Andy Weir Libros

Ryland Grace es el único superviviente en una misión desesperada. Es la última oportunidad y, si fracasa, la humanidad y la Tierra misma perecerán. Claro que, de momento, él no lo sabe. Ni siquiera puede recordar su propio nombre, y mucho menos la naturaleza de su misión o cómo llevarla a cabo. Lo único que sabe es que ha estado en coma inducido durante mucho mucho tiempo. Acaba de despertar y se encuentra a millones de kilómetros de su hogar, sin más compañía que la de dos cadáveres. Muertos sus compañeros de tripulación, y a medida que va recuperando confusamente los recuerdos, Grace se da cuenta de que se enfrenta a una misión imposible. Recorriendo el espacio en una pequeña nave, depende de él acabar con una amenaza de extinción para nuestra especie. Sin apenas tiempo y con el ser humano más cercano a años luz de distancia, habrá de conseguirlo estando completamente solo. ¿O no? Proyecto Hail Mary, una aventura interestelar irresistible como solo Andy Weir podía imaginar, es una historia de descubrimiento, especulación y supervivencia a la altura de El marciano, que nos lleva a lugares que nunca soñamos alcanzar

"Hace seis días, el astronauta Mark Watney se convirtió en una de las primeras personas en caminar por la superficie de Marte. Ahora, el está seguro de que va a ser la primera persona en morir allí. Después de que una tormenta de polvo casi lo mata y obliga a su tripulación a evacuar mientras lo hacian muerto, Mark se encuentra atrapado y completamente solo, sin manera de siquiera dar una señal a la tierra de que está vivo, y aunque el pudiera conseguir palabra hacia fuera, sus suministros se irian mucho antes de que el rescate pudiera llegar."--Amazon

A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this incredible new science-based thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Martian. Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crew mates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, he realises that an impossible task now confronts him. Alone on this tiny ship that's been cobbled together by every government and space agency on the planet and hurled into the depths of space, it's up to him to conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And thanks to an unexpected ally, he just might have a chance. Part scientific mystery, part dazzling interstellar journey, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian - while taking us to places it never dreamed of going

She grew up on the moon, of course she has a dark side... Jazz Bashara is a criminal. 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. 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 Jazz's 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 more unlikely than the first.

The three meet here, at Cheshire Crossing—a boarding school where girls like them learn how to cope with their supernatural experiences and harness their magical world-crossing powers. But the trio—now teenagers, who’ve had their fill of meddling authority figures—aren’t content to sit still in a classroom. Soon they’re dashing from one universe to the next, leaving havoc in their wake—and, inadvertently, bringing the Wicked Witch and Hook together in a deadly supervillain love match. To stop them, the girls will have to draw on all of their powers . . . and marshal a team of unlikely allies from across the magical multiverse. Written by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Martian, Andy Weir, and illustrated by beloved Sarah’s Scribbles creator, Sarah Andersen, Cheshire Crossing is a funny, breakneck, boundlessly inventive journey through classic worlds as you’ve never seen them before.

Artemida - yedinstvennyy gorod na Lune. Lyudi zdes' zanimayutsya temi zhe delami, k kotorym privykli u sebya na rodine. Stroiteli i uchenyye, vladel'tsy nebol'shikh lavochek i predstaviteli krupnogo biznesa - i samym dokhodnym, konechno, yavlyayetsya turizm. Desyatki tysyach lyubopytnykh pribyvayut na Lunu, chtoby proyti po poverkhnosti chuzhoy planety, poigrat' na korte ili dazhe zanyat'sya lyubov'yu pri sile tyazhesti v 1/6 ot zemnoy. V obshchem, gorod kak gorod. I zhiteli yego podverzheny obychnym chelovecheskim strastyam. Devushka-kur'yer po imeni Dzhaz mechtayet kogda-nibud' zarabotat' dostatochno, chtoby priobresti skafandr i litsenziyu gida. Vodit' turistov po poverkhnosti planety, byt' uvazhayemym chlenom obshchestva. No ne tak-to prosto sovershit' skachok s odnoy sotsial'noy stupeni na druguyu...S prisushchim yemu masterstvom i vnimaniyem k mel'chayshim detalyam Endi Veyyer, avtor velikolepnogo Marsianina,- otkryvayet novuyu glavu beskonechnoy sagi ob osvoyenii Solnechnoy sistemy!

Mark Watney è stato uno dei primi astronauti a mettere piede su Marte. Ma il suo momento di gloria è durato troppo poco. Un’improvvisa tempesta lo ha quasi ucciso e i suoi compagni di spedizione, credendolo morto, sono fuggiti e hanno fatto ritorno sulla Terra. Ora Mark si ritrova completamente solo su un pianeta inospitale e non ha nessuna possibilità di mandare un segnale alla base. E in ogni caso i viveri non basterebbero fino all’arrivo dei soccorsi. Nonostante tutto, con grande ostinazione Mark decide di tentare il possibile per sopravvivere. Ricorrendo alle sue conoscenze ingegneristiche e a una gran dose di ottimismo e caparbietà, affronterà un problema dopo l’altro e non si perderà d’animo. Fino a quando gli ostacoli si faranno insormontabili…