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The Hygrometric Dehabitation Region, or the "Zone," is a growing band of rainforest on the equator, where the heat and humidity make it impossible for warm-blooded animals to survive. A human being without protection in the Zone is dead in minutes. Twenty years ago, Marks went into the rainforest with a group of researchers led by Doctor Elaine Fell, to study the extraordinary climate and see if it could be used in agriculture. The only thing she learned was that the Zone was no place for people. There were deaths, and the program was cut short. Now, they're sending her back in.

Dem brillanten Physiker Nate Wexler ist eine wissenschaftliche Sensation gelungen: Er hat einen Weg gefunden, in der Zeit zurückzureisen. Zwar nur für den Bruchteil einer Sekunde, dennoch sind die Konsequenzen, die diese neuartige Technologie mit sich bringt, gewaltig. Gerade will Nate mit seiner Verlobten Jenna auf seinen Erfolg anstoßen, als die beiden in ihrem Haus von Vermummten überfallen werden. Nate wird getötet, Jenna kann in letzter Sekunde entkommen – mit Nates Aufzeichnungen. Aufzeichnungen, die die Naturgesetze revolutionieren könnten.

In the first two volumes of the 'Quantum Series', a group of earth-based quantum and astro-physicists working on quantum entanglement, manage to accidentally communicate with an exoplanet about forty lightyears away. Even though they realized this was impossible, they continued their experiments, resulting in an 'interstellar' liaison of historic proportions, opening up a new era in the science of communications, political and scientific cooperation.

Jack London az rastlanır anlatı yeteneğiyle kendisini ilgilendiren birçok farklı alanda eserler verdi. Ademden Önce. ilk insanın çarpıcı öyküsüyle genetik kodlanmayı. rüyaları ve ilkel yaşamı keşfe çıkan bir roman. Oldukça sert çizilen karakterler ve sürükleyici dramatik yapı okura büyük bir okuma zevki ve düşünme vesilesi vaat ediyor.

Special Agent Waylen Brooks is charged with doing the impossible: preventing an alien incursion, without alerting the general population. Will his past finally catch up with him before he can succeed? Rory Swanson wants to forget the shadow following her, but every time she ignores it someone dies. Silas Gunn is the Key. With no other option, he must travel to Planet D to visit the field of shadows. Little does he know what he seeks is also seeking him. A lifetime of deception will need to be reckoned with in order to survive what's coming.

Seven tales of conflict set among the stars, driven by the very roots of humankind’s Earth-bound strife. Yet even in the face of the vast void of space, these brave souls fight to hold on to their humanity.

Ist die Seele des Menschen unantastbar? Die brillante Forscherin Dr. Josie Parman steht kurz davor, das menschliche Bewusstsein zu digitalisieren – die letzte Hoffnung, ihre sterbende Schwester zu retten. Als ihr Experiment katastrophal scheitert, taucht ein geheimnisvoller Tech-Milliardär mit einem Angebot auf, das zu gut scheint, um wahr zu sein. Doch eine mysteriöse Organisation warnt sie: Dieser Mann will das Ende der Menschheit herbeiführen! Plötzlich findet sich Josie in einem Strudel aus Verrat und dunklen Geheimnissen wieder.

Sur Terre, la situation est critique : le climat se détériore inexorablement et les tensions politiques s’accroissent. Une coalition internationale espère envoyer le plus de gens possible sur Mars avant que la planète bleue ne devienne inhabitable, mais il est évident que tout le monde ne pourra pas partir. Les manifestations contre le projet de conquête spatiale virent à l’émeute et des tentatives de sabotage des fusées sont mises au jour.

Agetha thought her fate was sealed, pushed to the edge of the colony to die. But with the revelation that the biomass is not only intelligent, but sentient, changes to colony are accelerating, threatening its very existence. Those who were controlled by the biomass once again have free will. Now, the human colonists are raising their voices and for the first time really influencing their new home. The planet-wide consciousness is slipping into a crisis of identity, when it doesn't even have a sense of self.

Isaac Asimov was the Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America, the founder of robot ethics, and one of the world’s most prolific authors of fiction and non-fiction. Asimov’s short fiction has been enjoyed by millions for more than half a century. Within this collection are stories often voted among the best science fiction stories of all time, including Hugo Award-winning title story ‘Bicentennial Man’, which explores a robot’s journey towards becoming human.

A final collection of original short fantasy stories assembles previously uncollected tales, stories about the two-centimeter demon Azael, several fairy tales, and a humorous adventure about Batman's old age from the grandmaster of science fiction. These stories are fascinating musings of a wide-ranging intelligence, discussing everything from Tolkien to Spielberg, from unicorns to King Arthur. Magic is the last word on fantasy by the renowned science fiction author.

The definitive collection of short fiction by Isaac Asimov, supreme master of the science fiction genre continues with Volume Two of the Complete Stories. The Good Doctor was always ahead of his time and his work stands today as the clearest expression of our collective hopes and fears for the future. But the ever-expanding popularity of his stories with young and old fans alike is explained by their wit, zest and human interest.

Gold is Isaac Asimov's last science fiction collection‚ one containing all of his uncollected SF stories that had never before appeared in book form. Gold is the final and crowning achievement of the fifty-five year career of science fiction's transcendent genius‚ the world-famous author who defined the field of SF for its practitioners‚ for its millions of readers‚ and for the world at large.

Suspenseful military space fleet adventure and hard science fiction come together in this series of future space colonization in the Alpha Centauri star system. With a successful test of his new ship behind him, Van Wert sets out to explore a secret base that reveals a spy ring operating in the fleets backyard, and sends the crew in an unexpected direction. Meanwhile, the hideous nature of the insurgency is revealed as the Malabar passengers and crew are pressed into forced labor on a remote planet, or find themselves the victims of a sordid entertainment for the cabal masters.

All her life, Jade Church has dreamed of owning her own starship and flying the space lanes as a courier. Being paid to see the galaxy. that’s the life she’s always wanted... Her first job was supposed to be easy. Just deliver a small case to a small, non-descript, colony planet, they said. Nobody told her she was carrying a priceless cargo. Or that this small case had been stolen. Or she’d have to deal with ruthless soldiers, assassins, implacable AIs, and massive alien carnivores.

When UNESCO convenes a diverse team of world-renowned experts in Paris, the goal is audacious: to settle the question of free will once and for all. For the first time ever, the combined knowledge of neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists, philosophers, a physicist, a legal scholar, and an advanced AI may finally crack it. Through a dynamic blend of cutting-edge science, spirited dialogue, unexpected twists and riveting thrills, this audiobook explores the mind, choice, and what it means to be human.

Maya Andreyeva is a camera, a reporter with virtual-reality-broadcasting equipment implanted in her brain. What sh esees, millions see; what she feels, millions share. And what Maya is seeing is the cover-up of a massacre. As she probes into the covert political power plays of a radically strange near-future Russia, she comes upon secrets that have been hidden from the world… and memories that AI-controlled thought police have forced her to hide from herself. Because in a world where no thought or desire is safe, the price of survival is betrayal—of your lover, your ideals, and yourself.

In this thrilling space opera, a seventeen-year-old female genius named Zendra, born on the planet Solitude Seven in the periphery of the galaxy, Via Lactea, finds herself at the center of a galactic conflict that will test her prodigious abilities to the fullest. When the malevolent leader Drang the Gray of Triangulum Galaxy and his Horde Armada threaten the very existence of the human race, Zendra must rise to the occasion and use her genius-level intellect to save humanity from implacable ruin.

Read by Sophie Aldred (Doctor Who). ‘Thrilling, terrifying and fascinating’ Tim Peake, British ESA astronaut They looked into darkness. The darkness looked back . . . An utterly gripping story of survival and first contact on a hostile planet from Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Arthur C...

The Sovereign Hierarchy of Leviathan leaves nothing to chance. Their strategists are the greatest in the galaxy, utilizing the tiniest details. Before unleashing the perfect invasion, they send Senior Dax to Earth. The cyber spy will assassinate the Lord High Admiral, throwing Star Watch into panic as one after another of their highest officials die hideous, unstoppable deaths.