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When Katherine makes a startling discovery in the data she stole from Maunhouser, Hunter is forced to face troubling news before ultimately learning what Maunhouser bought at Site B. Once again, he must face the corp he despises, risking it all to stop them from making the greatest discovery since the fall of the Gate Age.

A crescent moon set against a jeweled field of stars gracefully slid into view. The thin arc of its crater-filled landscape drew Jack’s mind in. His eyes followed the long, inky shadows cast by jagged crater walls as they cut sharply into the pockmarked ashen terrain. Deeper within the jet-black lunar night-side were the lonely peaks of a smattering of mountain tops, catching a few last rays of sunlight. All Jack felt was a desire to escape; to be down there exploring...perhaps uncovering some new detail in the history of Earth’s nearest neighbor.

In 2296, an unstoppable mass extinction is underway, and history proves society will collapse before it can change. Climate Council scientists have no choice but to unveil the Dawn Project. Their audacious plan will terraform the planet back to life… by erasing its civilization. Biologist Kaia Badra commits her life to the project’s success at all costs after a storm surge takes her parents.

Il caso o il destino mette nelle mani del giovane Rocket Boy una pistola davvero unica e speciale, dotata di un'IA che però minaccia di trasformare la vita stessa del ragazzo. Alla fine chi finirà per usare chi?

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After John and Nikaela are rescued from the rogue warship Sycorax, Katrine Primatov has only a lone hunter-killer to back her in the remote Sarkovie system, and she is faced with a Kelk force of overwhelming firepower superiority. The Kelk decide to take John and Nikaela back to Viktorkinde, whether Katrine likes it or not, and everyone is pretending they're not prisoners. But the Kelk are quietly at war among themselves, fighting their own battle against superstition and irrationality. John and Katrine begin to learn the roots of the Kelk hatred of the Blacksword.

Akemi’s job on the Public Utilities Commission has its own daily disasters—making sure the infrastructure of civilization keeps running is the most thankless job on the planet. When a double event hits—heatwave plus viral breakout—keeping the power on is an all-out battle. It doesn’t help that he’s distracted by his elderly father, who was struck down and neuro-compromised by the same virus that killed his mother the year before.

Professor Alice Sutton, a self-taught physicist, grew up in the Appalachian Mountains of southern Ohio. While still in her teens, she stunned the scientific world with her discovery of a fifth force of nature, with profound implications for cosmology. She became a full professor at MIT in her early 20s. But, her hillbilly ways and beliefs stayed with her, guiding her through mind-bending adventures in scientific discovery. This hard science fiction novel pulls no punches in describing the physics behind Dr. Alice’s work.

Following the global wave of innovation on artificial intelligence, machine learning tools, and every possible variation of GPT driven chatbots, Ishmael has been propelled to Chief Technical Officer of Paragon Logic, the most ambitious technical organization of the 21st century.

The world has recovered from COVID-19, but a new danger soon arises: It is the outbreak of what could potentially be an even more deadly virus. To almost everyone, the situation seems tragic but innocent. However, is there something more sinister at play? A few people certainly believe so. Two top medical scientists have disappeared. They may hold the key to helping the world understand what is really going on with this new virus.

Something strange is happening on Mars. And it’s his job to find out. In the near future, a new space race begins. Private industry is now pushing the limits of human exploration and colonization. NASA has changed its mandate into a regulatory agency that oversees all US-based interests involved in interplanetary expansion. Stilicho Jones always has his hands full working as a corporate fixer for eccentric trillionaire Errol Flux and his numerous cutting edge space projects.

Following a horrific accident, NASA's lead astronaut, Jane “Summit” Lipton, awakens from a coma to an alien world: life in a wheelchair here on Earth. A year later, China is winning the new space race, due to launch the first manned mission to Mars ahead of the United States. Tracked down by a passionate group of misfits, Jane is offered an astonishing proposition. Facing unprecedented challenges, she must train harder than ever before and prove to herself that she still possesses the right stuff. Will she reach the red planet first?

Esta es la historia de la vida de Zer0 ambientada en una situación ficticia creada para decir "¿Y si muriera?" Después de despertar de la realidad del coma, Zer0 se encontró atrapado dentro de esta es la historia de lo que le sucedió a Zer0 y los otros personajes de la realidad del coma. Ambientado en una situación de la vida real, Zer0 debe luchar contra Hexx y otros demonios que lo persiguen para encontrar el camino de regreso a Azrl y los elegidos de la luz.

Into the Twilight takes place 200 years into the future, when Jacob Ladder and Emma Fine, strangers to one another, wake from two centuries of suspended life to a future that challenges many of their deep-rooted assumptions about what it means to be and remain human. As the story opens, the human race faces demise from within and without. Mulling over its options, the governing council decides that the human genome will require “major redesigning” or “scrapping” if what’s left of humanity is to survive. And that’s where Ike comes in.

Danny Ortega was a failure. He couldn't tolerate the implant to be a starship captain. But Danny Ortega has run his deep-space research vessel Ghost alone for years, flaky AI and all, mapping the most unstable and unexplored regions of the Rift for the Cartographers Guild. When his latest mission lands in a mass graveyard of ships, including some ships out of legend, lost for hundreds of years, the guild isn't happy with him. He picks up a misfit crew out of the asteroids, and the games begin!

In the village of Iping, a strange man arrives at a local inn wrapped in bandages. He refuses to leave his room where he is carrying out experiments to make himself invisible. The stranger's success has grave implications for everyone. When he realises that he cannot reverse the experiment, he is gradually driven insane.

Can a Natural survive in the 22nd-century genetically engineered space navy. Lieutenant Henry Gallant is the only Natural left in the fleet. In spite of his superiors' concern that he is not up to the challenge, his unique mental abilities are essential to the defense against hostile aliens. Serving on the first FTL prototype, the Intrepid, to Tau-Ceti, Gallant finds a lost human colony on the planet Elysium. An ancient artificial intelligence which had lain dormant on the planet for millennia, comes to life and threatens the colony.

Star flight adds a new dimension to generation gaps. Time travel is really possible - even Einstein says it's true. Join young Carlo as he meets his Deca-Dad, a great-great-grandfather six times removed, and see if he learns anything about what it means to live life in the universe’s greatest frontier. Deca-Dad is a science-fiction short story from frequent analog contributor and best-selling Amazon dark-fantasy author Ron Collins.

The final Eden. Medusa’s Gauntlet is the much-anticipated conclusion to the New Eden series. The adventures of physicist Dr. Joshua Andrews, reporter Rachael Miller, information theorist Vinod Bhakti, and their alien friend Seth continue in a mind-boggling space odyssey that traverses the solar system. The fate of life in the cosmos is at stake as the group embarks on a mission on a biological spaceship to confront Medusa at Planet Nine.

The CEO of Nanogate works closely with other mega-corporate magnates to control everything in their path. Together they suborn governments, police, and anything else barring their way to greater profits. As the cool, enigmatic leader of the Green Action Militia, Sonya drives the organization’s agenda through murder and destruction among the corporate elite. The higher the body count, the more their cause earns credibility. Tony Sammis, mid-level functionary, sinks further and further into the apathy of his own dreary existence as a cog in the great commercial machine.