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From Joshua Dalzelle comes the follow-up to the number-one best seller Warship. Captain Jackson Wolfe survived the initial incursion of a vicious alien species into human space...barely. He had assumed the juggernaut that had devastated three Terran systems was the herald for a full invasion, but for the last few years it has been eerily quiet along the Frontier. Jackson now struggles to convince the Confederate leadership the threat is still imminent and needs to be taken seriously.

Starting with Captain Amos January, who quickly loses it, and then the others who fought, schemed, and killed to get it, we travel around the complex, decadent, brawling, mongrelized, interstellar human civilization that the artifact might save or destroy. Collectors want the Dancer, pirates take it, rulers crave it, and all will kill, if necessary, to get it. This is a thrilling yarn of love, revolution, music, and mystery, and it ends, as all great stories do, with shock and a beginning.

War. The word spreads throughout the Confederation...the long-expected Union invasion has come. The enemy is strong, their fleets larger and more powerful than intelligence reports had predicted. They have broken through the forward defenses, sent the Confederation's proud fleets into an ignominious retreat.

Lieutenant Travis Long of the Royal Manticoran Navy is the sort of person who likes an orderly universe. One where people follow the rules. Unfortunately he lives in the real universe. The good news is that Travis is one of those rare people who may like rules but has a talent for thinking outside them when everything starts coming apart. That talent has stood him - and the Star Kingdom - in good stead in the past, and it's one reason he's now a "mustang" - an ex-enlisted man who's been given a commission.

Led by Admiral Naismith (a.k.a. Lord Miles Vorkosigan), the Dendarii Mercenaries have pulled off the daring interspace rescue of an entire Cetagandan POW camp. But they have made some deadly enemies, and Miles realizes he's in trouble again. First the Mercenaries' payroll doesn't arrive on time; then someone tries to murder him. Now Miles must juggle both his identities to unravel a plot against him, and to reveal an unexpected ally. Just who is trying to assassinate which of his personas, and why?

Als Atlan, der unsterbliche Arkonide, eine Expedition nach Hangay führt, weiß er, dass dort bereits der legendäre Generationenraumer SOL verschollen ist. Seine Überraschung ist umso größer, als er das Schiff unversehens wiedertrifft: in der Hand des Gegners, gesteuert vom designierten Piloten jenes Chaotenders, der aus den Ressourcen der Lokalen Gruppe entstehen soll...

Innerhalb der Kolonne steigern sich die Aktivitäten: beispielsweise an Bord der Skapalm-Bark DERUFUS - Roi Danton gelingt es dank der Bestie Ganymed, sich zumindest Bewegungsfreiheit zu verschaffen; doch ihm auf den Spuren ist bereits die ARMEE DER MIKRO-BESTIEN...

Die JULES VERNE erreicht Multika - Atlan auf der Spur geheimer Experimente...