Títulos em Ficção Científica e Fantasia

Uma das obras mais importantes da literatura mundial, 1984 foi publicada em 1949, num momento onde a Europa destruída pela Segunda Guerra Mundial enfrentava o desespero da reconstrução e o surgimento de duas novas potências mundiais, os EUA e a Rússia, que representavam o que Orwell começou a chamar de Guerra Fria. Num texto impactante, descrevendo uma sociedade distópica cinzenta dominada por um grupo de privilegiados que não permitiam a liberdade de expressão, e cujo representante maior nunca visto pessoalmente era o "Big Brother".

But first, Jake has a family to visit, and an auction to attend. Then, it’s time to face the challenges the planet has to offer, and by using the many rewards from the treasure hunt, Jake aims to improve his repertoire while getting some more levels under his belt.

Charlie Gordon, a floor sweeper born with an unusually low IQ, has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that doctors hope will increase his intelligence - a procedure that has been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon. All Charlie wants is to be smart and have friends, but the treatment turns him into a genius. Then Algernon begins to fade. What will become of Charlie? Read by Adam Sims.

Hadrian Marlowe, privileged first son of a Duke, was destined for greatness, and he has become a legend. The Sun-Slayer. The Breaker of Sieges. The Crusher of Civilisations. His is a story which defined the course of worlds. This novel is not that story - not the only laid out in the history books, charting the 300 years of his life. Rather this is Hadrian's story, told in his own worlds.

The impossible has been accomplished. The Lord Ruler - the man who claimed to be god incarnate and brutally ruled the world for a thousand years - has been vanquished. But Kelsier, the hero who masterminded that triumph, is dead too, and now the awesome task of building a new world has been left to his young protégé, Vin, the former street urchin who is now the most powerful Mistborn in the land, and to the idealistic young nobleman she loves.

More than 3,000 years have passed since the first events recorded in Dune. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad'Dib, and now the virtually immortal God Emperor of Dune. He alone understands the future, and he knows with a terrible certainty that the evolution of his race is at an end unless he can breed new qualities into his species.

L'éminent professeur de minéralogie Otto Lidenbrock découvre un jour, caché dans un manuscrit dont il vient de faire l'acquisition, un parchemin rédigé en caractères runiques dont le sens lui demeure obscur. Dès lors, il n'a de cesse de décrypter ce mystérieux message, aidé par son neveu Axel Lidenbrock. Ils découvrent alors quelque chose d'incroyable : le rédacteur du message serait un certain Arne Saknussemm, un alchimiste qui aurait vécu au seizième siècle, et qui aurait découvert un passage vers le "Centre de la Terre".

Imagine um lugar onde os mortos repousam em prateleiras, como os livros. Cada corpo tem uma história para contar, uma vida disposta em imagens que apenas os Bibliotecários podem ler. Aqui, os mortos são chamados de Histórias, e o vasto domínio onde eles descansam é conhecido como o Arquivo. Mackenzie Bishop é uma implacável Guardiã, cuja tarefa é impedir Histórias geralmente violentas de acordar e fugir do Arquivo. Naqueles domínios, os mortos jamais devem ser perturbados, mas alguém parece estar, deliberadamente, alterando Histórias e apagando seus trechos essenciais.

At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredibly, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike prepare for mankind's first encounter with alien intelligence.

This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of...

This classic science fiction masterwork by Isaac Asimov weaves stories about robots, humanity, and the deep questions of existence into a novel of shocking intelligence and heart. “A must-read for science-fiction buffs and literature enjoyers alike.”—The Guardian I, Robot, the first and...

World War Z: The Complete Edition (Movie Tie-in Edition): An Oral History of the Zombie War is a new version of Max Brooks' episodic zombie novel. The abridged versions of the original stories are now joined with new, unabridged recordings of the episodes that were not included in the...

In the twenty-second century Earth obtains limitless, free energy from a source science little understands: an exchange between Earth and a parallel universe, using a process devised by the aliens. But even free energy has a price. The transference process itself will eventually lead to the...

Este audiolivro conta a história da preparação para a chegada do Consolador, com o objetivo de trabalhar o planeta para a transição planetária, que começou no período das guerras mundias. Nessa ocasião, cerca dez milhões de espíritos foram deportados para mundos primitivos.Izoldino Resende de Morais, comerciante e médium psicofônico por mais de trinta anos, foi presidente da Aliança Municipal Espírita de Santa Luzia e presidente do Conselho Espírita da Bacia Alto Rio das Velhas.

This collection contains all of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian stories published during his lifetime, contextualized with biographical details of their author.

Tessa Gray não está sonhando. Nada do que aconteceu desde que saiu de Nova York para Londres—ser sequestrada pelas Irmãs Sombrias, perseguida por um exército mecânico, ser traída pelo próprio irmão e se apaixonar pela pessoa errada—foi fruto de sua imaginação. Mas talvez Tessa Gray, como ela mesma se reconhece, nem sequer exista. O Magistrado garante que ela não passa de uma invenção. Para entender o próprio passado e ter alguma chance de projetar seu futuro, primeiro Tessa precisa entender quem criou Axel Mortmain, também conhecido como Príncipe Mecânico.

Just as we were finding a way to get past our difficulties, the stars have torn us apart. Can I fight against the will of the heavens, or does fate have something unforeseen in store for me now? While we're reeling from the wheel of fate and trying to find a way to move on with our lives, our enemies are only growing more powerful. Felix Oscura is haunting Alestria with his bloodthirsty need to steal the power of the clan he was never destined to rule over. And, the illusive King is growing closer to their goal of taking control of the entire city and maybe even beyond.

HUGO AWARD WINNER • WORLD FANTASY AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A Holmes and Watson–style detective duo take the stage in this fantasy with a mystery twist, from acclaimed author Robert Jackson Bennett “Like an endearing fantasy version of Knives Out . . . A great murder mystery...

Brought to you by Penguin. Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before The audiobook of The Colour of Magic is read by Colin Morgan (Merlin; Testament of Youth; Belfast). BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning...

Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there's an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can't have the planet, they're sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up prize. But there's something wrong with Murderbot; it isn't running within normal operational parameters.