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Sumérgete en el uno de los eventos más importantes del universo Warhammer 40K en una novela única e imprescindible.Cadia se lame las heridas tras la Decimotercera Cruzada Negra. Las fuerzas herejes se baten en retirada en todos los frentes. Hoy han prevalecido. Pero Lord Castellan Creed no puede descansar tranquilo. Algo le dice que el asalto no ha sido mas que el preludio de algo mayor, de algo mas definitivo. Y no se equivoca.De los confines del Ojo del Terror emerge Abaddon, el Saqueador, a la cabeza de una hueste de guerra sin parangon desde los funestos dias de la Herejia de Horus, y en posesion de la fortaleza negra Voluntad Eterna, un mastodonte arcano capaz de destruir planetas enteros.Ante la inminencia del apocalipsis que se avecina, Creed debe reunir a los campeones disfuncionales de Cadia y convertirlos en un baluarte capaz de resistir la furia de Abaddon. Entretanto, en la orbita, el Saqueador descubre que su propia alianza se encuentra al borde del precipicioUna historia de proporciones epicas narrada desde las mesas de alto mando hasta las matanzas en los campos de pilones, protagonizada por un enorme elenco de personajes, desde semidioses autoproclamados hasta soldados rasos del Imperio: esta es la historia de la mayor conquista de Abaddon.Esta es la ultima batalla de Cadia.

Una novela de Project Itoh, una de las voces más originales de la ciencia ficción japonesa.En un futuro distópico, la humanidad ha alcanzado una utopía gracias a la nanotecnología médica y a una ética de bienestar social y consideracion mutua. Sin embargo, esta aparente perfeccion esconde un control totalitario. La historia sigue a Tuan Kirie, una agente de la Organizacion Mundial de la Salud, que investiga una serie de suicidios en masa que desafian el sistema.La trama alterna entre el presente y el pasado de Tuan, revelando su adolescencia problematica y su amistad con Miach Mihie, una chica carismatica que se opone al regimen. Miach convence a Tuan y a otra amiga, Cian, para intentar suicidarse como acto de rebelion. Aunque Tuan sobrevive, Miach muere, dejando una profunda marca en su vida.A medida que Tuan investiga, descubre que Miach esta viva y que ha estado orquestando los suicidios en masa como parte de un plan para liberar a la humanidad del control opresivo del sistema. Miach cree que la verdadera libertad solo puede alcanzarse destruyendo la utopia impuesta. Finalmente, Tuan se enfrenta a un dilema moral: seguir las ordenes de sus superiores o unirse a Miach en su lucha contra el sistema. La historia culmina en un enfrentamiento que pone a prueba las creencias y lealtades de Tuan, cuestionando si la utopia vale el precio de la libertad individual.La novela explora temas como la libertad, el control y la naturaleza de la felicidad en una sociedad aparentemente perfecta.

Neal Stephenson, en medio del desierto y bajo la protección de mezcalito, habla con un escorpión que le ofrece un arma para los niños perdidos del futuro. SH00TER es la historia de esos niños perdido

Riveting and highly inventive Chinese-inspired science-fantasy of a royal family torn apart, painful betrayal and deadly secrets. Set on a drowning continent full of corruption and deception and strange technology this is richly envisioned and powerfulOn Pio, the floating empire of lotuses, Xlian discovers the royal advisors ploy to overthrow her brother, Yun, the emperor, in the same way they had murdered their parents, by creating a deadly flood that will make Yuns death seem as though an accident. She flees to the drowning continent of Opera, a place of high tech and near environmental collapse where companies vie to sell a chance at immortality. There Xlian seeks out her exiled brother Lang to help in her efforts to disrupt the advisors plans and remove them from court.Also residing on Opera is the outcast, No Face. Abandoned by the empire of Pio, they plot to destroy those who tore their family apart. When Xlian is caught and imprisoned and No Face discovers the shocking truth about their past, the two must work together to stop the advisors and unify their two lands or lose everyone they love to flood and revolution.

A propulsive and thrilling chase through the multiverse as a washed-up writer joins an elite crew of scouts on a mission to stop terrorists destroying entire realities.Perfect for fans of character-driven multiverse adventures such as The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson, and The Long Earth series by Terry Pratchett and Stephen BaxterTim begins to slide into parallel worlds every three days, at first dismissing the surreal but subtle changes around him as stress until he first wakes up with a family he never had, and then three days later wakes up on an abandoned planet.He soon meets Fred, a traumatised Ryder who travels between worlds to protect Luminariesa lineage of women critical to humanitys future. Theyre joined by Zhue, a warrior sent back from 5,000 years in the future, whose transition from male to female reflects her own complex inner journey to stop the murder of Luminaries on World #20, a crisis that will ultimately erase that world from existence.Believing the culprit to be John Cho, the man responsible for the destruction of Freds crew, the trio pursue him across worlds and eras, having been tasked by Union Arcade, the organisation overseeing Ryder missions.Despite their efforts, they become the hunted and grow desperate, until Tim realises Cho isnt their true enemy; instead, he has been tracking, and often saving them, to catch the real killerFreds former best friend and a high-ranking operative within Union Arcade itself. Forced to ally with Cho, they finally confront and stop the real killer.

A thrilling and cataclysmic collection of city-smashing titans and the desperate coalitions of humanity clinging to survival in the wreckage, from the New York Times-bestselling and multiple award-winning editors.Featuring bestselling and award-winning authors such as Tananarive Due, Christopher Golden, Seanan McGuire, Scott Sigler and Steve Alten, author of The Meg.An explosive collection of monster terror, featuring 25 original tales of creatures the size of skyscrapers. See cities shattered and worlds ended, as great beasts rise from the deep.Featuring work from: Steve Alten Linda D. Addison Kevin J. Anderson Maurice Broaddus Tananarive Due Luke Dumas Kane Gilmour Maxwell Gold Christopher Golden Henry Herz Jamal Hodge Ai Jiang Alma Katsu Tim Lebbon Jonathan Maberry Seanan McGuire Lee Murray Tobi Ogundiran Cynthia Pelayo Jeremy Robinson Michelle Sagara Scott Sigler Ben Spada Anne Walsh

On May Day, 2018, sixty meteors entered Earths atmosphere and exploded around the globe with a force greater than a nuclear blast. Earthquakes and tsunamis followed. Then China attacked Europe, Asia, and the United States in the belief the disaster was an act of war.Washington D.C. was obliterated. And the countrys leadership class was decimated. That left the surviving elements of the armed forces to try and impose order on chaos.As refugees across America engage in open warfare with the military over scarce resources, a select group of individuals representing the surviving corporate structure decides to remake the country based on free market principles. They call their creation "The New Confederacy."With no orders from higher up, Army Captain "Mac" Macintyre and her company of Strykers head east to find the supplies they need, and if things go well, reach Arizona. The place where they hope to find refuge.

The Second Civil War continues to rage as Union president Samuel T. Sloan battles to keep America whole and, more than that, to restore the country to its former greatness."Wanted Dead or Alive." Following a fateful battle between Union Army major Robin "Mac" Macintyre and her sister, the New Confederacy places a price on Macs head, and bounty hunters are on her trail.But theres work to be done, and Mac is determined to help Sloan reunify the country by freeing hundreds of Union POWs from appalling conditions in Mexico and capturing a strategic oil reserve that lies deep inside Confederate territory. And as the two of them work together their relationship starts to evolve.However, to truly have peace it will be necessary to capture or kill the New Confederacys leadership, and that includes Macs father, General Bo Macintyre.

As people fight to survive the aftereffects of more than a dozen meteor strikes, a group of wealthy individuals conspires to rebuild the United States as a corporate entity called the New Confederacy, where the bottom line is law. As a second civil war rages, with families fighting against families on opposite sides, Union president Samuel T. Sloan battles to keep the country whole.To help in the fight for unity, Union Army captain Robin "Mac" Macintyre and her company of Stryker vehicles are sent after the ruthless "warlord of warlords," an exGreen Beret who rules a large swath of the West. But defeating him will be even more difficult than she thought. The warlord is receiving military assistance from Macs sisterand rivalConfederate major Victoria Macintyre. And when the siblings clash in the war-torn streets of New Orleans, only one of them will walk away.

The exhilarating and riotously entertaining science fiction romance blending queer counterculture, joy as resistance, and banging disco hits, perfect for readers of Kaliane Bradley, Vajra Chandraseker and Victor Manibo.In 1977 - a world in which America launched its space program shortly after WWII - Mitch Ward followed Flynn, the lost love of his youth, into the US Spaceguard. Now, hes stuck on a backwater moon base with his only friend, Gloria, watching every shuttle in the hope Flynn will be on it.After an inexplicable encounter with a strange, euphoric being, Mitch and Gloria find themselves dishonourably discharged, and stuck in a USA rapidly sliding into fascism with no plans and no future. Theres nothing for it but to move to Los Angeles to chase their dreams, and find their people in the discos of the city.But when Flynn crashes back into their lives, claiming to be the host for an emissary of a utopian civilization approaching Earth, he offers Mitch the power to protect himself and friends across the queer community, so they never have to live in the shadows or face oppression again.With the world on the brink of cataclysm, and Mitch and his friends being squeezed out of every space, its down to this community of disco-loving outcasts to stand up for what is beautiful and right.

From the acclaimed critic and award-winning author of Anno Dracula comes a bitingly satirical story of superheroism, soap opera and alternative reality -- for readers of Austin Grossmans Soon I Will Be Invincible and George R.R. Martins Wild Cards.When Chrissie Chambers (model actress whatever) discovers her soap opera character is about to be killed off, she finally stops dieting and discovers hitherto untapped supernatural abilities. Meanwhile, Chrissies aunt - former national heroine Lady Shade - goes missing. Afraid for Jasmines safety and itching to costume-up, Chrissie and her ghost-possessed best friend Loulee break into Devils Dyke, the asylum where Jasmine works as a therapist with the most dangerous cutthroats (supervillains) in Britain only to find the inmates have taken over Chrissie debuts successfully as a cloak (superheroine), but who will become the arch-nemesis of Lady Shade II?In Chrissies timeline, the Beatles didnt split up and recorded a hallucinodelic album in 1972 Never Mind (strictly, Never Mind the Beatles) which literally changed the world. Set in an alternative 2020s London, this hugely entertaining, darkly humorous superhero tale is packed with Newmans trademark wit, and comes with wickedly sharp edges.

One hundred thousand years ago. In the wake of the apparent self-destruction of the alien Forerunner empire, two humansChakas and Riserare like flotsam washed up on very strange shores indeed. Captured by the Forerunner known as the Master Builder and then misplaced during a furious battle in space, Chakas and Riser now find themselves on an inverted world, where horizons rise into the sky and humans of all kinds are trapped in a perilous cycle of horror and neglect. They have become both research animals and strategic pawns in a cosmic game whose madness knows no enda game of ancient vengeance between the powers who seeded the galaxy with life, and the Forerunners who expect to inherit their sacred Mantle of Responsibility to all living things.In the company of a young girl and an old man, Chakas begins an epic journey across a lost and damaged Halo ringworld in search of a way home, an explanation for the warrior spirits rising up within, and the reason for the Forerunner Librarians tampering with human destiny. Their travels will take them into the domain of a powerful and monstrous intelligenceknown as "the Captive" by Forerunners, and "the Primordial" by ancient human warriors, this being may not only control the fate of Chakas, Riser, and the rest of humanity, but of all sentient life across the galaxy

DA AUTORA DO BEST-SELLER INTERNACIONAL CASAMENTO PERFEITOAlexis Spencer chegou ao fundo do poço. No bastasse perder o emprego, o amor de sua vida resolveu terminar com ela. Sem saber o que fazer, resta-lhe amaldiçoar a Alexis mais jovem por ter feito escolhas to terriveis. Ela so no imaginava que suas palavras a fariam acordar em 2002, no meio de seu antigo campus universitario. Agora, ela ira precisar encarar a sua verso mais jovem e confrontar tudo o que acreditava saber sobre amadurecimento, arrependimentos e segundas chances enquanto tenta tomar as decises certas e mudar sua vida.Com humor e sensibilidade, Jeneva Rose nos conduz por uma jornada para aprender a amar quem fomos e quem nos tornamos.

Faixa etária: A partir de 12 anosTemas: ficção científica, ciência, ética, ficção científica vitoriana, literatura de língua inglesa, romance.Griffin, um cientista, descobre uma fórmula de invisibili

In this twisty and action-packed adventure from the BSFA award-winning author of Descendant Machine and Futures Edge, a crew of bounty hunters find themselves ensnared in a conspiracy on the very fringes of the devastated solar system. Perfect for fans of James S. A. Corey and Adrian Tchaikovsky."On Earth, they depicted justice as blindfolded and impartial, but out here on the frontier, she was red in tooth and claw."Jupiter and Saturn are gone, and a mysterious force has built a huge habitable sphere from their ashes. When criminals try to lose themselves on this new frontier, bounty hunters like Copernicus Brown and the crew of his sentient ship Jitterbug get paid to hunt them down. But when Brown rescues Amber Roth, sole survivor of a pirate attack, the Jitterbug and her crew find themselves the target of powerful political factions who want control of the data chip hidden in Roths stomach.And all the while, something vast and ancient creeps towards them from the depths of space

"Alguns livros têm o poder de despertar você, sacudir tudo que é antigo e levar a algo novo, emocionante e um pouco assustador. Este é um deles." — BookPageEm um futuro inquietante, numa versão dos E

The Astronomers Lost DaughterEchoes of the Veiled Stars XIby Evelyne DLorien Book Description (EN)Some stars do not fall.They wait to be remembered.When an abandoned observatory begins to breathe again, its shifting constellations reveal a truth long denied: the Astronomers daughter was never lost to the night. She was claimed by an unfinished pattern written into the sky itself.As the narrator follows echoes through corridors of folded darkness and archives of unrealized constellations, the boundary between human memory and celestial destiny begins to dissolve. What emerges is not a tale of disappearance, but of transformationof a girl caught between becoming a constellation and remaining human, and of the cost the universe never learned to count.The Astronomers Lost Daughter is the eleventh volume of Echoes of the Veiled Stars, a poetic, introspective fantasy about memory, sacrifice, and the fragile mercy of completion. Told in luminous prose and shaped by stillness rather than spectacle, it explores what happens when the sky itself must learn the weight of love.For readers of atmospheric fantasy, mythic resonance, and quiet stories where cosmic wonder meets human tenderness.