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In John Scalzi's re-imagining of H. Beam Piper's 1962 sci-fi classic Little Fuzzy, written with the full cooperation of the Piper Estate, Jack Holloway works alone for reasons he doesnt care to talk about. Hundreds of miles from ZaraCorps headquarters on planet, 178 light-years from the corporations headquarters on Earth, Jack is content as an independent contractor, prospecting and surveying at his own pace. As for his past, thats not up for discussion.

Two Syndicate World star systems have fallen prey to a mysterious fleet of warships - a fleet controlled entirely by artificial intelligence - that is now targeting Alliance space. The warships are no mystery to Geary. They were developed by his government to ensure security but malfunctioned. If the Syndics learn the truth, the war with the Alliance will resume with a vengeance.

What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award - winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy. An explorer returns to gather information from a climate-ravaged Earth that his ancestors, and others among the planet’s finest, fled centuries ago. The mission comes with a warning: A graveyard world awaits him. But so do those left behind - hopeless and unbeautiful wastes of humanity who should have died out ages ago.

Jahrhundertelang wuchsen Legenden über verschwundene Menschen, über seltsame, entstellte Tiere und über ein unerklärliches Leuchten in den Tiefen des Sees. Als Marcus Stenson den lukrativen Auftrag ergattert, eine Stör-Fischzucht auf dem Gelände einer stillgelegten Papierfabrik am Ufer des Baikalsees zu errichten, glaubt er, das große Los gezogen zu haben.

Questo romanzo ripercorre la tematica dell'incontro con l'alieno che, nell'evolversi della letteratura di fantascienza, è visto come mito nell'accezione bonaria, o come guerrafondaio al pari degli umani quando la specie aliena è per definizione cattiva e predatrice. Nella lettura di queste pagine troveremo invece un alieno dalle profonde affinità con la cultura umana che, seppur incline all'aggressività, è in fondo animato da buone intenzioni, ed è alla ricerca di una serena convivenza col prossimo.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Stardust Compass: Cross-Dimensional Guardian Chronicles by Kingsley Beck is an epic sci-fi, horror, and thriller novel. An ancient compass unlocks a journey across dimensions. From a dusty antique shop on Earth to the ultimate gate of ten-dimensional...

Die Menschheit steht auf dem Prüfstand mächtiger Aliens – befindet sich die junge Republik vor ihrem nächsten Konflikt? Während die Proxima die ersten Kontaktversuche mit den „Schweber" getauften Außerirdischen startet, besucht eines der Aliens das benachbarte Ignom-System. Dort ist man auf diesen Besuch nicht vorbereitet und macht alles falsch.

Only days after Scott Miller's heroic actions prevented a global disaster, an extraterrestrial threat like no other emerges: A two-mile-long alien mothership, tearing its way through space on a beeline for Earth. To avert a hopelessly unwinnable war, Scott and his allies must now urgently convince the incoming force that his previous intervention was not a hostile act. Society reels when the ship becomes visible, bringing chaos to the streets even before its arrival.

Terceiro livro da trilogia que inspirou a série O Problema dos 3 Corpos, da Netflix — dos mesmos criadores de G ame Of Thrones. Com O fim da morte, a aclamada trilogia do autor chinês mais vendido e premiado da ficção científica chega ao fim. Iniciada com O problema dos três corpos e A...

In Robert A. Heinlein’s controversial Hugo Award–winning bestseller, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the Universe—and into battle against mankind’s most alarming enemy. Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up—and definitely not the infantry. But now...

The thrilling follow-up to Mickey7, soon to be a major motion picture by Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon-Ho. Surviving isn't living, even for an Expendable. Mickey7's antimatter gambit paid off. He's out of the Expendable game and doing whatever else he can to help support the...

Gnat the Devourer is becoming a more prominent figure in grand space politics. Sure, he may not be totally independent yet, but he has enough leeway to be able to differentiate Earth's interests from those of its Geckho suzerains and act exclusively for the good of his own kind. Gnat must balance obligations to his almighty suzerains against a desire to advance humanity's position in space, and his home planet's search for ever more allies.

“Investments” finds Gareth Martinez has accepted a meaningless post as Inspector General of Chee, a newly settled world. Intending nothing more than a pleasant vacation with his family, he first stumbles across a murderous conspiracy. In “The Stickpin,” set in the Naxid War, Caroline Sula leads the resistance against the Naxid occupiers, and shows how a pleasant afternoon stroll can have deadly consequences to the enemy. Then in Impersonations, Caroline Sula has been posted to the planet Earth, a dismal backwater where careers go to die.

In 2018, Canadian archaeologist Ron Jackson makes a mind-boggling discovery in Antarctica - right before disappearing without a trace, leaving behind only his controversial theory that humans have lived on Earth far, far longer than we think they have. Decades later, in 2042, when Jackson's wife dies under mysterious circumstances, an unlikely pair of investigators, Agatha Devenworth and Pano Hofer, begin investigating whether her death might be connected to Jackson's disappearance. 

The year is 1961. The Cold War is in full swing and the space race is on. Russia aims to send humanity to space. But what if space comes to humanity instead? Yuri Gagarin’s epic flight into space is disrupted when an alien Mothership jumps into orbit, causing a cosmic car crash that defies all odds. Everything changes. The US and USSR must quickly put aside their differences. In exchange for the Earth’s help in the rebuilding of their Mothership, the mysterious aliens, the Vulbathi, offer promises of technology beyond humanity's wildest dreams.

This audiobook is the official prequel, introducing key concepts that then will explode onto the screen in the movie The Predator. The official prequel novel leads into the summer blockbuster The Predator, Shane Black's new movie set within the universe of the previous films. With a screenplay by Shane Black and Fred Dekker, the film stars Yvonne Strahovski, Boyd Holbrook, Olivia Munn, Alfie Allen, Thomas Jane, Sterling Brown, Keegan-Michael Key, Edward James Olmos, Jake Busey, and more. 

Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families. Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain...

You can't mistake just anyone for a Phule. When the planet Zenobia is invaded, Captain Willard Phule is made their military advisor. The first priority for Phule's Company: staying out from underfoot of the peaceful, dinosaurlike Zenobians.... But, unbeknownst to the Zenobians, they're getting two Phules for the price of one. A robot double of Phule appears out of nowhere. And only the real Phule knows who the real Phule is....

The complete Baldwin's Legacy series. 

A brand new stand-alone adventure for the 10th Doctor, which also forms part of the Time Lord Victorious story arc, read by Jacob Dudman. The Doctor travels with Brian, the Ood assassin, to the planet Magnox, one of the greatest receptacles of knowledge the universe will ever know. The Doctor needs to ask a vital question, but the answer is grade-one classified! In order to gain an audience with the Minds of Magnox themselves he must take a dangerous test. Is he smart enough to get through?