THE THRILLING CONCLUSION TO THE SIM WAR SERIESTheres new hope for resolution of the decades-long war against the Sims: the discovery of Omega, a mysterious planet far from the fighting.
We are closer to the Sims than we think For decades, mankind has been locked in a war with an alien enemy that resembles the human race so closely they are known as the Sims.
Evolution is no longer just a theory - and nature is more of a bitch goddess than a kindly mother - in this tense science thriller from the author of the Nebula Award-winning Darwin's RadioStella Nova is one of the 'virus children', a generation of genetically enhanced babies born a dozen years before to mothers infected with the SHEVA virus.
When the prosperity dominates civilization, the disaster of the plague appears without mercy, the faces of those with crimson are stained and deprived of life in a short time.
Mientras el país vive la inestabilidad política y social a causa de la revolución, en una ciudad donde no llega la guerra, dos familias, adversarias políticamente, se transmiten el poder y viven, sin el beneplácito de los padres, el enlace de sus hijos.
'Wherever Emery Robin goes from here, I'm going to follow' Veronica Roth, #1 New York Times bestselling authorFrom one of the most original voices in science fiction comes the spectacular sequel to the epic, interstellar love story that began in The Stars Undying.
Originally published in 1865, "e;From the Earth to the Moon"e; tells the story of the members of an American gun club and their plan to build a gigantic sky-facing gun with the intention of sending three people to the moon.
As the mighty spaceship Skylark roamed the intergalactic spaceways, scientist Richard Seaton and his companions found a world of disembodied intelligences.
'There is no poetry or romance in war, it is brutal and ugly and terrifying and it turns men into animals - shrieking, screaming and running while destroying all in their path.
This collection by Lucius Shepard, one of the most exciting new writers to emerge in the 1980s, includes the eponymous story Barnacle Bill the Spacer , about an attempted mutiny on a space station, which won the Hugo Award, as well as Sports in America , about a man who finds out just how far he is willing to go when he is hired by a local crime boss to kill a man.
Drei Schwestern Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - Seit elf Jahren leben Irina, Mascha, Olga Prosorow und ihr Bruder Andrej in der Provinzstadt / Gouvernementsstadt fern von Moskau, woher sie stammen und wohin sie wieder zurück möchten.
Als in arktischen Gewässern ein russisches Spionageschiff offenbar in Seenot gerät, werden Captain John Banks und sein Trupp ausgesandt, um den Vorfall zu untersuchen.
Sie sind Elitesoldaten der ganz besonderen Art, denn sie stehen allein im Dienste Gottes:DIE RITTER DES VATIKANTerroristen entwenden aus einem streng geheimen Forschungslabor in Texas einen tödlichen Kampfstoff.
"Machincuepa", nos lo dice la RAE, proviene del nahua mayotzincuepa, "rodar como calabaza", aunque su acepción actual refiera a dar volteretas; y es que justamente esa es una manera de describir esta narrativa.
