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The year is 1714. Daniel Waterhouse has returned to England, where he joins forces with his friend Isaac Newton to hunt down a criminal gang attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers with "Infernal Devices," or time bombs. Unbeknownst to Daniel, however, Newton has an ulterior motive: to wrest the Solomonic Gold from the control of his arch-enemy, the master counterfeiter Jack the Coiner, a.k.a Jack Shaftoe, King of the Vagabonds.

This full cast recording features narration from Arthur Morey; Charlie Thurston; David Stifel; James Anderson Foster; Joe Barrett; Kate Udall; Laural Merlington; Laurence Bouvard; Luke Daniels; Robert Fass; Shelley Atkinson; Tavia Gilbert; and Will Damron From bestselling author Neal Stephenson...

“Neal Stephenson has made a name for himself as a writer whose imagination knows no limits.” —Salon #1 New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson is, quite simply, one of the best and most respected writers alive. He’s taken sf to places it’s never been (Snow Crash, Anathem)...

Der neue SciFi-Bestseller von Erfolgsautor Neal Stephenson. Als Richard Forthrast, genannt Dodge, überraschend früh verstirbt, erfüllen seine Angehörigen seinen letzten Willen: Er hatte verfügt, dass sein Gehirn konserviert werden soll, bis die Technologie es eines Tages ermöglicht, die Daten seines Bewusstseins zu erfassen und hochzuladen. Viele Jahre später gelingt es dank eines komplexen Verfahrens tatsächlich, Dodge digitales Leben einzuhauchen.

Es ist nur ein Spiel. Aber es geht um sehr viel Geld. Und für manche bald um ihr Leben...

New York Times Bestseller From Neal Stephenson—who coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash—comes a sweeping, prescient new thriller that transports readers to a near-future world in which the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of...

Cuando un hecho catastrófico convierte la Tierra en una bomba de relojería, se inicia una carrera desenfrenada contra lo inevitable. Las principales naciones del mundo elaboran un ambicioso plan para garantizar la supervivencia de la humanidad más allá de nuestra atmósfera. Pero los intrépidos pioneros sufren todo tipo de peligros imprevistos, hasta que solo queda un puñado de supervivientes...

From Neal Stephenson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Polostan and Cryptonomicon, comes the second installment in his monumental Bomb Light series—a gripping tale set on the eve of World War II, as nations race to find and control an elusive substance critical to building atomic...

The astounding new novel from the master of science fiction President Barack Obama’s summer reading choice What would happen if the world were ending? When a catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb, it triggers a feverish race against the inevitable. An ambitious plan is...

En 1942, Larence Pritchard Waterhouse, genio matemático y joven capitán de la Marina estadounidense, es asignado a colaborar con Bobby Shaftoe en una misión secreta que consiste en descifrar los códigos de las potencias del Eje. De este modo se pretende evitar que los nazis perciban que la Inteligencia aliada ha descubierto el sistema de cifrado de su mítico código Enigma. Sesenta años más tarde, Randy Waterhouse, brillante «criptohacker», proyecta la creación en el Sureste asiático de un paraíso de datos y el mayor exponente de la libertad informática: la Cripta.

In una società dominata da un capitalismo selvaggio e preda delle grosse corporation che hanno sostituito i governi collassati, tra scorie atomiche e periferie postindustriali, l'unico rifugio è nel Metaverso. Chi può, abbandona la Realtà e sceglie di vivere nel mondo virtuale generato dai computer, dove libertà e piaceri sono limitati solo dall'immaginazione. L'unica speranza dell'umanità è il meno probabile degli eroi: l'hacker freelance Hiro, fattorino per CosaNostra Pizza nella Realtà e mago del katana nel Metaverso.