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Ken Liu, author of the Nebula and Hugo Award–winning The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and The Hidden Girl and Other Stories—his second short story collection and the basis of the groundbreaking anime Pantheon—returns with a bold new anthology. Thought-provoking, heartbreaking, and...

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.

Bloomsbury presents The Passing of the Dragon and other Stories by Ken Liu, read by Gabrille Nellis-Pain. A collection of thirteen short stories from Ken Liu, master of short-form SFF. From Ken Liu, the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Paper Menagerie and Hidden Girl...

When a mysterious wave wipes every living creature from Earth, one man believes he’s the last human alive… until he discovers a lone astronaut stranded aboard the International Space Station. To reunite, they must solve an impossible mystery involving CERN, alien technology, and a force capable of reshaping time, space, and reality itself. Their search for answers will carry them from the ruins of Earth into parallel dimensions where every revelation uncovers an even greater threat.

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.

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.

From award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull comes a brilliant collection of short stories, including old favorites and brand-new adventures Fourteen stories. Unseen places that lie just within, beneath, beyond our reality. A father and daughter traverse postapocalyptic America seeking safe haven...

In the wreckage of a dying world, one woman carries the spark that will shape the future of Aroha. If you’re listening this, something in you is already listening to the tug toward what’s possible, and to the spark of a future we haven’t created yet, but can already feel warming in the dark.

The Code is Broken. The Void is Hungry. It's Time to Rewrite the Rules. Jake Mercer has survived the initial crash, but hiding in a bunker won't save New Harbor. The System is glitching, reality is tearing at the seams, and a new threat—the Glitch King—is terraforming the city into a digital nightmare. To fight back, Jake must evolve from a survivor into an Admin.

Gravity is the most dependable force in our lives —until it isn’t. The Shape of Falling is a collection of speculative short stories about what happens when gravity is borrowed, taxed, insured, inherited, or misunderstood. These stories explore curiosity, good intentions, and the consequences of changing the rules that hold things together.

The master of science-fiction is back for Volume Two of the Ray Bradbury Classics Collection. These legendary tales come straight from the Golden Age of Sci-Fi, and are just as intense, dark, and full of flavor as the stories in Volume One. Buckle up your space seatbelt, and let’s take a journey across hostile worlds in Asleep in Armageddon, encounter mystery and danger in Lorelei of the Red Mist, explore the consequences of creation in The Monster Maker, and discover the wit, imagination, and humanity that would later make Bradbury one of the most celebrated authors of the twentieth century.

Six crewmates awake from cryogenic sleep to the fanfare of klaxons and red lights. The two crew assigned to watch are nowhere to be found, the computer is reporting system integrity loss, and one of the six is in handcuffs. Post-cryo amnesia doesn't help abate this confusion, forcing an uneasy exploration through the ship as the crew investigates what caused this crisis.

After the power grid collapses in a brutal winter, May fights to keep her small team alive in a frozen wilderness. When strangers appear from the storm with secrets of their own, she discovers the cold is not the only danger closing in.

They laughed her off the G20 stage. Hours later, the flare she predicted killed every light on Earth. Now the scientist nobody believed must cross 2,000 miles of collapsing country to reach her brother, because being right was the easy part. Surviving it won’t be.

Other Tales: Volume VII contains six bizarre and incredible tales of science fiction and fantasy, including a humorous yarn by science fiction titan Arthur C. Clarke, a mysterious supernatural tale by Katherine Gaskell (author of North and South), a classic swords & sorcery story by Clifford Ball, and Boxes in the Warehouse, an original piece by contemporary author J. Brice Odom, author of Shoreless Seas & Stars Uncounted and Letters From the Frontier.

Even Extinction Couldn’t Stop Them. Something moves in the trees. A blur of claws. The glint of razor-sharp teeth. You register the danger a heartbeat too late. Feathers explode from the shadows as a roar tears through the air—ancient, furious, impossible. The ground trembles as the creature charges straight for you, and all you can do is stare back in paralyzed disbelief. Twelve dinosaur stories. Twelve lethal creatures dragged from a world that should have stayed in the past. They were never meant to share the same stage with humanity… yet here they are—hungry, hunting, and very much alive.

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.

They had 36 Hours to prepare for the end of the world as they knew it. It wasn’t enough.

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"