Above the cleanest skies on the planet, over the Atacama Desert, a light that should not exist flares to life one ordinary evening. Javi, a technician who reached the stars through passion rather than credentials, is among the first to see it from the Cerro Armazones observatory. What begins as an astronomical anomaly — an unexpected star where none belongs — soon becomes the world scientific community's best-kept and worst-managed secret.While governments waver between disclosure ...

Some men cross the world to disappear. Dimitry crossed it to find a pair of eyes.He is a spy without a flag, without a country, without a licence to kill — a grey man who works in the shadows so that the powerful never lay a hand on the switch of the world. His trade is patents and plagiarism, dead drops and freezing parks, riddles hidden in the music of dead composers. And in the middle of it all he guards the most dangerous object on the planet: a device the size of a thumb, able...

Ana had everything it takes to triumph in television: the rawest reports, the highest ratings, a country with an insatiable hunger to watch its own misery in 4K. But what she uncovered in her investigations cost her everything — and turned her into a fugitive in a Chile where the trains are run by the PSI, the streets are watched by SecurCorp's algorithms, and justice is administered by contract.In the south, above the exhausted coal galleries of Lota, rises the crown jewel of that...

Santiago no longer remembers the color of the sky. The smog covers everything: the lungs, the clothes, the memories of a city that once smelled of wet earth and fresh bread. In that unbreathable air, an alumni reunion for their faculty's centennial brings together a group of old friends — professionals scattered by life — who, between nostalgia and conversation, dare to ask the forbidden question: what if we could clean it?From that café musing a colossal project is born: nanotechn...

"An immense achievement, an impeccably crafted book without a single word out of place." —The New York TimesFrom bestselling author M. R. Carey comes a brilliant genre-defying story of humanity's expansion across millions of dimensions—and the AI technology that might see it all come to an end.INFINITY IS ONLY THE BEGINNING.The Pandominion: a political and trading alliance of a million worlds. Except that they’re really jus...

From the author of the bestselling The Girl With All the Gifts comes the thrilling conclusion to the spectacular Pandominion duology, an exhilarating science fiction story perfect for fans of The Space Between Worlds, The Long Earth and Children of Time.Two mighty empires are at war - and both will lose, with thousands of planets falling to the extinction event called the Scour. At least that's what the artificial intelligence kn...

Imagine a sustainable world, run on clean and renewable energies that are less aggressive to the environment. Now imagine humanity under the impact of these changes. This is the premise Brazilian editor Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro proposed, and these authors took the challenge to envision hopeful futures and alternate histories. The stories in this anthology explore terrorism against green corporations, large space ships propelled by the pressure of solar radiation, the advent of photosynthetic hu...

In the Los Angeles ghetto of Necroville, the yearly celebration of the Night of the Dead - where the dead are resurrected through the miracle of nanotechnology and live their second lives as non-citizens - becomes a journey of discovery and revelation for five individuals on the run from their pasts.With his customary flair for making the bizarre both credible and fascinating, McDonald tosses aside the line of demarcation between living and dead in a story that confronts the centra...

Mateo Álvarez can forge any identity—until the cartel forges his fate.Dragged into a hidden counterfeit studio beneath a luxury print shop in Mexico City, Mateo is told he belongs to the paper operation until his “debt” is paid. He agrees for one reason only: his younger sister Sofía is being held as leverage, and every passport he prints is a desperate bid to keep her alive long enough to win her freedom.Santos Valez, the cartel prince overseeing the studio, offers Mateo a...

Book description:Mystery and secrecy come to light after 5 decades in an exciting story which reveals the complot to hide the inventions and discoveries of Doctor Rojas, a key scientist behind the landing of mankind on the moon. In the middle of the “Cold War” and while he was working for NASA, Doctor Rojas met with a president, travelled to the former Soviet Union, took the fateful decision to agree to an interview in Washington D.C. and afterward, what happened? The parties invol...

This is the real life story of a NASA scientist & engineer. He speaks about Puerto Rico struggles as a nation from his point of view. He explains the basic concepts of rockets, missiles, radars, the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station. He describes in detail his encounter with an UFO and aliens from outer space. He explains the basic concepts of ufology and possible life in other galaxies.

Fearless necessary reporting . . . Klein exposes the 'battle of utopias' that is currently unfolding in storm-ravaged Puerto Rico" (Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao)"We are in a fight for our lives. Hurricanes Irma and María unmasked the colonialism we face in Puerto Rico, and the inequality it fosters, creating a fierce humanitarian crisis. Now we must find a path forward to equality and sustainability, a path driven by communiti...