Showing results for "The Empire" in Hard Science Fiction

As rebellion brews across the empire, from the golden streets of Carthage to the post-apocalyptic ruins of Earth, the machines set their sights on the ocean world Galapagos. But they face unexpected resistance from a fiercely independent population led by a battle-hardened submarine commander who refuses to surrender his world's freedom for the illusion of peace.

On Galapagos, Minister-General Reginald Ellison faces the daunting task of uniting nations divided by generations of animosity and suspicion. With technology and weapons inferior to the enemy's, protecting their world means sacrificing blood and bone against the relentless onslaught of steel and fire.

To win an impossible war, Captain Kel Cheris must awaken an ancient weapon and a despised traitor general.

Captain Kel Cheris of the Hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle against heretics. Kel Command gives her the opportunity to redeem herself by retaking the Fortress of Scattered Needles, a star fortress that has recently been captured by heretics. Cheris' career isn't the only thing at stake. If the fortress falls, the Hexarchate itself might be next.

A terrorist attack. A daring raid. Ambitious individuals hungry for power. The Crossroads are in trouble. Carson Flint and his team have settled into a quiet life in their establishment. Two newcomers arrive with lofty goals of changing the entire planet. When two members of the community go missing, it acts as a launching point for a chaotic event, leaving the remaining citizens to fight for their lives or lose everything. Meanwhile, Supreme Commander Garvin of the Lumari Collective launches an investigation into a horrendous explosion and an attempted assassination on their queen.

Restoring the empire that had been destroyed 45 years earlier, Emperor Colin finds problems in the genocidal Achuutani and in his children, Sean and Harriet, who have been marooned on a hostile planet.

Dan Randolph never plays by the rules. A hell-raising maverick with no patience for fools, he is admired by his friends, feared by his enemies, and desired by the world's loveliest women. Acting as a 21st privateer, Randolph broke the political strangle-hold on space exploration, and became one of the world's richest men in the bargain.

Alex has decided they must be stopped and takes steps to do just that. Meanwhile, Earth runs up against the Imperium again and they don't like what happens next.

Alex went for a walk in the woods and ended up changing the world. Chased by a bear, or maybe a squirrel, he finds a spaceship that lets him control an AI and nanomachines. Join his adventure as he changes the world and the galaxy as he builds the Nano Empire.

Wenn das Netz der Realität zu zerbrechen droht. Die Schwarze Stele auf dem Mond ist Geschichte – doch nun verändert sich plötzlich ein erdnaher Asteroid auf unbekannte und eigentlich unmögliche Weise. Wieder setzt sich ein Wettrennen der Nationen in Gang. Gelingt es diesmal, die Fehler des ersten Kontakts mit dem Phänomen zu vermeiden? Oder setzen sich die Forscher durch, die den schwarzen Monolithen für ihre eigenen Zwecke nutzen wollen – ohne seine wahre Natur im geringsten verstanden zu haben? Wer den Kampf um die Schwarze Stele gewinnt, entscheidet über die Zukunft der Menschheit.

Ein Artefakt, das nie geborgen werden sollte. Die schwarze Stele ist der Vernichtung entgangen – vorerst. Was auf dem Mond niemand ahnt: Das Artefakt hält den Forscher, der es zuerst berührt hat, auf eine ganz besondere Art und Weise gefangen. Wird es ihm gelingen, dieser Falle rechtzeitig zu entkommen? Wenn nicht, steht die Existenz des Sonnensystems auf dem Spiel. Denn die Stele hat eine Funktion, die ihre menschlichen Entdecker für vollkommen unmöglich halten würden – wenn sie denn davon wüssten.

Ein Artefakt, das nie geborgen werden sollte. Auf der erdabgewandten Seite des Mondes entsteht ein riesiges Teleskop. Roboter bauen es – gerade einmal zwei Menschen kontrollieren seine Fertigstellung. Doch dann werden diese Forscher auf ein Hindernis im Mondboden aufmerksam. Es befindet sich außerhalb des für das Hyperteleskop reservierten Gebietes und geht die beiden deshalb eigentlich gar nichts an. Eigentlich, denn ihre Neugier ist zu groß, scheint das Artefakt doch Eigenschaften zu besitzen, die unsere Physik sprengen.

The Star is an 1897 apocalyptic short story by H. G. Wells. Here is an impressive story based on the inter-action of planetary bodies and of the sun upon them. A great star is seen approaching the earth. At first it is only an object of interest to the general public, but there is an astronomer on the earth, who is watching each phase and making mathematical calculations, for he knows the intimate relation of gravitation between bodies and the effect on rotating bodies of the same force from an outside source. He fears all sorts of wreckage on our earth.