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Evan and Anya have brokered an unlikely alliance among thieves. With their sights set on a hidden Syndicate base brimming with alien secrets, holding the team together long enough to claim the prize will be their greatest test yet. Leading a crew of outcasts, Evan and Anya stage a high-stakes raid to seize tech that could turn the tide against Chancellor Rostov's iron grip. However, when Conroy—long presumed dead—announces to the core worlds that he's alive and declares Rostov a usurper, the Commonwealth erupts in chaos. As dissidents rally, the crew faces a regime desperate to crush them.

Every winter—a season that lasts a decade and a half - the Earthmen have neighbours: the humanoid hilfs, a nomadic people who only settle down for the cruel cold spell. The hilfs fear the Earthmen, whom they think of as witches, and call the farborns. But both peoples have common enemies: the hordes of ravaging barbarians called gaals, and eerie preying snow ghouls. Can the hilfs and the farborns overcome their mutual suspicions and join forces? Or will they both be annihilated?

Autumn thought she knew who she was - then she discovered she was a rare type of dragon shifter called a Supreme Dragoon. Now she is heading to her new mate’s home world to meet more of their kind. Nerves were to be expected, but Autumn is about to get more than she bargained for. Kirall always knew who he was, a Prime Dragoon, one of the strongest of his kind. He'd never doubted who he was or his place until he traveled to Earth and met her. Autumn descended from a line of Dragoon thought to have died out many millennia ago. Their mating changed all he'd been taught to believe.

All Kirall wanted to do was bring his mate home, love her, and make sure she never suffered again as she had on Earth. All Autumn wanted was to make a home on Mondu, love Kirall, and maybe have a family. While some on Mondu embrace and support the return of the Supremes, others do not. Not everyone is happy Supremes have returned. Change causes conflict. Lives are about to change. All is threatened when an Elder was discovered carrying a jewel that the Varana took from Autumn's brother, Jack.

Wally K. Daly was a prolific, award-winning dramatist, whose writing credits included Casualty, Juliet Bravo and Doctor Who. He wrote 38 radio plays during his 30-year career, across a range of genres including comedy, horror and science fiction. This collection includes his best-known SF serial, The Scream Trilogy, and three other thrilling sci-fi dramas.

Evil is flooding the galaxy, and for some reason, destiny has chosen me to stop it. The only problem is, I don’t know how. Luckily, I meet some men along the way who are willing to follow me on this mission. If the king could see me now, draped in leather and wielding pistols and knives rather than wearing ballgowns and reading old scrolls, he would collapse onto his golden throne.

A prelude to the Newearth series, Last of Her Kind opens with a powerful premise: Humans are becoming more and more infertile, a trend that might as well spell extinction.

Get all four volumes of Salvage-5 in one convenient bundle! Retired Colonel Tucker Petersen is suddenly recalled to active duty and put in charge of the Salvage-5 mining/recovery mission. Tucker travels with his crew to discover what went wrong with the CSMO mining dredge at 15 Eunomia. What they find will change their lives forever.

Found guilty of war crimes, Justine Santana, a Human-Android hybrid is shut down. Taug, an alien from Crestar, must eliminate his father’s mistake—a Human-Cresta crossbreed named Derik.

Attention all you Salvage-5 and Colonel Tucker Petersen fans!! Hold on to your seat. The swashbuckling, cigar chomping, whiskey drinking, no-nonsense hero is back. Tucker goes on a personal quest to rescue Captain Cassandra Phillips. It’s been a long six months for the Colonel, but now the time has come for him to steal the SSV-5 and embark on their most dangerous mission yet: Return to asteroid 52 Europa.

Athshe, planète lointaine de 27 années-lumière de la Terre, a été colonisée, il y a un million d'années, par le peuple de Hain. Alors qu'elle est toute entière couverte d'eau et de forêts d'essences d'arbres terriens et peuplée par des humanoïdes à la fourrure verte, un vaisseau intervient pour installer un système de communication avec la Terre.

During the Revolutionary War, the colonies were outnumbered, outmanned, out-financed, and out-strategized. By any reasonable measure, they should have lost the war. And they certainly should not have been able to establish a government so well designed and organized that the new country would soon become the most powerful and prosperous country on Earth. But they did.

Zwei Wochen System-Apokalypse, aber die Transformationen haben gerade erst begonnen. Mutierte Insekten, fleischfressende Kröten und wütende Yetis standen bis jetzt noch nie auf dem Stundenplan, doch wenn die Welt untergeht, muss man sich eben anpassen. Als Mutter eines Teenagers war Kira auf alles gefasst, nur nicht auf das Jüngste Gericht.

Das Epoche machende Science-Fiction-Meisterwerk von Ursula K. Le Guin jetzt in neuer Übersetzung und erstmals als Hörbuch. Gethen ist ein Winterplanet und permanent mit Eis bedeckt. Auch die politische Lage ist alles andere als einfach: Zwischen dem Königreich Karhide und seinem Nachbarland Orgoreyn existieren starke politische Spannungen. Die Aufgabe von Genly Ai, der als terranischer Abgesandter die Bevölkerung davon überzeugen möchte, dem Weltenverbund des Ekumen beizutreten, ist also alles andere als einfach.

Inspector Peter Glebski thinks he is on vacation. Instead, he ends up embroiled in the strangest murder case of his long career.

Madison Monroe's emergence from complete destruction continues as she is soon surrounded by many others that are returned abductees. With SNHS (Super Natural Hot Spots) occurring at remote locations and the military honing in on the subjects, they are not alone in the pursuit of the sites and those that had made them as the aliens race against time diminishes. Those that are much like Madison gather towards her, she leaves on her own as the others make decisions to stay together but the powers within them are an ongoing mystery.

When three probes sent to Mars suffer suspicious catastrophic failures, a clandestine manned mission is dispatched to investigate the probes’ wreckage for clues to explain their demise. The manned mission is led by Lieutenant Colonel Avery Lockett. He is joined by flight engineer, Captain Nick Reed, and mission specialist, Dr. Christine Baker. Together they embark on a dangerous journey aboard the spaceship Cetus Prime - dangerous because they know what awaits them around Mars. UMOs, or unidentified magnetic objects.

When a routine mapping expedition uncovers what looks like ruins on the planet Theth-129, the crew of the Stardancer is thrilled to have something more exciting to do than catalog worlds only a terraformer could love. Their trip to the world’s surface confirms their wildest hopes: their ruins really were made by natives and abandoned long ago, a find of incredible significance. But there’s more to this world than an obelisk, a set of painted caves, and a mysterious shoreline.

They conquered Earth in a single day. After aliens invade the planet, Clark's father goes missing. In hopes of finding out the his father's fate he joins The occupation as a protector. While serving the aliens, he meets Lex, a charismatic commander with an endearing smile. Clark is on a mission, but finds himself distracted by Lex's charms. To fall for the alien commander that led the invasion of his planet would be beyond betrayal. But at the same time, getting close to Lex might be the key to finding out what happened to his father.

Step aboard a deep-space transport and experience one of Philip K. Dick’s earliest and most thought-provoking sci-fi tales. Beyond Lies the Wub explores the nature of intelligence, communication, and survival when a crew encounters a mysterious, telepathic creature with unsettling wisdom. Blending humor, suspense, and existential questions, this timeless short story will leave you questioning reality itself.