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Who better to narrate today's best science-fiction stories than today's favorite science-fiction stars? This exciting collection features many.

Nueve años después de la desastrosa misión Discovery a Júpiter en 2001, una nueva expedición formada por estadounidenses y rusos parte para encontrar la nave perdida y buscar en el banco de datos del rebelde ordenador HAL 9000 algo que explique qué ocurrió y dónde está el comandante Bowman. Mientras tanto, el ser que fue una vez Dave Bowman—el único humano que podía dar la clave sobre el misterio del monolito—se dirige hacia la Tierra en una misión vital...

Año 2130. Después del impacto de un enorme asteroide que destruye Padua y Verona, se crea en un sofisticado sistema de detectar la trayectoria de cualquier objeto que se detecte desde la Tierra De esta forma los astrónomos detectan un misterioso asteroide, al que bautizan como «Rama», que está a punto de cruzar el sistema solar. Se trata de un cilindro perfecto de unos cincuenta kilómetros de largo, que gira a una velocidad fuera de lo normal y viaja por el espacio en línea recta.

La felicidad no es la meta, y la infelicidad no es la enemiga. Es posible ser más feliz de lo que ya eres. Cuando todo en la vida va bien, es fácil confiar en el futuro; pero cuando nos sentimos estancados y sin motivación, parece que los días buenos jamás volverán. Oprah Winfrey y Arthur C. Brooks te enseñan a cimentar los pilares para una felicidad que no dependa de las circunstancias externas.

Ready for a story? Here's a selection of some of the finest science fiction shorts of recent years, including stories from Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, William Gibson, Robert Sheckley, Terry Bisson, Avram Davidson, and Philip K. Dick.

On November 26, 1922, after eight years of relentless exploration in the Valley of the Kings, renowned archaeologist Howard Carter made a groundbreaking discovery—the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen, an 18th dynasty pharaoh dating back to around 1300 BCE. Unlike any tomb excavated before, this remarkable find was virtually untouched by tomb raiders. Carters famous exclamation upon his first glimpse inside, Wonderful things! has echoed through history. The meticulous excavation took another eight years, unveiling an astonishing 5,398 artifacts, most of which are now proudly displayed in the ...

Who are the happiest Americans? Surveys show that religious people think they are happier than secularists, and secularists think they are happier than religious people. Liberals believe they are happier than conservatives, and conservatives disagree. In fact, almost every group thinks it is happier than everyone else. In this provocative new book, Arthur C. Brooks explodes the myths about happiness in America.

Em Cada vez mais forte, o especialista em felicidade e autor best-seller Arthur C. Brooks revela um caminho diferente e promissor. Valendo-se das ciências, da filosofia clássica, da teologia e da história, ele compartilha estratégias contraintuitivas para nos desvencilharmos de velhos hábitos e aderir a novas práticas. As transformações da vida são inevitáveis, mas o sofrimento não. Cada vez mais forte mostra como aceitar os presentes da segunda metade da vida com alegria e propósito.

In his controversial study of America's giving habits, Arthur C. Brooks shatters stereotypes about charity in America - including the myth that the political Left is more compassionate than the Right. Brooks, a preeminent public policy expert, spent years researching giving trends in America, and even he was surprised by what he found. In Who Really Cares, he identifies the forces behind American charity.

Nove anni dopo il disastro, il relitto della Discovery vaga abbandonato nello spazio interplanetario, portando con sé i misteri del fallimento di quella missione. Ora, una spedizione congiunta di astronauti russi e americani ha il compito di raggiungere la nave spaziale alla deriva e scandagliare la memoria di Hal 9000, l'intelligenza artificiale deviata che ha portato la Discovery alla rovina. Perché il computer si è ammutinato? Che fine ha fatto l'equipaggio? Cosa ne è stato del comandante Bowman?

Dane Donovan is in Paris, but he is not starting over. Neither is he looking back. He’s picking up where he left off—now, more than ever, determined to get it right. Four years ago she was a mistake, but unfortunately for Dane, walking away may not be an option this time around. To bring her cousin home, Zera Kennedy would give up everything she worked for…but now that the kidnapper’s trail has gone cold, Zera is not sure she’ll be able to achieve her goal, and until she does, returning home is not an option. Neither is staying away from Dane Donovan once he walks back into her life.

2001 : l'odyssée de l'espace - roman et film - ce fut l'épique exploration spatiale qui passionna le monde et provoqua de nombreuses questions : comment Dave Bowman s'est-il transformé en Enfant des Etoiles ? Pourquoi Hal, l'ordinateur plein de science et de sagesse, a-t-il assassiné l'équipage du Discovery ? 2010 : odyssée deux, c'est une nouvelle aventure, celle des hommes qui, neuf ans après, vont se lancer dans l'espace, bien décidés à rapporter à la Terre les réponses attendues.

Rama II, gigantesque vaisseau-monde, quitte le système solaire. À son bord, Richard, Michael et Nicole. Destination ? Le Point Nodal, une station spatiale démesurée, où les extraterrestres ont décidé d'étudier toutes les espèces de l'univers capables d'explorer l'espace. En attendant, un habitat de type terrestre est aménagé sur Rama pour les trois humains, sur lesquels les E.T. se livrent à des expériences. Puis le vaisseau est renvoyé sur Terre ; deux mille hommes et femmes devront s'y installer afin que les E.T. puissent les observer à leur guise.

When Rita McCall discovers her husband’s affair, there isn’t a lick of surprise—not a single tear or broken heart. Just a wife and mother who’s over it and ready to watch her twenty-three-year marriage go up in flames. Sticking close, thick as thieves since childhood, Rita’s unfailingly loyal cousins Jemel and Sharae become her lifeline. They stand beside her as she contemplates a new career and navigates the murky waters of being a preacher’s daughter disgraced by scandal.

What if you could stay younger longer? What if you could change and control the way you age? What if, biologically, you could become 10 or 20 years younger than your actual age? What if you could learn to positively stress your body to become the best version of yourself? What if you could maximize the benefits of exercise and get the results you want faster without wasting time? What if you were given access to the information that only a small group of scientists know?

A spaceship crew from an advanced alien civilization notices that Earth faces imminent destruction as its sun begins to explode. With time rapidly ticking down, the crew desperately searches a now-desolate planet for any possible human survivors.

There is a persistent and incorrect idea, reinforced by countless film misrepresentations, that Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were always staid and dull British chaps of middle years (or older), with Holmes a spry, cranky, and impatient eccentric, and Watson a white-haired and portly Boobus Brittanicus, a la Nigel Bruce. Students of the true and Canonical Sherlock Holmes know this to be a falsehood. When we first meet them on January 1, 1881, Holmes is still 26 years old (although he will turn 27 in just a few days), and Watson, already a wounded war veteran, is only 28.

Setenta y cinco años después, el cometa Halley vuelve a completar su recorrido orbital. Heywood Floyd es elegido para formar parte del grupo que, a bordo de la Universe, pretende instalarse en el astro errante. Al mismo tiempo, la cosmonave Galaxy ha tenido que realizar un aterrizaje de emergencia en Europa, la luna del antiguo planeta Júpiter, que los dueños del monolito han convertido en el sol Lucifer.

Ex-Hollywood stuntman, Noah Jordan doesn’t mind walking the difficult path—he’d done it all his life. From catching a juvie charge, to living the wildlife with money, drugs and sex in the City of Angels, he never backed down from a fight. None of that mattered where Serra Davis was concerned—her rich and privileged upbringing was something his gruff and tumble life on the streets couldn’t beat.

Ethan Henley traded in his suit, tie and Secret Service badge to mix drinks at the Game Changers Sports Bar he now co-owns with his childhood friends. Returning to their hometown where they’d been branded the “bad boys” wasn’t part of their plan, but now that they’re back, they’re determined to prove everyone in town wrong. For Ethan, that means making amends with the girl whose heart he’d unintentionally broken during high school.