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"Ceres" de José Miguel Martínez intercala distintos relatos para crear un gran arco sobre la vida en ese planeta lejano que la humanidad colonizó desde el comienzo del tercer milenio, entregándonos su patética historia alrededor del Cinturón de Asteroides, donde queda preguntar cuál fue su destino.

With the help of NASA, a computer glitch, and a ghost, Bram Morrison, a robotics engineer, may have given science a new means to put death on hold. But despite the new landscape he’s opened up, the Great Beyond is still territory with no solid ground for science to stand on. Still helping Torula Jackson realize her dream of studying what happens to consciousness after death, Bram risks his reputation and future by revealing his growing belief in the bizarre. It will take more than apparitions in 3D glass chambers to convince scientists and doctors that the afterlife exists.

In 1986, physicist Timothy Straus hears voices that teach him how to create a space-warping engine that will change the world. In 2098, a fighter pilot hears voices that help him fight an authoritarian corporatist regime in the ashes of nuclear fallout. In 2155, the only self-aware robot on Mars struggles to steer humanity away from a demagogue who speaks from the shadows. Told through kaleidoscope storytelling across space and time, these three people are connected in ways they could never imagine.

How do humans survive after a massive pandemic that has devastated the population? Rather than living amid continued chaos and panic, the surviving population enjoys a thriving life thanks to the assistance of the network, a vast system that connects everything and everyone. The network protects from the virus while allowing everyone to lead their best life. Every dream and desire can easily be attained.

It is 2056. Mathematics professor Elisabeth Gabai is fascinated by multi-dimensional forms that have no equivalent in reality. Then, her boss sends her to the site of an artifact that might have come straight from her theories—or from the technology of an advanced civilization. Twenty-eight years earlier, physicist Max Webber is hell-bent on improving Einstein’s theories of relativity. His latest concept seems flawless, except it predicts the end of humanity. The extinction of Earth can only be prevented if Max can locate a multi-dimensional object.

Felix Navataar è un DJ sospeso tra la fama dei fan e una vita da disadattato. Mona Satoshi è una giornalista per un social network globale. Quando strane offerte e personaggi famosi iniziano a comparire nelle loro vite, la realtà a cui sono abituati è destinata a cambiare per trasformarsi in un’avventura intorno al mondo interconnesso del futuro prossimo. In un crescendo di scoperte scioccanti sull’industria alimentare e il potenziamento umano, Felix e Mona dovranno prendere coscienza della loro diversità e decidere cosa farsene, per se stessi e per l’umanità.

On May 20, 2069, the space vessel Phoenix embarks on its journey to Mars—humankind’s next frontier. Led by Commander Joy Liore, the seven international crewmates’ goal is to explore possible colonization on the Red Planet’s surface. They confirm landing. Then they vanish. Five days after all contact with Phoenix is lost, Doctor M. Tzuk, an expert interplanetary psychologist, accepts NASA’s appointment as head of the investigation force.

There is no need to fear, if there’s but one choice to be made. In a dystopic world of genetically modified Descendants, where teleportations are controlled by sophisticated AI, Humans are detained on a prison planet for reasons more sinister than mere punishment. Dora Dana Dasnan, a gifted Visionaire, knows she is the only one who can save them: She needs to teleport them away from the Uni galaxy. The evacuation is going smoothly and Dora manages to teleport thousands of Humans to safety, when an unexpected event throws her onto a completely new path.

A ticking time bomb in the form of a deadly virus moves NALC toward a disaster and Captain Greg Daniels carries the solution onboard his ship. Will he get back in time to save the lunar community? This is it. The conclusion to the five book Deep Space Mining Series. Secrets are revealed, lives are sacrificed, and it all comes down to the decision of one man, Captain Greg Daniels. Now flying as an outlaw, Captain Daniels needs to save the careers of his crew and get himself home to his family. Will he sacrifice himself to save his crew?

Die Crew des Raumschiffs "Majestätische Dracht" erreicht ein Sternsystem, dessen einziger Planet von seiner Sonne mit tödlicher Strahlung bombardiert wird. Ausgerechnet hier passiert etwas, das nie passieren sollte – und die Crew sieht ihre einzige Rettung darin, auf dem geheimnisvollen Planeten zu landen, der den lebensfeindlichen Stern umkreist.

In a city isolated from the rest of the world following the third global war, a young inventor is approached by a time-traveling android from the future who tells him it is his destiny to save the city from destruction. As they perform maintenance around the city, preventing catastrophes before they happen, he discovers that his destiny is not at all what he thought it would be—but does he even have a choice? Adhara's Sonder is a classic tale of fate and destiny versus personal choice and the consequences presented by both, made fresh and new with a futuristic sci-fi twist.

Elias McKay is an Extractionist. As an “Xwire” with a head full of experimental mites, he specializes in pulling minds out of virtual space and getting them back into their bodies intact. He’s one of the best. But he’s fallen on hard times. After getting banned by the government from doing lucrative legal work due to a past indiscretion, McKay picks up shady gigs wherever he can find them. His latest job takes him to Singapore for a quick extraction of a corporate bigwig, but things go from bad to worse when hired muscle, black ops agents, and hackers attack him and his client.

The future hangs in the balance. It was just another normal day until someone set his house on fire, killed his closest friend, and then threatened to unmake the world as we know it. Deke Sandborn is back and in a race against time and evil with the fate of humankind still in his and his fellow time travelers’ hands. After traveling to the present from more than 300 years in the future, they must meet and overcome the resistance of an enemy that has followed them here.

When the newly formed WHISP task force is called in to investigate a kidnapping and possible bioterrorism attack, NYPD Detective Sylvia Harbinger finds herself the middle woman between the NYPD and an extremist anti-WHISP organization, exposed to a WHISP virus, and having lengthy conversations with her own recently formed WHISP. Or is she only talking to herself? With Ben and Lincoln backing her in the task force laboratory, she races to find the kidnapping victims and a cure, yet the terrorists always seem to keep one step ahead.

Luhman 16 ist ein Doppel-System aus Braunen Zwergen – Sternen, die es nicht geschafft haben, den nuklearen Fusionsprozess in ihrem Inneren zu zünden. Auf den sie umkreisenden Planeten geht deshalb nie die Sonne auf, wie die Menschen es kennen. Die Crew des Raumschiffs "Majestätische Dracht", aus Außerirdischen und Menschen bestehend, muss sich tief in die Dunkelheit stürzen, um ausgerechnet hier um ihr Leben kämpfenden Schiffbrüchigen zu helfen. Doch dann geschieht etwas, mit dem niemand rechnen konnte.

Nova is a lonely planet. It has been on its way to the Andromeda galaxy for ages. And yet, it is inhabited by people who have never known anything other than the caves beneath the surface that protect them from the vacuum and cosmic radiation. A surprising encounter changes everything. The planet gets visitors who seem to have their own agenda, and are so alien that communication seems futile. But they, too, have unexpected existential problems.

Comet Anduru skimmed the clouds of Saturn. Rather than being drawn into the gas giant, it skipped back out into space. With the comet heading for Jupiter, speculation is mounting it’s an alien spacecraft making its way to Earth. Lieutenant Colonel Nolan Landis and Dr. Kath McKenzie are caught between an angry public and an anxious President as they grapple with the scientific, social, and political implications of first contact.

Ein gefährlicher Virus bedroht die Menschen auf der Raumstation "Lunaris". Aber nicht nur das: eine mutierte Riesenspinne hat sich als blinder Passagier auf die Raumstation geschmuggelt. Nichts kann sie aufhalten. Nicht einmal die hochgezüchteten Kampfroboter können ihr Einhalt gebieten. Justine, die Kommandantin der Raumstation, muss hilflos mit ansehen, wie das Monster die letzten Überlebenden der Menschheit bedroht. Die letzte Stunde des Homo Sapiens scheint gekommen.

The second computer-enhanced child Joshua was recently awakened and "adopted" by the first cyborg David Klein. The four-year-old Joshua has a terminal genetic disease, which he cures in an elegant way. The solution solves mankind’s oldest and deepest needs. Along the way, Joshua meets his wife, The Supreme Being, two presidents, Department of Homeland Security, and the rest of humanity.

Decades ago, a vast object called the Anomaly was discovered moving through space. Missions sent to explore it found that anyone entering the Anomaly was unable to die. It kept moving, across our solar system, until finally the Anomaly enveloped Earth. Thirty years later, on the West Coast of the US, Theo hears that his missing wife has been sighted—in London. He’s sick, and getting worse, so he sets off to find her.