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1984 has become a classic literary example of political and dystopian fiction. Many terms used in the novel have entered common usage, including Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, Room 101, telescreen, 2 + 2 = 5, prole, and memory hole. Nineteen Eighty-Four also popularised the adjective "Orwellian", connoting things such as official deception, secret surveillance, brazenly misleading terminology, and manipulation of recorded history by a totalitarian or authoritarian stat...

Data de lançamento: 2022-07-31 R$ 0,90

Livro Fundação Volumes 1 Ao 7 - Isaac Asimov:  Livro - Fundação. Livro - Prelúdio à Fundação. Livro - Origens da Fundação. Livro - Fundação e Império. Livro - Segunda Fundação. Livro - Limites da Fundação. Livro - Fundação e Terra.

Data de lançamento: 2020-09-07 R$ 77,90

"O FIM DA TERRA NÃO SERÁ O NOSSO FIM". Do aclamado cineasta Christopher Nolan, diretor de A origem (Inception) e da trilogia Batman – O Cavaleiro das Trevas (Batman - The Dark Knight), INTERESTELAR é a crônica de um grupo de exploradores que se aproveita de um recém-descoberto buraco de minhoca para ultrapassar os limites das viagens espaciais tripuladas e assim conquistar as grandes distâncias de uma jornada interestelar. Enquanto viajam, estão em risco o destino do planeta... ...

Data de lançamento: 2016-03-17 R$ 24,90

Neste brilhante mundo criado por Philip Reeve, a humanidade quase teve um fim em um conflito nuclear e biológico chamado de Guerra dos Sessenta Minutos. O mundo virou um descampado, a tecnologia foi praticamente extinta e todos os esforços humanos se voltaram para um único objetivo: fazer suas cidades sobreviverem. Para isso, elas precisam se mover, se tornando Cidades de Tração, para se afastar da radioatividade e doenças. Londres é uma grande cidade e está sempre a busca de novas cidad...

Data de lançamento: 2018-11-01 R$ 29,90

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 indi...

Data de lançamento: 1996-05-28 R$ 22,90

The first of two prequel novels in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall—those whom ...

Data de lançamento: 1988-04-01 R$ 34,90

Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer is a science fiction masterpiece—a classic that ranks as one of the twentieth century’s most potent visions of the future. Case was the sharpest data-thief in the matrix—until he crossed the wrong people and they crippled his nervous system, banishing him from cyberspace. Now a mysterious new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run at an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence. With a dead man riding shotgun a...

Data de lançamento: 1984-07-01 R$ 34,90

The fourth novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations has come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation have proved victorious, and now they return to Hari Seldon’s long established plan to build a new Empire on the ruins of the old. But rumors persist that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all—and that i...

Data de lançamento: 1991-10-01 R$ 34,90

The first novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read   For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future—to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare tha...

Data de lançamento: 1991-10-01 R$ 29,90

The fifth novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION Golan Trevize, former Councilman of the First Foundation, has chosen the future, and it is Gaia. A superorganism, Gaia is a holistic planet with a common consciousness so intensely united that every dewdrop, every pebble, every being, can speak for all—and feel for all. It is a realm in which privacy is not only undesirable, it is incom...

Data de lançamento: 1986-09-03 R$ 34,90

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW AN EXCITING SERIES FROM NETFLIX • The shell that blew a hole in his chest was only the beginning in this “tour de force of genre-bending, a brilliantly realized exercise in science fiction.”— The New York Times Book Review In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. N...

Data de lançamento: 2003-01-01 R$ 47,90

The second novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION Led by its founding father, the psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and utilizing science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Now cleverness and courage may not be enough. For the Empire—the mightiest force in the Galaxy—is even more dangerous in its death throes. Even wor...

Data de lançamento: 1991-10-01 R$ 29,90

A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov’s Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together.   Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had little love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic companio...

Data de lançamento: 1991-11-01 R$ 29,90

The third novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION The Foundation lies in ruins—destroyed by a mutant mind bent on humanity’s annihilation. But it’s rumored that there’s a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established as insurance to preserve the knowledge of mankind. Now a desperate race has begun between the survivors of the First Foundation and an ali...

Data de lançamento: 1991-10-01 R$ 29,90

In the near future, enormous silver spaceships appear without warning over mankind's largest cities. They belong to the Overlords, an alien race far superior to humanity in technological development-and their purpose is to dominate the Earth. Their demands, however, are surprisingly beneficial-end war, poverty, and cruelty. Their presence, rather than signaling the end of humanity, ushers in a golden age-or so it seems. But it comes at a price. Without conflict, humanity ceases to work toward cr...

Data de lançamento: 2015-08-22 R$ 7,90

A novella set in the hard-scrabble world of James S. A. Corey's NYT -bestselling Expanse series, Gods of Risk tells the story of Bobbie Draper following the events of Caliban's War . This story will be available in the complete Expanse story collection, Memory’s Legion . HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES As tension between Mars and Earth mounts, and terrorism plagues the Martian city of Londres Nova, sixteen-year-old David Draper is fighting his own lonely war. A gifted chemist vying for ...

Data de lançamento: 2012-09-15 R$ 14,90

A millennium into the future two advances have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together. Detective Elijah Baiey is called to the Spacer world Aurora to solve a bizarre case of roboticide. The prime suspect is a gifted roboticist who had the means, the motive, and the opportunity t...

Data de lançamento: 1994-03-01 R$ 34,90

This classic science fiction masterwork by Isaac Asimov weaves stories about robots, humanity, and the deep questions of existence into a novel of shocking intelligence and heart.   “A must-read for science-fiction buffs and literature enjoyers alike.”— The Guardian I, Robot , the first and most widely read book in Asimov’s Robot series, forever changed the world’s perception of artificial intelligence. Here are stories of robots gone mad, of mind-reading robots, and robots with a...

Data de lançamento: 1991-11-01 R$ 29,90

William Gibson continues the visionary Sprawl Trilogy that began with Neuromancer in this frighteningly probable parable of the future. A corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he’s recovering from: to get a defecting chief of R&D—and the biochip he’s perfected—out intact. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties—some of whom aren...

Data de lançamento: 1987-04-01 R$ 7,90

Author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood's End, The City and the Stars, and the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke is the most celebrated science fiction author alive. He is—with H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, and Robert A. Heinlein—one of the writers who define science fiction in our time. Now Clarke has cooperated in the preparation of a massive, definitive edition of his collected shorter works. From early work like "Rescue Party" and "The Lion of Comarre,"...

Data de lançamento: 2015-02-20 R$ 39,90

Na cidade futurística de Metrópolis, a população divide-se em dois andares. No primeiro, uma elite dominante desfruta dos prazeres da vida; no segundo, subterrâneo, os trabalhadores lutam para sobreviver. Quando Freder, o filho do Senhor da grande Metrópolis e habitante do primeiro andar, se apaixona por Maria, da cidade subterrânea, começa a conhecer melhor as condições às quais os trabalhadores são submetidos. Uma revolta começa a surgir entre os operários, e só o que faltava pa...

Data de lançamento: 2019-10-20 R$ 69,90

Se você ainda tem dúvidas de que a ficção científica é a literatura das ideias, elas acabam aqui. Uma conspiração que controla o mundo, mas depende da mente de um tímido burocrata de Zurique. Céu e Inferno como redes sociais. A verdadeira face do amor traduzida pela linguagem matemática. A indústria cultural do futuro e seus problemas com a mecânica quântica. Religiosos em uma cidadela orbital planejando um milagre que supere a Ciência e restaure a Fé. Se você ainda tem dúvidas...

Data de lançamento: 2013-08-21 R$ 14,90

A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history:  the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain.  On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants.  To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets of New York with his positronic partner, the...

Data de lançamento: 1991-11-01 R$ 29,90

Praised as "an exhilarating thrill ride" that may never have you looking at the night sky the same way again, Chasing Shadows is the first book in the multimedia Sekret Machines franchise that will reveal fascinating secrets surrounding the true, well-documented events of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon.  Written by award-winning creator Tom DeLonge and NYTimes bestselling academic AJ Hartley in a powerful collaboration with top government advisors that keep the truth on course in this histo...

Data de lançamento: 2016-04-05 R$ 42,90

Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel, RINGWORLD remains a favorite among science fiction readers.  Louis Wu, accompanied by a young woman with genes for luck, and a captured kzin – a warlike species resembling 8-foot-tall cats -- are taken on a space ship run by a brilliant 2-headed alien called Nessus.  Their destination is the Ringworld, an artificially constructed ring with high walls that hold 3 million times the area of Earth. Its origins are shrouded in myst...

Data de lançamento: 2015-09-10 R$ 5,90

Robert A. Heinlein's brilliance and diverse talents are on display in this collection of five short stories that range from mind-twisters ("All You Zombies—"), paranoia and surprise ("They—"),  hilarious engineering conundrums ("—And They Built a Crooked House"), fantasies ("Our Fair City), and the beautiful, heart-breaking "The Man Who Travelled in Elephants". The story "All You Zombies—" is the basis for PREDESTINATION from Sony Pictures, just released in the US on January 9,...

Data de lançamento: 2013-11-25 Gênero:Ficção científica e fantasia R$ 22,90

One hundred classic stories from the celebrated author of Fahrenheit 451. In this, the first volume of Ray Bradbury's short stories, some of the author's finest works are published together, among them ‘Homecoming’, ‘Veldt’, ‘A Sound of Thunder’ and ‘The Long Rain’. Join an ill-fated crew of astronauts pushed to the brink of insanity by the incessant and highly corrosive rain on Venus, a high-tech virtual reality playroom that comes to life with terrible consequences, and a safar...

Data de lançamento: 2012-06-28 Gênero:Ficção científica e fantasia R$ 72,90

From the author of  Jurassic Park, Timeline,  and  Sphere  comes a captivating thriller about a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism, which threatens to annihilate human life.   Five prominent biophysicists have warned the United States government that sterilization procedures for returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, a probe satellite falls to the earth and lands in a desolate region of northea...

Data de lançamento: 1969-05-12 R$ 47,90

Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel • Discover the novel that launched one of science fiction’s most beloved, acclaimed, and awarded trilogies: Kim Stanley Robinson’s masterly near-future chronicle of interplanetary colonization.   “A staggering book . . . the best novel on the colonization of Mars that has ever been written.”—Arthur C. Clarke For centuries, the barren, desolate landscape of the red planet has beckoned to humankind. Now a group of one hundred colonists beg...

Data de lançamento: 1993-01-01 R$ 14,90

Há muito tempo, em uma galáxia muito, muito distante… havia uma princesa que virou lenda. Aos dezesseis anos, Princesa Leia Organa está prestes a encarar a missão mais desafiadora de sua vida até o momento: provar-se nas áreas do corpo, da mente e do coração para ser formalmente nomeada herdeira do trono de Alderaan. Mas Leia tem outras preocupações além de reivindicar seu direito à coroa: seus pais, Breha e Bail, vêm agindo de maneira estranha – estão distantes e apreensivos, ...

Data de lançamento: 2020-12-01 R$ 24,90

Quase no final da Segunda Grande Guerra, os nazistas secretamente conseguiram construir aeronaves discoides, Ufos-nazis, sob os códigos HAUNEBU III e VRIL-1. Mas será que tinham algo maior em mente? Será que existiam outros interesses por traz da ideologia UFO-nazi? Ou teriam realizado uma aliança secreta com alienígenas, atrás de tecnologias, barganhadas por conhecimento genético humano? Ulric Sedrez se vê envolvido numa trama onde Rh negativos são escolhidos por secretas entidades ocu...

Data de lançamento: 2018-11-19 R$ 42,90

New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson returns with a bold and brilliant vision of New York City in the next century. As the sea levels rose, every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island. For the residents of one apartment building in Madison Square, however, New York in the year 2140 is far from a drowned city. There is the market trader, who finds opportunities where others find trouble. There is the detective, whose work will never disappear -- along with the lawyer...

Data de lançamento: 2017-03-14 R$ 52,90

Turning back is not an option... A mission to Mars is doomed from the beginning, but no one sees the signs. When the radar goes out millions of miles from home, the Atlas crew begins to realize they might be lost. Running out of fuel, oxygen and time, they must decipher the chaotic star charts and find a way to salvage their mission - without sacrificing themselves.

Data de lançamento: 2011-11-30 R$ 19,90

Paul Conway, born to brilliance, has a mind that flashes and sparks scientific fireworks. Desperately isolated, he lives in a world of theories and formulae few can understand. Until he meets shy, loving Samantha--the love he's only dreamed of. He loves her so much,he cannot let her go when tragically, Samantha is lost, he vows to find a way to keep his beloved with him--for just a little longer.

Data de lançamento: 2011-11-08 R$ 3,90

“Reading Manifold: Time is like sending your mind to the gym for a brisk workout. If you don’t feel both exhausted and exhilirated when you’re done, you haven’t been working hard enough.”— The New York Times Book Review The year is 2010. More than a century of ecological damage, industrial and technological expansion, and unchecked population growth has left the Earth on the brink of devastation. As the world’s governments turn inward, one man dares to envision a bolder, brighter f...

Data de lançamento: 2000-01-04 R$ 10,90

Welcome back to the brash, brutal new world of the twenty-fifth century: where global politics isn’t just for planet Earth anymore; and where death is just a break in the action, thanks to the techno-miracle that can preserve human consciousness and download it into one new body after another. Cynical, quick-on-the-trigger Takeshi Kovacs, the ex-U.N. envoy turned private eye, has changed careers, and bodies, once more . . . trading sleuthing for soldiering as a warrior-for-hire, and helping a ...

Data de lançamento: 2004-03-02 R$ 52,90

A Hugo award-winning Novel! “Vinge is one of the best visionary writers of SF today.” — David Brin Thirty-Thousand years before A Fire Upon the Deep , humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds. The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap unimaginable riches. But first, both groups must wait at the aliens' very doorstep...

Data de lançamento: 2007-04-01 R$ 72,90

Obi-Wan Kenobi e Anakin Skywalker devem conter as Guerras Clônicas e forjar um novo vínculo como cavaleiros Jedi nessa aventura ambientada logo após os eventos do filme Star Wars: Episódio II Ataque dos Clones. As Guerras Clônicas começaram. Frentes de batalha se desenham por toda a galáxia. A paz que a Ordem Jedi protege lhe escapa pelos dedos a cada mundo que se une aos Separatistas. Após uma explosão devastar Cato Neimoidia, a joia da Federação do Comércio, a República é culpada...

Data de lançamento: 2022-10-05 R$ 29,90

In Nebula Award–winning author Jack McDevitt’s ninth installment in the beloved Alex Benedict science fiction mystery series, humanity discovers new intelligent life lightyears away—only for it to disappear without a trace. Centuries after a war with the Mutes, the first aliens to be encountered by humankind, a startling new discovery in the far reaches of the Orion Nebula appears. On a planet with conditions favorable to life, explorer vessel The Columbia comes across a small town seeming...

Data de lançamento: 2023-01-31 R$ 62,90

A collection of twenty classic short stories by Isaac Asimov, author of the Foundation series, featuring the definitive version of “Nightfall” From one of history’s most influential writers of science fiction comes this collection of twenty short works of fiction, arranged in order of publication from 1941 to 1967. Compiled by Asimov himself, who prefaced each story with an introduction, it begins with “Nightfall,” the tale of a world with eternal sun that is suddenly plunged into tota...

Data de lançamento: 2021-07-13 R$ 19,90

The third and final book in the Galactic Empire series, the spectacular precursor to the classic Foundation series, by one of history’s most influential writers of science fiction, Isaac Asimov  After years of bitter struggle, Trantor had at last completed its work—its Galactic Empire ruled all 200 million planets of the Galaxy . . . all but one. On a backward planet called Earth were those who nurtured bitter dreams of a mythical, half-remembered past when the planet was...

Data de lançamento: 2020-09-01 R$ 47,90

Return to the dazzling world of Revelation Space with this British Science Fiction Award-winning space opera about a young man hell-bent on revenge on the surface of a twisted, disease-corrupted planet. The once-utopian Chasm City -- a domed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet -- has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague, capable of infecting any body, organic or computerized. Now, with the entire city corrupted -- from the people to the very buildings they inhabit...

Data de lançamento: 2020-04-21 R$ 57,90

In 2021 a monster solar flare caused a gigantic geomagnetic storm that shut all satellites down. Internet and everything related to it goes down too for the following four days. Due to energy overload, power grids and phone lines stopped working in most areas. Companies kept their gates closed, banks put their shutters down and supermarkets were overrun by people. Airborne traffic was blocked and public transports suspended. Traffic lights shutting down caused incidents and distress worldwide. C...

Data de lançamento: 2019-05-24 Gênero:Ficção científica e fantasia R$ 3,90

K. M. Szpara's Docile is a science fiction parable about love and sex, wealth and debt, abuse and power, a challenging tour de force that at turns seduces and startles. There is no consent under capitalism. To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Docile is to forget, to disappear, to hide inside your body from the horrors of your service. To be a Docile is to sell yourself to pay your parents' debts and buy your children's future. Elisha W...

Data de lançamento: 2020-03-03 R$ 72,90

El sexto volumen de la saga «Malaz: El Libro de los Caídos». Los cazahuesos es la sexta entrega de la saga «Malaz: El Libro de los Caídos», la decalogía originalmente publicada entre 1999 y 2011 que ha convertido al escritor canadiense Steven Erikson en una de las mayores voces de la fantasía épica contemporánea. Desde entonces, esta obra maestra de la imaginación está considerada una de las series más ambiciosas que ha dado el género en los últimos años. La crítica ha dicho: «...

Data de lançamento: 2019-02-07 R$ 42,90

Um grupo de espiões psíquicos da SCOPE chamados 'guardiões do tempo' está numa busca por um assassino, que pula pelo tempo atrás de seres alienígenas aprisionados em espelhos. Guiado por um espírito evoluído e a concepção de passado, presente e futuro de grandes filósofos, Ulric Sedrez vai ter que aprender a controlar sua paranormalidade a fim de se tornar um guardião, controlando o tempo de um mundo paralelo, bizarro em meio à metáfora de vida e morte.

Data de lançamento: 2018-11-22 R$ 47,90

A perda de caro RORT, robô de reconhecimento nas tempestades de Marte compõe a mais complexa teoria de conspiração em que a Almirante Kimberly Sathi Aguiar se envolveu. Estava pressionada e sem muitas opções a tomar com o maior investimento da SCOPE, uma corporação de inteligência ultrassecreta. Não havia alternativas a não ser propor um jogo perigoso entre a família Sedrez e os Pallet-Parret, para desenvolver um software capaz de resgatar o ROBOT através de uma concorrência, em me...

Data de lançamento: 2018-11-14 R$ 42,90

O conhecimento sobre um misterioso projeto da SCOPE, uma corporação de inteligência ultrassecreta, está correndo risco de vir à tona. A comunidade científica se move para saber se terremotos estão sendo fabricados por artefatos construídos por uma inteligência superior a raça humana, nas mãos de agentes psíquicos da SCOPE. A saga do jovem Ulric Sedrez começa quando ele é envolvido numa trama internacional atrás de um código que julgam ele possuir. Desenvolvendo cada vez mais ráp...

Data de lançamento: 2018-11-13 Gênero:Ficção científica e fantasia R$ 32,90

São tempos de calamidade no Departamento de Inspeção de Elevadores de uma grande metrópole, e Lila Mae Watson, a primeira mulher negra inspetora de elevadores da história do departamento, está no centro de tudo. O departamento é formado por dois grupos rivais: Os Empiristas, que trabalham de acordo com as regras, cuidadosamente verificando se não há estriamentos nos cabos de guincho e coisas afins; e os Intuicionistas, que são simplesmente aptos a entrar no elevador em questão, medita...

Data de lançamento: 2018-06-01 R$ 29,90

Neal Stephenson combina ciencia, filosofía, tecnología, psicología y literatura en una excelente obra de ficción especulativa que nos ofrece un retrato de un futuro simultáneamente extraordinario y reconocible. Neal Stephenson vuelve con su mejor obra desde Criptonomicón , un golpe de autoridad en la ciencia ficción actual que ha logrado colarse en la lista de más vendidos del New York Times , crear una gran expectación ante su publicación, convencer unánimamente a la crítica y los l...

Data de lançamento: 2016-04-26 R$ 32,90