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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.

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...

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...

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 the follow on book for, 'The History of Art Materials.' It is the art material predictions of the artist A.W.J. Pilgrim.

Earth has survived. But the stars aren't our own. The Formless have been thwarted for now, but a message may have escaped a mining scout ship before it was destroyed. Solus, a mediator with an allegiance to Ryan Piece, was exiled by the Kannin, and Earth is abandoned by their saviors. With the...

A high-concept, high-stakes thriller that will leave you questioning the nature of reality, and what it really means to be awake, perfect for fans of Dan Brown and James Rollins. Three impossible objects with the mass of neutron stars are hurtling toward Earth. Will they shatter reality as we...

'A MARVELLOUS DARK FABLE' Christopher Buehlman, author of Between Two Fires 'SPARKS WITH WONDER AND PERIL' Melissa Caruso, author of The Last Hour Between Worlds Prepare to be entranced by this utterly unique dark fantasy with a fairytale feel from the million-copy bestselling M. R. Carey...

What if your final heartbeat was not the end of life, but the beginning of an infinite, terrifying awakening? In H.G. Wells’s deeply unsettling psychological horror "Under the Knife", a routine medical procedure devolves into a cosmic nightmare. As the suffocating stench of chloroform...

What if your eyes were ripped from your body and cast eight thousand miles away? During a violent London thunderstorm, a freak laboratory accident tears a rupture in reality. A blinding flash of lightning strikes a powerful electro-magnet, and in that split second, Sidney Davidson’s sight is...

A vast chasm divides two species. But there is a bridge — and the bridge is a man. The Tolek and humanity were never meant to meet. Two civilizations built on opposite logic, facing the same impossible claim: Earth. To humanity, it is home. To the Tolek, it is the only acceptable solution. They fear each other, misread each other, and cannot see the universe the same way.

Sie hat ein Heilmittel gegen das Böse gefunden. Jetzt will man sie dafür töten. Erin Palmer hat das Unmögliche geschafft: eine Methode, Psychopathen ihre Empathie zurückzugeben. Doch als sie sich mit dem genialen Neurowissenschaftler Hugh Raborn zusammentut, merkt sie schnell: Irgendetwas stimmt nicht. Raborn hat Geheimnisse. Gefährliche Geheimnisse. Und plötzlich wollen mächtige Strippenzieher Erin tot sehen.

Is this a new star... or our final night? Something impossible has broken the lonely silence of the void, rushing out of the black mystery of space and straight toward our sun. At first, it is just a remote speck of light. Humanity watches in idle wonder as a magnificent new star illuminates the...

One drop. Millions of lives. And a countdown to absolute chaos. When a brilliant scientist reveals a sample of "bottled cholera" to a mysterious, pale-faced visitor, he unknowingly hands over the ultimate weapon of terror. The guest is a radical anarchist - and in a heartbeat, the lethal...

History was never meant to be changed. The Custodians exist for one purpose: observe the past and protect the integrity of the timeline. Aboard the temporal vessel Eidolon Path, Dr. Lysandra Quill studies historical events across centuries —watching humanity’s past unfold exactly as recorded. Until she notices something impossible. Tiny discrepancies. A conversation lasting a few seconds longer. A decision made in a slightly different place. A pattern hidden in the data. And a symbol that appears every time history shifts.

What if the most terrifying discovery in the universe isn't hidden among the stars, but trapped in the room with you? Isolated on a remote Bornean mountain, astronomer Woodhouse begins a solitary night watch inside the claustrophobic Avu Observatory. The telescope is locked onto the void, and...

How far would you go to feel whole again? Six months after the events on Dreadmoor Island, Dr Elliott Harrison is falling apart. His hands betray him. Words disappear. The implant designed to save lives is destroying his brain. Then a woman arrives in A&E, barely coherent, talking about an experimental drug. Others dismiss her. Elliott doesn’t. With nothing left to lose, he takes it. The silence that follows is immediate. Beautiful. His mind sharpens. Everything makes sense. For the first time in years, he feels free. But his perception is changing. People reduce to patterns.