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May’s humdrum life is flung into hyperdrive when she’s abducted, but not all aliens are out to probe her. She’s inadvertently rescued by Xan, an I Love Lucy obsessed alien with the orangest rocket ship in the universe. But you still have to eat in space, and rocket racing is a quick, if life-threatening, way to make a living. Finally, May has a career she loves and a friend to share her winnings with. Until a Chaos goddess possessing Xan’s ex decides to start a cult on Earth and threatens to turn the planet into her den of destruction.

In this history-bending adventure, the ragtag team of ex-D.O.D.O. agents must traverse time and space to stop the powerful Irish witch Gráinne from reversing the evolution of all modern technology. From Jacobean England to the ancient Roman Empire, Mel Stokes and her fellow outcasts must untangle the knotted threads of history while the diabolical Gráinne jumps from timeline to timeline, always staying one step ahead - or is it behind?

What's left of humanity has withdrawn behind massive walls. Behind those walls, Kane's luck is running out. His son grows closer to rampancy every day and he is almost out of time to save him. He is a single mishap away from losing it all in a city full of half humans. Which is exactly when fate decides to stab him in the back. With something awakening inside him, Kane will have to discover why someone is trying to kill him, but that discovery could leave him little more than a bloody stain on the floor.

The members of G. O. R. E. Sector can never catch a break. Following the disappearance of numerous vessels, Thomas Rodney leads the members of Raptor Pack to Mauto, a small island nation in the Pacific Ocean. Utilizing the inventions of Dr. Howard Tate, they set out to determine the cause. Before long, the ugly truth reveals itself. A menacing threat has awakened, and it is unlike anything they have yet faced. Multi-limbed, armored, and capable of great bursts of speed, the latest of mutations seeks to rule the sea and eradicate anything that dares challenge it.

The coldest shadows. Arcano-archaeologist Elijah knows that digging into the past can be its own reward - or peril. When he’s hired to find an ancient map purported to lead to a mysterious location at the bottom of the world, his professional curiosity is more than roused. But his quest to simply get his hands on the map is more dangerous than he expected - even for a shadowrunner. He and his own team of runners - including everything from a goblin rigger to a troll street samurai - follow a murky trail that takes them from the ruins of Chicago to the jungles of Amazonia.

Mia Verick grew up on a remote homestead far from civilization. Most young women raised in the Kerrick Confederacy of Aligned Planets go to school. Mia had daily firearms practice, tactical exercises, and pilot training. She never cared about her life, only about living up to the expectations of her father. His mysterious job often takes him away on missions, leaving her to self-training until the day she can surpass him. Now she will never get the chance.

Miles Kim, cyborg and relic of a war fading from memory, is on the last train ride of his life. When a gang of bandits attacks the train, Miles and 100 passengers find themselves trapped in in a standoff in the middle of the desert. But there’s more to the robbery than meets the eye. An unknown entity has set its sights on the Seraph Express and her passengers. As people start dying, Miles realizes that any rescue will be too late, and no one will make it out alive.

I'm stumbling around with no memory, no idea who I am, or how I came into existence. I mean, I know my life didn't just start. The pain in my ankle and arm tells me something happened, perhaps something terrible. If only I could remember. This planet is magical or cursed. I'm not sure which. Things appear and disappear before my eyes, terrifying monsters trying to devour me. I'm alone and frightened. And then I stumble upon them: three delicious-looking guys with hard bodies. They strip naked, transforming into powerful animals like prehistoric wolves.

Após as loucas aventuras vividas com seus estranhos amigos em O Guia do Mochileiro das Galáxias e O Restaurante no Fim do Universo, Arthur Dent ficou cinco anos abandonado na Terra Pré-Histórica. Mesmo depois de tanto tempo, ele ainda acordava todas as manhãs com um grito de horror por estar preso àquela monótona e assustadora rotina. Talvez Arthur até preferisse continuar isolado em sua caverna escura, úmida e fedorenta a encarar a próxima aventura para a qual seria forçosamente arrastado: salvar o Universo dos temíveis robôs xenófobos do planeta Krikkit.

Maris, a rogue android with a mysterious past, infiltrates the Nexus, an underground organization promising liberation for her kind. Delving deeper into their secrets, she uncovers a sinister plot that threatens the future of both androids and humans alike. Joined by her loyal dog Hero and a skilled hacker named Spyder, Maris must navigate a treacherous landscape of rival gangs, powerful cyborgs, and her own haunting past.

E se nós fôssemos meros personagens de um grande romance intitulado ”Homem”? No terceiro episódio da série ”As aventuras de Azakis e Petri”, os dois adoráveis habitantes de Nibiru devem enfrentar uma ameaça terrível das profundezas do Universo. Entretanto, desta vez, as suas forças e a sua incrível tecnologia podem não ser suficientes. Mas, e se auxílio viesse de um lugar inesperado? Reviravoltas, revelações e releituras de eventos e incidentes históricos vão prender a respiração do leitor até a última linha deste romance.

The Veles have retreated to their last stronghold. Lance finds himself in an underground facility where old friends and even older enemies must work together to survive the grueling experiments conducted by Irene, Amber, and Doctor Cecil. With no backup and no support Lance's skills are put to their greatest test in a fight for survival unlike any he's experienced. Between what seems like innocent childhood games and military exercises the former SOAT plays a delicate game of cat and mouse where success means survival and failure is not only his death, but those he's sworn to protect.

Zbiór szesciu opowiadan, z Hondelykiem i Cadronem w rolach glównych. W pierwszym opowiadaniu, "Smierdzaca robota", Debski przedstawia nam historie misji polegajacej na uwolnieniu okolic miasta z towarzystwa terroryzujacej je poczwary. W "O wlos od piwa", najdluzszym opowiadaniu zbioru, mamy do czynienia z kilkuwatkowa sprawa majaca wielkie znaczenie dla zdrowia i zycia Hondelyka. W kazdym z tekstów przyjaciele doswiadczaja róznorodnych przygód, sa wystawiani na liczne próby i pokusy.

Sixty-eight years pass. On September 15th, 2015, an incident involving the Roswell wreckage escalates into a massive nuclear exchange between Russia and the United States, leaving five billion dead. Another eighty-three years have passed. It's 2098, and project T.I.T.O.R. is a reality. Hop machines are created by top quantum physicists Ephraim Caine, Jeff Waldron, and Rose Rios. These complex crafts are designed to do one thing: penetrate the time barrier. Time is short.

The job: securing highly classified secret and dangerous cargo that is in high demand, even with the unknown. He was going to disappoint half his family again. Thirty-year-old Pike Evans is stuck in a dead-end routine with work, his relationship, and lack of motivation to make a change. His soul needed tweaking fast. A breakup with his girlfriend, close to getting fired by an impossible boss, and now nearly getting clipped on the highway by a semi and it was only five o'clock in the morning. The way this day was starting, his new direction clearly heading the wrong way.

Maris has dedicated her existence to unraveling the dark secrets that threaten the city of Nuevo Diego. Together with her human allies, hacker Spyder and scavenger Kenny, she navigates a treacherous landscape of corruption and deceit. Confronted by powerful enemies on all sides, Maris navigates a treacherous web of alliances and betrayals to expose the machinations of the cyborg mastermind Douglas Turing and his pawn, mayoral candidate Korneli Givi.

The Chrysallaman Empire made contact in 1947. Their mission was simple: find a suitable planet for colonization. Rich with land, minerals and water, Earth - HG-281- could boast only of a primitive race of defenders known as Humans, bugs who could be easily squashed by the might of a single Chrysallaman's mind. When a Chrysallaman ship is unexpectedly brought down in Roswell, New Mexico, the aliens return to their home planet to regroup, leaving behind a broken ship and a young alien boy.

Dwunastoletni Date Masamune jest godnym następcą swojego ojca, daimyo Yonezawy. Ród Tamura postanawia sprzymierzyć się z Date, oddając mu za żonę córkę władcy Miharu. Kim jednak jest księżniczka Yoshihime i dlaczego jej rodzina nie chce nawet pokazać jej wysłannikom z Yonezawy? Komu nie w smak jest przymierze obu rodów? Okazuje się, że droga do sojuszu Date i Tamurów jest bardziej skomplikowana, niż by się mogło wydawać, a trzęsienie ziemi, która zaskakuje wysłanników w drodze, to dopiero początek dramatycznych zdarzeń.

Dr. Tahira Piriyeva has the world's attention as she expounds the true danger of the riebeckite threat. When an old friend unexpectedly offers her the chance to be the first to examine a new sample retrieved from the moon, she puts her speaking tour on hold and hastens to investigate. But the journey is not what it seems, the sample is not what she expects, and the even more horrifying truth about the riebeckites' origins begins to reveal itself.

New York in naher Zukunft: In den Straßen tobt ein Krieg zwischen rivalisierenden Drogen-Gangs. Mike Quillan vom Department of Special Operations versucht mit seinem neuen Partner Cole Scott die eskalierende Gewalt einzudämmen. Währenddessen ermittelt Captain Kirkland undercover gegen den mächtigen Konzern Tribeca. Doch sein eigener Vorgesetzter legt ihm Steine in den Weg. Nach und nach stoßen die Cops vom D.S.O. auf einen skrupellosen Plan, der viele Leben kosten wird.