Preventa de eBook de Ciencia ficción

LA ÚLTIMA BATALLA HA COMENZADO. Y ESTA VEZ, LA OSCURIDAD DECIDIRÁ QUIÉN SE SALVA.Una guerra olvidada está a punto de estallar de nuevo. Mientras el vínculo entre Kelewan y Midkemia se debilita, Arutha reune sus fuerzas para enfrentar a un enemigo que trasciende el tiempo y la muerte. Macros el Negro ha regresado, y su hechiceria oscura amenaza con romper el delicado equilibrio del universo.En Sethanon, heroes y enemigos se enfrentaran en una batalla sin retorno, donde cada decision puede inclinar la balanza hacia la luz o hacia el abismo.

Una fábula inolvidable sobre el tránsito a la madurez de la gran Ursula K. Le Guin.Huyendo de la monotonía de su vida, Hugh Rogers tropieza con un umbral secreto que lo conduce a Tembreabrezi, un mundo suspendido en un crepusculo eterno. Alli se encuentra con Irene Pannis, que desde la adolescencia ha hecho de ese lugar su refugio y lo considera suyo.Cuando una presencia oscura amenaza con destruir la calma de Tembreabrezi, ambos deberan emprender juntos una peligrosa mision. En el trayecto, el miedo y la desconfianza se transformaran en un vinculo inesperado que marcara su destino.Con El lugar del comienzo, Ursula K. Le Guin teje una fabula inolvidable sobre el transito a la madurez, donde lo real y lo fantastico convergen en el umbral de un destino incierto.

¿Y si alguien del futuro ya estuviera reescribiendo nuestro presente?William Gibson lleva décadas fijando su mirada en el futuro, desde que acuñó el término ciberespacio y lo popularizó en su novela especulativa clasica Neuromante a principios de los años 80.Ahora Gibson esta de vuelta con Agency, un thriller de ciencia ficcion fuertemente influido por los acontecimientos mas actuales.San Francisco, 2017. Clinton esta en la Casa Blanca, el Brexit nunca ocurrio y Verity Jane tiene un nuevo trabajo.Verity Jane, una talentosa "susurradora de aplicaciones", acepta trabajar como beta tester de un nuevo producto: un asistente digital, accesible a traves de unas gafas de aspecto ordinario. "Eunice", la IA de apariencia humana en las gafas, manifiesta un rostro, un pasado fragmentario y un astuto dominio de la estrategia de combate. Al darse cuenta de que sus enigmaticos empleadores aun no saben lo poderosa y valiosa que es Eunice, Verity decide que lo mejor es que no lo descubran.Mientras tanto, un siglo mas tarde, en Londres y en una linea temporal completamente distinta, Wilf Netherton trabaja entre plutocratas y saqueadores, supervivientes del lento pero inexorable apocalipsis conocido como el Jackpot. Su jefa, la enigmatica Ainsley Lowbeer, puede observar pasados alternativos e influir en sus resultados finales. Verity y Eunice son su proyecto actual. Wilf puede ver lo que Verity y Eunice no: su propia version del jackpot, a la vuelta de la esquina, y el papel que ambas podrian desempeñar en el.En un juego de poderes cruzados, entre cleptocracias, espias corporativos y algoritmos con libre albedrio, Agency explora los limites de lo humano, lo tecnologico y lo geopolitico con la lucidez implacable de William Gibson.Mas que ciencia ficcion: una lectura urgente sobre el poder, la historia y la posibilidad de elegir.

En el año dos mil…, el equilibrio entre humanos y androides se ha roto. Las mujeres gobiernan el planeta, los hombres son una especie en extinción. Los androides, perfectos, sensuales, programados p

Neal Stephenson, en medio del desierto y bajo la protección de mezcalito, habla con un escorpión que le ofrece un arma para los niños perdidos del futuro. SH00TER es la historia de esos niños perdido

A thrilling and cataclysmic collection of city-smashing titans and the desperate coalitions of humanity clinging to survival in the wreckage, from the New York Times-bestselling and multiple award-winning editors.Featuring bestselling and award-winning authors such as Tananarive Due, Christopher Golden, Seanan McGuire, Scott Sigler and Steve Alten, author of The Meg.An explosive collection of monster terror, featuring 25 original tales of creatures the size of skyscrapers. See cities shattered and worlds ended, as great beasts rise from the deep.Featuring work from: Steve Alten Linda D. Addison Kevin J. Anderson Maurice Broaddus Tananarive Due Luke Dumas Kane Gilmour Maxwell Gold Christopher Golden Henry Herz Jamal Hodge Ai Jiang Alma Katsu Tim Lebbon Jonathan Maberry Seanan McGuire Lee Murray Tobi Ogundiran Cynthia Pelayo Jeremy Robinson Michelle Sagara Scott Sigler Ben Spada Anne Walsh

An alternate 1970s science fiction romance blending first contact and queer counterculture in the Los Angeles disco scene, perfect for readers of Vajra Chandraseker and Victor Manibo.In 1977a world where America launched its space program shortly after WWIIMitch Ward is a grunt in the US Spaceguard. Stationed in a backwater base on the Moon, his only friends are Gloria, who performs "Lady Stardust" for fellow soldiers, and Flynn.Following a visit from an unseen, terrifying but also maybe euphoric being,they find themselves quickly discharged from the army, and sent back to earth. Moving to Los Angeles tochase their dreams, Mitch and Gloria scrape by, finding their joy at the discos in the city.But when Flynn crashes back into their lives, claiming to be the host for a traveler and emissary of a utopian civilization, he comes with an offer for Mitch to join him, ad claim power so that he, and his friends across the queer community, never have to live in the shadows or face oppression again.As the forces of prejudice and oppression seek to push their community back into hiding, keeping them out of sight and oppressed, its down to this community of disco-loving outcasts to stand up for what is beautiful and right.

From the acclaimed critic and award-winning author of Anno Dracula comes a bitingly satirical story of superheroism, soap opera and alternative reality -- for readers of Austin Grossmans Soon I Will Be Invincible and George R.R. Martins Wild Cards.When Chrissie Chambers (model actress whatever) discovers her soap opera character is about to be killed off, she finally stops dieting and discovers hitherto untapped supernatural abilities. Meanwhile, Chrissies aunt - former national heroine Lady Shade - goes missing. Afraid for Jasmines safety and itching to costume-up, Chrissie and her ghost-possessed best friend Loulee break into Devils Dyke, the asylum where Jasmine works as a therapist with the most dangerous cutthroats (supervillains) in Britain only to find the inmates have taken over Chrissie debuts successfully as a cloak (superheroine), but who will become the arch-nemesis of Lady Shade II?In Chrissies timeline, the Beatles didnt split up and recorded a hallucinodelic album in 1972 Never Mind (strictly, Never Mind the Beatles) which literally changed the world. Set in an alternative 2020s London, this hugely entertaining, darkly humorous superhero tale is packed with Newmans trademark wit, and comes with wickedly sharp edges.

In this twisty and action-packed adventure from the BSFA award-winning author of Descendant Machine and Futures Edge, a crew of bounty hunters find themselves ensnared in a conspiracy on the very fringes of the devastated solar system. Perfect for fans of James S. A. Corey and Adrian Tchaikovsky."On Earth, they depicted justice as blindfolded and impartial, but out here on the frontier, she was red in tooth and claw."Jupiter and Saturn are gone, and a mysterious force has built a huge habitable sphere from their ashes. When criminals try to lose themselves on this new frontier, bounty hunters like Copernicus Brown and the crew of his sentient ship Jitterbug get paid to hunt them down. But when Brown rescues Amber Roth, sole survivor of a pirate attack, the Jitterbug and her crew find themselves the target of powerful political factions who want control of the data chip hidden in Roths stomach.And all the while, something vast and ancient creeps towards them from the depths of space

Faixa etária: A partir de 12 anosTemas: ficção científica, ciência, ética, ficção científica vitoriana, literatura de língua inglesa, romance.Griffin, um cientista, descobre uma fórmula de invisibili

Echoes of the Veiled Stars - Book 3 The Comet and the CandleA Luminous Fairytale of Longing, Shadows, and ChoiceSeren Vale has lived her whole life in silenceuntil the night a comet passes so close to the earth that its light ignites a single candle in her window. The flame flickers with a voice she has never heard yet somehow remembers.Drawn into the comets shimmering tail, Seren must choose between reclaiming the voice she lost or saving the fragile creature that borrowed it.A story of sacrifice, quiet strength, and the strange, beautiful ways two lives can become one.

Salve os lanches, salve o universo! Os SpaceCowboys esto de volta e mais famintos do que nunca! Lilli, a rainha do caos com seu shake de zogfruta, e Mia, com sua pele morena e paixo por frutas estelares, lideram sua equipe colorida de alienigenas fofinhos e herois joaninhas em uma nova aventura. Junto com Zippel, o redemoinho de tentaculos com febre de manteiga de amendoim, Noel, o lorde carmesim das joaninhas, e o exercito travesso de crianças Nopales, Oat, Sprossa, Flocki, Sera, Kip e Mila , eles mergulham no Planeta Fofucho, onde nopales lisos e muffins de musgo crocantes esto ameaçados. O vil alquimista sangrento Varnok esta de volta com um novo plano: destruir os lanches galacticos com sua papa de leite de vaca venenosa! Seus robos envenenam arvores de zogfruta, capturam vacas sagradas e transformam fontes de leite de aveia em um caldo fetido. Mas os SpaceCowboys contra-atacam com biscoitos de zog como granadas, bombas carmesim e muito caos! Zippel mergulha na manteiga de amendoim, Flocki escorrega em nuvens de flocos, e a orelha espinhosa de Sprossa causa um pandemonio galactico. Enquanto Lilli e Noel fazem coraçes brilharem nas estrelas, eles lutam contra os robos de Varnok para salvar os fofuchos e os lanches. Sera que o caos deles salvara a galaxia ou tudo terminara em uma catastrofe pegajosa? SpaceCowboys Volume 2: O Chamado da Crono-Esfera e uma aventura de ficço cientifica selvagem e divertida, cheia de humor fisico, amizade e poder dos lanches, que transporta jovens leitores para um mundo de cores neon e geiseres galacticos!

O universo está à beira do Armagedom dos Lanches! Os SpaceCowboys embarcam em sua aventura mais selvagem para salvar o próprio tempo! Lilli, a rainha do caos com seu shake de zogfruta, e Mia, com sua