Showing results for "Q" in Post-Apocalyptic

There is a huge, bold black streak in the sky. Branches appear out of nowhere over North America, Southern Europe, and Central Africa. People who live beneath The Rift can see it. But scientists worldwide are distressed - their equipment cannot pick up any type of signal from it. The rift appears to consist of nothing. Literally. Nothing. Nada. Niente. Most people are curious but not overly concerned. The phenomenon seems to pose no danger. It is just there. Then something jolts the most hardened naysayers, and surpasses the worst nightmares of the world's greatest scientists.

The new heart of the Milky Way is a quasar, enclosed by a huge shell. It will provide energy to humankind for a long time. But then one maintenance probe after another disappears. Is someone trying to manipulate the quasar to destroy our galaxy in a giant explosion? Or is it just a few outlaws who are trying to steal some of the quasar's energy for themselves? Kepler and Zhenyi, with the help of some unexpected friends, discover that the stakes are much, much higher. They encounter new and at the same time ancient foes that they never dreamt of in their worst nightmares.

2099. Steve Knight, Commander der Mondbasis der NASA, steht vor seiner Ablösung. Das Shuttle, das ihn nach Hause bringen soll, wartet bereits - da verschwindet die Erde vom Himmel. Weder die NASA-Crew noch die Besatzungen der anderen Mondbasen wissen, was passiert ist. Zusammen bilden sie eine vierzigköpfige Schicksalsgemeinschaft - und schnell wird klar, dass die Ressourcen nur für das Überleben von zehn Menschen reichen werden. Sie stehen vor einer schwierigen Wahl: sich gegenseitig umzubringen - oder alle gemeinsam zu sterben.

Judith Rosenberg, captain of the spaceship ARES, is under pressure. After the previous mission to Mars crashed, she is supposed to set down the first humans on the Red Planet. Maxim Goncharov, meanwhile, has other problems to contend with. He's in charge of building an international lunar base at the moon's south pole, where the sun almost always shines. But his crew is slowly running out of resources