Mostrando resultados por narrador "Virtual Voice" en Ciencia Ficción y Fantasía

The story begins when a mysterious, system-wide event inserts a perfect, elegant proof for the complex mathematical problem. R(5,5)=43 into every human computer system. Commander Katarina Volkov, a military officer whose instincts were honed by a past tragedy, assembles a team of specialists on Ares Station to decipher the message from the unknown intelligence, dubbed "The Collective". The team includes Dmitri Petrov, a synesthetic mathematician who perceives logic as music; Yelena Kozlov, a brilliant but rigid logician driven by a fear of chaos ; and Anastasia Novak, an unnervingly quiet ...

Titan. A neon-drenched, rain-slicked dome-city where humanity’s last breath is a recycled chemical soup and truth is a commodity more polluted than the air. Here, Hrafn, a disgraced private investigator, drowns his cynicism in synth-ale, haunted by the ghost of a past that cost him his career, his eye, and perhaps his soul. His only companion is Óðinn, a black-market AI that nags him from inside his skull, a constant, sterile reminder of his own decay. Hrafn’s days are a monotonous circuit of sordid little truths for just enough credit to blur the edges of his own bleak reality. But ...

Runa has lived her entire life cradled within the living heart of Weltorm, the last of the great star-whales. Her home is a bioluminescent labyrinth of organic corridors, her playground a zero-gravity cathedral of shimmering tissue. Her parent is a being of such immense scale and antiquity that entire human histories are but fleeting thoughts to him, single notes in a symphony playing since the cosmos was young. Their communication is a language older than words, a quantum-entangled harmony that allows Weltorm to share a million years of memories: the silent, glorious violence of collapsing...

Midshipman Ana Morales is a fraud from the ankles down. Aboard the starship USC Vanguard, the first sound she makes is a lie—the soft scuff of an athletic trainer where the declarative thump of a command-division boot should be. As a member of the elite “Striders” squadron, she was trained to devour distance, but a casualty of misplaced luggage has stolen her certainty, leaving her feeling like an imposter in a world of rigid rules and unwavering confidence. Her new, impossible assignment only deepens the feeling: she is to be the personal cadet to the ship’s enigmatic and ...

Fresh from his rebirth in the galactic graveyard, Mick Triton is a man with a new ship and an old problem: a dwindling bank account. To get back in the game, he takes a job that sounds too good to be true, a contract from a desperate corporate suit to retrieve the Star Wanderer, a legendary multi-trillion-credit luxury liner that vanished on its maiden voyage in the Sargasso Nebula. Every spacer knows the stories—the Nebula is a place where ships go to die, a navigational nightmare of gravimetric tides and phantom signals. But the payday is obscene, a king's ransom that could set him up ...

For a thousand years, humanity knew only peace. War was a forgotten word, a bloody relic studied only by historians in climate-controlled classrooms. The Commonwealth had engineered aggression out of its society, building a utopia across the stars, a monument to reason and cooperation. But the peace was a fragile illusion. Without warning, a fleet of silent, implacable warships descends upon the Outer Rim. The Hydrans have arrived. Their attack is not a war; it is an extermination. Worlds burn, and humanity’s mastery over the physical world shatters in a single day. In the chaos, a ...

My ambition for "First Contact Chaos" began simply enough: two alien science vessels arrive, setting the stage for the eventual "lights out" for our entire galaxy. It took four books to achieve that galactic blackout, but "The War of the Worlds" and "Forbidden Planet" were my guiding lights. Both of those stories uniquely tap into the fear of the unknown and wisely avoid tropes like superheroes, genius scientists, creating weapons, time machines, or divine intervention. That approach helped me keep all four books grounded in hard science. While I didn't plunge the galaxy into darkness in ...

They were sent to investigate a silent research station. What they found is a new apex predator. Seventy-two hours of silence from a state-of-the-art Arctic facility is cause for alarm. For Kade Riley and his rapid-response team, it’s just another mission. But the silence in the endless, frozen landscape is absolute, and the discovery of a mangled perimeter fence—bent inward—is only the beginning of the nightmare. Inside Hyperion Station, they find signs of a panicked evacuation, a ransacked armory, and a reinforced containment door shredded like clay. They soon uncover the station's ...

En un mundo donde el florecer no es un premio, sino un sacrificio, Wei Qian escapa de una orden que exige belleza como tributo y se lanza a un viaje interior tan brutal como real. Con cada paso, su flor crece… pero a cambio, deja marcas. Cicatrices. Ecos. El Pétalo y la Cicatriz es una novela de fantasía emocional y cultivadora, donde la identidad se fragmenta y reconstruye en un sistema que no tolera la disidencia. En lugar de niveles, hay decisiones. En lugar de técnicas, duelos internos. Y cuando Qian escribe por primera vez su propia historia, ya no hay vuelta atrás. Una obra ...

In May 2023, Sam Altman, founder of OpenAI, stated that "with artificial intelligence, there will be billion-dollar companies managed by a single person". In 2016, the team of researchers led by Juan Carlos Izpisúa at the Salk Institute in California managed to make old mice regain their youth, and in 2021, Yuri Milner and other billionaires created Altos Lab, hiring Izpisúa and several Nobel laureates to apply that therapy to humans and achieve permanent youth. The plot of this novel takes place in the near future, which we reach by having been able to manage these two major changes that...

Just as Maya thinks she can relax into recovery and a budding romance with a demon general, the afterlife throws her a curveball. The Grim Reaper who saved her wasn’t just locked away—he was erased from existence. What starts as a rescue mission quickly becomes a masterclass in magical bureaucracy, inter-realm politics, and one seriously unhinged plot twist. Join Maya as she blogs her way through enough supernatural shenanigans to short-circuit reality.

El bosque del fin del mundo (William Morris, 1834-1896), fue publicada originalmente en 1884. Su autor es conocido como el primer escritor de fantasía moderna en toda la historia. Esta obra, El bosque del fin del mundo, es una de las primeras novelas de fantasía en crear un mundo imaginario, lo que la convierte en la precursora de todos los universos fantásticos de la literatura moderna, entre ellos, los ciclos de Conan, Kull y los Mitos de Cthulhu, de H.P. Lovecraft, entre otros, y desde luego, la conocida trilogía de J.R.R. Tolkien: El Señor de los Anillos (The Lord Of The Rings). En...

Net Zero is a near-future cyberpunk tale where reality bleeds into the machine. Ariel, a streetwise edgerunner, accepts a beta invite from her fixer—an offer too good to refuse. Nexus Advanced Systems Technology, Inc. (NASTI) promises full-immersion simulations where everything you earn, you keep. Every sensation feels real. Every risk seems virtual. It’s only a game. Right? What Ariel doesn’t know is that NASTI’s funding comes from DARPA and a secretive eugenics foundation. The simulations are more than entertainment—they’re a battleground for next-gen warfare. A proving ground...

Forgotten Shadows of the Abyss follows a fractured band of magical warriors racing to heal a world torn open by a cataclysmic Sea Elemental with the power to control the rages of the sea. Nicole is haunted by her past and the grief of her people. Sarah, driven by duty, leaves her newborn son in the arms of another woman to save her people. Jordan, whose love for Liriel becomes the anchor for them all, and Thalion, whose hidden secrets and scientific pride are tested by the raw fury of the ocean, all must survive underwater ambushes by tidewraiths and the gargantuan Devourer serpent. As ...

Know, ye now, the power of Magick! Sir Geoffrey Valhurst has disappeared, the High Magick is rapidly vanishing from the land, and an even greater threat looms as strange, new, menacing creatures appear throughout the kingdoms of Victrial and Scotia. With one Faerie slain, her sisters must rally as they prepare for battle without the use of their enchanted abilities. Can the Knight-Cavalier be found? Can Victrial’s ally, Scotia be saved? Most of all, will she, the greatest of the Fei, be somehow resurrected to fight against the growing threat as the epitome of evil, Darcelumbra the Vain, ...

When destiny binds and ancient curses awaken, can love overcome the darkness—or will it become the ultimate sacrifice? The Alpha’s Curse: The Forbidden Pact continues the epic journey of passion, danger, and destiny in the Wolves of Shadow and Light series, delivering a heart-pounding werewolf romance for adults that will leave you captivated. In this second installment, the bond between Lyra and Thorne deepens, but so too does the peril surrounding them. Thorne, the enigmatic and brooding Alpha of the Silver Moon Pack, remains haunted by the Blood Moon’s deadly curse—a legacy that ...

What happens when the world goes dark—not just the lights, but everything? By 2033, the world is fully digitalized. In an era where everything relies on technology, a global EMP attack is nothing short of catastrophic. Everyday tasks that once seemed effortless become impossible. How does Robert Brown, a former Marine, pay for groceries in a cashless world? How does Emma Walker, a mother of two, make it home from London to her family in the countryside? How does the President of the United States address a nation in chaos? How does Martha Robinson, former CEO of Starlight, access the ...

Sylvia never imagined a quiet afternoon at the beach would end with her being torn from Earth and sold to the highest bidder at an intergalactic auction. Fierce, furious, and absolutely unwilling to accept her fate, she finds herself trapped aboard a silent, deadly ship—claimed by a towering alien male cloaked in armor, shadow, and silence. He doesn’t speak her language. He doesn’t explain why he bought her. But he radiates control, menace, and something else she can’t name—something that ignites every time he looks at her. She’s defiant. He’s unrelenting. She wants freedom. ...

The moon is dying. A virus is tearing through Earth’s last lunar colony. Enter Captain Jaxon Orion: professional rule-breaker, occasional hero, and full-time magnet for dangerous women. He was just looking to refuel. Now he’s harboring a fugitive nanotech genius, being hunted by half the system, and caught in the gravitational pull of a High Priestess who wants to “study” him. Naked. The crew of the Manticore is once again in over their heads—with galactic powers closing in, bio-weapons about to blow, and a growing tangle of hot, brilliant women… who don’t always need a man to...

In the underground world of crime, Jet Rusco clashes with gangsters and space thugs. He’s a man who lives on the edge, turned to hustling to survive. A heist gone bad centering on alien tech leads him on a dodgy adventure, forces him to find allies. Who can he trust? Rough-boy Marty, headstrong Deidra, the tech-savvy TK, the kickbutt Wren? Wracked with self doubts and with bounty hunters on his tail, Rusco finds his choices bringing him face to face with a mystical despot who if left unchecked, will subjugate the human-populated free colonies. The question is, can Rusco outwit his enemies...