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Le leggi della fisica che governano il mondo sono destinate a essere riscritte. Una scoperta sensazionale - il Flusso - ha cambiato per sempre la concezione spazio-temporale dell'universo, aprendo al progresso scenari inimmaginabili. Assecondando il Flusso, gli esseri umani sono ora in grado di raggiungere pianeti e stelle lontani anni luce, creare reti tra mondi remoti ma interdipendenti, costruire un impero interstellare in cui il pianeta Terra rappresenta ormai solo un insignificante avamposto.

Il collasso del Flusso, il percorso interstellare tra i pianeti dell'Interdipendenza, è accelerato. Interi sistemi stellari – e miliardi di persone – stanno per essere tagliati fuori dal resto della civiltà umana. Le previsioni scientifiche sono concordi: il crollo è imminente... eppure, anche se l'evidenza è ovvia e insormontabile, molti cercano ancora di razionalizzare, ritardare e trarre profitto da questi ultimi giorni di uno dei più grandi imperi che l'umanità abbia mai conosciuto.

Zachary Quinto - best known for his role as the Nimoy-approved Spock in the recent Star Trek reboot and the menacing, power-stealing serial killer, Sylar, in Heroes - brings his well-earned sci-fi credentials and simmering intensity to this audio-exclusive novella from master storyteller John Scalzi. One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone - 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know.

Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this would be impossible. But all the players are "threeps", robot-like bodies controlled by people with Haden's Syndrome, so anything goes. No one gets hurt, but the brutality is real, and the crowds love it. Until a star athlete drops dead on the playing field.

Captain Ean Tephe is a man of faith, whose allegiance to his lord and to his ship is uncontested. The Bishopry Militant knows this — and so, when it needs a ship and crew to undertake a secret, sacred mission to a hidden land, Tephe is the captain to whom the task is given....

Old Man's War author John Scalzi's sendup of the heroic fantasy genre, a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story. An over-the-top, humorous short story representing the prologue for a "future" book (written as an April Fool's Joke) published on Tor.com. The title of the series and book...

How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history? I ask because it's what I have to do. I'm Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match to save humanity, or to see it fall. Witness to...

Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces warrior Jane Sagan, he farms several acres, adjudicates local disputes, and enjoys watching his adopted daughter grow up. That is, until his and Jane's past reaches out to bring them back into the game — as leaders of a new human colony, to be peopled by settlers from all the major human worlds, for a deep political purpose that will put Perry and Sagan back in the thick of interstellar politics, betrayal, and war.

The question is, how can you tell the President's brain is missing? And are we sure we need it back?

The fifteen stories and three screenplays that make up Volumes Two and Three of the Emmy® Award–winning Netflix Original series Love, Death + Robots. Featuring bestselling authors and screenwriters from all over the globe, curated by filmmakers Tim Miller and David Fincher, and Supervising Director Jennifer Yuh Nelson.

John Perry a vendu la mèche : confinée sur sa planète, tenue à l'écart des progrès technologiques, l'humanité de la Terre n'est qu'un vivier où l'Union coloniale, l'humanité des étoiles, puise ses soldats et ses colons. Outrés par cette révélation, quitte à rompre avec leurs protecteurs en disgrâce, les peuples de la Terre ne seront-ils pas tentés de se rapprocher du Conclave, la puissante fédération d'extraterrestres qui a décrété l'arrêt de l'expansion coloniale interstellaire ?

Le temps a passé depuis l'époque où la Terre alimentait docilement les Forces de défense coloniale en main-d'œuvre. Bientôt, l'Union sera à court de soldats, laissant les colonies humaines vulnérables face aux peuples du Conclave, qui n'attendent que le premier signe de faiblesse pour détruire l'humanité à genoux. Mais dans les tréfonds de l'espace se profile également un groupe anonyme, dressant les humains les uns contre les autres et manipulant le conflit imminent contre le Conclave.

Zoé a quinze ans lorsqu'elle atterrit sur Roanoke avec ses parents adoptifs, ex-officiers des Forces de défense coloniale. Ce qui devait être une colonie pionnière se révèle rapidement un piège diabolique conçu pour anéantir le Conclave, une coalition extraterrestre s'opposant à l'expansion humaine à travers l'espace. Mais parmi les colons isolés et désarmés se trouve Zoé, témoin impuissant des événements, simple pion sur l'échiquier galactique... et déesse vivante pour toute une race d'extraterrestres depuis que son père biologique leur a fait don de la conscience.

"...et ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d'enfants." Le dernier livre audio des aventures de John Perry commence là où beaucoup d'histoires se terminent : dans un pur bonheur familial. John est devenu l'ombudsman d'un petit village d'une lointaine colonie humaine. Sa femme Jane en est le shérif, elle apprend à être humaine et regarde les constellations d'étoiles. Zoé se contente, elle, de grandir. Mais le virus de l'aventure conduit la famille dans une entreprise plus risquée : la direction d'une nouvelle colonie.

"J'ai fait deux choses le jour de mes soixante-quinze ans : je suis allé sur la tombe de ma femme. Puis je me suis engagé." À soixante-quinze ans, l'âge requis, John Perry n'est pas le seul à intégrer les Forces de défense coloniale, billet pour les étoiles, mais sans retour. Rien ne le retient plus sur Terre. Combien d'années peut-il espérer vivre ?

The sixteen stories and two screenplays that make up Volume One of the Emmy® Award–winning Netflix Original series Love, Death & Robots.

Look outward beyond the stars with six stories from bestselling visionary authors. An AI awakens to its purpose. A researcher seeds a thousand new worlds for one more chance at love. A murder rocks the crew of an interstellar ship. With a sweeping sense of wonder, these stories explore the galaxy . . . and the horizons of humanity’s potential.