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Defense attorney Hank Luger leaves a high-powered D.C. career to return home to Savannah. He opens a modest practice under the moss-draped oaks, hoping for slower days and time with his ailing mother. But his return unsettles the city's legal elite—especially his estranged father, former DA George Luger. Hank's first case involves a young woman hit with excessive charges after reporting an assault. The system's response is brutal. Then comes Pharaoh Williams—a death row inmate convicted years ago, when George was DA. What begins as a reluctant review becomes a dangerous unraveling.

Hank is a thug. He knows he's a thug. He has no problem with that realization. In his view the galaxy has given him a gift: a mutation that allows him to withstand great deals of physical trauma. He puts his abilities to the best use possible and that isn't by being a scientist. Besides, the space station Belvaille doesn't need scientists. It is not, generally, a thinking person's locale. It is the remotest habitation in the entire Colmarian Confederation. There is literally no reason to be there.

Hank is getting married! The space station Belvaille has become home to a species of actors. The newest edition to the Post Colmarian Confederation are the Damakan race. As a species they are capable of “broadcast empathy”. Their acting skills are so powerful they are able to make people believe their portrayals are literally happening - even over remote transmission.

A rom-com-obsessed romantic waiting for her perfect leading man learns that life doesn’t always go according to a script in this delightfully charming and funny novel. Annie Cassidy dreams of being the next Nora Ephron. She spends her days writing screenplays, rewatching Sleepless in Seattle...

The royal family of a powerful empire are visiting Belvaille for an upcoming diplomatic summit. But their plans are somewhat interrupted when the galaxy’s premier assassin shows up and eliminates every single aristocrat. All except for one child who had been hidden. Hank is happy minding his own business. Of course, his business entails robbing, extorting, eating lots of food, and fighting. But compared with the rest of the criminals of his city, he’s practically a saint. However, Hank’s easy existence is interrupted by the chief of security.

Hank is fairly happy that his uncle was murdered. The man had been nothing but a source of endless sorrow and hardships since they first met. Nevertheless, Hank is forced to investigate the killing and comes to realize it is connected to a much larger collection of miseries than even his uncle could manage. This episode marks a huge shift for Hank as he ventures into unknown regions of the cosmos and is confronted with the harsh truths of his reality.

When a mysterious tower appears in the skies over England, thirteen strangers are pulled from their lives to stand before it as a countdown begins. Above the doorway is one word: ASCEND. As a grieving teacher, a reclusive artist, and a narcissistic celebrity children's author lead the others in trying to understand why they've been chosen and what the tower is, it soon becomes clear the only way out of this for everyone . . . is up.

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Annie Fox will stop at nothing to serve her country. But what happens when her country fails her? In November 1941, Annie Fox, an Army nurse, is transferred to Hickam Field, an air force base in Honolulu. The others on her transport plane are thrilled to work in paradise, but Annie sees her new duty station as the Army's way of holding the door open to her retirement. But serving her country is her calling and she will go wherever she is told.

When Cisco Collins returns to his home town 30 years after saving it from being swallowed by a hell mouth opened by an ancient pirate ghost, he realizes that being a childhood hero isn't like it was in the movies. Especially when nobody remembers the heroic bits - even the friends who once fought alongside him.

In post-war 1952, the good guys are supposed to have won. But not everything is as it seems when ex-Spitfire pilot Captain Samantha Moxley is dragged into a fight against the shadowy US government agency she used to work for. Now, with former Nazis and otherworldly monsters on her trail, Captain Moxley is forced into protecting her archaeologist sister in a race to retrieve two ancient keys that will unlock the secrets of a long-lost empire - to ensure a civilization - destroying weapon doesn't fall into the wrong hands. But what will she have to sacrifice to save the world?

Hank the Cowdog (Matthew McConaughey), the self-declared “Head of Ranch Security,” finds himself smack dab in the middle of a host of tangled mysteries and capers that span the universe of the Texas Panhandle cattle ranch Hank calls home. Hank is joined on these tail-wagging, tongue-slobbering adventures by a motley assemblage of characters, not least of which is his less-than trusty sidekick, Drover, a small but uncourageous mutt. Listen in as Hank the Cowdog always claims to know the answer, is the last to realize he doesn’t, but is the first to run headlong into tales of courage, ...

Stories about optimization, momentum, and the consequences no one intended. As AI systems optimize at scale, momentum accumulates faster than governance, and consequences emerge before balance can reassert itself. What happens when intelligent systems stop failing loudly—and start failing quietly? Human After AI is a long-form podcast exploring how artificial intelligence systems break down in the real world, and what those failures look like in human lives. Created by novelist Hank M. Greene, the show combines original techno-realistic fiction and long-form conversations about alignment.

Der Literatur-Podcast mit Tobi Katze und Hank Zerbolesch Zwei Schriftsteller, zwei Stimmen, zwei Perspektiven – ungefiltert und ungeschnitten sprechen Tobi Katze und Hank Zerbolesch über das Schreiben und das Leben: über Zweifel, Disziplin, Geld, Plot, Haltung und Pathos. Über das, was ihren Alltag als Schriftsteller prägt. Und über die Frage, wie sehr sich Werk und Welt wirklich beeinflussen. Aufgenommen ohne Studio, direkt am Küchentisch, entsteht so ein Gespräch, das sich anfühlt, als wäre man selbst mitten im Austausch.

Ob ein Junge wie Forrest Gump, ein einsamer Schiffbrüchiger oder ein Lehrer, der an Aids erkrankt - der Schauspieler Tom Hanks interessiert sich für besondere Menschen und verkörpert sie auf mitreißende Weise. Eigensinnige, fantasievolle Typen begegnen uns auch in seinen Stories: Etwa Steve Wong, den die Natur mit dem feinsten Ballgefühl der Welt ausgestattet hat, der aber keinesfalls über eine Bowlingkarriere nachdenken will. Oder die vier Freunde, die sich eine gebrauchte Raumkapsel besorgen, um mit ihr einmal den Mond zu umrunden.

Ein avantgardistisch- anarchisches Hörspiel von und mit Hank Zerbolesch in Zusammenarbeit mit Michel Kühn und vielen Gaststars. Über 2 Stunden. Sigmund und Carl-Gustav Leid haben es geschafft. Nach jahrzehntelanger Forschung an der bergischen Universität Wuppertal haben die Geschwister und Physik-Professoren eine Zeitmaschine gebaut. Aber dann verschwindet die Mutter der beiden mit ihrer Errungenschaft. Doch die Geschwister haben noch ein künstliches As im Ärmel: Marvin. Eine wilde Verfolgungsjagd durch die Epochen unserer Kultur beginnt, die unausweichliche Fragen aufwirft. Wie war das mit dem Speer? Magdalena, oder doch Mona Lisa? Wer ist der wahre Erlöser? Und kann eine KI überhaupt drogensüchtig werden?

"Hallo. Mein Name ist Hank Zerbolesch. Und ich bin Protestpisser." Ein Leben im Rausch. Bewaffnet mit Sonnenbrille und vielen bunten Pillen zieht ein Mensch von der Party zur Afterhour. Immer auf der Suche nach mehr Freiheit, mehr Gefühl, mehr Leben. Doch so ein Dasein auf einem Dauertrip ist nicht ungefährlich. Da wird eine Banane schnell zur Waffe, man wacht als lebendes Mosaik auf, verwechselt Tütchen mit weitreichenden Folgen oder verführt Kühe zum Koksen.

As both a prisoner and an undercover operative, US Marshal Hank Fallon has faced down some of the most vicious, terrifying, cold-blooded thieves and murderers in the West. Now, Hank is finally free, and he's got no intention of setting foot inside a jail ever again. But the new federal prison being constructed in Leavenworth, Kansas, needs a warden, and Hank is the right man for the job. He's got the scars to prove it - and to keep the peace. But keeping these lawless hornets in their nest is no easy feat.

Doing time in Texas is no picnic. But getting sent to The Walls in Huntsville is a fate worse than hanging. If the guards don't kill you, the prisoners will. And if it weren't for the fact that the man who framed Hank Fallon and murdered his family could be inside The Walls, Hank would never step one foot in that heinous helltrap - let alone go undercover as an inmate. But this isn't just another assignment. This is his chance for revenge.

Hank Fallon used to be one of the best deputy marshals in the country. Then, he got framed for a crime he didn't commit. Got sentenced to 10 years in a federal penitentiary. And got out early for saving the life of the captain of the guards during a riot. When Fallon is released, a private detective is waiting for him. He wants to put Hank behind bars again - but this time, as an undercover agent.... The last thing Fallon wants is to return to jail. Especially a rat-infested hellhole like Yuma Territorial Prison. But if he wants to clear his name, he's got to take the job.