Títulos em Ficção Científica e Fantasia

Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay safe in the eerie, mist-locked kingdom of Blunder—she needs a monster. She calls him the Nightmare, an ancient, mercurial spirit trapped in her head. He protects her. He keeps her secrets. But nothing comes for free, especially magic. When Elspeth meets a mysterious highwayman on the forest road, her life takes a drastic turn. Thrust into a world of shadow and deception, she joins a dangerous quest to cure Blunder from the dark magic infecting it.

Sensíveis, divertidos e instigantes, os contos de Eu, robô são um marco na história da ficção científica, seja pela introdução das célebres Leis da Robótica, pelos personagens inesquecíveis ou por seu olhar completamente novo a respeito das máquinas. Vivam eles na Terra ou no espaço sideral; sejam domésticos ou especializados, submissos ou rebeldes, meramente mecânicos ou humanizados, os robôs de Asimov conquistaram a cabeça e a alma de gerações de escritores, cineastas e cientistas, sendo até hoje fonte de inspiração de tudo o que lemos e assistimos sobre essas criaturas mecânicas.

A guerra entre os Povos Livres da Terra-média e Sauron, o Senhor Sombrio da terra de Mordor, chega a seu clímax neste terceiro volume do romance O Senhor dos Anéis. As batalhas grandiosas que estão prestes a acontecer, no entanto, são apenas o pano de fundo para o verdadeiro drama: a missão quase suicida dos hobbits Frodo e Sam, que tentam destruir o Um Anel, fonte do poder de Sauron, infiltrando-se no coração do território do Inimigo.

Princess Théra, once known as Empress Üna of Dara, entrusted the throne to her younger brother in order to journey to Ukyu-Gondé to war with the Lyucu. She has crossed the fabled Wall of Storms with a fleet of advanced warships and 10,000 people. Beset by adversity, Théra and her most trusted companions attempt to overcome every challenge by doing the most interesting thing. But is not letting the past dictate the present always possible or even desirable?

The company of the Ring is torn asunder. Frodo and Sam continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin - alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go. This continues the classic tale begun in The Fellowship of the Ring, which reaches its awesome climax in The Return of the King.

We were torn from life before our time, a Savage King, his queen, a betrayed son, a wronged brother, a scorned wife and so many more. We watch those we left behind as they struggle against the grip of the stars, the answers to so many of their questions within our grasp and yet out of their reach.

Geralt lutou contra monstros e demônios por todo o país, mas até ele pode não estar preparado para o que está acontecendo com seu mundo. Há intrigas, divergências e rebeliões por todo lado. Os Elfos e outros seres não humanos vivem sob repressão há décadas. Os Magos brigam uns com os outros, alguns a soldo dos reis, outros simpatizantes dos elfos. E, nesse cenário de medo e desprezo, Geralt e sua amante Yennefer precisam proteger Ciri, herdeira órfã e procurada por todos os lados. Ela tem o poder de salvar o mundo ou, talvez, acabar com ele.

The second Dune installment explores new developments on the planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and strange, threatening environment. Dune Messiah picks up the story of the man known as Muad'Dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to fruition an ambition of unparalleled scale: the centuries-old scheme to create a superbeing who reigns not in the heavens but among men. But the question is: DO all paths of glory lead to the grave?

More than 3,000 years have passed since the first events recorded in Dune. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad'Dib, and now the virtually immortal God Emperor of Dune. He alone understands the future, and he knows with a terrible certainty that the evolution of his race is at an end unless he can breed new qualities into his species.

On an Imperial outpost world on the fringes of tau space, the renowned Commissar Ciaphas Cain and his fractious regiment of Valhallan Guard, newly created from the remnants of two devastated units, find themselves in the middle of a war. As the Astra Militarum struggle to contain worldwide civil insurrection, can the wily Commissar Cain identify the real villain before the planet is lost to the Imperium forever?

"O Silmarillion" é um relato dos Dias Antigos da Primeira Era do mundo criado por J.R.R. Tolkien. É a história longínqua para a qual os personagens de "O Senhor dos Anéis" e "O Hobbit" olham para trás, e em cujos eventos alguns deles, como Elrond e Galadriel, tomaram parte. Os contos de "O Silmarillion" se passam em uma época em que Morgoth, o Primeiro Senhor Sombrio, habitava a Terra-média, e os Altos-Elfos guerreavam contra ele pela recuperação das Silmarils, as joias que continham a pura luz de Valinor.

The first of its kind - FOMO is a tale set amid a craft beer backdrop that conjures memories of shows like The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, and Tales from the Crypt. Craft beer aficionado Greg Smith spends most of his time attending rare releases chasing down bottles that he'll likely never open. A chance encounter with a man who looks exactly like him at an anniversary release sends Greg spiraling. Does this doppelganger have anything to do with the strange tasting he had attended at the naval base? An event no one else seems to have heard of?

Neste novo mundo, Jason leva outra vida. Sua esposa não é sua esposa, seu filho nunca nasceu e, em vez de professor numa universidade mediana, ele é um gênio da física quântica que conseguiu um feito inimaginável. Algo impossível. Será que é este seu mundo, e o outro é apenas um sonho? E, se esta não for a vida que ele sempre levou, como voltar para sua família e tudo que ele conhece por realidade?

Durante sua infância, Luke Skywalker viveu em uma fazenda simples em Tatooine e se considerava órfão. Sonhando com o dia em que encontraria seu lugar em um mundo mais vasto, ele vê seus amigos partirem em busca de uma vida melhor. Como sua origem e seu destino sempre foram incertos, ele conta com a ajuda do Mestre Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi–para ele um misterioso eremita—para finalmente descobrir a verdade sobre seu pai, sua irmã gêmea e seu futuro.

After forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal war. Neither side has gained an advantage. Now, as new technological discoveries begin to change the face of the war, the enemy prepares a bold and dangerous operation. The arms race that follows will challenge the very core of the Radiant ideals and potentially reveal the secrets of the ancient tower that was once the heart of their strength.

They mustn't harm a human being, they must obey human orders, and they must protect their own existence...but only so long as that doesn't violate rules one and two. With these Three Laws of Robotics, humanity embarked on a bold new era of evolution that would open up enormous possibilities, and unforeseen risks.

Arwen Valondale never expected to be the brave one, offering her life to save her brother's. Now she's been taken prisoner by the most dangerous kingdom on the continent, and made to use her rare magical abilities to heal the soldiers of the vicious Onyx King. Arwen knows better than to face the ancient, wicked woods that surround the castle on her own, which means working with a fellow prisoner might be her only path to freedom. Unfortunately, he's as infuriating as he is cunning-and seems to take twisted pleasure in playing on Arwen's deepest fears.

The armies of the Dark Lord are massing as his evil shadow spreads even wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to battle against the Dark. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam struggle further into Mordor in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring. The devastating conclusion of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic tale of adventure, begun in The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers.

It has been a week since Momonga logged in to his favorite RPG one last time and stranded himself there. Now he leads his guild as the Ainz Ooal Gown overlord. Finding himself in dire need of better information, he travels disguised as an adventurer to the walled city of E-Rantel, with Narberal the battle maid at his side. The pair accept a mission to retrieve medicinal herbs, making for a forest said to be the home of a great and wise beast.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A thief, a candlemaker, an ex-mercenary, and a pig farmer walk into a trap…and what happens to them is no joke. When Riyria is hired to retrieve a jester’s treasure, Royce and Hadrian must match wits with a dwarf who proves to be anything but a fool. Difficult choices will need to be made, and in the end those who laugh last do so because they are the only ones to survive.