Títulos em Ficção Científica

In a near future America pulled from today's headlines and coming apart at the seams, Turn Red Tomorrow details a soberingly possible scenario where the nation's financial system is obliterated overnight, plunging the country into chaos. The story follows a typical extended family and their friends, scattered across the country, as they seek to reunite and survive the ever-present horrors of disease, starvation, and violence.

One town. One man. Zero mercy. Firebend is falling apart. Corrupt officials, a brutal cult, and killers in uniform rule the town through fear, fire, and blood. But when they came after Rex Hays, they lit the wrong fuse. After watching his cabin burn and his friends hunted like animals, Rex is done playing defense. A former soldier with nothing left to lose, he’s turning the tables—one ambush, one bullet, one enemy at a time. He’s not just fighting back. He’s tearing their empire down. But taking on a town this rotten doesn’t come without a cost. Every move he makes draws more heat.

Punktown is considered by many critics and readers to be one of the new classics of SF short story collections. In the nightmarish city they call Punktown, on a planet where countless sentient species collide, you can become a creator of clones. You can become a piece of performance art. You might even become a library of sorrows...

When the InVader ships arrived, they seeded the atmosphere with Double V, a lethal virus that killed over ninety-nine percent of the global population within days, leaving fewer than ten million survivors worldwide. Most of those had proven to be immune to the InVader Virus, but there were a few, a very few, who contracted the virus but survived. After two days of delirium, they awoke – able to do magic!

When Lainie Lanahan’s daughters discover a hidden journal from 1994, they uncover a secret their mother never intended to reveal. Confronted with the truth, Lainie is forced to revisit the extraordinary events that changed her life forever. It began at a new age party, when Lainie was chosen to be hypnotized. Instead of relaxation, she is transported back to 1941 Hollywood, where she awakens in the body of Lorraine Larue, a beautiful singer and rising movie star.

Zodiac Station, a beacon of interstellar innovation, has fallen. Amidst searing heat and crumbling steel, Kim must navigate a labyrinth of war-torn corridors, dodging rogue androids and uncovering a sinister conspiracy orchestrated by the enigmatic Black Sun. Her only mission: protect Sakura, no matter the cost.

From boardrooms to befuddled aliens, what if the high-tech absurdities of modern life accelerated to warp speed? The stories in Neil Rackham's debut science fiction collection, Elliptical Billiard Balls, explore the worlds of business and tech - not to mention English-speaking dogs and aliens who communicate via smells - to create strange new futures.

Karla Arkourian wakes from emergency cryosleep on a failing space station at the edge of the solar system. The last person she expects to see is Margo Noor, new head of NOOR industries, who has taken the reins when her brother, Benedict, failed to return home after all contact was lost with Nether Station.

Earth is crowded, polluted, and dismal. Like millions of others, Jonos and Liina scrape by on her poorly paying job and what little money he gets selling items scavenged from rich people’s trash. Like millions of others, Jonos and Liina dream of Paradise. On the run after a criminal act, Jonos and Liina finally escape to Paradise. It’s everything they hoped for. Until tragedy strikes.

Artis und Felice, Geschwister aus dem stolzen Jin-Clan, stehen an einem Wendepunkt ihres Lebens. Felice muss sich den brutalen Herausforderungen stellen, die ihren Körper und ihre Seele brechen sollen. Felice kämpft nicht nur ums Überleben, sondern auch darum, ihre Menschlichkeit zu bewahren. Als Artis seine Schwester nach Jahren zurückbekommt, erkennt er sie kaum wieder. Die Geschichte erzählt vom unerschütterlichen Willen, vom Durchhalten und von der tiefen Verbundenheit zwischen den Geschwistern, die selbst die dunkelsten Zeiten überdauert.

In 1990s Harrow Ridge, the brightest place in a dying town was the arcade. The brightest thing inside it wanted your life. Years after watching his little brother vanish in front of a prototype cabinet called Neon Labyrinth, Cade Morrow returns to the condemned arcade that should have stayed dark. The machine is still there—unplugged, humming, waiting. When Cade drops their childhood “bound forever” coin into the slot, the game boots a maze built from his own memories: back roads, hospital corridors, rooftops, regrets. Soon the levels start bleeding into real life.

Simon Byrne thought he understood the game. Level up. Master his Wildkin abilities. Become a deadly rogue. Survive alongside Elsa, Tana, and his wise sena-girl, Cierra, who lives in his forehead crystal. But the Shrine of Amurta will test everything he's made of.

Wer hätte geahnt, wie unerwartet sich die Ereignisse im Leben unseres Helden überschlagen würden–wer gestern noch ein Feind war, ist heute ein Verbündeter. Diese Veränderung fällt Varg nicht leicht, aber er hat sich für den Weg des Wachstums entschieden–nicht nur in Bezug auf seine körperliche, sondern auch auf seine mentale Stärke. Nun bemüht er sich, Entscheidungen nicht zu überstürzen und stets im Interesse seines Clans zu handeln.

Nach den Verwüstungen von Isstvan kniet ein Krieger der Legiones Astartes in grauer Rüstung vor dem Regenten von Terra und akzeptiert feierlich seine neue Pflicht – Captain Nathaniel Garro, einst Kommandant der Eisenstein, jetzt der Agentia Primus von Malcador dem Sigiliten. Als Inbegriff der Treue und Beschützer der Unschuldigen steht er bereit, gegen die verräterischen Verbündeten des Kriegsherrn zurückzuschlagen. Aber Garro beschreitet dunkle Pfade, die ihn an seinem Platz im Imperium zweifeln lassen.

In Bound by the Glow, Earth faces an escalating threat as alien microbes from a newly mined asteroid mutate into two deadly insect species, the "Green Glowers" and "Red Glowers," which spread across the planet, battling for dominance. These glowing, venomous creatures not only wage their own war, but take control of human hosts, sparking a brutal conflict that divides humanity and plunges society into chaos.

Er ist ein Gefangener in einem Alien Raumschiff. Und er fordert absolute Hingabe. Ich liebe die Einsamkeit und Ruhe des Regenwalds. Deshalb habe ich den Job fernab der Zivilisation angenommen. Den Tropensturm nehme ich nicht allzu ernst. Bis ich mitten drin stehe und um mein Leben fürchten muss. Doch es ist nicht das Wetter, das mir fast zum Verhängnis wird. Es ist ein gewaltiges … Ding, das plötzlich vom Himmel stürzt. Kein Flugzeug und auch kein Satellit, sondern etwas Fremdes. Etwas, das nicht auf diese Welt gehört. Zum Schutz vor dem Sturm wage ich mich ins Innere.

In Lib’s world, it’s dangerous to deviate from the norm. In fact, for someone who doesn’t live up to the Artificial Intelligence’s standards, it’s practically a death sentence. Lib learns this the hard way when she wakes up in a barren wasteland, with her memories erased, and only one thought lodged in her mind:

An interstellar war has been raging for millions of years. It has finally expanded into the outer spirals of the Milky Way galaxy. Earth lies in the middle of an interstellar war between two powerful empires. Alliances will be forged. Nations will be torn apart. A waitress in a simple Arizona diner will change the course of galactic history forever.

Emily Cotton, a CDC epidemiologist, and Charles Montgomery, a Naval Intelligence general, meet by chance in the thin mountain air of Aspen Creek, Colorado. Both are workaholics on forced vacation. Both are running from loneliness. Neither expects to fall in love. Five days later, they return to their separate lives—and the world changes forever.

Dann aber greifen positronisch-biologische Roboter die terranische Kolonie Cybora an – es kommt zu erbitterten Kämpfen. Die Maschinenwesen verschleppen sieben besondere Kinder ins Weltall, die den Entführern jedoch entkommen können. Perry Rhodan und seine Gefährten brechen zur Zentralwelt der Posbis auf. Sie wollen herausfinden, was der Grund für das rätselhafte Verhalten der einstigen Verbündeten ist. Am Rand der Milchstraße treffen die beteiligten Kontrahenten in einer dramatischen Begegnung aufeinander.