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Where did mankind really come from? Why are we here? We can't understand the past until we embrace the future. These critical mysteries take center stage as Earth emerges into a galactic society that is far more perilous than anyone could have imagined. Our history is far more complicated than we could have known. Can a few brilliant minds find a way out for Earth?

All Tomorrows is a speculative science fiction chronicle that explores the far future of humanity—its evolution, transformation, extinction, and rebirth across vast stretches of cosmic time.

Dak Korasa is wounded by his team and left for dead on a hostile jungle world. On the verge of succumbing, he’s saved by a sluglike organism created by an otherworldly entity. This parasite, or chok’tal, has one purpose: to alter its host’s DNA, turning him into a super-soldier known as a Purifier who is then expected to serve in the “Glorious Game.” Imbued with superhuman strength, speed, and endurance, Dak must kill to earn enough points to win the mysterious game—or the chok’tal will kill him.

Geophysicist Jack Greer believes he may finally have found the resting place of the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. A few miles off the Yucatán coast, Jack and a team of scientists tow an aging drilling platform over the impact crater with the aim of securing a sample. But buried deep beneath the earth lies a shocking discovery that threatens to shatter everything we think we know about our species.

What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award - winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy. An explorer returns to gather information from a climate-ravaged Earth that his ancestors, and others among the planet’s finest, fled centuries ago. The mission comes with a warning: A graveyard world awaits him. But so do those left behind - hopeless and unbeautiful wastes of humanity who should have died out ages ago.

Bethany Anne und ihr Team sind zurück! Sie müssen ein altes Raumschiff bergen, herausfinden wer versucht in ihren Geschäften mitzumischen, sie müssen sich mit den Risiken auseinandersetzen, eine Künstliche Intelligenz zu erwecken und natürlich sind da immer noch die andauernden Probleme mit Anton in Südamerika. Irgendwann in diesen Tagen wird sie eine Pause bekommen. Zum Glück für uns war das nicht heute.

Als ein von Bethany Anne geliebter Mensch ins Kreuzfeuer zwischen ihr und den Verstoßenen gerät und dabei stirbt, wird sie blindwütig vor Zorn. Sie glaubt nicht an Frieden und Harmonie. Nicht mehr. Stattdessen sinnt sie auf Rache und Chaos.

Veränderungen versetzen die Unbekannte Welt in Aufruhr. In der ersten Woche nach ihrem "Erwachen" hat Bethany Anne schon einiges in Bewegung gesetzt. Nun verliert das amerikanische Militär zusehends gute Männer, weil in ihren Einsatzteams ein unterstützender Vampir fehlt. Frank Kurns hofft, dass Bethany Anne helfen kann und wird.

The Earth is dying. For centuries, the continents have been sinking into the oceans. What is left of them has turned into a burning desert. In the 24th century, the last humans live in tightly-packed domes. Outside, agonizing heat death awaits. But, there is a glimmer of hope: Lumera. The humans have founded a colony in another solar system and made a fragile peace with the Kidj'Dan, an alien race living there. But terraforming, which the telepathic aliens hope will help Earth's inhabitants, takes more time than Earth has.

Created in a lab to serve as a host to the parasitic chok’tal, Dak Korasa is a Purifier, an elite warrior genetically altered to possess superhuman strength and endurance. Compelled by the symbiote inside him, Dak engages in combat as an unwilling participant in the Glorious Game, earning points for every kill. If he fails to keep up his body count, the chok’tal will end his life. Guilt-ridden at being forced to perpetrate one massacre after another just to survive, Dak wants the alien out of his body at any cost.

Der tausend Jahre lang um die Unbekannte Welt gehüllte Mantel des Schweigens beginnt zu zerfleddern und der Patriarch ist müde. Er muss einen Nachfolger finden. Er findet Bethany Anne. Unbekannt, unerfahren und unerprobt macht sie sich auf, das Unmögliche zu schaffen und eine neue Zukunft zu schmieden. Eine Zukunft, von der niemand wusste, dass sie in Gefahr war. Und das tut sie mit einer Lebenseinstellung, die Dir gefallen wird, ohne Rücksicht auf jahrhundertealte Traditionen und Regeln.

In their Noon Universe novels, they imagined twenty-second-century Earth as a space-faring communist utopia, devoted to guiding the progress of civilization on alien worlds. But as the authors became increasingly disillusioned with life in the Soviet Union, their Noon Universe stories grew darker and more complex as well. The Waves Extinguish the Wind provides the epic conclusion to the Noon Universe saga, as eighty-nine-year-old Maxim Kammerer looks back at his most earth-shattering investigation, which brought an entire era of human civilization to an end.

Adam ist der erste Mensch. Er ist wirklich der erste, der die 184 Parsec lange Reise übersteht und noch seinem Namen kennt. Fuck! Was soll der Scheiß! Er hat bei dieser abgefahrenen Nummer nicht freiwillig mitgemacht! Sein Gastgeber, dieser Wichser, hat mit ihm, aufgrund diverser charakterlicher Besonderheiten, keine schlechtere Wahl treffen können. Die Geschichte über eine Reise... ähm... so ein Drecksding, das einen ganz woanders hinbringt.

The Concord is in shambles after the return of the Statu, but under the guidance of the Zilph'i, trust is slowly being rebuilt. Thomas Baldwin remains confident in his team, the secrets of his ship and the Concord no longer a dire threat. While the Founders continue to appease the Concord members, the Border Wars are picking up steam, and Constantine is sent to the far reaches of space to the Zilph'i homeworld to request the Ugna's aid.

An android named Harley Doon finds himself caught in a battle between human and alien. It’s not his fight, but somebody has to save the world. Years ago, when humans and androids crash landed onto the planet Zuul, whatever remained of their society quickly succumbed to the ravages of earthquakes and a never-ending winter from volcanic dust clouds. As humans and machines scavenged to stay alive, they also faced the Zid, an alien race that abhors all technology with religious fervor.

When Dr. Ayers uses the DNA of a long-dead alien life-form known as the Sansein, the Last Reaper finds himself caught up in an unprecedented situation. The Sansein, as it turns out, were not as extinct as Ayers originally believed. Possibly benevolent, definitely dangerous - these aliens are bound to react poorly to what has been done with their fallen kin. The life of a Reaper is never simple. The exodus fleet has old enemies that can’t be avoided for much longer. But those same enemies have a secret as well...and it just might save them all.

Aliena is a nice person who turns out to be an alien in a human host. She just has things to learn about the human form and society. When her body starts immune-rejecting the alien brain, and the brain has to be replaced by another alien brain, maintaining the semblance of marriage and family becomes a challenge for both Aliena and the man who loves her.