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<p>It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend.</p> <p>One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of "what do people need?" is answered.</p> <p>But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how.</p> <p>They're going to need to ask it <em>a lot.</em></p> <p>Becky Chambers's new series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?</p>

Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's future generations and to protect all living creatures, present and future. It soon became known as the Ministry for the Future, and this is its story. From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Told entirely through fictional eye-witness accounts, The Ministry For The Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, the story of how climate change will affect us all over the decades to come. Its setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us - and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face. It is a novel both immediate and impactful, desperate and hopeful in equal measure, and it is one of the most powerful and original books on climate change ever written.

<p>Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.</p> <p>In the ashes of a dying world, Red finds a letter marked “Burn before reading. Signed, Blue.”</p> <p>So begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents in a war that stretches through the vast reaches of time and space.</p> <p>Red belongs to the Agency, a post-singularity technotopia. Blue belongs to Garden, a single vast consciousness embedded in all organic matter. Their pasts are bloody and their futures mutually exclusive. They have nothing in common—save that they’re the best, and they’re alone.</p> <p>Now what began as a battlefield boast grows into a dangerous game, one both Red and Blue are determined to win. Because winning’s what you do in war. Isn’t it?</p> <p>A tour de force collaboration from two powerhouse writers that spans the whole of time and space.</p>

Das Buch beginnt mit einem wirklich beklemmenden Kapitel, das einen gerade in diesen heißen Tagen so schnell nicht wieder loslässt: Eine noch nie dagewesene Hitzewelle erfasst eine Region in Indien. Wir erfahren davon aus der Perspektive von Frank, einem Mitarbeiter einer Hilfsorganisation. Die Situation ist hoffnungslos, ohne Klimaanlagen ist Überleben nicht möglich, der Strom fällt aus, die Leute fliehen in den See, doch selbst dort ist die Temperatur zu hoch, um zu überleben.

<p>It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend.</p> <p>One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of "what do people need?" is answered.</p> <p>But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how.</p> <p>They're going to need to ask it <em>a lot.</em></p> <p>Becky Chambers's new series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?</p>

Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's future generations and to protect all living creatures, present and future. It soon became known as the Ministry for the Future, and this is its story. From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Told entirely through fictional eye-witness accounts, The Ministry For The Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, the story of how climate change will affect us all over the decades to come. Its setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us - and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face. It is a novel both immediate and impactful, desperate and hopeful in equal measure, and it is one of the most powerful and original books on climate change ever written.

<p>A mission to Mars.</p> <p>A freak accident.</p> <p>One man's struggle to survive.</p> <p>Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate the planet while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded on Mars' surface, completely alone. with no way to signal Earth that he's alive. And even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone years before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, Mark won't have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old "human error" are much more likely to kill him first. But Mark's not ready to quit. Armed with nothing but his ingenuity and his engineering skills—and a gallows sense of humor that proves to be his greatest source of strength—he embarks on a dogged quest to stay alive, using his botany expertise to grow food and even hatching a mad plan to contact NASA back on Earth. As he overcomes one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next, Mark begins to let himself believe he might make it off the planet alive. But Mars has plenty of surprises in store for him yet. Grounded in real, present-day science from the first page to the last, yet propelled by a brilliantly ingenious plot that surprises the reader again and again, The Martian is a truly remarkable thriller: an impossible-to-put-down suspense novel that manages tc read like a real-life survival tale.</p>

<p>Jazz Bashara is a criminal.</p> <p>Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent.</p> <p>Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down. But pulling off the impossible is just the start of her problems, as she learns that she's stepped square into a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself—and that now, her only chance at survival lies in a gambit even riskier than the first.</p>

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Jeanne ist 74 Jahre alt und hat vor kurzem ihren Mann verloren, die große Liebe ihres Lebens. Und nun merkt sie, dass sie mit ihrer kleinen Rente die liebgewonnene Wohnung nicht mehr lange wird bezahlen können. In ihrer Verzweiflung fasst sie den Entschluss, ein Zimmer unterzuvermieten. Am Ende werden es gleich zwei: Téo ist 18, Lehrling in einer Konditorei, und obdachlos. Er sucht ganz dringend eine Bleibe. Und auch Iris, 33 Jahre alt, ist verzweifelt: Sie ist aus einer toxischen Beziehung ins anonyme Paris geflüchtet, lebt aus dem Koffer, doch ihr wochenweise gemietetes Apartment wird plötzlich nicht verlängert und sie findet sich auf der Straße wieder.

So werden die drei ganz plötzlich eine Wohngemeinschaft. Wissen nicht so recht, was sie miteinander anfangen sollen. Erste zarte Versuche, sich gegenseitig zu verstehen, doch es dauert, bis sie sich langsam einander annähern.