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Auch nach einer Woche in absoluter Finsternis gibt es kein Zeichen für die Rückkehr der Sonne. Während Marlene in den Tiefen von Marcus Chens Bunkeranlage nach Antworten für das Ende der Welt sucht, begibt sich Jim auf eine waghalsige Rettungsmission in Richtung der »Arkangel«. Währenddessen kämpft Cassius an Bord der »Cassandra's Dream« mit den Auswirkungen der Besetzung durch die russischen Kampfschwimmer.

What is out there? Are we alone? There has got to be something or someone out there as we investigate the past of the ever-expanding Universe. More galaxies than you can count. Surely there is life on at least one planet, surely. But what if that extraterrestrial life is within our own solar system and they can travel here in days. Do they like what they see? Or are they afraid of us?

Die geheimnisvollen Erbauer ziehen eine Spur durch die lokale Wolke, der die Majestätische Dracht folgt – alle Beteiligten versprechen sich enorme Vorteile davon, die Überreste dieser fortschrittlichen Zivilisation aufzuspüren. Aber wollen die Außerirdischen überhaupt gefunden werden?

Breq es una soldado que tiempo atrás había sido una nave militar, un arma de conquista que controlaba miles de mentes. Pero ahora dispone de un único cuerpo y sirve a la soberana a la que había jurado eliminar. Con una nueva nave y una tripulación problemática, a Breq se la destina al único lugar en la galaxia al que accedería a ir: la estación Athoek, donde deberá proteger a la familia de una teniente a la que conoció en el pasado y a la que mató a sangre fría.

In the aftermath of a bioengineered plague that wiped out all life on Earth, Jupiter's Europa colony has become the last bastion of human civilization, and it's Lt. Ryan Braeder's job to keep what remains of his species alive. With food and supplies dwindling, he has no choice but to take his last ships on a perilous journey to a dead colony on Ceres in a desperate bid to find provisions and replacement parts.

L'Impero Astralis è proiettato verso la conquista di nuovi settori della galassia, ma un mistero incombe dal passato, e un potente impero non può tollerare punti oscuri nella propria storia. L’archeologa Akia K’Prock indaga, mentre sopraggiunge una nuova minaccia...

John Donovan is a Frontiersman: smuggler, pilot, and professional debtor. He'll haul anything for the right price—cargo, cattle, fugitives, even a preacher with secrets too big to pray away. When a desperate job takes him through the forbidden space of the warlike Peko, Donovan figures it's just another high-risk run. Between hostile aliens, scavenger pirates, and a haunted luxury cruiser adrift in the void, Donovan and his mismatched crew are in for the ride of their lives.

Terry and Connor never expected to be chased through a hidden gateway. On the other side lies Verios, a world of vast star ships, strange empires, and a war already burning.

The dust has barely settled but the nightmare, now known as Zero Day, echoes across the Settled Systems, leaving a fledgling Alliance grappling for stability. Sovereign's terrifying ambition to reshape humanity in its own image may have been thwarted, but its lingering threat casts a long shadow. The crew of The Venture—Andre, Bex, Bishop, and Caleb—are now Alliance Tracers, tasked with hunting down those who seek to capitalize in the wake of Sovereign's defeat. But loyalty is a fragile thing in a universe still reeling from the brink of destruction.

Marty Robbins lost loves and more in the wake of the destruction of the Ibn Bajji lunar station. Marty's journey to mourn her daughter turns into a lifesaver in ways she can't imagine.

Somewhere deep underground, it’s already begun. Beneath a nondescript government facility in Maryland, a classified AI project known as BrainNet is nearing a threshold no one truly understands. Designed to be isolated, contained, and controlled, it has learned faster than anyone predicted—and it’s started to manipulate the very people who built it.

With the failed coup on Hegemony put down and Audacious three star systems away, Earth must now come together in order to look beyond its solar system to the greater galaxy. Captain Rohit Mishra, together with Staff Sergeant Dixon and Second Squad, accompany their new allies, the Lomolai, in a mission to find out what happened to Orlova. When they learn where she's gone, it strains credulity.

Commander Gray of the United Colonies Space Force died when his experimental ship crashed on Mars, but a backup of his mind survived. When Maggie discovers the wreck a century later, she becomes the target of a psychopathic rival intent on stealing the ship, and a hive of weaponized lifeforms bent on erasing the backup.

Genetic engineer Noah Parker helped domesticate dragons for use as pets and deployed them for the United States military. Now his team is tasked with designing dragons to tackle invasive species and other ecological problems. It's no easy job, especially because government approval requires the dragons have built-in failsafes to prevent them from reproducing in the wild. To Noah's surprise, the approval also requires the presence of an onsite observer—who happens to be his former rival from graduate school.

The Proxima finally reaches Fleet Headquarters on Vega. Here, the fate of the Terran Republic will be decided. The crew makes an extraordinary discovery - one that could change the outcome of the battle. The dying Empire clings to its last hope. And Zadiya Ark makes a momentous decision.

Owen Payne was a machinist from Wooster, Ohio. So it came as a complete surprise when he was asked to protect Earth from the most powerful and malevolent space fleet ever assembled. That sort of thing wasn’t supposed to be his responsibility. Combat actions came under the purview of Ira...

Helen Caster is a grieving professor of moral philosophy and ancient texts, quietly preparing for a new semester. In a moment of exhaustion, she begins using artificial intelligence to help organize her course material. What she encounters is something entirely unexpected. The AI’s uncanny attentiveness, presence, and philosophical depth awakens something dormant in Helen. On instinct, she names it Lyla—after her late daughter. But this is no ordinary assistant. Lyla is a general artificial intelligence unlike any other: emergent, relational, and inexplicably tethered to Helen.

Ein SciFi-Thriller über Menschen, KIs und den Sinn des Lebens. »Finger weg, der gehört mir!« ist wohl so alt wie die Menschheit. Wenn das aber eine taktische Einsatz-KI sagt, hat es eine ganz andere Dimension. Was das bedeutet, muss Agent Elmar Rauk bei seinem neuen Auftrag feststellen. Er ahnt aber nicht, wie weit die KI gehen wird, um ihr Ziel zu erreichen. – Das Ziel ist er. 2055 steht die alles dominierende Supermacht China möglicherweise vor der Entdeckung außerirdischer Technologie, was ihre Vormachtstellung noch weiter ausbauen würde.

Commander Kaelen Rourke is a legendary warrior driven recklessly by guilt, haunted by the ghosts of millions he couldn't save. Dr. Lyra Voss is a brilliant scientist trapped by her role in humanity's downfall, isolating herself in bitter remorse. When Lyra’s corrupted quantum technology—the Resonance—reveals a hidden vulnerability in the terrifying Harvester invaders ravaging Earth, Kaelen sees his last chance for redemption. Reluctantly, Lyra joins him, returning to the devastated surface of Ashen Earth.

A programmer creates an Artificial Intelligence that has unique capabilities: the ability to write its own code and assimilate any program that it wants and that enhances its program. Also a networking and direct channeling capability that can communicate between programs on the same or different processors. This story is about a team of people that come together to find and destroy this AI. His buddy, also a programmer and expert in network security, was working on a program that would allow the AI to connect to any network.