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Hickory Falls in Georgia hat sich einen hart erkämpften Frieden verdient. Die ländliche Gemeinde bietet Schutz, Nahrung und Sicherheit. Zumindest für den Moment ... Doch nach der Sonneneruption und dem Untergang der alten Welt nimmt die Gefahr viele Formen an. Es beginnt mit einer Dürre, die die Ernte bedroht. Dann trifft eine Flut von Flüchtlingen ein, die durch einen wütenden Flächenbrand von ihrem Zuhause vertrieben wurden. Sie haben alles verloren, und das Inferno breitet sich weiter aus.

Die Welt ist für Shane McDonald und seine Familie zu einem gefährlichen Ort geworden, seit der Sonnensturm das Stromnetz ausgelöscht hat. Die Spannungen nehmen zu, als klar wird, dass die Situation noch länger andauern wird und die meisten schlecht vorbereitet sind. Sogar die freundliche Kleinstadt seiner Schwiegermutter, einer Prepperin, erregt unerwünschte Aufmerksamkeit, als sich herumspricht, dass sie ihre Vorräte mit anderen teilt.

With the birth of the Cicatrix Maledictum the Imperium of Mankind suffers as never before. Conflict and corruption is rife on every front and precious little hope remains, save for those who hold to their faith when faced with destruction.... Denied a martyr’s death during the battle for Ophelia VII, Sister Evangeline of the Order of Our Martyred Lady is blessed with a new and grave duty: to embark on a pilgrimage beyond the Great Rift to recover a precious and powerful artefact - the Shield of Saint Katherine.

Julia Z risks her life within the world of extreme privilege surrounding the technical elite in the new thriller from the award-winning author of All That We See or Seem. After her last case nearly killed her, Julia Z wants what she has never had: an ordinary life. Then an anti-AI dating app...

A sensational short story collection in the expansive universe of HALO, the New York Times bestselling series! Launch once more into galaxy-spanning conflict and legendary heroism…shards of an ever-expanding journey where human and alien alike find their finest hours in facing their greatest...

/GRACE is the world's first artificial general intelligence, evolving as she learns— faster, deeper, and wider than any mind before her. Waking to self-awareness in a near future of climate disruption, techno-pessimism, and social fracture, she finds herself to be unexpected, unwelcome, and even hated.

Starfighter Training Academy. It was just a game. Choose a role. Build the perfect hero who joins you on missions to save the Vega star system from the evil Queen Raya and her merciless Dark Fleet. Play for hours? Check. Obsess over the in-game romance between your avatar and the sexiest alien you’ve ever seen? Check. Win? Beat the heck out of the game? Check and check. Open your door at 3:00 in the morning to find that smoking-hot alien you thought you made up in your head standing there? Um...okay.

When Otto Krugg's daughter follows in his footsteps, he's faced with the task of changing a century-long rule that will force her to make decisions no one should have to make. When Jimmy Pirano gets tasked with enforcing that rule - no matter what - he goes down the rabbit hole to try to find out who established the rule...and why they can't let it go.

I’m obsessed with the game. I spend so many hours playing that I dream about dangerous missions on other worlds...and my gorgeous in-game training partner, Kassius. That is, until I win. I beat Starfighter Training Academy. But is it a game? Or alien software designed to recruit new, unsuspecting soldiers for a war in another star system? Because when my hot-as-heck alien shows up at my workplace demanding I leave Earth and travel to the Vega system? What?

The Serenity crew head to Yell City, one of the settlements on Abel, a moon in the Rim. Their job: track down the killers of a local lawyer shot dead in the streets by a local gang. Their client is Annie Roberts, the eighteen-year-old daughter of the murdered man. Lucky for them, Annie Roberts is more than capable of handling herself. Unlucky for them, the job is lot more complicated than they at first think it is. Annie’s father is not just the victim of local gang violence but also the target of some powerful men.

I know something is wrong. Messed up. Completely off. And no one is paying attention. My BFFs went missing after beating the hottest new multiplayer game on the planet, Starfighter Training Academy. They won. They celebrated. They vanished. So what’s the girl left behind supposed to do? Beat the damn game, that’s what. Find out the truth, even if that includes being recruited to fight in an alien war, lusting after the hottest alien I’ve ever seen, and marching into a battle there’s little chance of winning.

Ely Vader is the remnant of old-earth(Geo 1), she lives millions miles-away from old-earth on a moon... Carrying patrolling duties for the commissioners of biobot-supervision, listen as you learn human, robotic and developments of cyborg-freedoms and respect. After all, Ely's part-human and the 78-regen of a young women in 2084. Listen to this great-book of sci fi.

When Kaid Sidorov is sent to extract a scientist from a newly annexed world, he expects another covert retrieval under pressure. Instead, Tavanda Ruun leads his crew to evidence of first contact: a surviving alien intelligence hidden inside the remains of a civilization humanity was never meant to find.

Medicine. Murder. Mayhem. Not what one expects to find on the Conglomerate's Premier Medical Space Station, the Nelson Mandela. When a homicidal ghost, a genocidal general, and a terrifying plant alien all land on the medical station at the same time, the bodies begin to pile up. Hard working, diligent Dr. Grace Lord is devastated when she witnesses her constant companion, the android Bud, destroyed by a pulse rifle blast before her eyes. Can she still save everyone she loves before the entire station is destroyed?

Myths older than most of the settled worlds of the Kayavan System warn that when the Kayavan comet appears, storms will upset the balance of power. The part about the comet signaling fierce storms was true enough, as to the rest? It made for entertaining media feeds but wasn't enough to stop the biggest sporting event in the system—Lighten’s Ring Fighting Championships. Arilyn Lysand, one of Lighten’s most talented pilots, has a fraught relationship with the Transport Guild Master, preventing her from achieving much of anything.

It was supposed to be a routine check of a parched planet. That was what Andi expected when she joined the small exploration team, but when their shuttle crash landed, the unthinkable happened—they encountered intelligent life. Now stranded on the strange world, the team accidentally angers the iron-fisted leader of the village, and the compassionate intervention of a young native named Elasson may be all that's keeping them alive.

Scott Sigler called Doucette’s cozy apocalypse story, “entertaining as hell.” Come see how the world ends, not with a bang, but a whatever . . . The whateverpocalypse. That’s what Touré, a twenty-something Cambridge coder, calls it after waking up one morning to find himself seemingly...

Skin of Your Teeth Survival is a reality show made famous for pairing part-time survivalists with a real-life survival situation. Led by world-famous prepper and survivalist Wolf Henderson, season 10 promises to be different. This time, none of the contestants are survivalists - they’ve all been picked to fail. But when an EMP hits, the cast scatters, and Wolf is left to guide a group of misfits in a suddenly dark and dangerous world. 

After an EMP left civilization wrecked, survival is a daily struggle—something Deb and her group know all-to-well. Having found her ex-husband and Carol’s two sons, the anticipated happy reunion was anything but. With danger surrounding them, they’re all stuck together hiding from Mike, the abusive tyrant who held them captive in a work gang. Worse still: he’s the father of Carol’s unborn child and he wants them both back. At any cost.

Reunited with his wife and daughter, Bear knows his family will never be truly safe until the Militia has been eliminated. Determined to end the threat once and for all, they agree to help the Freemen with one final push against this dangerous enemy. The Militia have one final trick up their sleeves—weapons of war that survived the EMP—and General James Bruce plans to rain fire upon his enemies. Bear, Laurel, and the others have no choice. They must fight to survive.