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H.G. Wells, one of the most influential writers of science fiction and speculative fiction, has left an indelible mark on literature with his vast body of work. Wells's books, spanning across various genres, captivate people with their imaginative narratives, thought-provoking concepts, and insightful social commentary. His novels, such as "The Time Machine," "The War of the Worlds," and "The Invisible Man," have become iconic and have helped shape the science fiction genre as we know it today.

It begins in Toronto, in the years after the smart drug revolution. Any high school student with a chemjet and internet connection can download recipes and print drugs, or invent them. A seventeen-year-old street girl finds God through a new brain-altering drug called Numinous, used as a sacrament by a new Church that preys on the underclass. But she is arrested and put into detention, and without the drug, commits suicide. Lyda Rose, another patient in that detention facility, has a dark secret: She was one of the original scientists who developed the drug.

ALLIANCEWhen stillness becomes a decision, movement has consequences. The Protostar was never meant to matter. A damaged ship. A fractured crew. A routine escape that should have ended quietly. Instead, it becomes the fault line in a universe built on procedure, containment, and rules that only work when no one asks what they’re protecting. Casey Malkovitch never wanted to be important. Billy Cainally just wanted to fly. Together, they discover that the systems meant to prevent catastrophe are often the ones that decide who is allowed to survive it.

Paradox: Lost in Time is a time travel adventure from 3-time Hugo-nominee John L. Flynn. Thomas Knyvett, a secret agent, is assigned to hunt down a renegade historian and members of his team, and terminate them with extreme prejudice before they change history by altering a single event in the past. He doesn’t know when and where they are, and must employ all of his training and experience as an agent to complete his mission. A major complication is a traitor at mission control who may stop him from succeeding.

Rama sat in his beach chair on Santa Monica beach after graduating from CalTech in 2019 with his MS degree in Biochemical Engineering and determined that the planet was descending into dystopia; it was time to leave. With his groundbreaking air, water, and soil molecular reconfiguration technology, he created a secret society to construct a pilot colony using only the in-situ resources of the site. The 150-person team built an above ground, under ground and underwater facility at the base of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, to prepare them for life on another planet. But, conflicts began brewing!

The shadows are rising. The alliance is breaking. High Queen Serita must rally her scattered forces as the Crown of Shadows spreads its grip across the stars. In a universe where hope itself is hunted, can the light endure? War spreads like fire across the stars. High Queen Serita Hernandez and her loyal allies are thrust into the deadliest battle yet, where shadows strike from every corner of the galaxy and enemies rise faster than friends can be found. Old loyalties fracture. New powers awaken. And every choice threatens to tip the balance between survival and ruin.

En un futuro controlado por entidades corporativas donde el viaje espacial es posible, una compañía de seguros debe aprobar y abastecer todas las misiones planetarias. Los equipos de exploración tienen que ir acompañados de androides suministrados por las aseguradoras, por su propio bien. Pero en una sociedad donde los contratos se conceden al postor más bajo, la seguridad no es lo más importante.

Der Hub ist die letzte Hoffnung der Menschheit. Angeleitet vom Core, einer fortschrittlichen KI, kämpfen 70.000 Menschen auf einer vom Klimakollaps verheerte Erde um die Zukunft ihrer Spezies. Der technische Spezialist Paul Wagner ist einer von ihnen. Er gehört zu den wenigen, die die Stadt verlassen, um den vorgelagerten Sicherheitsperimeter zu reparieren, ohne den der Hub den Naturgewalten schutzlos ausgeliefert wäre. Doch als er während einer Außenmission plötzlich auf eine Fremde trifft, die aus der vermeintlich lebensfeindlichen Wildnis stammt, ändert sich alles.

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...

A six-year-old girl is erased from another world and the echo won’t stop calling Millicent back. Timelines are collapsing. Reality is bleeding at the seams. And every answer demands a sacrifice. What began as astral observation becomes something far more dangerous. This is the moment Millicent stops crossing worlds… and starts changing them.

What if everything you believed about your life was a lie, hidden in plain sight? Hidden in Plain Sight by Irv Selman is a sweeping tale that blends the intrigue of NASA mystery thriller audiobooks with the raw emotion of audiobooks on personal loss and betrayal. Following the extraordinary journey of Christopher Copper, a man torn between his human upbringing and cosmic origins, the novel delivers a story that is at once thrilling, heartbreaking, and deeply hopeful.

This was never just her story. In Ascension, the veil finally lifts. Governments fall silent. Truth goes public. And humanity faces a choice it has avoided for centuries. Millicent is no longer alone. The worlds are no longer separate. And the war is no longer hidden. This is not an ending wrapped in comfort. It’s a reckoning. A convergence. A final refusal to remain small. Some will call it awakening. Others will call it the end of everything they understand. Both would be right. Together, we rise.

Nephilim hat die Angelborn-Akademie abgeschlossen und ist nun ein vollwertiger Guardian Angel von Olympias. Sie erhält ihre Spezialisierung als Kampfvorhut und wird ihrem ersten Partner zugewiesen. Schon bald wird sie sich in ihrer ersten Begegnung mit feindlichen Cyborgs bewähren müssen. Und im Verborgenen spinnt Metatron seine eigenen Pläne für sie... Buch 3 der Behind Blue Eyes Origins-Novellenserie konzentriert sich auf Nephilims erste Jahre als Guardian Angel.

The Jubilee Tides will drown the continents of the planet Miranda beneath the weight of her own oceans. But as the once-in-two-centuries cataclysm approaches, an even greater catastrophe threatens this dark and dangerous planet of tale-spinners, conjurers, and shapechangers. From author Michael Swanwick—one of the most brilliantly assured and darkly inventive writers of contemporary fiction—comes a masterwork of radically altered realities and world-shattering seductions.

En l'an 2020, la société humaine, confrontée à la montée de la violence urbaine, civique et économique, à la dégradation de son environnement et à la déshumanisation comportementale de sa population, a accepté pour survivre, une nouvelle justice. Cette nouvelle justice devra lui garantir un avenir et un nouvel espoir. Dorénavant, chaque être humain devra s'acquitter d'une prime de vie. Quel en sera le prix ?À tort ou à raison, la question de la sécurité depuis quelque temps est largement abordée dans nos sociétés. Partant de ce fait, cette nouvelle est construite sur le compost de l'insécurité.

The military SF sequel to his extraordinary Old Man's War, John Scalzi's The Ghost Brigades is the second in The Old Man's War series. Who can you trust, if you can't trust yourself? Three hostile alien races have united against humanity, determined to halt our expansion into space. The...

Sometimes, honour and bravery can win a reprieve from destiny. A story of hope and despair, as artificial intelligences, posthumans, and other minds struggle against their fates.

Contains books one and two of The Stasis Stories: A Pause in Space-Time (Book 1) and The Thunder of Engines (Book 2). Kaem Seba is a sickly and financially destitute young man with extraordinary math skills. With the help of Arya Vaii, a business student, he has developed a theory and an electronic device that allows him to stop time within limited volumes of space-time.

In the early years of the 21st century, humans have advanced step by slow step into space. Constantly monitoring the heavens, they have discovered that certain asteroids have changed their orbits - and are on a collision course with Earth. Urgent action is required, but politics and a worldwide financial crash are getting in the way. To save humanity from disaster, two of Earth’s prominent families, a host of political movers and shakers, and dedicated pilots and space travelers of all stripes must band together.

Kira Miller is a brilliant genetic engineer who discovers how to temporarily achieve savant-like capabilities in all areas of thought and creativity. But what if this transcendent level of intelligence brings with it a ruthless megalomania? David Desh left the special forces after his team was brutally butchered in Iran. Now he has been reactivated for one last mission: find Kira Miller, the enigmatic genius behind a bioterror plot that threatens millions.