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Ein brüchiges Bündnis und der Feind im Schatten … Der vorletzte Band der HotP-Saga – der Showdown rückt näher! Lena geht ein Zweckbündnis mit dem König der Krallark ein. Sie braucht ihn, um endlich Weltenbauerin zu werden; er braucht sie, um die Armee zurückzuschlagen, die sein Reich bedroht. Im entscheidenden Moment verwehrt der König ihr jedoch die Erfüllung einer letzten Quest. Zusätzlich schlägt Lena sich mit den Problemen herum, die man sich als Anführerin eines Imperiums einhandelt: nicht jedem passt der eigene Rang, nicht jeder wünscht sich einen Krieg.

Since the dawn of mankind, immortality has been the ultimate reward. But by the year 2148, it requires no act of faith to believe in an afterlife. Forever Center promises to bring people back to a life beyond death. Now everyone spends their lives in poverty, giving all their money to Forever Center to ensure their happiness and comfort in the next eternal life.

Dr. Katherine Shepard and her team have made a groundbreaking discovery: a piece of ancient Endarian technology, hidden for eons, capable of turning the tide against the sinister Drax. As they embark on a perilous quest to harness its power, they must navigate through a web of deceit, ancient mysteries, and relentless enemies. Meanwhile, FBI Special Agent Dwight Douglas is facing his toughest challenge: a shocking conspiracy that threatens to plunge the world into chaos.

For the first time in thousands of years, we have also discovered the Other. The alien. A being so unimaginably complex that it makes us all look like children. The PCS Blue Cherry Blossom, a long range interstellar freighter, is tasked with the ultimate voyage. What lies at the heart of the galaxy? Who and what is out there? Is it even possible to survive? Against a backdrop of relentless political and corporate maneuvering, a new crew sets out, prepared to risk their lives and their deaths to set forth into the void and look for answers.

Growing up on a Wyoming cattle ranch, Sandy Thompson doesn't consider her life exceptional; until the mysterious visitors arrive, and the watching world descends on their once isolated homestead. These visitors hold a secret which could change the shape of human history.

Спустя три года после прощания с друзьями и возвращения в родной мир Капон редко вспоминает, что был когда-то сталкером. Он вновь стал программистом Андреем Кожуховым, или, как назвал его когда-то сочинитель Васюта, "хакером в хорошем смысле этого слова". Но бывших сталкеров не бывает. Тем более нынешняя работа Капона напрямую связана с подаренным кибером Заном логическим блоком, благодаря которому хакер с коллегами создали суперкомпьютер с искусственным разумом — ИРу.

Airina thinks the threat of a nuclear war that could destroy humanity is over, but new messages, similar to those before, are arriving again. This time, they know the messages are coming from Jupiter, and it is just one phrase repeated nonstop in regular intervals. “WE NEED HELP!” The messages keep coming unmercifully, contaminating all screen devices in the world like an unstoppable virus infecting humanity, but this one doesn’t cause illness and death; it causes insanity. Something has to be done.

Ousted by the Solar System Exchange in favor of an Artificial Intelligence, Greg Body has turned to space exploration. Hiring a team of highly talented personnel, he’s going to take on the Lloyd’s of London odds and colonize the star L98-59. Long-distance telescopes have rated the system as having a “medium probability” of containing an Earth-like world. Greg has decided to take his chances as a post-Singularity Earth has become overcrowded.

The UFS Phoenix is finally homeward bound. On the way is Tuki Station, in barabo space, hit just now by a force of sard ships, working in concert with a larger invasion from alo space. An alo and deepynine fleet has attacked, and humanity's forces are in turmoil despite all of Phoenix's efforts over the past three years to prepare them. Nia leads the assault, Styx's old AI queen nemesis from the Drysine/Deepynine War, the greatest armed conflict in Spiral history, 25,000 years ago. But what does Nia seek?

Fighting for freedom from galactic tyranny, General Cherry Lindstrom is responsible for the defense of the colony world, Concordia. This last outpost of human civilization lives under constant threat of attack from hostile aliens who claim the planet as their own. But decades have passed since the last assault, and the colonists have grown complacent. Thanks to the effects of time dilation, only Cherry and a handful of others remember the devastation wreaked on Concordia previously.

Magische Flammen wüten. Klingen schmelzen. Seelen werden im wilden Gefecht zu Asche. Das große Finale des Krieges um den Ersten Tempel steht unmittelbar bevor. Die letzten Trümpfe sind ausgespielt, die Reserven sind erschöpft und selbst die Götter haben sich auf den Kampf der Plebejer eingelassen. Das Universum steht kurz vor dem Zusammenbruch. Die Ketten, die die Welten zusammenhalten, sind gesprengt. Das eisige Wasser der Ostsee kühlt den glühenden Sand der Grenzlande.

Im 24. Jahrhundert beträgt die menschliche Lebenserwartung dank der Medizintechnologie Biocontrolling 220 Jahre. Die Ressourcen der übervölkerten Erde sind erschöpft, und der Schritt ins All ist die logische Konsequenz. Die Raumstation Helios im Orbit des Zwergplaneten Ceres gilt als Hoffnung der Menschheit: Ihre gewaltigen Biosphären bieten optimale Lebensbedingungen für eine halbe Millionen Bewohner.

The United States has fallen, but it is not the end for Charlotte Kensett. Reunited with Jenna Plural, the Mistress of Shadows returns with a new attitude, new resolve, and a new pair of patent leather stilettos. As Jenna struggles to unite a fractured community, Kensett starts to build the most powerful intelligence service in the history of the Solar System and eliminating all opposition to her mistress’ power.

Unlike her half sister Hannah was raised in luxury as the daughter of a multi billionaire industrialist. Genetically designed to be flawless, she is rich, beautiful and spoiled rotten. The most popular girl in school she is also an unrepentant bully who stamps her authority on everyone around her. She has expensive luxury cars, chauffer driven limousines and the captain of the football team as a boyfriend. She has the life most of us can only dream of and stands to inherit her mother's corporate empire.

Bridget Toussaint, the teenage survivor of the destruction of the peon base by Jenna Plural, has really tried to settle into her new life in the fleet of the country’s enemy. The young girl is either mistrusted or positively despised by her peers as she struggles to find acceptance in the newly formed Solar Confederation. When the newly renamed flagship of the fleet, The Spirit of Freedom, is boarded and its crew captured by the enemy she once called her countrymen, Bridgette finds herself in a race against time and insurmountable odds.

Fresh off his first Marine deployment, Boone must now choose between two schools: Intelligence or Scout Sniper. Though he’s shown clear aptitude for the second, he’s not sure he has what it takes to do the job. When he puts the decision aside to join his buddies on a day of leave, the last thing Boone expects to see is a naval weapons locker in the hands of a man who is clearly not Navy. On impulse, he shadows the man, only to find himself running for his life… smack into a Unit operator.

All that remains of human civilization is a fledgling colony on Concordia, a planet light years from Earth. Infighting and disaster dogged the colony’s earliest days, but through the determination and bravery of a few individuals, the remnants of humankind have clung to existence. One of the grittiest of these characters is Cherry Lindstrom. A farmer turned freedom fighter, she helped to lead the generational colonists’ rebellion. Now she must travel to the Galactic Assembly and persuade the leading powers to accept humans into their alliance.

Will Vandolah is stationed on the gigantic research outpost, GAIA 3, on Saturn’s moon, Titan. However, its living ecosphere is dying, and oxygen deprivation slowly throws the crew into delirium. As the crew races against time to solve the problem, Will discovers a new and far worse threat. An enormous comet hurtling through space passes close to Saturn and triggers a chain of events that detonates the rings into a glowing inferno, blasting deadly radiation into space.

Der Untergang der Kolonie Turan-II hat tiefe Narben im kollektiven Gedächtnis des Sternenreichs hinterlassen. Dies ist ihre Geschichte. Major Danja Hatzach wird auf die junge Kolonie Turan-II geschickt. Als Offizierin des Wissenschaftskorps soll sie herausfinden, warum sich der Planet nicht wie geplant entwickelt: Trotz vielversprechender Bedingungen sind weite Teile der Kolonie selbst nach Jahren nicht erschlossen. Doch noch vor ihrer Ankunft bereiten ihr die lokalen Autoritäten Probleme und schon bald stellt sich heraus, dass sie auf Turan-II eine Mauer aus Lügen, Schweigen, Verrat und Intrigen erwartet.

Kyle Griffin has never felt so mortal. Defeated by his longtime nemesis and taken captive, the mutant soldier struggles to cope with the loss of his celestial powers. And refusing to give up despite his metal bindings, his fury builds as he’s made to witness his brothers-in-arms suffer under their enemy’s savage torture. Left behind when some of his men manage to escape, Kyle battles to find his own way out as the rebel forces race to reverse the Dominion’s newfound invincibility.