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First published in 1921, Karel Capek's ultra-prescient play R.U.R has become a classic of dystopian literature, giving us the word 'robot' and inspiring movies and TV series from Blade Runner to Westworld. Set in Capek's 1920s version of the future, this radio reimagining blends music, comedy and drama to tell the story of a world dominated by mechanisation and the pursuit of profit.

Hundert Jahre ist es jetzt her, dass Bender sich auf den Weg zu den Sternen gemacht hat. Seither haben Bob und die Klone nichts mehr von ihm gehört. Bob ist fest entschlossen, eine Expedition in den Deep Space zu organisieren, um herauszufinden, was mit Bender geschehen ist, doch er hat ein gewaltiges Problem: Inzwischen sind seine Klone in der 24. Generation. Manche von ihnen haben sich so verändert, dass sie gar nicht mehr er selbst zu sein scheinen. Sie haben ihre eigenen Pläne. Und so droht über Bobs Suchaktion ein Bürgerkrieg zwischen den Klonen auszubrechen.

It's a brave new Britain under the New Management. The Prime Minister is an eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which they can control, and some, not so much...

Inmitten des intersolaren Commonwealth schwärt ein riesiges schwarzes Loch. Langsam verschlingt es Stern um Stern. In seinem Inneren: ein fremdartiges Universum, wo die Gesetze der Physik Kopf stehen. Manche Menschen glauben, man könne in diesem Universum ein perfektes Leben führen, und brechen zu einer Pilgerfahrt auf. Andere Völker sehen in den Pilgern eine unberechenbare Gefahr, die zum Wachstum des schwarzen Loches führt. Sie wollen die Pilger aufhalten. Um jeden Preis.

Im Jahr 3580 lebt die Menschheit in über tausend Sonnensystemen. Eine mächtige Raumflotte beschützt sie vor jeder feindlichen Spezies. Selbst der Tod ist besiegt. Doch im Herzen der Galaxie liegt eine schwarze Welt. Und auf das, was von dort kommt, hat die Menschheit keine Antwort.

To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Docile is to forget, to disappear, to hide inside your body from the horrors of your service. To be a Docile is to sell yourself to pay your parents' debts and buy your children's future. Elisha Wilder’s family has been ruined by debt, handed down to them from previous generations. His mother never recovered from the Dociline she took during her term as a Docile, so when Elisha decides to try and erase the family’s debt himself, he swears he will never take the drug.

Das Ziel ist erreicht: Die Majestätische Dracht tritt in das System des Weißen Zwergs Wolf 489 ein – von den Grosnopfen ehrfürchtig Dreizack genannt. An Bord klammert sich das Allwissen an die Hoffnung, hier endlich Spuren der rätselhaften Erbauer zu finden und vielleicht sogar ein Heilmittel gegen die Seuche, die Adam, Ragnor und Dutzende weitere im Kälteschlaf gefangen hält. Doch die Realität ist trostlos.

Silas Voss hears everything. Every frequency. Every vibration. Every flaw in the world around him. So he built a room to escape it—a space of absolute silence known as True Zero. Then Clementine moves in next door. She restores antique clocks. Hundreds of them. Each one ticking, pulsing, alive. To Silas, it’s unbearable noise. To Clementine, it’s the sound of time itself. What begins as conflict becomes something neither of them expects—a connection built not through words, but through sound. Through shared frequencies. Through rhythm. Through the fragile space between silence and meaning.

A dark twisting Sci-Fi thriller, Terminus is the first instalment of The Book of Xaal series which is complementary to events depicted in the Summer Haven trilogy. A reporter chasing a secret organisation finds a planetary scale alien artefact in Earth's core. Faced with the afterlife being infected by soul eating aliens, would Kevin be prepared to risk the integrity of Earth's tectonic plates to engage them in battle? What is the Terminus, and what role does it play in the Astral Architects great plan?

The discovery does not arrive as a warning or a revelation. It arrives as math that refuses to fail. One month before anyone knows, a small group of scientists confirms what cannot be undone. An extinction level event is coming. Forty years remain. To survive it, humanity must leave the solar system at least six years before impact, escaping a lethal cone of effect that will erase everything left behind. There is no solution that saves everyone. There is barely time to plan at all. What follows is not a race to warn the world, but a decision to protect it from the truth.

In Howard's fascinating novel, "2084," we journey into a future where Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of human life. The story follows Dr. Maya Wong, a brilliant AI researcher, and Zane Abdullah, a charismatic politician, as they deal with the complex and often troubled relationship between humanity and its most powerful creation. The book opens with a world teetering on the brink of chaos. Global crises, political turmoil, and environmental disasters set the stage for AI's emergence as a potential savior.

Welcome to a journey through speculative fictions, where the possibilities of tomorrow are explored like never before. In a new collaborative approach, renowned experts, armed with their deep knowledge of justice, energy, digital money, longevity and learning, join forces with talented authors to weave narratives that transcend the future that you may currently believe is inevitable.

Trillionaire Igbal Renz has constructed a starship capable of making the twentyyear journey to Alpha Centauri. So why is he stopping at barely one-tenth that distance, with a cargo of a hundred frozen scientists and diplomats? Rumors abound that Renz Ventures, Inc., has made contact with … something.

The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem! Over 1 million copies of the Three-Body Problem series sold in North America PRAISE FOR THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM SERIES: “A mind-bending epic.”—The New York Times “War of the Worlds for the 21st century.”—The Wall Street...

70 million years ago in what will one day become Mongolia, a successor to Velociraptor faces struggle after struggle. Times have grown cold and her eggs need constant care, and constant guard. How does a wolf sized raptor survive in the shadows of giants? How does she adapt to changing climates or circumstance? And what happens when a threat from her own past finds her new home?

The story is about a recently retired corporate executive named Christophe Conally who inadvertently stumbles into a conspiracy to counterfeit and smuggle gold bullion by a sinister group called The Syndicate, who are intent on commandeering the global economy and seeking to fill the power vacuum left behind when central governments became irrelevant in the post-modern age. The story describes extremely complex construction projects; physicists, scientists, and engineers; farmers and vintners; diabolical international agents; pets and other friendly creatures.

Commander Scott McNabb and the crew of the science vessel, Hermes, are three years into a five-year-long survey of the asteroid belt when they discover a derelict spaceship in orbit around a binary asteroid. The ship contains an experimental quantum device, lost while en route to a research colony on Europa.

They started as rookies. They become something far more dangerous. Dec never asked to lead a squadron. But when Blue Pack proves themselves in the crucible of real combat, they rise fast — too fast — earning the attention of commanders, rivals, and eventually the entire squadron's trust.

They took her country. They killed everyone she knew. They are going to wish she hadn’t survived. It is a desperate time as the forces of the Pacific alliance are losing the war. Stacey Grant has Has seen her country burn. Escaping the invasion of Australia, the veteran Air Force pilot finds herself recruited by the Americans to help steal the prototype of the most advanced fighter craft in the solar system from the enemy.

Das Psi Corps - Staffel 1 Enthält: Psi Corps 2044: Prager Frühling. Psi Corps 2045: Der Whitsundays-Zwischenfall. Psi Corps 2046: Endstation Mars. Alle drei Heftromane der ersten Staffel des Psi Corps, zusammengefasst und überarbeitet vom Autor. Erlebt das dramatische Zusammentreffen von Mariella Seoke und den Truppen des Psi Corps, ihre halsbrecherischen Einsätze im asiatischen Raum und das dramatische Finale auf dem Mars! Staffel Eins ist in sich abgeschlossen, bereitet aber die Welt und ihre Helden auf zukünftige Abenteuer von noch größerer Tragweite vor.