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Beginning his writing career in 1928, Juza Unno took inspiration from Western authors like Jules Verne, and his own knowledge of electric engineering to write fiction integrating a broad spectrum of innovative ideas. His stories touch upon topics from facial reconstruction and gender reassignment surgery to video phones, multi-dimensional beings, and celestial body orbit adjustment (and of course, robots).

Ripley facing down the Xenomorph Queen. Sarah Connor fighting the Terminator. David Weber’s Honor Harrington. Science fiction novels and the silver screen are full of badass women kicking butt and taking names. Sometimes it’s the momma bear persona stepping up to defend her young, but, other times, she’s just the meanest one standing—bionic arm or not!

1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley are two of the most famous and influential dystopian novels ever written. Both books depict a future world in which individual freedom and privacy are subordinated to the demands of a totalitarian state, and citizens are manipulated and controlled through technology, propaganda, and social conditioning. The two novels have often been compared and contrasted, and both are considered to be among the most important works of literature of the 20th century.

Mentre l'orda di non morti dilaga nella città, all’interno della stazione della metropolitana solo pochi esseri umani riescono a sopravvivere, sempre alla disperata ricerca di provviste. Tra questi c’è il Cacciatore assieme ad Alice, la sua piccola figlia di otto anni, e alla bella Gilda. Ma le sorprese, i pericoli e la morte non si fanno attendere, neanche per loro.

Tradotti per la prima volta in Italiano, i racconti di Fabio Fernandes – tra indagini su libri enigmatici, incubi post-cyberpunk, bizzarre ricerche genealogiche e scenari che avvicinano la Singolarità tecnologica – aprono uno squarcio illuminante sullo stato dell’arte della fantascienza brasiliana e, più in generale, sulla narrativa di speculazione proveniente dal Sud America.

Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories is Tobias S. Buckell's seventh short fiction collection and is comprised of 15 stories, several of which are original to the collection or were previously only available through his Patreon. This collection ranges from galactic adventures to intimate explorations of humanity—sometimes in the same story—rich with a sense of wonder and deft storytelling.

Science fiction often focuses on future technology and science without considering the ways social structures will change as tech changes—or not. What will relationships look like in a complicated future of clones, uploaded intelligences, artificial brains, or body augmentation? What stories emerge when we acknowledge possibilities of new genders and ways of thinking about them? The Reinvented Heart presents stories that complicate sex and gender by showing how shifting technology may affect social attitudes and practices.

The Unidentified Funny Objects series delivers an annual dose of funny, zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices!

This bundle edition collects the first three audiobooks in the Superdreadnought series, an action-packed, high-stakes military sci-fi space-opera epic.

Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to her Planetfall universe with a collection of 10 short stories set before, during, and after the four interconnected novels of the Hugo-nominated Planetfall series.

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.

La tecnologia cambia e nel farlo modifica le nostre vite e noi stessi. Eppure attraverso l'obsolescenza programmata si pianifica e scandisce l’aggiornamento e la sostituzione di qualunque dispositivo di uso quotidiano. E se questo processo non fosse rivolto solo agli oggetti ma anche agli esseri umani? E se l'adeguamento non si limitasse alle cose ma si estendesse anche alle persone che ne fanno un uso sempre crescente? Se gli oggetti invecchiano precocemente, che dire di coloro che li usano?

American Book Award-winning author Tananarive Due's second collection of stories ranges from horror to science fiction to suspense. From the mysterious, magical town of Gracetown to the aftermath of a pandemic to the reaches of the far future, Due's stories all share a sense of dread and fear balanced with heart and hope. In some of these stories, the monster is racism itself; others address the monster within, or other universal struggles set against the supernatural or surreal. All of them are written with Due's trademark attention to detail and deep characterization.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.