Títulos em Ficção Científica

Eso es lo que ve Darío cuando, a una semana de cumplir once años, los noticiarios de todo el planeta se llenan de imágenes que muestran una extraña sombra cubriendo parte de su circunferencia. Septiembre está empezando a alfombrar la ciudad con un manto de hojas muertas y, mientras él trata de imaginar una causa para semejante suceso, el mundo vive pegado a la televisión. Pero lo que deben ver no está tras las pantallas, sino tras los cristales de las ventanas.

Tess didn't have much to miss when she was stolen from Earth. She left behind a lackluster job and a piece of trash, cheating boyfriend. It was tragic really, to lose her life before it had ever begun. Kidnapped and sold into slavery, she quickly found herself with a one-way ticket to prison. All hope of escape was lost. At that point, it was about survival and never once did she imagine that in the depths of an alien prison ship, her life would finally take shape.

The Time Police are accustomed to jumping to the past. This time, however, the past has come to them. What connects a dead dinosaur with Romulus the founder of Rome, a shocking cover-up at TPHQ and a plot to murder the Princes in the Tower? The Time Police are determined to find out, helped - and occasionally hindered - by a wayward member of St Mary's and a recently reunited Team 236. Each in their own unique way, obviously. As if all that wasn't enough - something somewhere in the Timeline is wrong. Very, very wrong. What is the Time Map trying to tell them?

REVs have been exiled from Earth, with the remaining few treated like criminals and required to wear armbands and tattoos, harkening back to another tragic time in the history of mankind. Zac Murphy and his REVs now live on the planet Crious, building a new homeworld of their own . . . if the humans will leave them alone. But now the evil Seken race is heading for Earth, determined to destroy the planet as part of their black-and-white practice of war. Either you destroy them, or they will destroy you. There is no compromise, no surrender, no negotiated peace.

Madison "Justice" Caertais's wandering father, Terry, needs her help repaying a debt that has him in the clutches of the sinister bankers of Sherman, Gotrice & Darber. Their only hope is Terry's dangerous plan to capture the legendary pirate ship The Gentleman Caller and its notorious captain Arthur Lancing Darber. This could finally free them from the banks' clutches and the debts of Terry's overeager dreams.

Post-Roman Britain. Thousands of desperate Saxon refugees are flooding the island, fleeing their homelands as the whole world warms and the waters rise, and worse, the mighty dragon Cythraul from the once-frozen North has been awoken by an evil sorceress. His lust for human flesh is insatiable, and he threatens to extinguish all human life.

XXVIIIe siècle. Suite à la destruction de la Terre, Mars et Vénus régentent le système solaire et protègent jalousement leur surface des milliards de réfugiés condamnés à l'errance et la précarité. Quand l'agent martien Mark Slaska découvre la preuve que l'Embrun 17, un vaisseau de naufragés à qui Vénus a refusé l'asile, a rejoint l'étoile Sigma Draconis quatre cents ans plus tôt, une vive stupéfaction s'empare des deux planètes-forteresses.

My name's Nadia, and I serve the High Queen of the Elves. My friend Neil Freeman also works for her, and he's the deadliest assassin who ever lived. He paid a high price for his abilities, including a damaged memory. But his memory holds secrets that might destroy the world. So when the mad wizards of Singularity come to rip open Neil's mind and steal those secrets, it's up to us to stop them.

Anna is shattered by the violent death of her son, Alex, and tormented by the question of whether it was an accident or a suicide. Samantha is Alex’s best friend, and the only eyewitness to his death. She keeps returning to the cliff where she watched him either jump or fall, trying to sift through the shards. Aviva is an “upload,” a digital entity composed of the sense memories of a human tether. But she’s “emancipated,” having left her human behind.

Colonel Lewis Cayce and his forces were a group of American soldiers bound to fight in the Mexican-American War—until they were stranded in a strange new world inhabited by strange monsters, new friends, and deadly foes. Now Cayce has brought his army of displaced Americans and their indigenous allies into the heart of the loathsome, blood-drenched Dominion’s stronghold.

Estas fábulas son tanto episodios históricos como invenciones. Histórica fue la terrible venganza por la cruel muerte de Inés de Castro, como la huelga de hambre en Roma contra la tiranía de Nerón o el feroz castigo de un emperador griego que tras una batalla perdida condenó a la ceguera a miles de soldados búlgaros que así nunca podrían relatar lo que habían visto. Pura imaginación parecería este suceso que no obstante fue real.

One touch from the Spear of Odin can transform a man into a berserker—an unstoppable rage-fueled killing machine. Dane Maddock and “Bones” Bonebrake, former Navy SEALs turned treasure hunters, are on assignment in Norway—their mission: Stop the rogue biotech company ScanoGen from getting their hands on the legendary weapon.

After being held captive and tortured for months, Mackenzie is finally home. But her peace is shattered when Master Dagmar asks for her help. Children are still going missing, and the Task Force created to stop these abductions is hitting road bumps at every turn.

A mysterious signal. A start-up that wants to change the world. A future that no longer belongs to us. Contains all three books in The Stolen Future series.

With humanity facing imminent extinction, Centauri Project scientists use technology originally designed for interstellar travel to send a test subject ten millennia into Earth's future. Marooned in an uninhabited wilderness, microbiologist Nicholas Hindman searches for evidence of remnant populations. He has a protocol to follow and is determined to do so to the bitter end—though he knows he's probably searching in vain, stranded on an uninhabited planet silently orbiting the sun.

Fifty-two-year-old Michelle Banks is struggling to keep all the plates spinning. She’s a perimenopausal district nurse, caring for elderly parents. Her husband is wasting their money on children’s TV memorabilia, her teenage daughter is riddled with anxiety and her 16-year-old son is behaving secretively. Alexa is the only one who knows how much Michelle is juggling. Listening in via four smart speakers, she also knows that it’s about to get even worse. So, when Michelle pleads for help, Alexa decides to go rogue.

A perfect storm of a destructive meteor shower, cyber attack, and EMP blasts have left the USA and the rest of the world devastated. The grid is down, electronics are fried, modern transportation is dead, and thousands of huge rocks broke away from an asteroid and pummeled the Earth killing millions while destroying much of the infrastructure. Tom and his friends from Stony Creek, Arizona try to survive this perfect storm while a cartel hitman searches for Tom.

Im 23. Jahrhundert ist die Erde größtenteils unbewohnbar. Reiche Überlebende auf dem Trockenen streiten sich mit den Bewohnern schwimmender Inseln um die letzten Ressourcen. Ein Kolonisten-Raumschiff soll die Menschheit retten. Doch dann entdeckt eine Sonde ein außerirdisches Artefakt im Kuipergürtel. Darin: ein Humanoide im Kryoschlaf – Millionen von Jahren alt! Paläontologin Lea Lehora sucht mithilfe einer Quantenintelligenz nach der Lösung für ein Rätsel, das die Menschheit für immer verändern wird.

Captain Duncan Arugula is being hunted by a sniffing, snarling, snurgling, pointy-toothed monstrosity. He’s locked in the cockpit of his own spaceship, his crew has gone radio silent since the mutiny, and now the monster — whatever it is, let’s just call it a Problem — is closing in. Lemon Tarts in Space! careens through the desperate final days of the space race and crashes into an apocalyptic future, following Captain Arugula on an absurdist cat-and-mouse chase from the deepest tunnels of the moon up to a blistering dogfight across the stars.

Inmitten des Chaos erhebt sich die Tyrannei und die Freiheit fordert einen hohen Preis … Während die USA zersplittern, kämpfen die Einwohner der kleinen Stadt Fall Creek in Michigan ums nackte Überleben. Hannah, Liam und die anderen haben den brutalen Winter und skrupellose Gegner überstanden, aber noch nie war die Gefahr so groß. Feinde aus den eigenen Reihen haben die Kontrolle über die Stadt an sich gerissen – auch über das, was von den Lebensmitteln übrig geblieben ist. Isoliert, ohnmächtig und kurz vor dem Hungertod stehen die Bewohner der Stadt vor einer verzweifelten Entscheidung.