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Alex Archer is a soldier now, the only civilian survivor from Scorpio to join the NAC Defense Corps. With their training complete, Alex and her friend Private Isa Cressey find themselves on emergency combat deployment with their new unit. The destination is the Alpha Corvi system, where an allied warship has vanished. Alex can guess why.

Warin is one of a small team charting the demise of the last few inhabitants of Retti 4, a distant planet in the throes of an extinction-level virus. It’s not Warin’s job to intervene in natural evolution or to question the whims of a cruel universe. He is only to observe and report. Until Warin actually steps foot on Retti 4.

A thrilling new novel based on the Paramount+ TV series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds! While patrolling the borders of the Klingon Empire, Captain Christopher Pike and the crew of the USS Enterprise record a series of subspace echoes from a planet orbiting a volatile flare star—and when...

In an alternate 1947 filled with mystical creatures, Singapuran boy-soldier Naufal Jazair is bonded to the merlion Bahana and enlisted in a war against an aggressive neighbour. Meanwhile, in a dystopian Singapore in 2047, SAF officer Titus Ang is tasked with entering Naufal's universe and retrieving a merlion to save the future of Singapore from the Concordance, a hive intelligence that is close to consuming what remains of humanity.

Adventurers journey into the foreboding unknown regions of outer space in these two classic science fiction tales from the Hugo and Nebula Award winning author.

A peaceful night in Surrey is shattered when what is thought to be a meteor crashes into Horsell Common. Curious villagers approach the strange cylindrical object, only to be incinerated by a Martian heat-ray. Soon the invaders are sending out their terrible ’tripods’, causing devastation throughout England as ‘intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic’ gradually seek to eradicate the human race.

Xeeh ist das Vorgehen von Anne Winkler zu harmlos, sie macht sich alleine auf den Weg. Als Kriegerin zieht sie andere Mittel vor, um auf der Erde für Gerechtigkeit zu sorgen. Und schnell feiert sie einen großen Erfolg, der Tausenden Menschen Leid oder Tod erspart. Aber dann holen sie die Schatten der Vergangenheit ein, Erinnerungen an ihr Leben vor fünfundsechzig Millionen Jahren. Sie sollten eigentlich gelöscht sein, aber nun berauben sie Xeeh ihrer Kraft und decken eine unerwartete Seite der Kriegerin auf. Gleichzeitig entwickelt ein Gegner aus der heutigen Zeit eine Waffe gegen Xeeh.

When the Concordian colonists finally reached Earth after years lost in space, they expected a short visit. All they needed was bio-material to reseed their world. What they hadn’t anticipated was the arrival of the Scythians. They learn the deadly aliens attacked the planet once before, devastating the burgeoning civilization. Now they’re here to stay. Earth is weak. Humanity has barely begun to climb back to its previous level of development. The Concordians face a terrible choice: stick around and help in the effort to repel the invasion, or return home and save Concordia.

Another group has claimed the Wolf system and is willing to fight for it. Alex and Jay have to defend the system they migrated to while saving the other colonies from themselves.

In Era Emilia, I. I. Mendor crafts a thought-provoking and imaginative tale set against the backdrop of the Chernobyl disaster. Emilia, raised by strange, otherworldly beings, gains insights that may change humanity’s destiny. But when these mentors vanish, Emilia faces the profound challenge of carrying their legacy alone.

Daniel Hunt finds himself on the run from the very people he had vowed to protect. The corrupted, new Vice-Chancellor wants him dead and will stop at nothing to see the job done. Even if it means contracting assassin syndicates from the Moon and beyond. Now more than ever, Daniel has to rely on those he calls family. With the new alien threat, known only as the Darkening in front of him and the Galactic Government's Battle Bots chasing close behind, he must pull out all the stops.

Un fallido experimento científico ha provocado la desaparición de gran parte de la humanidad y la destrucción de la mayoría de las ciudades. En este mundo desolado, Hoshi regresa a la vieja casa donde creció para reencontrarse con el misterio que rodea la memoria de su padre. ¿Es cierto...

Earth’s first contact with extra-terrestrials, requesting permission to land on Antarctica to repair one of their three ships, proves to be a potential extinction event for the human race. When a nuke, and missiles, prove to be futile against alien defensive screens, Earth’s last hope is put in the hands of a six-man Navy Seal team.

Escrito en 1927, es considerado uno de los mejores cuentos de horror de todos los tiempos. La historia es contada en primera persona por un ingeniero encargado de hacer un estudio para edificar un embalse en un remoto paraje llamado Arkham. Allí encuentra un área de terreno denominada "landa maldita" que es distinta a todas y que le causa extrañas y poco agradables sensaciones. Un anciano vecino del lugar le explica que el motivo del estado de esa parcela es que un meteorito se estrelló cerca de una granja liberando un ser extraño que se escondió en el fondo del pozo.

A mysterious signal. A start-up that wants to change the world. A future that no longer belongs to us. Contains all three books in The Stolen Future series.

Adam ist der letzte Mensch. Nein, wirklich! Er ist der allerletzte Mensch, dem man diese Art Job geben sollte. Adams fehlendes Talent wird nur noch durch seine völlige Ahnungslosigkeit übertroffen. Aber das Schicksal sucht sich seine Helden aus und nicht andersherum. Das gilt leider auch im All. Oder wo (und wann) auch immer sich die Erde gerade befindet, nachdem sie vom Arcurus Gate verschluckt wurde.

Shad Williams joined the army to fight for his country, not to fight aliens. But when he's abducted through a portal along with his terminally ill grandfather and kid sister, that's exactly what he finds himself doing. Now, deep below the surface of the planet Ganymede, they find themselves with other equally confused groups of humans drafted into serving under extraterrestrials battling for control over the Reality Engine, an advanced supercomputer capable of producing miraculous resources and technologies.

A search for a missing person uncovers a galaxy-spanning conspiracy in this thrilling standalone space opera from award-winning author Megan E. O'Keefe. The Black Celeste is a ghost story. A once-legendary spaceship collecting dust in a cosmic graveyard known as the Clutch. Only famed pirate...

Die Anomalie hat sich als Portal zu einer anderen Existenzebene entpuppt - und dahinter lauert eine Gefahr für die gesamte Galaxis. Nachdem sie eine halbe Million Jahre auf der "Dunklen Ebene" von der Milchstraße abgeschnitten gewesen waren, dürsten die Elaidhoo nun nach Rache an denen, die sie dafür verantwortlich machen. Oder an deren Nachfolgern und Erben - den Terranern! Mit einer gewaltigen Invasionsflotte fallen sie in der Milchstraße ein. Ihr Ziel: das Sol-System.

Out-of-work Latin teacher and borderline alcoholic Austin DeSantis is determined to spend his final days in the arms of a prostitute—that is if the aliens don’t exterminate humanity first. But when the aliens land at the Vatican, begin speaking Latin, and reveal themselves to be Catholic, the world turns upside down. Pressed into service as a translator and thrust into the center of humanity's first contact with a cryptic alien race, Austin must uncover their true intentions before religious turmoil rips the planet apart.