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The compulsive conclusion to the Dragon Empire trilogy from sci-fi superstar Kylie Chan. Life seems settled for Jian in the Dragon Empire. She's comfortable in her position as Captain of the Imperial Guard and content with her unusual domestic arrangements. But when trouble stirs at the edge of...

From the ingenious author of JENNIFER GOVERNMENT and LEXICON: a brilliant work of science fiction that tells the intimate tale of four people facing their most desperate hour - alone, together, at the edge of the universe. The video changed everything. Before that, we could believe that we were...

Commander Lisa Chao works in the US Navy's Strategic Planning Center in Pearl Harbor. When tensions rise with China over Taiwan, she has to unravel exactly what's happening in the Pacific and why. What she uncovers leads America to war—but not with China. Bullets and bombs are no match for an extraterrestrial warship that can fly between stars, but perhaps the answer to the coming war lies not in the present but in the past. Could Sun Tzu's The Art of War provide humanity with a fighting chance against a technologically superior alien enemy?

A week ago, the supernova Aeon detonated in the skies over Antarctica. Mass migrations of humanity and animal life began northward. Secondary bursts of ionizing radiation knocked out worldwide power grids. Global temperatures spiked. Oceans rose as seawater expanded and glaciers melted. Massive storms and acid rain scour the planet. The southern continent is literally melting under the feet of Dr. Xin Rhou as she is trapped at the South Pole, and she is perhaps the only person in the world with a full accounting of the data recorded when Aeon exploded.

When Tennal—a rich socialite, inveterate flirt and walking disaster—is caught using his telepathic powers for illegal activities, the military decides to bind his mind to someone whose coercive powers are strong enough to control him. Enter Lieutenant Surit, the child of a disgraced general. Out of a desperate need to restore a pension to his other parent, Lieutenant Surit agrees to be bound to Tennal and keep him conscripted in the army, a task that seems impossible even for someone with Surit's ability to control minds.

Matthew, they thought, was just going through a phase of talking to himself. And, like many parents, they waited for him to get over it, but it started to get worse. Mathew's conversations with himself grew more and more intense—it was like listening to one end of a telephone conversation while someone argued, cajoled and reasoned with another person you couldn't hear. Then Matthew started doing things he couldn't do before, like counting in binary-code mathematics. So he told them about Chocky—the person who lived in his head.

Nick isn't smart. He's not brave. He's selfish. He's an asshole, but he's about to embark on a journey that will change not only his life but the lives of everyone on the planet. The United Nations is thrown into chaos when an alien spacecraft is discovered buried beneath the ice in Antarctica...

Comet Anduru skimmed the clouds of Saturn. Rather than being drawn into the gas giant, it skipped back out into space. With the comet heading for Jupiter, speculation is mounting it’s an alien spacecraft making its way to Earth. Lieutenant Colonel Nolan Landis and Dr. Kath McKenzie are caught between an angry public and an anxious President as they grapple with the scientific, social, and political implications of first contact.

While training for a manned mission to Mars, Dr. Sophie Winston and her team of scientists find themselves cut off from the rest of the world. Trapped inside a biosphere deep within the confines of Cheyenne Mountain, Sophie and crew discover they are the survivors of a brutal alien invasion. But as they struggle to stay alive, they realize their safe haven is far from safe and that they must team up with other survivors around the world to defeat the aliens before it’s too late for humanity and the Earth.

Kris Bjornsen has come a long way since alien slave ships scooped her up in Denver with thousands of others. Dropped off on an apparently uninhabited world with the rest, she has fallen in love with Zainal, a renegade Catteni, and has made a comfortable life for herself and her new family. But she feels a soldier's duty to escape Botany and rejoin the struggle for freedom.

It's the dawning of a new age for mankind when the Catteni descend to Earth and easily overcome the Earth's population. Thousands are herded onto slave ships headed for the intergalactic auction block. Kris Bjornsen is captured in Denver on her way to her college classes and wakes up on the primitive planet Barevi.

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.

Ein gestohlener Ordner. Eine vertuschte Wahrheit. Ein Fund, der die Menschheit erschüttern könnte. Dan McCarthy stolpert zufällig über einen geheimnisvollen Aktenordner–und löst damit die größte Enthüllung der modernen Geschichte aus. Die brisanten Dokumente enthalten Hinweise auf versunkene Artefakte, geheime Operationen der IDA und den möglichen Beweis außerirdischer Technologie.

The Crystal Crypt A tense, Martian cold-war thriller where three Terran passengers on a fleeing spacecraft hold a deep, world-shattering secret that could spark interstellar war. Beyond Lies The Wub When a spaceship crew purchases a massive, pig-like alien creature for food, they discover it is...

Out of the earth apocalypse into a galactic meatgrinder. Caleb and the children have escaped the Humanist, flying out from Earth on the stolen Voloid spaceship. That escape is not without cost, though, as the ship is packed with enemies turned reluctant allies. Hostilities run deep among aliens...

After conquering the icy trials of small-town Alaska, Devin is sent to Maine, where survival itself becomes the greatest challenge. The cold bites harder, technology fails more often, and Devin must protect more lives than ever before as the multiple threats grow. Utilizing nanotechnology is just the beginning. As Devin faces the relentlessly deepening cold and an escalating alien threat, he must uncover who among Maine’s inhabitants will stand with him in a fight for humanity’s future before it’s too late.

Am Rand der bekannten Galaxis stoßen zwei abgebrannte Weltraum-Schürfer auf ein verlassenes Schiff - und wecken vier formlose Wesen aus dem Kryo-Schlaf. Vor ihren Augen verwandeln sich die Kreaturen in perfekte Doppelgänger! Eine Generation danach führt Minarel Tarkin ein hochprofitables, streng geheimes Unternehmen: Sie vermietet Simipathen - Gestaltwandler mit nahezu unzerstörbaren Körpern - an die Reichen, Mächtigen und Kriminellen. Doch als eine Simipathin verschwindet, wird aus dem Geschäft ein Überlebenskampf.

When humanity turns upon itself and governments begin attacking their own people for reasons darker than anyone dares imagine, a small band of survivors flees into the mountains—only to uncover an ancient, sentient time machine buried deep within an abandoned mine. Known simply as Ben, it has waited across centuries for those destined to restore balance to a fractured world. Guided by Ben, the travelers are hurled through history to confront a secret war waged by reptilian beings who feed on human suffering.

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Der einstige Milliardär Ludwig Raabe steht vor dem Nichts. Seine Kolonie auf Proxima Centauri ist gescheitert, seine Vision am Ende–und er ist auf eine Erde zurückgekehrt, die er nicht mehr wiedererkennt. Die technologische Revolution der letzten Jahre hat den Planeten stärker verändert als jedes Ereignis zuvor und noch immer ist kein Ende in Sicht.