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1) Accelerando
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day.
Struggling to survive and thrive in this accelerated world are three generations of the Macx clan: Manfred, an entrepreneur
...2) Uncaged
Author
Series
Singular menace volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"When an animal rights action at a research lab goes wrong, a terrible secret is exposed, and Shay must find her brother Odin before the researchers at Singular Corp can silence both of them"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In a technologically suppressed future, information demands to be free in the debut novel from Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross.
In the twenty-first century, life as we know it changed. Faster-than-light travel was perfected, and the Eschaton, a superhuman artificial intelligence, was born. Four hundred years later, the far-flung colonies that arose as a result of these events—scattered over three thousand years...
In the twenty-first century, life as we know it changed. Faster-than-light travel was perfected, and the Eschaton, a superhuman artificial intelligence, was born. Four hundred years later, the far-flung colonies that arose as a result of these events—scattered over three thousand years...
4) Iron sunrise
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Language
English
Description
“[Stross] has the ability to superimpose an intriguing take on contemporary events over an imaginative story peopled by bizarre characters.” – The Kansas City Star
A G2 star doesn’t just explode—not without outside interference. So the survivors of the planet Moscow, which was annihilated in just such an event,...
A G2 star doesn’t just explode—not without outside interference. So the survivors of the planet Moscow, which was annihilated in just such an event,...
5) Outrage
Author
Series
Singular menace volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"Knowing their lives are at stake, Shay and Odin Remby race to stay one step ahead of Singular Corp in their efforts to expose the company's secret and highly unethical experiments"--
6) Rampage
Author
Series
Singular menace volume 3
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
"Teen activist Shay and her brother Odin are closing in on Singular Corp. and ready to shut down the evil conglomerate once and for all"--
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Español
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El Retrato de Dorian Gray fue publicado por primera vez en 1890 por Oscar Wilde. ¡Se ve como una de las primeras historias de ficción de terror gótico que fue criticada por escandalosa e inmoral! En esta célebre obra, Wilde forjó un retrato devastador de los efectos del mal y el libertinaje en un joven estéticamente admirable de la Inglaterra de finales del siglo XIX. Combinando elementos de la novela de terror gótica y la decadente ficción...
8) El profeta
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Language
Español
Description
Ocho anos antes de su muerte un profeta abandona el pueblo donde ha vivido y antes de irse la gente le pide que hable de ciertos temas, cada uno de los cuales forma un capítulo del libro. Estos temas son: el amor, el matrimonio, los hijos, el dar, el comer y el beber, el trabajo, la alegría y el dolor, las casas, el vestir, el comprar y el vender, el crimen y el castigo, las leyes, la libertad, la razón y la pasión, el dolor, el conocimiento,
...Author
Series
Singularity volume 1
Publisher
[publisher not given]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
What would you give to live forever? Seventeen-year-old Elijah Brighton wants to become an ascender�a post-Singularity human/machine hybrid�after all, they�re smarter, more enlightened, more compassionate, and above all, achingly beautiful. But Eli is a legacy human, preserved and cherished for his unaltered genetic code, just like the rainforest he paints. When a fugue state possesses him and creates great art, Eli miraculously lands a sponsor...
10) The singularity
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Series
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Blue Eyes can't stop being reborn. He tumbles from life to life, from one unthinkably strange universe to the next--the only constant being that, one way or another, everything he learns to love is lost. But when Blue Eyes finally catches up to a mysterious figure he's seen recurring throughout his lives, he realizes he might just have a chance to escape his cursed immortality--or, at the very least, exact revenge for it.
Author
Publisher
Alianza Editorial
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
Description
En La señora Dalloway Virginia Woolf relata un día en la vida de Clarissa Dalloway, una señora de la clase alta casada con un miembro del parlamento inglés, y de un ex-combatiente que lucha contra su enfermedad mental. La historia comienza y termina en Londres, en un mismo día de junio de 1923, y se desarrolla desde el momento en que Clarissa está preparando una fiesta en su mansión hasta que se retiran los invitados.
La gran innovación de...
Author
Publisher
Minotauro
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
Español
Description
Nueva edición para celebrar el 100 aniversario del nacimiento del autor.
Recopilación de relatos que recogen la crónica de la colonización de Marte por parte de una humanidad que huye de un mundo al borde de la destrucción. Los colonos llevan consigo sus deseos más íntimos y el sueño de reproducir en el Planeta Rojo una civilización de perritos calientes, cómodos sofás y limonada en el porche al atardecer. Pero su equipaje incluye también...
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Español
Description
An anonymous narrator relates how an attack by vicious Martians is repelled with the aid of humanity's most unexpected ally. Originally published in 1898, this masterpiece by one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time is not only a fantastic novel--it is also a sharp criticism of Victorian society and its imperialistic ambitions. It is an invitation for contemporary readers to ponder on the fate of our planet.
La guerra de los mundos...
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Español
Description
Jane Austen's first published work, meticulously constructed and sparkling with her unique wit Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from...
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La mayoría de la gente considera la vida como una batalla, pero en realidad es sólo un juego para que nuestras almas aprendan entreteniéndose. El miedo, el sufrimiento y la angustia no son necesarios para este aprendizaje; son una creación de la mente humana que, inconscientemente, viola las leyes espirituales. Pero, gracias al dolor, aprendemos y evolucionamos hacia nuestro verdadero destino. Todo tiene un sentido, todo toma significado cuando...
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Human foibles and early nineteenth-century manners are satirized in this romantic tale of English country family life as Elizabeth Bennet and her four sisters are encouraged to marry well in order to keep the Bennet estate in their family.
"A lo largo de una trama que discurre con la precisión de un mecanismo de relojería, Jane Austen perfila una galería de personajes que conforman un perfecto y sutil retrato de época: las peripecias de una dama...
Author
Series
Singularity volume 1
Publisher
MindScape Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The Singularity Witness explores an intersection of science and medical research, and what happenes when a radical technology ushers in an ominous future. A neurologist and an FBI agent work to unlock secrets that start with murder, abduction, and inhumane research."--Provided by publisher.
19) Agnes Grey
Author
Publisher
Editorial Alma
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Basada en las experiencias de la propia autora, Agnes Grey es la historia de superación de una joven idealista y perseverante a partes iguales, dispuesta a abrirse camino pese a las dificultades. Anne Brontë entrega una obra maestra majestuosamente escrita y con un mensaje tan implacable como atemporal. --
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