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In the year 2036, humanity has achieved a nearly perfect digitally-based society. Behind the scenes, a terrorist group known as The Liberators see it as their mission to free humanity from the shackles of social media. Aided by a rogue tech billionaire, they detonate a nuclear device over the heart of technology, the San Francisco Bay Area. Their act instantly turns back the clock 200 years on the eight million people who live there, leading to widespread chaos and death.

Anno 2050. Sullo sfondo della corsa allo spazio, rinvigorita dalla realizzazione di un ascensore spaziale internazionale, si sviluppa un'intricata vicenda di terrorismo globale. Una inquietante e potente triade incarica uno scaltro mercenario americano di portare a compimento un incredibile quanto diabolico progetto, il Dies Irae, destinato a colpire e fermare la grande corsa allo spazio e lo stesso progresso scientifico e tecnologico dell’Umanità, considerati opera del Diavolo.

Defeats throughout the Afari Sector have pushed the Commonwealth back, leaving only the garrison at Tobruk behind on the Novan desert planet of Kyrenaica. Surrounded on all sides, the beleaguered garrison refuses to yield, even as starfighters strafe its ports, and enemy assault walkers pound its damaged walls. Each day, the garrison holds on, giving the Commonwealth and its allies time to prepare for a counter offensive.

After the frantic escape from the moon at the end of Moonscape, Mark has only just recovered when he is told that the United States, together with the Chinese and Russians, are planning an invasion of Moonbase, and they want him to command it. Twenty-eight astronauts form the crew which is tasked with reclaiming Moonbase from the infected astronauts.

In the near future, the military accidentally creates a self-aware AI, an electronic mind called Delilah that will grow into God-like power as it learns and evolves by itself. Threatened with erasure, the AI's code is spirited away in a desperate act that costs the sender his life. With one man's help, Delilah stealthily grows into the most dangerous alien mind in the world.

George Isaacson has dreams of being a global social media influencer, pushing fringe conspiracy theories and government coverups. While not a true believer himself, he knows that plenty of people are. He only needs to hook them.

Maxwell Ardis is a rocket mechanic. As far as he knows, he is the only one of his kind. He is the man you call when your spaceship breaks down in mid-flight. Need a lift from low Earth orbit? Call Max. Communications satellite craps out? Give Max a ring. There is no job too far-out, given adequate fuel and appropriate thrust.

After a near-fatal fall from a mountain, a former artist turned inventor locks himself in a garage for six years in a desperate search for an ancient secret in electronics and physics. Aiming for the impossible goal of stopping climate catastrophe, his relentless investigation uncovers something unexpected about the Universe—and himself.

Die Bewohner der Raumstation "Lunaris" erkranken nach und nach an dem todbringenden Virus, den die Crew der "Montanari" von ihrer Weltraummission mitgebracht hat. Ein Impfstoff muss her - und zwar schnell! Roscoe und sein Team machen sich auf den Weg nach Brasilien. In einem geheimen Labor, versteckt im tiefsten Regenwald, müssen sich der Captain und Helix 19 ihrer Vergangenheit stellen.

They were banishing him from the austere world that was his home; from the people he loved, the place he had lived, and the things he loved to do. He would never see their new city Rubin built.

On receiving notification of a mysterious signal, US military specialists became involved in detecting its whereabouts and extricating the relay assembly. Unknown operatives were assigned the task of seeking out and destroying those involved in the delicate and secretive operation. Unknown alien visitors—eight identically dressed beings—were assigned the task of stopping any interference by the United States Military’s specialist operation forces.

Maya has died and been resurrected into countless cyborg bodies through the years of a dangerous long career with the infamous Dirty Dozen, the most storied crew of criminals in the galaxy, at least before their untimely and gruesome demise. Decades later, she and her diverse team of broken, diminished outlaws must get back together to solve the mystery of their disastrous last mission and to rescue a missing and much-changed comrade … but they’re not the only ones in pursuit of the secret at the heart of the planet Dimmuborgir.

Besitzt ein einziger Mensch das Recht, über das Schicksal aller zu entscheiden? Im Stadtstaat Neo-Orbis hat sich der Großteil der Bevölkerung längst mit einer uneingeschränkten Überwachung durch die Regierung abgefunden. Es fehlt nur noch wenig zu einem totalitären System. Als die Auftragsdiebin Sia nach einem Einbruch im Besitz eines unscheinbaren USB-Sticks ist, erkennt sie noch nicht die Bedeutung der darauf gespeicherten Datei Eden.exe. Doch die Staatsgewalt versucht mit allen Mitteln, das Programm an sich zu reißen. Für Sia beginnt eine wilde Flucht quer durch die Mega-City.

Drunk, angry, abusive, and pathetic, Dan Gurlick exists at the very lowest level of human civilization, sleeping in junkyard cars and scrounging through garbage cans for his dinner. But his last rotting meal contains something unexpected: a spore that originated from a galaxy many light-years away. First, Dan eats the spore, then, the spore eats Dan; and the homeless alcoholic becomes a host for the Medusa. An insatiable alien hive mind, the Medusa has already consumed the life forms of a billion planets. Now, it hungers for the dominant species of Earth.

The year is 2302. Isaac Jackson is a former CEO of a successful company and has gotten to the point in his life where Earth has nothing left to offer him. He was fed up with the complacency of society that has prevented humanity from truly establishing its footprint outside of Earth. Isaac decides it is time to use the services provided by another private company, Tarax Corporation, to find a new exoplanet to move to in a different star system.

Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories is Tobias S. Buckell's seventh short fiction collection and is comprised of 15 stories, several of which are original to the collection or were previously only available through his Patreon. This collection ranges from galactic adventures to intimate explorations of humanity—sometimes in the same story—rich with a sense of wonder and deft storytelling.

Kate Braddock, a sexually ambiguous ex-Spacer, isolates herself on Luna. After detecting a faster-than-light ship en route to Earth several years ago, she now conducts geophysical surveys for a mineral resources consortium. One day, she and a young intern, Mary Atteberry, discover an anomaly in the dust near the Mare Marginis that is clearly unnatural, and clearly alien.

No one has ever ventured deeper into space than the four astronauts of Shepherd-1. The aim of their mission is to witness the creation of the cosmos. Using the sun as a lens, they are to align a flock of probes in such a way that the moment of the Big Bang becomes visible. For astronomer Christine, this is a dream come true. So she is bitterly disappointed when the first images are obscured by a kind of veil that prevents any insight. She works obsessively to find a solution, but when she finally succeeds in lifting the veil, she sees something that would have been better kept hidden...

The Earth has less than 100 years of livable conditions. A new war divides people into factions: preaching drifts into space in God's hands and trying to save humanity by moving to a long-forgotten colony. A small group visited the colony, but what they found there could never have been predicted, not even by Vist. Who is Vist? The last survivor of their race, the only one who makes survival possible...before the world dies.

The final prophesy for the Commander says that he must face a trail to stand before the oncoming darkness. Neither Roy nor Katreena knew what that would be, just that it would one day happen. It would be the moment that would change everything, for it is the last of the prophet Queen’s predictions.