• Mission One

    Titan. Sixth moon of Saturn. A gleaming jewel of natural resources, ripe for harvesting by the first private space company to stake a claim. Diamond Aerospace launches a ship with an experimental engine that will get a crew to Titan in five months. Their mission is to lay the groundwork for a permanent orbital research station, one that will be the future base of operations for activity on that distant moon. Shortly after launch, a devastating malfunction forces the crew to make a choice: continue to Titan, or go back home. As the truth about their mission unravels, one thing is clear: someone... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1548654698
    • ASIN: 1548654698
    • ISBN: 1548654698
    • Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

  • Dungeons & Dragons Core Rulebooks Gift Set (Special Foil Covers Edition with Slipcase, Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, Monster Manual, DM Screen)

    The perfect gift for the Dungeons & Dragons fans in your life or as a treat for yourself.   Need a gift for the holidays? A birthday present, a treat for yourself? This is it. Inside the D&D Core Rulebook Gift Set are special foil cover editions of the three Dungeons & Dragons core rulebooks—the Players Handbook, Dungeon Master’s Guide, and Monster Manual—plus a Dungeon Master’s screen, all collected in a stylish slipcase. It’s the perfect gift for any D&D fan.   • Each of the three books and the Dungeon Master’s screen feature reflective foil covers, available ONLY with this... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0786966629
    • ASIN: 0786966629
    • ISBN: 0786966629
    • Manufacturer: Wizards of the Coast

  • The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Two

    The second volume of a new best-of-the-year science fiction short story anthology edited by Hugo Award-winning editor Neil Clarke. First contact with a mysterious race of aliens reveals an unusual request; a family’s pet dog comes to grips with the newly bestowed gift of human-like intelligence; a poet, in danger and alone on a distant world, makes unlikely allies; hundreds of years in the future, a famous hermit lives in the sea above the now-underwater Harvard University; former friends navigate unsteady peace between human refugees and the technologically superior race that saved them; in... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1597808962
    • ASIN: 1597808962
    • ISBN: 9781597808965
    • Brand: Night Shade
    • Manufacturer: Night Shade

  • The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Three

    As Earth dies, an architect is commissioned to remote build a monument on Mars from the remains of a failed colony; a man who has transferred his consciousness into a humanoid robot discovers he’s missing thirty percent of his memories, and tries to discover why; bored with life in the underground colony of an alien world, a few risk life inside one of the “whales” floating in the planet’s atmosphere; an apprentice librarian searching through centuries of SETI messages from alien civilizations makes an ominous discovery; a ship in crisis pulls a veteran multibot out from storage with a... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1597809365
    • ASIN: 1597809365
    • ISBN: 1597809365
    • Brand: Night Shade
    • Manufacturer: Night Shade

  • The Overstory: A Novel


    • ASIN: B073VX7HT4
    • ASIN: B073VX7HT4
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

  • The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One

    A biological plague begins infecting artificial intelligence; a natural-born Earth woman seeking asylum on another planet finds a human society far different from her own; a food blogger’s posts chronicle a nationwide medical outbreak; trapped in a matchmaking game, a couple tries to escape from the only world they know; a janitor risks everything to rescue a “defective” tank-born baby he can raise as his own.For decades, science fiction has compelled us to imagine futures both inspiring and cautionary. Whether it’s a warning message from a survey ship, a harrowing journey to a new worl... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1597808547
    • ASIN: 1597808547
    • ISBN: 1597808547
    • Brand: Night Shade
    • Manufacturer: Night Shade

  • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century


    • ASIN: 0525512179
    • ASIN: 0525512179
    • ISBN: 0525512179
    • Manufacturer: Spiegel & Grau

  • Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

    The #1 New York Times bestselling account of a neurosurgeon's own near-death experience—for readers of 7 Lessons from Heaven. Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real, but are simply fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress.Then, Dr. Alexander’s own brain was attacked by a rare illness. The part of the brain that controls thought and emotion—and in essence makes us human—shut down completely. For seve... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1451695195
    • ASIN: 1451695195
    • ISBN: 1451695195
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

  • Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse Book 1)


    • ASIN: B0047Y171G
    • ASIN: B0047Y171G
    • Manufacturer: Orbit

  • The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

    Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward from the Balkans across the steppe and South Asia has been thrust into the global spotlight in recent years. Frankopan teaches us that to understand what is at stake for the cities and nations built on these intricate trade routes, we must first understand their astounding pasts.  Frankopan re... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1101912375
    • ASIN: 1101912375
    • ISBN: 1101912375
    • Brand: VINTAGE
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

    THE NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERDr. Kai-Fu Lee—one of the world’s most respected experts on AI and China—reveals that China has suddenly caught up to the US at an astonishingly rapid and unexpected pace.   In AI Superpowers, Kai-fu Lee argues powerfully that because of these unprecedented developments in AI, dramatic changes will be happening much sooner than many of us expected. Indeed, as the US-Sino AI competition begins to heat up, Lee urges the US and China to both accept and to embrace the great responsibilities that come with significant technolo... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B0795DNWCF
    • ASIN: B0795DNWCF
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  • The Enceladus Mission: Hard Science Fiction (Ice Moon Book 1)

    A space odyssey that’s worth taking. (Kirkus)In the year 2031, a robot probe detects traces of biological activity on Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons. This sensational discovery shows that there is indeed evidence of extraterrestrial life. Fifteen years later, a hurriedly built spacecraft sets out on the long journey to the ringed planet and its moon.The international crew is not just facing a difficult twenty-seven months: if the spacecraft manages to make it to Enceladus without incident it must use a drillship to penetrate the kilometer-thick sheet of ice that entombs the moon. If lif... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B07GKPC16B
    • ASIN: B07GKPC16B
    • Manufacturer: Hard-SF.com

  • The Future Chronicles

    The Future Chronicles is the premier title in the #1 bestselling speculative fiction anthology series of the same name, and one of the most acclaimed short story anthology series of the digital era.Created by award-winning author and series editor Samuel Peralta, with some of the most-respected editors of the genre as guest editors, each volume of the Future Chronicles brings together work from new visionary authors and from the grandmasters of modern science fiction and fantasy, from USA Today, NY Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, and from Hugo and Nebula award-winners.Th... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B013M3XW0Q
    • ASIN: B013M3XW0Q
    • Manufacturer: Windrift Books

  • Abaddon's Gate (The Expanse Book 3)

    The third book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Abaddon's Gate opens the door to the ruins of an alien gate network, and the crew of the Rocinante may hold the key to unlocking its secrets. Now a Prime Original series. For generations, the solar system -- Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt -- was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has appeared in Uranus's orbit, where it has built a massive gate that leads to a starless dark.Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and mil... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B00A2DZMYE
    • ASIN: B00A2DZMYE
    • Manufacturer: Orbit

  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration for the films Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049

    A masterpiece ahead of its time, a prescient rendering of a dark future, and the inspiration for the blockbuster film Blade Runner By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can’t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. They’ve even built humans. Immigrants to Mars receive androids so sophisticated they are indistinguishable from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans can wreak, the go... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0345404475
    • ASIN: 0345404475
    • ISBN: 0345404475
    • Brand: Philip K Dick
    • Manufacturer: Del Rey

  • Lock In : A Novel of the Near Future

    When a new virus causes one percent of the population to become completely paralyzed in body but not in mind, the United States pursues a scientific initiative to develop a virtual-reality world for victims, with

    • UPC: 43379185
    • Rating: 4.117

  • Writers of the Future Volume 31 : The Best New Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year

    Presents a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by the winners of the 2014 "Writers of the Future" contest chosen by a distinguished panel of top writers, critics, and

    • UPC: 43905908
    • Rating: 4.267

  • Head On : A Novel of the Near Future

    Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and

    • UPC: 173909630
    • Rating: 4.143

  • Writers of the Future Volume 29 : The Best New Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year

    Turn the page open your eyes...and look into the future They unleash the power of dreams and unlock the secrets of the universe. They bend time, twist perception, and put a new spin on the

    • UPC: 23778891
    • Rating: 4.5

  • Head On : A Novel of the Near Future

    "As much as Scalzi has the scientific creativity of a Michael Crichton, he also has the procedural chops of a Stephen J. Cannell to craft a whodunit with buddy-cop charm and suspects aplenty--most of them

    • UPC: 520212917
    • Rating: 4.143

  • Non Metallic: Near Future Science Fiction - eBook

    "A fresh new voice in Science Fiction." - ★★★★★ reviewThe Singularity is coming to Small-town America. Don't get left behind... This near future science fiction collection includes:Bob Ten has the strength of six men. But

    • UPC: 653528832

  • Self Sufficiency: Resilience, Country Living, Growing Food; Plausible Near Future Disruption: Power Outages, Food Shortage, High Prices - eBook

    This is a story of the changes coming in an uncertain future and what people do to live as best they can. Those that best prepare will be those that best live through the coming

    • UPC: 680887403

  • The Thanatos Solution: A Cautionary Tale about the Near Dystopian Future - eBook

    Just a few years down the road, the new health-care plan is firmly entrenched. A new bill, Ethical Assessment of End-of Life Care, has also been enacted into law. And the authorities are ruthlessly implementing

    • UPC: 368172246

  • Who : A Novel of the Near Future

    Who: A Novel of the Near Future

    • UPC: 512046244
    • Rating: 5.0

  • The Best of Defending the Future - eBook

    The embers of War still glow as memories of strange skies over an alien landscape, light-years from home, bring back the sensations of battle; a time when personal sacrifice meant the difference between salvation for

    • UPC: 474235092

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    5 Sci-Fi movies that accurately predicted the future

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