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Międzygalaktyczna rozgrywka wchodzi w decydującą fazę. Wernic, ashtariański renegat na usługach obcej rasy, stara się zniszczyć ludzkość w świecie Alfa. Pomaga mu w tym inteligentna maszyna o nazwie Ulysses. Wydaje się, że już nic nie jest w stanie zapobiec wodorowej zagładzie. A jednak... Ziemię uratować może jeden niepozorny człowiek, mieszkaniec Nowosybirska, Hektor Werrow. Pracuje on nad napędem sferycznym, który pozwoliłby mieszkańcom planety ewakuować się w kosmos. W alternatywnej rzeczywistości, na Ziemi stojącej w obliczu katastrofy, pracuje zespół "Pięciu Merytorycznych".

On the remote world of Eden's End, Alexander has carved out a fragile refuge: a workshop turned enterprise, a home for thousands, and a place to raise the daughter he never expected to have. But peace never lasts. The pirate attack that nearly destroyed them has not gone unnoticed. The Sol Treaty Organization has begun to take an interest, and so has Katalynn Char, the ruthless warlord who rules the region. Worse still, the man who first sent the pirates refuses to let Alexander slip away. This time, he has hired a relentless killer, one who will stop at nothing to drag Alexander back.

In this sweeping, threaded narrative of the global phenomenon known as the Vampire Wars, mankind is unwittingly infected by a millennia-old bacteria unknowingly exhumed by a scientific expedition in Antarctica. Now, in some rare cases, a person’s so-called junk DNA becomes activated. Depending on their racial and ethnic heritage, they begin to manifest one of the many diverse forms of the "others" that are the true basis for the legends of supernatural creatures. These aren’t your usual vampires and werewolves - it goes much deeper than that.

If the power grid fails, how far will you go to survive?Madison spends her days tending plants as an agriculture student at the University of California, Davis. She plans to graduate and put those skills to work only a few hours from home in the Central Valley. The sun has always been her friend, until now.

For over three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror listeners crave. Now, with the eighth volume of the series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night. Encompassed in the audio of The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as: Neil Gaiman; Kelley Armstrong; Stephen King; Linda Nagata; Laird Barron; Margo Lanagan; and many others.

The Lazarus Protocol, the corporate plan to reengineer the Earth’s atmosphere, has failed. The mysterious Cassandra and her Neo zealots have weaponized the weather, Anthony Taulke is in jail, Ming Qinlao is on the run, and Colonel Graves is left to clean up the mess. Meanwhile, we the people pay the price - in blood and treasure. But the machinery of the corporation is not dead yet. As Anthony hatches a new scheme to undo the damage caused by the Lazarus Protocol, he makes new alliances and stabs old friends in the back.

Andrew Wiggin is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony. He is offered the choice of living in isolation on Eros, at one of the Hegemony's training facilities, but instead the 12-year-old chooses to leave his home world and begin the long relativistic journey out to the colonies.

Maya has died and been resurrected into countless cyborg bodies through the years of a dangerous long career with the infamous Dirty Dozen, the most storied crew of criminals in the galaxy, at least before their untimely and gruesome demise. Decades later, she and her diverse team of broken, diminished outlaws must get back together to solve the mystery of their disastrous last mission and to rescue a missing and much-changed comrade … but they’re not the only ones in pursuit of the secret at the heart of the planet Dimmuborgir.

“A book that demands to be read in a single sitting, and through the cracks between one’s fingers. There has never been a horror story quite like this. Josh Malerman truly delivers.” — Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of Wool Written with the narrative tension of The Road...

הסיום המרגש לסדרת בני הנפילים הפופולרית יוצא סוף סוף בעברית, ועתה ניתן לקרוא את סדרת רבי המכר של הניו יורק טיימס במלואה. בספר המסיים את הסדרה קליירי, ג'ייס וסיימון...

לכל פעולה יש מחיר. כדי להציל את חיי אמה נוסעת קליירי לעיר הזכוכית, בירת מולדתם של ציידי הצללים – אף על פי שבכך היא עוברת על חוק שעונשו עלול להיות מוות. גרוע מזה...

בשלב זה, סדרת בני הנפילים, על כל הסתעפויותיה והסדרות שנגזרו ממנה, נמשכת כבר 9 שנים. דורות של בני נוער גדלו והתבגרו על התופעה הספרותית, פרי יצירתה של הסופרת האמריקאית...

Cassandra Collins is forced to make a choice. She can do what she's told and have a safe, protected life. Or she can strike out on her own and make her own way. Cassandra chooses the easy path and regrets it her whole life. Until she dies and wakes up in her 18-year-old body, on the cusp of that same decision.

קליירי פריי רק רוצה שחייה יחזרו לקדמותם. אבל איך אפשר לנהל חיים נורמליים כשאמא שלך בבית חולים, שקועה בתרדמת קסומה, המבוגר האחראי בחייך הוא אדם-זאב, ואת עצמך נתקלת...

עיר של מלאכים נופלים - הספר הרביעי בסדרת רבי המכר "בני הנפילים", שכבשה את העולם וגם הפכה לסדרת סרטי קולנוע לוהטת...

Finn looks and acts human, though he has no desire to be. He was programmed to assist his owners, and performs his duties to perfection. A billion-dollar construct, his primary task now is to tutor Cat. As she grows into a beautiful young woman, Finn is her guardian, her constant companion…and more. But when the government grants rights to the ever-increasing robot population, however, Finn struggles to find his place in the world, and in Cat’s heart.

In 23 Years on Fire, Cassandra discovered that the technology that created her has been misused in her former home and now threatens all humanity with catastrophe. Returning home to Callay, she finds that Federation member worlds, exhausted by the previous thirty-year-war against the League, are unwilling to risk the confrontation that a solution may require. More frighteningly for Sandy, she has brought back to Callay three young children, whom she met on the mean streets of Droze, discovering maternal feelings she had not known she possessed.

Two years after the un-hatching of Callayan President Neiland’s plot to make the capital city of Tanusha the center of the Federation, Callay is under siege. So begins the third installment of this gripping trilogy from an exciting new sci-fi author. A powerful faction of conservative Fleet captains has surrounded Callay, at Earth’s behest, and is threatening a blockade - or worse. A fearful Earth does not wish to lose direct control of its precious war machine, and there are fears of civil war.

Crossover is the first novel in a series which follows the adventures of Cassandra Kresnov, an artificial person, or android, created by the League, one side of an interstellar war against the more powerful, conservative Federation. Cassandra is an experimental design - more intelligent, more creative, and far more dangerous than any that have preceded her. But with her intellect come questions, and a moral awakening. She deserts the League and heads incognito into the space of her former enemy, the Federation, in search of a new life.

Die U.S.S. Enterprise erhält den einfachen, aber wenig erfreulichen Auftrag, hochrangige Gäste zu einer kulturellen Zeremonie nach Betazed zu befördern. Auf der Reise empfängt sie den Notruf einer Wissenschaftsstation der Föderation, die auf dem isolierten Planeten Kota liegt. Captain Jean-Luc Picard entsendet William Riker, Data und seine Chefärztin Beverly Crusher, um die Lage vor Ort zu untersuchen.