Ergebnis für "Extinction" in Space Opera

Major Ethan Irons thought surviving Earth’s near-extinction was the worst thing that could happen to him. Then the alien fleet arrived. When the remnants of humanity are hurled into a galactic war they didn’t start, don’t understand, and are unprepared for, Ethan finds himself leading a desperate fight for survival among alien empires, ancient grudges, impossible odds, and enough political backstabbing to make Game of Thrones look like a polite family dinner. His assets?

The epic conclusion of the Archimedes Engine duology by legendary author Peter F. Hamilton. Set in the universe of EXODUS, a new sci-fi action-adventure RPG coming soon from Archetype Entertainment. For millennia, the Crown Dominion has been at relative peace, with the Celestials in control and...

Adam and Kimberly Hall are enjoying a quiet suburban life with their daughter, Crystal, and their dog, Bowser, when an emergency message flashes on their phones: meteor impact imminent, seek immediate shelter. Minutes later, the shock wave rages through South Austin like a hurricane, and they’re left to pick up the pieces. As dusk begins to fall and horrific creatures come crawling out of the impact craters, they realize they’re under attack—and the attackers are not from Earth.

Earth’s Greatest Warrior, Mitch Taylor, must make a stand in the face of a relentless invasion of Earth! Taylor remains in intensive care, and Sommers is Missing in Action. But the fight must go on. Recon continues to launch hit and run attacks against enemy facilities disrupt their operations on the Eastern seaboard. Yet they are about to discover something far larger and dangerous than they could have imagined.

What would happen to the world if the sun went out? New epic sci-fi from Stephen Baxter, the award-winning author whose credits include co-authorship of the Long Earth series with Terry Pratchett. By the middle of the 21st century, humanity has managed to overcome a series of catastrophic events...

Lunivers est rempli de civilisations extraterrestres éteintes. Et sil y avait une raison terrifiante à ce quaucune ne soit parvenue à survivre ? Les Archéonautes, premiers Terriens à quitter le système solaire pour partir à la découverte de ruines dune multitude de civilisations disparues, guidés par leur curiosité et une soif inextinguible de connaissance, vont tenter de percer ce mystère dans lespoir de voir lhumanité être la première civilisation à échapper à ce destin funeste.

Colm's powers could save humanity from extinction … if he can learn to control them. For centuries, humanity has viewed the sentrienza with wonder and reverence. They gifted humanity with technology and knowledge, teaching us the secrets of space travel. Until the Ghosts arrived and everything changed. Among the slaughter of the Ghost invasion, humanity learned an awful truth: Every gift from the sentrienza comes at a price. The price is our freedom. Now humanity is fighting back, but it’s an uphill battle. We’re outnumbered, outgunned, and the sentrienza have the home-field advantage.

Earth's last Assault Troopers become Star Vikings, raiding alien worlds. In the third book of the Extinction Wars series, the Emperor of the Lokhars declares a holy crusade against the last humans, promising to finish what he started. Years ago at his orders, the Lokhars nuked the Earth and sprayed it with a bio-terminator. Creed has begun raiding alien worlds for more starships and the tech needed to clean the radioactive Earth. But how can his handful of cruisers stop the approaching armada?

Imagine a ship the size of a planet. It has an atmosphere of methane, but there is no water. Mysterious and dark, it sails through a gateway, leaving a path open to the most implacable enemies that mankind and the aliens of the Milky Way Galaxy have ever face. Genetically tailored, symbiotic body armor protects the human commandos that are to be dropped on the metallic surface. A trooper in his armor, with surgically enhanced, neuro-fiber speed, is the deadliest grunt in the universe.

The Earth died when aliens rained thermonuclear warheads on her cities and sprayed the surface with a bio-terminator. A deadly poison drifted to every corner of the planet, threatening the last survivors with annihilation. For a soldier like Creed, there is only one way to keep breathing untainted air. He must bury his hatred of the extraterrestrials and join the Jelk Corporation as an assault trooper, leaving the planet for outer space. In return for his and other people's services, the corporation will house the last humans for as long as the assault troopers keep winning.

The Crew deals with a botched mission and a missing soldier. Rose tries to find her place in the dungeon.

Kim deals with his injuries. Ishmael tries to help a distressed crew member.

In the fourth book of the Extinction Wars series, Abaddon commands a Karg-Jelk Super Fleet bent on annihilating humanity. He's the galaxy's most ruthless strategist wielding superior technology. That includes the perfect raid-ships, able to teleport anywhere at will. Humanity has Commander Creed, and he has his Assault Troopers. He's going to take the fight to the enemy. He's buying time, learning secrets and setting up for the greatest space battle in the Orion Arm.

Ragnarok is upon us. Ajax returns to an age of relentless war, his mind ravaged by terrible visions and with his rifle at the ready. An axe age. A sword age. A wolf age. The Hive Mind reveals strange new ships and hideous new creatures as the extinction fleet strives to feed its endless hunger. Swarms strike all along the border worlds, seizing as much raw biomass as they can and making their escape before human forces can respond.

Live. Fight. Die. Live Again. This is the fate of all Einherjar space marines, tasked to battle for humanity against ravenous alien swarms in an endless war of survival or extinction. The garm on Heorot have been exterminated, and the extinction fleet's suicidal assaults turned back upon every front across the universe. However, the Hive Mind still pulses with psychic menace, and marine Ajax can hear its hideous siren call.

The crew have found Codename: Extinction but destroying it will be no easy matter. The Consortium government are wasting time arguing about what to do next and Hank knows that the only course of action is to take matters into his own hands. But he can't do it alone. In addition to his crew, he will need a larger fighting force. And he knows just where to look. But bringing together disparate rebel sects will be no easy task and even if he does, the ancient enemy has plans of his own.

No one would have guessed during this prosperous time that our species' most desperate struggle loomed. Long after we’d made nuclear peace following the Cold War era, bioweapon peace after the Red Death Epidemic, and even survived the battle with self-aware AIs during the Proxy Wars, we had no idea mankind would, less than a full century later, battle its greatest threat, a period that came to be known in universal history as...the Extinction Era.

A new survivor is introduced, but are they friend or foe? Ishmael learns more about the Dungeon Crew.

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the third and final novel in an extraordinary space opera trilogy about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all. "What I’ll remember most is how [Adrian Tchaikovsky]...

A desperate battle for Richmond is about to begin, but Colonel Taylor knows that the war cannot be won if the Alliance continues its current path. When the genius Milo Rivers offers hope, both Taylor and Major Sommers are dispatched to retrieve information and technology which could turn the war around. Yet, Taylor’s Marines are about to descend into a deadly trap, and they must fight not just for the future of Earth, but survive to see another day.