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Controllo della tecnologia e della paura, manipolazione, applicazione del virtuale per manovrare le masse, enormi interessi in gioco e uso della malattia come modalità di controllo dell'economia. "Futura" è un romanzo avvincente ambientato tra alcuni anni. Come durante il periodo della televisione e come durante il periodo di internet, così durante il periodo olografico, che consente alle persone di proiettare proprie immagini nello spazio, la diffusione della conoscenza non è libera, ma controllata.

Conn Maxwell returns from Terra to his poverty-stricken home planet of Poictesme, “The Junkyard Planet”, with news of the possible location of Merlin, a military super-computer rumored to have been abandoned there after the last war. The inhabitants hope to find Merlin, which they think will be their ticket to wealth and prosperity. But is Merlin real or just an old rumor? And if they find it, will it save them - or tear them apart?

The year is 2381. The place is Urban Monad 116 of the constellation Chippitts. The population of this one-thousand storey super-structure is 800,000+ and always growing. After two centuries of ruthless, selective breeding, the essence of life is to be blessworthy and to multiply; to afford one's neighbours any type of sexual fulfilment and, above all, to avoid the evil of frustration. But, within this seemingly blissful vertical world there are individuals who feel such perverse desires as a longing for privacy, a wish to descend from the heights, to walk on earth and bask in the sunshine.

Future Humans 2: Mixed-Time Children spins an enthralling tale of hope, innovation, and resilience. Engineer Jace's tales of his escapades through time confound even his closest kin. But when an invitation from the future beckons, the family witnesses realms they've never fathomed.

A bomb has exploded during a fashion show, killing a beautiful model on the catwalk. The murderer is still at large...and he may strike again. Yet this is the least of police Commissioner Christian Verger's worries. His fiancée, Viola, has left him. He has to keep his tumultuous past a secret. To make things worse, his voice assistant Alexa is 99.74 percent sure he will die tomorrow.

Jace is happily married with two beautiful children, yet he is plagued by recurring awakenings at 3:33 each night. Mysterious dreamlike images of other beings enter his mind. Family tensions follow. Unbeknownst to Jace, he is being transported through time from his life in the 21st century to the 31st century as part of a heroic effort by Future Humans to save the planet from total devastation.

Without warning, Russia starts an operation to seize control of a vital arctic waterway off the Alaska coast. For hot-wired naval aviator Karen 'Bunny' O'Hare, it's about to be a bad day at the office. Not everyone takes impending nuclear Armageddon as calmly as O'Hare. From an airfield in Russia, Major-General Bondarev is leading a war he doesn't understand against machines instead of men. Under the US embassy in Moscow, Ambassador Devlin McCarthy discovers she can follow her conscience or the orders of her Secretary of State, but not both.

The iconic visionary returns with his first new novel since the New York Times bestseller Spook Country. Whatever you do, because you are an artist, will bring you to the next thing of your own... When she sang for The Curfew, Hollis Henry's face was known worldwide. She still runs into people...

GOLAN, This is the Future of War, asks a question few want to consider. What will happen if Iran acquires nuclear weapons in the next ten years? In true Future of War style, GOLAN explores the question through the eyes of front-line participants on all sides, in a conflict set ten years into the future. Featuring military tech that is on the drawing boards today and characters you won't easily forget, GOLAN throws the listeners straight into the center of a nuclear storm and doesn't ease up.

New York Times Bestseller From Neal Stephenson—who coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash—comes a sweeping, prescient new thriller that transports readers to a near-future world in which the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of...

In 2025 America, it's hardly news when a renowned octogenarian scientist dying of cancer disappears from a local hospice, but when Kansas City Star reporter Rich Azadian begins to dig, he discovers that other elderly scientists around the world have also vanished recently - all terminally ill and receiving the same experimental treatment from a global health company.

2038: James Tighe, ehemaliger Höhlentaucher und nun Weltraum-Pionier, ist zurück auf der Erde, nachdem er mit seiner Crew Rohstoffe vom fernen Asteroiden Ryugu abgebaut hat. Doch zwei Kollegen sind noch immer auf der Station im All, und niemand weiß, wie lange sie überleben können. Der Asteroid wird erst in vier Jahren in erreichbare Entfernung zur Erde gelangen. Vorher bleibt jeder Rettungsversuch ausgeschlossen. Gleichzeitig wächst angesichts der fatalen Folgen des Klimawandels das Interesse globaler Großmächte an der Asteroidenbergbau-Mission.

After decades of poising on the brink, the United States and China finally go to war when China invades the island of Taiwan. Deploying their most futuristic technologies in this grand strategic competition of the twenty-first century, the stakes could not be higher. Not only the future of the Taiwanese people but the fate of the world lies in the balance. In an era when humans no longer just use machines, but partner with them in all aspects of military operations, this fictional account views this future war through the eyes of the American, Chinese, and Taiwanese caught up in the maelstrom.

Ein spektakulärer Science-Fiction-Thriller von Bestseller-Autor Blake Crouch ("Dark Matter"). Amerika in der nahen Zukunft: Special Agent Logan Ramsay kommt bei einem Einsatz mit einer unbekannten Substanz in Berührung. Zunächst ohne Folgen, wie Logan erleichtert feststellt. Doch dann beginnt er, Veränderungen an sich zu bemerken. Seine Sinne sind geschärft, sein Erinnerungsvermögen ist unschlagbar, er ist körperlich fitter. Dass ausgerechnet er dieses "Upgrade" erfährt, hat einen Grund, der weit in die Vergangenheit zurückreicht.

2034 : trois géants américains du numérique, baptisés les Titans, ont profité de la crise des années 2020 pour établir leur hégémonie sur l’économie occidentale et mettre en place un capitalisme de surveillance, basé sur l’exploitation immodérée des données personnelles. Plongés au cœur de leur organisation dans la Silicon Valley, Pierre, un jeune Français expert en intelligence artificielle, et Julia, une brillante Estonienne travaillant sur l’amélioration du cerveau humain, vont tenter de défier leur pouvoir.

On a world called Heaven, the 10 major religions of mankind each have its own land governed by a capital city and ruled by a Hegemon. That Hegemon may be a god, or a prophet of a god. Smaller religions have their own towns or villages of belief. Corvyn, known as the Shadow of the Raven, contains the collective memory of humanity’s Falls from Grace. With this knowledge comes enormous power. When unknown power burns a mysterious black image into the holy place of each House of the Decalivre, Corvyn must discover what entity could possibly have that much power.

A novel about an unlikely pair of lonely outsiders--one human, one AI--on an adventure to save the great American city of Metropolis written by "one of the most exciting new voices in fiction" (Charles Yu) *Named one of the best books of the month by Library Journal ("Debut of the Month"), The...

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Il tenente Costas viene mandato su un'isola greca per indagare sull'omicidio di un famoso critico d'arte. Tuttavia dovrà risolvere un'enigma etico molto più complesso del previsto per arrivare alla soluzione del caso.