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The Earth lies in ruins in the aftermath of an extraterrestrial invasion, the land devastated by a desperate war with no winners between mankind and a race of vicious, intelligent creatures. The seas are drying up while the atmosphere corrodes and slowly cooks any life remaining on the now desolate rock. Food is scarce, trust even more so, and the only people left alive all have done horrific things to stay that way.

As if nearly burning up in a freak accident on her way to Earth wasn't bad enough, Daisy had a whole mess of other trouble on her plate. Big trouble. And she was going to get to the bottom of it if it was the last thing she'd do, which it was starting to look like it very well might be. The thing is, Daisy had a simple rule for space travel. Don't blow up, and so far she'd been managing to abide by that, but mere survival wasn't enough.

Earth...Population: 1 Her name is Eve14. She is the result of a 1000-year project by the robots of Earth to restore the planet after all life was wiped out in 2065. 27 robotic minds, copied from Earth's great scientists, carried on after the species died. They mixed and matched those minds in endless combinations, producing a whole race of machines with human personalities. Immortal, but with memories of sensations they can no longer experience, some renegade robots now have a daring agenda. They want human bodies.

Commander Finch believes he has finally, and safely, returned his crew home. But a jump through the Androski wormhole takes the Omni and her crew to 1993. Fifty years before their original mission. Now Finch and the crew must navigate a past that is still behind in technology until they can safely jump again. They must do so without interfering with the past...and without getting caught. Time is running out and the Androski will soon close. They face not only a leap of time, but faith in where they end up.

Lyra voit s'effondrer ses rêves de voyage interstellaire. Désormais, une seule volonté l'anime : secourir ses compagnons du Raven et percer le mystère qui entoure son père. Le Charon's Omen fonce désormais à pleine vitesse vers la Terre. Deux destins, rattrapés par une seule et même réalité : une conscience maléfique, qui semble se réveiller.

Babel-17, winner of the Nebula Award for best novel of the year, is a fascinating tale of a famous poet bent on deciphering a secret language that is the key to the enemy's deadly force, a task that requires she travel with a splendidly improbable crew to the site of the next attack.

Bei einem überraschenden Angriff aus dem Nichts sehen die Bewohner von Tetradis nur noch einen einzigen Ausweg. Um ihren wertvollsten Besitz - die Essenzen - zu retten, zerstören sie ihren Planeten und flüchten sich ins All. Wie sich kurz darauf herausstellt, bringt die Explosion Auswirkungen mit sich, mit denen niemand gerechnet hat. Raum und Zeit scheinen aus den Fugen geraten zu sein. Die Besatzung der Wellenhand, die sich vor der Katastrophe retten konnte, treibt zunächst ziellos im Universum umher, bis sie ihrer Bestimmung auf dem Mars auf den Grund kommt.

They had all—the artificial intelligences of Sol and the sailors of the Third Expeditionary Fleet alike—believed the Starless Horrors were mindless monsters: little more than beasts driven by eldritch desires, lashing out from their unknown depths to kill and destroy. But that naïve perception was thoroughly crushed after an encounter with a terrifying entity who called itself the Executor.

The Galactic Legacy Federation thought the Cataclysm was over. The Starless Horrors, which decimated most sentient life, vanished over a century ago. Only, the retreat was a lie, and in a small system deep in the Dead Zone, the war against the eldritch threat has raged on, led by a group of sentient AI.

A century ago, nearly all life in the universe was destroyed by the Starless Horrors. Spanning three decades, the Cataclysm wiped out two-thirds of known galaxies and left the rest broken. But eventually, the survivors of countless civilizations and species banded together and prevailed against the onslaught, and those who remained began to rebuild, reconnect, and rediscover hope.

Il cadavere gigantesco di una dea viene ritrovato alla deriva nel vuoto cosmico tra le galassie. Le divinità sue compagne, umani che la tecnologia ha reso longevi e potenti come dei, hanno appena cominciato a rimettere insieme il pianeta andato distrutto nell'ultima guerra fratricida. Millenni più tardi, un giovane uomo appena entrato al loro servizio sarà assegnato a quel mondo ormai ricostruito e mantenuto dai suoi dominatori a un livello di civiltà medievale.

Weary and tired from playing galactic bounty hunter and assassin, John and his crew of intrepid human survivors find themselves in Spaks after their latest escapade bring more heat than ever. In the outcast station of rebels and pirates, John is caught up in galactic politics once again. As trouble approaches on the hyperdrive engines of his many enemies, John finds answers to the System Quest and even more questions in the Rebel Station.

Having been separated from his mother when Green Bank was commandeered by the Cosmics, Bobbie Cagle is left with Imago, the extraterrestrial guide who somehow saved him from catastrophe. Forced into hiding after being labeled a terrorist, Bobbie develops his telepathic powers under the tutelage of Imago, and the results prove staggering. Will they, however, be nearly enough to find endangered Angie and bring Earth back from the brink?

Their trip through the Androski wormhole didn't take them on the journey they expected, and now Reyanne and the team face a new challenge: stay or go? Stay on this new Earth and make a fresh start, or risk going back through the wormhole, not knowing where they will end up. Neither is ideal, and both have unpredictable consequences. There are still too many unanswered questions about what happened on Earth, and the more the team search for signs, the more they realize how little they really know.

Thirty years after a failed invasion of the goblin home world, power technician Kevin wakes up in a wrecked Imperial Marine dropship with no clue how he got there. Worse, the planet has been devastated by a biological weapon, and the few survivors are bloodthirsty mutants.

Devon C. Ford presents the third book in The Defiance series.

Les Premiers-Nés – la mystérieuse espèce extraterrestre, déjà connue par les fans de science-fiction pour avoir édifié le monolithe noir de 2001 : l'Odyssée de l'espace – ont hanté l'œuvre de Sir Arthur C. Clarke, monstre sacré de la SF, pendant des décennies. Avec L'Œil du Temps et Tempête solaire, les deux premiers volumes de la trilogie de L'Odyssée du Temps, Clarke et Stephen Baxter ont imaginé un futur proche dans lequel les Premiers-Nés tentent d'arrêter l'avancée de la civilisation humaine en employant une technologie indiscernable de la magie.

Fresh from his final round Koldaavi Combat Championship loss, Bronwic returns to Earth and must try to complete his Class Quest to become the Human Sentinel and defend humanity from the dangers of Monsters and invading Galactics. After a savage period following the Mana Influx, Earth's population is starting to stabilize and fight back led by Bronwic and his team who tackle threats no one else can. Despite rapid progression and powerful new Classes and Skills, the fate of humanity is at risk when Oblivion Shroud sets their sights on Earth.

After her grandmother is murdered in a home invasion, Tamsin Culver leaves her cushy programming job in San Francisco and returns to her Midwestern hometown to settle the estate. What she doesn't expect is to find out her grandmother's life-changing secret. She's not an Earth native but an exile from another level of the Nigh-Space continuum, an adjacent reality with technology far more advanced than ours. What's more, her grandmother ruled there as an oligarch, meaning Tamsin is the heir to vast wealth only accessible by someone from her bloodline.

With the smoke of Sunny Valley Ranch still thick in the air behind them, Adam Hall has an impossible mission: ensure that his daughter Crystal and the rest of the survivors find a safe refuge. But no matter how far they run, Adam knows that death will haunt their every step. Rumors swirl of a captured Specter starship and of smugglers using it to ferry people to safety on another world, code-named Sanctum. To get to the ship, they will have to traverse twelve hundred miles of desolate wasteland teeming with every imaginable threat.