gwendolyn’s work may hold the key to restoring life, or doom what remains of it.

Archy is all grown up, so it is only fitting that now he is fighting vampires in a dark castle.

Some love stories feel written in the stars. Others feel like warnings we ignored from the beginning. Zodiac Romances is a cinematic urban romance anthology inspired by the emotional energy of the zodiac signs — exploring passion, obsession, vulnerability, heartbreak, emotional growth, and the complicated ways people love. Each chapter follows a different couple. Different chemistry. Different struggles. Different outcomes. An Aries falls too fast. A Taurus loves hard enough to become controlling. A Gemini struggles with emotional consistency. A Scorpio confuses obsession with destiny.

Death. Survival. Eternity. When asteroids destroy the massive spaceship, Keep, home to a billion souls, a small group of survivors faces the ultimate test of humanity. Keshawn, consumed by grief over his girlfriend's death, refuses evacuation until forcibly saved by his closest friend. His...

What connects these twenty-four stories is an exploration of place. It can be a location nearby like in Boardwalk Oracle where a clanging candy dispensing machine plays matchmaker in a story that flirts with magical realism. Or the depth of a glacier on a faraway planet in Icebound, where science fiction turns into crime fiction. Or a tourist destination with dark ancient roots in Where the Gods Live.

Para alguns, a tecnologia é o prenúncio do fim do mundo. Para outros, é apenas o começo de uma nova era. Renomado escritor de ficção científica, autor dos best-sellers Matéria escura e Recursão, Blake Crouch convidou grandes nomes da literatura contemporânea para traçar histórias audaciosas que mergulham nos desdobramentos que os avanços tecnológicos acarretam à humanidade.

Jeder Verlust ein Gewinn! Pina Parasol ist professionelle Verliererin. Aufregende Abenteuer warten, wann immer sie für ihre Kundschaft etwas verschwinden lassen soll. Quer über die Kontinente führen Pinas Reisen – von Paris aus in die flirrende Hitze der ägyptischen Wüste, an eisige Plätze in der Antarktis und in geheimnisvolle Meerestiefen. In vierzehn Kurzgeschichten entdeckt Pina die Welt, ihre schönen Seiten und die bedrohlichen Schatten eines nahenden Übels.

Am Anfang einer neuen Zeit – das 22. Jahrhundert hat gerade erst begonnen: Die Menschheit hat die Planeten und Monde des eigenen Sonnensystems besiedelt. Allerdings wachsen seit einiger Zeit die Spannungen: Die Siedler sind unzufrieden, sie fühlen sich von den Menschen der Erde missverstanden. Im Jahr 2102 droht der Konflikt zu eskalieren.

In den vergangenen dreißig Jahren haben die Menschen die Lokale Blase rund um das Sonnensystem besiedelt. In relativer Nähe zur Erde sind neun Kolonien entstanden. Doch die genetisch angepassten Menschen streben nach Freiheit und Selbstbestimmung. Sie wollen die Unabhängigkeit von der Terranischen Union. Was sie nicht wissen: Vor langer Zeit waren ihre Welten Teil einer gewaltigen Maschine – des Nonagons. Diese Maschine sollte die Milchstraße vor einer furchtbaren Gefahr schützen.

This definitive collection of Neil Gaiman's short fiction will haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul. An elderly widow finds the Holy Grail beneath an old fur coat. A stray cat fights and refights a terrible nightly battle to protect his unwary adoptive family from unimaginable evil. A young couple receives a wedding gift that reveals a chilling alternative history of their marriage. These tales and much more await in this extraordinary book, revealing one of our most gifted storytellers at the height of his powers.

Here is a stunning collection of short stories by the acclaimed fantasy writer. The distinctive genius of Neil Gaiman has been championed by writers as diverse as Norman Mailer and Stephen King. These stories will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination, and move you to the very depths of your soul. This extraordinary compilation reveals one of the world's most gifted storytellers at the height of his powers.