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In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife-edge between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the aging gunship, Rocinante, have their hands more than full keeping the fragile peace. In the vast space between Earth and Jupiter, the inner planets and the Belt have formed a tentative and uncertain alliance still haunted by a history of wars and prejudices.

When the silent spacecraft arrived and took the light from the world, no one knew what to expect. When the Overlords finally showed themselves it was a shock but one that humankind could now cope with, and an era of peace, prosperity and endless leisure began. But the children of this utopia dream strange dreams of distant suns and alien planets, and soon they will be ready to join the Overmind...and, in a grand and thrilling metaphysical climax, leave Earth behind.

After an attack of scruples, Colin Laney's skipped out on his former employer Slitscan—avoiding the rash of media lawyers sent his way—and taken a job for the outfit managing Japanese rock duo, Lo/Rez. Rez has announced he's going to marry an "idoru" by the name of Rei Toi—she exists only in virtual reality—and this creates complications that Laney, a net runner, is supposed to sort out.

Count Zero is a rustbelt data-hustler totally unprepared for what comes his way when the designer's defection triggers war in cyberspace. With voodoo gods in the Net and angels in the software, he can only hope that the megacorps and the super-rich have their virtual hands too full to notice the amateur hacker with the black market kit trying desperately to stay alive....

A GRIPPING TECHNO-THRILLER BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NEUROMANCER, THE THIRD NOVEL IN THE BRIDGE TRILOGY The Bridge, San Francisco, after the quake: Ex-cop Berry Rydell has been hired by Colin Laney - who is hooked deep into the network of things - to go to San Francisco and act in such a way...

For generations, the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt - was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artefact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a starless dark...

Fourteen people arrive on the strange planet of Delmak-O. They have nothing in common other than a desire to make a fresh start–and they have no idea why they are there and no way of escaping. And then the first murder takes place....

Teil 1 des dritten Bandes von Peter F. Hamiltons Reihe "Das dunkle Universum". Das Intersolare Commonwealth ist in Aufruhr. Mittendrin: Edeard, genannt der Waterwalker, ein Telepath mit wachsender Macht. Die Gefahr der "Leerengrenze" ist nicht gebannt: ein Raumgebiet, das sich immer weiter ausdehnt und wie ein schwarzes Loch alle Welten auf dem Weg verschlingt. Überdies rückt die Flotte des Ocisen Empire vor, zum Äußersten entschlossen.

Teil 2 des dritten Bandes von Peter F. Hamilton Reihe "Das dunkle Universum". Das Intersolare Commonwealth ist in Aufruhr. Mittendrin: Edeard, genannt der Waterwalker, ein Telepath mit wachsender Macht. Die Gefahr der "Leerengrenze" ist nicht gebannt: ein Raumgebiet, das sich immer weiter ausdehnt, und wie ein schwarzes Loch alle Welten auf dem Weg verschlingt. Überdies rückt die Flotte des Ocisen Empire vor, zum Äußersten entschlossen. Ihr Ziel: Die Menschheit, die sich in interne Machtkämpfe verzettelt hat.

Millionen Pilger sind mit ihren Ultra-Antriebsschiffen auf dem Weg ins Zentrum der Galaxis - in die "Leere". Dort, so ihr Glaube, erwartet sie ein perfektes Leben in einer perfekten Welt. Doch der Preis dafür könnte höher nicht sein. Einige setzen alles daran, die Pilger zu stoppen, wie etwa Gore Burnelli, ältester und einflussreichster lebender Vertreter der Menschheit, der die Jahrtausende vorbeiziehen sah; oder Oscar Monroe, der Märtyrer, der sich schon einmal für das Commonwealth opferte.

Im Jahr 3580 lebt die Menschheit in über tausend Sonnensystemen. Eine mächtige Raumflotte beschützt sie vor jeder feindlichen Spezies. Selbst der Tod ist besiegt. Doch im Herzen der Galaxie liegt eine schwarze Welt. Und auf das, was von dort kommt, hat die Menschheit keine Antwort.

Pilger sind mit ihren Ultra-Antriebsschiffen auf dem Weg ins Zentrum der Galaxis - in die "Leere". Dort, so ihr Glaube, erwartet sie ein perfektes Leben in einer perfekten Welt. Doch der Preis dafür könnte höher nicht sein. Einige setzen alles daran, die Pilger zu stoppen, wie etwa Gore Burnelli, ältester und einflussreichster lebender Vertreter der Menschheit, der die Jahrtausende vorbeiziehen sah; oder Oscar Monroe, der Märtyrer, der sich schon einmal für das Commonwealth opferte; und die gnadenlose Ermittlerin Paula Myo, unermüdlich und unaufhaltsam. In ihren Händen liegt es, die Galaxis zu retten. Doch die Zeit ist nicht ihr Verbündeter...

Inmitten des intersolaren Commonwealth schwärt ein riesiges schwarzes Loch. Langsam verschlingt es Stern um Stern. In seinem Inneren: ein fremdartiges Universum, wo die Gesetze der Physik Kopf stehen. Manche Menschen glauben, man könne in diesem Universum ein perfektes Leben führen, und brechen zu einer Pilgerfahrt auf. Andere Völker sehen in den Pilgern eine unberechenbare Gefahr, die zum Wachstum des schwarzen Loches führt. Sie wollen die Pilger aufhalten. Um jeden Preis.

Four students discover a manuscript, The Book of Skulls, which reveals the existence of a sect, now living in the Arizona desert, whose members can offer immortality to those who can complete its initiation rite. To their surprise, they discover that the sect exists, and is willing to accept them as acolytes. But for each group of four who enter the rite, two must die in order for the others to succeed.

Val and Julie just want what's best for their kids, David and Sophie. So when teenage son David comes home one day asking for a Pilot, a new brain implant to help with school, they reluctantly agree. This is the future, after all. Soon, Julie feels mounting pressure at work to get a Pilot to keep pace with her colleagues, leaving Val and Sophie part of the shrinking minority of people without the device.

Sent to Earth to explore, survey, collect samples and report back to its makers, an alien probe arrives in the middle of a warzone. Witnessing both the best and worst of humanity, the AI probe faces situations that go far beyond the parameters of its programming and is forced to improvise, making decisions that have repercussions for the future of our entire world.

The Western Conference discovers the Reds have stolen their alien-source data on a colonizable planet...and so must rush their plans for an expedition. When their spaceship crashes on Topaz, Travis Fox and his party of modern Apache Indians, reverted to their tribal ancestral memories, find they have already been beaten there. And they must deal with more than Reds - for the Reds have brought along reverted members of Ghenghis Khan's Mongol Horde!

The cancer-causing disease came from space, and now the whole of humanity is on the brink of extinction. The only hope for Earth is a single starship catapulted across space with a crew of misfits seeking a cure.

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! The Empire State Building has vanished into thin air! Gone, too, are Grant’s Tomb and Grand Central Station, and all hell is breaking loose in New York City! What’s the story? One grizzled old newspaper reporter known simply as Pop - a role made for Walter Matthau - is on top of it...and better stay there, because his livelihood is on the line. If Pop fails to get to the bottom of the vanishing landmarks, his job will disappear as well - and land in the hands of the newspaper publisher’s son-in-law.

An errant encounter with a passing star has flung Earth away from its old Solar System into the dark and cold of deep space. With the entire atmosphere frozen as chemical snow dozens of feet deep, one last family struggles to survive. But what are they to think when they see figures moving in the city ruins? Are Earth's dead coming back to life?