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1) Kräftorna
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Elsa, Zelal, Malin, Sara, Nadia, Julia och Linda har tagit över kontrollen i Håga by. De börjar hitta någon slags vardag och funderar över hur de ska lyckas bygga upp samhället igen. Alla måste dra sitt strå till stacken. Samtidigt nås de av av oroväckande nyheter från omvärlden. I pandemin, som drabbade planeten för ett år sedan, dog nästan alla människor. Ändå uppdagas det nu att en hel by har gått under i något som liknar det...
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Lost Sci-Fi Books 396 thru 400 - Four Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60s and one from 1926
• Master of the Asteroid by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Coming of the Ice by G. Peyton Wertenbaker
• Lancelot Biggs Cooks a Pirate by Nelson S. Bond
• The Father Thing by Philip K. Dick
• Momentum by Charles Dye
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Herbert George Wells est un écrivain britannique considéré comme le père de la science-fiction contemporaine. Cette nouvelle est issue d'un recueil d'histoires qui nous embarquent dans la quatrième dimension fantastique. L'Étoile, le passage d'une étoile sème comme un vent de panique. Dans l'abîme, une descente au fond de l'océan dans une sphère à la découverte d'êtres fantastiques. L'œuf de cristal, dans un magasin d'antiquités, se...
4) Jove Awakens
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JUPITER RISING – THE CELESTIAL CHRONICLES
Book 1 of 6 Jove Awakens
This story is summarized as follows:
Humanity thrives across Mars, Venus, and the Moon, but a cosmic shift begins as Jupiter stirs. Dr. Minerva Voss, an astrophysicist, detects unprecedented changes: Jupiter's Great Red Spot condenses into a golden vortex, signalling the awakening of Jove, an ancient celestial entity. Jove, the spirit of Jupiter, emerges as a titan of light,...
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The Shunned House by H. P. Lovecraft - A man and his uncle set out to scientifically investigate a crumbling home steeped in centuries of death and decay. But as night falls, they confront a grotesque, unseen horror feeding on the living-a parasitic evil that may be older than the house itself.
The Shunned House was penned by H.P. Lovecraft in October 1924 but remained in the shadows until it was published 13 years later, just seven months after...
6) Across Time
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"Across Time" by David Grinnell is a gripping voyage beyond the bounds of space - and deep into the fault lines of the human heart.
Perched high in a mountain watchtower, Carl Halleck and his wife, Sylvia, are testing a cutting-edge radar system when they spot something impossible: blips on the screen-Unidentified Flying Objects-closing in fast. They send an urgent warning to Carl's brother, Captain Zachary Halleck, stationed below. The message is...
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The Shadow and the Flash by Jack London - Can the moving out of line of even the smallest atom of the Inscrutable pattern of the Universe, bring down the whole great edifice in instantaneous, crashing holocaust?
John Griffith Chaney, famously known as Jack London, was born in 1876. He was among the first American writers to achieve international fame and financial success through his work. At the age of 21, in 1897, London embarked on a journey...
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The Unnamable by H. P. Lovecraft - Two men debate the limits of human understanding while sitting atop an ancient, haunted burial ground-only to be confronted by a terror that defies all form and logic. What lurks beyond language and reason may not just exist… it may be waiting.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was known for pioneering cosmic horror-a genre emphasizing the insignificance of humanity in an indifferent universe. Born in Providence, Rhode...
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La Tierra, 2018. Un año después de que nuestros héroes acabaran con los Crono-Cazadores, todo parecía haber vuelto a la normalidad o, al menos, a medias: Billy y Jessel permanecen desaparecidos desde el incidente del Continuum. Por su parte, James, Mary y un renovado Louis se han convertido en la punta de lanza del proyecto científico más ambicioso de la humanidad: el proyecto Hyperion, cuyo principal objetivo es crear una puerta dimensional...
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L'Homme invisible est un roman de science-fiction de H. G. Wells. L'histoire : après quinze ans de recherches ruineuses, le chercheur Griffin invente une formule scientifique permettant de devenir invisible. Ayant réussi une expérience sur le chat de sa voisine, le savant décide d'expérimenter la formule sur lui-même, notamment pour fuir ses créanciers, avant de déclencher un incendie visant à effacer ses traces. Griffin supporte difficilement...
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Lancelot Biggs Cooks a Pirate by Nelson S. Bond - "Cooking," explained Biggs, "is simply a matter of chemistry." But he didn't expect that he'd have to prove that statement!
The whole trouble started with Slops. Slops wasn't a bad cook, you understand. He just wasn't a cook at all, rightly speaking. He had what you might call a "tapioca complex." It was tapioca for breakfast, tapioca for lunch, tapioca for dinner. Every day. Boiled tapioca, stewed...
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L'Île du docteur Moreau est un roman de science-fiction écrit par H. G. Wells. Unique survivant d'un naufrage, Edward Prendick est secouru par Montgomery et son équipe, passagers d'un navire faisant route vers une île tropicale avec une cargaison d'animaux. Montgomery est l'assistant du docteur Moreau, un scientifique obsédé par la vivisection et la transfusion sanguine. Prendick découvre avec effroi que, depuis dix ans, les deux hommes se...
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Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.Hace diez años que el imperio Orestes conquistó el Sistema Aurora tras una sangrienta campaña militar. Los siete hermanos gobiernan ahora el destino de la humanidad. Las voces contrarias han sido silenciadas; los disconformes asesinados. Ya no queda nadie capaz de hacer frente al poder del imperio.La paz de los Orestes, fundada a sangre y fuego, les permite gobernar sobre los quince planetas del sistema.Por...
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Inspired by my nostalgia for my childhood, this story follows the protagonist as she returns to the place she grew up and finds herself pulled into three of her childhood memories as a ghostly observer. My childhood is very specific, so it's probably less relevant, but I hope the feelings of nostalgia and loss resonate.
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Segunda entrega de la apabullante saga de space opera Piscis de Zhintra. En ella, su autor, Victor Conde, nos vuelve a sumergir en una vertiginosa espiral de aventuras espaciales, ejércitos alienígenas, piratas interestelares, acción y aventura a raudales en un entorno que nada tiene que envidiar a otras sagas galácticas.
16) Der marker
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Die Fortsetzung des spannenden Weltraum Thrillers stellt die Crew der Aquarius vor neue Herausforderungen, eine Bedrohung des gesamten Sonnensystems und vielleicht noch viel mehr.
Nach der Entdeckung eines riesigen, außerirdischen Kubus - dem Marker - konnte die Aquarius Crew den Ursprung des Uranus Leuchten identifizieren, doch stellen sich ihnen nun mehr Fragen als vorher. Zu welchem Zweck existiert dieses Objekt und wer hat es erbaut?
Nachdem...
17) The Crystal Man
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The Crystal Man by Edward Page Mitchell - Before H.G. Wells imagined the Invisible Man, Edward Page Mitchell made him vanish. Discover the original tale of unseen horror and scientific wonder-The Crystal Man.
Edward Page Mitchell (1852–1927) was a pioneering yet often overlooked figure in early science fiction. A journalist, editor, and short story writer, Mitchell worked for The New York Sun, where many of his speculative tales first appeared...
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Space-Wolf by Ray Cummings - The lure of precious zolonite drew Morgan to barren Titan-to find a weird beast-empire ruled by a cold-eyed Earth-girl queen.
Solo Morgan laid his small portable spectroscope on the rock and sat down beside it to rest. He was panting, breathless from the climb up to these precipitous heights, even though the gravity here on Titan was less than that of Earth. It was night. The pallid little Sun had swiftly set behind a...
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✨UNA NOVELA SOBRE EL IMPACTO DE LA IA Y LA ROBÓTICA EN LA SOCIEDAD✨
Europa se ha convertido en el campo de batalla entre la innovación tecnológica y el miedo al cambio.
🤖La inteligencia artificial avanza sin freno, dividiendo a la sociedad entre visionarios que la abrazan y radicales que la consideran una amenaza para la humanidad.
Enzo Pujol, un ferviente defensor de la IA, ve su vida dar un giro aterrador cuando es secuestrado por un...
20) Belägringen
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Tredje världskrigets atomvapen har förvandlat världen till en dystopi och det en gång stolta Amerika till en militärdiktatur. Diktatorn, Samuel II styr över stora delar av landet med en järnhand. Hans mål är att hela världen ska underkastas hans despotiska styre. Men den separatistiska kolonin Familjen och dess Krigare vägrar låta sig kuvas, trots att Samuel II's styrkor är överlägsna. Deras sista chans till räddning blir att knyta...