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On humanity's first extra-solar mission, the exploration vessel Magellan, or, as she prefers, "Maggie", discovers an alien artifact. Deciding that finding advanced alien life is too important to ignore, Captain Allison Ridgeway chooses to return to Earth while ordering her crew to reverse engineer technology far beyond anything back home. Meanwhile, at mission control, the governments struggle to maintain the existence of aliens a secret while also combating bureaucracy, the military industrial complex, and everyone else who wants a piece of what could skyrocket humanity into a new technological age.

In a demilitarized zone on the border of human space, long range spy satellites are mysteriously going quiet, and no one know why. Captain Susan Kamala and her crew are dispatched to figure out what's going on and solve the problem. That problem, however, is a mysterious, bleeding-edge alien ship that no human vessel could hope to match in open conflict. But, it's not spoiling for a fight. Now, the Captain and her crew must figure out how to navigate a complicated game of diplomacy, balancing the needs of their corporate overlords and the honest desire for a lasting peace....

Against all odds, the Ark and her 30,000 survivors have reached Tau Ceti G to begin the long, arduous task of rebuilding human civilization. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Tau Ceti G's natives, the g'tel, are coming to grips with the sudden appearance of what many believe are their long-lost gods.

Firstname Lastname is a no one with nowhere to go, with a name that is the result of an unfortunate clerical error and destined to be one of the only humans on an alien space station. That is, until she sneaks aboard a ship and joins up with a crew of repo men (they are definitely not pirates). Now she's traveling the galaxy "recovering" ships. What could go wrong?

Humankind has escaped a dying Earth and set out to find a new home among the stars aboard an immense generation ship affectionately named the Ark. Bryan Benson is the Ark's greatest living sports hero, enjoying retirement working as a detective in Avalon, his home module. The hours are good, the work is easy, and the perks can't be beat. But when a crew member goes missing, Bryan is thrust into the center of an ever-expanding web of deception, secrets, and violence.

Die Arche, das Generationenraumschiff, das die letzten Menschen von der zerstörten Erde transportiert hat, hat gegen alle Chancen Tau Ceti erreicht. Dreißigtausend Überlebende beginnen die lange, anstrengende Aufgabe des Wiederaufbaus der menschlichen Zivilisation. Doch die ursprünglichen Bewohner von Tau Ceti, die G'tel, stehen den Neuankömmlingen äußerst misstrauisch gegenüber. Der erste Kontakt zwischen Menschen und G'tel mündet in einer Katastrophe; es gibt Tote auf beiden Seiten, und schon bald mehren sich die Gerüchte, dass das Massaker nicht auf einem Missverständnis beruhte, sondern beabsichtigt war.

A new generation comes of age 18 years after humanity arrived on the colony planet Gaia. Now threats from both within and outside their Trident threaten everything they've built. The discovery of an alien installation inside Gaia's moon, terrorist attacks and the kidnap of a man's daughter stretch the community to breaking point, but only two men stand a chance of solving all three mysteries before the makeshift planetary government shuts everything down.

Nachdem die Erde zerstört wurde, sind die letzten 50.000 Menschen auf einem gewaltigen Raumschiff, der "Arche", unterwegs zum nächsten bewohnbaren Planeten. Beinahe 100 Jahre hat die Reise bereits gedauert, erst die jetzige Generation von Bewohnern soll die Ankunft erleben. Um das Überleben zu sichern, ist alles auf der Arche streng reguliert, und jeder Bewohner wird ständig überwacht.