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Airina thinks the threat of a nuclear war that could destroy humanity is over, but new messages, similar to those before, are arriving again. This time, they know the messages are coming from Jupiter, and it is just one phrase repeated nonstop in regular intervals. “WE NEED HELP!” The messages keep coming unmercifully, contaminating all screen devices in the world like an unstoppable virus infecting humanity, but this one doesn’t cause illness and death; it causes insanity. Something has to be done.

Decades after Nathalie Hart's fateful mission to Bethesda, Earth teeters on the brink of collapse. As the planet's resources dwindle, the orbital elites of the ruling Yun Ju play a dangerous game with Earth's population from space. Jason Nevsky, driven by his aunt Nathalie's legacy, fights to save a starving planet. But when he uncovers a sinister political plot, he realizes the Yun Ju will stop at nothing to maintain their power. His mission becomes a desperate gambit that could either save Earth or doom it forever.

Akshaya is the hybrid daughter of a human mother and an alloy, a genetically engineered posthuman—and she’s the future of life on the planet Meru. But not if the determined Akshaya can help it. Before choosing where her future lies, she wants to circumnavigate the most historic orb in the universe—the birthplace of humanity: Earth.

Maya Andreyeva is a camera, a reporter with virtual-reality-broadcasting equipment implanted in her brain. What sh esees, millions see; what she feels, millions share. And what Maya is seeing is the cover-up of a massacre. As she probes into the covert political power plays of a radically strange near-future Russia, she comes upon secrets that have been hidden from the world… and memories that AI-controlled thought police have forced her to hide from herself. Because in a world where no thought or desire is safe, the price of survival is betrayal—of your lover, your ideals, and yourself.

Ousted by the Solar System Exchange in favor of an Artificial Intelligence, Greg Body has turned to space exploration. Hiring a team of highly talented personnel, he’s going to take on the Lloyd’s of London odds and colonize the star L98-59. Long-distance telescopes have rated the system as having a “medium probability” of containing an Earth-like world. Greg has decided to take his chances as a post-Singularity Earth has become overcrowded.

The UFS Phoenix is finally homeward bound. On the way is Tuki Station, in barabo space, hit just now by a force of sard ships, working in concert with a larger invasion from alo space. An alo and deepynine fleet has attacked, and humanity's forces are in turmoil despite all of Phoenix's efforts over the past three years to prepare them. Nia leads the assault, Styx's old AI queen nemesis from the Drysine/Deepynine War, the greatest armed conflict in Spiral history, 25,000 years ago. But what does Nia seek?

Lee had expertise in different sciences and 24th-century tech due to learning machines that could transfer an expert's knowledge. He had the latest high-tech weapons. He had acquired the latest protective equipment. He was sixteen and got his great-grandfather's A.I., Anna, to find him a planet that had magic. His A.I. hacked a portal to take him there. He might have bitten off more than he could chew.

An alien spacecraft four times the size of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier enters the solar system. Tensions run hot within the UN, but the alien vessel doesn't approach Earth. Instead, it sits off at L4, over a hundred million miles from Earth, baffling scientists around the world. Chris "Crash" Williams leads an international crew to investigate the appearance of this ghost ship, but he quickly learns that the spacecraft isn't as dead as it seems.

Humans have reached the stars. There is no evidence any other species survived its own sentience long enough to do the same. Until now, when the Magellanix deep-space scout Accipiter discovers the Artifact, a million-year-old alien construct resting in a dormant volcano on a faraway world.

Im unendlichen Nichts des Weltraums erwacht ein einsamer Astronaut aus der Kryostase. Etwas ist schiefgegangen. Er weiß weder wer, noch wo er ist. Erst nach und nach findet er heraus, dass er Teil einer ihm unbekannten Crew war, die mehrere Jahrhunderte lang geschlafen hat. Alle anderen sind tot, in ihren Stasistanks gestorben. Einzig ein beschädigter, aber freundlicher Roboter scheint sich mit ihm an Bord zu befinden. Das Raumschiff ist in einem schlechten Zustand und leidet unter merkwürdigen Fehlern: Türen, die sich öffnen und schließen, Lichter, die flackern.

Auf der ganzen Welt töten unbescholtene Bürger massenhaft ihre Mitmenschen! Die auf der Link-Technologie basierende neuartige Waffe entfaltet ihre grausame Wirkung. Die Zentrale von H² versinkt im Chaos, als Elei, Hannah und Ray sich im Showdown ihrem immer mächtiger werdenden Gegner stellen. Ihre Mission droht zu scheitern, als sie unerwartete Hilfe aus der virtuellen Welt des Felds erhalten.

Fighting for freedom from galactic tyranny, General Cherry Lindstrom is responsible for the defense of the colony world, Concordia. This last outpost of human civilization lives under constant threat of attack from hostile aliens who claim the planet as their own. But decades have passed since the last assault, and the colonists have grown complacent. Thanks to the effects of time dilation, only Cherry and a handful of others remember the devastation wreaked on Concordia previously.

Magische Flammen wüten. Klingen schmelzen. Seelen werden im wilden Gefecht zu Asche. Das große Finale des Krieges um den Ersten Tempel steht unmittelbar bevor. Die letzten Trümpfe sind ausgespielt, die Reserven sind erschöpft und selbst die Götter haben sich auf den Kampf der Plebejer eingelassen. Das Universum steht kurz vor dem Zusammenbruch. Die Ketten, die die Welten zusammenhalten, sind gesprengt. Das eisige Wasser der Ostsee kühlt den glühenden Sand der Grenzlande.

The Hygrometric Dehabitation Region, or the "Zone," is a growing band of rainforest on the equator, where the heat and humidity make it impossible for warm-blooded animals to survive. A human being without protection in the Zone is dead in minutes. Twenty years ago, Marks went into the rainforest with a group of researchers led by Doctor Elaine Fell, to study the extraordinary climate and see if it could be used in agriculture. The only thing she learned was that the Zone was no place for people. There were deaths, and the program was cut short. Now, they're sending her back in.

Nominiert für den Deutschen Science-Fiction Preis 2025Im 24. Jahrhundert beträgt die menschliche Lebenserwartung dank der Medizintechnologie Biocontrolling 220 Jahre. Die Ressourcen der übervölkerten Erde sind erschöpft, und der Schritt ins All ist die logische Konsequenz. Die Raumstation Helios im Orbit des Zwergplaneten Ceres gilt als Hoffnung der Menschheit: Ihre gewaltigen Biosphären bieten optimale Lebensbedingungen für eine halbe Millionen Bewohner.

The United States has fallen, but it is not the end for Charlotte Kensett. Reunited with Jenna Plural, the Mistress of Shadows returns with a new attitude, new resolve, and a new pair of patent leather stilettos. As Jenna struggles to unite a fractured community, Kensett starts to build the most powerful intelligence service in the history of the Solar System and eliminating all opposition to her mistress’ power.

Unlike her half sister Hannah was raised in luxury as the daughter of a multi billionaire industrialist. Genetically designed to be flawless, she is rich, beautiful and spoiled rotten. The most popular girl in school she is also an unrepentant bully who stamps her authority on everyone around her. She has expensive luxury cars, chauffer driven limousines and the captain of the football team as a boyfriend. She has the life most of us can only dream of and stands to inherit her mother's corporate empire.

Fresh off his first Marine deployment, Boone must now choose between two schools: Intelligence or Scout Sniper. Though he’s shown clear aptitude for the second, he’s not sure he has what it takes to do the job. When he puts the decision aside to join his buddies on a day of leave, the last thing Boone expects to see is a naval weapons locker in the hands of a man who is clearly not Navy. On impulse, he shadows the man, only to find himself running for his life… smack into a Unit operator.

Bridget Toussaint, the teenage survivor of the destruction of the peon base by Jenna Plural, has really tried to settle into her new life in the fleet of the country’s enemy. The young girl is either mistrusted or positively despised by her peers as she struggles to find acceptance in the newly formed Solar Confederation. When the newly renamed flagship of the fleet, The Spirit of Freedom, is boarded and its crew captured by the enemy she once called her countrymen, Bridgette finds herself in a race against time and insurmountable odds.

All that remains of human civilization is a fledgling colony on Concordia, a planet light years from Earth. Infighting and disaster dogged the colony’s earliest days, but through the determination and bravery of a few individuals, the remnants of humankind have clung to existence. One of the grittiest of these characters is Cherry Lindstrom. A farmer turned freedom fighter, she helped to lead the generational colonists’ rebellion. Now she must travel to the Galactic Assembly and persuade the leading powers to accept humans into their alliance.