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La prima raccolta di racconti di Future Fiction: Cosa succede a una casa dotata d'intelligenza artificiale quando perde l'inquilino di cui è innamorata? Qual è la coppia perfetta in una versione tecnologicamente avanzata del gioco del corteggiamento? Quanti segreti si nascondono nella villa di Aethra dove si creano "soggetti d'arte" al cui interno è intrappolata una copia senziente della padrona di casa?

Un uomo si risveglia da una difficilissima operazione chirurgica incapace di riconoscere la realtà che lo circonda. Ben presto si renderà conto che un misterioso assassino gli sta dando la caccia lasciando dietro di sé una scia di cadaveri. Chi era Joaquin Hernandez prima di perdere la memoria? La chiave per comprendere questo mistero si trova dentro il suo cervello, sepolta in un passato atroce da ricordare.

La storia si svolge in un mondo futuristico in cui tutti gli esseri umani sono liberi di fare, pensare e dire quello che vogliono con l'unico limite di non offendere ed aggredire il prossimo. Confidando nella voglia di ciascun essere umano di prosperare in pace e progredire, l'Umanità tutta ha raggiunto una nuova età dell'oro come mai prima di allora.

A crescent moon set against a jeweled field of stars gracefully slid into view. The thin arc of its crater-filled landscape drew Jack’s mind in. His eyes followed the long, inky shadows cast by jagged crater walls as they cut sharply into the pockmarked ashen terrain. Deeper within the jet-black lunar night-side were the lonely peaks of a smattering of mountain tops, catching a few last rays of sunlight. All Jack felt was a desire to escape; to be down there exploring...perhaps uncovering some new detail in the history of Earth’s nearest neighbor.

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As winter ebbs away, the true horror emerges. Shaun, reunited with Abbie, struggles with he emotional roller coaster of searching for Lydia. Each day they don’t find her is another day she could be further away.

Max and Liz have escaped the mysterious time phenomenon by traveling to the Mars colony, which promises a whole new, exciting, and secure life. But they've left behind someone important to them. Should they embark on a journey from which no one has ever returned? And why does everyone seem to put obstacles in their way even as they try? The physicist and the mathematician must contend with forces that cannot be swayed by logical arguments while time, at an accelerating pace, is running out for their friend on Earth.

Nergal e Damkina vivono in un kibbutz e per fuggire da lì, organizzano un imbroglio vendendo puntaspilli trovati su una nave affondata. Ma i molluschi hanno capacità speciali e porteranno ai protagonisti anche molti guai e scelte difficili.

Immigrazione climatica e terraformazione si uniscono in questa storia solarpunk di Francesco Verso per restituire un po' di speranza connessa alla costruzione di un mondo migliore e più equo di quello attuale.

Una storia toccante e delicata, narrata dal punto di vista di una bambina cinese, il cui nonno, aiutato da un androide, ritroverà un posto nella società.

Un adolescente bullizzato a scuola troverà il modo di difendersi grazie al nonno che "tornerà" in maniera futuribile per stargli accanto durante un periodo molto difficile della loro vita.

Anche quando l'umanità, a causa dei cambiamenti climatici, si è rifugiata a vivere nella stratosfera dentro capsule orbitali che inibiscono qualunque rapporto umano, le persone troveranno il modo di rientrare in contatto con la parte più sensibile e poetica di noi stessi.

Matthew, they thought, was just going through a phase of talking to himself. And, like many parents, they waited for him to get over it, but it started to get worse. Mathew's conversations with himself grew more and more intense—it was like listening to one end of a telephone conversation while someone argued, cajoled and reasoned with another person you couldn't hear. Then Matthew started doing things he couldn't do before, like counting in binary-code mathematics. So he told them about Chocky—the person who lived in his head.

It is 2056. Mathematics professor Elisabeth Gabai is fascinated by multi-dimensional forms that have no equivalent in reality. Then, her boss sends her to the site of an artifact that might have come straight from her theories—or from the technology of an advanced civilization. Twenty-eight years earlier, physicist Max Webber is hell-bent on improving Einstein’s theories of relativity. His latest concept seems flawless, except it predicts the end of humanity. The extinction of Earth can only be prevented if Max can locate a multi-dimensional object.

Felix Navataar è un DJ sospeso tra la fama dei fan e una vita da disadattato. Mona Satoshi è una giornalista per un social network globale. Quando strane offerte e personaggi famosi iniziano a comparire nelle loro vite, la realtà a cui sono abituati è destinata a cambiare per trasformarsi in un’avventura intorno al mondo interconnesso del futuro prossimo. In un crescendo di scoperte scioccanti sull’industria alimentare e il potenziamento umano, Felix e Mona dovranno prendere coscienza della loro diversità e decidere cosa farsene, per se stessi e per l’umanità.

Nova is a lonely planet. It has been on its way to the Andromeda galaxy for ages. And yet, it is inhabited by people who have never known anything other than the caves beneath the surface that protect them from the vacuum and cosmic radiation. A surprising encounter changes everything. The planet gets visitors who seem to have their own agenda, and are so alien that communication seems futile. But they, too, have unexpected existential problems.

Comet Anduru skimmed the clouds of Saturn. Rather than being drawn into the gas giant, it skipped back out into space. With the comet heading for Jupiter, speculation is mounting it’s an alien spacecraft making its way to Earth. Lieutenant Colonel Nolan Landis and Dr. Kath McKenzie are caught between an angry public and an anxious President as they grapple with the scientific, social, and political implications of first contact.

In the aftermath of the destruction, Shaun finds himself trapped by the winter. With little other choice, he joins a group of survivors doing the best they can. His idea of "best" isn’t always shared by the group, though. But before the weather breaks, when he wants to resume his journey, they all face conflict. Miles away, doing the best that she can, Abbie is adapting to life without power; her own situation is far from ideal. After the sound of the falling bombs fade, as the dark world they live in tries to recover, they have to find a way to adapt to their new reality.

A planet in the endless emptiness of space, far from the warmth of any sun. And yet there are people who populate its vast caverns, living, working and loving. Since time immemorial, they have been on course for Andromeda, the neighboring galaxy of the Milky Way. This is the prophecy of the ancients, the one goal that unites them all, their cult. But then the unthinkable happens: the journey stops because the planet enters the orbit of a mysterious object that can't be seen in any telescope.

Colton Beck has a new lease on life. Their alliance is confident they can find their enemy in the Alruna system, and it’s all hands on deck. After the revelation of his origins from the mysterious woman on Dicore, Colton is at odds with where his loyalties stand. The truth behind Indie Hart’s dedication to the Angor is revealed, making Colton doubt her motives as well as the Angor’s. When Earth is threatened, it’ll take a lot more than one man to save the planet. All pieces come together for a cataclysmic resolution, but who can Colton truly trust?