The novel “Anticipation Day” by Jeff Michelson was published for the first time in 2024.

2026. Dr. Joshua Lee presents a new technology capable of generating an absolutely realistic simulation in the human mind thanks to the connection with a quantum computer system. The USA administration decides to support the project not only to offer a pastime but also as a way to improve people’s lives.

2031. A group of friends gather for a dinner that is truly special because everyone will have the opportunity to experience a simulation created according to their requests. Each of them will be well aware of the fact that these aren’t real experiences, but their perceptions will be completely realistic. This will force them to reflect on their lives and their choices, with consequences of various kinds.

The novel “Planet of the Apes”, also known as “Monkey Planet” (“La Planète des Singes”), by Pierre Boulle was published for the first time in 1963. It was translated into English by Xan Fielding.

Jinn and Phyllis are spending a vacation in space when they come across a message in a bottle abandoned in space. It contains a manuscript in which the journalist Ulisse Mérou tells his incredible story.

Ulisse Mérou was invited by Professor Antelle to be part of a scientific expedition in the system of the star Betelgeuse. There, the space explorers found a planet very similar to Earth and landed there with a small spacecraft. The surprise of finding beings completely similar to humans was surpassed only by the discovery that the rulers of the planet are sentient apes.

The novel “Irontown Blues” by John Varley was published for the first time in 2018. It’s part of the Eight Worlds series.

When a mysterious woman hires Christopher Bach to find the man who infected her with a genetically modified virus, the private investigator immediately suspects that something doesn’t add up. The main problem is that he’s supposed to look for the alleged culprit in Irontown, a Moon city where the inhabitants make their own laws.

Christopher Bach has very bad memories of Irontown connected to the time when he was a cop. He knows very well that he must move with great caution even if he’s assisted by Sherlock, a genetically modified dog who considers him his pack leader.

The novel “Speaker for the Dead” by Orson Scott Card was published for the first time in 1986. It’s the second book in the Ender’s Game series and follows “Ender’s Game”. It won the Hugo and Nebula Awards as the best novel of the year.

Pipo is a xenologist who studies the sentient alien species that was discovered on the planet Lusitania. The rules regarding his work are very strict, so he can have limited contact and above all exchanges with those who are familiarly called pigs. When Pipo is killed by the pigs for incomprehensible reasons, his son Libo continues the work but Novinha, who used to be Pipo’s apprentice, has secreted crucial information on the affair.

Andrew “Ender” Wiggin is a Speaker for the Dead and receives via ansible Novinha’s request to write an elegy for Pipo. When he discovers the story of the pigs of Lusitania, he realizes that for him, it’s the opportunity to make amends for his past and find a new home for the queen of the Formics he has been carrying with him for a long time. When he arrives on Lusitania, Ender discovers that Libo has also been killed by the pigs.