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Im Jahr 2100 machen es neue Technologien möglich, sich mit speziellen Schiffen durch das Eis der Antarktis zu schmelzen. Aber die Menschheit interessiert sich mehr für den Weltraum als für den gewaltigen Eis-Kosmos, der einen ganzen Kontinent bedeckt. Nemo Baader wartet mit seinem "Eistaucher" vergeblich auf Kunden, aber dann kommt Aerith de Solana und mietet sein Schiff. Was sie sucht, verrät sie nicht, aber was sie unter dem ewigen Eis finden, ist schlimmer, als alle Befürchtungen. Vor 250 Millionen Jahren hat "es" den Tod über alles Leben der Erde gebracht – aber die Katastrophe könnte sich heute fortsetzen.

When Luke finds the biggest diamond ever seen on two worlds, trouble immediately finds him in the form of his partner, Winston. Desperate to survive, he must fight the environment due to Winston cutting a hole in his suit. Killing his foe in self-defense starts even more trouble for him – the stolen diamond goes missing; Janie, Winston’s sister, and her wife argue the self-defense ruling; and a friend is mysteriously murdered.

In the vast, domed cities of Earth, artificial intelligence is strictly controlled; in the distant Outer Worlds, colonists and robots live side by side. A Spacer ambassador is found dead and detective Elijah Baley is assigned to find the killer. But with relations between the two cultures in the balance, the Spacers insist that he work with a partner of their choosing – a robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw. Baley has never seen a robot like Daneel before – and soon, though the Three Laws of Robotics should render the crime impossible, Baley’s partner becomes his prime suspect.

Lebt der erste Unsterbliche längst unter uns? Forscher eines Schweizer Biotech-Startups verkünden eine Sensation: Sie haben den Unsterblichkeitscode geknackt. Doch der Proband ihrer Studie, dessen DNA über Nacht zum wertvollsten Objekt der Welt geworden ist, flieht aus einem ihrer Labore. Zurück bleiben zwei Leichen. Um ihn aufzuspüren, beauftragen die Behörden FBI-Genetiker Mason Brown und die dänische Interpol-Agentin Jonna Nielsen. Doch ihre Ermittlungen, die sie durch halb Europa führen, werden immer mysteriöser:

No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall. When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was), how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward, at least), and why (because apparently that matters to a lot of people—who knew?) Yes, the unthinkable is about to happen: Murderbot must voluntarily speak to humans! Again!

Kayla Lieberman grew up in the American community of New Brooklyn but has never considered herself American. She is a Martian and proud of it. But when she is recruited into the department of outland security under the auspices of Charlotte Kensett, Kayla is faced with a choice…. Stand with Mars or turn her back on everything she ever knew.

Benning Kidd has been hunted since the day the System tried and failed to destroy her, turning her from a Drone into a Citizen in the process. Bounty hunters, vengeful enemies, and near-omnipotent Nobles have hounded her through the Collective. She's avoided them when she could and tried to convince them to leave her be when she couldn't. With the Fleet seeking her, intending to steal her hard-earned levels and rob her of her accomplishments, though, that's no longer an option.

With the Confederation unable to project military power into the sector, neighboring allies press the Earth Alliance for protection and transportation services. Michael proposes a bold new initiative to secure the sector and promote its prosperity. Eugene and Kelly discover the secret to destroying the Enemy once and for all. And a new young species takes its first steps into interstellar space. Meanwhile, Confederation hardliners do everything in their power to stop Michael and the Earth Alliance from succeeding.

Patriotic young Emma Dodgson struggled to make it into the United States Marines, but now she’s there, she’s going to make sure it counts. Convinced that the United States is on the road to victory in the Great War, Dodgson’s world is turned upside down when on her first mission, she learns the USA has surrendered to the enemy. From the ashes of defeat, a new leader rises. Jenna Plural is determined to unite the free forces from across the solar system. Hope is restored to Dodgson, and she devotes herself to Jenna’s cause.

Zwei Menschen und ein Roboter durchstreifen auf der Suche nach Schiffbrüchigen das All nahe des Sonnensystems. Die Majestätische Dracht, ein von Außerirdischen erbautes und von einer KI namens Allwissen gesteuertes Raumschiff, fliegt sie mit einem Fünftel der Lichtgeschwindigkeit von System zu System. Doch dann beschleunigt das Schiff plötzlich – und anscheinend unaufhaltbar. Hat das Allwissen die Kontrolle über den Antrieb verloren? Oder verfolgt es etwa seine eigenen Pläne? Denn der neue Kurs des Raumschiffs zielt auf einen Planeten, der eigentlich noch längst nicht Ziel der menschlich-außerirdischen Crew gewesen wäre: die Erde.

Nitara Desai has spent her life negotiating international agreements, easing points of conflict, and averting disasters. Worst-case scenarios belong in her nightmares, not the IEC’s daily reports. On a calm day, being a director at the International Energy Consortium only requires fixing CarbonCon translators for flustered Brazilian delegates. A thankless job, but the world is still drowning in CO2—there’s no choice but to keep treading.

Panoply is a small efficient police force, dedicated to maintaining the rule of democracy among the ten thousand disparate city-states orbiting the planet Yellowstone. Ingvar Tench was one of Panoply's most experienced operatives. So why did she walk alone and unarmed into a habitat with a vicious grudge against her organization? As his colleagues pick up the pieces following her death, Prefect Tom Dreyfus must face his conscience.

I’m usually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are. When Murderbot's human associates (not friends, never friends) are captured and another not-friend from its past requires urgent assistance, Murderbot must choose between inertia and drastic action. Drastic action it is, then.

The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light and thus becomes invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to reverse it. An enthusiast of random and irresponsible violence, Griffin has become an iconic character in horror fiction.

Wenn künstliche Intelligenz die Kontrolle übernimmt. Der brillante KI-Experte Mark Davis steht vor dem Höhepunkt seiner Karriere: GAIA, die von ihm erschaffene Superintelligenz, übernimmt die Steuerung sämtlicher wichtigen Bereiche des Lebens. Ihr Ziel: unsere Fehler zu korrigieren und die Menschheit vor dem Untergang durch den Klimawandel zu retten. Doch die künstliche Intelligenz stellt plötzlich unerwartete Fragen und trifft eigenmächtige Entscheidungen — mit immer fataleren Konsequenzen.

Через пятьдесят лет после первого контакта с древней теократической цивилизацией ссеан земляне безуспешно пытаются смириться с их менталитетом, ради невероятных мицелиальных технологий закрывая глаза на кровавые жертвоприношения, грибные споры, проникающие в вены, и ритуальные снадобья, способные полностью сломить человеческую волю. "ссенский религиозный фанатизм, их обычаи, язык, культура постепенно изменяют земное общество. Лукас Хильдебрандт, долгое время бывший послом на "ссе, понимает, что вскоре процесс станет необратимым и Земля полностью утеряет свою независимость.

Mark Jackson, the brilliant fusion engineer, is tasked to recapture Jupiter’s moon, Sinope. His foe is the sadistic heir to the Jovian Corporate Republic, and a man who hazed and tortured Mark in military school. Mark’s parents, famous generals from the Martian Wars, settled the moon Europa and turned it into a profitable water mining territory. Now the JCR, rulers on Callisto and Ganymede, want them out—and taking the phosphorus mines on Sinope is the first step, after Mark’s father dies, leaving his mother as governor.

Nel XXI secolo gli Stati Uniti d'Europa e d'America sono governati da una coppia incantevole: "der Alte", il presidente, e la First Lady, vero motore del potere. Popolare e amatissima star televisiva, la donna nasconde segreti che ne potrebbero destabilizzare l'autorità, e si oppone a ogni tentativo di rovesciamento del suo benigno regime.

Homicide detective Raimy Vaught is a losing contestant on the biggest reality show ever: the colonization of Mars. Brother Michael is a Benedictine monk who just wants to help the future happen. Andrei Bykhovski is an asteroid miner desperately escaping indentured servitude. Bridget Tobin is a hydroponic farmer studying the greenhouses of Luna. But when a fellow Mars contestant drops dead at a Lunar monastery, these four souls will find themselves on a collision course with forces far beyond the control of trillionaires or nation states.

First contact with hostile aliens, maiden voyages of Earth's first starship, and interstellar adventures await in this hard science fiction collection of the sixth and seventh stories from the Hayden’s World series.