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Eine mutige Piratenprinzessin,ein erbarmungsloser Piratenfürst und eine spektakuläre Rettungsaktion auf Leben und Tod... "Wer ist dein Kapitän?" Um ihren Vater zu retten, schließt die junge Elgin einen Pakt mit ihrem Großvater, dem gefürchtetsten Piratenkapitän der Lüfte. Schon bald bekommt sie jedoch die fatalen Folgen dieses Pakts zu spüren. Wird Elgin die Flucht gelingen und kann sie ihren Vater noch retten? Es handelt sich hierbei um einen in sich abgeschlossenen Steampunk Abenteuer Roman, der ohne Kenntnisse anderer Serienteile gehört werden kann.

Lightspeed: Year One compiles fiction published by the online science fiction magazine Lightspeed in its first year. Produced by Skyboat Media, and under the direction of Grammy and Audie Award-winning narrator and producer Stefan Rudnicki, the Lightspeed podcast features audiobook-style recordings of the stories published each month in Lightspeed.

America has fallen to a catastrophic stealth attack and a ground invasion of the continental United States has begun. Sacramento teenager, Jack Monaghan, has just buried his parents and needs to work out what to do. Trouble is, his older sister has locked herself in her room and won't eat, drink or talk to him—let alone sit down and plan what they'll do to survive.

During the coldest winter on record, an EMP attack wipes out the nation's power and cripples the country. As the city spirals into lawless chaos, an investigative journalist, twenty-six-year-old Cassandra Drews, is forced onto the dangerous streets of Portland to begin the long walk to her parents' home in Oregon. But hypothermia and starvation aren't the only dangers Cass and her rescue dog, Daisy, face on their perilous trek.

Die Vestrall schlagen zurück, aber die Leviathan stellt sich ihnen in den Weg. Derweil eröffnet Major Payne eröffnet eine neue Front in diesem Krieg. Sein Ziel ist nichts Geringeres, als die Verbündeten der Vestrall gegen sie aufzubringen, um der Galaxie endlich Frieden zu bringen. Doch die Vestrall haben Geheimnisse. Der Krieg wird weitergehen, weil es das ist, was ihren Plänen am meisten dient. Um ihn zu durchkreuzen, muss sich die Menschheit endlich ihrem wahren Feind stellen.

This festive collection takes you from Frogmorton Farm to the Time Police HQ in five short stories from across the worlds of Jodi Taylor - including the internationally bestselling Chronicles of St Mary's series. It wouldn't be The Most Wonderful Time of the Year without riotous misbehaviour, traditional illegal expeditions, and a story you just can't stop listening to.

Prepare yourself for a journey that will challenge your perceptions, push the boundaries of your imagination, and immerse you in a tale of discovery like no other. In The Originator, the fate of the cosmos awaits your awakening, and the truth lies within your grasp—if you dare to seek it.

Brought to you by Penguin. On May 25, 1983, Star Wars cemented its legacy as the greatest movie franchise of all time with the release of Return of the Jedi. In honor of the fortieth anniversary, forty storytellers re-create an iconic scene from Return of the Jedi through the eyes of a...

In the late 2020s and early '30s, corporations managed to render the major governments of the world obsolete. The big corporations owned most of the territories as well as the majority of the world's wealth. While many of the old traditions were still observed in various parts of the world, the true power was with the corporations. In the late '30s, what would be known as the Corporate Wars began as larger companies initiated hostile takeovers in a whole new fashion. Employees, armed with corporate weapons, warred for dominance. On May 1st, 2067, it all ended in a nuclear fire.

König sucht Frau! Der Kampf gegen die Götter hat begonnen, und wenn du dich verliebst, hast du schon verloren. Der Großkönig von Sassaris will sich unter tausend Jungfrauen eine neue Königin aussuchen. Die Memora Tokessa nimmt an dem Wettbewerb teil, denn nur so kann sie in die Nähe des Despoten und in das Innere des Palastes gelangen. Dort befindet sich die mächtige Energiequelle der Götter, die Kessa ausfindig machen und zerstören soll. Doch der Plan hat eine kleine Schwäche, Kessa darf sich nicht verlieben.

Wissenschaftler der NASA schlagen Alarm, als sich ein massiver koronaler Massenauswurf der Sonne ankündigt. Als der Plasmasturm über die Erde hinwegfegt, sind Polarlichter bis zum Äquator zu sehen, und in Indonesiens Hauptstadt Jakarta kommt es zu einem merkwürdigen Phänomen: Obwohl landesweit der Strom zur Sicherheit abgeschaltet worden ist, glühen sämtliche Lampen der Stadt, als die Welt in Dunkelheit versinkt.

Arthur Darvill, Olivia Colman, James Albrecht and Nicholas Briggs read these four original stories featuring the Eleventh Doctor.

Sometimes you go to the movies. And sometimes, the movies—and their monsters—come to you. At any moment, without notice, monsters once relegated to the screen become a reality. Aliens and demons, dragons and ghosts, werewolves, vampires, zombies, and seemingly ordinary people who are just plain evil.

A student sorcerer just can’t seem to get a break after he transmogrifies his assistant into a palm tree. Alien Bleeders are coming for Earth, ingesting one terraformed planet after another. A ghoul hungers for souls but still finds time to enjoy art. And a shoeshine boy struggles to make ends meet at the far edge of the Oberon Galaxy.

All eyes fall on the closing stages of a colony-defining isolation test within Terradox’s least hospitable zone—the man-made hellscape of Little Venus, where six astronauts-in-training have survived 51 weeks surrounded by an almost impossibly hostile atmosphere. But while the astronauts of tomorrow count down their final few days until freedom, the gravest threat of all might already be on the wrong side of their Isolation Kompound’s impenetrable walls....

Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winner Ann Leckie is a modern master of the SFF genre, forever changing its landscape with her groundbreaking ideas and powerful voice. Now, available for the first time comes the complete collection of Leckie's short fiction, including a brand new...

In 10 original stories, Sycamore X explores Sycamore's augmented reality dystopia through the eyes of parents, teachers, job-hunters, Sycamore employees, unwilling celebrities, and more.

Finalist for the Locus Award Belletrist Book Club Pick From Philip K. Dick Award finalist Elwin Cotman, an irresistibly unnerving collection of stories that explore the anxieties of living while Black—a high-wire act of literary-fantastical hybrid fiction. A rural town finds itself under the...

My name is Vesper Quill. I used to be a lowly lab rat, toiling away in obscurity developing brewmakers and other household appliances. But thanks to my seer magic and my own ingenuity, I’m now a Regal lady and the head of a successful corporation. My mission? To destroy the Techwave, the dangerous group that has stolen my designs and plans to weaponize them against the Imperium. But when my mission takes an unexpected turn, I’m once again surrounded by enemies and fighting for my life.

As students at university of Makhanda, South Africa during the #RUReferenceList campaign, Langa and her lover Khwezi have a passionate and complex relationship. Puzzling gaps in her memory haunt Langa, yet her dreams are vivid with colors and symbols that hint at a nightmare of forgotten violations and losses. So many secrets—and Langa has had enough of secrets and silences. Who can she turn to? Her mother? Her grandmother? Khwezi? Or herself?