Títulos em Ficção Científica

Nach Rüdigers Ableben hatte ich beschlossen, meinen Weg allein weiterzugehen. Der Plan ging leider nicht auf. Mittlerweile haben sich mir zwei Frauen und ein Nerd angeschlossen. Zu viert sind wir auf der Suche nach Sicherheit. Ob uns die ummauerte Stadt diese bieten kann? Die Zombieapokalypse habe ich mir jedenfalls anders vorgestellt. Selbst da ist nicht alles schwarz oder weiß. Sind wir Lebenden vielleicht die Bösen?

Das Scout-Team Obsidian hatte nach einer besonders brutalen Mission, in der es einen gestohlenen Mech namens Atlas zurückbringen musste, endlich etwas Ruhe. Während der Mission hatte Jacob Brown, der Leiter des Teams, seine linke Hand und sein linkes Auge verloren. Er musste sich noch an seine neuen Prothesen gewöhnen und freute sich auf einen wohlverdienten Urlaub.

Un'organizzazione vuole mettere le mani sulla scoperta fatta da Idris Telemmier sul conto degli Architetti – la loro più grande debolezza – per trasformarla in un'arma contro questi alieni distruttori di mondi. Per tale ragione, mentre le varie specie lottano per prendere il controllo di questa potente rivelazione, la galassia esplode in una guerra distruttiva e controproducente. L'altro grande ostacolo alla lotta contro la minaccia aliena è Idris stesso: sa che gli Architetti, nonostante il potere, non sono altro che strumenti nelle mani di un'intelligenza superiore.

Daniel Stanton hat nur ein Ziel in seinem Leben: BattleMech-Pilot zu werden, und sei es auch nur als Angehöriger einer planetaren Miliz. Doch als die Simulator-Auswertungen ihn eher bei der Panzertruppe sehen, begibt er sich in eine örtliche Bar, um seinen Kummer zu ertränken. Dort trifft er auf Sergeant McHugh, einen ergrauten Veteranen, der womöglich schon länger in Mechs kämpft, als Daniel überhaupt lebt. Und was er Daniel dann an der Theke erzählt, wird seine Perspektive … und seine Zukunft … für immer verändern.

Der Nebel des Krieges verhüllt alles. Feinde lauern im Schatten, selbst innerhalb der Flotte, welche die Vereinigte Erde beschützen soll. Es gibt viele Verschwörungen und Attentate, und im Hintergrund ... ... droht die blockierte Alien-Invasion.

This audiobook is a collection of five science fiction stories, the first is a South American "monster in the house" classic jungle survival creature-feature. The second story is, "Last Place On Earth," a contemporary arctic Pliestocene Cold War Halloween contemplation. The third, "Sirens of Celebes" is an eerie SCUBA dive into psychodrama, a study of descent into mental illness. The fourth story, "Green Hell," is a dark humor view of lawn care in South Florida. The fifth and last story is a hard science spaceship crash and lunar survival adventure.

When DARPA builds the ultimate tactical weapon—a portal capable of instant travel across any distance—they recruit Marine Raider Captain Jackson Glover and his elite team to test it. But this isn’t just a new form of transport: it’s Pandora’s Box. Every time the portal opens, the team must pass through Other Earths—alternate realities filled with hostile environments, alien ecosystems, and threats that defy human comprehension. What should be a shortcut through space becomes a gauntlet of survival, where each “layover” could unleash horrors capable of annihilating our world.

Andrómeda es un planeta con un alto desarrollo espiritual, cuya civilización es capaz de sostener estados de conciencia elevados y meditación permanente. En ese mundo luminoso habitan Adaesuz y Balikai, una pareja unida por un amor profundo que decide emprender un viaje a través del universo con el permiso de la Jerarquía. Movidos por la curiosidad, cruzan la única frontera prohibida: una zona donde se encuentran planetas y civilizaciones aún en desarrollo.

When Sun-born mage Zal is called to a remote village after an explosion on a nearby mountaintop, he’s stunned at what he finds in the gaol under the town hall—the last Moon-born on the planet, apparently a rogue mage, and someone Zal is duty-bound to haul to the capital to face judgment. But although nonbinary Torian is Moon-born, they’re no mage. Rescued as an infant from the plague that wiped out the rest of their race, Torian is as much cybertronic as human, and desperate to escape their former Star-born overseers.

En esta formidable novela de ciencia ficción, Grinberg imagina la existencia de unos cristales capaces de alterar la percepción de la realidad y abrir la puerta hacia un estado de conciencia expansiva. Quienes los poseen pueden emplear su poder para iluminar y transformar a la humanidad o para controlarla y someterla bajo un solo mando.

Con motivo de la muerte de la emperatriz de Cetaganda, Miles Vorkosigan y su sobrino Ivan son enviados al funeral como represantes diplomáticos de Barrayar. Nada más llegar, ambos son inexplicablemente atacados por un sirviente de la recién fallecida emperatriz. Cuando el mismo sirvinete es encontrado muerto al día siguiente, Miles e Ivan se ven envueltos en mitad de un misterio sin resolver. Miles intentará solventar la situación lidiando con una extraña, complicada y engañosa cultura alienígena, mientras Ivan se centra en crear relaciones con la parte femenina de la nobleza.

Warlord Iven has one foot in the grave, days away from a ceremonial execution to save his honor—and the galaxy—from his untamed beast. But when a desperate plea lands a mission in his lap, everything changes. A royal child is in hiding. Assassins are on Earth. And his last chance at redemption lies in a sleepy little town in Washington … in the form of a fiercely protective, infuriatingly sexy fourth-grade teacher named Krystal.

The day America fell, Zeek was just a high school kid 500 miles from home. Stranded in southern Utah when America collapses, Zeek sets out with his best friends, determined to survive and find a way home. Every night on the road is a test, keeping his injured teammates safe, dodging ruthless gangs, and holding on to hope that his family is still alive.

The Pulse—a catastrophic solar event—collapsed modern civilization and plunged Earth into darkness. In the aftermath, the Velt arrived. Ruthless, technologically superior, and utterly relentless, the alien invaders have nearly exterminated the human race. Now, only a few thousand soldiers remain. A fractured global military alliance is all that stands between Earth and extinction.

As the world's thousands of believers gather in Jerusalem for a stadium rally, the Tribulation Force struggles with their own personal crises. Newspaper reporter Buck Williams and his wife, Chloe, question whether or not they should have a child when the future of the world is so uncertain.

Los cuentos de Alberto Chimal tratan de las proyecciones y los demonios de una «inteligencia» que desplaza y suplanta lo humano hasta su extinción, del poder absoluto de una tecnología adictiva, propiedad de unos pocos, de la ingenuidad de creer en sus buenas intenciones y de las horribles fantasías de poder absoluto y saqueo de este mundo (y hasta de otros mundos). Porque incluso aunque esas máquinas «enfermaran», nuestra fe en ellas podría ser suficiente para que triunfasen sobre nosotros.

In a future where birth is rare and obedience is engineered, one girl becomes the wild card in a game no one fully controls. The year is 2084. Civilization hasn’t collapsed—but it’s quietly dying. Fertility rates have plummeted. Automation has replaced most human labor. Governments cling to order by any means necessary. When Jane Aldridge, the daughter of a powerful Air Force general, is offered a place in a secret neuroscience program, she doesn’t realize the procedure will do more than alter her memory. It changes her.

In paradise, the ocean is choking from plastic—and it’s going to take a pug in a cape, rogue best friend sailors, and one Ironman-in-training to fight back. On the Big Island of Hawaii, volcanoes simmer and waterfalls thunder as Tilly trains for the grueling Kona Ironman—not for glory, but to raise awareness about plastic pollution.

Vince Walker is looking forward to the beginning of the summer and a visit from his son Cy. But while picking up his son at the Indianapolis airport, the country is thrust into nuclear warfare with the detonation of multiple EMPs.

Deep beneath the Pyramid of the Sun, archaeologist Charles Bowen and his protege Marcus Brown uncover an artifact that rewrites history—and paints a target on their backs. Within hours, killers strike. Charles is dead. Marcus is on the run. Hunted by the GBI, shadowy operatives, and the Mexican authorities, Marcus must unravel the truth about the relic—and the secret it holds about his own past.