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Der Weltraum ist größer, als Sie es sich je vorgestellt haben. Hoch über den windgepeitschten Ebenen Kasachstans beginnen drei Raumfahrer an Bord einer russischen Sojus-Kapsel ihren Wiedereintritt in die Erdatmosphäre. Ein seltsames Flimmern, ein greller Lichtblitz, und die Kapsel verschwindet, als hätte sie nie existiert. Alles deutet auf ein Katastrophe hin, doch eine Kommunikationseinrichtung am anderen Ende der Welt fängt eine Nachricht auf, die von einem der Astronauten stammen könnte. Aber damit ist die Tragödie noch lange nicht abgewendet.

They set a Slamhound on Turner's trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the colour of his hair. When the Maas Biolabs and Hosaka zaibatsus fight it out for world domination, computer cowboys like Turner and Count Zero are just foot soldiers in the great game: useful but ultimately expendable. When Turner wakes up in Mexico - in a new body with a beautiful woman beside him - his corporate masters let him recuperate for a while, then reactivate his memory for a mission even more dangerous than the one that nearly killed him.

My name is Mawukana na-Vdnaze, and I am a very poor copy of myself. In telling my story, there are certain things I should perhaps lie about. I should make myself a hero. Pretend I was not used by strangers and gods, did not leave people behind. Here is one truth: out there in deep-space, in the pilot's chair, I died. And then, I was reborn. I became something not quite human, something that could speak to the infinite dark. And I vowed to become the scourge of the world that wronged me.

Aldo Cassidy and his team are tasked with recovering an important relic from an alien station. As they arrive, they find signs of a battle, leaving the entire system in disarray. Without good intelligence, they must take a chance to secure a prize capable of unifying their cultures, or unveil secrets dark enough to keep them apart forever. The planet Constance becomes a hotbed for activity. As Justiciar Caden Raines arrives to rescue a hostage, Sam Levine fights for survival after his ship crashed in the desert. Both men race against time, with the fate of many hanging in the balance.

When the solar flare took out the world's power… nobody could explain why the street lights still glowed in Jakarta. Was it a signal from space? When the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) transmits strange images of the red planet: a scientifically unexplained light phenomenon on the summit of Elysium Mons has the experts both concerned and baffled. A team needed to check it out. The mission to Mars was set. Now, they had to build the team.

Three days have passed since the Xenos spaceship departed Earth, and Emissary Lee Ping moved to the virtual world of Planet Asbeth. But even as normalcy returns, a new threat emerges. Alien marauders have intercepted critical supplies required to complete the shield. From bestselling author D. Ward Cornell comes a tale of two worlds bound by a mutual adversary.

The fourth novel in the Quantum Evolution series, focusing on the Homo quantus exploration of the permanent wormhole network that humanity has discovered, and Belisarius’ quest to resurrect the Hortus quantus.

Deep in Antarctica, two researchers find an enigmatic black sphere suspended in the heart of a huge crater. Neither man is ever seen again. Decades later, reality fractures. A Manhattan skyscraper vanishes into thin air. An airplane crashes in the Sahara Desert—its existence defying logic. Across the globe, breathtaking technology and mysterious artifacts appear, all leading to one chilling truth: a parallel Earth is breaching the boundary between realities.

Truth Medici knows life isn't fair. But for the first time, the balance is in his favor. Cultivation has taken him from desperate slumrat to burglar to mercenary to bodyguard to terrorist, and now he's the revered prince of a kingdom to come—immortal heir to a dynasty hidden for millennia. Pampered by succubae, demons, and sprites, Truth is more than ready to embody the might of his ancestors, who've prospered in secret for centuries. With an aura that reeks of power, he'll make his presence known. His word and will are law.

In the aftermath of a bioengineered plague that wiped out all life on Earth, Jupiter's Europa colony has become the last bastion of human civilization, and it's Lt. Ryan Braeder's job to keep what remains of his species alive. With food and supplies dwindling, he has no choice but to take his last ships on a perilous journey to a dead colony on Ceres in a desperate bid to find provisions and replacement parts.

Los Angeles lies in ruins. While the city is sealed off to contain an unknown contamination, the survivors battle strange anomalies under the toxic dust cloud. Among the survivors are Lee and Branson. The astronaut must find a way out in order not to miss his flight to Cassandra, and the captain is faced with a terrible truth that he can no longer deny.

Der Exoplanet Ross 128 b birgt ein wertvolles Geheimnis: Das Ökosystem des Planeten besteht aus halb maschinellen, halb organischen Lebensformen–ein völlig neuer Zweig der Evolution. Der Biologe Dr. Adrian Walker soll herausfinden, wie diese einzigartige Synthese funktioniert. Gelingt ihm das, könnten seine Forschungen die Kolonisation neuer Planeten revolutionieren. Allerdings bleiben größere Erfolge selbst nach Monaten aus. Ross 128 b ist für Menschen extrem lebensfeindlich und die lokale Fauna hochaggressiv.

Das Ende ist gekommen: der letzte Kampf, der die Entscheidung bringt... Leonard und die Lymperia sind auf dem Weg zur Erde und müssen die unheilvolle Nachricht überbringen, dass der Erde eine weitaus größere Gefahr droht als ein Krieg mit der Föderation Rossasia. Doch wie wird die Welt auf diese Nachricht reagieren? Versinkt sie in Anarchie und Chaos, oder gelingt es, die Menschen zu einen und zusammen Seite an Seite gegen den übermächtigen Feind in die Schlacht zu ziehen? Was verbirgt sich im brasilianischen Urwald? Etwas, das den Krieg entscheiden kann oder vielleicht etwas ganz anderes?

Dr. James Barron narrowly prevented a catastrophic interdimensional invasion in The Rift. But now he must deal with a myriad of threats as great as the one he overcame. Threats including growing rifts in the fabric of reality, anomalous superstorms, and conspiracies that just might span worlds. Most importantly, he must find a way to save a woman he can't get out of his head, Special Agent Hannah Walker, who vanished through a portal with a treacherous genius named Linus.

Finally reunited on an advanced, alternate Earth where the mighty Roman Empire never died, James, Hannah, and Wolf now stand at the precipice of an interdimensional war threatening to obliterate everything they've fought to protect. As the fabric of existence continues to unravel, unleashing anomalous storms and creating rifts large enough for unstoppable warships to traverse, the trio must find a way to repel a superior force bent on conquest.

Timothy Zahn shows an unparalleled mastership of science fiction in the fifteen tales gathered here. "The Price of Survival" features an alien ship that arrives in our solar system without hostile intentions but with a desperate need whose fulfillment could destroy humanity. "The Giftie Gie Us" tells the story of two lonely survivors who find love among the ruins of a post-apocalyptic United States. And in "Pawn's Gambit," a human and his alien opponent face off over a game that will decide which one of them will return home.

Science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape) continue the thrilling adventure of a human expedition to another star system that is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure cupping a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths. And which, tantalizingly, is on a direct path heading toward the same system the human ship is to colonize.

Audacious astronauts encounter bizarre, sometimes deadly life forms, and strange, exotic, cosmic phenomena, including miniature black holes, dense fields of interstellar plasma, powerful gravity-emitters, and spectacularly massive space-based, alien-built labyrinths. Tasked with exploring this brave new, highly dangerous world, they must also deal with their own personal triumphs and conflicts.

A human expedition to colonize another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure cupping a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths. And which, tantalizingly, is on a direct path heading toward the same system.