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Britain's bestselling SF writer returns to outer space.In AD 2329, humanity has colonised over four hundred planets, all of them interlinked by wormholes. With Earth at its centre, the Intersolar Commonwealth now occupies a sphere of space approximately four hundred light years across. When an astronomer on the outermost world of Gralmond, observes a star 2000 light years distant - and then a neighbouring one - vanish, it is time for the Commonwealth to discover what happened to them.

They call it Pandoravirus. It attacks the brain. Anyone infected may explode in uncontrollable rage. Blind to pain, empty of emotion, the infected hunt and are hunted. They attack without warning and without mercy. Their numbers spread unchecked. There is no known cure. Emma Miller studies diseases for a living - until she catches the virus. Now she's the one being studied by the US government and by her twin sister, neuroscientist Isabel Miller. Rival factions debate whether to treat the infected like rabid animals to be put down, or victims deserving compassion.

The world is not the same since the Pandoravirus outbreak changed the essence of human nature. Those affected by the disease are consumed by adrenal rage. They erupt in violence with the slightest provocation. And now, infected scientist Emma Miller is forging them into an army of merciless killers marching across America. Emma's twin sister, neuroscientist Isabel Miller, is desperate to avert the chaos that threatens to engulf civilization. But her team has its hands full staying one step ahead of the civil unrest that's ravaging the country.

Gamer Nick hat die sieben Ebenen der Hölle bezwungen - und darf zusammen mit Adina in Neopolis bleiben. Doch hinter den Kulissen der schönen neuen Augmented-Reality-Welt brodelt schon ein neuer Konflikt: Die KI, die die Stadt kontrollieren soll, wendet sich nach einem Update gegen ihre Schöpfer. Das gefällt nicht allen - vor allem nicht der Elite von Neopolis. Nick wird in den erbitterten Machtkampf zwischen Aron Keaton und seiner Rivalin Rynkova hineingezogen. Er und Adina müssen sich entscheiden, auf wessen Seite sie stehen.

Thirty years ago, the world was in the exploratory stages of creating a technology capable of artificial intelligence. Thirty years later, that technology has been perfected. In a lab somewhere in a remote mountain region in Iran, nanoparticles, or micro-bots, have been created to be self-sustaining and self-reproducing, each day evolving and learning from experience. They have been programmed to be the ultimate predator, devouring everything in their path and leaving nothing behind.

It’s not just a box: it’s an ancient weapon capable of destroying entire cities. Deep within the badlands, warped and twisted by tainted magic and weirdlings, the box holds secret wisdom lost in the Cataclysm. The archaeologists who discovered it are selling it to the highest bidder. If it falls into the wrong hands, their fragile civilization’s uneasy peace will be shattered once and for all. John and his fellow adventurers are hired to steal this ancient artifact so it can be safely destroyed. Stealing it is one thing; surviving it is another.

When a quiet accounts manager from Buffalo, New York, is chosen by the Egyptian god of weather, Brenda Ford’s ordinary life is swept into an extraordinary whirlwind. Entrusted with an opal pendant that grants her control over the forces of nature, Brenda becomes the Pandorian Guardian, tasked with battling the demons of shame unleashed from Pandora’s Box.

Haaken Hunter’s world implodes when he and his loyal rottweiler, Rocky, return home to find Layla, his pregnant partner, missing. The only clue? Layla’s unsettling connection with Pandora, a psychotic nurse with a dark past. A chilling discovery ignites a relentless race against time. How did everything spiral so disastrously out of control?

Frank Bowen's mission is to find a GCHQ whistleblower, but in doing so unwittingly risks everything, including his own family's safety. As part of a covert team, assigned to dangerous missions, Bowen believes he knows what he's up against, until a team of Russian mercenaries are thrown into the mix, leaving everyone and everything hanging in the balance. It's a race against the clock to save all that he holds dear and uncover the dark truths behind his mission.