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Random events ignite a chain reaction with deadly consequences. A lone yachtsman witnesses a murder on board a luxury super yacht while making port in the glamorous principality of Monaco. He’s there to meet his daughter who’s part of an army of global media arriving in the south of France to witness the launch of the world’s first fully sustainable fusion reactor, ITER, and what they hope will be the dawn of a new golden age for humanity.

Discover a classic of Golden Age science fiction in The Vortex Blaster by E.E. “Doc” Smith—a pulse-pounding adventure across the stars. When brilliant scientist Neal "Storm" Cloud loses his family in a tragic explosion, he dedicates his life to eradicating deadly space vortices threatening entire planets. Armed with his unmatched intellect and raw determination, Storm becomes a one-man weapon against chaos, navigating interstellar intrigue, alien technologies, and galactic warfare.

Planet Nibiru wants them dead. All of them. Trapped by the destruction of their own satellites, the Marines on Nibiru suddenly find themselves without orbital or air superiority. With help months away, Po and his brothers must quickly figure out how to stabilize and survive against an exploding alien insurgency. Po learned young to rely on no one but himself. Now, he's slowly realizing that nothing from bootcamp, or from his trials on Earth's moon, could have prepared him for this. If he can't rip up some deep-rooted beliefs about his place in the universe, and fast, it may cost him his life.

Some experiments should never be conducted. Some portals should never be opened. The Welttïren research team believed they were on the brink of discovery—a gateway to another dimension. But what Samantha Grant unleashed in Lab 4 wasn’t knowledge… it was a nightmare hungry for more. Something was watching from the other side. Something followed her back. Now, the darkness spreads within the lab and inside her own mind. The only way to stop it is to face it. But can she close the door before they break through?

Three days have passed since the Xenos spaceship departed Earth, and Emissary Lee Ping moved to the virtual world of Planet Asbeth. But even as normalcy returns, a new threat emerges. Alien marauders have intercepted critical supplies required to complete the shield. From bestselling author D. Ward Cornell comes a tale of two worlds bound by a mutual adversary.

The Celestial war has come to its peak. After two years of open war with the all-powerful Dominion, the Splinter rebellion has been driven into its most bitter dregs in a century. Their colonies falling one after another, it seems as if its just a matter of time before the noose closes around their necks. Vaughn Donovan, the wearer of the all-powerful Eye, still lurks as the greatest force in the galaxy. His plots to build new armies to hunt his enemies threatens the meager rebellion like the tick of a time bomb.

Lt. Commander Jack Reilly was setting into his new life, married, with a new baby, and a career in the Fleet JAG office on New Harmony, where he excelled. But a new investigation into a missing cargo ship uncovers a much bigger conspiracy against the Alliance, and questions about the loyalties of his AIs threaten to unravel his home life.

Aldo Cassidy and his team are tasked with recovering an important relic from an alien station. As they arrive, they find signs of a battle, leaving the entire system in disarray. Without good intelligence, they must take a chance to secure a prize capable of unifying their cultures, or unveil secrets dark enough to keep them apart forever. The planet Constance becomes a hotbed for activity. As Justiciar Caden Raines arrives to rescue a hostage, Sam Levine fights for survival after his ship crashed in the desert. Both men race against time, with the fate of many hanging in the balance.

When the solar flare took out the world's power… nobody could explain why the street lights still glowed in Jakarta. Was it a signal from space? When the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) transmits strange images of the red planet: a scientifically unexplained light phenomenon on the summit of Elysium Mons has the experts both concerned and baffled. A team needed to check it out. The mission to Mars was set. Now, they had to build the team.

Hamburg 2057: Die Welt gehört den Algorithmen, während sich die Menschen in virtuelle Realitäten zurückgezogen haben. Als Milliardär Jasper Petriel nach 30 Jahren Kryoschlaf erwacht, findet er sich nicht wie erhofft in einer besseren Zukunft wieder, sondern mittellos in einem heruntergekommenen Sammellager. Während er noch versucht, sich gegen aufdringliche Verkaufsalgorithmen zu wehren und herauszufinden, was aus seinem Vermögen geworden ist, wird er zu irgendjemandes Zielscheibe.

In a remote colony on Mars, physicists have used a particle accelerator to artificially create miniature black holes. By accident, two black holes orbiting each other with relativistic spins have opened up a portal to another universe. Engineers Masamune Hughes and Tom Hildebrandt build bigger and better machines to enable them to peek inside, and even cross the threshold themselves. What they find defies all description.

In a near-future world where technology has not just reshaped society but rewired the very fabric of perception, a new form of journalism emerges, one that doesn't just report the truth but experiences it, transmits it, and makes it indistinguishable from reality itself. In Technesthesia, the boundaries between observer and participant dissolve as immersive media redefines memory, identity, and the very act of knowing. But as perception itself becomes a constructed experience, one question lingers: If the truth can be felt rather than proven, does it still matter if it’s real?

This book contains factual information pertaining to natural systems of phenominon in telepathy. Religion says there is a 'Heaven'. Science says 'there are many world and realities.' There is a possibility in my interpretation where this is all true. This is a multi-faceted story of the good in people, the bad in people and the hope that can persist throughout time and space.

In "Das Erbe der Vorfahren", dem fesselnden neuen Kapitel der Galaktische Hüter-Reihe, erreichen Commander Mike und Nic mit ihren Crews einen Wendepunkt, der die Grenzen ihres Verständnisses sprengt. Das Netzwerk der Sternenschmieden, einst als Schutzmechanismus geschaffen, erweist sich als weit mehr: ein Vermächtnis einer Zivilisation, deren Geschichte eng mit der der Myaner verknüpft ist. Nach einer Reihe gefährlicher Missionen stoßen die Myaner auf Hinweise, die sie zu einer zentralen Schmiede führen – dem sogenannten Nexus.

Paris, November 2048 – eine Entdeckung, die die Welt verändert. Das Raumschiff Carl-Weathers sendet die ersten Bilder von dem Schwarzen Loch, das sich im Zentrum der Milchstraße befindet. Vollkommen gebannt bestaunen die Menschen die Aufnahmen, aber einigen reicht dies nicht. Unter ihnen ist die krebskranke Milliardärin Ellen Duvall, die wissen will, was sich hinter dem astronomischen Phänomen befindet. Zu spät erkennt sie ihren Fehler – und muss einen hohen Preis dafür bezahlen.

Lost on the backroads of northeast Mississippi in the middle of the night, Barrett and Melanie Tucker stumble upon Oblivion—a large, vintage dwelling believed to be a haunted bed and breakfast. Unfortunately, their expedition through this ancient mansion uncovers the otherworldly horrors of Oblivion. The primeval of Oblivion. The unspeakable terrors within Oblivion. And the realization that they may never escape.

Starship Sakira ist der erste Band der amerikanischen Bestseller-SciFi-Abenteuerserie Delphi in Space. „Once I started this I couldn’t put it down. So many adventures and … « Kimberly Johnson, Buchrezensent. Marc McCormacks, ein begnadeter Wissenschaftler, stolpert während eines Experiments über ein außerirdisches Raumschiff. Begleiten Sie Marc und seine Freunde, wie sie die Erde von einer rückständigen Welt am Rande der Milchstraßengalaxie an die Spitze der interstellaren Zivilisationen bringen.

A final collection of original short fantasy stories assembles previously uncollected tales, stories about the two-centimeter demon Azael, several fairy tales, and a humorous adventure about Batman's old age from the grandmaster of science fiction. These stories are fascinating musings of a wide-ranging intelligence, discussing everything from Tolkien to Spielberg, from unicorns to King Arthur. Magic is the last word on fantasy by the renowned science fiction author.

Gold is Isaac Asimov's last science fiction collection‚ one containing all of his uncollected SF stories that had never before appeared in book form. Gold is the final and crowning achievement of the fifty-five year career of science fiction's transcendent genius‚ the world-famous author who defined the field of SF for its practitioners‚ for its millions of readers‚ and for the world at large.

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.