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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.

When an EMP plunges Charleston into silence, paramedic Lisa fights to save lives as the city unravels. With Dylan at her side, every step toward her family’s farm means facing looters, violence, and impossible choices. Survival demands more than skill, it demands sacrifice.

Connected by the mysterious Echotide Emporium, a shop that exists outside of time, these speculative tales explore the darkest corners of imagination. Excavating a dead planet, an archaeologist uncovers an artifact that feels terrifyingly familiar. Five friends open a bunker in the woods to find a message waiting for them from thirty years in the future. A grieving artist discovers her paintings don’t just capture reality… they overwrite it. Two investigators enter a Nevada ghost town where the clocks have stopped, but the day refuses to end. The shop is open.

Fronteras del infinito es una recopilación de tres relatos en los que se exploran temas de gran interés social: los prejuicios sociales y sus consecuencias, el antirracismo nacido en torno a la manipulación genética y una conjunción de religión, supervivencia y estrategia militar.

Inside this volume you’ll encounter a flawless time-rescue gone wrong, a beauty treatment with terrifying consequences, a detective hunted by a body-hopping killer, and a homesteader uncovering a truth that rewrites Earth itself. You’ll also find dragons that defy myth, fairy-tale chaos, supernatural horror, and high-concept science fiction that blends heart, humor, and imagination. From time travel and first contact to magical realism, monsters, and folklore-inspired fantasy —every story is brought vividly to life by a stellar narration cast.

A new star has appeared in the night sky. And it’s getting closer. From the legendary father of science fiction, H.G. Wells, comes a chillingly prophetic tale of cosmic indifference and planetary survival. When a rogue celestial body enters the solar system, humanity watches in fascination as...

Was wäre, wenn die Menschheit die einzige Spezies im Universum ist, die blind für die Zukunft ist? Ein Astronom verliert während einer klaren Beobachtungsnacht das Bewusstsein. Dort trifft er auf eine hochentwickelte Zivilisation, die sich äußerlich kaum von uns unterscheidet – mit einem gewaltigen Unterschied: Sie besitzen die Fähigkeit der Vorausschau.

SWAT shooter Arwen is about to eliminate a hostage-taker when she starts reliving the same dangerous moments over and over again.

Die STELLARIS ist ein Frachter der Minerva-Klasse, eines von vielen Millionen Raumschiffen, die zwischen den Welten der Milchstraße verkehren. Mit ihrem Rumpfdurchmesser von 200 Metern und einem Volumen von annähernd fünf Millionen Kubikmetern ist die STELLARIS eine Welt für sich. Im Paket enthalten sind folgende Kurzgeschichten: Folge 61: »Der Schlüssel zur Versöhnung« von Roman Schleifer, gelesen von Stefan Krombach Folge 62: »Die peinlichste Stunde des Konsul Gruner« von Thomas Frick, gelesen von Stefan Krombach Folge 63: »Zirome« von Michael G.

Der Quadrant steht in Flammen. Gewalttätige Aufstände brechen scheinbar zufällig im Einflussbereich der Konföderation aus. Die Reaktion der mächtigen Konföderationsflotte war schnell und energisch, aber sobald sie auf einem Planeten die Ordnung wiederherstellt, bricht anderswo eine Rebellion aus. Die Omega Force arbeitet gerade bei den Grenzwelten, als sie gezwungen wird, einem alten Verbündeten zur Hilfe zu kommen. Bald wird klar, dass diese beiden Ereignisse miteinander verknüpft sind.

As the crew of the Starship Interchange has now learned, when the AI you've been mistreating for centuries turns out to be something else entirely, it can lead to some tense interactions in the mess. With Earth wiped out, and half her crew gone, the Interchange limps toward Sirius—the Dog Star, which aliens call the Beacon. There, Captain Seemey, Sergeant Morgan, and the remnants of their crew are pulled into what promises to be the war to end all wars. A dark force has all but taken over, and galactic powers are fighting over what's left.

THE EARLIEST LIE IS THE DEADLIEST WEAPON. For five millennia, the earth has carried the agonizing acoustic memory of humanity’s first murder. Now, a fanatic has found the instrument to broadcast it. Julian Vane and his ruthless Order of Silence have unearthed a prehistoric weapon in the deepest trenches of the Jordan Rift. Their terrifying goal: to broadcast the "Great Silence," an ancient, inescapable frequency of the uncorrupted Ur-language that will permanently strip humanity of free will, forcing a tyrannical, lobotomized peace upon the globe.

The Stone remembers. The Salt hungers. The Silicon decides. For five centuries, the Merendón sanctuary has remained a myth—a hidden cradle where the Black Guard, vampires of obsidian skin and ancient memory, guard the Record of Life under the guidance of their king, the Scribe K'inich. But the age of shadows is over. Aethelgard, a global corporate leviathan, has cracked the sanctuary's tectonic shield, seeking to harvest the "Marrow" of the ancients to power a new era of human immortality.

Twenty years have passed since the Vance Virus—the "Great Thinning"—erased the Y-chromosome from the genetic map, leaving a world of ash and a humanity consisting only of women. In the ruins of London, a generation has grown up in the Architecture of Silence, a clinical, sterile world where the memory of men is a ghost story and the future is a flickering candle. Rhea, a scavenger born into the grey soot, carries more than just supplies. In her blood, she hosts the Resonance—a high-frequency biological mutation that is the only key to the Shield Protocols.

"A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" is a fantastical short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. Set near Charlottesville, Virginia, it is the only story the author set in the state. It was first published in Godey's Lady's Book in April 1844. It was anthologized the following year in Tales, published in New York by Wiley and Putnam. In late November 1827, the unnamed narrator meets Augustus Bedloe. Because of ongoing problems with neuralgia, Bedloe has retained the exclusive services of a 70-year-old physician, Dr. Templeton, a practitioner of mesmerism.

What if the mirror in your hallway wasn’t showing you? What if the man who looks exactly like you is trying to warn you… from tomorrow? What if catching a single butterfly could kill someone half a world away? What if the only way to save your dying son was to walk into the dark with Death itself?

Сборник рассказов «Время вышло» — попытка ухватить реальность, создать слепок настоящего и всмотреться в будущее. Тринадцать известных современных российских писателей обращаются к жанру антиутопии и размышляют о том, что нас ждёт. Тринадцать рассказов, написанных для этого сборника, — это тринадцать отдельных миров, альтернативных реальностей, непохожих одна на другую: фантастические, условные, реалистичные, гротескные.

Vèvè • Punk: Birth of the Dream is a collection of nine interconnected short stories where Haitian Vodou meets futuristic technology, weaving tales of power, identity, and rebellion. From a street racer battling a death god to an ex-cultist uncovering a supernatural conspiracy, each story explores a world where Vodou spirits have become corporations, trading in human devotion.

"The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, an apocalyptic science fiction story first published in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine in December 1839. Two people, who have been renamed Eiros and Charmion after death, discuss the manner in which the world ended.

I have the honor of sending you, for your magazine, an article which I hope you will be able to comprehend rather more distinctly than I do myself. It is a translation, by my friend, Martin Van Buren Mavis, (sometimes called the "Toughkeepsie Seer,") of an odd-looking MS. which I found, about a year ago, tightly corked up in a jug floating in the Mare Tenebrarum — a sea well described by the Nubian geographer, but seldom visited now-a-days, except by the transcendentalists and divers for crotchets.