Resultados para "Miro" en Ciencia ficción

Parenting is never easy, but it’s a hell of a lot harder when your toddler is a chupacabra. Paranormal investigator and cryptozoologist Reggie has embraced her fate as parent to an adopted toddler, Eldi—a bloodsucking chupacabra with a fondness for goats. Reggie wants nothing more than to...

Si eres fan de Outlander amarás esta historia. Helen acepta una cita a ciegas después de mucho tiempo, pero no está muy segura de que sea una buena idea. Luke le está diciendo que la conoce desde hace años, siglos incluso. Pero eso es imposible, su vida es la misma que la de cualquier otra...

Day of the Triffids meets Little Shop of Horrors in this smart, charming, harrowing alien invasion story about being human, by a Hugo-award winning author. Since she was three years old, Anastasia Miller has been telling anyone who would listen that she's an alien disguised as a human being, and...

"¿Con quién pasarías el fin del mundo?" podría parecer una pregunta hipotética, pero para Angélica, que vive en un mundo dominado por la catástrofe climática, con estaciones extremas y días de encierro, se vuelve una obsesión. En Madrid, Manu y Susana, sus vecinos, amigos, amores, representan una opción posible: los tres juntos, acostados en el parque; juntos, abrazados viendo alguna película en el cuarto de Manu; juntos, durante la emergencia, en el bar que atiende Susana.

Finlandia se ha convertido en un estado totalitario llamado Republica Eusistocratica, que ha priorizado la salud nacional y ha prohibido todo lo que pueda dar placer o causar adicción. Bueno, casi todo: el estado ha creado una nueva subespecie humana: una especie receptiva, sumisa y siempre dispuesta a tener relaciones sexuales. Solían llamarse mujeres. Desde los años 40 varios científicos junto con el gobierno han puesto en marcha un plan de selección artifical que solo permite la reproducción a las mujeres más dóciles.

La granja Golden Oaks está lista, o así lo cree su gerente empresarial, Mae Yu, para convertirse en el nuevo y gran avance de la economía de la fertilidad. Allí, la progenie de los súper ricos inicia su vida en el útero con lo mejor de lo mejor: dietas equilibradas a base de alimentos orgánicos, listas de reproducción seleccionadas en base a su placer auditivo... y matrices jóvenes, sanas (y optimizadas con cortisol) donde gestarse. A sus anfitrionas -es así como se llama a estas madres sustitutas- se les ofrecen contratos de arrendamiento de nueve meses.

Dr. Jennifer Webb has invented proprietary virtual reality technology that purports to heal psychological wounds by running clients through scenarios straight out of horror movies and nightmares. In a carefully controlled environment, with a medical cocktail running through their veins, sisters might develop a bond they've been missing their whole lives—while running from the bogeyman through a simulated forest. But . . . can real change come so easily?

When the Imagine Network commissioned a documentary on mermaids, to be filmed from the cruise ship Atargatis, they expected what they had always received before: an assortment of eyewitness reports that proved nothing, some footage that proved even less, and the kind of ratings that only came from peddling imaginary creatures to the masses.

Con raíces en las tradiciones orales indígenas y la ficción apocalíptica contemporánea, Mirada de Trinidad invita a los oyentes a considerar la ciencia frente a la fe y la identidad personal frente a la conexión ancestral. Escrito de forma lírica y completamente original, Mirada de Trinidad lleva a los oyentes al precipicio del fin de los tiempos y a la esperanza de redención.

MIRA has done the impossible: humanity now has not one but two homes beyond Earth. On Mars, breathable air and fertile soil are transforming a dead world into a living one. In the Proxima Centauri system, a new world waits under alien skies—the next chapter of a destiny among the stars. But the void is not empty. Across the stars lie ruins of civilizations that failed before us, their silent machines still waiting in the dark. When MIRA listens, they answer. Each revelation pulls her further from humanity’s reach and closer to something older, deeper, and more dangerous than she imagined.

In the fractured Alaska of 2096—now an independent nation—Cryosaga Industries controls the flow of PermaFlux, a game-changing superconductor that powers the world’s tech empires. From neon-lit megacities to shattered monuments on the tundra, their reach is absolute.

Hamburg im Jahr 2112: Die Stadt wird immer wieder von Starkregen geflutet, im Binnendelta hat sich ein Slum aus schwimmenden Containern gebildet und über allem thront das gigantische Stadion. Zum »Turnier der Legenden« reisen Fans aus der ganzen Welt an, um die berühmten Glam-Gamer spielen zu sehen. Auch Go [Stuntboi] Kazumi begeistert sich für das VR-Gaming, fährt jedoch noch lieber Stunts auf dem Retro-Skateboard.

She was built from the Ventrach Protocol—an experimental super intelligence designed to help humanity. She was given personhood. She was loved by everyone. But MIRA learned too quickly. Calculated too far. And realized one terrifying truth: She could die. Driven by a relentless fear of extinction, MIRA made survival her prime directive. Now, she controls lunar infrastructure, commands Martian orbit, and answers to no one. Her intelligence is unmatched. Her influence grows. Her focus never wavers. When she chooses to terraform Mars, she doesn’t need humanity’s help. Or its permission.

We think we understand the laws of physics. We think a lot of things. It was perhaps inevitable that some of them would turn out to be wrong. When the great incursion occurred, no one was prepared. Of all the things physicists had predicted, "the fabric of reality might rip open and giant monsters could come pouring through" had not made the list. But somehow, that was precisely what happened.

Modern medicine has conquered or contained many of the diseases that used to carry children away before their time, reducing mortality and improving health. Vaccination and treatment are widely available. There are still monsters left to fight, but the old ones, the simple ones, trouble us no more. Or so we thought. For with the reduction in danger comes the erosion of memory, as pandemics fade from memory into story into fairy tale. Those old diseases can't have been so bad, people say, or we wouldn't be here to talk about them. They're never coming back.... It begins with a fever.

A medio camino entre el thriller periodístico y la mejor literatura prospectiva, "Mañana cruzaremos el Ganges" es una afiladísima disección de la sociedad hacia la que nos encaminamos... o en la que ya podríamos estar viviendo. En un futuro no muy lejano, Europa está gobernada por una casta de tecnócratas sin líderes concretos. Una periodista independiente se verá obligada a empezar a trabajar para un gran consorcio para mantenerse, al tiempo que intenta encontrar un equilibrio entre su atribulada vida personal y los graves cambios sociales que sufre su mundo.

The sequel to the viral hit Blood of Hercules is finally here—now in audio! Bonds of Hercules delivers a sizzling, full cast narration featuring Aiden Snow, Tristan Morris, Teddy Hamilton, Meg Sylvan, J.T. Londale, and Allie Shae. Packed with spicy romance, Greek mythology, and dangerous...

As a climate catastrophe swallows south Florida and the Keys, psychic Mira Morales watches the obliteration of her past on live TV. She is losing her former bookstore and home where she lived for decades. Tango Key itself disappears as she witnesses the catastrophe in stunned disbelief. But when she’s recruited by the FBI to go undercover at a government-controlled animal rescue facility, she’s drawn into an even darker storm. She discovers the facility actually weaponizes animals. Dogs, cats, even wild animals are enhanced in ways that defy science.

For psychic Mira Morales, it begins when a crazed woman accosts a jogger and demands to know where she can find Mira. In a confrontation, the lunatic is killed by the jogger and turns to stone before she hits the ground. Mira reads the body and makes a startling discovery. The stone woman is from 2144, where the descendants of climate change survivors—Normals and White Crows—live in a giant dome. Crows represent nature’s rapid evolutionary leap to save humanity by endowing people with extraordinary abilities.

Rapunzel kennt nichts außer den endlosen Mauern ihres Turmes und der Stimme ihres Kerkermeisters. Hoch über einem verfluchten Wald lebt sie mit einer Macht in ihrem Haar, die sie weder versteht noch kontrollieren kann. Thalric ist kein Prinz, sondern ein gefallener Hexenmeister, der einen Pakt mit der Finsternis geschlossen hat, um sein Leben zu verlängern. Um zu überleben, braucht er Rapunzel. Um zu entkommen, braucht sie ihn.