Nel 2084 la storia dell'astronautica ha fatto enormi passi avanti. È passato oltre un secolo da quando gli eroi della corsa allo spazio, come Sergej Pavlovic Korolev, padre del programma spaziale sovietico, avevano mandato in orbita i primi razzi. Ora la quarta missione euroamericana ha raggiunto Marte. Sembra ormai routine, ma arriva una incredibile scoperta, destinata a cambiare la storia dell'umanità: in una valle marziana viene rinvenuta una capsula Sojuz, risalente agli Anni sessanta del ventesimo secolo. Come può essere arrivata fin lì? E soprattutto, c'era a bordo qualcuno?
Un'appassionante romanzo di Paolo Aresi – l'unico autore di fantascienza italiano al quale sia stato dedicato un asteroide da parte dell'Iau (Unione astronomica internazionale): 333326 Aresi, orbitante fra Marte e Giove – nel quale l'autore dimostra tutta la sua esperienza e passione per l'esplorazione dello spazio.
An Affinity.
Most humans never get one, but the Goddess gives everyone the opportunity when they turn sixteen.
With an Affinity, humans are given access to their internal energy and Skills. Magical powers that allow you to interact with the world in ways you could never imagine.
When Terrence receives his Affinity, he is shocked to discover it has never been seen before within the Kingdom. Worse yet, his Affinity reinforces the thing he was made fun of for his entire life. His weight.
Follow Terrence as he uses his Affinity to progress with the hopes of becoming a Dungeoneer-someone who explores and conquers Dungeons.
Discover a unique world where Terrence and his friends learn about their new abilities, their Affinities, AND themselves.
Their Skills will grow, and if they work hard enough, they might eventually Rank up!
With new knowledge, training, and practice under his belt, Terrence's Rank 1 abilities will be put to the test against the monsters in his path.
The first semester at Prep is over, but an old tormentor, an unlikely instructor, a harsh test, and a tiresome journey will continue to push his limits. Can Terrence overcome them all?
Will he buckle, or can the stress push him to Rank Up?
Elsewhere, Uncle Tom and his Dungeoneering team find something unexpected in the Dungeon.
After months of fighting, they are ready to earn a profit for their toils.
Can they handle the new challenge, or will they die like so many others before them?
Will the risk be worth it?
Sabine is working on a mixed-species spaceship when it abruptly comes under attack by a strange monster. When she encounters Eirlys, a set, they manage to hide together and survive the assault.
They're soon rescued by Naomi, captain of a mercenary ship which was hired to kidnap the two survivors but at the last minute chose to rescue them instead—putting them, Naomi, and her crew in peril from the government who hired them.
And if being wanted wasn't enough, the monster is still out there.
Written in 1898, Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tale of high adventure portrays an alarmist era of imperial sovereignty, invasive foreign policy, and religious extremism, positing the naivety of a group of Anglo-American holiday-makers against the unbending convictions of Middle Eastern banditti. Among others, a young American ingenue, her matronly aunt, a fusty old bachelor, a loving Irish couple, and an opinionated French graduate gather aboard the Korosko. But during a morning tour of the desert, they are taken hostage by a group whose intention it is either to convert them to Islam or to kill them. Conan Doyle brings his mastery of thrills and suspense to bear on this extraordinary tale of East meets West. Scottish-born writer and novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best remembered as the creator of the immortal detective Sherlock Holmes
Members of three tribes are drawn by fate into the menacing Rift Valley. They come from opposing tribes yet follow individual paths that lead to love and friendship. The story opens with a tough-minded, take-action woman fleeing the brute who replaced her father as leader of the Mila Tanari tribe. She chooses to jump into the Rift rather than be the pawn of the tribe's new leader. A cute and brilliant inventor descends into the valley via ropes and pulleys with his lover, Kareel, to escape the persecution of his Geneer tribe. Together they make a home and are happy until Kareel's untimely death. A handsome and sensitive healer, a member of the MeTech tribe, is so troubled by the greed of his new stepmother that he trips while gathering plants and tumbles into the Rift Valley. These three are as different as their tribes. Chased by the beasts that patrol the valley floor, the unlikely allies must forge a path toward friendship to survive. Curiosity lures them down a dangerous path in a quest to understand the ruins long protected by the carnivores. The secret they discover changes everything they thought they knew about their tribes and their world. Forbidden Paths is Book One of an exciting trilogy by Rod Mortin. Filled with non-stop action, powerful relationships, and a quest for truth, the Paths Trilogy will inspire you to examine your own beliefs about those outside your tribe.
Alon, Shanra, and Oen pursue the secrets of a project known only as the Zeta mission. Assisted by the heir of a notorious space pirate, their probing brings them to the attention of The Order, men who will stop at nothing to prevent the secrets of Zeta from being known. Acolyte Jarred arrives to seek and destroy these friends and any evidence of the existence of Zeta. But to everyone's surprise, he has a mission of his own. Hidden Paths is Book Two of the exciting Paths Trilogy by Rod Mortin. This action-packed and thoughtful novel asks you to challenge the preconceptions of your own tribe and dare to walk previously hidden paths toward discovery and truth.
Dan Starkey reads this imaginitive original story featuring the Twelfth Doctor and Nardole.
'Time: the present. Place: Smalltown, USA. A town like any other. A sleepy world of white picket fences, front porch gliders and freshly-mown lawns, a Pontiac or Chevrolet in every driveway.
'But the streets are empty, with not a sound to be heard, and no-one to hear it if there was. Because this town is merely an empty stage, waiting for its players to take their parts. They're due to make their entrance any moment now, strangers in a strange land, somewhere in that timeless space known only as The Nightmare Realm.'
It's into this strange world of shifting sands that the TARDIS propels the Doctor and Nardole, who think they're in 1950s suburbia until an apparent nuclear attack takes them into far darker territory, with a series of terrifying consequences...
Dan Starkey, who played the Sontaran Strax in the TV series, reads this unsettling original story by Jonathan Morris
(P) 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
Reading produced by Neil Gardner
Sound design by David Roocroft
Project editor: John Ainsworth
Executive producer: Michael Stevens
In this essential Star Wars Legends novel, Mace Windu must journey to his long-forgotten homeworld to confront a terrifying mystery with dire personal consequences.
The jungle planet of Haruun Kal, homeworld of the legendary Jedi Master Mace Windu, has become a battleground in the increasing hostilities between the Republic and the renegade Separatist movement. The Jedi Council has sent Depa Billaba-Mace's former Padawan and fellow Council member-to Haruun Kal to train the local tribesmen as a guerrilla resistance force. But now the Separatists have pulled back, and Depa has not returned. The only clue to her disappearance is a cryptic recording left at the scene of a brutal massacre: a recording that hints of madness and murder, and the darkness in the jungle . . . a recording in Depa's own voice.
Mace Windu trained Depa. Only he can find her. Only he can learn what has changed her. Only he can stop her. He will leave behind the Republic he serves, the civilization he believes in, everything but his passion for peace and his devotion to his former Padawan. And he will learn the terrible price that must be paid when keepers of the peace are forced to make war. . . .
The entire Wasteland Chronicles series
No one expected Ragnarok. The miles-wide meteor fell from the sky in 2030, taking most of humanity with it. The lucky ones took refuge in the Bunkers. The unlucky ones had to deal with the meteor's aftermath . . . and the alien virus it unleashed.
Now, that virus is evolving, creating an army of mutants and monsters, mixing Earth genetics with something . . . not Earth. As humanity struggles in the wastelands of what's left, it might already be too late . . .
. . . unless a band of young heroes can rise up, and fight.
When her most closely guarded secrets are laid bare, how will Kira survive the inevitable fall out-and will anybody be standing beside her in the end?
Traveling to the planet of Jettie in the hopes of finding safe harbor for her niece, Kira arrives only to find their destination host to the quorum-a series of dangerous contests that hold the power to decide the fate of empires.
With little choice but to participate, it doesn't take long for Kira to find herself knee deep in enemies. Surrounded on all sides, Kira will have to face her worst fear. Trusting others with the truth.
Because it's becoming clear the tsavitee are no longer content to exist in the shadows. War is coming-and everything Kira thought she once knew is about to change.
