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VOM KINDLE STORYTELLER AWARD GEWINNER, G J OGDEN-Die Union steht kurz vor dem totalen Zusammenbruch. Apophis, der Schlangengott und König des Aternien-Imperiums, steht bereit, seine Mission zu erfüllen und die verbleibenden Welten der Union zu vernichten, angefangen mit Terra Prime-der Erde. Da er keine andere Wahl hat, erklärt der Präsident seine Absicht, sich zu ergeben. Doch Apophis sehnt sich nur nach Zerstörung und Rache. Doch tief unter dem Wüstensand Ägyptens keimt Hoffnung auf. Die letzten Master Officers, angeführt von Carter Rose und Carina Larsen, haben noch nicht aufgegeben.

In this, the third book in “The Crash” trilogy, Children of The Crash, A New Humanity, we pick up where Book Two left off. The Family have done what they could to help the survivors of The Crash. And now, the children of The Crash show up with problems of their own. In the shadows of their mind travels, lurks the source of The Crash, an organization trying to control the survivors and reverse the successes of the Family. Can the children and the Family work together to defeat the nefarious forces attacking the last of humanity? How has The Crash affected children differently?

Die neuartigen Prometheus-Doppelaggregate sollen der Menschheit den Weg zu den Sternen ebnen: Sie versprechen unerschöpfliche Energie und die Lösung zahlreicher Probleme im Sonnensystem. Doch inmitten der Aufbruchstimmung macht die Quanteningenieurin Dr. Alexa Andropov eine erschreckende Entdeckung: Die Aggregate könnten zu technologischen Todesfallen werden. Aber selbst als es zu ersten Zwischenfällen kommt, wollen ihre Vorgesetzten nichts davon wissen. Stattdessen wird sie selbst zur Zielscheibe einer Rufmordkampagne, die bald sogar ihr Leben bedroht.

When a disillusioned former Space Force test pilot Gavin Trent tries to get away from life's responsibilities for awhile, he wasn't expecting a visit from an alien emissary named Jay. And he certainly wasn't expecting to learn that an ancient interstellar civilization had been watching humanity for decades. Not to conquer. Not to interfere. But to decide its place in the galactic community. Earth stands at a crossroads. Divided. Armed. Suspicious of itself. And far closer to extinction than anyone realizes.

In the year 2278. The world is a wasteland, civilization erased by a nuclear holocaust two centuries earlier. Jackson was never meant to be here, thrust forward in time from 2041 by a catastrophic mistake that cost him everything… including his wife. Now stranded in a future ruled by a deadly virus, violence, and something far worse, Jackson will do whatever it takes to find a way back to her, even if it means crossing a wasteland crawling with the infected and uncovering secrets buried deep within the ruins of the old world.

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...

A cyberpunk novel from M. J. Kuhn. Logan's Run meets The Giver with a dash of Cyberpunk 2077. In New Avarita, every person is born with a purpose. Once fulfilled, they are eligible for Ascent, a peaceful passing and assumed rebirth on the next plane of existence, celebrated for having left their...

Eine Entdeckung, die die Menschheit verändert. Eine Verschwörung, die sie auslöschen könnte. Als die brillante Quantenphysikerin Allie Keane einen revolutionären Durchbruch erzielt, ahnt sie noch nicht, was sie damit auslöst. Fest steht: Wer ihre Entdeckung kontrolliert, kontrolliert die Zukunft der Menschheit - und Allie wird zur Zielscheibe.

Nachdem in Nordamerika endlich die Waffen schweigen, dringt Vince auf der Suche nach Joy in die besetzte Zone vor, Mac steuert mit ihrem Frachter die Saturnmonde an und Azrael kehrt zurück nach Sibirien. Doch der Krieg ist nur scheinbar vorbei. Hinter den Kulissen wird der Kampf mit ungeahnter Härte weitergeführt und lässt jene, die sich einmal darin verstrickt haben, nicht aus seinem Würgegriff.

Humanity finally found a habitable world. Then they discovered what was buried beneath it. Geologist Mira Castellan’s survey reveals a rare-earth deposit capable of launching twelve future colonies across the stars. But extracting it will poison Threshold-1 within decades, destroying the very planet humanity hoped would become home. As political factions form and the colony fractures around competing visions of survival, Mira finds herself trapped between science and responsibility. Every report she submits changes how the future will be understood —and possibly which future survives.

Esiste una vita oltre vita, uno spazio etereo in cui lo spirito dei defunti sopravvive alla morte in una dimensione sospesa tra il buio e la luce, tra il colore e la bruma. Conservati in criostasi all’interno di speciali strutture, i defunti possono comunicare con i loro cari tramite un congegno elettronico e fornire conforto, lenire solitudini, dispensare consigli.

Ein uraltes Artefakt auf dem Planeten Venus – einem Ort, an dem es außer Höllenglut nichts geben dürfte, stellt die Menschheit vor ihr größtes Rätsel ... Die Erde bricht unter dreißig Milliarden Menschen zusammen, das Sonnensystem ist bereits kolonisiert, und Projekt Eden soll der Menschheit das Tor zu den Sternen und damit zu neuem Lebensraum öffnen.

On a toroidal station orbiting a black hole, ancient aliens keep watch over prisoners whose frozen minds could unravel dimensions and erase entire worlds. For billions of years, the Empyrean have slept—cosmic beings of thought and power, bound beyond time itself. But when a single fragment of their awareness breaches the void, the balance begins to shift. Eons later, in the Sol System's glittering sprawl, prodigy Guile Hagan sees what others cannot: auras of intent, patterns in the void, whispers of impossible forces moving beneath reality.

Rom, 208 v. Chr. – Die Asche der Ewigen Stadt verdunkelt den Himmel. Zwei Jahre nach dem ersten Kontakt scheint der Frieden trügerisch. Während Rom versucht, die Wunden der Punischen Kriege zu heilen, kehren die Fremden zurück – diesmal nicht als einzelne Beobachter, sondern übermächtig. Mit einer Feuerkraft, mit der es selbst Jupiter und Mars nicht aufnehmen können, legen sie die Foren und Tempel in Schutt und Asche. Archimedes, gezeichnet von den vergangenen Kämpfen, erkennt, dass Logik allein nicht mehr ausreicht.

Rebecca and Mark Higgins are doing their best to hold their family together. She’s healing from the pain of a miscarriage, he’s drowning in pressure at work, and their neurodivergent daughter, Maddy, needs all the care she can get. So when a cutting-edge tech company offers the perfect solution, they jump at the chance. And they welcome “Mr. Man”—humanoid AI companion—into their home.

Paleontologists say 99% of all species that have ever lived on Earth are now extinct. Extinction is natural—until it isn’t. Paleontologists have declared we are living through the Sixth Mass Extinction, a human-triggered crisis unfolding not over millions of years, but within decades. From climate collapse and ecological ruin to the looming threat of nuclear war, the timeline to disaster is no longer hypothetical—it’s accelerating.

Grad-school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when, while measuring quantum relationships between gravity and light, his calibrator disappears - and reappears, one second later. In fact, every time Matt hits the reset button, the machine goes missing twelve...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Sealed inside a steel sphere no wider than a coffin, the explorer Elstead is lowered five miles down into the lightless deep – further than any living man has ever gone – to see what the ocean floor conceals. His colleagues on the surface expect...

His first step... could be his last. Colt is a maverick astronaut who accepts a daring mission to be the first person on Venus. After every other mission to Venus has failed, what could possibly go wrong? Pretty much everything, as it turns out.

Who will arbitrate our future in a world divided by climate change? It's 2095, and citizens of the wealthy North enjoy extended life, perhaps forever, thanks to biotech implants called Stem. Quantum computing and AI have converged into thinking machines, Quants, who carry out complex tasks for...