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In a city of sunshine and secrets, the shadows belong to the animals. In a solar-powered future, humans live in luxury, served by unseen Little Helpers – artificially enhanced animals who maintain their perfect green cities. The animals’ number one rule: ‘do not bother the humans’. Yet...

GROUNDWORK: BOOK 12ND EDITION. An engineering corporation is conducting an archaeological dig in Ancient Maya territory. They believe that the key to humanity’s future can be found in our past. Their findings have led to the top-secret creation of a spaceship that will take them far beyond the Milky Way Galaxy. During the dig, archeologist John Strongham discovers a long hidden transport device that snatches him from Earth and deposits his body on an alien planet: Farsocc. John’s captors have been monitoring humanity for the whole of our existence. They know about the spaceship.

‘Ted Chiang is one of the most exciting writers in science fiction . . . These parables are filled with hope and humanism.’ – The Daily Telegraph From the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others – the basis for the Academy Award-winning film Arrival – comes a groundbreaking...

The last Isaac Asimov science fiction collection which contains all of his previously uncollected stories. Gold is Isaac Asimov's last science fiction collection‚ one containing all of his uncollected SF stories that had never before appeared in book form. Gold is the final and crowning...

Mutants. Genetically engineered telepaths. Star-crossed lovers. Interstellar war. When pig-human hybrids and mind-controlling telepaths come roaring back from exile, war erupts in the Union of Human Space, where peaceful colony worlds have forgotten armed conflict altogether. Langston Wheeler, one of the Union's order of genetically engineered peacekeepers, plunges hip deep into the conflict while on a mission to the wealthy world known as Felicitas. Tia Dynn, Executive of the planet, fights on the front lines to save her people from mind-controlled slavery.

They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . Alien Clay is a thrilling tale of alien encounter – from the acclaimed Arthur C. Clarke Award-winner Adrian Tchaikovsky. ‘Unputdownable’ – Stephen Baxter, author of Proxima Professor Arton Daghdev has always wanted to study...

Since before the dawn of humankind, the genders have complemented and supported each other. Central to that has always been the primal desire of men for women. But what happens if that primal desire were to change. What if men no longer desired women, but focused their energies on themselves and their own interests. What would happen to civilization? What would it mean for relations between the sexes? What could even cause such a thing, and can it be stopped before it is too late?

Stellar Origins Book One of the Tetrasol SeriesIn a newly terraformed star system, leaders turn to innovative solutions to protect themselves. In their desperation, the leaders of Tetrasol push forward with the Apex Project, turning a meticulously selected ensemble into heroes, branded with fantasy labels. Among them: Ace Lancaster, the Elf Ranger. Sage Hamilton, the Tempest. Zander Atlas, the Troll Striker. Axel King, the Orc Paladin. Duke Ward, the Dwarf Mage. Dr. Sebastian Watts, the Druid. Cooper Reese, the Warlock.

C'est-à-dire, jusqu'à ce qu'ils découvrent la raison pour laquelle tant de notre passé a été enterré. Shrina est passée d'agent du FBI à demi-dragon redoutable, mais un nouveau pouvoir émerge et c'est à elle de l'arrêter. Dans l'espace, Espinoza et son équipe ont un nouveau monde à explorer, tandis que Trent a porté la guerre intergalactique à de nouveaux niveaux. Shrina sera-t-elle capable de tenir tête au dragon ressuscité ? Quel rôle jouent les Goldies et leurs hôtes dans la guerre ultime pour le destin de l'univers ?

In the aftermath of Chemical Affair, Chemical Inheritance follows Julian Vincent--now a sophomore college student living under the alias Kim Harrison--as he attempts to choose his own path in a world tense with uncertainty.

Five years have passed since Captain Maria Salus disobeyed orders by helping Ethan return planetside. But far from signaling the end of her military career, Maria’s actions opened the possibility of reconciliation between the UEC and GPS. But not everyone wants peace. Escaping planetside with the refugees, Maria again enlists the help of rangers, Ethan and Summer. Maria must find sanctuary from the planet’s deadly radiation, before Kurren’s crack military unit hunts her down. But the planetsiders have problems of their own.

Roman’s not like the other King souls in Primitus, he knows that. He thinks about things other than survival, like why the sun no longer sets or rises. He questions the strict laws and beliefs they are forced to live under. And he doesn’t buy the official narrative about what happened to the world, why there’s nothing left but suffering and death - that it’s all Eve’s fault.

Six months later they awake from drug-induced stupors to find themselves locked in a lab. On the night of a new moon, eleven of those men--possessing new gifts of speed, strength and inhuman powers--break out of their prison and race through the streets of Los Angeles. They disappear one by one into the night.

Carolyn’s parents did not, after all, make genomics history by synthesizing her genome in a lab. She has known she is the “Human Hoax” ever since a high school genetics exercise revealed she has trisomy X - a chromosomal abnormality - yet no synthetically constructed genome would have such clear traces of natural conception. Many years later, as a molecular biologist, Carolyn hopes her colleagues never learn of her embarrassing origins. But when someone ransacks her office and lab, she finds professional embarrassment is the least of her worries.

Seit den Enthüllungen rund um die Transhumanistische Allianz ist das Sonnensystem in Aufruhr. Ed wird in den internationalen Ethikrat einberufen und muss Entscheidungen über den Einsatz von riskanten Technologien treffen. Im Zuge dessen untersucht Kumiko die Testperson eines Experiments, das Rätsel aufgibt. Ein Selbstmord erschüttert die Bewohner von Sphäre 1 und es macht sich eine Aggression breit, die sogar Tiere in der Biosphäre anzustecken scheint. Rakesh versucht herauszufinden, was dahinter steckt und muss sich tief sitzenden Ängsten stellen.

Mika Lenna won’t be stopped. The Lucidites might have the upper hand, but he has something more deadly. The one thing that can really stop them. Mika has crossed the final threshold of humanity to do something that no human would dare do. The consequences will be deadly. The pack is stronger than ever but still missing so many members. Meanwhile, the Lucidites are quickly making progress with a solution that might help the men assimilate with the wolf. However, will it come at a cost? The men have become accustomed to the wolf and losing it may feel like leaving behind a part of themselves.

Iago is an accomplished young Operator, harvesting corn in the name of the Collective – a hi-tech orphanage thousands of miles from civilization. After a chance encounter with Javier and Kraken – a pair of wayward boys who have escaped a brutal prison known as the Village – Iago is beginning to question his reality. Now, he must survive the cruelties of the Protocol, and discover the terrible secrets of the Collective: a long-dead trillionaire with a grim warning, a super-mind that controls fate, and a plague that kills only men.

Rabid and hungry for vengeance, one wolf won’t stop until he’s put to death. A string of murders involving women are making the residents of Los Angeles panic. They’re calling the serial killer the “rabid wolf” because he tears his prey open by the throat and leaves behind a maimed body. A monster is loose. Meanwhile, at the Lucidite Institute, the pack is training, under Zephyr’s instruction. He knows that soon they’ll have to go after the rabid wolf and also rescue other members of the pack. However, they need to work together in order to be successful. They need to operate as one.

Alexander Selwood is hiding many secrets. Being the first immortal is only one of them. He is also hunted by the despotic ruler of Cynfor, Cesar Thaxter - the man ruling the galaxy for centuries. Unknown to Alexander, the group of rebels who had been fighting Thaxter in secret is also seeking to use his company to build a safe haven. He would do anything to keep himself from falling into the clutches of either the Resistance or the Supreme Ruler.

Rajeev Sunduram awakens from a 15-year coma to find that his consciousness has been transferred to an experimental android body. He's alone in a world that has gone on without him, uncertain of who - or what - he can trust. In this strange new world, Rajeev is caught in the middle of two corporate titans on the cusp of creating a lucrative new body replacement industry. One offers organic replacements; the other offers robotic models.