Showing results for "The Event" in Space Opera

All Herman wanted was his morning coffee. He didn't expect to get a cosmic hitchhiker and a front-row seat to the end of the world. Earth's scientists have uncovered a force that triggers both the "System" and the Phenomenon—a universe-devouring power so dangerous that an ancient, advanced civilization destroyed itself rather than let it spread.

Adam and Kimberly Hall are enjoying a quiet suburban life with their daughter, Crystal, and their dog, Bowser, when an emergency message flashes on their phones: meteor impact imminent, seek immediate shelter. Minutes later, the shock wave rages through South Austin like a hurricane, and they’re left to pick up the pieces. As dusk begins to fall and horrific creatures come crawling out of the impact craters, they realize they’re under attack—and the attackers are not from Earth.

Battle-hardened Captain Ry Devans and his crew of the Mars Orbiting Station-1 are part of a bold plan: resurrect the active molten cores of the Red Planet with synchronized thermonuclear explosions, and terraform the hell out of that iron-oxide rock for future generations. It'll change history. So will the strands of carbon-based Martian cells that have hitched a ride on the ship. Dr. Karen Wagner knows the microbes' resistance to virus is incredible. It's the unknowable that's dicey. Her orders: blow them into space. But orders can be undermined.

За все нужно платить, и за спасение Ичиро была заплачена огромная цена. И теперь он затребует все долги с Маргарет, что прячется в раздираемой гражданской войной Герноэльской Республике. А Сингулярность тем временем закручивается в Японии: Парад распался, и каждый планетоид ведёт свою игру, неожиданные родственники сваливаются как снег на голову, многострадальная Япония снова нуждается в герое, давний верный враг предлагает сотрудничество... А девушки, чьи сердца похитил наглый Квазар, собираются добиться от него сатисфакции.