Formula Fly - Interview with Birds Founder Nicola PasseriniThe year is 2080, and this is an interview with Nicola Passerini, founder of Birds, the Italian car manufacturer that, back in the 2040s, dared to fly race cars with recycled plastic and pilots aboard, thus creating the Formula Fly races.Passerini discusses the audacity of pushing past the limits of logic and expectations. This journey quickly led him from a failure to a great victory: his innovative technology is n...

The peaceful Provençal village of Saint-Éloi integrates humanoid technology (domestic robots, a scarecrow, and a cow companion) which settles harmoniously into rural life. The robots free the inhabitants from tedious tasks, allowing them to engage in social work, assistance to the elderly, and the transmission of traditions. The story celebrates coexistence, showing that a benevolent approach to technology enriches the human community.

For the crew of the cargo ship Gloria, every day is the same: fusion engines humming, recycled cargo moving, and the endless monotony of interplanetary travel. Captain Laxis and his loyal team – Tito, Zara, Boris, and Tia – know every bolt of their sturdy vessel, a pulsating artery in our chaotic solar system. Their mission? To haul debris and materials, nothing more, nothing less.But a routine anomaly in a ventilation duct is about to change everything. Amidst the remnants of huma...

A galaxy-altering scientific breakthrough on Mars inspires treachery and revolution in this Nebula Award–winning science fiction epic.The child of one of the oldest, most revered family-corporate units on colonized Mars, Casseia Majumdar has spent her entire life in the tunnels that run beneath the surface of her homeworld. As a young college student in 2171, the fifty-third year of the Martian settlement, she experiences a profound political awakening, and her emb...

Geronimo Stilton meets outer space in this cosmically fun spin-off series!Geronimo Stiltonix and his crew head to the planet Jurassix to warn its inhabitants of a giant comet heading straight toward them! But the creatures there turn out to be ferocious, dinosaur-like beasts . . . who like to eat rodents. Squeak! Can the spacemice save these aliens and still make it out alive?

The final volume in the Nebula Award–winning author's classic hard SF series—"as at the end of any great symphony, one can only stand and applaud" ( Asimov's Science Fiction ).Humanity's final chapter has begun, and three men hold the key to survival. As the fierce, artificially intelligent mechs pursue their savage and unstoppable destruction of the human race, it soon becomes apparent that three men—three generations in ...

Centuries of sleep bring a young space voyager into a strange future where he must confront his own tyrannical brother in this epic space opera.When seventeen-year-old Toby McGonigal finds himself lost in space, his next drift into cold sleep to be his last. After all, the planet he's orbiting is frozen and sunless, and dotted with dead cities. But when Toby wakes again, he's surprised to discover a thriving planet, a strange and prosperous galaxy—and that he's been...

TRANSPORTED ACROSS THE MUILTIVERSE.Over light-years of space and 50,000 years back in time, to create a new history.... Only to find there was no way back.Earth is adapting to a future of amicable coexistence with the advanced aliens from Thurien, descended from ancestors who once inhabited Minerva, a vanished planet of the Solar System. The plans of the distantly related humans on the rogue world Jevlen to eliminate their ancient Terran rivals and take over the Thurien sys...

On the brink of extinction, a suicide mission is humanity's last hope.The Gifts of an alien race called the Spinners gave Peter Alander hope for the future of humanity. All the Gifts did, though, was draw down the wrath of the Starfish, another alien race apparently intent on wiping out all forms of competition. Caught between the two, humanity faces the hard decision of evolving into something else entirely simply to survive.As their new alien allies prepare to leave human s...

In the future, he’s immortalized as an A.I. Now, he’s plotting Earth’s course for centuries… and perhaps sending them all to their doom.Harold Olivaw believes valiantly in humanity’s grand destiny. Astounded by the alien probe he’s unearthed beneath the ice of Antarctica, the aspirational scientist sets into motion a secret mission to push humankind to its limits.Vice Admiral Gwar will not let humans undermine the Galactic Alliance a second time. Tipped off...

In “All That Touches the Air,” author An Owomoyela explores the boundaries of differing moralities, as humanity tries to live alongside an unlikely ally—a parasitic being that believes only in natural law.In “Maneki Neko” Bruce Sterling takes us to a networked Tokyo, where strangers offer anonymous gifts, and what is needed is freely given without question. (Reprint)Tom Crosshill brings us a story of a boy, his dog, a lab, and many universes in “Mama, We are Zhenya, Your So...

When aliens arrive in Sol, how does humanity react in the first few hours?After several years of unstable peace throughout Sol, mankind is confronted with the arrival of an unknown alien force. Everyone deals with the unexpected arrivals differently.Military forces guarding the front lines of a century old conflict struggle to comprehend the alien arrival. Unhealed wounds from past battles stress Inner and Outer Ring soldiers, as a rogue among them takes ma...