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Written for audio format, this collection of six science fiction stories draw on themes of arrival, discovery and destination. Commissioned especially for Audible, and narrated by outstanding performers, these stories evoke the traditional storytelling of West African Jali as the unknown and distant are brought to life for audiences.

Paul Grove finds love in the beautiful alien woman who takes his breath away. For the first time since his wife died, Paul wants someone of his own to hold. When a madman threatens his new family and takes the woman he is determined to claim, he will use all of his skills in hunting, tracking, and guerilla warfare to get her safely back by his side. Morian Reykill discovers that the alien male who has claimed her is the true mate she has always hoped of having but thought an impossible dream.

A cosmic accident sets the modern West Virginia town of Grantville down in war-torn 17th-century Europe. It will take all the gumption of the resourceful, freedom-loving up-timers to find a way to flourish in the mad and bloody birth of the Renaissance. Are they up for it? You bet they are. Edited by Eric Flint and inspired by his now-legendary 1632, this is the fun stuff that fills in the pieces of the Ring of Fire political, social, and cultural puzzle as supporting characters we meet in the novels get their own lives, loves, and life-changing stories.

War is a serious business - or is it? Christopher Anvil turns his sardonic sense of humor loose on the subject. Hard-SF legend and Analog regular Christopher Anvil brings together mind-bending ideas and grim-but-true black humor in the face of war's utter destruction in this mega-compilation.

Welche Grenzen würden Sie überschreiten, um zu überleben? Drei Monate nachdem ein EMP-Angriff das Stromnetz der USA zerstört hat, sind bereits Millionen Menschen an Hunger und Krankheiten gestorben. Als das Ende des Winters endlich in Sicht ist, steht die kleine Stadt Fall Creek in Michigan am Rande des Untergangs. Ihre Einwohner haben gelitten und Opfer gebracht. Aber um sich eine lebenswerte Zukunft zu sichern, müssen sie sich der Dunkelheit in sich selbst stellen. Jeder muss für sich entscheiden, ob er sich seine Menschlichkeit bewahren oder um jeden Preis überleben will.

For nearly a century the famed assassin has struck terror within the hearts of those she has been hired to terminate. In that time the Viper, a human cyborg named Carolyn Whitney, has been a lone wolf. She prefers being on her own, neither requiring nor desiring the company of others. She has very few people she can consider a friend, and now one of those is coming for her.

Nach einer langen und angesehenen Dienstzeit, in der er das Imperium vor zahlreichen Feinden verteidigt hat, genießt Kommissar Cain nun seinen wohlverdienten Ruhestand auf Perlia und unterrichtet dort an der örtlichen Schola Progenium. Doch als ein Schwarzer Kreuzzug den Raumsektor bedroht, müssen alle diensttüchtigen Bürger zur Verteidigung schreiten, einschließlich Cains und seiner Kadetten.

Auf den Schlachtfeldern von Aexe Cardinal befinden sich die kämpfenden Kräfte der Imperialen Armee in einer tödlichen Pattsituation mit den dunklen Armeen des Chaos. Kommissar-Oberst Ibram Gaunt und sein Regiment, das Erste und Einzige Tanith, durchleben im Grabenkrieg die Hölle auf Erden, denn der Tod durch den unsichtbaren Feind lauert an jeder Ecke. Die einzige Überlebenschance für Gaunt und seine leicht bewaffneten Späher besteht darin, sich freiwillig für eine Mission zu melden, die so gefährlich ist, dass niemand sonst es wagt, sie anzunehmen!

From the author of the literary pulp phenomenon Spaceman Blues comes a future history cautionary tale, a heist movie in the style of a hippie novel. Liberation is a speculation on life in near-future America after the country suffers an economic cataclysm that leads to the resurgence of ghosts of its past (such as the human slave trade). Our heroes are the Slick Six, a group of international criminals who set out to alleviate the worst of these conditions and put America on the road to recovery.

READ THE NOVEL THAT IGNITED THE PHENOMENON! In an effort to discover the truth behind Death Gun, Kirito has entered the Bullet of Bullets tournament in Gun Gale Online. Both he and Sinon the sniper girl have made it to the finals, and the reality of what they discover is stranger than anything...