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Elisa Esposito es una joven que quedó muda debido a una lesión en el cuello sufrida de niña, y se comunica usando la lengua de signos. Vive sola en un apartamento encima de una sala de cine y trabaja como limpiadora en un laboratorio secreto del gobierno en Baltimore durante la Guerra Fría a principios de la década de 1960. La instalación recibe un tanque lleno de agua dentro del que hay una criatura que ha sido capturada en un río sudamericano por el coronel Richard Strickland. Curiosa, Elisa descubre que la criatura es un anfibio humanoide.

Floating high above 19th Century Earth, the Doctor and Belinda enjoy the legendary Leonids meteor shower of 1833, when the skies teemed with shooting stars. One meteor is bigger and brighter than the others and shows no sign of breaking up in the planetary atmosphere. The travelers follow it to the village of Drummondville and begin the hunt for a fallen star. What strange entity has landed, and how might it affect all life on Earth?

The TARDIS has been pulled off course and sent hurtling through space and time. When it finally stops, Peri is amazed to witness the Doctor's transformation into a cringing coward. The Doctor and Peri have to foil a plot to freeze the entire world and wipe out most of the population.

Landing on an unnamed planet, the travellers find themselves besieged by a swarm of drones. They shelter in a cluster of hi-tech buildings, inside which lie living quarters and a control base. The only thing missing is any sign of life. While the Doctor puzzles over a base without people, Belinda finds herself whisked off by teleport. Meanwhile, three thousand light years away, project manager Hazzet is puzzled by unusual systems activity on the uninhabited Colony 5.

Jessica O'Neil prayed for a miracle that would allow her to pass her Spanish exam. Little did she know that it would come in the form of Earth's annihilation and her capture by mammoth-sized alien cats. Kept in isolation, can she remain sane, escape her captivity, and prove her sentience before it's too late? Or will she and the rest of humanity become nothing more than glorified house pets, or worse?

As Marca Nbaro begins scaling the DHC's political ladder, terrorism, espionage, and the distant Aliens War all threaten the Human Sphere. When Nbaro is almost killed, treason is revealed, and a single merchant ship stands between Humanity and extinction.

Conclave warships fended off four enemy fleets intent on attacking the Malia system. No one believes the fighting is finished. As anticipated, a fifth fleet of more sophisticated warships arrives. The commanders are armed with information from the previously defeated races, making it more difficult for the conclave to defend Cercia, the inhabited planet. In an effort to diminish Messinant power over mercenary races, Vice Admiral Mila Pappas leads the first wave to gain a new ally, the Ondas. However, Mila’s arrival at the Kega military base ignites a mutiny headed by two commanding officers.

In this epic adventure, we visit a far-future after Earth fell, where ark ships had hunted for a new home. They sought lost worlds terraformed in earth’s forgotten past. We follow a ship crewed by maverick humans, spiders and a spectacularly punchy mantis shrimp captain as they rediscover one such world, and an ark. Then human crewmate Alis wakes to discover that she, her captain and the ship’s intelligence are the only ones left on their ship. But what happened to those who left to explore the ark . . . and the world below?

Niemand durchschaut Gins Pläne, und genau das hat ihn zu einem der erfolgreichsten Killer gemacht, den die Erde je hervorgebracht hat. Jetzt wird Kaiden herausfinden, ob seine Freunde, Lehrer und das Hilfspersonal in der Lage sind, den Killer zu stoppen und zu verhindern, dass dieser ihn hirntot zurücklässt. Manchmal kommt man nicht lebend aus dem Animus heraus.

Es ist die Geschichte eines entscheidenden Moments. Dieser Moment ebnete den Weg für ein besseres Ende der kompromisslosen Auseinandersetzung zwischen den beiden Welten als ein schwieriger und blutiger Sieg auf dem Schlachtfeld. Diese Geschichte schildert die Ereignisse aus der Sicht unserer unerbittlichen Feinde, der magokratischen Herrscher des Paralleluniversums.

Der Krieg gegen den Dunklen Bruch wurde für beendet erklärt, doch die Probleme der Menschheit sind noch lange nicht gelöst. Sie haben gerade mit dem Bau eines der zwölf Planetenschildgeneratoren begonnen, die die Erde zur Abwehr eines Angriffs benötigt. Sollen sie die magokratische Parallelwelt um Hilfe bitten? Das Einzige, worauf er sich wirklich verlassen kann, sind seine Stärke und seine persönliche Fraktion, die Reliktiker. Könnten die Technologien alter, längst untergegangener Rassen die Menschheit stark genug machen, um eine Invasion abzuwenden, bevor es zu spät ist?

Der Niedergang der Menschheit scheint unausweichlich. Während um sie herum die Fundamente der Zivilisation zusammenbrechen, müssen Jack und Mia sich beeilen, um die Antworten auf die vielleicht wichtigsten Fragen aller Zeiten zu finden. Um dieses Rätsel aufzudecken, müssen die beiden eine Reise tief ins Herz einer gefährlichen außerirdischen Welt antreten und sich den Wesen stellen, die uns erschaffen haben.

In Der Krieg der Welten von H. G. Wells trifft das viktorianische England auf eine gnadenlose Mars-Invasion. Was als rätselhaftes Himmelsphänomen beginnt, wird schnell zu einem Albtraum aus Hitzestrahlen, dreibeinigen Kampfmaschinen und der völligen Überlegenheit einer außerirdischen Spezies. Benjamin Werner liest diesen Meilenstein der Zukunftsliteratur mit Gespür für Tempo und Atmosphäre.

Mysterious alien entities have emerged to enslave humanity. They draw their identities and their immense powers from the gods of ancient myth and legend. Only David Montague, billionaire inventor, stands in their way. With the ability to read auras, he’s amassed for himself wealth and power, but now his ability will be turned toward more noble ends: defending humanity.

The survival of our universe depends on a music-loving librarian and a thousand-year-old alien. He’s got wings, she’s got a flute. What could go wrong?

Old Rambling House by Frank Herbert is a gripping science fiction short story first published in the late 1950s. What begins as a simple house trade spirals into a mind-bending journey for Ted and Martha Graham, a couple looking to settle down.

It just got awkward... With the Va'Shen villagers home safe, Army Ranger Captain Ben Gibson is ready to settle in for an easy deployment overseeing a sleepy refueling base on the occupied enemy homeworld and its small contingent of soldiers and sailors. That is until he returns from his shower and finds the alien priestess, Alacea, sitting on the floor of his room and his interpreter frantically banging on his door with something urgent to tell him.

A massive asteroid hurtles toward Earth and humanity is braced for annihilation – but the end doesn’t come... Because it's not an asteroid... it’s a three-mile-tall alien figure that comes to earth outside Little Springs, Nebraska. Dubbed ‘the giant’, its body apparently pierced by a blade, its arrival transforms this quiet red-state farm town into a top-secret government research site and major metropolitan area, flooded with soldiers, scientists, government agents, bureaucrats, spies, criminals, conspiracy theorists... and a killer.

“Keep Your Shape” by Robert Sheckley is a thought-provoking science fiction short story from the early 1950s that blends satire, social commentary, and classic sci-fi themes. The tale follows Pid, a shape-shifting alien from the Grom species, on a mission to Earth using advanced Displacer technology. As the Grom crew confronts both the alien terrain and their own internal conflicts, the story dives into questions of conformity, identity, and rebellion against rigid societal roles.

Two students are fascinated by outer space, but when their new teacher seems to know more about Mars than anyone could possibly know, they start to suspect that something is unusual. As they encounter inexplicable events, they become convinced their teacher is actually from Mars. How can they prove it and who will believe them? They may be the only ones who can discover the truth!