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¿Cómo influirán los robots en la vida de la humanidad? ¿Qué papel desempeñarán en un futuro más o menos lejano…
estos extraños mecanismos creados por el hombre casi a su imagen y semejanza? Isaac Asimov nos brinda aquí unas narraciones que, sin lugar a dudas, moverán a reflexión. Las historias aparecen espléndidamente ilustradas por Ralph McQuarrie, diseñador de numerosas películas de ciencia ficción. Los lectores han dicho:«Siempre he sido fan de Asimov y este libro es simplemente genial.» «Con Isaac Asimov siempre nos encontraremos en la cima de la Ciencia ficción literaria. Increíble.»
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Science fiction
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La «Trilogía de la Fundación» está considerada la mejor serie de la ciencia ficción universal. Como tal, fue galardonada en…
1966 con un premio Hugo, y ahora reunida en un único volumen: una lectura imprescindible para los amantes del género. El hombre se ha dispersado por toda la galaxia. La capital del Imperio es Trántor, nido de intrigas y corrupción. Gracias a su ciencia, fundada en el estudio matemático de los hechos históricos y el comportamiento de las masas, el psicohistoriador Hari Seldon prevé la caída del Imperio y el retorno a la barbarie durante varios milenios. A fin de reducir este período de barbarie a mil años, Seldon decide crear una Fundación en un extremo de la galaxia. El poderío de la Fundación alcanza límites insospechados, su dominio se sostiene en la energía, la religión y el comercio. Sin embargo, la aparición del Mulo, un individuo dotado de poderes paranormales, desafía todas las previsiones. Conquistando planeta tras planeta, le gana terreno a la Fundación de manera vertiginosa. La salvación de la galaxia queda en manos de una Segunda Fundación totalmente secreta y cuyo emplazamiento es desconocido incluso para los dirigentes de la Primera. Reseña:«Cualquier aportación a la interminable controversia sobre el futuro debería mostrarse agradecida, en primer lugar, a Isaac Asimov.»The New Yorker
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They took the body of Park Lacoch and stripped away his mind, transferring the mind of a top Confederacy operator…
to his brain. Then they stuck him aboard a spaceship and exiled him to Charon, one of the Worlds of the Warden Diamond, from which no man could return. A mysterious organism on those worlds infected everything, making life away from them impossible afterward. Charon was a hell world in literal fact. It wass too near its sun, making life all but unbearable in its hot steamy atmosphere.Strange beasts roamed its jungles--and stranger still, the group known as the Witchcraft plotted with the Lord in exile to take over the planed. There Witchcraft was real--for on Charon, magic worked. The Warden organism could be made to perform almost any feat under the control of a skilled witch or sorcerer--as Park Lancoch discovered when he was transformed into a changeling--a half beast, half man, with the beast rapidly gaining ascendancy. After that his assignment really became difficult...
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Science fiction
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The Leaky Establishment is an atomic farce whose author David Langford once worked in the gentle radioactive glow of Britain's…
nuclear weapons industry, and hilariously satirizes its ghastly bureaucracy from the inside. Black comedy overtakes the unfortunate defence-scientist hero Roy Tappen when a "harmless" theft of office furniture lands him with his very own doomsday nuclear stockpile at home. Chain reactions of insanely comic escapades follow, with disaster piled on disaster, leading the increasingly desperate Tappen to the borders of science fiction as he seeks a way out of the mess. With an introduction by Terry Pratchett.
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Fantasy, Science fiction
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Should you find yourself in need of a discreet investigation into any sort of mystery, call on Jesperson and Lane…
. . . 'Arthur Conan Doyle would have approved,' says George R.R. MartinMiss Lane is puzzled by Jasper Jesperson's interest in what seems a very minor theft -possibly even a prank - from the storerooms at the British Museum. But London in the 1890s is rife with secret organisations, cults and individuals eager to acquire some of the legendary magic of ancient Egypt. The deeper the two detectives dig, the more hidden crimes they uncover, and the higher the death toll mounts. And at the centre of it all is the 'Mystery Mummy' recently acquired by the museum. 'Tuttle does a lovely job of putting us back in the foggy streets of Victorian London' George R.R. Martin, author of The Game of ThronesAre the deaths and madness truly caused by a mummy's curse? Or is there a scheming, living villain to be apprehended? 'A most engaging detective duo' Mark Douglas Home, author of The Sea Detective and The Woman Who Walked Into The SeaJesperson and Lane, with their experience of past investigations involving psychic phenomena and supernatural events as well as ordinary human criminality, are surely best placed to find the truth.Jesperson and Lane, at your service.
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Adventure stories, Animal stories, Family stories, Humourous fiction, Science fiction
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Get ready for a hilarious out-of-this-world adventure for readers aged 8+ – this is the perfect new series for fans…
of Tom Gates, Andy Griffiths and Star Wars! Illustrated throughout by the brilliantly funny Katie Abey. *PRE-ORDER NOW!* It&’s the year 2525, and things aren&’t looking great for Planet Earth. An endless night is coming – a super-advanced alien spaceship has stopped the world from turning, threatening the existence of every creature on the planet – and it turns out that ten-year-old Eliza Lemon is the only one who can save them! Will she be able to handle alien overlords, a doughnut-shaped spaceship, monkeys and vampire finches? And, most importantly of all, will she be able to rescue her baby brother, save the world and survive THE FUTURE?For more out-of-this-world fun don't forget to read about Eliza and Johnnie's first two adventures in How to Survive Without Grown-Ups and How to Survive Time Travel. Out now!
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Science fiction, Suspense and thrillers
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A blockbuster new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child, centered on a dominant tech company—Chrysalis—whose groundbreaking…
virtual reality technology is redefining the way we live . . . and possibly introducing a catastrophic danger to the world.Like millions of people around the world, Jeremy Logan (famed enigmalogist, or investigator of unexplained things) has grown to rely on his incredible new tech device. Made by Chrysalis, the global multibillion dollar tech company, the small optical device connects people in a stunning new way, tapping into virtual reality for the first time on a wide scale. And yet, when Logan is summoned by Chrysalis to investigate a disturbing anomaly in the massive new product rollout, Logan is shocked to see the true scope of the massive company. He also quickly realizes that something in Chrysalis&’s technology is very wrong, and could be potentially devastating. The question is what, and where, is the danger coming from? In Lincoln Child&’s wildly inventive new novel, high tech comes to life alongside the myriad dangers it poses, making for one of Child&’s most infectious, entertaining thrillers to date.
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Science fiction
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From the touching sadness of a robot sometimes lost, sometimes found, sometimes just doing its job digging into the depths…
of the planet, to the disjointedness of society when the world is almost but not quite overrun by nano-machines, to two lives, in different ways, overtaken by contemplation of the requirements imposed by its environment, on lunar architecture. Several of the stories in this book are related to each other, others are not. Here is Highly detailed and imaginative Science fiction reflecting the author's view of a future where romance, ecological stability, survival and scientific study are hard won, if ever, on earth and beyond.
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Multi-cultural fiction, Science fiction
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Lucinda Roy continues the Dreambird Chronicles, her explosive first foray into speculative fiction, with Flying the Coop, the thought-provoking sequel…
to The Freedom RaceDreams are promises your imagination makes to itself.In the disunited states, no person of color—especially not a girl whose body reimagines flight—is safe. A quest for Freedom has brought former Muleseed Jellybean “Ji-ji” Silapu to D.C., aka Dream City, the site of monuments and memorials—where, long ago, the most famous Dreamer of all time marched for the same cause.As Ji-ji struggles to come to terms with her shocking metamorphosis and her friends, Tiro and Afarra, battle formidable ghosts of their own, the former U.S. capital decides whose dreams it wants to invest in and whose dreams it will defer. The journeys the three friends take to liberate themselves and others will not simply defy the status quo, they will challenge the nature of reality itself.Book Two of the Dreambird ChroniclesThe Dreambird ChroniclesThe Freedom RaceFlying the CoopAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Science fiction, Suspense and thrillers
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New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues is a grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken…
you to how the world really works.Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. He lives and roams California in a very comfortable fully-furnished touring bus, The Unsalted Hash, that he bought years ago from a fading rock star. He knows his way around good food and fine drink. He likes intelligent women, and they like him back often enough.Martin is a—contain your excitement—self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He knows computer hardware and software alike, including the ins and outs of high-end databases and the kinds of spreadsheets that are designed to conceal rather than reveal. He’s as comfortable with social media as people a quarter his age, and he’s a world-level expert on the kind of international money-laundering and shell-company chicanery used by Fortune 500 companies, mid-divorce billionaires, and international drug gangs alike. He also knows the Valley like the back of his hand, all the secret histories of charismatic company founders and Sand Hill Road VCs. Because he was there at all the beginnings. He’s not famous, except to the people who matter. He’s made some pretty powerful people happy in his time, and he’s been paid pretty well. It’s been a good life.Now he’s been roped into a job that’s more dangerous than anything he’s ever agreed to before—and it will take every ounce of his skill to get out alive.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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General fiction, Science fiction, Fantasy
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This haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment.…
Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community.<P><P> Lois Lowry has written three companion novels to <i>The Giver</i>, including <i>Gathering Blue</i>, <i>Messenger</i>, and <i>Son</i>. <P> Newbery Medal Winner<P> Winner of Pacific Northwest Library Association’s Young Reader’s Choice Senior Award
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Adventure stories, Animal stories, Science fiction
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<P>The sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot, by award-winning author Peter Brown Shipwrecked on a remote,…
wild island, Robot Roz learned from the unwelcoming animal inhabitants and adapted to her surroundings--but can she survive the challenges of the civilized world and find her way home to Brightbill and the island? <P>From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed sequel to his New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot, about what happens when nature and technology collide. <P><b>A New York Times Bestseller</b>
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Fantasy, Science fiction, Short stories
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As a young mathematician, Jim Eckert was transported to a parallel medieval world where he found he had the ability…
to transform himself into a large but none-too-bright dragon named Gorbash. Jim Eckert's daring exploits have earned him a title - Baron de Bois de Malencontri et Riveroak - and he has settled down to a peaceful life as a feudal lord, with his beloved Angela at his side. But a new peril endangers his enchanted realm - as the King of the Gnarlies teams up with the Earl of Cumberland, Jim's longtime rival, to kidnap his adopted son, Robert. Soon Sir Jim must assume the shape of the Dragon Knight once again to rescue little Robert, and finds himself entrenched in a magical battle royal - one he'll have to fight harder than ever to survive!
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Serious and literary fiction, Science fiction
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Karen Lord's debut novel, the multiple-award-winning Redemption in Indigo, announced the appearance of a major new talent--a strong, brilliantly innovative…
voice fusing Caribbean storytelling traditions and speculative fiction with subversive wit and incisive intellect. Compared by critics to such heavyweights as Nalo Hopkinson, China Miéville, and Ursula K. Le Guin, Lord does indeed belong in such select company--yet, like them, she boldly blazes her own trail. Now Lord returns with a second novel that exceeds the promise of her first. The Best of All Possible Worlds is a stunning science fiction epic that is also a beautifully wrought, deeply moving love story. A proud and reserved alien society finds its homeland destroyed in an unprovoked act of aggression, and the survivors have no choice but to reach out to the indigenous humanoids of their adopted world, to whom they are distantly related. They wish to preserve their cherished way of life but come to discover that in order to preserve their culture, they may have to change it forever. Now a man and a woman from these two clashing societies must work together to save this vanishing race--and end up uncovering ancient mysteries with far-reaching ramifications. As their mission hangs in the balance, this unlikely team--one cool and cerebral, the other fiery and impulsive--just may find in each other their own destinies . . . and a force that transcends all. "This fascinating and thoughtful science fiction novel breaks out of the typical conflict-centered narrative paradigm to examine adaptation, social change, and human relationships. I've not read anything quite like it, which makes it that rare beast: a true original."--Kate Elliott, author of the Crown of Stars series and the Spiritwalker TrilogyFrom the Hardcover edition.
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Serious and literary fiction, Science fiction
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Karen Lord is one of today's most brilliant young talents. Her science fiction, like that of predecessors Ursula K. Le…
Guin and China Miéville, combines star-spanning plots, deeply felt characters, and incisive social commentary. With The Galaxy Game, Lord presents a gripping adventure that showcases her dazzling imagination as never before. On the verge of adulthood, Rafi attends the Lyceum, a school for the psionically gifted. Rafi possesses mental abilities that might benefit people . . . or control them. Some wish to help Rafi wield his powers responsibly; others see him as a threat to be contained. Rafi's only freedom at the Lyceum is Wallrunning: a game of speed and agility played on vast vertical surfaces riddled with variable gravity fields. Serendipity and Ntenman are also students at the Lyceum, but unlike Rafi they come from communities where such abilities are valued. Serendipity finds the Lyceum as much a prison as a school, and she yearns for a meaningful life beyond its gates. Ntenman, with his quick tongue, quicker mind, and a willingness to bend if not break the rules, has no problem fitting in. But he too has his reasons for wanting to escape. Now the three friends are about to experience a moment of violent change as seething tensions between rival star-faring civilizations come to a head. For Serendipity, it will challenge her ideas of community and self. For Ntenman, it will open new opportunities and new dangers. And for Rafi, given a chance to train with some of the best Wallrunners in the galaxy, it will lead to the discovery that there is more to Wallrunning than he ever suspected . . . and more to himself than he ever dreamed.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Science fiction
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An alien navigator, captured in battle on Jupiter&’s fourth moon, Europa, seeks sanctuary. In return, the alien will provide his advanced…
technology to help defend mankind from the alien force that enslaved him and has come to destroy us.In this backdrop is a story of love and reconciliation between a young Marine officer—placed in command of Earth&’s forces—his estranged wife, and Amy...the daughter he&’s never met.
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Adventure stories, Science fiction
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The Wild Robot meets Sweet Tooth in the first book in a sweeping adventure series packed with robots, smugglers, battles,…
and a lonely boy trying to find where he fits in the world.Eleven-year-old Noah has grown up in a mysterious house that grows larger every night with only his mother and a robot-boy for company. He spends his days building robotic devices for the city of Liberty, a place he&’s not even allowed to visit—not since his father almost destroyed it when Noah was only a baby.When Noah discovers a message hidden in one of his father's inventions, he decides to run away to find him. He&’s sure that at his father&’s side he&’ll finally get the recognition he deserves. With the help of a band of smugglers (especially unofficial second in command, young Winona), he sails to Singe to rescue his father, who he&’s certain is as misunderstood as he is, but the man he finds there is even more of a monster than his mechanical creations. And when Noah returns home, he accidentally leads his father&’s robot army to Liberty once more. Now, it&’s up to Noah to rescue the city—but to do so, he&’ll have to make a terrible choice.
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Movie and television tie-ins, Science fiction
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A gripping story of sibling loyalty in the last days of medieval Japan. The first novel in a trilogy from…
the iconic Assassin&’s Creed universe.Japan, 1868. The Boshin War is about to begin.The Templars have infiltrated the Emperor&’s closest advisors and pushed the sovereign to launch an attack against the Shogun Tokugawa, who draws secret support from the Brotherhood of Assassins. Violence soon escalates, threatening the end of centuries of peace--and with it, the end of the glorious era of the samurai. Sixteen-year-old Atsuko grew up in the city of Aizu under the shadow of her older brother, Ibuka. Though destined for an arranged marriage, she stokes a secret passion for combat and can wield weaponry just as well as her brother, whose renowned skill with the blade conceals a mortal fear of battle. When war breaks out, duty calls Ibuka to the front lines alongside his father, and defying ancient tradition that forbids women from fighting, Atsuko joins the war effort in disguise. However, Atsuko soon becomes entangled in political machinations that reach far beyond her and must fight to prove her skills and protect her family--armed only with her blade, her courage, and the strength of her sibling bond. But will it be enough?
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Multi-cultural fiction, Science fiction
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A girl matches wits with a war god in this kaleidoscopic, thought-provoking tale of oppression and the cost of peace,…
where stories hide within other stories, and narrative has the power to heal -- or to burn everything in its path -- from World Fantasy Award–winning author Alaya Dawn Johnson.A girl and a god, alone in communion ...In the winding underground tunnels of the Library, the great peacekeeper of the three systems, a heinous secret lies buried -- and Freida is the only one who can uncover it. As the daughter of a Library god, Freida has spent her whole life exploring the Library's ever-changing tunnels and communing with the gods. Her unparalleled access makes her unique -- and dangerous.When Freida meets Joshua, a Tierran boy desperate to save his people, and Nergüi, a Disciple from a persecuted religious minority, Freida is compelled to help them. But in order to do so, she will have to venture deeper into the Library than she has ever known. There she will discover the atrocities of the past, the truth of her origins, and the impossibility of her future.With the world at the brink of war, Freida embarks on a journey to fulfill her destiny, one that pits her against an ancient war god. Her mission is straightforward: Destroy the god before he can rain hellfire upon thousands of innocent lives -- if he doesn't destroy her first.
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Science fiction
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A routine rescue mission leaves a team of US soldiers, rescued hostages and a prisoner trapped above Earth in a…
suborbital craft, in this cinematic action-packed near-future thriller, perfect for fans of Tom Clancy and Jack Carr.Lieutenant Art Burkett is called up to take part in a rescue mission. Three scientists have been kidnapped by the terrorist group Thieves in Law. The rescue is swift. Art and his team return to military craft SubOrbital 7, intending to return to safety with hostages rescued and prisoners in tow. But Thieves in Law are not the only people looking for them. Art and his team must fight an ever-growing threat before time runs out for them, and possibly for the rest of the world.