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The black monolith has escaped destruction—for now. What no one on the moon realizes is that the artifact is holding the explorer who first touched it captive in a very special way. Will he be able to escape this trap in time? If not, the very existence of the solar system is at stake. Because the monolith has a purpose that its human discoverers would consider utterly impossible—if they knew about it.

When the Earth is threatened by a slowly expanding sun, mankind embarks upon a mission to send a mammoth Worldship to settle a new planet across the stars. The preternatural races step out of hiding to work with the humans to save what they can from their dying world. With the aid of the Fae, shape shifters, Vampires, and other creatures of supernatural lore, the Worldship, Leviathan, is complete one thousand years later. The peoples of the Worldship are at war after the loss of her greatest hero.

In a world where family secrets unravel and identities shatter, Troy’s life takes an unexpected turn. His home is no longer a sanctuary, and his family’s truths are nothing but a web of lies. Cast adrift with only a battered ship, a cryptic name, and a distant destination, Troy embarks on a perilous journey to unravel the mysteries of his past.

Hundert Jahre nachdem Bob Johansson ausgezogen ist, um auf fremden Planeten eine neue Heimat für die Menschheit zu finden, kann man sagen, dass er seine Mission erfüllt hat: Unzählige Kolonien haben er und seine Kopien in der Galaxis gegründet und die Menschen vor dem Aussterben bewahrt. Dabei haben sie sich allerdings einen mächtigen Feind in Form einer hoch entwickelten Alien-Zivilisation gemacht, die nun die Menschheit bedroht. Um den Kampf gegen die Aliens zu gewinnen, bleibt Bob und seinen Kopien nur eine Chance: Sie müssen in den Deep Space.

An Bord der Prospero, einem Forschungsschiff am Rande des bekannten Universums, entdeckt die Crew ein genetisches Wunder – und entfesselt damit das ultimative Grauen. Als ein transgenes Experiment außer Kontrolle gerät, wird das Schiff selbst zur lebendigen Bedrohung. In einer klaustrophobischen Atmosphäre aus technologischem Verfall, organischem Schrecken und psychologischem Terror kämpfen Aris, Elara und Kaelen gegen eine Kreatur, die mehr als nur Materie verschlingt – sie assimiliert Bewusstsein.

When the Mercenary Guild tried to bend the galaxy's deadliest assassins to their will, the Depik shocked the galaxy by choosing mass suicide to enslavement. Only those Depik not present on their home planet of Khatash survived to retreat to the shadows, to plan, to form alliances, to rebuild and look forward to the day when they could retake their home from the Veetanho invaders and exact revenge.

In the unforgiving silence of deep space, a lone astronaut awakens—disoriented, alone, and haunted by fractured memories. The cryostasis pod that saved her life now feels like a coffin. The rest of the crew? Gone—victims of mysterious malfunctions that ravaged the ship. Only a glitchy, well-meaning robot remains to keep her company.

James Decker, captain of the living starship Farrago, has a mission: locate the seven symbiotes scattered across space. This mission will bring him credits beyond his imaginations, but it could also save the universe. He has found three, but there are still four more out there. All the while, the strange, faceless man from the Cloud Sea is never far away. He has his eye on this side of the void, and Captain James Decker might be the only one who can stop him.

This is the story of the first human being born on Mars: Rose Fuller, who saw a better future than the one that came to pass. And Dylan Ward, a woman raised in the vast wilderness of the frontier, who will find her way back to it. It's a story about a man who went missing, and the man who wants to find out what he knew. It's a story about what makes us human - and how we might live once we leave our home. The story of the first murder on Mars.

They have been traveling towards the Andromeda galaxy for thousands and thousands of years. Suddenly, they receive an offer that sounds far too good to refuse. But are they even ready for the big step that actually promises them the fulfillment of all their wishes? Aren't those who want to make it possible perhaps also pursuing their own plans, which will plunge the entire planet into great danger? The Arrival is the conclusion of the Andromeda trilogy.

Shortlisted for Best Audiobook: Science Fiction & Fantasy at the Speakies British Audio Awards 2025. Maureen O’Brien reads this thrilling adventure for the First Doctor, Steven and Vicki as they once again face the Daleks. On a radioactive moon on the outskirts of the Fourth Sector, the...

Eigentlich hat Bob Johansson nie an ein Leben nach dem Tod geglaubt. Als er nach einem tödlichen Autounfall als Künstliche Intelligenz eines Raumschiffes wieder erwacht, ist er natürlich geschockt. Doch damit nicht genug - er ist der intelligente Computer von Neuman Probe, das heißt er wurde tausendfach repliziert. Bob und seine Kopien werden ausgeschickt, um in den Tiefen des Weltalls nach neuen, bewohnbaren Planeten zu suchen.

With origins in the Old Universe, the malevolent, acquisitive intelligence of Tinsori Light sought to infect others with itself and send those agents out into the wide new universe to infect even more. For centuries, two heroes stood between Tinsori Light and the vulnerable universe—Light Keepers Jen Sin yos'Phelium and Lorith of the Sanderat. Just when it seemed that they—merely human—must fail, Tinsori Light, enfeebled by aged systems, succumbed to the stress of a unique spatial event—and died, leaving the station a shell. Luckily, the light keepers have back-up.

On a routine border patrol, pilot Zane Lucas encounters a mysterious cluster of drones. When he reports it to the Scorpius head office, they quickly sweep it under the intergalactic rug and place him on leave. That same night, Zane is contacted by an estate lawyer from the distant planet Earth and learns he's the sole beneficiary of a person he's never met. Determined to get answers, he finds himself thrust into a dead man's quest, along with a resourceful colleague, Julia Rossi. Zane's mission is tied to an old children's story based on The Forever World.

Admiral Cordelia prosecutes multiple Krackus territories simultaneously with Trident squadrons. However, the success of the Liberation and its Trident escorts to clear territories comes to an end with the loss of multiple warships in a furious engagement against a capable Krackus fleet imperator. Forced to return to Helgart, Captain Mila Pappas offers a harsh solution to enable the Liberation to return residents to their home worlds. She suggests they no longer engage in ship-to-ship battles against Krackus fleets. Instead, Juno and her companions should fight with the deadly Elvian drones. The idea is readily accepted.

It is 2076: Lancer, Earth’s first starship, is on a mission to find interstellar civilizations. Although astronaut Nigel Walmsley’s experiences with alien encounters make him the expert, no one believes Nigel’s theory that machines are the dominant intelligent beings left in the galaxy and that their purpose is to annihilate all organic life. Then the explorers discover once-living planets where only machines remain – and ruined worlds where fugitive survivors must evade omnipresent and lethally advanced A.I. warships.

Die ferne Zukunft: Der Kampf um Arrakis, den Wüstenplaneten, ist beendet, und Paul Atreides, genannt Muad’dib, ist von den Fremen zu ihrem Propheten ernannt worden. Sie folgen ihm bedingungslos in einen Djihad, der wie ein Sturmwind durch die Galaxis fegt. Pauls neues Imperium und seine Machtfülle ruft Neider auf den Plan, die seine Herrschaft brechen wollen. Und so mischen sich unter die Pilger, die nach Arrakis kommen, um den Erlöser zu sehen, Attentäter, menschliche Zeitbomben.

In the second volume of the Native Tongue trilogy, the time has come for Láadan - the secret language created to resist an oppressive patriarchy - to empower womankind worldwide. To expand the language's reach, female linguists translate the Bible into Láadan and a group of Roman Catholic nuns are tasked to spread the language. But when outraged priests detect their sabotage, they send a double agent to infiltrate and destroy the movement from the inside.

La boîte de Pandore est désormais ouverte... à l'arrivée du vaisseau Seconde Chance, le mystérieux champ de force du système solaire de Dyson a disparu. Les extraterrestres qui y étaient emprisonnés ont immédiatement attaqué l'expédition humaine, qui a dû s'enfuir en abandonnant deux membres de son équipage. Ceux-ci ont été capturés, et leur mémoire pillée. Le secret des trous de ver et du voyage interstellaire est désormais connu des Dysoniens. Pour se défendre, l'humanité se lance dans la construction d'une flotte de vaisseaux de guerre.

Talib Mansfield and his first Mate, Waylon Series XI, both are Astronomers and Astrophysicists. They decide to travel through space to validate Talib’s theories of space exploration. Talib being a disgraced, lower level being on Earth. No matter how much he’s accomplished or designed. Waylon being Talib’s invention, becomes his co-pilot.