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The Blood Angels Chapter of Space Marines is under threat. Having obliterated all human life in the Red Scar region of space, the largest tendril of Hivefleet Leviathan ever seen in the Imperium has converged and is making relentlessly for Baal. To face this awesome foe, Commander Dante has called upon the Successor Chapters of the ancient Ninth Legion. The Sons of Sanguinius gather in numbers not seen since the dark days of the Horus Heresy.

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

Publicadas originalmente em volumes diversos, as narrativas de Ted Chiang estão pela primeira vez reunidas em uma coletânea. Entre as histórias dotadas de rigor científico, humanidade e lirismo estão “A torre da Babilônia”, na qual um minerador sobe a famosa torre com a missão de escavar a abóbada celeste; “Divisão por zero”, uma reflexão precisa e devastadora sobre o fim da esperança e do amor, e “História da sua vida”, na qual uma linguista aprende um idioma alienígena que modifica sua visão de mundo.

Faire le tour du monde en 80 jours : c'est le pari qu'a pris Phileas Fogg, excentrique gentleman londonien, devant ses confrères du Reform-Club. S'il échoue, il amputera sa fortune de moitié - issue peu probable, tant ce maniaque de l'heure exacte prise la ponctualité.

The Galactic Empire has prospered for 12,000 years. Nobody suspects that the heart of the thriving Empire is rotten, until psychohistorian Hari Seldon uses his new science to foresee its terrible fate. Exiled to the desolate planet Terminus, Seldon establishes a colony of the greatest minds in the Empire, a Foundation which holds the key to changing the fate of the galaxy.

Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war. That's how war works. Right?

Now that news of Horus' treachery is in the open, a time of testing has come. Some Legions have already declared their allegiance to the Warmaster while the loyalty of others lies firmly with the Emperor. As Horus deploys his forces, loyalist Astartes learn that a massive Wordbearers fleet is heading to Ultramar, home of the Ultramarines. Unless they can intercept the fleet, and destroy the mighty battleship that has been sent to reinforce it, the Ultramarines may suffer a blow from which they will never recover.

Ten years after the events of Morning Star, Darrow and the Rising are battling the remaining Gold loyalist forces and are closer than ever to abolishing the color-coded caste system of Society for good. But new foes will emerge from the shadows to threaten the imperfect victory Darrow and his friends have earned. Pierce Brown expands the size and scope of his impressive Red Rising universe with new characters, enemies, and conflicts among the stars.

A República sucumbiu e agora a galáxia é governada por Lordes Sith. O mestre Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi perdeu tudo… menos a esperança. No mundo desértico e inóspito de Tatooine – um lugar improvável para se encontrar um Mestre Jedi escondido ou um menino órfão em cujos pequenos ombros repousa o futuro de uma galáxia –, um estrangeiro barbudo e encapuzado, conhecido pelos habitantes locais apenas como “Ben”, é um indivíduo estranho e enigmático que vive sozinho, não compartilha nada sobre seu passado e se esforça para permanecer um forasteiro.

Nessas aventuras de Dr. Ransom pelo espaço encontramos criaturas mágicas, um mundo de encantos, batalhas épicas e revelações de verdades transcendentes.

A Trilogia Cósmica criada por Lewis é resultado de uma aposta entre ele e seu grande amigo J.R.R. Tolkien. Segundo relatos, os temas foram decididos no cara ou coroa; Lewis ficou com viagem no espaço, e Tolkien com viagem no tempo. Tolkien acabou não cumprindo a aposta, enquanto Lewis não parou em um só livro. A famosa amizade entre os dois foi eternizada pela criação do personagem principal, Elwin Ransom, professor e filólogo, assim como Tolkien.

In the near future, when America has become a police state, 100 boys are selected to enter an annual contest where the winner will be awarded whatever he wants for the rest of his life. Among them is 16-year-old Ray Garraty, and he knows the rules - keep a steady walking pace of four miles per hour without stopping. Three warnings and you're out - permanently.

The First Foundation survived two centuries of barbarism as the once-mighty Galactic Empire descended into chaos. Now it must prepare for war against the remnants of the Empire as the Imperial fleet advances on their planet, Terminus. Hari Seldon predicted this war; he even prepared his Foundation for it. But he couldn’t foresee the birth of the mutant Mule. In possession of a power which reduces fearsome opposition to devoted slaves, the Mule poses a terrible threat to Seldon’s Foundation.

Certas histórias não podem ser contadas em uma única vida. Harry está no leito de morte. Outra vez. Não importa o que faça ou que decisões tome: toda vez que ele morre, volta para onde começou; uma criança com a memória de todo o conhecimento de uma vida vivida diversas vezes. Nada nunca muda...até agora.

Lord of the mystical and uncanny, Magnus the Red has long studied the ancient crafts of sorcery. A psyker without peer, save only for the Emperor himself, he commands his loyal followers of the Thousand Sons Legion in the Great Crusade, though also vigilant for any lost knowledge they might recover from the remains of dead human civilisations.

Before the being called the Emperor revealed himself, before the rise of the aeldari, before the necrontyr traded their flesh for immortal metal, the world was born in violence. Even when they inhabited bodies of flesh, Trazyn the Infinite and Orikan the Diviner were polar opposites. Trazyn, a collector of historical oddities, presides over a gallery full of the most dangerous artefacts - and people - of the galactic past. Orikan, a chronomancer without peer, draws zodiacs that predict and manipulate the future.

Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they'll never face the same fate. Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: other people aren't safe. After a brutal accident entwines the three of them, this found family of survivors must navigate murderous TERFs, a sociopathic billionaire bunker brat, and awkward relationship dynamics—all while outrunning packs of feral men, and their own demons.

Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a little person as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny.

A Great War is coming, and it will engulf the Imperium of Man. The Space Marines of the Alpha Legion, the last and most secretive of all the Astartes brotherhoods, arrive on a heathen world to support the Imperial Army in a pacification campaign against strange and uncanny forces. But what drives the Alpha Legion?

1984, escrito por George Orwell, é um romance distópico publicado em 1949 que retrata um futuro sombrio onde o totalitarismo domina. A história se passa em uma sociedade controlada pelo Partido, liderado pela figura do Grande Irmão, que monitora cada aspecto da vida das pessoas. Winston Smith, o protagonista, trabalha para o governo, mas aos poucos começa a questionar a opressão imposta pelo regime.