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After being contacted by one of the princes, Liam finds himself dragged into the Empire's succession conflict. The Guide warns him about his "true enemy," but...who could it be? Then, Liam finally completes his military service and it's time to start his college career. His friends poke fun at him for not having any "fun" in his schooling so far, so he sets his sights on a brave new world of casual flings with coeds! Will Liam finally grow into the perfect evil lord with a league of ladies by his side?

What happens when a robot begins to question its creators? What would be the consequences of creating a robot with a sense of humour? Or the ability to lie? How do we truly tell the difference between man and machine? In I, Robot, Asimov sets out the Three Laws of Robotics - designed to protect humans from their robotic creations - and pushes them to their limits and beyond.

THE HEART-BREAKING POST-APOCALYPTIC TIKTOK SENSATION Discover the haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic tale of female friendship and intimacy set in a deserted world. Deep underground, 39 women are kept in isolation in a cage. Aboveground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by...

A tre mesi dal suo diciottesimo compleanno, Ness si ritrova costretta a tornare in Colorado. Nonostante siano passati sei anni e i lupi del suo branco di soli uomini non si ricordino chi è, lei non li ha mai dimenticati. È impossibile dimenticare chi discrimina gli altri solo in base al loro sesso. Soprattutto Liam Kolane, il figlio di Heath, il capobranco più duro e crudele che abbia mai comandato il branco di Boulder. Quando Heath muore, Liam decide di farsi avanti per ottenere il ruolo di Alfa e nessuno osa sfidarlo. Tranne Ness. Ha così inizio un gioco pericoloso. Le regole?

Most expectant mothers talk to their unborn. But what if the unborn starts to respond? Mahika is hoping that a baby will breathe new life into her dead marriage. But all her pregnancies meet the same fate, because no baby is perfect for Shivam, her genius geneticist husband. Until there is one...

A barely employed tech worker has never felt they belonged. Not in society, not even in their own family. Their days are filled with loneliness, a struggle to survive and a desperate search for connection—even if that connection is merely virtual. Now, a black-market hacker promises to open a new world for them, and it works—in ways no human has ever experienced. They find a world of wonder, of possibilities and of danger—where their new virtual reality could mean the end of their physical reality. And what they discover could change the fate of humankind—forever.

After the arrival of the multiversal monopoly BuyMort, life got brutal. All systems were through BuyMort. All currency was through BuyMort. All sales were through BuyMort. You could resist, you could compete, but it didn’t really matter because in the end you used BuyMort—or you perished. BuyMort be praised. But not everyone’s happy with the new system. Some, even, want to see it destroyed. It’s quick. It’s convenient. And it will help people kill you and your family as readily as it will help them sell you knickknacks for a quick mortie.

Un'organizzazione vuole mettere le mani sulla scoperta fatta da Idris Telemmier sul conto degli Architetti – la loro più grande debolezza – per trasformarla in un'arma contro questi alieni distruttori di mondi. Per tale ragione, mentre le varie specie lottano per prendere il controllo di questa potente rivelazione, la galassia esplode in una guerra distruttiva e controproducente. L'altro grande ostacolo alla lotta contro la minaccia aliena è Idris stesso: sa che gli Architetti, nonostante il potere, non sono altro che strumenti nelle mani di un'intelligenza superiore.

When your starship's computer undergoes a catastrophic meltdown, light years from help, it's bad. When you are that ship's computer, it's worse. Fresh from the destruction of the colony they were assigned to protect, the UES Interchange is now hurtling toward Proxima Centauri, there to rally reinforcements against the tide of revolutionary rage currently rocking the galaxy. But when they arrive, they find the heart of galactic civilization eerily quiet...and empty. At the same time, Sergeant Henry Morgan, the ship's computer, is utterly unresponsive.

The walls have fallen, the gates are breached, and the defenders are slain. It is the end and the death. After seven brutal years of civil war, the Warmaster stands on the verge of victory. Horus Lupercal, once beloved son, has come to murder his father. The Emperor, a shining beacon of hope to many, an unscrupulous tyrant to others, must die. The lives of uncountable numbers have been extinguished and even primarchs, once thought immortal, have been laid low. The Emperor's dream lies in tatters, but there remains a sliver of hope.

In her moving and elegant new collection, New York Times best-selling author Karen Joy Fowler writes about John Wilkes Booth's younger brother, a one-winged man, a California cult, and a pair of twins, and she digs into our past, present, and future in the quiet, witty, and incisive way only she can.

Ideato dal genio creativo di Frank P. Herbert, "I cacciatori di Dune" è l'odissea dell'astronave di Duncan che dovrà eludere le diaboliche trappole disposte da un feroce e sconosciuto nemico. Per rafforzare le sue difese, l'equipaggio dovrà ricorrere all'uso della tecnologia genetica di Scytale, l'ultimo Maestro di Tleilaxu, per far tornare in vita personaggi chiave del passato di Dune, tra cui Paul Muad'Dib e la sua amata Chani, Lady Jessica, Stilgar, Thufir Hawat e persino il dottor Wellington Yueh. Fallire non è previsto.

Anche gli ultimi umani sopravvissuti alla rovina della Terra stanno ormai fuggendo nel disperato tentativo di trovare una nuova casa tra le stelle. Seguendo le orme indicate molto tempo prima dai loro antenati, riescono a scoprire un pianeta apparentemente perfetto per ospitare vita umana. Ma la realtà sulla nuova Terra non si rivelerà così tranquilla e pacifica come avevano sperato...

Quando la Terra implose, vennero inviate delle navicelle spaziali per stabilire nuovi avamposti. Così l’astronave Enkidu e il suo capitano, Heorest Holt, portarono il loro prezioso carico umano in un potenziale nuovo paradiso. Generazioni più tardi, questa fragile colonia è riuscita a sopravvivere sul mondo di Imir, conducendo un’ardua e misera esistenza. Fino a quando una popolazione aliena con conoscenze e tecnologie impareggiabili approda sul pianeta per aiutare le colonie umane. Ma non tutto è come sembra.

What comes after boarding school for an evil lord? The military academy, of course! Liam's subordinates arrange the perfect overpowered patrol fleet for his post-academy training period, but the Guide is hungry for revenge against the young evil lord and takes this as an opportunity to strike! Will the Guide succeed? And will Liam ever notice that the Guide isn't actually trying to help?

Nach einem Terroranschlag herrscht auf dem friedlichen Planeten Patriam ein Bürgerkrieg. Gewaltsam konnte der Erlöser Balendin die Vorherrschaft über den Mond Aurum erlangen, der die Quelle des Lebens – Divinus – in sich beherbergt. Im herrschenden Chaos versucht Ordnungshüter Peregrin mit dem Widerstand die geheimen Pläne des Erlösers zu durchkreuzen. Er benutzt den patriamischen Aufstand, um sein Ziel voranzutreiben – die Auslöschung des humanoiden Lebens im gesamten Universum.

It’s a story you may think you know - an aging baseball coach is challenged by the very boy he took in and raised. But in this near future world, "smart” houses talk and listen, and - privy as they are to the secret life of the household - family life gets interesting. Creepy and funny, unsettling and entertaining, this is a story that stands on its own even as it proves the perfect follow up to Gish Jen’s critically acclaimed novel The Resisters.

Mentre la Terra è sempre più depauperata di risorse e sfiancata da guerre, la nave spaziale Dormire trasporta nel paradiso incontaminato di Artemis, un pianeta nel sistema stellare Tau Ceti, migliaia di esseri umani addormentati. Nel viaggio di quattrocento anni necessario per raggiungere la destinazione finale, le loro vite sono salvaguardate da IAN, sofisticatissima Intelligenza Artificiale con poteri decisionali e di veto. Ma qualcosa va storto: i sei membri dell'equipaggio, tutti ex criminali che sperano di ripulire il proprio passato e ricominciare una nuova vita.

Almost 400 years the Terran Imperium has languished, an Empire in name only. The young colonies exploded out of the Diaspora Era, supplanting the homeworld in importance as they left a broken world in their wake. Earth's people, guided by the Conwin line, have clawed and climbed from the darkness left the night the lights went out. They built and rebuilt the weary and weakened world they inherited, even when it seemed bent on killing them from sheer spite.

The new United States in central Germany launches a one-plane Doolittle Raid on Paris, France. The target: their arch-enemy, Cardinal Richelieu. Meanwhile, an ambassador from the Mughal Empire of northern India is being held captive in Austria by the Habsburg dynasty. Mike Stearns decides to send a mercenary company to rescue him, led by two 17th-century mercenary officers: an Englishman and a Irishman, who seem to spend as much time fighting each other as they do the enemy.