Titoli in Fantascienza tecnologica

There's a land rush on exploiting alien tech. Pirates, claim-jumpers, cyborgs, and bureaucrats all must be defeated to keep Borag flying. Corporal Devin Starn is working his way up through the ranks of Red Company. Aboard Borag, a mining ship based out of Mars City, Starn discovers more about the aliens who preceded us. Their ruins and strange technologies deepen the mystery of their ancient downfall.

We have always fought. War is the furnace that forges new technologies and pushes humanity ever onward. We are the children of a battle that began with fists and sticks, and ended on the brink of atomic Armageddon. Beyond here lies another war, infinite in scope and scale. But who will fight the wars of tomorrow?

This program is read by Rosalind Chao, who stars as Ye Wenjie in the Netflix adaptation, 3 Body Problem. WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL Over 1 million copies sold in North America “A mind-bending epic.”—The New York Times “War of the Worlds for the 21st century.”—The...

Welcome to Ringworld, an intermediate step between Dyson Spheres and planets. The gravitational force created by a rotation on its axis of 770 miles per second means no need for a roof. Walls 1,000 miles high at each rim will let in the sun and prevent much air from escaping. Larry Niven's novel, Ringworld, is the winner of the 1970 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the 1970 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 1972 Ditmars, an Australian award for Best International Science Fiction.

In Howard's fascinating novel, "2084," we journey into a future where Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of human life. The story follows Dr. Maya Wong, a brilliant AI researcher, and Zane Abdullah, a charismatic politician, as they deal with the complex and often troubled relationship between humanity and its most powerful creation. The book opens with a world teetering on the brink of chaos. Global crises, political turmoil, and environmental disasters set the stage for AI's emergence as a potential savior.

Amri was a Rabbit, one of a tribe of survivors scratching out an existence in the blasted landscape of a shattered, poisoned world. The Seagull fight, the Pigeon trade and the Cockroach scavenge, but the Rabbit had one rule: If you want to see tomorrow, you run. But they didn't run fast enough when a weapon fell from the sky and consumed their home, and now Amri is alone, in the company of a fallen god named Guy Vesten. A god who promises revenge against the three gods who turned against him, and who killed her tribe.

Cosa succederebbe se i nostri ricordi potessero essere trasferiti sul cloud e le persone potessero condividere i propri pensieri in tempo reale? Sorgerebbe una nuova forma d’intelligenza – una coscienza collettiva condivisa – oppure sarebbe l’inizio di un processo di espropriazione delle esperienze personali che porterebbe alla scomparsa dell’individualità umana e al caos? Ecco le premesse del romanzo di Regina Kanyu Wang, Nuvole e nebbia, ambientato in una Cina futura che altro non è se non lo specchio della nostra società, sempre più connessa e dipendente da tecnologie tanto comode e pervasive quanto piene di rischi e pericoli.

Sergeant Ted Regan has a problem. A son of one of the great corporate families, a Scion, has gone missing at the front. He should have been protected by his Ironclad - the lethal battle suits that make the Scions masters of war - but something has gone catastrophically wrong. Now Regan and his men, ill-equipped and demoralised, must go behind enemy lines, find the missing Scion and uncover how his suit failed. Is there a new Ironclad killer out there? And how are common soldiers, lacking the protection afforded the rich, supposed to survive the battlefield of tomorrow?

“I giorni del Cavaliere Solitario erano finiti; questa era l’età dei milioni di eroi.” Un viaggio intorno al mondo attraverso le azioni di gente comune che combatte il cambiamento climatico: dalle perdite di metano nel Mar Artico, all'Amazzonia resa arida dalla siccità fino alle pianure alluvionali del Gange e al fenomeno del fracking in Texas, tutti quanti sono collegati mediante il progetto Milioni di Occhi, una rete sperimentale che unisce virtualmente le persone quando hanno bisogno di ispirazione e supporto.

James Tighe, kurz JT, ist ein Glücksritter und der beste Höhlentaucher der Welt. Eines Tages lädt ihn der Milliardär Nathan Joyce auf seine private Insel, um ihm ein Angebot zu machen. Es geht um ein so visionäres wie hochgeheimes Projekt: Von einer Station im All soll ein riesiger Asteroid wirtschaftlich erschlossen werden. Denn die Menschheit des Jahres 2030 ist für ihr Überleben auf Rohstoffe angewiesen.

The name's Lomax-Alex Lomax. I'm the one and only private eye working the mean streets of New Klondike, the Martian frontier town that sprang up forty years ago after Simon Weingarten and Denny O'Reilly discovered fossils on the Red Planet. Back on Earth, where anything can be synthesized, the remains of alien life are the most valuable of all collectibles, so shiploads of desperate treasure hunters stampeded here in the Great Martian Fossil Rush.

After their adventures in Nepal, Professor Elliot Brand and Nepalese agent Ashra Shah want to enjoy their summer in London together. But when Ashra is called back into action, her new mission leads to an ancient mystery that might be the greatest threat she and Elliot have ever faced.

The witnesses are legion, scattered across the world and dotted through history, people who looked up and saw something impossible lighting up the night sky. What those objects were, where they came from, and who - or what - might be inside them is the subject of fierce debate and equally fierce mockery, so that most who glimpsed them came to wish they hadn't. Most, but not everyone.

Noah Parker, a newly minted PhD, is thrilled to land a dream job at Reptilian Corp., the hottest tech company in the American Southwest. He's eager to put his genetic engineering expertise to use designing new lines of Reptilian's feature product: living, breathing dragons. Although highly specialized dragons have been used for industrial purposes for years, Reptilian is desperate to crack the general retail market. By creating a dragon that can be the perfect family pet, Reptilian hopes to put a dragon into every home. But Noah has a secret goal....

Inspired by New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson, an anthology of stories, set in the near future, from some of today’s leading writers, thinkers, and visionaries that reignites the iconic and optimistic visions of the golden age of science fiction. In his 2011 article...

Audacious astronauts encounter bizarre, sometimes deadly life forms, and strange, exotic, cosmic phenomena, including miniature black holes, dense fields of interstellar plasma, powerful gravity-emitters, and spectacularly massive space-based, alien-built labyrinths. Tasked with exploring this brave new, highly dangerous world, they must also deal with their own personal triumphs and conflicts.

Science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape) continue the thrilling adventure of a human expedition to another star system that is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure cupping a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths. And which, tantalizingly, is on a direct path heading toward the same system the human ship is to colonize.

In a future where global tensions simmer in a never-ending Cold War, the line between human and machine begins to blur in terrifying ways. Let’s Get Together by science fiction master Isaac Asimov is a taut, cerebral thriller that explores the chilling potential of artificial intelligence and infiltration. When Elias Lynn, Chief of the Bureau of Robotics, and young Security officer Ralph Breckenridge discover that humanoid robots may have already infiltrated the United States, the stakes skyrocket.

A terrorist attack. A daring raid. Ambitious individuals hungry for power. The Crossroads are in trouble. Carson Flint and his team have settled into a quiet life in their establishment. Two newcomers arrive with lofty goals of changing the entire planet. When two members of the community go missing, it acts as a launching point for a chaotic event, leaving the remaining citizens to fight for their lives or lose everything. Meanwhile, Supreme Commander Garvin of the Lumari Collective launches an investigation into a horrendous explosion and an attempted assassination on their queen.

En 2130, una nave extraterrestre, Rama, entró en nuestro sistema solar. El primer producto de una civilización extraterrestre que encontró el ser humano reveló muchas maravillas, pero con su partida, la mayoría de sus misterios permanecieron sin resolver.