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When Nathan stops a brutal attack on an unsuspecting victim, he gets more than he bargained for and sets into motion events that will change his life forever. They told him he should’ve run away, and maybe they were right. Nathan is about to embark on an adventure of a lifetime. Aliens are real. He has something they need, and they’re not the only ones hunting for it.

Sie ist das Ziel einer intergalaktischen Kopfgeldjagd. Aber er wird ihr Herz erobern. Aurora Day ist auf der Flucht. Das Verbrechen, das man ihr vorwirft, hat sie nicht begangen - oder zumindest nicht begehen wollen. Aber die intergalaktischen Soldaten, die auf der Jagd nach der als Füchsin bekannten Frau sind, interessieren sich nicht für Details. Das Versteck auf dem abgelegenen Grenzmond Clotho ist ihre einzige Hoffnung zu überleben.

A planet in dispute. Farmers vs miners, and no one knows the full story. The Federation sends Rivka and her team to resolve a case of settlers squatting on a remote planet when the owners finally came calling. Not what it seems. Three generations of settlers and more. A planet that isn't as welcoming as it appears. Crops coming ripe. Miners ready to dig. Tempers flare as the sides face off. Until the Magistrate gets in the middle of it with all the firepower at her command—the law, a calm voice, and a good railgun.

We've been at war with them for our entire existence, yet completely blind to their machinations. Etheric parasites are secretly infecting the world's population, feeding off the cosmic light of our spirit forms that connect us to higher dimensions. Our ancestors warned us about these dark, manipulative beings, known as Nagas and Archons. An inter-dimensional porthole incident in ancient Ur saw Earth sprinkled with deposits of a black liquid crystal goo, which is Archon consciousness made manifest. T

Rebellion could be their salvation – or their doom. War Bodies by Neal Asher is a gripping, high-octane standalone adventure set in his expansive Polity universe – a far-future society run by artificial intelligences. Long ago, the Cyberat left Earth to co-evolve with machines. Now, led by...

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.

After traveling in stasis for years across the interstellar void, Robert Vasquez lands on the planet Sonik orbiting the Procyon star system. His personal mission is to educate the natives of what some consider a backwater world. In this pursuit, he soon runs afoul of the local human ambassador Garth Knight, who wants to keep the natives ignorant—and easier to subjugate.

All Mercy had to do was deliver her cargo and go. Now she’s got a bunch of irate aliens on her tail, and a hot-as-Helios escaped prisoner in her cargo bay who insists she is his. She’s too old for this, and she keeps telling herself she’s too old for him. But his arguments and assets are very convincing.

A new threat challenges the human race years after Covid-19 ravaged the globe. Far worse and infinitely more infectious, it strikes swiftly and definitively, devastating the population. A select few survivors in Melbourne, Australia follow an urge to make their way out of the city toward an unknown destination and unsure future. What they find and become wasn't anything they could have ever imagined....

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.

"This is it, folks. We've arrived at our base camp for the next six months." The team cheered as they disembarked from the chopper, helmets on and goggles firmly in place against any glare aside from the wind chill too. Dr. Carter led them across the frozen tundra to a large metal structure that would serve as their base of operations, towering above them like a sentinel guarding them against that great blinding white beyond it.

THE NEWCOMERS tells the story of a global invasion and is Pamela Jekel's first novel of the future. When alien crafts are parked over every capital city on earth, Chase Cummings is sent by his family from Atlanta, Georgia to live with an African family as part of the Children Transfer Program initiated worldwide to save gifted children from the work camps of the Advisors. THE NEWCOMERS tells a story of human resilience and of two families on opposite sides of the world, struggling to survive and ultimately finding salvation in the wild places of the planet.

Three years after Alice Keller is safely hidden away on Tarsus Station, Andre Korsakov is being pressured to weaponize her psychokinetic powers. But at 17, Alice is more concerned with boys and belonging than controlling objects with her mind.

Orson Welles' 1938 radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds has done much to obscure the real brilliance of the original work. Written at a time when "science-fiction" did not exist as a genre, The War of the Worlds was a new departure in literature. Author H.G. Wells, deeply committed to social improvement in turn-of-the-century Britain, used extra-terrestrial invasion to predict the results of a not-entirely-impossible violent upheaval in contemporary society: for "Martians" read "bolsheviks."

Die Koronen, ein kriegerisches, außerirdisches Volk will an die Atmosphäre der Erde. Die Koronen haben aber nicht mit dem Kampfwillen der Menschen gerechnet. Eine vier Mann starke Besatzung im „Traumschiff“ liefert den Koronen eine galaktische Weltraumschlacht, wo es am Ende nur einen Sieger geben kann.

Eine Truppe von Elitesoldaten kehrt auf jenen Planeten zurück, wo die Mannschaft des Raumtransporters Xanthos vor Jahren eine fremde Lebensform entdeckt hat. Ihr Auftrag ist die Vernichtung der Monster, doch ein Teilnehmer der Mission hat andere Absichten.

Der Weltraumtransporter Xanthos ist auf dem Rückweg zur Erde. Als die Mannschaft ein Notsignal empfängt, geht sie diesem nach und landet auf einem fremden Planeten. Dort finden sie ein unbekanntes Lebewesen, das sich schnell als todbringendes Monster erweist. Es beginnt ein Kampf auf Leben und Tod.

The Singularity enters the Federation. Its citizens are AIs. And no one knows how to treat them. From collaborations to master-slave, every relationship is different, when they shouldn't be. The AIs fight back, but on a level none of the other members understand. The fight starts slowly, but when the realization of what's happening hits too close to home, more extraordinary measures are called for. What is the legal framework in which everyone can coexist peacefully? Who better to build it than Rivka and the Magistrates?

On a far-off colony, humans tower over the local species who grow the plants they need. Narr keeps the workers in line—someone has to. But when Narr learns just how short-lived their species is, the little alien embarks on a big mission: to find out why their people die and how to stop it. Stubborn and hopeful, Narr has a plan for the locals, for humans, and for the future.

Everything is different than expected. The mystical home of mankind is anything but the warm bosom of their ancestors, and the power is no longer with himanity. Pascal and Jeremy quickly realize that they didn't reach Earth for no reason, and that they are mere pieces on a chessboard. The real players are moving them back into position. The mission? Dangerous. The chances of success? Slim. Will they once again succeed in pulling their heads out of the noose and reshuffling the cards?