Resultados para "Spin" en Aventura

Anno 3959. La Terra non è mai stata tanto ricca e rigogliosa. Nello scenario mozzafiato di una società verde e solare, l'umanità allargata prospera grazie al lavoro degli animali, con spettacolari arbopoli senzienti che svettano fronzute, prendendosi cura di chi le abita. La maestria dei bioarchitetti nel generare casealbero dalle forme e dai colori strabilianti non ha limiti. Ellie, però, è nata nel buio di una colonia spaziale. Vuole vedere la Terra e sbarca da clandestina, ma la gioia dura poco, perché qualcuno vuole ucciderla.

Lise Adams is a young woman attempting to uncover the mystery of her father's disappearance ten years earlier. Turk Findley is an ex-sailor and sometimes-drifter. They come together when an infall of cometary dust seeds the planet with tiny remnant Hypothetical machines. Soon, this seemingly hospitable world will become very alien indeed--as the nature of time is once again twisted, by entities unknown.

Duplicity is Mike’s first nature. If you want to know what he’s doing with his life, just ask, but don’t expect the truth. You may not even be getting his real name. Such duplicity is the reason a so-called "acting job" at a suspiciously sparse agency LLJF becomes the perfect solution to Mike’s college drop-out blues. During a time when he is just finding out who he really is, Mike adopts the new identity of "Malachi", and it fits like a glove.

A brilliantly imagined literary debut of love, despair, and two people’s search for belonging in a world literally spinning out of control. The acceleration of Earth’s spin begins gradually. At first, days are just a few seconds shorter than normal. Awareness of the mysterious phenomenon...