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For eons, Earth has been under observation by the Firstborn, beings almost as old as the universe itself. The Firstborn are unknown to humankind - until they act. In an instant, Earth is carved up and reassembled like a huge jigsaw puzzle. Suddenly the planet and every living thing on it no longer exist in a single timeline.

Earth has fallen and Mars is in chaos. With their coup behind them, the Arete crew regroups and plans for life beyond the civil war. There's only one problem: one of their number has yet to return from his undercover mission.

Captain Jason Reynolds and his team are up against a new and unexpected foe - an adversarial force that has every intention of aligning with the powerful and dreaded Craing Empire. The enemy strikes from Earth’s high orbit, deploying five time-shifting spheres. The spheres are strategically positioned to link-up and set Earth’s clock back 100 years into the past. But when that course of action is interrupted by The Lilly’s crew, the results become far worse.

Cal Carver's time is about to run out. He and his Space Team are broke. Forced to take low-paying gun-for-hire jobs just to keep the food replicator working, their prospects are not looking good. When they pick up a distress signal from a luxury space cruiser, they think their luck might be about to change. And it does. Sadly, not in the way they'd hoped.

Cally O'Neal is officially dead. In her over 40 years of being an active secret agent she hasn't used her real name much less spoken to her sister. So when Michelle interrupts an important mission, by seemingly appearing out of thin air, it's an unexpected reunion...

Although the exciting military career she hoped for never got off the ground, Ky Vatta ended up seeing plenty of combat when she took the helm of one of the commercial transport vessels in her family's fleet...and steered it into a full-blown war. Now the lessons she learned in that trial by fire are about to pay off - because this time, the war has come to her. Someone has launched a full-throttle offensive against Vatta Transport Ltd., Ky's father's interstellar shipping empire.

Bianca Xing has spent a lifetime on a provincial planet, dreaming of travelling the stars. When her planet is annexed by the Barony of Letnev, Bianca finds herself being taken into custody, told that she’s special–the secret daughter of a brilliant scientist, hidden away on a remote planet for her own safety. But the truth about Bianca is stranger. There are secrets hidden in her genetic code that could have galaxy altering consequences.

Kylara Vatta is the only daughter in a family full of sons, and her father's only child to buck tradition by choosing a military career instead of joining the family business. For Ky, it's no contest: Even running the prestigious Vatta Transport Ltd. shipping concern can't hold a candle to shipping out as an officer aboard an interstellar cruiser. It's adventure, not commerce, that stirs her soul. And despite her family's misgivings, there can be no doubt that a Vatta in the service will prove a valuable asset. But with a single error in judgment, it all comes crumbling down.

Sci-fi comedy about the bizarre city of Undone - a weird parallel version of London. Edna Turner has moved to London to start a new job at entertainment magazine Get Out! When she arrives, she meets the strange Tankerton Slopes, who claims to come from a parallel version of London known as 'Undone'. Undone is 'where the weirdness comes from': where you can find pet tricks shows, medication designed to make you paranoid and the Undone delicacy ‘troubled eggs’. Weird things flow into London, and mundane things flow into Undone, making them the peculiar places they are.

Episodes in this set include Initiation, Hamoriti, Marauders, and Newbslayer.

The worst has happened: Fleet is tearing itself apart. Some of the mutineers see injustice in the unequal spread of the rejuvenation drugs that offer virtual immortality to the rich; others are simply thirsty for power, or for blood. The Loyalists, meanwhile, fight desperately to preserve the rule of law in Familias Regnant space. But when Esmay Suiza-Serrano is unceremoniously booted out of Fleet, the apparent victim of family politics, she has no idea of the whirlwind of conflict into which she is about to be drawn.

Future Tense, the sequel to Time Will Tell, picks up the story 20 years later in 2022. The blue-collar world of Vito, the youngest son of Clem Rizzoli, is turned upside down when he learns of his father's top-secret, heroic past. The revelations lead him to meet and team up with Victoria, a CIA operative with a pair of extraordinarily gifted teenage twins. Vito impulsively adopts siblings with terminal cancer. These children are granted special powers, too, by the Defender when he returns to Earth to correct his mistake of years earlier. Together, they all fight a corrupted Russia....

Rejuvenates fear the backlash caused by bad drugs: they want nothing to interfere with their pursuit of long life—or the profit that comes from promising it to others. Neighbor states fear the aggressive expansion of the Familias Regnant, fuelled by population growth and extended lifespan. Within the Regular Space Service, those who have received experimental rejuvenations fear they may have been intentionally given bad drugs. Esmay Suiza's family fears that her marriage to an offworlder will damage their position.

Tobe Roux ist ein Ghost: Ein ehemaliger Elite-Soldat ohne Identität, Rang oder Zukunft... also so gut wie tot! Denn seit dem Verrat an seiner Legion lebt Tobe auf der Flucht. Vor der Regierung, Kopfgeldjägern... und seinem ehemals besten Freund, der ihn aus Rache jagt! Auch Aislinn Walsh kämpft ums nackte Überleben, genauer gesagt: Um das der gesamten Menschheit. Eine unbekannte, aggressive Spezies drängt in die Milchstraße und die gewaltigste Materialschlacht aller Zeiten steht kurz bevor.

Gefallene Legionäre werden nicht vom Sensenmann geholt. Der fürchtet sich vor ihnen. Sie fliegen selbst nach Walhalla. Tobe Roux kann den Verrat an der dritten Zenturie nicht verhindern. Seine Kameraden zahlen dafür mit ihrem Leben. Für die Legion gelten andere Regeln. Sie werden nur gerufen, wenn Spezialeinheiten der Föderation bereits am Boden liegen. Dafür gibt es keinen Dank. Verbrecher hassen sie, die Öffentlichkeit fürchtet sie, die Politik will eine bessere Lösung.

A.D. 41.832. Jael zieht in den Krieg. Für die Freiheit der Androiden. Für das Ende der Konzerne. Ein Kampf mit Konsequenzen. Attentäter jagen sie, von denen eine besser nie wieder von ihr gehört hätte. Die Ankunft der Aliens auf Eta Prime kompliziert die Situation. Jaels Onkel steht dank ihnen kurz davor Andromeda zu erobern. Ein kleiner Schritt für einen Menschen, aber der Sprung für Rasmus Wang an die Spitze aller Unternehmen. Nach Jahren der Expansion gilt die Milchstraße als vollständig kartographiert.

A.D. 41.832. Jael akzeptiert inzwischen wer sie ist. Sie nutzt ihren Namen wie ein Schwert und verfolgt nur ein Ziel. Sie will den Ort finden, an dem 1000 Meere friedlich zusammenfinden. Mit den Händen voller Hoffnung zieht sie, ungeachtet wer an ihrer Seite steht, in den Kampf. Freund, Feind, Wahrheit, Lüge, Worte spielen in diesem Gefecht keine Rolle. Mit dem Rücken an der Wand trifft sie eine verhängnisvolle Entscheidung. Nach Jahren der Expansion gilt die Milchstraße als vollständig kartographiert.

A.D. 41.832 Jael hat vergessen, wer sie ist. Vergessen, wie sie heißt. Vergessen, woher sie kommt. Sie kennt nur den Wunsch, den Ort zu finden, an dem das Licht von 1000 Sonnen den Boden berührt. Das ist ihr nicht gelungen. Eine Lüge führt sie zurück in ihre Heimat, zurück zu ihrer Familie, dem dunkelsten Ort im gesamten Universum. Um ihre Ideale nicht zu verraten, muss sie zu dem werden, was sie verabscheut: Matriarchin eines interstellaren Konzerns mit mehr als siebzehn Milliarden Mitarbeitern.

It’s high-stakes, win-or-die football action in the far future, as aliens and humans fill positions based on physiology and leave their blood, sweat and tears on gridirons across the galaxy. Last season, 19-year-old rookie quarterback Quentin Barnes overcame his racism and unified his team. He led the Ionath Krakens to a lower-tier championship, a championship that earns them promotion into the meat grinder known as “Tier One.”

The lethal plant cancer know as Earthblood had destroyed life on the planet in a matter of months, leaving a barren wilderness road where markers are corpses and cities are death traps. Into this nightmarish world the crew of the United States space vessel Aquila returned, a world of grim hunger and sudden death.