Résultats pour "The Future" dans Science-fiction

The Future – as the richest people on the planet have discovered – is where the money is. The Future is a few billionaires leading the world to destruction while safeguarding their own survival with lavish bunkers. The Future is private weather, technological prophecy and highly deniable weapons. The Future is a handful of friends—the daughter of a cult leader, a non-binary hacker, an ousted Silicon Valley visionary, the concerned wife of a dangerous CEO, and an internet-famous survivalist—hatching a daring plan. It could be the greatest heist ever. Or the cataclysmic end of civilization.

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a “page-turning” (Los Angeles Times), “propulsive” (The Boston Globe), “thrilling” (BookPage, starred review) tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed...

From legendary science-fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Told entirely through fictional eye-witness accounts, The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, the story of how climate change will affect us all over the decades to come. Its setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us - and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face.

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR An unsettling masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will impact us all. “The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I’ve ever read.” —Jonathan Lethem, New York Times...

Bloomsbury presents The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon, read by Alana Kerr Collins. THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION, FULLY UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL A lavishly reimagined tenth anniversary edition of the first novel in the sensational Bone Season series, by the Sunday Times and New York...

La planète Terre est détruite, et les derniers humains sont entassés dans une arche spatiale pour une ultime mission de colonisation. Un milliardaire philanthrope a investit tout ce qui lui restait pour faire décoller une arche spatiale et sauver les dernières forces vives de l’humanité… Mais vu qu’il est bêtement mort dans son caisson de stase, comme la moitié de sa cargaison, tout ce qui reste c’est une intelligence plus ou moins artificielle, un ancien pêcheur de crevettes surgelées en Alaska, une capitaine de la " Confédération Populaire des Citoyens Responsables " et un scientifique dépressivo-suicidaire.

A thousand years in the future, human civilisation has been driven to the brink of extinction by the Killers, a mysterious alien race seemingly intent on exterminating every other form of sentient life. Desperately fleeing utter annihilation, a handful of starships use an experimental stardrive in a bid to escape, only to find themselves thrown back in time to the dawn of the First Interstellar War in 2308, where mankind is making its first stand against an alien foe.

‘A perfect balance of ingenious ideas and intricate execution. Real big picture Sci-fi' – Adrian Tchaikovsky The epic conclusion of the far-future Archimedes Engine duology by legendary author Peter F. Hamilton. For millennia, the Crown Dominion has been at relative peace, with the...

Dans un monde où la science flirte avec la magie, "L'Ève future" nous plonge dans une exploration fascinante des limites de l'innovation humaine. Le célèbre inventeur américain, M. Edison, surnommé le "Magicien du Siècle", se lance dans une entreprise audacieuse : créer une femme artificielle qui pourrait rivaliser avec la beauté et l'esprit de l'originale.

Against all odds, four friends have advanced the sciences, influenced world media, and created a world government. But the aliens are coming. Will it be enough? Can Nick, David, Cindy, and Jake save the Earth, or will they be wiped out with the rest of humanity? It will take a colony ship, battlecruisers, a mission to Mars, exosuits, and casinos on the moon. They have all looked toward the future since they were 16 years old.... But the future is now.

Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn brings his epic two-volume series The Hand of Thrawn to an explosive conclusion with a discovery that rocks the New Republic to its foundations--and threatens to resurrect the Empire. The Empire's master plan is under way. The New Republic is on the verge...

The 75th anniversary edition of The Martian Chronicles, a seminal work in Ray Bradbury’s career, whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time’s passage. Now in a new edition from S&S Audio! In The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, America’s preeminent storyteller...

‘Gloriously imaginative’ – SFX Magazine Explore EXODUS, a new sci-fi action-adventure, in this epic novel from legendary author Peter F. Hamilton. A fight for freedom among the stars . . . In a past age, humanity fled a dying Earth in massive ark ships. These searched the galaxy to find a...

Salvation is the first mesmerising space opera in the legendary Salvation Sequence, by Peter F. Hamilton. For fans of Iain M. Banks and James S. A. Corey. ‘A twisty and hugely satisfying SF thriller that opens a portal on a new and exciting series’ – Alastair Reynolds, author of Revelation...

In an alternate history of Detroit, the Motor City was never surrendered to the US. Its residents deal with pollution, poverty, and the legacy of racism—and strange and magical things are happening: children rule over their own kingdom in the trees and burned houses regenerate themselves. When Gloria arrives looking for answers and her missing granddaughters, at first she finds only a hungry mouse in the derelict home where her daughter was murdered. But the neighbours take pity on her and she turns to their resilience and impressive gardens for sustenance.

A New York Times Notable Book Louise Erdrich, the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round House, paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a...

After The Fall, it was the Metanationals, impossibly large, impossibly powerful corporations, who stepped into the vacuum left by a collapsing government. It’s their world now; we’re all just living in it. Two worlds, really: At the top, legions of “citizen employees” live and work in a...

In the futuristic city of Tabula Ra$a, Zoey Ashe is like a fish so far out of water that it has achieved orbit. After inheriting a criminal empire, the 23-year-old finds herself under threat from all sides as a rogue's gallery of larger-than-life enemies think they smell weakness. On the eve of the world's most ridiculous Halloween celebration, a steamer trunk-sized box arrives at Zoey's door, and she is shocked to find that it contains a disemboweled corpse. She's even more shocked when that corpse, controlled by an unknown party, rises and goes on a rampage through the house.

Ever wonder what would happened if someone was able to hack into the center of the world's technology and shut it down? Well, now you will know. The world as everyone knows it has been shut down. The military cannot operate without their equipment, which is all run by computers, cell phones are of no use, neither are laptop computers, or even the new automobiles of the day. Someone has completely wiped out our way of life, so what can be done?

A spellbinding novel set in the universe of Isaac Asimov’s classic Galactic Empire series and Foundation series Due to circumstances within our control . . . tomorrow will be canceled. The Eternals, the ruling class of the Future, had the power of life and death not only over every human being...