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Nel 2005 la sonda robot "Huygens" atterra sulla luna di Saturno Titano. Quarant’anni dopo un radiotelescopio riceve dalla lontana luna dei segnali che possono provenire solo da quel lander dimenticato da tempo. Nello stesso momento una spedizione ritorna dalla vicina luna Encelado. Quando l’equipaggio atterra su Titano trova un pericoloso segreto che potrebbe mettere a rischio il loro ritorno sulla Terra. Nel frattempo su Encelado è iniziata una corsa mortale che nessuno pensava fosse possibile, e il suo esito potrà dipendere solamente dagli astronauti al momento bloccati su Titano.

Jace Hughes è un ribelle. Deve però accettare quasi ogni incarico gli venga offerto, a prescindere dalla situazione. Finché riesce a tenere in volo la sua navicella, è libero di vivere la vita che vuole. Ma tutto cambia quando Jace incontra Abigail Pryar, una suora alla ricerca di un passaggio sicuro fuori dal sistema. Peccato che il carico che Abigail sta trasportando contenga qualcosa di strano.

The Merry Band of Pirates are in desperate trouble after the end of their last mission, and the real danger to humanity is just getting started. Hostile aliens have discovered there is something odd going on with wormholes in the galaxy, and their investigations could lead to finding a shortcut to Earth....  

Nominee, Audie Awards - Audiobook of the Year, 2018 We were fighting on the wrong side of a war we couldn't win. And that was the good news. The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the native Americans in 1492. Over...

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.

Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he toils willingly, trusting that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and lush wilds spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.

In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event. At almost the same moment in humanity’s broad history, mankind discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall. And the ability to forget it ever happened.

United Nations Special Operations Command sent an elite expeditionary force of soldiers and pilots out on a simple recon mission, and somehow along the way they sparked an alien civil war. Now the not-at-all-merry band of pirates is in desperate trouble, again. Their stolen alien starship is...

Disaster. There was no other word to describe how Operation Olympic had changed in a flash from a triumph to the worst failure the Merry Band of Pirates had ever experienced. A failure that meant the fight was over. Unless the Pirates could perform a miracle, without Skippy.

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.

The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains. But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of the red soil of Mars: a husband, a father, a friend. The worlds once needed the Reaper. But now they need Darrow. Because after the dark age will come a new age: of light, of victory, of hope.

In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife-edge between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the aging gunship Rocinante have their hands more than full keeping the fragile peace. In the vast space...

NOW THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONES—THE MASTERPIECE THAT BECAME A CULTURAL PHENOMENON Here is the first book in the landmark series that has redefined imaginative fiction and become a modern masterpiece. A GAME OF THRONES In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime...

Primo prequel della serie. Sci-Fi per ragazzi, mondo distopico - Cos'è accaduto prima dei fatti narrati nella trilogia di Maze Runner? Riavvolgiamo il nastro. Prima che i potenti della terra costituissero la C.A.T.T.I.V.O., prima che si formasse la Radura, prima che Thomas entrasse nel Labirinto, una serie di tempeste solari ha messo in ginocchio l'umanità. La mutazione è la storia di questa caduta. Mark e Trina vivono in un polveroso insediamento, insieme ad altri sopravvissuti all'apocalisse solare.

L'universo è un'immensa foresta abitata da feroci predatori. Nascondersi significa sopravvivere, rivelarsi significa diventare prede. È quello che ha fatto la Terra, e ora i predatori stanno arrivando. Impiegheranno 400 anni, attraverso gli spazi siderali, e la Terra tenta di organizzare una disperata resistenza.

Sembra un mattino qualsiasi: spegni la sveglia, ti versi il caffè e ti prepari per affrontare la giornata. Ma, quando apri la porta d’ingresso, trovi una scatoletta di legno sul pianerottolo. Non sai chi l’abbia mandata. Non sai che cosa contenga. Apri.Dentro c’è soltanto un pezzo di...

Quando l'IA Lovelace si risveglia in un corpo artificiale - un kit persona che rinomina Sidra - il viaggio che la condurrà a Porto Coriol con gli amici Pepper e Blue diventa un'esplorazione del mondo che la circonda e di una nuova esistenza diametralmente opposta alla sua vita sulla Wayfarer. Alla ricerca di uno scopo che vada oltre ciò per cui è stata programmata, confusa dai limiti che paradossalmente la sua libertà le impone, tenterà di comprendere il proprio ruolo nell'universo e scoprirà quanto è difficile, ma anche entusiasmante, condividerlo con specie e razze diverse.

Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society's mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart from within.

Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he toils willingly, trusting that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and lush wilds spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.

Nato schiavo, nel corso della sua lunga vita Taita è diventato un mago potente, e ora la sua saggezza e le sue capacità sono conosciute in tutto il regno. Taita deve fare appello a tutti i suoi formidabili doni per proteggere il legittimo sovrano, ma quando le forze nemiche si uniscono per portare la distruzione sull'intero Egitto non è più una questione di semplice magia.