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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.

Die Majestätische Dracht erreicht Gliese 514 – und die Hoffnung ist groß, dort endlich einen Planeten zu finden, der den Bedürfnissen der Grosnopfe entspricht. Doch aus der Nähe sieht es ganz und gar nicht danach aus. Der Zentralstern des Systems scheint nicht einmal einen Planeten zu besitzen!

Das Ziel ist erreicht: Die Majestätische Dracht tritt in das System des Weißen Zwergs Wolf 489 ein – von den Grosnopfen ehrfürchtig Dreizack genannt. An Bord klammert sich das Allwissen an die Hoffnung, hier endlich Spuren der rätselhaften Erbauer zu finden und vielleicht sogar ein Heilmittel gegen die Seuche, die Adam, Ragnor und Dutzende weitere im Kälteschlaf gefangen hält. Doch die Realität ist trostlos.

In the depths of a mountain fortress, the fate of two warring Houses rests on the fragments of a powerful gem that destroy all who touch them. Domus Praesidium, a soaring citadel etched into the mountainside, stands as the final bastion of the Nexus House, home to the prescients who have guided...

Silas Voss hears everything. Every frequency. Every vibration. Every flaw in the world around him. So he built a room to escape it—a space of absolute silence known as True Zero. Then Clementine moves in next door. She restores antique clocks. Hundreds of them. Each one ticking, pulsing, alive. To Silas, it’s unbearable noise. To Clementine, it’s the sound of time itself. What begins as conflict becomes something neither of them expects—a connection built not through words, but through sound. Through shared frequencies. Through rhythm. Through the fragile space between silence and meaning.

A dark twisting Sci-Fi thriller, Terminus is the first instalment of The Book of Xaal series which is complementary to events depicted in the Summer Haven trilogy. A reporter chasing a secret organisation finds a planetary scale alien artefact in Earth's core. Faced with the afterlife being infected by soul eating aliens, would Kevin be prepared to risk the integrity of Earth's tectonic plates to engage them in battle? What is the Terminus, and what role does it play in the Astral Architects great plan?

The discovery does not arrive as a warning or a revelation. It arrives as math that refuses to fail. One month before anyone knows, a small group of scientists confirms what cannot be undone. An extinction level event is coming. Forty years remain. To survive it, humanity must leave the solar system at least six years before impact, escaping a lethal cone of effect that will erase everything left behind. There is no solution that saves everyone. There is barely time to plan at all. What follows is not a race to warn the world, but a decision to protect it from the truth.

Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy. It was not his war. The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin...

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.

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...

"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...