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Vor Jahrhunderten entwickelten die Roboter auf dem kleinen Mond Panga ein Bewusstsein ihrer selbst – worauf sie umstandslos in der Wildnis verschwanden und zu einem Mythos wurden, zu einer urbanen Legende. Den Menschen hingegen ist es seither gelungen, die Klimakrise zu überwinden und zu einem gedeihlichen Dasein im Einklang mit ihrer Umwelt zu finden. Dex zieht als Teemönch mit Fahrrad nebst Wohnanhänger durch die Lande und lädt in den Siedlungen zu besinnlichen, therapeutischen Gesprächen ein.

The crew of the Liberator battle against the despotic Federation in these thrilling stories and features from the Blake’s 7 Annuals. “Blake’s 7 are all fugitives in space, their frail alliance fortified by the knowledge that each of them has been marked for extermination by the Federation...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. War made him a hero. The Fringe will make him a legend — or cost him everything. Exiled to the far fringe, Captain William Owen Reed seeks glory and redemption to win his way home to his true love. Instead, he faces disaster. Ambushed, and captured...

For three hundred years, humanity’s greatest works of art have been on loan at the Greenwood Museum. It was finally time for them to come home...but the alien curators were disinclined to return them. Force was out of the question. Earth’s government was clear: they were not going to press the issue. So, all we had was guile and hubris to fuel our little intergalactic art heist.

Jetzt, während der Imperator seine Söhne für einen Angriff auf Ullanor Primus versammelt, zieht der Herr der Ersten Legion stattdessen seine Truppen zu einer der entferntesten Regionen der bekannten Galaxis ab, um dort den Aufstand auf einer einzelnen Welt zu unterdrücken. Ist dies nur ein weiteres Beispiel für den berüchtigten Stolz des Löwen oder steckt mehr hinter den Geistersternen, dem Friedhof der Reiche, mehr, als der Löwe selbst seinen eigenen Söhnen anvertraut?

The powerful alien empire of the Gumalagians turns their attention to the United Interplanetary Republic. While Carter has faced dangerous opponents, nothing could prepare him for what’s to come. He must find allies and grow stronger — without sacrificing the people he loves. Along with an audacious and alluring Admiral, Carter races against the clock to assemble a fleet that can save them all.

In this new military sci-fi thriller from the Nebula Award–winning author of Cold Welcome, Admiral Kylara Vatta is back—with a vengeance. Ky beats sabotage, betrayal, and the unforgiving elements to lead a ragtag group of crash survivors to safety on a remote arctic island. And she cheats...

Der Erste Offizier Tornot nimmt an einer Rätselrallye teil und erhofft sich reichlich Gewinn. Als Beifahrer wählt er Sherlock Holmes. Die Rallye entpuppt sich als Tour de Force und verlangt beiden das Letzte ab.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. One ordinary morning, Breanna's life ended. The next moment, it began. She stepped into another world and found everything she never knew she was missing — a man whose grief she understood before he spoke a word, people who became her family before...

Evan and Anya flee Aethos with a target on their backs. Unfortunately, the ship's sentient AI is missing thousands of years of history and is just as surprised to be on the run. As they search for the ship's makers, Evan and Anya soon discover that the interstellar plot to transform the Commonwealth with alien tech runs much deeper than they'd ever imagined.

This sequel to Inversion forces a pacifist society in a pastoral, isolated universe to wrestle with the cost of self-defense. The people of Germinal live on a tiny, verdant planet where evolution has traced a slightly different path. For centuries, they have peacefully coexisted amid an ecosystem where an advancing wall of fire consumes all in its path, a perpetual cycle of destruction and renewal. That is, until everything they knew of their history was violently upended by the arrival of colonizers.

When young Tad Thatcher told his grandfather he wanted to command a starship like he did, his grandfather took him seriously. He taught his grandson everything he knew. Fast forward over two decades, and a young Space Fleet officer's dream becomes reality: he's made captain of a starship…just in time for the return of humanity's most terrible enemy, after 50 years of peace.

Hadrian Marlowe si è perso. Per mezzo secolo ha cercato tra i Soli più lontani il pianeta perduto di Vorgossos, sperando di scoprire un modo per contattare gli alieni Cielcin. Per anni ha inseguito false piste tra i barbari Normanni come capitano di una banda di mercenari, anche se resta determinato a fare la pace e a porre fine a quasi quattrocento anni di guerra. Alla ricerca disperata di risposte, deve avventurarsi oltre il confine sicuro dell'Impero Solano, in mezzo agli Extrasolari che abitano tra le stelle.

Der HYPERION-Verband sieht sich einer aussichtslosen Lage gegenüber. Ein Kampf gegen eine Übermacht des Imperiums, der nicht gewonnen werden kann. Commodore Cross muss eine Entscheidung treffen, die weitreichende Konsequenzen hat und den weiteren Weg einer Hauptfigur für immer verändert. Gleichzeitig sieht sich die Republik einer inneren Gefahr gegenüber, die sie noch nicht einmal bemerkt hat. CABAL ist überall und hilft der Tochter seines Erschaffers dabei, aus dem Schatten zu treten.

As Guilliman, Regent of Terra, heads off to lead the Indomitus Crusade, he leaves behind a world still in turmoil, beset by cult activity. Stripped of its huge armies for the galactic offensive, recovery is precarious. The Custodians do what they can while keeping the Palace secure, and the Sisters of Silence rebuild their citadel on Luna. When the warship Phalanx returns, it seems that stability will at last be assured. However, as reconquest forces push out further into the slums, they come across signs that another mysterious foe is active.

Zardu Layak is destined to change the galaxy forever, but there's something he must do first. As the echoes of his past surround him on the forgotten world of Helwain, the Word Bearer must reckon with the question that turned his Legion from the Emperor. Zardu Layak is not mad. He has been chosen by the gods. After receiving visions of his father, Lorgar, in his dreams, the Word Bearer now understands the truth – in the war to come, he is destined to set the stage, open the way, and change the galaxy forever. But he is not yet ready.

After arriving back to civilization Sylvas and the others scramble to discover what to do next. Do they return to the Ardent and stand fast against the eidolon incursion? Do they answer the council’s call and return to the core worlds, saving what lives they can? Or do they leave the Empyrean Alliance behind and pursue the legacy of the Aions? Whatever they choose, they must choose quickly.

Graf Dracula IV. hat sich auf einem Planeten ein Touristenparadies eingerichtet, jedoch zu wenig Steuer an die Union bezahlt. Das ruft Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson auf den Plan. Außerdem sollen sie feststellen, wohin viele junge Unions-Bürger verschwunden sind.

Die rätselhafte Zerstörung zweier Hochhäuser ruft Sherlock Holmes auf den Plan. Er soll gemeinsam mit Dr. Watson und dem Ersten Offizier Tornot einer Zeugin, die der letzten Katastrophe knapp entkommen ist, nähere Informationen entlocken.

When a time travel "prank" goes wrong. Jessie and Eric Ramsey are launched five years into a future they don't recognize. Now she's a deserter from Earth Navy and he's been branded a dark wizard. On the run as fugitives, they make their way through the galaxy, making friends and allies. Along the way, they meet new alien friends, discover a powerful starship, and learn the political landscape of a galaxy that's falling apart.