Résultats pour "1" dans Exploration spatiale

Aucun être humain n’étant jamais sorti du système solaire, la "conquête spatiale" est restée une hyperbole. Mais la découverte d’une vie extraterrestre, même embryonnaire, continue de faire rêver. C’est ainsi qu’au crépuscule de l’humanité sur Terre, des vaisseaux sont envoyés vers Ganymède et Europe, deux lunes de Jupiter dotées d’un océan interne où l’on espère trouver de la vie.

L'umanità ha colonizzato l'intero sistema solare, spingendosi fino all'orbita di Nettuno grazie alla scoperta di un avveniristico motore a fusione. Jim Holden presta servizio sulla Canterbury, un cargo che trasporta ghiaccio attraverso gli infiniti spazi tra gli anelli di Saturno e la Fascia, l'arcipelago di asteroidi che si estende tra Marte e Giove. Incaricato di ispezionare il relitto di una nave spaziale, la Scopuli, sopravvivrà alla distruzione della Canterbury in seguito a un proditorio attacco nemico.

Warning! Wildlife may be dangerous. Proceed beyond this point at your own risk. Book 1 – Alien Safari: To solve a mystery with galaxy-shaking implications, Detective Ferrix Vaughn joins a wildlife safari on Hesperidia, an alien world of savage beauty. It’s supposed to be a protected planet, but evidence of a deadly breach poses troubling questions. What links a crashed ship, five murders, and precious stolen biotech? Jan, the ranger who accompanies Vaughn, warns of something even deadlier: an apex predator that roams the remote region they’re about to enter. This is its killing season.

A refugee returns to her home planet in search of a missing ship that holds the key to saving humanity. As her planet's star dies, Asala Sikou doesn't have much hope for the future of civilization. She's already survived disaster once and is pretty sure she won't make it a second time. But when...

An electric blend of sci-if and horror, Paradise-1 begins a terrifying new trilogy of exploration and survival in deep space from Arthur C. Clarke Award-nominated author David Wellington. "A superior space thriller that never flags....Readers will be on the edge of their seats." —Publishers...

Bob kann es nicht fassen. Eben hat er noch seine Software-Firma verkauft und einen Vertrag über das Einfrieren seines Körpers nach seinem Tod unterschrieben, da ist es auch schon vorbei mit ihm. Er wird beim Überqueren der Straße überfahren. Hundert Jahre später wacht Bob wieder auf, allerdings nicht als Mensch, sondern als Künstliche Intelligenz, die noch dazu Staatseigentum ist. Prompt bekommt er auch gleich seinen ersten Auftrag: Er soll neue bewohnbare Planeten finden. Versagt er, wird er abgeschaltet. Für Bob beginnt ein grandioses Abenteuer zwischen den Sternen - und ein gnadenloser Wettlauf gegen die Zeit.

Earth is dying. Jace Riven has five years to live. He only needs two to save humanity. In a future where Earth is scorched and civilization lives underground, solo harvesters risk their lives mining hostile alien worlds for vital resources. But when Jace, a terminally ill nobody, volunteers for the mission, no one expects him to last a week. Armed with a basic suit, a weak rifle, and a ticking clock in his DNA, Jace must survive savage alien wildlife, deadly terrain, and other harvesters, all while unlocking mysterious tech upgrades and outsmarting an evolving enemy.

Four brothers, in their fifties, go looking for a treasure in space, with the mob hot on their trail.

Sullo sfondo dello scacchiere galattico, dopo una partita durata secoli, gli uomini di potere si apprestano a compiere le mosse decisive. Non hanno calcolato che alcune pedine potrebbero però agire in maniera diversa da come desiderano. E rivoltarglisi contro... Rickard Hill è un uomo tormentato dal suo passato più di quanto vorrebbe. Disperso in un deserto di ghiaccio sul pianeta Rizor 4, entra in contatto con uno strano e semisconosciuto popolo che lo conduce alla consapevolezza del suo enorme e inesplorato potenziale.

Slabscape: Reset is the first novel in the Slabscape series by S.Spencer Baker. Take the most sophisticated A.I. designed mind that has ever existed, encase it in over fifty million cubic kilometres of diamond nano-rods and send it off on a twenty-thousand-year odyssey towards the centre of the...

Colin McFarlane, Neve McIntosh and Dan Starkey read these three full-length novels featuring the Twelfth Doctor and Clara, as played on TV by Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman. In The Blood Cell, by James Goss, a secure prison in space receives its latest inmate: the most dangerous criminal in the...

Colton Beck has six months to live. He works for the Angor near Los Angeles, aware that any day could be his last. The Angor arrived 20 years ago, resolved to help mankind survive, but not everyone believes their motives are honorable. When the Angor offer humanity a colony world, Colton is determined to see another planet before his final breath. He’s been diagnosed with Xeno, a rare disorder that surfaced with the Angor’s arrival, but he won’t let this stop him.

On the far edge of the Steele Empire, law and order doesn’t come with backup. It comes with a badge, a ship, and a Frontier Ranger willing to fly into trouble. Cole Butler is one of the best. A seasoned Ranger with a reputation for doing the job alone, he’s spent years keeping peace in the dangerous systems beyond the Empire’s reach. But when the Ranger Corps assigns him a new partner, his solitary way of doing the job comes to an abrupt end.

Lucas Ramsay, a visionary scientist, believed his groundbreaking reactor would unlock the secrets of deep space and propel humanity into a new era of exploration. Little did he know that his anti-gravity device would unleash a cataclysmic wave of destruction, engulfing the planet in chaos and devastation. But the true terror awaits beyond the stars.

Everyone wants the Star of Erebus. Space-pirate Nyx Marcus is no exception. With it, she can prove to her father that she is worthy of his legacy. But she’s come up empty-handed aboard the space-ship Thanatos and now Malcam, her father’s first officer, is mutinying. As Nyx flees with a loyal skeleton crew, she discovers that the planet-killing weapon, named after one of the seven gods, is more than what it seems. Erebus isn’t a simple weapon. It’s an ancient AI and a technological god.

When a massive sentient warship crash-lands in Long Island Sound, Doug and a group of college students stumble across the wreck while working on an oyster restoration project. What they find inside is stranger than fiction: an advanced, self-repairing vessel with a damaged AI suffering from a logic cascade—and an oddly sarcastic personality.

A spaceship crash survivor, Addie Rye is lucky to be alive. But being stuck on a primitive planet isn’t exactly the epitome of luck. With no way home, Addie has no choice but learn how to use stone tools and catch her dinner before cooking it, all while attempting to befriend a tribe of wild nomads who inhabit this planet.

The artifact we found on Vesta changed everything. Sure, we were able to patent the new technologies we managed to reverse engineer, and make a hefty sum. But we could never have anticipated where these discoveries would eventually lead. The board of directors still wants to see what we come back with, but those of us on the ship know that there's something far more significant than Hegemony credits out here. And we have to do it right by humanity.

Psychic empath and space pirate Evan Cormier is obsessed with decoding an ominous premonition about his future. When a fellow crewman angered a spirit, the vengeful Zhang An took her wrath out on everyone in the vicinity. Evan happened to be one of them. He’s now facing a future in which he’ll be forever alone.

Discovered in a sealed vault aboard a derelict station drifting at the edge of known space, Mimmi appears to be a child—but he is anything but. Part alien, part something far older, he’s a forgotten remnant of Unity: a once-galactic collective of minds that fractured when Mimmi chose individuality over obedience.