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When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food-delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls “an animal rights organization”. Tom’s team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on. What Tom doesn't tell Jamie is that the animals his team cares for are not here on Earth. Not our Earth, at at least. In an alternate dimension, dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju roam a warm and human-free world.

Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed stand-alone novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Who will inherit this new Earth? The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age - a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden.

Two Syndicate World star systems have fallen prey to a mysterious fleet of warships - a fleet controlled entirely by artificial intelligence - that is now targeting Alliance space. The warships are no mystery to Geary. They were developed by his government to ensure security but malfunctioned. If the Syndics learn the truth, the war with the Alliance will resume with a vengeance.

Ellen Ripley finally returns to Earth, only to discover that LV-426 — where the crew of the Nostromo first came into contact with the deadly xenomorphs — has been renamed Acheron. Protected by Colonial Marines, the colonists seek to terraform the storm-swept planet against all the odds. But in the face of brutal living conditions and the daily struggles of a new world, there is humanity and hope.

Alan Dean Foster is the acclaimed author of movie tie-ins for Star Wars, Alien and Transformers. He was awarded the IAMTW Grand Master Scribe Award in 2008. He is also a best-selling science fiction and fantasy author in his own right, including the popular Pip & Flinx novels and the Founding of the Commonwealth series.

Audible donne vie au script d'Alien III, écrit par William Gibson. Ce projet de film avait été abandonné, puis (re)découvert, à l'occasion du 40e anniversaire de la naissance de la franchise Alien. A découvrir désormais en audio ! En 1987, William Gibson, père du cyberpunk, termine l'écriture d'un scénario original pour Alien III.

Cities were crushed by the falling spacecraft, but one ship didn't crash. It remained intact and disgorged hordes of alien soldiers determined to fight to the death. The abandoned vessels also contained a wealth of advanced technology. Led by David Levinson, the greatest minds of our world developed deadly new hybrid weapons. Bases were built on the moon, Mars, and beyond. A new generation of defenders had to be trained, for the invaders would return.

The West Texas desert towns of Inferno and Bordertown have been slowly dying. The Snake River isn’t the only thing that divides them. Racism and gang wars have turned the sun-scorched flatlands into a powder keg. If anything can unite them now, it’s the UFO that comes crashing through the clouds. It brings with it a young alien named Daufin, a fugitive who has taken human form. She knows the terror that awaits this planet—because it’s looking for her.

Fünf Jahre nach den weltverändernden Ereignissen auf Europa erreicht eine neue Mission den Eismond. Unter kilometerdickem Eis, im Schatten des Jupiters, birgt die fremde Welt Geheimnisse, die das menschliche Verständnis von Leben und Bewusstsein herausfordern. Während eine internationale Crew darum ringt, das mysteriöse Wrack in den Tiefen des Ozeans zu reaktivieren und Kontakt zu dem Außerirdischen aufzunehmen, geraten Wissenschaft und Technik an ihre Grenzen. Auf der Erde kämpft Dr.

At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredibly, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike prepare for mankind's first encounter with alien intelligence.

Commander David Bryce returned from his mission, successful, with a derelict alien ship that wasn’t as empty as predicted. With the assistance of an old ally, David is hell-bent on stopping the invasion before it begins. There’s just one problem; the Signal is hidden somewhere on Earth. Atlas Donovan is the only man capable of helping them, and it’s unclear whether he can trust the ORB employees. One thing is clear: Aliens have been to Earth, and from the looks of it, not just a single race. There were two.

Arlo Lewis was resigned to his station in life as a supply hauler for one of the Primary Corporations ruling Earth, until an acquisition forces him to re-evaluate his situation. When he’s hand selected to lead SeaTech’s Race team, he struggles to return to the competitive field he abandoned as a teenager. With an eager team, and the promise of a better future, Arlo takes on the challenge, only to find more at stake than the rights to Proxima. Under the threat of a revolution brewing at the finish line, things don’t go as expected.

Harry Creek es un funcionario de bajo nivel del Departamento de Estado con un trabajo nada agradable: transmitir malas noticias a los embajadores alienígenos en la Tierra. Pero también es un héroe de guerra y un habilidoso hacker. Así que cuando la Tierra se enfrenta a su destrucción a causa de una metedura de pata diplomática con los nidu, una raza alienígena muy superior a la nuestra, Harry deberá localizar lo único que puede salvar a nuestro planeta de ser esclavizado por los alienígenas

Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. Life couldn’t be better…until Andrew begins to pick up on the facts that (1) every Away Mission involves some kind of lethal confrontation with alien forces; (2) the ship’s captain, its chief science officer, and the handsome Lieutenant Kerensky always survive these confrontations; and (3) at least one low-ranked crew member is, sadly, always killed.

In this Hugo-nominated novel, an alien walks into a museum and asks if he can see a paleontologist. But the arachnid ET hasn't come aboard a rowboat with the Pope and Stephen Hawking (although His Holiness does request an audience later). Landing at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the spacefarer, Hollus, asks to compare notes on mass extinctions with resident dino-scientist Thomas Jericho.

Einst war Shizuka Satomi ein Star, heute ist sie die gefragteste Geigenlehrerin der Welt. Wer bei ihr studiert, dem ist eine glänzende Karriere gewiss. Niemand ahnt, dass Shizuka einen Pakt mit dem Teufel geschlossen hat: Sieben Musikerseelen muss sie ihm bringen. Sechs davon hat sie bereits der Hölle übergeben. Nur mit der siebten will es nicht klappen, und langsam läuft Shizuka die Zeit davon. Als sie eines Tages das Geigenspiel der jungen Katrina hört, ist Shizuka sich sicher, die letzte Seele gefunden zu haben.

Die Galaxis steht am Rande des Krieges, doch noch besteht Hoffnung, dass das riesige Netz von Intrigen aufgedeckt werden kann, bevor es zu spät ist. Als die Agentin Amina Azad einen hacanischen Botschafter vor einem Attentat rettet, zieht sie ihn in ihre Ermittlungen über eine gewaltige Verschwörung hinein. Unsichtbare Kräfte destabilisieren die gesamte Galaxie, und das zum denkbar ungünstigsten Zeitpunkt – denn gerüchteweise kehren die uralten „Herrscher der Galaxie“ zurück. Verfolgt von Agenten Dutzender anderer Fraktionen, können Azad und der Botschafter nur etwas erreichen, wenn sie sich mit ihren Feinden verbünden.

Uralte Alien-Kreaturen, ein galaktischer Krieg und eine furchtlose junge Heldin: "Cytonic – Lichtjahre von Zuhause" ist der 3. Teil von Brandon Sandersons epischem Science-Fiction Abenteuer um die junge Pilotin Spensa. Spensa hat sich nicht nur zu einer der besten Sternenjägerinnen ihres Planeten entwickelt – der jungen Pilotin ist es auch gelungen, ihr Volk vor der Ausrottung durch die rätselhaften Krell zu bewahren.

Flora, surnommée « la planète verte », est entièrement couverte de forêts. Depuis des mois, les vaisseaux de l'Empire terrien l'observent, envoient des sondes, des robots, afin d'en percer les secrets. L'heure est maintenant venue de démarrer les opérations de colonisation. Les premiers humains vont pénétrer sous le couvert des arbres géants. Liam, un soldat malgré lui, fait partie de cette première vague. Il doit, avec des centaines de camarades, sécuriser le site choisi pour l'ascenseur spatial et le camp de base.

Racconto vincitore del “Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire” 2003. Un portale TransUniverso gestito da un’intelligenza artificiale rappresenta l’ultima difesa contro l’invasione di Alusia da parte dell’agguerrito popolo degli arkosiani. Il destino del pianeta è legato alla capacità del governatore Josef Rekl di negoziare le condizioni di un’ardua convivenza con la misteriosa diplomatica arkosiana.