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Hans Dominik (1872-1945) war ein deutscher Science-Fiction- und Sachbuchautor, Wissenschaftsjournalist und Ingenieur. Aus dem Buch: "Dieses scheinbar nutzlose Gelände ist keineswegs unwichtig. Es ist der Flugplatz, über dem die von den Eggerth-Werken herausgebrachten Flugzeuge eingeflogen werden und von dem aus sie danach immer weiter ausgedehnte Probeflüge in die Umgebung unternehmen. Als Professor Eggerth sich hier mehrere Jahre vor dem Weltkrieg niederließ und zuerst ganz bescheiden mit einer kleinen Werkstatt anfing, wurde manch absprechendes Urteil über ihn gefällt.

Shanghai 1927. Pearl of the East or Whore of the Orient? Depends on who you ask. It's a cesspool of poverty, thronged with refugees, gripped by civil war. But for some it's still a fever dream: jazz clubs, film stars, and opium dens, celebrities and spies, easy money and easier women. The son of a rural Irish cop, Michael Gallagher has joined the Shanghai Municipal Police to escape an Ireland crippled by its recent bitter independence fight and escape a personal tragedy.

Six months after the Cryptid Zoo tragedy gained national attention, violent creatures still terrorize the country. Nick and Meg Wells continue to deal with the horrifying experience having to institutionalize their catatonic son, Gabe, in a facility for the mentally disturbed.

Veterinarian Darcy Jackson and her family run a small but lucrative hobby farm, raising alpacas and sheltering abused animals in Harmony Valley, a coastal ranching and agricultural community. One foggy night while Darcy is returning home after a call, she veers off the road to avoid hitting a strange creature in the road and crashes her truck. Leroy Malek and his son, Dylan have been harboring a well-kept secret for years raising and caring for hybrids.

As a child, rare and unusual animals, especially cryptid creatures, always fascinated Carter Wilde. Now that he’s an eccentric billionaire and runs the largest conglomerate of high-tech companies all over the world, he can finally achieve his wildest dream of building the most incredible theme park ever conceived on the planet...Cryptid Zoo. Even though there have been apparent problems with the project, Wilde still decides to send some of his marketing employees and their families on a forced vacation to assess the theme park in preparation for Opening Day.

Nu-Earth, a battle-ravaged world forever scarred by an ongoing war between the Nort and Souther armies. The poison atmosphere makes it hostile to all who fight there, with the exception of one person—the Rogue Trooper. A biologically-engineered war machine, Rogue Trooper is searching for the traitor General responsible for the deaths of his clone brothers. Together with his three 'dead' bio-chipped comrades, Gunner, Bagman and Helm, he won't stop until he has succeeded in his personal mission of revenge!

The Most Amazing Show in the World is coming to the sleepy border town of Buckhorn, New Mexico with incredible creatures never before seen under any big top. When word gets out there’s a circus is in town, everyone flocks to the show for what they believe will be the time of their lives filled with breathtaking acts and amazing monsters. But soon the night of thrills will turn into bloodcurdling chills when the circus is sabotaged and monstrous creatures run wild in CRYPTID CIRCUS.

Allen Moss experiences an unexplainable and horrifying metamorphosis so shocking he might lose his sanity if it weren’t for his trusted wife, Laney, as he copes with his ever-changing body. Soon they realize Allen’s true potential and purpose when they embark on a perilous journey in a struggle to preserve the planet.

Semi-retired cryptid hunter Miguel Walla, his wife, Maria and their 9-year-old daughter, Sophia travel to New Mexico to visit Sophia’s grandmother, Camilla, a recluse who lives out in the desert. Raised in the traditions of her ancestral past in “The Land of Enchantment,” Camilla is a shaman and true believer that legendary creatures thought to roam the remote southwestern region do exist—especially as she has one of her own.

Cryptozoologist Professor Nora Howard and cryptid hunter Jack Tremens are on the verge of giving up hope of ever finding Lennie—Nora’s pet twelve-foot tall Yeren—after his abduction when by chance, they discover he’s been taken halfway around the world.

Consumed with rage after a family tragedy, Wade Freeman embarks on a perilous journey into the Canadian wilderness to hunt down a sabertooth tiger while his wife and son must survive the harsh conditions of their new home in a remote rural community of criminals called New Haven. Meanwhile miles away, terror abounds when a paleontology team working out of the abandoned North Star Weather Station high in the mountain peaks is stalked by a pack of apex predators thought to be long extinct until now...

Living in the idyllic seaside town of Palmetto Beach is a dream come true for Mitch Sanders, an aspiring marine biologist who studies from home while his wife, Ashley, scores the perfect job at the Bioengineering Clinical Research Institute of Medicine, which is about to make an astounding medical breakthrough.

A Cessna float plane is chartered by a young woman for a scientific venture into the wilderness of Northern Canada. Disaster strikes when their plane crashes, and three people are injured and stranded in bitter cold. After the initial shock, hopelessness sets in, but Jim Peters is a full-blooded Ojibway and knows how to survive in the wilderness, as does Carlin, the pilot. The pair combine their skills and prepare for a life-and-death struggle against the worst conditions nature has to offer.

Refusing to heed an evacuation warning, Wade Freeman and his family stay to protect their home in the destructive path of a hurricane. But after the storm the devastation is too much for the Freemans to bear. Hoping to secure a better future, Wade moves his family deep in the Canadian wilderness to a remote riverside community called New Haven on the advice of his brother.

It's been seven years since Jack McMorrow left New York for small-town Maine. His years of stringing stories and murders together in the backwoods has been an adventure, sure, but they have also put a big dent in his bank account. In this, the sixth installment of the popular Jack McMorrow series, McMorrow is hired back at The New York Times to cover his old Metro beat. Unsure at first, Jack soon regains his journalistic footing and settles into the incessant hustle and flow of the city.

Day of the Destroyers is an all-original linked prose anthology - each story is part of a larger arc wherein Jimmie Flint, Secret Agent X-11 of the Intelligence Service Command, battles to prevent the seditionist Medusa Council from engineering a bloody coup overthrowing our democracy. Agent X-11 fights across the country preventing an aerial assault on Chicago’s rail lines, destroying a secret factory of gas meant to enthrall millions in New Mexico, and so much more!

Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson besuchen ein Krippenspiel in einer methodistischen Kirche, bei dem das Jesuskind, gespielt vom Sohn des Lords Arsfasten, entführt wird. Holmes Untersuchungen enthüllen, dass die Mutter des Babys, Lady Arsfasten, von ihrem Ehemann tyrannisiert wird. Zudem stößt Holmes auf ein dunkles Familiengeheimnis des Lord Arsfasten, das den Detektiv zu einer anderen Vorgehensweise drängt.

The Cybermen - silver, indestructible monsters whose only goal is power - seem to have disappeared from their planet, Telos. When a party of archaeologists, joined by the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria, land on the Cybermen's barren, deserted planet, they uncover what appears to be their tomb. But...

The peaceful planet of Kestra is under threat. The evil Zargon forces are preparing to launch a devastating attack from an asteroid fortress. With the whole Kestran system under threat, Colonel Zana looks to one man to save them. Except one man isn’t enough. Gathering a crack team around him, including a talking chimpanzee, a marauding robot and a mystic monk, John Lovell must infiltrate the enemy base and save Kestra from the Zargons!

An unabridged reading of this classic novelisation featuring the First Doctor's original encounter with the Cybermen. The TARDIS brings the Doctor, Ben and Polly to a space tracking station in the Antarctic - and into trouble. A space mission is going badly wrong, and a new planet has appeared. Mondas, fabled twin planet of Earth, has returned. But while its inhabitants used to be like the humans of Earth, now they are very different. Devoid of emotions, their bodies replaced with plastic and steel, the Cybermen are here.