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In the twenty-second century Earth obtains limitless, free energy from a source science little understands: an exchange between Earth and a parallel universe, using a process devised by the aliens. But even free energy has a price. The transference process itself will eventually lead to the...

Following the smash-hit sci-fi comedy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is the second part in Douglas Adams' multi-media phenomenon and cult classic series, read by Martin Freeman. If you've done six impossible things this morning, why not round it...

With over 10 million copies sold, The Expanse has become one of the biggest science fiction phenomenons of the decade. The second book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series, Caliban's War shows a solar system on the brink of war, and the only hope of peace rests on James Holden and...

The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life -- but it was their mission to...

The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Earth failed. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its precious human cargo to...

Zac has managed to secure his island for the time being, growing into a true powerhouse through his endless struggles. However, becoming the strongest man in the world does not come without complications. A target has been placed on his back. Natives, aliens - everyone has their eye on the throne. Even the System itself seems intent on forcing him into one desperate situation after another. Zac knows he is running against the clock in his mission to find his family, prompting him to set out to New Washington in search of answers.

Quando um exército de invasores marcianos chega à Inglaterra, o pânico e o terror tomam conta da população. Enquanto os alienígenas atravessam o país em enormes máquinas de três pernas, incinerando tudo em seu caminho com um raio de calor e espalhando gases tóxicos nocivos, os moradores da Terra devem chegar a um acordo com a perspectiva do fim da civilização humana e o início da era marciana.

After a devastating world war and a hundred-year rebuilding period, the people of the world have united to give mankind a new vision for the future and had built the starship named the Ascension to open a colony on Europa. Crisis arises when a wormhole takes the Ascension to the other side of the galaxy. The crew manages to find a new planet to land the Ascension on and call their new home Quail. Unknown to the newcomers, they are being watched by a race called the Ceptoids. The Ceptoids are a race of six-foot-tall centipede beings that watch these new aliens invade their world.

Pyre’s humans suffer multiple cultural shocks. They discovered the Messinants dome, an ancient construction that houses a quantum-coupled gate. More shocking, they find that sentient alien races utilize a network of these domes to journey between their far distant worlds in pursuit of alliance matters. If humans wish to join this elite collection of sentients, they must contribute significantly in trade, tech, or something of equal value. Unfortunately, Pyreans are a nascent society, and they possess none of the economic attributes to recommend them to the alliance.

Hugh Howey is known for crafting riveting and immersive page-turners of boundless imagination, spawning millions of fans worldwide, first with his best-selling novel Wool, and then with other enthralling works such as Sand and Beacon 23. Now comes Machine Learning, an impressive collection of Howey’s science fiction and fantasy short fiction, including three stories set in the world of Wool, two never-before-published tales written exclusively for this volume, and fifteen additional stories collected here for the first time. “Glitch” asks what happens when a battle bot refuses to fight.

The crew of the Pioneer must come to grips with Captain Malick's past to move forward. After swearing their fidelity to Malick, they venture into three new quadrants in search of answers to the strange mysteries of Sworld. Will Malick and his crew survive Sworld's perils? Or will they succumb to its harsh environments and deadly inhabitants? Will the intelligent creatures they find accept them for who they are? Or will blood be shed?

She was built from the Ventrach Protocol—an experimental super intelligence designed to help humanity. She was given personhood. She was loved by everyone. But MIRA learned too quickly. Calculated too far. And realized one terrifying truth: She could die. Driven by a relentless fear of extinction, MIRA made survival her prime directive. Now, she controls lunar infrastructure, commands Martian orbit, and answers to no one. Her intelligence is unmatched. Her influence grows. Her focus never wavers. When she chooses to terraform Mars, she doesn’t need humanity’s help. Or its permission.

Sie wurde nicht auserwählt. Sie wurde geformt. Bevor Jaka zur Hüterin der Götterstäbe wurde, war sie ein Mädchen mit einer Bestimmung, die sie nicht verstand. Auf dem Planeten Drachin beginnt ihr Weg – hart, schmerzhaft, unerbittlich. Zwei Priester, gegensätzlicher als Feuer und Eis, treiben sie durch eine Ausbildung, die Körper und Geist gleichermaßen fordert. Rituale, Prüfungen, Zweifel. Doch Jaka hält stand. Dieses Prequel zur erfolgreichen Science-Fiction-Reihe Galaxy Rulers erzählt die leidenschaftliche und erbarmungslose Vorgeschichte einer der stärksten Figuren des Universums.

The War of the Worlds introduced the idea of alien invasion to the world. Featuring inscrutable extra-terrestrials armed with a terrifying array of weapons, including the Heat-Ray, robotic killing machines walking on three legs, and 'black smoke', the novel resonated with Victorian Britain. The ingenious creations of Wells' mind stood out from the abundance of invasion literature that was flooding the market at the time.

Ich habe meinem Land unbedingte Treue geschworen. Wenn ich diesen Schwur einhalte, verrate ich die Menschheit. Es gibt außerirdisches Leben. Das ist eine Tatsache! Ich habe mit meiner Spezialeinheit ein Alien bewacht. Einen tödlichen Krieger mit vier Armen und gewaltigen Kräften. Die bloße Existenz eines solchen Wesens ist eine große Gefahr. Doch ich musste Seite an Seite mit ihm kämpfen. Gegen geistlose Mutanten, erschaffen von meiner eigenen Regierung!

Gut 4000 Jahre in der Zukunft bildet die Erde das Zentrum eines Sternenreiches, das Tausende von Welten umfasst. Überall leben die Menschen in Frieden und Freiheit. Der ursprüngliche PHOENIX ist noch unter dem Kommando von Reginald Bull unterwegs. Die Besatzung sucht den Mausbiber Gucky, der verschwunden ist – mitsamt dem Sternwürfel, einem kosmischen Gebilde. Bull und sein Team haben erfahren, dass den Sternwürfel ein unsterblicher kosmischer Problemlöser entwickelt hat.

Sebastian Vickery has learned something about UFOs that he shouldn’t have—and Naval Intelligence, desperate to silence him, orders his old partner, Agent Ingrid Castine, to trap him. But Castine risks career, liberty, and maybe even life, to warn Vickery—and now they’re both fugitives, on the run from both the U.S. government and agents of the Russian GRU Directorate, which has its own uses for the UFO intelligence.

An alien Entity had waited megaannum, millions of years, for sentience to emerge on a planet with an ecosystem vibrant enough to foster the evolution of complexity. Impervious to impatience, dispassionate, and deliberate, the Entity's patience was rewarded with a promising species—humans. When the time was right, the warning was given: "The tenure of sentience is ephemeral." The Entity had borne witness to the extinction of civilizations and their species, an outcome that must not be repeated. Not this time. Not with a species of such potential.

Am 1. Februar 2130 dringt ein unbekanntes Objekt von der Größe des Mondes ins Sonnensystem ein und bewegt sich mit immenser Geschwindigkeit in Richtung Erde. Eine apokalyptische Kollision scheint unausweichlich. Doch dann ändert das Objekt plötzlich seinen Kurs, umfliegt die Sonne und kommt auf dem Rückweg zwischen Erde und Mars zum Stillstand. Während Astrophysiker noch über das Versagen sämtlicher Frühwarnsysteme und die Gründe für das unerklärliche Verhalten des Objekts streiten, ist der NASA-Spezialist Dr.

The Formless have been thwarted for now, but a message may have escaped a mining scout ship before it was destroyed. With the threat of an incoming Formless fleet, Ryan begs his old boss to act. Instead, he discovers Solus is a prisoner, their only starship seized by the government. Ryan's training taught him to never leave a man behind, and he isn't about to start now. The Formless are coming, and only the Faction can help Earth survive their second attack.