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Seth is a surveyor, along with his friend Theo, a leech-like creature running through his skull who tells Seth what lies to his left and right.

In the universe containing Seth's world, light cannot travel in all directions: there is a "dark cone" to the north and south. Seth can only face to the east (or the west, if he tips his head backwards). Every living thing in Seth's world is in a state of perpetual migration as they follow the sun's shifting orbit and the narrow habitable zone it creates.

Five miles off the South Carolina coast, Darden and Catherina are getting their promised forty acres, all of it undersea. Like every Black “mer,” they’ve been experimentally modified to adapt to their new subaquatic home - and have met with extreme resistance from white supremacists. Darden has an inspired plan for resolution. For both those on land and the webbed bottom-dwellers below, Darden is hoping to change the wave of the future.

Shining Smith stands on the brink of achieving her goals, and yet now she could lose everything. The presidents of four motorcycle clubs are coming to claim blood sacrifice and to ink her with motorcycle club tats. Her new roadhouse and its charter have to meet their approval or the roadhouse has no future, and neither does Shining. An injured kid shows up at Smith’s Junk and Scrap, but collapses before he can speak. A note arrives containing a warning and a plea for help, addressed by someone who knows Shining’s most intimate secrets—her history, her plans, and the names of her friends.

Packed with Larry Niven and Steven Barnes’s trademark excitement and science-based extrapolation, this thrilling novel introduces readers to Ice Vegas, an extraordinary city of the future powered by nuclear fusion. Carver Reeves is head of security for BALDR, the massive nuclear facility that...

ماذا يمكن أن يحدث إذا امتلكت الحيوانات قدرات مشابهة لقدرات البشر؟ يلجأ السيد "بندرك" إلى جزيرة مجهولة بعد غرق سفينته ليكتشف أن بها رجلاً يدعى "دكتور مورو" يقوم بتجارب علمية لتحويل الحيوانات إلى بشر، تتصاعد الأحداث حتى تقوم تلك الحيوانات بالثورة على الدكتور مورو وتخرج على كل القوانين التي وضعها لحفظ النظام في الجزيرة. تمتلئ الرواية بالإحالات الفلسفية عن الطبيعة البشرية والقوانين الاجتماعية وأنظمة السلطة والعلم، في قالب خيالي برع فيه هربرت ويلز كعادته في الجمع بين الخيال العلمي والإثارة ومحاولاته المعتادة للتنبؤ بمستقبل البشر.

Mit „Die Insel des Dr. Moreau" schuf H. G. Wells einen der eindringlichsten und verstörendsten Romane der frühen Science-Fiction. Ein Schiffbrüchiger strandet auf einer abgelegenen Insel – und stößt dort auf das geheimnisvolle Labor des Dr. Moreau. In grausamen Experimenten versucht dieser, Tiere in menschenähnliche Wesen zu verwandeln. Was als wissenschaftlicher Fortschritt erscheint, entpuppt sich als erschreckende Grenzüberschreitung.

After The Fall, it was the Metanationals, impossibly large, impossibly powerful corporations, who stepped into the vacuum left by a collapsing government. It’s their world now; we’re all just living in it. Two worlds, really: At the top, legions of “citizen employees” live and work in a...

Einigen Männern ist die Flucht aus den Labors der berüchtigten AREA 51 gelungen. In Las Vegas, der Spielerstadt, versuchen sie unterzutauchen und ihren Häschern zu entkommen. Da es sich bei den Flüchtigen zum Teil um Verbrecher und Mörder handelt, nehmen sie alte Gewohnheiten wieder auf und gehen ihrem üblen Handwerk nach. Agenten der AREA 51 versuchen, die Flüchtigen zu finden und scheuen sich dabei nicht, Gewalt anzuwenden. Doch eine andere Gefahr bedroht die Einwohner und Touristen von Las Vegas. Menschen werden von etwas angegriffen, das nicht von dieser Welt zu sein scheint.

From the bestselling author of Lost in Time and Quantum Radio comes a new mind-bending thriller: a group of strangers with tinnitus begins seeing numbers—numbers they soon realize are a code that will change the world.

. . . A Human starship, crewed by Human-like aliens and carrying a cargo of Human-killing toxin. . . . Is on its way to Earth. . . . I have to stop them from reaching my homeworld. . . . I have to save the Human race from Extinction. That's all. Such is the fate of The Last Cyborg. That's me...

ZoD Failing my people is not an option and I'll do whatever is needed to make sure that doesn't happen, that is until she runs into my arms. Now the universe be damned because I will sacrifice them all to keep her safe. My very soul reaches for her, but no matter how hard I fight to get to her...

GOLD MEDAL WINNER FOR DYSTOPIAN SCI-FI in the 2025 GLOBAL BOOK AWARDS The year is 2098. Humanity is no more. Earth is a ravaged, radioactive wasteland. On Mars, a small group of synthetic humanoids survive—their memories of the apocalypse wiped, seeking to understand their role in the fall of...

In Hong Kong a young scientist stumbles upon a strange new species of rat—one that defies the rules of evolution. It's not a product of chance, but something far more sinister. Thousands of miles away in Denmark, a mysterious organism spreads like a fungus, infiltrating ecosystems and baffling researchers. As a team of scientists races to contain it, they uncover patterns that shouldn't exist in nature. Soon, people begin to die.

Four hundred degrees! Toxic atmosphere! Gravity beams that crush men in armor like beer cans! Welcome to Infernus. Legion Varus assaults an alien stronghold that's too close to Mother Earth. The battle turns into a meat grinder that chews through soldiers faster than revival machines can spit...

The POTUS has given Unity a green light to start an international manhunt for Psyche. Blank paycheck, all the access to the secrets that they need. They're going hell for leather to find out just how to stop the little psycho—but he's got surprises in store for the team, and he's not going down without a fight.

The theme of this volume is Bio Sci-Fi. As machines and computers grow ever more sophisticated, how might technology change our bodies and our attitudes towards them? Let's find out together.

Он — всего лишь подопытный в эксперименте по созданию идеальных людей. Вся его жизнь — это учёба и опыты. Вся его суть — это сила и способности. Всё, что он умеет — это побеждать. Но не имея шанса на победу, он попадает в другой мир. В тело обычного доброго паренька. Друзья, семья, девушка — всё это неожиданно появляется в его жизни. Но... разве хоть что-то из этого имеет значение? Нет. Цена? Способ? Жертвы? Хоть что-то из этого важно? Нет. Важна лишь победа. И он тот, кто победит.

The satirical novel What Not was published in 1918. Foreshadowing Orwell’s 1984, it is set in a futuristic England where a government agency, known as the Ministry of Brains, is responsible for regulating and controlling relationships and marriages based on intelligence and eugenics.

Tauchen Sie ein in die Welt von Dr. Daniel Scott, einem Wissenschaftler am Rande einer revolutionären Entdeckung. In Stanley G. Weinbaums Die letzte Anpassung folgen wir Scott und seinem Mentor Professor Hans Bach, die ein Heilmittel entwickelt haben, das das Potenzial hat, die Medizin zu revolutionieren. Ihre Versuche an Tieren zeigen unglaubliche Ergebnisse – Wunden heilen wie durch Magie. Doch mit jeder Anpassung kommt ein Preis, und bald müssen sie sich den dunklen Konsequenzen ihrer Erfindung stellen.

2041. Auf dem Jupitermond Ganymed verschwindet eine Sonde spurlos, die den Ozean unter seiner Eiskruste studieren sollte. Die NASA macht den Programmierer Bavin Joshi dafür verantwortlich, der für die Software der Sonde zuständig war. Bavin wehrt sich - und muss überrascht feststellen, dass niemand an der Wahrheit interessiert ist. Die ganze Mission scheint von einem dunklen Geheimnis umgeben zu sein, das er vielleicht lieber nicht aufdecken sollte.