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A spaceship from Earth accidentally crossed through a hole in space-time to a universe where the force of gravity is one billion times as strong as the gravity we know. Somehow the crew survived, aided by the fact that they emerged into a cloud of gas surrounding a black hole, which provided a breathable atmosphere. Five hundred years later, their descendants still struggle for existence, divided into two main groups. The Miners live on the Belt, a ramshackle ring of dwellings orbiting the core of a dead star, which they excavate for raw materials.

Hamburg 2034: Alex liebt Farben, Bewegung und Emotionen. Er hat alles dafür gegeben, sich für den Studiengang "Bildende Künste" einzuschreiben. Eine Fehlentscheidung, so seine Professorin, die ihm empfiehlt, ein technisches Studium in Erwägung zu ziehen. Wegen seiner Freundin nimmt Alex an einer Testreihe für logische Puzzles teil. Er hasst Mathematik, aber die Bezahlung ist lukrativ und die Aufgabe ist lächerlich einfach. Eine Entscheidung mit Folgen. Sieben Jahre zuvor: Dr. Olaf Baringhaus hat aus Liebe zu seiner Frau seine Seele an die Wissenschaft verkauft. Heute ist Zahltag.

Frank Herbert's Dune is one of the grandest epics in the annals of imaginative literature. Now Herbert's son, Brian, working with Kevin J. Anderson and using Frank Herbert's own notes, reveals a pivotal epoch in the history of the Dune universe: the Butlerian Jihad, the war that was fought ten thousand years before the events of Dune - the war in which humans wrested their freedom from "thinking machines."

The starship Earthling, filled with thousands of hibernating colonists en route to a new world at Tau Ceti, is stranded beyond the solar system when the ship's three organic mental cores—disembodied human brains that control the vessel's functions—go insane. The emergency skeleton crew sees only one chance for survival: build an artificial consciousness in the Earthling's primary computer that can guide them to their destination—and hope it doesn't destroy the human race.

First there were good times: humankind reached glorious heights, even immortality. Then there were bad times: Earth was occupied by the faceless, brutal Qax. Immortality drugs were confiscated, the human spirit crushed. Earth became a vast factory for alien foodstuffs. Into this new dark age appears the end of a tunnel through time. Made from exotic matter, it is humanity's greatest engineering project in the pre-Qax era, where the other end of the tunnel remains anchored near Jupiter.

Wormhole technology has revealed that our sun will die in 5,000,000 years. A race of superbeings, the fabulous Xeelee, owners of the universe, are thought to be responsible. The bizarre and wealthy cult, the Superet, funds two projects aimed at combatting the force that will murder the sun.

Hamburg 2055: Alex sitzt in einem Bunker fest. Tief unter der Erde. Allein. Und ohne Hoffnung. Dabei müsste er nur die Augen öffnen, um die Realität zu erkennen. Dr. Mia Baringhaus wagt mehr, um ihn zurückzuholen, als sie sich leisten kann. Ihr Leben zerbricht. Sie wurde benutzt. Belogen. Sie ist ein dankbarer Sündenbock. Luca hasst ihren Vater, liebt ihn und kann sich nicht mehr an sein Gesicht erinnern. Sie wollte nie so sein wie er.

An orphan’s life is harsh - and often short - in the mysterious island city of Camorr. But young Locke Lamora dodges death and slavery, becoming a thief under the tutelage of a gifted con artist. As leader of the band of light-fingered brothers known as the Gentleman Bastards, Locke is soon infamous, fooling even the underworld’s most feared ruler. But in the shadows lurks someone still more ambitious and deadly. Faced with a bloody coup that threatens to destroy everyone and everything that holds meaning in his mercenary life, Locke vows to beat the enemy at his own brutal game.

After a brutal battle with the underworld that nearly destroyed him, Locke and his trusted sidekick, Jean, fled the island city of their birth and landed on the exotic shores of Tal Verrar to nurse their wounds. But even at this westernmost edge of civilization, they can’t rest for long - and are soon back to what they do best: stealing from the undeserving rich and pocketing the proceeds for themselves. This time, however, they have targeted the grandest prize of all: the Sinspire, the most exclusive and heavily guarded gambling house in the world.

Hamburg 2037: Lisa XIII öffnet die Augen. Sie ist anders. Sie will leben. Und ist bereit dafür zu kämpfen. Alex kehrt nach drei Jahren in die Stadt zurück. Niemand kann allein gegen die ganze Welt kämpfen. Dr. Agnes Gutter konnte als CEO von Better Life seit den mysteriösen Ereignissen vor drei Jahren vieles zum Besseren wenden. Nur ein Projekt entzieht sich noch ihrer Kontrolle. Zu viel Naivität, zu viel Profitgier und zu viel Ignoranz. Es hätte verhindert werden können.

The title story of this collection - a devilishly ironic riff on H. P. Lovecraft's "Pickman's Model" - was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, while "Probiscus" was nominated for an International Horror Guild award and reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 19. In addition to his previously published work, this collection contains an original story.

If you feel dissatisfied with your life and helpless to make a change, you are not alone. These same feelings drove Jonni Pollard to seek out a better way of being in the world. A master teacher in India introduced him to ancient Vedic practices that changed Jonni's life forever; the anxiety that had tormented him for so many years was finally replaced by a deep sense of purpose and fulfillment. Now an expert meditation teacher, Jonni's mission is to share the knowledge and techniques he has learned to help anyone reclaim their power to live a meaningful and fulfilling life.

More than two decades have passed since the events chronicled in The Butlerian Jihad. The crusade against thinking robots has ground on for years, but the forces led by Serena Butler and Irbis Ginjo have made only slight gains; the human worlds grow weary of war, of the bloody, inconclusive swing from victory to defeat. Get ready for Dune: The Machine Crusade.

Star humans were engineered to exist within the mantle of a star, mere tools of their Earth-evolved makers in a war against the Xeelee, owners of the universe. Stephen Baxter's third novel in his magnificent Xeelee Sequence is an exotic and endearing story of an abandoned people. Abandoned to their fate, their history lost along with contact with their makers, Star people survive in an environment that is possibly the strangest in science fiction.

Humanity welcomed the Olyix and their utopian technology. But mankind was tricked. Now these visitors are extracting a terrible price. For two years, the Olyix have laid siege to Earth, harvesting its people for their god. One by one, cities are falling to their devastating weaponry. And while millions have fled to seek refuge in space, others continue to fight an apparently unwinnable war.

Fifty-six hard years after the events of The Machine Crusade, after the death of Serena Butler, the bloodiest decades of the Jihad take place. The human worlds begin to hope that the end of the centuries-long conflict with the thinking machines is finally in sight.

Caldan ist zehn Jahre alt, als seine Eltern von den Schergen des Kaisers ermordet werden. Er selbst entkommt seinen Verfolgern und findet in einem Kloster Unterschlupf, wo er von den Brüdern in den Grundlagen der Arkanen Magie unterrichtet wird. Doch dann verletzt er Jahre später bei einer Prügelei unwillentlich einen Mitschüler und wird, mit nichts als ein paar Münzen in der Tasche, hinausgeworfen. Von nun an muss er sich alleine durchschlagen - in einer Welt, die noch immer von den Mördern seiner Eltern beherrscht wird.

Anasoma, die mächtigste Stadt des Kaiserreichs, ist gefallen, und zum zweiten Mal in seinem Leben muss der junge Magier Caldan alles hinter sich lassen und fliehen. Gemeinsam mit seinen Gefährten stellt er sich den Gefahren einer Welt, der ein schrecklicher Krieg bevorsteht und in der das Böse aus Legenden plötzlich lebendig zu werden scheint. Doch es ist vor allem Miranda, um deren Leben Caldan bangt. Ein verbotener Zauber droht sie zu töten. Caldan weiß, dass er sich seiner außergewöhnlichen Begabung stellen muss, um Miranda - und das gesamte Kaiserreich - zu retten.

With what should have been the greatest heist of their career gone spectacularly sour, Locke and his trusted partner, Jean, have barely escaped with their lives. Or at least Jean has. But Locke is slowly succumbing to a deadly poison that no alchemist or physiker can cure. Yet just as the end is near, a mysterious Bondsmage offers Locke an opportunity that will either save him or finish him off once and for all.

In the 23rd century, humanity is enjoying a comparative utopia. Yet life on Earth is about to change forever. Feriton Kane’s investigative team has discovered the worst threat ever to face mankind, and we’ve almost no time to fight back. The supposedly benign Olyix plan to harvest humanity, in order to carry us to their god at the end of the universe. And as their agents conclude schemes down on earth, vast warships converge above to gather this cargo. Some factions push for humanity to flee, to live in hiding amongst the stars, although only a chosen few would make it out in time.