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Vor Jahrhunderten entwickelten die Roboter auf dem kleinen Mond Panga ein Bewusstsein ihrer selbst – worauf sie umstandslos in der Wildnis verschwanden und zu einem Mythos wurden, zu einer urbanen Legende. Den Menschen hingegen ist es seither gelungen, die Klimakrise zu überwinden und zu einem gedeihlichen Dasein im Einklang mit ihrer Umwelt zu finden. Dex zieht als Teemönch mit Fahrrad nebst Wohnanhänger durch die Lande und lädt in den Siedlungen zu besinnlichen, therapeutischen Gesprächen ein.

The demon invaders would reach Earth in a few short years, so why did it seem like humans were determined to destroy themselves before the enemy arrived? World War III was going to happen. It was only a matter of when. Nathanial Kane had enough to worry about, but the death of a billion people wasn't something he could ignore. His allies were growing in number. Involving them would endanger them before they'd fully developed. The world would need their talents when the demons arrived. What can one man do? Was it possible for him to advance far enough and fast enough to make a difference?

SAGE The ultimate betrayal on his face when he sees that plug in my hand shatters my cybernetic heart. Helpless, my world turns to chaos, and I spiral downward, crushed by my very own actions. SCOUT Trying to be the hero, I lost it all without even knowing it. The world went on without me...

Die Galaktische Union hat auf einem Exoplaneten ein Klon-Experiment gestartet, das zu scheitern droht. Daher erhält der Erste Offizier Tornot den Auftrag, Nachschau zu halten. Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson unterstützen ihn als zivile Begleiter und geraten in eine unheimliche Gesellschaft.

Nach den Ereignissen an Bord des Schiffes ist Frankenstein froh, wieder in seinem Labor in London zu sein und mit Hilfe von Theodora Sachs seiner Forschung nachgehen zu können. Und tatsächlich gelingt es ihm, ein Gegenmittel zu entwickeln, das bei den Laborratten Wirkung zeigt. Frankenstein wäre eigentlich so weit, seine Versuchsreihe auf Menschen auszuweiten. Doch plötzlich packen ihn Zweifel, denn er ist nicht bereit, für seine Forschung zu töten. Theodora Sachs hingegen ist entschlossen, einen Probanden zu finden, was furchtbare Konsequenzen nach sich zieht.

This is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly unhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted - and still wants - to destroy her and those she cares for and how she can save herself. 

Leonie lebt im Towerland, das von einer als göttlich verehrten künstlichen Intelligenz kontrolliert wird. Die Menschen würfeln hier ab ihrem 18. Lebensjahr um ihre Lebenszeit: Wer eine 7 würfelt, darf in sieben Jahren erneut würfeln, wer eine 0 würfelt, wird zu einer Person Zero und muss sterben. Die Bewohner verehren den Tower als ihren gerechten und unfehlbaren Richter, doch als Leonie eines Tages beginnt, das System zu hinterfragen, entdeckt sie, dass es nicht das hält, was es den Menschen verspricht.

The thrilling follow-up to Mickey7, soon to be a major motion picture by Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon-Ho. Surviving isn't living, even for an Expendable. Mickey7's antimatter gambit paid off. He's out of the Expendable game and doing whatever else he can to help support the...

Bloomsbury presents The Body Builders by Albertine Clarke, read by Ebony Jonelle. For readers of Megan Nolan and Sheila Heti, a mesmerizing Borgesian literary debut about the frayed borders between our bodies and minds. Ada lives a solitary life. She spends her days in her London apartment...

Philip Marlowe meets Redwall in this superior adult noir tale, where all the characters are animals, fighting for survival in the city underneath the humans. "[John] Pirhalla's narration easily differentiates a variety of animal gang leaders, henchmen, and more...He adjusts his pacing precisely...

Sarah Gailey's The Echo Wife is “a trippy domestic thriller which takes the extramarital affair trope in some intriguingly weird new directions.”--Entertainment Weekly I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, right there in front of...

A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL Award-winning author Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide is a thought-provoking future vision of how climate change affects the world. Translated by Ken Liu, who brought Cixin Liu's Hugo Award-winning The Three Body Problem to English-speaking listeners. Mimi is...

The National Book Award-winning author of The Echo Maker proves yet again that "no writer of our time dreams on a grander scale or more knowingly captures the zeitgeist." (The Dallas Morning News). What will happen to life when science identifies the genetic basis of happiness? Who will own the...

Laura Lam's adult sci-fi debut False Hearts: Two formerly conjoined sisters are ensnared in a murderous plot involving psychoactive drugs, shared dreaming, organized crime, and a sinister cult. Raised in the closed cult of Mana's Hearth and denied access to modern technology, conjoined sisters...

Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically---it's about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate...

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remains of the Day comes “a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist—a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic. One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st...

From award winning tech-journalist and io9 founder Annalee Newitz comes a highly anticipated science fiction debut! Autonomous will pull listeners into a dark and dirty world that feels, at times, a bit too familiar. Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing...

Now experience where the hit movie from Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon Ho, starring Robert Pattinson, started in Mickey7 (the inspiration for the film Mickey 17). Dying isn’t any fun…but at least it’s a living. Mickey Barnes is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human...

The Matrix meets an Afro-futuristic retelling of Persephone set in a science fiction underworld of aliens, refugees, and genetic engineering in Jennifer Marie Brissett's Destroyer of Light Kirkus—Best Fiction Books of the Year 2021 Tor.com—Best of the Year 2021 New York Public Library—Nine...

What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award - winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy. An explorer returns to gather information from a climate-ravaged Earth that his ancestors, and others among the planet’s finest, fled centuries ago. The mission comes with a warning: A graveyard world awaits him. But so do those left behind - hopeless and unbeautiful wastes of humanity who should have died out ages ago.