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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.

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?

A WIRED "BOOK YOU NEED TO READ" For fans of the worlds of Philip K. Dick, Squid Game, and Severance: An absorbing tale of corporate intrigue, political unrest, unsolved mysteries, and the havoc wreaked by one company’s monomaniacal endeavor to build the world’s first space elevator An...

Le colonel-commissaire Gaunt et le Premier et Unique de Tanith doivent reprendre Phantine, un monde riche en prométhéum, mais à ce point ravagé par la pollution que la seule option, dangereuse et inédite, réside dans un assaut par les airs. Face à une opposition déterminée et à un environnement mortel, comment Gaunt et ses hommes parviendront-ils à survivre ?

In a sleepy outpost on Mars, a surprise arrival shakes things up‚Aîa brand-new police recruit, delivered in a box! This isnt just any officer; its a prototype robot cop sent for testing. Join Harrison as he reveals the bizarre, hilarious, and spine-tingling events that unfold in this quirky tale.

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.

Threadbare has reunited with his little girl, even if it didn't go exactly like he'd hoped it would. But war still rages through the kingdom, and the fluffy heroes must stop the tyrant king and restore peace to their home. Celia, Threadbare, and the rest of their allies must join the final resistance, to fight for the fate of everyone within Cylvania. It's a daunting task. Fortunately, they're not alone. Doom comes for the tyrant king, on soft, fuzzy little feet.

Passage at Arms tells the intimate, detailed and harrowing story of a climber crew and its captain during a critical juncture of the war. Cook combines speculative technology with a canny and realistic portrait of men at war and the stresses they face in combat. Passage at Arms is one of the classic novels of military science fiction.

Having stopped a mutiny against Earth's government, General Bill Booly and his troops face an even greater challenge: a battle for the future of every living being in the universe, against a fanatical human and his killer technology.

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.

Albus Dumbledore est mort. Son corps est tombé du haut de la tour d'astronomie. Son assassin, le Professeur Severus Rogue a révélé son appartenance aux Mangemorts qui s'apprêtent à prendre le contrôle du Ministère de la Magie et de Poudlard.Harry, Ron et Hermione ont quitté l'école. Neville Londubat se sent bien seul pour mener la résistance contre les soldats de Lord Voldemort. Mais, l'arrivée de nouveaux élèves pourraient lui apporter une aide inattendue.Cette histoire est un livre audio issu du Monde des Sorciers comme Harry Potter.Un nouveau chapitre sortira toutes les deux ...

In book six of Adrian's Undead Diary, no one near Adrian is safe. Many will make the ultimate sacrifice to ensure that he can keep his loved ones protected at any cost, and rebuild a new, better world. In the Arms of Family also follows Kevin and Michelle as their stories entwine and bring them ever closer to the horrors that surround Adrian across the vast Atlantic Ocean. How long can they survive before the dead finish what they came to do?

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...

First contact with the seemingly impossible human civilization at Proxima Centauri is not going well. The Earth ships sent to render aid have not been able to reverse the contagion ravaging their population and, worse, many Proximans are now wondering if the humans from Earth are there for other, not so charitable, reasons. Can the extinction-level disaster faced at Proxima be reversed by the combined ingenuity of scientists from both worlds working together?

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A quiet backwater outpost on Mars gets a surprise in the form of a new police recruit - in a box! Yep, it's a prototype robot cop sent to the backwater station for testing. And Harrison tells the strange, funny and scary things that begin to happen after that, as only he can.

Hillario Mendez ist tot. Laut Polizeibericht starb er an einem Herzinfarkt. Doch als seine Verwandten erscheinen, um das millionenschwere Erbe anzutreten, geschehen seltsame Dinge auf der Hazienda. Die Leiche des alten Mannes verschwindet, ebenso wie seine umfangreiche Zinnsoldatensammlung. Diese bleibt jedoch nicht lange verschollen. Kurz vor seinem schrecklichen Ende, gelang es Mendez, mit dem Bösen einen Pakt zu schließen, um sich an den Mördern rächen zu können.