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For thousands of years, the planet of Belusha has served the galactic Sollan Empire as its most notorious prison planet. It is here the very worst men in the Empire are locked away: murderers, traitors, deserters—each condemned to toil on the oil rigs and scrapyards of the planet in bitter cold, preyed upon both by the men of the Martian Guard set to watch over them, and by the Outborn reavers whose fathers escaped the work camps to scratch a living from the icy wilderness. It is a hard world. A desperate world. And it is here that Lorian Aristedes finds himself: alone; friendless; betrayed.

The planet Korwar was a glittering jewel of a world, inhabited by the galaxy's wealthiest, visited by the upper classes of other worlds in search of diversion. The jewel had a flaw: the Dipple, its name coming from a contraction of "displaced person", where the misfits, the hopeless, the penniless eke out a wretched existence on the dole. Two young men hoped to escape from the Dipple.

Two Andre Norton Forerunner novels, Forerunner and Forerunner: The Second Venture, featuring young Forerunner/human hybrid Simsa, collected for the first time in one volume.

Former Marine Will Hawthorne has solidified his position as the Makalang and averted war between Taitala's clans. But uncovering the truth about himself has only raised more questions about the challenge he faces: He must accomplish something no Makalang before him has ever managed, or the world will die.

Available to the American audience for the first time, this landmark collection gathers four groundbreaking fantasy classics from the acclaimed author of Light. Set in the imagined city of Viriconium, here are the masterworks that revolutionized a genre and enthralled a generation: The Pastel City, A Storm of Wings, In Viriconium, and Viriconium Nights. Back after a long absence, these singular tales of a timeless realm and its enigmatic inhabitants are now reborn and compiled to captivate a whole new generation.

The galaxy is doomed. Monkeys may be clever and too stubborn to give up, but Skippy The Idiot Who Got Played knows the harsh truth: this is a fight he can’t win. The odds are not only stacked against him, he was designed not to win this fight. Maybe he can salvage some faint memory of the civilizations that inhabit the galaxy, but those beings are doomed. Doomed. Including the Merry Band of Pirates.

In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. On the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing - nothing anywhere in the universe - will ever be the same.

The First Foundation has been defeated, crushed by the formidable mental powers of the Mule. But whispers of the mysterious Second Foundation, the only hope of defeating the Mule, are beginning to spread. Surviving members of the First Foundation also fear the secret powers of the Second Foundation, vowing to find and destroy it. However, the location of the Second Foundation remains shrouded in mystery. Finding it will lead the Foundation to the opposite end of the Galaxy, where the fate of Seldon’s two Foundations awaits.

The second novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series. Led by its founding father, the psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and utilizing science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Now cleverness and courage may not be enough. For the Empire - the mightiest force in the Galaxy - is even more dangerous in its death throes. Even worse, a mysterious entity called the Mule has appeared with powers beyond anything humanly conceivable. Who - or what - is the Mule?

As Hari Seldon struggles to perfect his revolutionary theory of psychohistory and ensure a place for humanity among the stars, the great Galactic Empire totters on the brink of apocalyptic collapse. Caught in the maelstrom are Seldon and all he holds dear, pawns in the struggle for dominance. Whoever can control Seldon will control psychohistory - and with it the future of the galaxy.

It is the year 12,020 GE and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, 40 billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall - those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future.

Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper. In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed and to find weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the imaginable. But the price of that knowledge may be higher than she can pay.

When word of his abilities spreads through the galactic grapevine, Ben ranks number one on an A.I.’s most wanted list to become their cybernated slave. As he’s thrust into an interstellar struggle, Ben discovers a powerful alien hiding on Earth. Determined to protect it, he must outmaneuver relentless enemies, decode cryptic warnings, and determine whether a headstrong spaceship is friend or foe. The fate of more than just his own survival is at stake, and if he fails, the entire universe could pay the price.

Давным-давно где-то в глубинах Вселенной встретились две расы разумных существ, и начали войну на взаимное уничтожение, и преуспели в этом. Единственное наследие той войны — абсолютное оружие, которое ей же и положило конец, машины-убийцы, наделенные компьютерным сознанием. Люди нарекли их берсеркерами. Люди тоже умеют воевать. Люди приняли вызов. В Планете смерти израненный и обезумевший вражеский корабль найдет себе тайное убежище и даже создаст собственный религиозный культ.

Давным-давно где-то в глубинах Вселенной встретились две расы разумных существ, и начали войну на взаимное уничтожение, и преуспели в этом. Единственное наследие той войны — абсолютное оружие, которое ей же и положило конец, машины-убийцы, наделенные компьютерным сознанием. И теперь они добрались до окраин освоенного людьми космоса. Люди нарекли их берсеркерами. Люди тоже умеют воевать. Люди приняли вызов.

Mit einer überwältigenden Streitmacht sind die Außerirdischen zurückgekehrt, stoßen tief in unser Territorium vor und versetzen die Erde in Panik. Unsere neue Technologie ist nutzlos. Unsere neuen Raumschiffe brennen wie Stroh. Alle sorgfältigen Vorbereitungen waren umsonst. Jetzt können nur ein Mann, eine Crew und das älteste Raumschiff der Flotte die Erde vor der totalen Zerstörung retten. ISS CONSTITUTION

Everything has come down to this moment. Fail now, and everyone will die. The ruthless Ringdell Group is on the brink of seizing Flanterian, and it’s all because of Sparks and Reyes. The starship pilot and the brilliant strategist have one last chance to redeem themselves—and save the planet they’ve unintentionally placed in peril. Outnumbered and outgunned, they lead an alliance of unlikely warriors—a determined force of gloyners and hadounds, who refuse to lose their home.

Die Ash'Gul'Kon lassen den Völkern der Milchstraße keine Zeit und setzen sich in Bewegung. Erbarmungslos arbeiten sie sich voran, löschen ganze Kolonien aus. Um den neuen Feind aufzuhalten, benötigt die Republik Unterstützung. Captain Jayden Cross erhält den Auftrag, die Heimat der Parliden aufzusuchen, um die Chancen für ein Beistandsabkommen auszuloten. Wie werden die Sternenköpfe auf die diplomatische Mission reagieren?

Yhué, atteinte d'une maladie dégénérative incurable, encourage son amoureux, Sohann, à rejoindre l'armée pour défendre l'humanité contre une espèce inconnue, les nostrems. Lors d'une attaque, Sohann est tué, et Yhué est recueillie à bord de l'Arche, un gigantesque vaisseau spatial dirigé par Mère, une mystérieuse jeune femme autoritaire vénérée comme un gourou. Quel est le projet de Mère ? Qui sont ces nostrems qui sèment la désolation ?

Han pasado veinticuatro años desde los sucesos relatados en Dune. La Yihad Butleriana. La revuelta de los humanos contra las máquinas pensantes tras el asesinato del hijo de Serena Butler se ha convertido en un conflicto sangriento, que se ha cobrado innumerables vidas humanas. Vorian Atreides y Xavier Harkonnen comandan las fuerzas de la Yihad en una guerra interminable donde no hay vencedores ni vencidos. Los temibles cimek, liderados por el titán Agamenón, planean recuperar el poder que perdieron.