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The High Chancellor puts Rivka on the trail of serial art thieves. Dismantle the ring. Recover the art. Put the thieves behind bars, thieves who stay one step ahead. Insiders? Or maybe outsiders with inside knowledge? No suspects. No clues. Rivka has to use all the resources at her command—her gift, her people, her ship, and tools that no one else has access to. Rivka has to chase the criminals across the galaxy to exotic planets with their own challenges when it comes to solving the crime. The big question is can Rivka find the criminals before they disappear forever?

‘Planet B’ is a virtual world with the slogan 'where you can be whatever you want to be.' Users can download themselves into it and play as a life-size avatars in a 3-D world. When Lioba Fielding dies in the real world, her boyfriend John Armstrong downloads himself into Planet B in an attempt to find her avatar. As he travels between various worlds he becomes entangled in an array of strange scenarios, teleporting from each adventure to the next with his companion Medley, a 'rogue avatar' who has no human controller.

Dank Amareis gnadenloser Ausbildung mausert sich Kwen zu einem Krieger, der innerhalb weniger Jahre die Fähigkeit erreicht, der Königin von Mektoo im Kampf gegenüberzutreten. Im Verlauf der denkwürdigen Auseinandersetzung führt eine Verkettung glücklicher wie unglücklicher Zufälle dazu, dass Kwen in den Besitz eines Raumschiffs gelangt. Sehr zum Verdruss einer Bande schlecht gelaunter, warziger Aliens, die sich fortan an seine Fersen heften. Aber nicht nur Mork, Muff und Monro möchten ein Hühnchen mit unserem Helden rupfen.

United States Diplomat Danielle Lowen was there when one of her fellow diplomats committed an unthinkable act that had consequences for the entire planet. Now she’s trying to figure out how it happened before it can happen again. Putting the puzzle pieces together could solve the mystery - or it could threaten her own life. "The Gentle Art of Cracking Heads" is a tale from John Scalzi's The Human Division, a series of self-contained but interrelated short stories set in the Old Man's War universe.