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Friday night in Shoreditch turns to police tape and panic in minutes. An attacker in a nightclub doesn’t bruise or beg —he bites. Sergeant Daniel Kerr, MO19 armed response, puts one round to the head and watches his partner rise again with blood in his eyes. The rules change on the floor of a bar.

Dr. Julie McCray, astrophysicist, isn’t looking for second chance romance. Not even close. She’s focused. She needs to save the planet from a dystopian future as Earth temperatures soar. Julie’s rover, 40 million miles away, discovers living bacteria hiding under the Martian surface. Scientists examine its DNA profile and agree that, with a slight amount of genetic engineering, it can absorb vast quantities of carbon dioxide, exactly what the planet needs to survive. The President orders the government to commandeer Julie’s Mars mission and bring the living bacteria to Earth.

In a world where automation runs society, Marion Sato spends her days as a judgment aid, tasked with making the manual choices deemed too difficult or complicated for computer algorithms. It seems like a dream come true – until things go horribly wrong.

One breakthrough. Total transparency. No place to hide. The "Quantum Apocalypse" is no longer theoretical. It is here. When one nation unleashes the world's first functional quantum processor, every encryption on Earth shatters. Bank accounts, state secrets, private messages all naked.

In 1907, a cargo ship docked in California carrying, among other things, a small colony of Argentine ants. Nobody noticed. Within a century those ants had formed the largest cooperative supercolony ever recorded: a single network stretching 600 miles of coastline. They systematically eliminated nearly every native ant species in their path. The Supercolony Wars is a novel about that invasion, told entirely from the inside. There are almost no human characters. The voices belong to an ancient oak grove speaking in the slow language of centuries.

Es ist das größte Projekt der Menschheitsgeschichte: Das Forschungsschiff Nyx verlässt die Erde, um als erstes bemanntes Raumschiff die Grenzen des Sonnensystems zu überwinden. Mit an Bord: 300 der renommiertesten Wissenschaftler der Menschheit.

Quand la science ouvre une porte qu'elle ne peut plus refermer, les morts veillent sur les vivants. Ambroise Duchesnay, physicien de renom, vient de perdre sa femme Émilie. Seul avec Samuel, son fils adolescent qu'il connaît à peine, il tente de reconstruire une vie brisée par le deuil. Mais au cœur d'un complexe de recherche isolé en forêt boréale, une expérience sur un accélérateur de particules d'une puissance inédite provoque l'impensable : l'Instant Bleu — un phénomène fulgurant, inexplicable, qui semble effacer la frontière entre le monde des vivants et celui des morts.

Welche Triumphe und Tragödien haben die LER und ihre Traditionen geprägt? Was hat sie dazu angetrieben, ein Faktor zu werden, mit dem man rechnen muss, eine herausragende Söldnereinheit mit einer der längsten Historien und reichhaltigsten Traditionen der gesamten Inneren Sphäre? Werden Sie Zeuge der Entstehung dieser Einheit in der Zeit des Sternenbundes und verfolgen Sie ihre Entwicklung in den Nachfolgekriegen und der Clan-Invasion bis hin zu ihrem Niedergang während der dunklen Zeit und Wiederauferstehung in der ungewissen Zukunft der ilClan-Ära.

In this story two men strike up a conversation and one reveals that he is, in fact, dead as the result of titanic war in the future. In this bold premise Wells once more reveals a startling and empathetic story.

The UFS Phoenix returns to Homeworld, after more than three years of searching the galaxy for a way to save humanity from the looming AI threat. Many Fleet captains are unhappy with their own command, following the massive casualties of Nia's first strike. Some say that Captain Erik Debogande is the war leader humanity truly needs. Others warn of civil war. But on Homeworld lurks an even older threat, a secret kept by Fleet Command since Homeworld's first conquest by humans. A secret that could tear Fleet, and Erik's powerful family, apart.

In the grand tradition of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, Stanislaw Lem's The Invincible tells the story of a space cruiser sent to an obscure planet to determine the fate of a sister spaceship whose communication with Earth has abruptly ceased. Landing on the planet Regis III, navigator Rohan and his crew discover a form of life that has apparently evolved from autonomous, self-replicating machines—perhaps the survivors of a “robot war.” Rohan and his men are forced to confront the classic quandary: what course of action can humanity take once it has reached the limits of its knowledge?

This visionary portrait of a technology-dominated near future from the author of The Object asks: Is humanity engineering its own extinction? By the end of the twenty-first century, cities are surrounded by rising oceans and society has fractured beyond repair. Half the population thrives...

All paths converge. Will Earth survive what's coming? Ryan Pierce has done everything in his power to protect the people of Earth, but his patience is running out. Finally, with the go-ahead from his former commander, Ryan devises a plan. The Formless, along with his brother, are on the way to...

Experience the dark sci-fi horror thriller of The Bones of Night in this unabridged dramatic narration by the author, K.R. Stevens. Hear the story of the characters directly in this audiobook with cassette tape-inspired audio mastering to immerse you in the crunchy Cassette Futurist aesthetic that The Bones of Night is all about. The Prospector returned much too early. And the entire crew was gone. Their logs should explain why. But with the ship’s computer so damaged, only a few remain salvageable.

"Flowers in the rain, indeed. Big jump in the grain count. I can hear them jumping. This old hippy is sneezing already. Ya Ya! The flowers are spurting pollen all over the Manchester map. Gumbo never seen such a giant, golden step before." In a strange re-mixed future Manchester a cloud of...

Bloomsbury presents Cage of Souls, read by David Thorpe and written and introduced by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Humanity clings to life on a dying Earth in an epic, far-future science fiction novel from an award-winning author. The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light...

Jason ist siebzehn, als er in der Megacity neu anfangen will, einer Welt aus Konzernen, Überwachung und Datenkontrolle. Sein Traum: Hacker werden und sich einen Platz im System sichern. Die Realität: Das System frisst ihn. Statt eines Jobs wird Jason entführt. Kurz darauf erfährt er, dass ein Kopfgeld auf ihn ausgesetzt ist. Plötzlich ist er nicht nur ein Niemand in der Masse, sondern eine Zielscheibe.

Cole’s motley group of misfits were tip of the spear when Fleet struck deep into Coven space and destroyed their Home World. And plunged the aliens into a bloody internecine war. But the respite has been short-lived. The rising Highborn, Grom, has forged new alliances among the warring tribes, focusing them on their one true enemy: the humans.

Otherworldly yet grounded, ominous yet tender, The Asterist is a captivating first contact story that will appeal to fans of Andy Weir and John Scalzi. Dull days drift by at the dead end of the galaxy for misanthrope Bill Jeffries fulfilling his mundane duties as an Asteroid Station Commander...

Hidden powers. Mind numbing geometry. But is it reality or illusion? One year after the world's first space elevator ascent, a new megastructure is taking shape high above the equator. But for all its wonders, there's trouble brewing on this colossal ring of carbon. The people who roam its high...