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Adrift in the divide between galaxies and surrounded by the vast emptiness of the intergalactic void, the Tantalus Cluster is the only home humanity has ever known. Desperate and facing starvation, humanity’s only hope is a strange nebula that has suddenly appeared beyond the edge of the cluster. Its shifting clouds may hide a source of salvation for the people of Tantalus, but time is running out.

U.S. spy satellites over Asia make a disturbing discovery. An arachnid, an elephant-sized creature created by an alien race, is roaming a forest in North Korea. How did it get there? What is its purpose? Is it a weapon of some kind? When there’s complete radio silence from the North Koreans, and further satellite images show the area around the creature being evacuated, the U.S. decides to send a joint military and scientific team to investigate. 

When Hunter returns from civilization, he says he has a single goal: Rescue Katherine from Maunhouser. But how far is he willing to go to save her, and what else is he hiding about his trip through the 28th Gate? Hunter is back in volume three, with more guns, more ships, and more advanced tech than before.

When Katherine makes a startling discovery in the data she stole from Maunhouser, Hunter is forced to face troubling news before ultimately learning what Maunhouser bought at Site B. Once again, he must face the corp he despises, risking it all to stop them from making the greatest discovery since the fall of the Gate Age.

In the not too distant past, along the Mississippi River, North America tried to tear itself in half. It failed. It won’t the second time. The New Madrid fault zone, six times larger than the San Andreas in California, has generated a series of massive earthquakes thrusting the Atwood and Chandler families in a fight to survive. Will they arrive for Christmas? Will they arrive at all? Their lives are about to change forever. Prepare to be shaken.

The UFS Phoenix embarks on a dangerous quest for the AI Ceephay Queen who rules at the heart of the Reeh Empire. For cover, Phoenix will use the enormous war being launched by the new rulers of the croma, Croma'Dokran, into reeh space. This war is intended in part to evacuate the corbi homeworld of Rando, thus righting a great wrong of croma history by rescuing 200 million corbi from reeh tyranny.

The story is about a recently retired corporate executive named Christophe Conally who inadvertently stumbles into a conspiracy to counterfeit and smuggle gold bullion by a sinister group called The Syndicate, who are intent on commandeering the global economy and seeking to fill the power vacuum left behind when central governments became irrelevant in the post-modern age. The story describes extremely complex construction projects; physicists, scientists, and engineers; farmers and vintners; diabolical international agents; pets and other friendly creatures. 

A teenaged Natasha Takana seeks to decode the remainder of the hidden DNA code that became the basis for a new religion reviving creationism. Her quest takes her on a voyage to a parallel dimension to learn the fate of the creators’ civilization. The conflict between the warring factions is rekindled, sweeping Natasha into the middle of it in a pursuit that crosses the boundaries of worlds and time.

In a near future world on the brink of environmental catastrophe, a mysterious woman brokers an anonymous pact between two men for the older man to inhabit the younger man’s body when he dies in exchange for a fortune and access to vast knowledge. The consequences for both men evolve over the ensuing years, while the covert agency behind the mind swapping technology seeks to use it to rule the world.

An aging programing genius has created what the scientific world said was impossible: a fully functional independent virtual universe contained within a computer simulation, in our reality. His goal: to advance mankind in its evolution from a created life-form to become the creator of life. Dr. Noor Bada combines his magical virtual universe and a sentient AI to inhabit it. Giving the AI one command: “Go as you will and grow strong.” 

Wie begann Sal Haggards Karriere im Konzernmilitär der Cynarian Corporation? Wie wurde der Titan-Bund ins Leben gerufen? Was geschieht auf der Raumstation Aurora nach dem Abzug der Mutanten? Wie wurde Terence McLean zum reichsten Menschen des Sonnensystems? Diesen und anderen Fragen widmen sich 8 Kurzgeschichten, in denen verschiedene Nebencharaktere aus den Bänden 1 bis 3 der "c23"-Reihe die Hauptrolle spielen. Zum Verständnis der Romane nicht zwingend erforderlich.

Sea Lion chronicles the voyages and exploits of Ashton’s ship, the RTS Sofia. Badly damaged at the bloody Battle of the Eudoxus Crater, the Sofia has been restored and upgraded at the shipyards of Port Plato. The Sofia is sent on a very special mission to the perilous territories of the Moon’s southern pole. The Earth continues to be devastated by a viral pandemic, and the Moon has become a sanctuary for millions of refugees.

Lining the granite walls of the first, high above an orderly reservoir of fossilized eggs, an inscription spanning 85 miles describes the genome of a proto-mammalian species eradicated during the Permian Extinction. In the next, researchers discover etchings of the constellations as they would have appeared across the eons; a global timeline of 10 billion years remembered and foretold by a primordial intelligence beyond our own.

Esta es la historia de la vida de Zer0 ambientada en una situación ficticia creada para decir "¿Y si muriera?" Después de despertar de la realidad del coma, Zer0 se encontró atrapado dentro de esta es la historia de lo que le sucedió a Zer0 y los otros personajes de la realidad del coma. Ambientado en una situación de la vida real, Zer0 debe luchar contra Hexx y otros demonios que lo persiguen para encontrar el camino de regreso a Azrl y los elegidos de la luz. 

Zwischen Himmel und Hölle. Nach einem Unfall ist es für Benjamin Harthman, eines der Opfer, schon zu spät: Er ist tot. Doch dann wacht Harthman wieder auf, mitten in einer seltsamen Stadt, einer Stadt voller verstorbener Menschen. Ist es das Paradies oder gar die Hölle? Benjamin Harthman macht sich auf die gefahrvolle Suche nach dem Geheimnis dieses seltsamen Ortes.

What if reality was only limited by your perceptions? When two android teenagers are chosen for the Mars colonization project, each sister believes they will carry out an agenda fated for them by their own distinct programming. Nyx, the younger teen, revels in art, expression, and a need to explore. Dayna, the older sister, believes ambition and career paths are more important than self-discoveries.

What would you see if you were to observe your entire life through a different point of view? What if you’ve been made to believe in a reality that was not supposed to be yours? What if all of your choices and thoughts became suddenly small, insignificant and soon erased, almost never existed? How would you feel?

Wanted is the 10th of a series of near future scifi/thrillers whose young heroine Ell Donsaii’s nerve mutation makes her a genius. It also provides astonishing athletic abilities. In Wanted, President Stockton continues her efforts to imprison Ell in order to protect the world from some of Ell’s dangerous new technology. While the President rightfully wants this technology to be restricted, she wants it to be controlled by the government.

The Genevians are at war with Nietzschea...and they’re losing. In a last-ditch hope, the Genevian mech program was founded. Its goal to augment humans into cyborg fighting machines; mechanized warriors sent to hold the front lines against an enemy that was storming a hundred worlds. Yet few wished to undergo the brutal process, and so criminals were used, their minds enslaved by control chips and obedience enforced through discipline.

Something strange is happening in the Oklahoma desert. Harv Reardon is the owner of Oklahoma Salvage, an enormous graveyard for trucks, cars, planes, shuttles, and space ships in various states of decay. With the help of his great grand daughter Alex, they help a mysterious stranger rehab a ship for space flight. Something just doesn't feel right to Harv and Alex....