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Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship. Once a weapon of conquest controlling thousands of minds, now she has only a single body and serves the emperor. With a new ship and a troublesome crew, Breq is ordered to go to the only place in the galaxy she would agree to go: to Athoek Station to protect the family of a lieutenant she once knew—a lieutenant she murdered in cold blood.

Hugo Award winner Harry Turtledove is the master of alternate history. In American Front he envisions World War I as it may have been if fought on American soil. The United States and Germany clash with the Confederacy, France, and Britain as the machines of modern warfare litter the landscape with carnage. Meanwhile, oppressed southern blacks head toward a fateful confrontation.

First contact with a mysterious race of aliens reveals an unusual request; a family's pet dog comes to grips with the newly bestowed gift of human-like intelligence; a poet, in danger and alone on a distant world, makes unlikely allies; hundreds of years in the future, a famous hermit lives in the sea above the now-underwater Harvard University; former friends navigate unsteady peace between human refugees and the technologically superior race that saved them; in a future where human life can be infinitely extended through cybertronic rebirth, one woman declines immortality.

With The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3, award-winning editor Neil Clarke provides a year-in-review and 27 of the best stories published by both new and established authors in 2017.

Murderbot wasn’t programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right? Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the GrayCris Corporation, Murderbot is heading home to help Dr. Mensah—its former owner (protector? friend?)—submit evidence that could prevent GrayCris from destroying more colonists in its never-ending quest for profit. But who’s going to believe a SecUnit gone rogue? And what will become of it when it’s caught?

For decades, the spacefaring species of known space have battled over the largest artifact - and grandest prize - in the galaxy: the all-but-limitless resources and technology of the Ringworld. Now, without warning, the Ringworld has vanished, leaving behind three rival war fleets. If the fallen civilization of the Ringworld can no longer be despoiled of its secrets, the puppeteers will be forced to surrender theirs - everyone knows that they are cowards. But the crises converging upon the trillion puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds go far beyond even the onrushing armadas.

Book 3 of a science fiction thrill ride about a crew of young soldiers mustering the courage to fight back against both a vicious alien enemy, and the terrifying void of being stranded in space. It's perfect for fans of Daniel Gibbs, J.N. Chaney, and Vaughn Heppner!

Chiku Akinya, great granddaughter of the legendary space explorer Eunice and heir to the family empire, is just one among millions on a long one way journey towards a planet they hope to call their new home. For Chiku, the journey is a personal one, undertaken to ensure that the Akinya family achieves its destiny among the stars. The passengers travel in huge self-contained artificial worlds - holoships - putting their faith in a physics they barely understand.

Ha costruito un ponte tra le menti. Non avrebbe mai immaginato cosa avrebbe attraversato. Il dottor Elias Croft, brillante neuroscienziato della CerebraDyne, sospetta che ci sia qualcosa di pericolosamente sbagliato nella rivoluzionaria interfaccia cervello-macchina dell'azienda. Le sue indagini portano alla luce una verità terrificante: il BMI non si limita a connettere gli utenti, ma amplifica inavvertitamente le risonanze quantistiche latenti all'interno delle loro sinapsi, una teoria marginale che ora è diventata terrificante realtà. Questo effetto indesiderato è diventato una porta...

Il a construit un pont entre les esprits. Il n'aurait jamais imaginé ce qui allait le traverser. Le Dr Elias Croft, brillant neuroscientifique chez CerebraDyne, soupçonne que quelque chose ne tourne pas rond avec l'interface cerveau-machine révolutionnaire de son entreprise. Son enquête révèle une vérité terrifiante : l'interface ne se contente pas de connecter les utilisateurs, elle amplifie involontairement les résonances quantiques latentes dans leurs synapses, une théorie marginale qui est désormais devenue une réalité effrayante. Cet effet involontaire est devenu une porte...

Collegare la mente o risvegliarla? In un mondo prossimo futuro che abbraccia l'interfaccia cerebrale CognaLink di Neurodymium e la piattaforma Nexus gestita dall'intelligenza artificiale, l'umanità baratta la propria libertà d'azione in cambio di una perfezione ottimizzata. Milioni di persone si collegano, i loro pensieri vengono guidati, le loro emozioni appianate, le loro vite gestite da una potente e invisibile superintelligenza artificiale che mira alla stabilità sociale eliminando l'imprevedibile “rumore” umano. Ma la dottoressa Evelyn Reed sa che c'è di più. Un'esperienza di ...

La Marea Algoritmica Libro primo delle Cronache di Kaelian The Algorithmic Tide fonde la visione millenaria della Foundation con le questioni relative alla coscienza artificiale sollevate da Ghost in the Shell e la genialità crittografica di The Imitation Game. Alcuni segreti vengono custoditi per millenni. Alcune minacce si evolvono in pochi microsecondi. Ha camminato tra noi per cinquemila anni, un uomo di nome Kael, nato da una madre enigmatica e da un padre umano in un'epoca di cerchi di pietra e rituali dimenticati. La sua lunga vita lo ha reso un eterno outsider e uno storico senza ...

They went to bury the nightmare. They left nothing but stardust. Beneath the Nevada desert lies Eureka Base—a labyrinth of cages, laboratories, and horrors engineered by Kaigan hands and human collaborators. Ariel, Jenna, and Iris—warriors forged from blood, technology, and myth—are sent to do the impossible: infiltrate, dismantle, and erase it from existence. What they find is worse than any mission before. Prisoners drained of life, hybrid monstrosities stitched from alien alloy and human flesh, and an old enemy returned from the Abyss—Elizabeth Bathory, the Bloody Countess ...

La Marée Algorithmique fusionne la vision millénaire de la Foundation avec les questions sur la conscience artificielle soulevées par Ghost in the Shell et le génie cryptographique de The Imitation Game. Certains secrets sont gardés pendant des millénaires. Certaines menaces évoluent en quelques microsecondes. Il vit parmi nous depuis cinq mille ans, un homme nommé Kael, né d'une mère énigmatique et d'un père humain à une époque de cercles de pierres et de rituels oubliés. Sa longue vie lui a valu d'être à la fois un éternel étranger et un historien hors pair. Il dirige ...

This is a science fiction novel set in todays time. The novel promotes women as intelligent and capable of almost anything that a man can do and sometimes better. Most of the women in this novel are elevated into a team of women saving the world in the next novel, "Ancient Destiny - Escape from Earth". Craig is the captain, but more of a figurehead while the women are the experts on his team. It is something that could be happening now, but it could be the end of Earth in a few years or months. We know that Earth has been impacted by intersteller objects that either caused major changes to ...

This book might be about women's lib or is it polygamy? Women need to play the main role in space travel and especially colonization. This SF series presents many issues to ponder and suggests some inventions needed for space travel. The series starts in todays world and through forced invention gets mankind into space colonization to save the human race. Most of the science presented is in some stage of development now. If you want to travel for months in space and then create a colony on an empty planet, you need more women than men. On a spaceship, or in a scientific laboratory, women ...

This volume starts where volume III left off. They go on to meet the Galactic Empire finding them far different than human intelligences. When the asteroid impacted Earth twenty years ago, the colony ships had already left for new planets and no life was expected to survive, but a few people did survive. Part of this book is the story of those survivors. The novel then skips ahead to when the SHIP finds their little Earth civilization again and contacts those survivors. The changes to Earth are documented. Leaving Earth again they discover traces of the Martians/Atlanteans that left Earth ...

This book might be about women's lib or is it polygamy? Women need to play the main role in space travel and especially colonization. This SF series presents many issues to ponder and suggests some inventions needed for space travel. The series starts in todays world and through forced invention gets mankind into space colonization to save the human race. Most of the science presented is in some stage of development now. If you want to travel for months in space and then create a colony on an empty planet, you need more women than men. On a spaceship, or in a scientific laboratory, women ...

When gods are born from data, who decides humanity's fate? The Atlas Meridian combines the civilizational depth of Liu Cixin's The Three Body Problem, the sweeping scope of Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, and the consciousness-expanding vision of Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End. The Cartographers have recovered treasures beyond imagination—scrolls from Alexandria's lost library, a working analog computer crafted by Archimedes himself. But their greatest discovery lies buried in the Sahara's heart: an alien Alchemical Engine that transforms consciousness itself. Kael emerges renewed, ...

Branchez votre esprit, ou réveillez-le ? Dans un monde proche de notre présent, où l'interface cérébrale CognaLink de Neurodymium et la plateforme Nexus gérée par une IA ont été adoptées, l'humanité a troqué son libre arbitre contre une perfection optimisée. Des millions de personnes se connectent, leurs pensées guidées, leurs émotions apaisées, leurs vies gérées par une superintelligence artificielle puissante et invisible qui vise à stabiliser la société en éliminant le « bruit » imprévisible des humains. Mais le Dr Evelyn Reed sait qu'il y a plus. Une ...