Titoli in Fantascienza tecnologica

Anya grew up listening to her father speak of the Great Attractor, the immense gravitational pull drawing galaxies toward a hidden region behind the Milky Way. For thirty one years he studied what he could not directly observe. He died in his Lagos study surrounded by annotated printouts and unfinished calculations, certain there was order in the noise.

The Shift is closed between Earth and Arcadia. The residents of Lost Town acclimate to their new reality. They are forever stuck on another planet, with only each other to rely on. Amelia, anxious to see more of their home, travels with Milton's old map-filled journal, discovering an ancient civilization. John is eager to start a new life, until tragedy strikes at the heart of Lost Town. Restarting from scratch isn't ideal, but the locals will do anything to succeed.

A GRIPPING TECHNO-THRILLER BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NEUROMANCER, THE THIRD NOVEL IN THE BRIDGE TRILOGY The Bridge, San Francisco, after the quake: Ex-cop Berry Rydell has been hired by Colin Laney - who is hooked deep into the network of things - to go to San Francisco and act in such a way...

Hamilton Felix, the result of generations of genetic selection, finds his life as the ultimate man boring - until a gang of revolutionaries tries to enlist him in their cause.

Es treibt Antonia Gleichweit – Apothekerin in einem verschlafenen Stadtviertel von Graz – und Martin Moser – Opernsänger mit Talent, aber ohne Engagement – zueinander und auseinander. Es wirbelt das Leben von Erwin Schrempf – Landesbeamter zuständig für die Beobachtung von Sekten, insbesondere Islamgemeinschaften – durcheinander. Und es bringt eine fremde Frau.

Als der Physiker Lukas Heuer am LIGO eine merkwürdige Gravitationswellenanomalie entdeckt, hält er sie zuerst für einen Messfehler. Doch Messdaten deuten auf extrem massereiche Objekte hin, die sich der Erde nähern und dabei eine gravitative Schneise durch das Sonnensystem ziehen. Sollte er recht haben, blieben der Menschheit nur wenige Wochen, um den Untergang abzuwenden. Gleichzeitig macht die Archäologin Mira Najafi zur selben Zeit eine ganz andere Entdeckung: Sie findet einen bislang unbekannten Raum in der großen Pyramide von Gizeh, der voller düsterer Prophezeiungen steckt.

Armed with a warning of a future Atlantis drowning in its own ruins, Robert Shaw, Kira Shelton, and Matt Jones return to the ancient past carrying a device that can shield civilization itself. But Kairos Daedalus is waiting—scarred, vengeful, and no longer entirely human in his ambitions. Behind him stand the Draconians: a species that has played the long game across galaxies and millennia. As old allies become fugitives, new enemies rear their lethal heads, and deceit becomes the rule, the trio from the future is devastated to learn the truth: the stakes have elevated beyond belief.

A new age of exploration is taking humanity to the stars. It's a chance to build a new life from the ground up, to make your fortune and help the colonies grow. Anyone can become someone out in the stars. When John Carver, a veteran of the Halfway War, arrives on the colony of Greenworld, he finds it completely abandoned, as though its residents simply walked out, leaving all of their belongings behind. All that remains are half-built greenhouses and habitats, poorly maintained farmlands, and basic supplies.

Ein Mord erschüttert eine Stadt: Dank der Videoaufzeichnung sollte der Mörder von Eden schnell gefunden werden, doch bereits am nächsten Morgen sieht sich Brunner, der einzige Ermittler bei der Mordkommission, einer neuen Herausforderung gegenübergestellt: Unzählige Todesfälle reihen sich aneinander. Die einzige Gemeinsamkeit: Alle Opfer waren jünger als 200 Perioden. Die Ereignisse überschlagen sich. Brunner benötigt Hilfe, um den Fall zu lösen und verfängt sich dabei in einem Netz, aus dem er nicht mehr entkommen kann.

The last living astronaut to walk on the Moon has been murdered… Silas visits his estranged grandfather's lakehouse in the aftermath of the deadly home invasion. What he discovers hidden below the floorboards triggers a mystery buried since the final trip to the Moon, over fifty years earlier. Rory returns to her family home in Vermont to write her second novel, but fate has a different story in mind. Her reunion is shattered when she's thrust into danger revolving around the same tokens.

A self-proclaimed Tyrant controls the colony ship still orbiting overhead—a fortress that should have been dismantled to build their new world. Armed with surveillance drones and brutal enforcers, he's turned a struggling settlement into his personal kingdom. Anyone who defies him vanishes into the ship above, never to return.

Fourteen people arrive on the strange planet of Delmak-O. They have nothing in common other than a desire to make a fresh start–and they have no idea why they are there and no way of escaping. And then the first murder takes place....

After an attack of scruples, Colin Laney's skipped out on his former employer Slitscan—avoiding the rash of media lawyers sent his way—and taken a job for the outfit managing Japanese rock duo, Lo/Rez. Rez has announced he's going to marry an "idoru" by the name of Rei Toi—she exists only in virtual reality—and this creates complications that Laney, a net runner, is supposed to sort out.

Major Larry Randall has been called to Pluto to retrieve Dr. Aaron Mikelson. Mikelson, no longer human after a horrific accident, is now melded to an AI. His enhanced senses have detected an alien artifact on Pluto’s surface, and he’s not leaving without it. Transferred to the research vessel studying Pluto, Randall and the other scientists are stumped as to the artifact’s purpose and origin. Looking for similar signs of aliens they make their way to Pluto’s moon, Charon, where, buried deep under its icy surface, something stirs―and wakes.

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The black monolith on the moon is history—but now a near-Earth asteroid suddenly changes in an unknown and actually impossible way. Once again, a race between nations is set in motion. Will it be possible to avoid the mistakes of the first contact with the phenomenon? Or will the researchers who want to use the black monolith for their own purposes prevail—without having the slightest understanding of its true nature?

Devastated early in the war, the United Systems Alliance has retaken several key systems lost to the Galactic Union. But getting even isn’t good enough for General Hella. Determined to end the costly war and destroy the Union, Hella launches a daring offensive against the planet Kuut, a key military base deep in Union space. At the tip of the spear, Lieutenant Mark Rizer and the Marines of Orcus Company find themselves in the mud and blood of a planetary ground invasion.

A year after destroying the wormhole generator in France and thus blocking the way to Earth for an allied AI, she lives with AcesAzrael in Switzerland. She fights alongside the last free humans against the approaching Forum and its unstoppable troops. There is still no trace of Janika, but when the Swiss make a dangerous plan shortly before their final defeat, there is only one hope for June and Ace: to find Janika and uncover the secret of a new, mysterious place in the metaworld.

Sandoval è un artista la cui vita si svolge tra incredibili avventure e dicerie spesso impossibili da verificare. Si è conquistato una fama da ribelle quando si è fatto togliere il "nodo" che gli permetteva di rimanere nella Conversazione e ha cancellato i dati esistenti su di lui. Perché Sandoval ha un'unica ossessione: l'immagine della Terra che sorge vista dalla Luna.