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Russia, 1946, the Nazis recently defeated. Stalin gathers half a dozen of the top Soviet science fiction authors in a dacha in the countryside somewhere. Convinced that the defeat of America is only a few years away, and equally convinced that the Soviet Union needs a massive external threat to hold it together, to give it purpose and direction, he tells the writers: 'I want you to concoct a story about aliens poised to invade earth... I want it to be massively detailed, and completely believable. If you need props and evidence to back it up, then we can create them."

Wenn alles, für das man gekämpft und gelitten hat, verloren scheint - lohnt es sich dann noch, an die Zukunft zu glauben? Nach den Ereignissen der ersten beiden Teile fliegt Mark mit seinem neuen Schiff zurück zur Erde, um seine Adoptiveltern zu besuchen - doch ein technischer Defekt schleudert ihn Hunderte von Jahre in die Zukunft. Dort muss er schockiert feststellen, dass nichts so ist, wie er es erhofft und erwartet hat. Die Erde ist entvölkert und unbewohnbar, und auch das Kendorianische Imperium ist zerfallen.

Scottish psychologist Elspeth McGann thinks her patient Lester Rains—a suave, enigmatic man who claims to be have been alive for 2,000 years and to be part of a team of extraterrestrial "farmers" waiting on Earth for an alien harvest—is a delusional schizophrenic.

Web designer Sam inadvertently stumbles onto a mystery when women—expectant mothers—go missing throughout the neighborhood. Bright lights seen in the sky are the only harbingers and then they are gone without a trace. But then the danger hits too close to home when Sam's next-door neighbor is caught in the mystery. Even Sam has experienced changes connected to all the strange events. As the mystery begins to spread, Sam and his friends begin to see the pattern and the otherworldly danger posed by those responsible. But the question remains: Why is this happening?

Annie Collins emerged from the wreckage of the last invasion of Sorrow Falls with a spaceship in her garden, a loud alien idea in her head, and—because returning to college was out of the question—a lot of free time. What she chose to do with the idea, the spaceship, and all that free time, kickstarted a worldwide technological boom. Now, nine years later, it seems as if not a day passes without the announcement of a new breakthrough in something, be it quantum computing, nuclear energy, neurobiology, or some other esoteric corner of cutting-edge science.

In der Dunkelheit des äußeren Sonnensystems entdecken Forscher einen Kometen auf Kollisionskurs mit Saturn. Doch anders, als NASA-Forscherin Kath McKenzie angenommen hat, stürzt der Himmelskörper nicht in die Wolken des mächtigen Gasriesen, sondern prallt von seiner Atmosphäre ab. Kurz darauf geraten Politik und Militär in helle Aufregung, denn das, was Astronomen weltweit für einen Kometen gehalten hatten, nimmt Kurs auf die Erde.

A pregnancy that is more than what it seems, and a woman determined to find love on an alien world is more adventure than the taciturn warrior has bargained for. Barimere is all for Jacie finding a mate and getting herself out from under his nose. Except for some odd reason he'd like to tear apart any male who looks her way, and beat the living hell out of anyone who tries to hurt her.

En 2130, una nave extraterrestre, Rama, entró en nuestro sistema solar. El primer producto de una civilización extraterrestre que encontró el ser humano reveló muchas maravillas, pero con su partida, la mayoría de sus misterios permanecieron sin resolver.

In this one book, you will bare witness to men and women as they try and escape a world on a collision course with an evil threat that, in the end, destroys all life as we know it. Worlds are torn apart, and war ranges all over the globe. And the only hope for humankind to survive is the Future, a spacecraft—the first of its kind—designed to house what is left of humanity. But what lurks beyond the stars may be far more dangerous than what is happening on Earth.

Harmon Tomeral and the crew of Salvage Title embark on an exploration of an anomalous system discovered by young Bahroot. Unlike the vast majority of gated systems, this one was not on the list of coordinates publicly available on the Galactic Network.

Twenty billion people live on the Earth in a city with no end. Pollution, corruption, high unemployment, and the lack of clean water leave the population scratching out a meager existence. Easton Miller takes a chance on a job in the colonies on a new world. Expecting to find a better life he is faced with knowledge of a horrifying secret buried deep inside of him. A secret that will change the existence of mankind and the very perception of what and who we are.

Lem and the rag-tag gang of galactic adventurers on the starship Teapot are set to become roadies for the galaxy’s hottest band—but an urgent call from Bexley’s family means the rock stars will have to wait. Bexley’s soon-to-be-born sibling has a big secret: wings. On planet Hwin, skeledivergence is outlawed, so the Teapot crew swoop in to help the family escape. But their planet won’t let them go that easily. Hunted across the galaxy by a fanatical and eerily familiar cop, the Teapotters must find a way to outwit their pursuer and secure a future for skeledivergent people everywhere.

No longer bound to Earth or the Core Sol System, the human race has expanded into the far beyond, seeding itself throughout the final frontier. It has been a time of great expansion, hope, and progress. These remote colonies, some found at the fringes of the Outer Rim, rely on supplies brought to them by deep-space commercial shipping vessels, which transport the needed goods and commodities to keep humanity alive and thriving in the most remote and austere locations.

Sometimes you go to the movies. And sometimes, the movies—and their monsters—come to you. At any moment, without notice, monsters once relegated to the screen become a reality. Aliens and demons, dragons and ghosts, werewolves, vampires, zombies, and seemingly ordinary people who are just plain evil.

When a commercial passenger flight comes down, killing all on board, footage from the scene displays the shocking cause of the disaster. A small-town sheriff and two big city detectives soon find themselves tangled in an intergalactic battle to protect The Destroyer of Worlds.

People at Polar Prep are not what they seem, and the only one looking out for Casey is herself. To survive Renata's torments and keep her fragile existence from tumbling down around her ears, Casey has to be braver than she's ever been. Or risk losing herself altogether.

After 15 years, the intelligent computer Julius returns. Earth’s survivors have learned to live with their celestial neighbors. Julius has worked to gain enough resources to end all threats to his existence: Joan and Tom Herl, SiMPOC, and the remaining humans.

As the mysterious signal coming from the waystations counts down, only one thing is for certain: something is coming, and if the fractured factions of the galaxy can’t find a way to stand against it together, it may be the end for them all.

A mysterious object crests the Sun during a total solar eclipse. Cryptic radio-frequency noise jams TVs and radios worldwide. Sinister alien artifacts inexplicably appear in the capitals of the world's powers. Paralyzed with fear, society begins to crumble. Former NASA scientist Jasmine Evans is the first to spot the object and sound the alarm. Recalled to investigate the mystery, her team makes a critical discovery. But nothing is what it appears to be.

Over 70 percent of Earth is covered in water, yet over 80 percent of that water remains unexplored. There are currently over 10 billion people on Earth, but terrestrial humans are only aware of those who live on land. The other three billion humans took a decidedly different evolutionary path, adapting to live in the largest combined area on the planet–the water.

Ruthless, mysterious alien invaders are unrelenting in their war to conquer Earth, adding new weapons and species to their arsenal to take the fight to humanity beyond the war-torn coastlines.

Im Jahr 2195 hat die Menschheit das Sonnensystem erobert. Auf dem Weg zu weiteren bewohnbaren Planeten verbringen Kolonisten Jahrzehnte im Kryoschlaf, um das Ziel ihrer Träume zu erreichen. Bis die Entwicklung des Portalantriebes die Hoffnung weckt, die Tore zur Galaxis aufzustoßen. Doch der Jungfernflug des experimentellen Forschungskreuzers Koukishin scheitert und das Schiff unter dem Kommando seines Schöpfers, Ishmael Molina, verschwindet spurlos.

During the Revolutionary War, the colonies were outnumbered, outmanned, out-financed, and out-strategized. By any reasonable measure, they should have lost the war. And they certainly should not have been able to establish a government so well designed and organized that the new country would soon become the most powerful and prosperous country on Earth. But they did.

In the wake of the Galactic Republic's fall, Magnus and the Gladio Umbra learn of a new superpower that hopes to unite all orphaned star systems in peace. But Magnus's suspicions grow as the Luma Alliance of Worlds uses anything but peaceful methods to co-opt allegiance in the post-Republic landscape. Meanwhile, on the fringe of the galaxy, a dark shadow looms. Moldark, the sworn enemy of a growing number of species, amasses power through a new partnership with the Obscura. With their combined forces, there is no telling what evil may rain down upon the galaxy's sentient worlds.

There he was in his sailboat in the middle of the Atlantic, all alone and loving it. Well, there was a US Navy carrier group on his southern horizon, but he was a Navy guy himself, so he didn't mind. Then came the UFOs, hurtling in from the Outer Black to overfly the carriers at Mach 17. Their impossible aerobatics were bad enough—but then they started shooting at each other, and at the Navy, with nukes. Little ones at first, but winding up with a 500 megatonner at 90 miles that fried every piece of electronics within line-of-sight.

Awakening from cryo sleep after barely surviving the Tarrant System Battle, Captain Hazard King begins working on restoring the wrecked Imperial Fleet. The Swarm forces smell blood and press their victory, sending a strike fleet to attack the Fleet base at Icarus. In the past, the Empire had ten years between attacks. This time, they'll only have two. Even worse, the Empire doesn't have the forces or the technology needed to stop the massive Swarm fleet, and Hazard is stymied at every turn by an entrenched bureaucracy that is unable to give Hazard the resources required to win the war.

In Ibis Beneath the Mesa, archaeogeneticist Dr. Miles Harrison, computer scientist Lucia Miravillas, and zoologist John King are invited by billionaire Calvert Pope to explore the enigmatic underground Ibis research facility in New Mexico. There, they encounter revolutionary technologies and extraterrestrial beings who have been interacting with humanity throughout history.

Earth was invaded. Earth was conquered. And humanity was summarily subjugated, as 400,000,000 people were culled. The terrifying part was this only took the Peacekeepers a second. There wasn't even a chance for us to fight back. In the blink of an eye, questions like whether or not we're alone in the universe or at the top of the food chain were answered. We were not. Not by a long shot. Despite the mass murder, the Peacekeepers promise they're benevolent. They don't want to rule Earth. They don't want to control humanity. They just want us to stop playing around with AI and genetics.

It’s the final days of Earth, and Tessa has made her peace with dying. Her life has never been a fairy tale, so it makes perfect sense she’d perish with most of the people on the planet. Except luck is finally on her side, as is her knight in shining armor, Ty, who puts his own life on the line to make sure she gets to Salvation-1 before zero hour.

Since the appearance of the alien creatures, the world has drastically changed. Electricity still has not been restored, and people are panicking. The creatures that hadn’t fled the area to chase the moon are hiding in the shadows while guarding their offspring. Infected people are growing ill and morphing into something sinister. Losing their humanity, their only instinct is the primal need to feed their insatiable hunger. Follow our survivors as they navigate the second day of this strange and dangerous new world.