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Cuando un ataque a un cazarrecompensas finaliza con el rescate del sobrino de Mriy por el Mobius, su tripulación se desvía a Meyang para devolverlo a casa. Pero a su regreso, Mriy descubre que la gratitud no compensa el resentimiento. En lugar de la bienvenida que esperaba merecer, se ve retada a una cacería ritual para recuperar el lugar que le corresponde en la familia. Y, con todo el clan en su contra, ¿dónde acudirá Mriy en busca de aliados?

Cuando la tripulación del Mobius acepta como pasajero a Bryce Brisson para ganar dinero fácil, se ve inmersa en sus negocios con la enemistada familia de Tanny: la Familia Rucker. Y además, Tanny ha agotado el suministro de drogas que necesita para mantener su fisiología mejorada de marine. ¿Traicionará Carl a la familia para conservar su paga, o se lanzará de cabeza a una trampa que no estaba diseñada para él? Si juega mal sus cartas, se arriesga a enemistarse con los gánsteres más despiadados de Marte.

El expiloto de cazas Carl Ramsey, ahora capitán del Mobius, no puede ver un piloto de carreras sin burlarse porque nunca haya estado bajo fuego enemigo. Cuando el mecánico de la nave y el mago del impulso warp ya no lo aguantan más, lo espolean a inscribirse en un concurso de carreras para demostrar su valía. Carl recoge sus maletas y su ego, y entra en el Reto para Corredores Principiantes Silde Slims. Con 250 000 terras de premio en metálico, ese podría ser el mejor de los botines para la tripulación del Mobius.

Arrastrados por los efectos de un fenómeno astrofísico, cinco amigos --César, Edurne, Nicolás, Roi y Tomás--, son transportados desde una recreación histórica hasta la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Y allí, en 1940, descubrirán que la representación en el siglo XXI en la que participaban, no los había preparado para afrontar el convulsionado escenario de la más destructiva de las guerras.

2101. Une comète va annihiler la vie sur Terre. Aelys fait partie des élites sélectionnées pour coloniser une nouvelle planète. A l'extérieur de la base de lancement, dans ce qu'il reste de la France, la civilisation s'est déjà effondrée depuis cinquante ans. Convaincue qu'elle pourra aider à reconstruire l'humanité après l'impact, Aelys s'enfuit. Sa famille n'a que trente-huit heures pour la retrouver avant le dernier départ.

It begins in Toronto, in the years after the smart drug revolution. Any high school student with a chemjet and internet connection can download recipes and print drugs, or invent them. A seventeen-year-old street girl finds God through a new brain-altering drug called Numinous, used as a sacrament by a new Church that preys on the underclass. But she is arrested and put into detention, and without the drug, commits suicide. Lyda Rose, another patient in that detention facility, has a dark secret: She was one of the original scientists who developed the drug.

What happens when resources become scarce and society starts to crumble? Soft Apocalypse follows the journey across the Southeast of a tribe of formerly middle-class Americans as they struggle to find a place for themselves and their children in a new, dangerous world that still carries the ghostly echoes of their previous lives.

Mark Watney è stato uno dei primi astronauti a mettere piede su Marte. Ma il momento di gloria è durato troppo poco. Un'improvvisa tempesta lo ha quasi ucciso e i suoi compagni di spedizione, credendolo morto, hanno abbandonato il pianeta rosso per fare ritorno sulla Terra. Mark si ritrova completamente solo su un pianeta inospitale e non ha nessuna possibilità di mandare un segnale alla base. E in ogni caso i viveri non basterebbero fino all'arrivo di una nuova spedizione.

Earth is dying, and humanity is scrambling to set up colonies in other star systems. But the search process for habitable planets is not perfect, as the crew of the Ouroboros discover on arrival at their new home.

Une centaine d'années se sont écoulées, Élisabeth et Nil se réveillent à bord de l'Esperanza 64. Qu'est devenue Lumière ? Les gens ont-ils respecté le Code de Développement, si cher au cœur de la Guide, ou ont-ils, au contraire, suivi l'exemple de Terra ?

In this concluding volume of Neal Stephenson’s epic work, “Half-Cocked Jack” Shaftoe must escape the noose of Jack Ketch; the rivalry between Newton and Leibniz comes to a head; and Daniel Waterhouse pursues his dream to build the Logic Mill

The year is 1714. Daniel Waterhouse has returned to England, where he joins forces with his friend Isaac Newton to hunt down a criminal gang attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers with "Infernal Devices," or time bombs. Unbeknownst to Daniel, however, Newton has an ulterior motive: to wrest the Solomonic Gold from the control of his arch-enemy, the master counterfeiter Jack the Coiner, a.k.a Jack Shaftoe, King of the Vagabonds.

In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves, including one “Half-Cocked Jack” Shaftoe, devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues that will place the intrepid band at odds with the mighty and the mad, with alchemists, Jesuits, great navies, pirate queens, and vengeful despots across vast oceans and around the globe.

A chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe - London street urchin-turned-legendary swashbuckling adventurer - risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox...and Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent a contentious continent through the newborn power of finance.

The trials of Dr. Daniel Waterhouse and the Natural Philosophers increase one-hundred fold in an England plagued by the impending war and royal insecurities - as the beautiful and ambitious Eliza plays a most dangerous game as double agent and confidante of enemy kings.

Una inquietante visión del panorama político y social actual en España narrada en forma de novela de intriga y misterio, un trepidante policial en el que las Redes Sociales cobran la mayor importancia. España, año 2015: El Gobierno de concentración que se forma tras las elecciones anticipadas no puede combatir los graves problemas del país, sumido en una profunda crisis desde hace años, y que se encuentra al borde del colapso.

Immobile, en mode furtif, la Vigilante 211 est l'un des nombreux petits vaisseaux chargés de surveiller les frontières du système solaire. À son bord, les six membres d'équipage enchaînent, dans la bonne humeur, les périodes de veille et de sommeil artificiel, persuadés qu'aucun incident ne viendra troubler les deux années de patrouille qu'il leur restent à effectuer. Aucun d'entre eux ne se sent l'étoffe d'un héros, et surtout pas Lob, chargé de la maintenance à bord et secrètement amoureux d'Esméralda.

The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume epic, the tale of a young Severian, an apprentice to the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession - showing mercy towards his victim.

Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the New Sun" is one of speculative fiction's most-honored series. In a 1998 poll, Locus Magazine rated the series behind only "The Lord of the Rings" and The Hobbit as the greatest fantasy work of all time.

The West has been devastated by epidemics, bio-terrorism, war, and famine. Asia has shut its borders to keep the threats at bay, and some with power and influence have already abandoned Earth. Now an escape route a century in the making - the Nomad mission - finally offers hope to a small town and a secret research centre hidden in a rural American backwater. Shrouded in lies and concealed even from the research centre's staff, Nomad is about to fulfil its long-dead founder's vision of preserving the best of humanity to forge a new future. But who decides who's worthy?

The thrilling conclusion to The Extinction Files is finally here! In 2003, the first human genome was sequenced. But the secrets it held were never revealed. The truth was discovered 30 years ago, almost by accident. Dr. Paul Kraus had spent his entire career searching for what he called humanity's lost tribes - human ancestors who had gone extinct. When Kraus compared the DNA samples of the lost tribes with our own, he found a pattern of changes: a code. At the time, the technology didn't exist to unravel what it meant. Kraus hid his work and disappeared.