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Follow the desperate journey of a scientist who will stop at nothing to save the woman he loves from a disease that is slowly consuming her body. But his actions have unintended consequences that plunge the world into a bloody and chaotic apocalypse, where the living are outnumbered by the ravenous, superhuman zombies that roam the streets. In this toxic new world, no one is safe. The scientist's only son must navigate this character-driven hell, facing unimaginable challenges as he fights for survival in a world where death lurks around every corner.

In 1972, the "Surprise" signal was dismissed as cosmic noise. Today, the Orbital Spire station corrected that error. Using a revolutionary quantum data bus, we hyper-compressed a payload and fired it toward the red dwarf at System X−9. We didn’t send greetings; we sent the resilience of a baby tardigrade, encoded in starlight. As the beam raced 12 light-years across the void, we ignored the warnings of potential interstellar hunters. We weren't just shouting into the dark anymore.

Il futuro è adesso. Una storia di protesta che fa aprire gli occhi. Gli effetti del cambiamento climatico. Una città fragile e unica al mondo. Il complicato rapporto padre-figlio e un viaggio attraverso un'Italia ormai stravolta. Che cosa stiamo facendo veramente per contrastare gli effetti del riscaldamento globale? "Make Think"

The future is now. An extremely powerful short story about human emotions and awareness of the climate change effects. A fragile, unique city. A journey through a country in ruins. The complicated relationship 'Father to Son'. What are we really doing to combat the effects of global warming? Make Think.

Die Zukunft ist jetzt. Eine wahnsinnig fesselnde Kurzgeschichte über menschliche Emotionen und das Bewusstsein über den Klimawandel. Eine einzigartige aber zerbrechliche Stadt. Die komplizierte Beziehung zwischen "Vater & Sohn". Eine Reise durch ein Land aus Ruinen. Was machen wir wirklich um die globale Erwärmung aufzuhalten? "Make Think"

A chance encounter on a mission of exploration. An expedition to an alien vessel. An outcome that defies explanation... All I wanted was to sleep. No sensorium, no wrabbles washing over me. No drug-induced, pain-tinged hibernation. Just a deep peaceful sleep. Halfway into our mission of exploration, we stumbled upon a petal ship rising from the plumes of a gas giant’s atmosphere. The captain tasked us to explore. We roused, prepared, and landed without expectations, previous visits to these massive alien vessels bearing little fruit.

This much-anticipated second collection of stories is signature Ted Chiang, full of revelatory ideas and deeply sympathetic characters. In ‘The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate’, a portal through time forces a fabric-seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and the...

Whatever happened to Oskar and Eli? And what became of the beleaguered families in Handling the Undead? Find out in Let the Old Dreams Die. In other tales from this collection, a woman finds a dead body and decides to keep it for herself, a customs officer has a mysterious gift that enables her to see what others hide, and a man believes he knows how to deceive death. These are the stories of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s rich imagination. They are about love and death, and what we do when the two collide and the monsters emerge.

What if the stories you grew up with were never just stories? In Life Ain't No Nursery Rhyme, author Montrel Powell reimagines beloved nursery rhymes and fairy tales through the lens of adulthood, transforming familiar childhood classics into powerful, relatable stories about real life. From The Ugly Duckling and The Three Little Pigs to Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Pinocchio, and more, each chapter explores the lessons hidden beneath the surface of the tales we've known for generations.

2082: The Weight of Memory. The Future in Ten Stories. The year is 2082. Humanity has survived the crises it once feared — but survival has come at a cost. Across ten cities, towns and villages worldwide, ordinary lives are caught in extraordinary systems. Memory can be copied, traded or...

An empty mansion sitting on a hundred acres of waterfront property. A long lost friend with the deal of a lifetime. A family lost at sea. And an old woman with a memory that may hold the key to it all. Richie and Lisa Craine thought they were going to a high school reunion to laugh together about the Homecoming King’s receding hairline and the Homecoming Queen’s aged skin. They felt good about where they’d ended up in life twenty years after graduation. And then along came Fredrick Patterson.

SENTRY OF THE SKY AND OTHER STORIES is part of the Evelyn E. Smith series published by Unforgotten Books, and includes the stories: NOT FIT FOR CHILDREN, SENTRY OF THE SKY, THE MAN OUTSIDE, and JACK OF NO TRADES. Evelyn E. Smith wrote fabulously witty and imaginative science fiction and satirical stories throughout the 1950's, and this collection is part of a series re-issuing those works and concurrently producing the audiobook editions.

A snowstorm brings a wild and dangerous visitor. A journalist encounters more Indians than he bargained for. A widow is chosen as a companion by a ghost cat. A package is left on a doorstep, a door to alternate universes. These are things you can't predict. They come from places unknown. And the endings. Who knows how it will end? But when the unexpected happens, what choice do we havebut to walk toward it headfirst? Whatever we discover,life moves forward. If it feels strange, so be it.

This anthology explores themes of cyclical traps, inescapable realities, and the dark forces that manipulate human fate. Each story presents a protagonist believing they have found an exit—whether through logic, escape, or discovery—only to realize they are bound deeper within a predetermined, often supernatural, loop.

Every ten years, the mysterious world of Eleutheria opens its planetary shields and invites outsiders to compete in the Palingenesi Agon. A series of strange and ancient contests said to honor rebirth, renewal, and the power of the human spirit. For Ledesma, a scholar obsessed with uncovering the secrets of this matriarchal society, it’s the opportunity of a lifetime. But the Games are far more than tests of skill. They are a selection process. And the true prize may not be wealth or citizenship, but something far more unsettling.

The Final Transaction is the opening arc of Helstalgia, a cyberpunk LitRPG series set inside a digital city where survival, reputation, and corporate control are written into the system itself. Rexil steals a data fragment from the Flux Jackals, a netrunner faction with teeth in all the wrong places. The fragment has unknown origins, corrupted metadata, and one brutal problem: the system binds it to his inventory. He can’t drop it. He can’t delete it. The only way to get rid of it is to convince someone else to take it.

These are side quests. Parallel threads. Moments and consequences that don’t fit neatly into Ren’s forward march, but still matter to the world. You’ll see what other guilds are doing. How districts react. What happens in the gaps between major events. Deals made off-screen. Conflicts that ripple outward instead of upward. This is not required listening to follow the core series. You won’t miss plot beats if you skip it. But if you’ve ever caught yourself thinking: What happened to that faction? How did this situation actually play out? Why does the world feel like it shifted here?

Murder, fame, technological dread, and twisted desire converge in Twelve Nails in the Coffin, a brutal collection of stories that drags the reader into the darkest recesses of the modern mind. Across twelve unsettling tales, you will move from the claustrophobic isolation of an obsessed artist's studio to the suffocating depths of a nightclub where life is cheap. Each story exposes a different fracture in human nature, ambition rotting into violence, loneliness curdling into obsession, and technology becoming a quiet accomplice to horror.

A new star has appeared in the night sky. And it’s getting closer. From the legendary father of science fiction, H.G. Wells, comes a chillingly prophetic tale of cosmic indifference and planetary survival. When a rogue celestial body enters the solar system, humanity watches in fascination as...

Was wäre, wenn die Menschheit die einzige Spezies im Universum ist, die blind für die Zukunft ist? Ein Astronom verliert während einer klaren Beobachtungsnacht das Bewusstsein. Dort trifft er auf eine hochentwickelte Zivilisation, die sich äußerlich kaum von uns unterscheidet – mit einem gewaltigen Unterschied: Sie besitzen die Fähigkeit der Vorausschau.