Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios" in Hard Science Fiction

Das Abenteuer um Hyperion geht weiter. Können die sieben Pilger das Shrike, ein Wesen zwischen Mensch und Maschine, bezwingen? Das Schicksal der Menschheit steht auf dem Spiel...

Das Abenteuer um Hyperion geht weiter. Auf dem Planeten Hyperion öffnen sich die mysteriösen Zeit-Gräber. Und das Rätsel, dass sie jahrelang in sich eingeschlossen hatten wird das Universum erschüttern. Nichts wird mehr sein wie es war...

Dies ist die Geschichte von Thomas Hockenberry, Philosophie-Professor und Homer-Experte, der nach seinem Tod im Auftrag der griechischer Götter vom sagenumwoben Trojanischen Krieg berichtet, von den tapferen Kämpfern Achill und Hektor, von der schönen Helena und vom legendären Odysseus. Es ist die Geschichte von Ereignissen, die die Welt für immer verändert haben. Und es ist die Geschichte unserer Zukunft.

Dies ist die Geschichte von Thomas Hockenberry, Philosophie-Professor und Homer-Experte, der nach seinem Tod im Auftrag der griechischer Götter vom sagenumwoben Trojanischen Krieg berichtet - von den tapferen Kämpfern Achill und Hektor, von der schönen Helena, vom legendären Odysseus.

Dies ist die Geschichte von Thomas Hockenberry, Philosophie-Professor und Homer-Experte, der nach seinem Tod im Auftrag der griechischer Götter vom sagenumwoben Trojanischen Krieg berichtet - von den tapferen Kämpfern Achill und Hektor, von der schönen Helena, vom legendären Odysseus.

Dies ist die Geschichte von Thomas Hockenberry, Philosophie-Professor und Homer-Experte, der nach seinem Tod im Auftrag der griechischer Götter vom sagenumwoben Trojanischen Krieg berichtet - von den tapferen Kämpfern Achill und Hektor, von der schönen Helena, vom legendären Odysseus.

All life on Earth is about to be terminated by an entity as old as the galaxy itself. To make matters worse, Simon has broken everything already. In a future world that is run by computer systems and that is without want, how can a man find his role? Then, if the very computers he works on to try to make them more human suddenly try to kill him, revealing a secret so vast that it affects every living soul on the planet, can that man be a hero?

AD 2600. Die Menschheit entdeckt endlich ihr ganzes Potential. Hunderte von Kolonien, verstreut über die ganze Galaxis, bieten eine Unzahl unterschiedlichster Kulturen und unermesslichen Reichtum. Gentechnik hat die Grenzen der Natur gesprengt. Der Handel blüht, und die Konföderation sorgt für Frieden und Sicherheit. Ein goldenes Zeitalter scheint angebrochen. Doch etwas ist schiefgelaufen. Extrem schief!

Omar Haddad is a brutal jihadist in Syria who appears to be invulnerable and capable of supernatural feats. But is Haddad divine, as he claims? Is he a gifted magician? Or is he making use of a stunning scientific breakthrough? And what, exactly, is keeping him from unleashing the global apocalypse he’s so eager to bring about? Brennan Craft, a quirky quantum physics genius, has the answers, and the US military is desperate to capture him.

In einem Raumschiff, das mit Lichtgeschwindigkeit durch das Weltall fliegt, begibt sich der Journalist Ulysse Mérou zusammen mit zwei Wissenschaftlern auf eine Mission, die die Erkundung des nächstgelegenen Sonnensystems zum Ziel hat. Zu ihrer großen Überraschung finden sie einen Planeten, der unserer Erde gleicht. Doch eine noch größere Verblüffung erwartet sie: Auf Soror, so der Taufname durch die Entdecker, leben menschenähnliche Wesen! Diesen scheint jedoch jedwedes rationale Denkvermögen zu fehlen, und kaum ist eine erste Verständigung hergestellt, werden sie allesamt gejagt und gefangen genommen von der herrschenden Zivilisation auf dem Planeten: Affen!

Ravirn is not your average computer geek. A child of the Fates - literally - he’s a hacker extraordinaire who can zero in on the fatal flaw in any program. Now that 21st-century magic has gone digital that makes him a very talented sorcerer. But a world of problems is about to be downloaded on Ravirn - who’s just trying to pass his college midterms. Great Aunt Atropos, one of the three Fates, decides that humans having free will is really overrated and plans to rid herself of the annoyance....

What else is there, when life has no point? In a Britain on the edge of collapse, the lost teens have formed Cutter Circles, a terrible cult based on mutual suicide. For ex-Special Forces soldier Josh Cumberland, this is just the start of another descent into the very heart of darkness. Savage satire and incredible near-future thrills from the author of Edge.

Presenting the thrilling culmination of the epic sci-fi series, this novel revisits a world where global economic activity is carried out in a virtual-gaming realm. A new blood-transmitted virus has become a black market staple due to its rejuvenating effects, forcing infected “Eternals” into a tightly knit underground where they must hack the “V-net” for food and shelter. When the leader of the Eternals, Helena Sharp, begins to lose her immortality, she flees to an old lover for strength and solace as the entire Eternal community is thrown into chaos.

Mankind explores Venus for signs of life, and an abandoned alien outpost is discovered. Dr. Veronica Hatch is sent to investigate, and she discovers an alien race escaped its dying planet and colonized Venus. When news reaches Earth, humans fear the aliens will invade and conquer the solar system, and they prepare for war.

Peter Bell the Third, accidentally named from the title of a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, is called upon to renew his old friendship with Rowland Usher, who was deliberately named after the protagonist of a story by Edgar Allan Poe. In the new House of Usher that Rowland is building in the Orinoco Delta, Usher explains the scientific work in genetics that he's doing there to Peter, while they both mourn Rowland's dead twin sister, Magdalen, who has apparently committed suicide for reasons that no one quite understands.

From the neo-feudalistic slubs and cornfields of his youth to his apprenticeship among the saleswarriors of Seattlehama - the sex-and-shopping capital of the world - to the rarefied heights of power that Tain now treads, Yarn takes its readers on a roller coaster ride through his life. Vada, the stylish revolutionary and love of Tane's life, draws him back into a world he had thought was long behind him. The swirling threads of violence and passion threaten to destroy him and the world he has made for himself.

InterstellarNet: New Order chronicles the startling events of Second Contact, upfront and personal, as humanity discovers that meeting aliens face to face is very different - and a lot more dangerous - than sending and receiving messages.

An alien invasion left part of Earth's population deteriorating from alien viruses. The drug called Omnifix replaces the victims' DNA with micro technology, saving their lives at the cost of their humanity. And now, the aliens have returned...

On the West Coast of the United States in the mid-twenty-first century, several decades after an ill-fated Secession, a young solder is chosen to lead the Security team for a mile-wide dance club. Lt. Sean Mallory's "Blackshirts" as they're dubbed by the customers, find themselves embroiled in a bitter turf war with several gangs on their own grounds. Though Sean's worst enemy is pulling most of the strings, someone from much further out of town is actually responsible-light-years further out, in fact.

Chaz Eades is on the mission of a lifetime - the first to an alien solar system far beyond our own - and it's a one-way trip. When he learns that contact with Earth has been lost, he wants to help reestablish communication. But the commander insists on science first and contact later, the crew is inexplicably hostile, and Chaz finds himself painfully isolated. Soon he realizes that there's a secret at the heart of the crew's troubles that is much larger than any he could have imagined