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The Promise of the Child tarafından Tom__Toner
The Promise of the Child
Tom__Toner
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It is the 147th century. In the radically advanced post-human worlds of the Amaranthine Firmament, there is a contender to the Immortal throne: Aaron the Long-Life, the Pretender, a man who is not quite a man. In the barbarous hominid kingdoms of the Prism Investiture, where life is cheap, an invention is born that will become the Firmament's most closely kept secret. Lycaste, a lovesick recluse outcast for an unspeakable crime, must journey through the Provinces, braving the grotesques of an ancient, decadent world to find his salvation. Sotiris, grieving the loss of his sister and awaiting the madness of old age, must relive his twelve thousand years of life to stop the man determined to become Emperor. Ghaldezuel, knight of the stars, must plunder the rarest treasure in the Firmament-the object the Pretender will stop at nothing to obtain. "To call The Promise of the Child one of the most accomplished debuts of 2015 so far is to understate its weight-instead, let me moot that it is among the most significant works of science fiction released in recent years." -Tor.com "One of the most ambitious and epic-scale pieces of worldbuilding I've read. Reading The Promise of the Child, you feel you're in the presence of an author at the height of his powers. If this is what Toner is like when he's just getting started, I think we can expect great things from him. Utterly absorbing; a tremendous adventure." -Karl Schroeder, author of Lockstep and Sun of Suns "An amazing debut-a colorful space opera in the post-human tradition of Iain M. Banks, combined with the razor-sharp plotting of Alastair Reynolds. It left me feverish with delight." -Loren Rhoads, author of The Dangerous Type "The Promise of the Child is a rip-roaring, full-blown Space Opera, with Epic-ness writ large across its pages... an impressive debut and one of my favourite books of the year, I think." Mark Yon, SFFWorld
Prévia de Absolutos: Sinfonia da Destruição - Livro 1 | Rodolfo Salles tarafından RodolfoSalles
Prévia de Absolutos: Sinfonia da Destruição - Livro 1 | Rodolfo Salles
RodolfoSalles
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#10 no ranking de Ficção Científica no dia 28/06/2017 "Os Dançarinos do Destino. Os Sentenciadores da Escuridão. Os Amaldiçoadores da Existência. Os Inominados. Você é um Absoluto." Em uma era de exploração Universal intensa, Érico é um jovem com o sonho de se tornar um Caçador de Relíquias, aventureiros que saem pelo espaço procurando tesouros antigos. Porém, ele descobre através das misteriosas tatuagens em seu corpo que é um Absoluto, seres que de tempos em tempos surgem no Universo e espalham o caos por onde passam. Mas quem são os Absolutos? E por que Érico é um deles? Sem escolha, o rapaz é forçado a deixar sua vida pacata na lua de Miesac, onde vive com os irmãos adotivos Exel e Miro. Ele parte em uma jornada através do Universo em busca de um Desbravador, entidade com poderes inimagináveis capaz de apagar suas tatuagens e assim devolver as rédeas de seu Destino. Em meio a essa aventura, ele encontrará aliados e inimigos, além de mergulhar de cabeça nos segredos ocultos de sua verdadeira família. Conseguirá Érico livrar-se desse fardo? Ou terá, por fim, que aceitar seu Destino como o próximo na linhagem de destruidores? __________________________________________ Obra registrada na biblioteca nacional, todos os direitos reservados!
Até a Última Gota tarafından miguelmourawn
Até a Última Gota
miguelmourawn
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Alguém está chacinando os humanos nas colônias do espaço exterior, e ninguém sabe quem é. A única certeza é de que é um inimigo ancestral, mais poderoso do que tudo o que a Humanidade já viu. Para combatê-lo, a Polícia Inter-Sistemas é obrigada a recrutar soldados improváveis - a começar por um vampiro. A batalha pela salvação da humanidade esta nas mãos de monstros.
Luck and Death at the Edge of the World tarafından nashedron
Luck and Death at the Edge of the World
nashedron
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Security specialist Gat Burroughs died once and he'll be damned if he lets it happen again. Unfortunately, somebody is determined to kill his client, a washed-up star named Max Prince, and isn't afraid to go through Gat to do it. Is it Max's debauched granddaughter and heir? Is it the deadly Suerte y Muerte, a cult that kills to steal good luck? Is it Max's own lawyer and manager, James Jerome? And how on earth did the would-be assassin get past Max Prince's top-grade AI, the one that's adopted the likeness of computer pioneer Alan Turing? Gat will have to follow the clues through L.A.'s underworld, the slums of Mexico City, and his own guilty past to find the surprising answer. “A great science fiction detective story ” - Ian Watson, author of "The Universal Machine: From the Dawn of Computing to Digital Consciousness" ** The Gat Burroughs Series ** This is the first book in the Gat Burroughs series, which includes novels and shorter fiction. Gat Burroughs is a security specialist in Los Angeles after The Fall -- not so much an apocalypse as a social collapse that changed the world he knew. The United States has been replaced by the enclaves -- former states and megacities that are now nations. Large swaths of the country have collapsed utterly, regressing to pre-technological Grey Zones. Even in L.A., which remains largely intact, the polite face of democracy has largely been stripped away and the gap between the haves and the have-nots has become a vast gulf, with little space in between. But Gat is determined to find a way to make a life for himself without compromising his humanity. Bonus: Click on my profile and look for the bonus that's only available to Wattpad readers. ** Other Titles in the Series ** "Felon and the Judas Kiss" -- available on Amazon and Kobo. "Los Angeles Honey" -- coming soon.