Space Science Fiction Anthology

Michelangelo Fazio, autore di tre racconti di fantascienza, capace di coniugare divulgazione scientifica e racconto, introduce il lettore nel mondo delle leggi dello spazio-tempo e della relatività di Einstein. La comicità di Fazio e la sua passione per la scienza trovano collocazione ideale in queste storie brevi ambientate in mondi fantastici.

Strange disembodied entities enjoy an unusual dinner out at a restaurant on the edge of the galaxy. The menu is to die for.

The starways' Lone Watcher had expected some odd developments in his singular, nerve-fraught job on the asteroid. But nothing like the weird, twenty-one-day liquid test devised by the invading Steel-Blues. Unlike the usual style of audiobook, this release has a music and effects soundtrack backing the narration, giving it a radio play feel rather than a straightforward reading.

Amadeus of Alpha Centauri governs Artemis Mining Station. He is charged with overseeing the traumatized populations of Earth and Mars who are sentenced to slave in the mines. He does so with a devilish charm and an iron fist. Trinity of Earth is a member of an insurgency, who are launching a desperate, explosive ploy to evict their sworn enemies out of the Core forever. Jonas of Proxima heads the investigation into the bombings.

On a planet where the locals of a certain age go rogue, it's up to the human keepers to track the crazies. The human keepers must follow them deep into the planet through twisting, claustrophobic tunnels in order to restrain or terminate them.

But these seek-and-destroy missions rarely go according to plan...

The story unpeels layer after layer of the reasons and meanings behind the lives of generations on Earth's first colonization space ship and the political motivations behind it. Those who may land and create a new life, have never been to Earth, but were born on this ship and raised by those who were. Some of which will never see the new world they were sent to colonize.

In this new collection of flights of the imagination follow a space shuttle crew as they venture sixty million miles from home, discover what happens when a writer 'with the future's eye' believes his friend to be writing stories aboard a UFO, and listen in on a couple talking themselves backward through time to the moment when they first held hands.

Graduate student Laurie Miller makes an unexpected find while working at an archeological excavation site in the Orange Quadrant. When she learns that the head archeologist has taken credit for her discovery, her revenge comes from a surprising and ancient source.

Ahora bien, dado que la gente se había olvidado de los terribles acontecimientos ocurridos, y que solo algunos científicos observaban la fuente de la barrera, una joven piloto se encuentra atrapada en una época interesante en la que la Singularidad comienza a reaccionar por primera vez desde su aparición.

On the basis of our suddenly accelerated rate of scientific progress your children's children may well live on another planet. An actual concept of such a life is difficult to get. For instance, can you conceive living in a world where the life or death of your child hinged on the capacity of a portable oxygen tank? The strength of a plastic helmet? A world where distance is not measured in miles but in buckets of liquid air? This is a story of such a world and of tomorrow's children.

When Jack becomes the captain on a trip to the center of the universe to investigate how the cosmos all started, it seems straightforward enough. But tensions rise among the team's lead scientist and engineer. Then suddenly, they become uncertain of whether they'll ever come back from their mission. This uncertainty may undermine the operation. But if they fail to find the answers they seek, the universe may cease to exist, along with humanity and all other life forms.