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The room went silent. Jack looked directly at Kurt, but his friend avoided eye contact. His eyes moved to Nadya before following her gaze to Sarah, who stared blankly into the room. He wanted to reassure them—to remind them that they had succeeded. They saved Earth from the remnants of the...

From the author of The Afterlife Project: One woman's quest to find her father pushes her beyond the boundaries of space, time, and the human mind. Esme Weatherhead was twelve years old when her father, an amateur scientist and the author of a bestselling book on Mesoamerican shamanism, walked...

From the author of The Forever War comes the Worlds trilogy finale: the last of humanity faces extinction on a doomed voyage to a new home in the stars. The Earth is no more, an uninhabitable shell following the one-day war that obliterated the population. In the decades that followed, the...

Jason ist siebzehn, als er in der Megacity neu anfangen will, einer Welt aus Konzernen, Überwachung und Datenkontrolle. Sein Traum: Hacker werden und sich einen Platz im System sichern. Die Realität: Das System frisst ihn. Statt eines Jobs wird Jason entführt. Kurz darauf erfährt er, dass ein Kopfgeld auf ihn ausgesetzt ist. Plötzlich ist er nicht nur ein Niemand in der Masse, sondern eine Zielscheibe.

Aurora I undergoes a transformation as momentous as any leap to the stars. The battered Gravitomagnetic Field Generator, source of so many sleepless nights and fractured ribs, is stripped from the ship. In its place, Silicate bio-crystal gravity plates are installed, their alien pulse promising...

What would you do with a thousand hours in every minute? Imagine a world where time doesn't just crawl - it stops. Professor Gibberne has unlocked the ultimate human boundary with his "New Accelerator," a stimulant so potent it renders the rest of humanity as motionless as stone. One drop of...

Lynn Raven thought she was fighting for glory and fortune. Instead, she finds she’s fighting for humanity’s very survival. But how do you defeat something you can’t see or understand? The world’s best and brightest have come together to give humanity a fighting chance, and now Lynn has to find her place in the war effort. Boldness and competence are no longer a gaming mask to put on for the cameras, but a vital mindset shift she needs to survive. Can Lynn and her online persona, Larry, become one, and if they do, will it be enough?

We have arrived. Descent is in progress. Ryan Pierce traded military life for a peaceful existence in Napa Valley. Everything was fine until the starships appeared. As aliens overtake the land and obscure the sun, Ryan quickly grasps that no one's coming to rescue them. He can't save the world...

Human Francis Sandow is amused when the alien Pei'ans mistake him for Shimbo of Darktree, God of Thunder, but the Shimbo's enemy, Belion—a true supreme being—arrives for a showdown...

An original collection of interwoven short stories set in the Wild Cards universe, created by the globally bestselling author of A Game of Thrones 'A complex, intricately imagined universe' Telegraph An alien virus ravages the world, with effects as random as a hand of cards. Those infected...

The thrilling second installment in New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas’s Galaxy Raiders series. As war rages on against the formidable Galactic Authority, Admiral Alexandra Morrigan leads a daring expeditionary fleet into the galactic frontier, searching for unlikely allies in the...

Der angesehene Informatiker und KI-Experte entführt die Leser in seinem fesselnden Buch "42" in eine alternative Vergangenheit der Menschheit. Mit einer einzigartigen Herangehensweise versucht das Buch das bekannte Rätsel zu lösen: Was ist die Frage, wenn die Antwort "42" lautet? Oder wenn die Antwort "das Universum" ist? Dabei sucht es nicht nur nach den passenden Fragen, sondern auch nach weiteren faszinierenden Antworten.

The Hygrometric Dehabitation Region, or the "Zone," is a growing band of rainforest on the equator, where the heat and humidity make it impossible for warm-blooded animals to survive. A human being without protection in the Zone is dead in minutes. Twenty years ago, Marks went into the rainforest with a group of researchers led by Doctor Elaine Fell, to study the extraordinary climate and see if it could be used in agriculture. The only thing she learned was that the Zone was no place for people. There were deaths, and the program was cut short. Now, they're sending her back in.

Deep space holds secrets… …and one astronomer for NASA has found a big one. But it's not what she thinks. Dr. Melody Adams, a physicist at the Gemini North Observatory, was studying Pluto in the telescope data, and it struck her as odd. The numbers didn't make sense. Could there be an...

Es treibt Antonia Gleichweit – Apothekerin in einem verschlafenen Stadtviertel von Graz – und Martin Moser – Opernsänger mit Talent, aber ohne Engagement – zueinander und auseinander. Es wirbelt das Leben von Erwin Schrempf – Landesbeamter zuständig für die Beobachtung von Sekten, insbesondere Islamgemeinschaften – durcheinander. Und es bringt eine fremde Frau.

Dans la collection Ristretto des Éditions Vivat, Boris Parmeland propose un voyage bref et saisissant au cœur de ce que l'art a de plus fugitif. Ephem'art capte le frisson d'un instant et interroge la trace de ce qui passe, avant de s'évanouir. En format concentré, à écouter d'une traite ou par petites touches, cette méditation sensible offre une parenthèse intense, où l'attention se fait regard, et le regard, émotion. Un écrin sonore qui donne envie de revenir, encore, à ce qui passe - et à ce qui reste.

Als der Physiker Lukas Heuer am LIGO eine merkwürdige Gravitationswellenanomalie entdeckt, hält er sie zuerst für einen Messfehler. Doch Messdaten deuten auf extrem massereiche Objekte hin, die sich der Erde nähern und dabei eine gravitative Schneise durch das Sonnensystem ziehen. Sollte er recht haben, blieben der Menschheit nur wenige Wochen, um den Untergang abzuwenden. Gleichzeitig macht die Archäologin Mira Najafi zur selben Zeit eine ganz andere Entdeckung: Sie findet einen bislang unbekannten Raum in der großen Pyramide von Gizeh, der voller düsterer Prophezeiungen steckt.

Betrayed by shadowy government forces, FBI agents Thor Dejeune and Maya Wilson are forced into hiding. Across the Atlantic, Marcus Brown is abducted and ordered to uncover a secret he never knew existed: What is the artifact—and why is half the world desperate to find it? Racing to follow his trail with the help of a mysterious ally, Thor and Maya close in, while in Washington, D.C., investigative journalist Michelle Nunez and rookie congressman Bob Greenwich dig into billions vanishing into covert government projects.

The Shift is closed between Earth and Arcadia. The residents of Lost Town acclimate to their new reality. They are forever stuck on another planet, with only each other to rely on. Amelia, anxious to see more of their home, travels with Milton's old map-filled journal, discovering an ancient civilization. John is eager to start a new life, until tragedy strikes at the heart of Lost Town. Restarting from scratch isn't ideal, but the locals will do anything to succeed.

A new age of exploration is taking humanity to the stars. It's a chance to build a new life from the ground up, to make your fortune and help the colonies grow. Anyone can become someone out in the stars. When John Carver, a veteran of the Halfway War, arrives on the colony of Greenworld, he finds it completely abandoned, as though its residents simply walked out, leaving all of their belongings behind. All that remains are half-built greenhouses and habitats, poorly maintained farmlands, and basic supplies.