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Karin Makos lives a lie. Genetically engineered from birth and raised in a scientific compound to gain unnatural powers, she has since escaped and built another life, hidden from those who created her. For her, the chance to pilot a small-time scrounging vessel to remote corners of space is the dream. After years on the run with her sister and enduring the constant paranoia of living planet-side, going off-radar gives her exactly what she wants: Freedom.

Lieutenant Cora Harper joined the Systems Alliance to develop and enhance her powerful biotic talents. She was assigned to the asari commando unit Talein's Daughters, where she honed her abilities to become a skilled and deadly huntress. Returning to Earth, Cora finds herself a stranger among other humans, and joins the Andromeda Initiative as Alec Ryder's second-in-command. The mission will send 100,000 colonists on a one-way, 600-year-long journey into the unknown.

When Lieutenant Iari hears screams in the night, she expects to interrupt a robbery or break up a fight. Instead she discovers a murder with an impossible suspect: a riev, one of the battle-mecha decommissioned after the end of the last conflict, repurposed for manual labor. Riev don't kill people. And yet, clearly, one has. Iari sets out to find it.

The Shadows have taken over half of the system, and Karin is the only one who can fight back. Genetically engineered from birth, Karin Makos’ powers have made her the Alliance’s most wanted person. With her sister still missing and only a cryptic notebook left behind for clues, the mystery of her past is going to take a lot more time and resources than they have to unravel it. And there’s a bigger problem looming.

Reuben Shirano is the worst kind of criminal: smart, ruthless, and with no lines he won't cross. He runs a tight, sophisticated operation backed by the powerful Tsai-Shirano conglomerate, proving time and time again to be untouchable by the system’s governing bodies. In other words, he’s precisely the type of person Captain Soo-jin Dokgo tries to avoid. But sometimes, you only get one little chance to bring an asshole to justice. She and the crew of Huli Jing are determined to bring him down and kick him where it hurts.

Karin Makos is not herself anymore. Powerful, psychopathic, with abilities that can rend the very fabric of the universe apart, and a new revenge-driven personality occupying her mind, she is constantly riding the line between patience and violence. But she has a universe to save, and a limited time in which to do it. With allies and enemies blurring together in the wings, she will fight her way through to the finish. And damn anyone who tries to stop her.

It has been a quiet two weeks since their ill-fated mission to stop a human trafficker, and the crew of Huli Jing has spent the time recovering: Zan has relaxed back into their normal routine of meditation, exercise, and intellectual debates at a high-level vin lounge; Soo-jin’s arm is halfway healed, and she’s getting ready for her first date with her favorite commander; and Bob has been flexing his growing power with new and exciting interdimensional antics.

Following the assassination of one of his subordinates by the infamous bounty hunter known as the Shadow, Fleet Commander Lance Ashburn sets out to track down the hunter and bring her to justice. But when he finds the Shadow, he discovers that she is running from a far more dangerous enemy—one powerful enough to destroy the Star Federation and change the galaxy forever. The hunt is on. Only the strong will survive.

Wizard scouts were once the elite, deep-recon forces of the Intergalactic Empire. But now they are a dying breed. Or are they? A black dreadnaught has been raiding star lanes near the outer fringes of the Empire. Is it just another pirate ship? Or is it the key to reviving the wizard scout corps? And what about the discovery of a mysterious anomaly reportedly found by cantankerous asteroid miners? Does it have something to do with the black dreadnaught?

Some dreams can’t be ignored. Over a month has passed since Karin Makos has settled on Chamak. Together with her sister and the rest of the crew from the Nemina, she is finally able to do something useful in this war - heal the Lost that the Shadows have taken. But time is not on their side, and more than the Shadow enemy lurks in the wings. Soon, Karin finds herself fighting for her life in the forests of Nova Earth, plagued by strange, vivid dreams of her past, and racing hard to prevent the catastrophe that threatens to swallow the planet.

Iari is good at killing monsters. As a templar in the Aedis, a multi-species religious organization committed to protecting the Confederation, eliminating extra-dimensional horrors is her job. But after she helped stop separatists from sabotaging the entire Confederation, she discovered a new sort of monster: the rogue-arithmancer, political kind.

For James Rearden, his dream of advancing his career in the Royal Australian Navy has been derailed in a way he could never possibly have imagined. A novel technology has cast him adrift in a multiverse of various dimensions: each one a version of Earth, and yet with differences that range from the minor to the inconvenient to the deadly. As he reinvents himself as an explorer as well as a warfighter, his best consolation is the people who are sharing the journey with him.

Six thousand years after women perfected the female-to-female reproduction technique and eradicated the last enslaved men, sorceress Eva O'Sullivan receives visions from the soul of the last man. Her hubris and blind obsession to illegally clone a body for the soul to possess could have tragic consequences for the balance of humanity.

Wrik Trigardt ekes out a living in the Kandalor system with his small ship, Sinner. He is caught between his failed past and a grim present in service to the local crimelord, Dusko. An expedition to the Rift Asteroids promises better days, but when the well of time is disturbed no one can say what will surface.

Добро пожаловать в Стикс! Здесь ты больше не вершина эволюции. Здесь ты либо питательный корм для полчищ вечно голодных чудовищ, либо кандидат на становление одной из этих тварей.

Фантастический роман Василия Евстратова по миру Артёма Каменистого "S-T-I-K-S", продолжение романа "Шатун", жанр боевая фантастика. Алексей Мишин, Младший унтер - офицер (урядник) отдельной гренадерской роты 16-го Сибирского стрелкового полка несмотря на все опасности - выжил в мире Улья.

Peace has reigned across the galaxy for over two centuries, and no one can believe that such an accomplishment is nearing an end. However, as dreadnoughts muster in the capital of the Earth Empire and threaten her home nation of the Coalition, Sophia Trotsky finds herself at the dawn of war. Armed with the belief that she can make a difference, the young naval intelligence officer finds herself a front-line combatant—where history cannot be made by one person alone.

Они считают себя главной силой Стикса. У них есть все: лучшие солдаты и ученые, лучшая техника, лучшее оружие, включая самое разрушительное, применение которого в их родном мире, если не под запретом, то очень маловероятно.

Captain Li Wing Hua has been a prisoner of an alien race for nearly four years, freed at last after the war. So when he's finally made captain of another space ship, he's eager to return to space. But when he discovers an observation outpost wrecked and the crew tortured to death, Hua has reason to suspect the same alien race that tortured and held him captive those four long years. But can he unravel the mystery before it causes an interstellar incident?

The Hive – a distant planet where Mankind has sent probes and equipment to manufacture energy substances. Upon arriving, the harvest crew finds the equipment has evolved into humanoid robots. As the humans become more familiar with their robot servants, they realize their off-world potential and attempt to remove the entire race from their home planet. Primerus, the robot’s leader begins a resistance to the humans using technologies he encountered and a few he invented on his own.