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Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: mind your own business, fix what's wrong, and move on to the next job. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat, where a group of humanoids had been secretly, commercially bioengineered for working in free fall. Could he just stand there and allow the exploitation of hundreds of helpless children merely to enhance the bottom line of a heartless mega-corporation?

The newly liberated humans of the Fleet of Worlds and Sigmund Ausfaller, who had been transported by the Puppeteers from Earth to the Fleet, must contend not only with the sly Puppeteers but also the threat of the Pak, a very smart and utterly ruthless species who are fleeing the exploding galactic core in an armada of ships at near light speed. The Pak are headed towards the Fleet of Worlds, having destroyed entire planets in their wake.

In 2118 the first daring mission to another star, Tau Ceti - 12 light-years away - is launched. Tom Hites and Harry Cosgrove command the starship Endeavour on an epic journey to solve the Fermi paradox. From the first nearly disastrous steps on a distant world, their quest takes them further than they ever imagined.

It’s been 20 years since the quixotic and worldsweary Louis Wu discovered the Ringworld. Now he and SpeakertoAnimals are going back, captives of the Hindmost, a deposed puppeteer leader. With Louis’ help, the Hindmost intends to regain his status by bringing back such extraordinary treasures from the Ringworld that his fellow puppeteers will have to be impressed. But when they arrive, Louis discovers that the Ringworld is no longer stable - and will destroy itself within months. To survive, he must locate the control center of the legendary engineers who built the planet.

The secretive Roma Union has stepped forward. The warlike Maraukians are coming, and humanity must rally together or shatter into oblivion.     

Modern medicine has conquered or contained many of the diseases that used to carry children away before their time, reducing mortality and improving health. Vaccination and treatment are widely available. There are still monsters left to fight, but the old ones, the simple ones, trouble us no more. Or so we thought. For with the reduction in danger comes the erosion of memory, as pandemics fade from memory into story into fairy tale. Those old diseases can't have been so bad, people say, or we wouldn't be here to talk about them. They're never coming back.... It begins with a fever.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. We Glimpsed A Utopian Future. 2076. A world without roads. Without borders. Without limits. Brian Medlock’s invention of anti-gravity, powered by his unified Theory of Persistence, has ushered in an era of peace, prosperity, and shared purpose. Then...

A besta é uma ficção científica visceral e magnética sobre o preço da imortalidade, o ressurgimento de velhos deuses corporativos e os limites da sobrevivência humana. Em um mundo que passou pela Última Grande Guerra, a raça humana encontrou a estabilidade e o equilíbrio ecológico sob...

Descubra uma emocionante ficção científica brasileira que une biologia especulativa, tecnologia avançada e a busca profunda por conexão humana. Ao ser convidada a integrar um comitê de crise no assentamento científico do planeta Tau Ceti f, a bióloga Tarsila enfrenta um desafio urgente...

Em Sol de Limão, a autora Lady Sybylla apresenta uma ficção científica brasileira pulsante, eletrizante e profundamente humana que questiona as fronteiras éticas da ciência e os limites da tecnologia em nossa interação com a vida. Letícia, carinhosamente conhecida como Leca, é uma...

Num mundo onde os algoritmos venceram a morte, a repetição do passado tornou-se o produto mais lucrativo — e a maior ameaça à essência humana. Em um futuro distópico assustadoramente palpável, a perda e a saudade se tornaram os produtos mais lucrativos do mercado. No ano de 2100, em uma...

Torn apart by conflict, humanity stands at the brink. The Northern Alliance's Quant purge is almost complete thanks to bio-engineered soldiers equipped to find and destroy. The Alliance is also keen to put down the rebellion in the South and is engaged in a Cold War with Greater China. Seeing...

What if death was no longer the end? When Professor Dowell, a brilliant scientist, dies under mysterious circumstances, his work does not die with him. In a secret laboratory, an experiment once thought impossible has become horrifyingly real. A human head can be kept alive, conscious and aware...

Ein revolutionärer neuer Treibstoff namens „SR" wird entwickelt, der die Luft- und Raumfahrt für immer verändern könnte. Die Entdeckung löst ein internationales Wettrennen um die Kontrolle dieser wegweisenden Technologie aus. Industrielle Spione, Regierungsagenten und Wissenschaftler kämpfen um die geheimen Formeln, während die ersten Versuche mit dem neuen Treibstoff sowohl erstaunliche Erfolge als auch unerwartete Gefahren zeigen.

Hard-core, fast paced science fiction, John Scalzi's Zoe's Tale is the fourth in The Old Man's War series. She won't go down without a fight. It's not every day you up sticks and move to another world. But then, Zoë Boutin-Perry's life has never been ordinary. She's the adopted teenage daughter...

"Don't tell me it's haunted around here." "No. Not haunted. Something else." Jack Decker moved his family to rural Vermont for a fresh start. What begins as a pleasant experiment, turns dark when a package is delivered to their general store. An object lies within it, and Jack is drawn to its...

The survivors of the South Pole massacre will find that getting off the Antarctic continent may cost them their lives . . . Months after the events of Symbiote, sunrise has come to the ice continent. At the coastal McMurdo Station (77 deg S), that means Winfly: an annual series of flights to lay...

Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2020!"A terrifying tour de force." --James Rollins"Readers will be riveted." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) Sally Jansen was NASA's leading astronaut, until a mission to Mars ended in disaster. Haunted by her failure, she lives in quiet anonymity...

A small band of pilots fight against a seemingly unstoppable alien empire in this thrilling space opera. Commander Lanoe's skills made him a hero of the interplanetary civil war, but he was left with nothing except battle scars and painful memories. But now he faces the greatest threat mankind...

CONTENTS: Introduction; I Just Make Them Up, See; Someday; The Feeling of Power; Living Space; Satisfaction Guaranteed; The Last Question; Jokester; The Immortal Bard; Spell My Name With an "S"; The Ugly Little...