M. K. Stuyter Libri

A Fire Upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale. Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these "regions of thought," but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence. Fleeing the threat, a family of scientists, including two children, are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. A rescue mission, not entirely composed of humans, must rescue the children-and a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization. A Fire Upon The Deep is the winner of the 1993 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

Book Five in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time Leto Atreides, the God Emperor of Dune, is dead. In the fifteen hundred years since his passing, the Empire has fallen into ruin. The great Scattering saw millions abandon the crumbling civilization and spread out beyond the reaches of known space. The planet Arrakis—now called Rakis—has reverted to its desert climate, and its great sandworms are dying. Now the Lost Ones are returning home in pursuit of power. And as these factions vie for control over the remnants of the Empire, a girl named Sheeana rises to prominence in the wastelands of Rakis, sending religious fervor throughout the galaxy. For she possesses the abilities of the Fremen sandriders—fulfilling a prophecy foretold by the late God Emperor....

Nascosta sul pianeta della Casa Capitolare, Odrade, la Madre Superiora del Bene Gesserit, difende l'ultimo baluardo contro l'offensiva delle sanguinarie Matres Onorate. Un sogno inquietante turba le sue notti: qualcuno, di cui non riece a scorgere il volto, la insegue minaccioso e implacabile...Qual è la temibile trappola che la Regina Ragno sta tessendo per distruggere definitivamente la Sorellanza dopo averla costretta a disperdersi per tutta la galassia? ? Intanto Odrade, sempre più sola e isolata, assiste alla desertificazione del pianeta che lei stessa ha ordinato con un preciso obiettivo: ricreare l'antico ciclo ecologico dei mostruosi vermi della sabbia.

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