Italy, 1950s. On a small, secluded farm nestled in the Apennines, young Mirco shares an unbreakable bond with Ortica, a colt with a quirky name and unimaginable talent. Their world is one of innocent play, breathless sprints through open fields, and a whispered promise: to race together, faster than the wind.When a chance encounter lands them on a real track, their brilliance sends shockwaves through the glittering, ruthless world of horse racing. An unexpected victory turns the ou...

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...

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...

During an ordinary night spent together in a basement, a philosophical discussion turns into a thought experiment with inexplicable consequences. When a VCR display freezes and a playing card reveals an impossible secret, four young men realize they have stumbled upon a biological anomaly. An intense short story about the perception of reality, where the human mind pushes beyond the boundaries of the present to touch the true nature of time.

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.

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?

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...

The final chapter of humanity's future has begun and one man, Nigel Walmsley, has been alive through it all. An ancient scientist from the distant past, Walmsley had been marooned inside an anomaly of time and space. From here he recalls Earth's desperate struggle against the mechs, a violent artificial intelligence dedicated to total annihilation.In a strange space-time continuum called the Esty, the last few survivors from humanity's ravaged planets have taken refuge, readying th...

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...