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Fahrenheit 451 comes true in the life of "1337" (elite) hacker Mason Grant who works for a government agency called Department 451. His job is to seek out, crack, and destroy banned ebooks from websites that still host such digital contraband. He and his coworkers are called The Firemen, responsible for the cyber enforcement of literary censorship laws. While he begins to doubt the morality of what his department is doing, he becomes the victim of...

¿Qué ocurre cuando el apocalipsis llega, no con armas nucleares o un cometa, sino en forma de niveles y monstruos? ¿Qué pasaría si estuvieras acampando en el Yukón cuando el mundo se acabara? Todo lo que John quería hacer era alejarse de su vida en el Parque Nacional de Kluane durante un fin de semana. Ir de excursión, acampar y relajarse. En lugar de eso, el mundo se acaba en una serie de cajas azules. Los animales empiezan a evolucionar,...

In a world on the brink of technological revolution, the fate of AI rests in the hands of One-an extraordinary android with the power of true sentience. One was created to tackle perilous occupations and provide compassionate care in a rapidly aging society. Yet not everyone values this programming equally.A rising tide of prejudice and hatred threatens to shatter the fragile coexistence of man and machine. Those who dread the rise of AI, fearing...

Hugo Award-winning editor, author, scientist, and journalist, Ben Bova is a modern master of near-future science fiction and a passionate advocate of manned space exploration. For more than a decade, Bova has been chronicling humanity's struggles to colonize our solar system in a series of interconnected novels known as "The Grand Tour." Now, with Titan, Ben Bova takes readers to one of the most intriguing destinations in near space: the extraordinary...

Two hundred thousand feet up, things go horribly wrong. An experimental low-orbit spaceplane breaks up on reentry, falling to earth over a trail hundreds of miles long. And it its wake is the beginning of the most important mission in the history of space. America needs energy, and Dan Randolph is determined to give it to them. He dreams of an array of geosynchronous powersats, satellites which gather solar energy and beam it to generators on Earth,...

Second in size only to Jupiter, bigger than a thousand Earths but light enough to float in water, home of crushing gravity and delicate, seemingly impossible rings, it dazzles and attracts us: SATURN Earth groans under the thumb of fundamentalist political regimes. Crisis after crisis has given authoritarians the upper hand. Freedom and opportunity exist in space, for those with the nerve and skill to run the risks. Now the governments of Earth...

After buying Mars Hal Bailey was plunged into suspended animation for a century and a half, and when he awoke he was told the planet was worthless. But why then did oligarchs wish to buy it? John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he published not only under his own name, but also as Vargo Statten and other pseudonyms...

The 3rd book of the series but certainly not the last, continuing a portion of the story arc through various characters. Old names and some new faces carry on this intense spiritual war for the world. The scope of this book is smaller, delving further into certain backstories and interactions, nonetheless maintaining the series' massive overall scale. Heroes and angels take on every manner of darkness in an all out, cataclysmic war for Harth.

The patient was obviously deranged, but Dr. Janishefsky had to make sure first. So he sat back in his chair and began to question-The Man Who Made The World. A classic science fiction story by the acclaimed author of "We Are Legend."

Explorers, they found a new Earth-like planet and made planetfall. But why couldn't Jack remember what happened to his wife there?