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Earth is dying, and humanity is scrambling to set up colonies in other star systems. But the search process for habitable planets is not perfect, as the crew of the Ouroboros discover on arrival at their new home.

What would you do if you saw the zombie apocalypse coming and had time to prepare? Where would you go? Who would you take with you? Who could you trust? Following their flight from zombie-infested New York and flush with cash from a recent inheritance, Army veteran Lee Riker and his sister Tara are holed up with their new friend Steve-O in a multi-million-dollar Miami Beach waterside mansion. Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

It's 1953. Britain and her empire are diminished. Nazi Germany controls Europe and a vast African territory. There has been no Holocaust. Instead the Jews have been exiled to Madagaskar, a tropical ghetto ruled by the SS. Returning home after a disastrous mission to Africa, ex-mercenary Burton Cole finds his lover has disappeared. Desperate to discover her, he is drawn into a conspiracy that will lead him back to the Dark Continent.

I would have trusted this man with my life. Until a couple of days ago, anyway. You know what they say - hope for the best, but plan for the worst. Max is quite accustomed to everything going wrong. She's St Mary's, after all. Disaster is her default state. But with her family reunited and a jump to Bronze Age Crete in the works, life is getting back to normal. Well, normal for St Mary's. And then, following one fateful night at the Tower of London, everything Max thought she knew comes crashing down around her. Too late for plans. The worst has happened. And who can Max trust now?

Pursued across space by the ultra-secret Department of the Interior, hunted by the galaxy-wide Juntavas syndicate, former Agent of Change Val Con yos'Phelium and his ex-soldier lifemate Miri Robertson have commandeered the only spaceship on Vandar and fled, seeking help from Miri's newly discovered kin on Lytaxin. Elsewhere, Clan Korval is in action. Scattered across space by the newly invoked Plan B, certain clan members pursue the search for the long-missing Val Con.

Mit dem Projekt von San will Perry Rhodan die Verbindungen zu anderen Galaxien verstärken. Doch da taucht eine Fremde namens Shrell auf. Sie fordert von Rhodan, in die Agolei zu reisen. In der Agolei trifft er neue Verbündete, stößt aber auch auf Gegner, mit denen er nicht gerechnet hat.

Gut 4000 Jahre in der Zukunft bildet die Erde das Zentrum eines Sternenreiches, das Tausende von Welten umfasst. Perry Rhodan hat darüber hinaus eine Vision: Er will die Verbindungen zu anderen Galaxien ausbauen. Auf Terra, der Wiege der Menschheit, wurde durch ein Versehen ein hypermagnetischer Puls ausgelöst, der sich von dort ausbreitete und überall, wo er eintraf, Reproiden aktivierte.

Vor fast sieben Jahrzehnten ist der Astronaut Perry Rhodan als erster Mensch auf Außerirdische getroffen. Seither hat die Menschheit ihren Einflussbereich ausgedehnt und ferne Sonnen­systeme besiedelt. Allerdings kommt es im Jahr 2102 zu einem Konflikt mit den Kolonien. Der Notfallplan Laurin wird eingeleitet - und geht schrecklich schief. Die Erde und der Mond stranden im Kugelsternhaufen M 3, rund 34.000 Lichtjahre von der Heimat entfernt. Mit dem Großraumschiff SOL macht sich Rhodan auf die Suche nach den Ursachen des Transportunfalls. Die SOL gelangt in eine Raumregion, die den Naturgesetzen zu widersprechen scheint.

When Adam Cain's old bounty-hunting friends, Summer, Monty, and Tidus, show up searching for the most-wanted fugitive in the galaxy, their efforts are thwarted by another old friend, Copernicus Smith. The deep-cover spy has his own reason for finding the fugitive, and it's not to earn the million-credit bounty offered for his capture. The elusive alien absconded with billions of credits from his homeworld just before the Mad Aris Kracion irradiated the planet. And now it seems as though the entire galaxy is looking for him.

Vor sieben Jahrzehnten ist Perry Rhodan auf Außerirdische getroffen. Danach ist die Menschheit zu den Sternen aufgebrochen und hat fremde Welten besiedelt, ist aber auch in kosmische Konflikte verwickelt worden. Seit sechs Jahren umkreisen Erde und Mond eine fremde Sonne. Die Gewaltherrschaft des Kriegsherrn Leticron auf den von Menschen besiedelten Welten ist immerhin be­endet. Aber der Überschwere sinnt auf Rache. Als Perry Rhodan versucht, Leticrons Absichten zu vereiteln, gerät er in Gefangenschaft.

John Beck is the hero we don't deserve, but he's exactly who we need when the world falls apart. When a surprise EMP attack kills the power grid across most of the United States, the nation crumbles - but a hero rises. John Beck makes it his mission to help the weak against the strong in a new, lawless wilderness. All the while, he fights the demons of his past as he searches for the only family he has left.

Stacks Fischer is a killer for hire. For more than three decades, he’s loyally served the Syndicate Corporation as its most-feared and respected enforcer around the solar system. He’s buried the company’s dirty laundry six feet deep, no matter who had to be taken out to do it. Now, Stacks has a problem - he’s losing his mind to incurable form of dementia, and unwittingly spilling corporate secrets in public. When SynCorp decides Fischer has outlived his usefulness, they decide it's time to permanently retire him. But Stacks isn’t quite ready to go.

Doc left Furden behind after six months in the capital of the Coalrud Territory. A lot had happened in that time span—there’d been a lot of new business deals, personal accomplishments, and Doc made great strides toward bringing the name of Luck to the world.

A battle is coming, the greatest the Rim has seen in 10,000, a fight for freedom, for the future, for the very survival of all humanity holds dear. Tyler Barron and his comrades are ready for their greatest test, but even as they prepare to hold the line at Fortress Striker, to turn back the Highborn’s imminent attack, the enemy have opened another front, one far to the rear.

Als Atlan, der unsterbliche Arkonide, eine Expedition nach Hangay führt, weiß er, dass dort bereits der legendäre Generationenraumer SOL verschollen ist. Die SOL befand sich seit einiger Zeit in der Hand von TRAITOR, und endlich soll es zum Treffen zwischen ihr und der RICHARD BURTON kommen. Darin liegt allerdings eine bisher unbekannte Gefahr, und diese entspricht ESCHERS PLAN ...

Der Sternenrat will das Sprungtor schließen. Das Schicksal der Menschheit wäre damit besiegelt, die Erde den Insekten-Aliens hilflos ausgeliefert. John Flanagans Team schmiedet einen riskanten Plan, um auf die Raumstation des Sternenrats zu gelangen. Dort wollen sie die Aliens von einer Allianz mit den Menschen überzeugen. Doch Johns Kräfte schwinden zusehends und er begeht einen schweren Fehler.

They are the Voltarians of Voltar - an empire 110 planets strong. They are already among us. And the invasion is about to begin...in a hundred years or so. Or is it? The truth is far more sinister. Undercover, underground, and out of sight, the invaders plan what may in fact be a massive diversion. In the darkest recesses of Voltar’s Coordinated Information Apparatus (otherwise known as the CIA), a tyrant of terror sets out to exploit the invasion in order to seize power. All that stands in his way is a planet that doesn’t exist.

Konfrontation im Zentrum der Milchstraße – ein Quintarch geht ein hohes Risiko ein. In der Milchstraße schreibt man das Jahr 2072 Neuer Galaktischer Zeitrechnung. Dies entspricht dem Jahr 5659 nach Christus. Über dreitausend Jahre sind vergangen, seit Perry Rhodan seiner Menschheit den Weg zu den Sternen geöffnet hat. Noch vor Kurzem wirkte es, als würde sich der alte Traum von Partnerschaft und Frieden aller Völker der Milchstraße und der umliegenden Galaxien endlich erfüllen.

In "Plan 7 from Sin City", a 1950s seedy Las Vegas PI is hired to follow a philandering husband who may be selling atomic secrets to the Reds. This noir science fiction parody is a prequel to the worst movie of all time, Plan 9 from Outer Space.

'We at this table pledge our allegiance to the Dalek cause. Our armies will reduce the galaxies to ashes, their people to dust. And Earth we will conquer first!' In their quest to gain control of the Solar System, the Daleks have taken possession of the Time Destructor, a weapon which threatens...