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Rivka and her crew take a much-deserved vacation, but find themselves on a jungle planet, cut off from the rest of the galaxy. Part by design, but mostly not. Isn't that what a good vacation is supposed to be, disconnected from the rigors of everyday life? Until no one can hear your calls for help. The team has to resolve Yindle and Yangor's dispute before they can find a way home. A vacation turned into a case morphed into a fight for survival.

Glory rises from the carnage of the Battle for Earth. Humanity is shell-shocked by how close they came to extinction. Humans don’t know what to do, but they trust their leaders, who are turning to Admiral Jack. And he looks to Glory, Captain Drake, and her crew. With the loss of the planet killer, the Paragon will seek vengeance. They have become even more dangerous because they no longer have to maintain the veil of subterfuge. Their goal hasn’t changed. Death to humanity. Humans. The scrappiest fighters of all the sentient races. But can they stand up to the technologically superior Paragon?

The Grand Mechanism is a machine the size of Saturn's rings that has lain dormant for all recorded history, watched over by the alien Jzat. Now, rogue elements in Jzat and human society conspire to activate it, hoping it will bring them power and opportunity. But the only person who knows the Mechanism's secrets is the Rav'nah Abelisk, a Jzat holy man on sabbatical aboard a vast alien megaship. Believing the Mechanism's activation will bring galactic devastation, Nic Mafalda has to seek out the Abelisk before his sacred knowledge falls into the wrong hands.

Captain Tom Thrush is patrolling the Octagon Rift when his ship is attacked by a black destroyer that seems to predict his every move. Outgunned and outmaneuvered, he flees in a crippled ship to the only sanctuary he can reach—a den of thieves and spies called Lotus Station. His ship will be broken up for scrap. Half the crew are casualties. The rest are scattering, leaving Tom stuck on Lotus. As the black destroyer hunts down local freighters, Tom becomes obsessed with tracking it down and taking revenge.

Catherine “Cat” LeBlanc has only been a samurai for a week, tackling trials by fire as they erupt with guts, grit, and a lot of explosives. As a warrior-still-in-training, her unorthodox and spontaneous fighting style has saved many lives. Now, with New Montreal recruiting soldiers for war, Cat will be on the frontlines with fellow samurai like pyrotechnic nun Gomorrah; buggy, trigger-happy Grasshopper; and goth public relations specialist Emoscythe Mordeath Noir.

It's time. Alexander Moreau, supervisor of Bismarck and head of the Human Corporation, and the mysterious Neuromorph ask for the final game—a game Pascal Takahashi is only too happy to play. But this game no longer follows any rules, and the stakes are higher than ever. In the midst of a dying colony, Jeremy and his crew must join Pascal in finding a way to set the course for humanity's future themselves before others do. For beneath the darkness of the barrier, secrets are stirring, about to rise to the surface.

Everything is different than expected. The mystical home of mankind is anything but the warm bosom of their ancestors, and the power is no longer with himanity. Pascal and Jeremy quickly realize that they didn't reach Earth for no reason, and that they are mere pieces on a chessboard. The real players are moving them back into position. The mission? Dangerous. The chances of success? Slim. Will they once again succeed in pulling their heads out of the noose and reshuffling the cards?

Drunk, angry, abusive, and pathetic, Dan Gurlick exists at the very lowest level of human civilization, sleeping in junkyard cars and scrounging through garbage cans for his dinner. But his last rotting meal contains something unexpected: a spore that originated from a galaxy many light-years away. First, Dan eats the spore, then, the spore eats Dan; and the homeless alcoholic becomes a host for the Medusa. An insatiable alien hive mind, the Medusa has already consumed the life forms of a billion planets. Now, it hungers for the dominant species of Earth.

Journey through time and space to the intricate biosphere of Juno, where three species have been birthed by the gods. First the Kuhifadi, inheritors of sun magic, able to do great deeds with magic stored in their bodies. Second the fearsome Uchafumlaji, technological savants who live in the depths of the ground. Third the weird Ngisikaa, a species uplifted from animals through communal memories. Small decisions and single individuals will affect the tide of history.

With the Galactic Republic in ruins and Capriana Prime uninhabitable after Moldark's assault, Magnus and his team are left to pick up the pieces. Hundreds of thousands of refugees need to be evacuated before time runs out. But the Gladio Umbra aren't without their own problems. In desperate need of rest, Colonel Caldwell arranges for the gladias to take refuge on a neutral planet. But Moldark's defeat prompts several key team members to reassess their roles and make decisions that will dramatically shape the Gladio Umbra's future.

Glory barely survived its last battle twenty years ago. Captain Drake resigned rather than face court martial. But the enemy is back, and humanity needs everything that can fly. Maybe it’s not the ship at all but the crew. They hold the key. Drake rallies old and young alike to comply with orders so secret even he wasn’t allowed to see them until after the ship left the junkyard. Would it leave? That was another question. The core hadn’t been fired in twenty years.

Kite Selby is a private detective. The year is 1968, New York, Manhattan. One day, he receives a worried young lady that hires him to investigate a missing person case which happened to be her best girlfriend, a young Russian physics teacher from a local university called Anika. Starting to investigate the case, Kite runs into a thrilling adventure, where mystery and romance turn his simple and casual world into a larger and greater plot.

Sabine is working on a mixed-species spaceship when it abruptly comes under attack by a strange monster. When she encounters Eirlys, a set, they manage to hide together and survive the assault. They're soon rescued by Naomi, captain of a mercenary ship which was hired to kidnap the two survivors but at the last minute chose to rescue them instead—putting them, Naomi, and her crew in peril from the government who hired them. And if being wanted wasn't enough, the monster is still out there.

The day Tracy Seavers dies, Detective John Peters arrives on the scene of the car accident to find she has miraculously walked away. An impossible conclusion, had the same thing not happened to him five years before. John suspects Tracy is now host to an alien entity with incredible healing power, and sometimes sinister needs. John wants Tracy almost as much as the entity inside him yearns for the new alien hiding within the beautiful brunette. The last time John got involved with another host, though, it ended in disaster.

Als ein von Bethany Anne geliebter Mensch ins Kreuzfeuer zwischen ihr und den Verstoßenen gerät und dabei stirbt, wird sie blindwütig vor Zorn. Sie glaubt nicht an Frieden und Harmonie. Nicht mehr. Stattdessen sinnt sie auf Rache und Chaos.

Streng nach den Regeln spielen? Das kommt für Kronprinz Georg nicht in Frage! Um sein Erscheinen am Hof des Imperators hinauszuzögern, lockt er feindliche Aliens in sein eigenes Sternensystem. Das gesamte Imperium verfolgt wie gebannt die Liveübertragungen, die den Kampf seiner Flotte gegen die furchteinflößenden Eindringlinge zeigen. Die Iseyek - gigantische intelligente Gottesanbeterinnen - sind ebenfalls schwer beeindruckt und erinnern den Kronprinzen prompt an seine Verpflichtungen als ihr Verbündeter. Die Flotte von Sektor Acht eilt den Insekten zur Hilfe.

Ziemię atakują nieznani obcy. Ich planeta w tajemniczy sposób uniknęła dotąd wykrycia i pełna jest najgroźniejszych kosmitów, jakich do tej pory spotkała ludzkość. James McGill odkrył właśnie Świat Śmierci. W piątym tomie cyklu „Legion Nieśmiertelnych” tajemniczy wróg zadaje druzgocący cios naszej ojczystej planecie. Ogarnięty żądzą zemsty Legion Varus ściga napastników pośród gwiazd i odkrywa nowe zagrożenie dla naszej części Galaktyki. McGill dowiaduje się także, dlaczego Królestwo Głowonogów wciąż nie zaatakowało Ziemi i co dzieje się za kulisami w Światach Centralnych.

Marc and Emma are on the graveyard shift onboard the Sycorax, an interstellar spacecraft bound for New Haven, a colony world fifty light years from Earth. For the crew of the Sycorax, interstellar flight is boring—that is, until they run into a tempest. Before long, they find themselves on a crippled spacecraft falling toward a black hole, but that's the least of their problems...

As a DEA agent caught in an unwinnable drug war, Abel has spent his life with the ugliest side of humanity. It’s no wonder he’s given in to corruption, bribery, and an illegal side-hustle that has him on the run from some of the most dangerous men in South America. Then he stumbles on a deadly, abandoned alien girl who has made a home under the green canopy of the deepest part of the jungle. Her space craft crash-landed a decade ago; his life crashed and burned well before that.

Czy to koniec? Czy nowy początek…? Admirał Trevor Gray stoczył wiele bitew z obcymi, wielokrotnie pokazując im, że nie warto zadzierać z ludzkością. Teraz jego samego i dowodzony przez niego lotniskowiec gwiezdny „Ameryka” czeka nowe zadanie: z pomocą Konstantina, zaawansowanej sztucznej inteligencji, przemierzyć czas i przestrzeń, by dowiedzieć się, czy ludzkość rzeczywiście może osiągnąć osobliwość i jednocześnie uniknąć zagrożeń, z którymi zmagały się inne napotkane przez Ziemian międzygwiezdne cywilizacje.