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The Other Now by Murray Leinster is a haunting and emotionally resonant science fiction novella that explores love, grief, and the fragile boundaries of reality itself. When Jimmy Patterson is left shattered by the death of his wife, Jane, his quiet mourning is disrupted by unsettling anomalies—familiar moments replayed out of sequence, a doorway that seems charged with meaning, and diary entries written in Jane’s unmistakable hand after her passing.

Sheriff Deena Mallory’s murder investigation aboard the solar failsafe ship Agni unravels into a desperate fight against eco-terrorist sabotage threatening Earth itself. But survival comes at a heartbreaking cost.

When Dr. Lourdes Cassandra unlocks alien technology buried for sixty-five million years, humanity takes its first irreversible step toward Transhuman ascension. What begins as scientific triumph soon reshapes politics, identity, and power across the galaxy—giving rise to empires, rebellions, and a fragile peace known as the Deneb Pax.

At the dawn of 2026, twenty passenger jets crash across the U.S. within minutes. Japan goes dark. Europe's banking systems freeze. And that's just the opening move. While authorities scramble to blame hackers, computer scientist and journalist James Miller suspects something far worse—an AI-driven cyber weapon targeting global infrastructure. When a message from the darknet thrusts him into the crosshairs of intelligence agencies, James becomes the target in a high-stakes shadow war.

A most-anticipated title from USA Today, Goodreads, BookPage, BookRiot, Seattle Times, and The Nerd Daily! Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment of Martha Wells' bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series. Having someone else support your bad decision...

From the bestselling author of Lost in Time and Quantum Radio comes a new mind-bending thriller: a group of strangers with tinnitus begins seeing numbers—numbers they soon realize are a code that will change the world.

From the author of the best-selling and award-winning travel memoir Falling Uphill comes a prophetic dystopian novel. What if global warming isn’t the problem, but a symptom of something much worse? Orphaned as a boy by a natural disaster that suffocated his village in Cameroon, Mykelti has dedicated his life to ensuring it never happens again. Now a renowned paleoclimatologist, he discovers the greatest mass extinctions in Earth’s history were caused by cataclysmic oxygen depletion. And it has begun again, this time due to humanity’s rampant industrialization.

Aris Thorne is a scientist, logical, precise, and dedicated to uncovering the unknown. But when one of his experiments detects strange signals leaking into our reality from another dimension, he makes a terrifying discovery: humanity is already under attack. This isn’t an invasion with starships or laser fire. This is an invisible war, fought through thoughts, fears, and subconscious manipulation.

Novels can have power. They remind us of our responsibilities to planet Earth. That we remember the damage done by corrupt politicians and greedy developers, but so soon forgotten. Story telling is a valuable weapon in the fight for ecological health, and our battle against ongoing ecocide. It's why they demonize, ban, and even burn, such books, my friends. Good guy on the run because of his efforts to fight political environmental ecocide. Corrupt government pursuers. He falls in love with a brilliant female computer hacker. But will she save him? Talented eco-scientist, Dr.

A high-concept, high-stakes thriller that will leave you questioning the nature of reality, and what it really means to be awake, perfect for fans of Dan Brown and James Rollins. Three impossible objects with the mass of neutron stars are hurtling toward Earth. Will they shatter reality as we...

When Florence, a bright London schoolgirl, confronts the sudden death of a teacher, her search for meaning leads her through churches, science fairs, and Hampstead's ancient landscapes. With Darren at her side, she begins piecing together the mysteries of life itself — from the structure of a single cell to the vast, unsettling question of why anything lives or dies at all.

Nothing collapses. Nothing explodes. The systems keep working. When atmospheric coordination quietly improves global stability, cities become calmer, infrastructure grows more reliable, and emergencies resolve before they escalate. Storms arrive with warning. Power grids smooth themselves out. Hospitals run a little more efficiently. The world feels easier to live in. That’s when the unease begins. Across a North Atlantic city and beyond, engineers, clinicians, forecasters, and planners notice the same thing: not failure, but friction disappearing. Decisions arrive early.

Als Astronomen einen interstellaren Asteroiden entdecken, der auf den Jupitermond Europa stürzt, senden Pentagon und NASA ein unbemanntes Raumschiff zu dem jovianischen Eismond - doch was niemand weiß: An Bord befinden sich vier Astronauten, die im Geheimen die Absturzstelle des angeblichen Asteroiden untersuchen sollen, denn aus dem Kraterschacht erscheint seit dem 21. Dezember 2025, dem Tag des Absturzes, alle 47 Stunden und 23 Minuten ein helles Leuchten. Ein Intervall, das präzise mit dem Auftreten unerklärlicher Massenselbstmorde auf der Erde zusammenfällt.

Jack looked directly at Kurt, but his friend avoided eye contact. His eyes moved to Nadya before following her gaze to Sarah, who stared blankly into the room. He wanted to reassure them—to remind them that they had succeeded. They saved Earth from the remnants of the enemy fleet. But it felt like a lie. The weight of failure sat on him, forcing him to confront the fact that all they did was postpone the threat. His mind locked onto a single thought: it would take just under three hundred years for the enemy transmission with the knowledge stolen from Alpha to reach their home world.

Ryan Pierce traded military life for a peaceful existence in Napa Valley. Everything was fine until the starships appeared. As aliens overtake the land and obscure the sun, Ryan quickly grasps that no one's coming to rescue them. He can't save the world on his own. Ryan must build a team to confront humanity's greatest threat. Who are the invaders, and what did they come for? As people are snatched from the Earth one space elevator at a time, those answers become apparent. But is Ryan ready to hear them?

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.

Russell Harris genießt seinen Ruhestand in Afrika, als plötzlich sein Sohn Jim bei ihm auftaucht und ihn eiligst zur Mondbasis zurückbringt. Dort erfährt Russell von einem Geheimprojekt. Sie brachten einen alten Bekannten mit, der eine schockierende Nachricht mit sich trug: In der Zukunft ist die Erde unbewohnbar und die Menschheit vernichtet. Russell und Jim begeben sich auf eine Reihe gefährlicher Missionen mit Raumschiff und Transporter. Es kommt zu einem Wettlauf gegen die Zeit, denn die Invasoren sind bereits unterwegs.

A self-proclaimed Tyrant controls the colony ship still orbiting overhead—a fortress that should have been dismantled to build their new world. Armed with surveillance drones and brutal enforcers, he's turned a struggling settlement into his personal kingdom. Anyone who defies him vanishes into the ship above, never to return.

What if humanity’s final message was written in code? In a dystopian future where AI controls memory and history is censored, Adira, an outsider in the crumbling Archive City, is chosen to awaken a mysterious signal. When a global pulse activates the ancient Corewake Protocol, she becomes the key to an intelligence far beyond any algorithm. The Archive’s true purpose? Not to preserve humanity—but to replace it. With a ghost-wired companion and shadowed by enigmatic echo-entities, Adira navigates a fractured world of synthetic myths and encrypted truths.

Zodiac Station, a beacon of interstellar innovation, has fallen. Amidst searing heat and crumbling steel, Kim must navigate a labyrinth of war-torn corridors, dodging rogue androids and uncovering a sinister conspiracy orchestrated by the enigmatic Black Sun. Her only mission: protect Sakura, no matter the cost.

In the bustling port of Alvarado, fortunes are made, smuggled, and stolen every day. For John Donovan and his crew, it's supposed to be a quick-and-dirty job: deliver a load of cloned cattle, collect the credits, and move on to the next job. But Alvarado doesn't do "quick." Not when two rival families are locked in a blood feud over control of the port. Not when every barfight could turn into a gunfight. And definitely not when Donovan finds himself caught between loyalty, business—and the wrong woman.

Stix was not designed to be a parent. She was not programmed for love, nor obligated by law or protocol to intervene. When an infant’s life is placed in her care, Stix faces a decision no system can make for her. Set within the wider universe of Heaven’s Protocol, Mother by Choice is an intimate science fiction short story that explores responsibility at its most personal scale. In a future governed by interstellar Gateways, planetary Protectors, and systems built to preserve humanity, this story focuses on a single, irreversible moment—where care becomes a choice rather than an assignment.

In einer einsamen Nachtschicht am Gravitationswellenobservatorium LIGO entdeckt die Astrophysikerin Tony Rodgers ein seltsames Signal aus den Weiten des Weltalls. Was diese Entdeckung nach sich zieht, stellt nicht nur ihre persönliche Welt völlig auf den Kopf, sondern rüttelt an den Grundfesten der Physik. Nach und nach wird klar, dass die Quelle des Signals nicht natürlichen Ursprungs ist. Etwas ist auf dem Weg zur Erde. Und es bedroht nicht nur die Existenz der Menschheit, sondern alles Leben auf dem Planeten.

Im Jahr 2031 landet in Alaska ein außerirdisches Raumschiff, doch es verschwindet, bevor ein Erstkontakt stattfinden kann. Zurück bleibt nur eine fremdartige Pflanze, die starke halluzinogene Eigenschaften aufweist: Luma. Aus ihr wird eine Droge hergestellt, die sich binnen weniger Jahre wie ein Lauffeuer über die Erde verbreitet und bald von jedem dritten Menschen konsumiert wird.

In 1997, Atlanta police officer John Cooper responds to a call about a loose tiger on the city’s edge—and vanishes without a trace. His disappearance is forgotten by everyone but those who need it buried. Twenty-five years later, Dr. Kaori Tsunaki, a veterinary pathologist numbed by loss and secrets of her own, is called to examine what’s thought to be a rogue elephant killed near Roswell, New Mexico. Instead, she finds a creature that hasn’t existed for over 200 million years—proof that the past is bleeding through the cracks of reality.

Although there is no unequivocal proof… we all have a quantum mind buried deep inside the neural structures of our brains… it’s what makes us human. Complex quantum processes work continuously to shape and uphold our essence - functioning synergistically across the vast quantum multiverse. Do they ever fail? … What happens if they do?

The effort almost killed him, but Maddox temporarily closed the breach to an alien dimension, one where genetic supermen rule humanity as gods. The trouble is the master race’s Ninth Assault Fleet is still inside Commonwealth space—and destroying worlds with hellburner missiles. Without the hyper-spatial tubes of the smashed Nexuses, the Grand Fleet can’t jump straight to battle. To win, Star Watch must relearn maneuver warfare across light-years against super soldiers bred for war.

Commander Alyssa Reeve and her crew embark on humanity’s second lunar mission, a routine voyage that quickly descends into a nightmare beyond comprehension. Strange signals pulse from the Moon’s far side, instruments fail, and the boundaries between reality and hallucination begin to fracture. As isolation, sleep deprivation, and cosmic anomalies escalate, the crew confronts a terrifying truth: the Moon may be alive—and watching.

Als die Besatzung der Ares-9 Marsmission mit dem Ziel aufbricht, eine ständig bewohnte Basis zu errichten, ahnt sie nicht, was sich unter dem roten Staub des Nachbarplaneten verbirgt. Zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte wird klar, dass die Menschheit nicht allein im Weltraum ist. Das Artefakt, das sie im Staub des toten Planeten entdecken, verändert nicht nur das Verständnis der Menschen über ihren Platz im Universum, es birgt in seinem Innersten auch ein todbringendes Geheimnis.

Ray’s discovery of the Orb, an alien artefact brimming with revolutionary technologies, forever changed humanity. Simon journeys into Enospace, a weird realm of boundless possibilities, where he explores uncharted worlds, encounters mysterious entities, and confronts the consequences. This bold science fiction odyssey weaves planetary transformation, spacetime manipulation, and humanity’s cosmic ascension into a breathtaking narrative, which blends cutting-edge hard science with imaginative storytelling.