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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.