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Die Mission Triangulum scheint gescheitert. Es ist Michael Cordwainer Grand und seinen unsterblichen Gefährten nicht gelungen, eine Möglichkeit zu finden, die Ra'hul zu besiegen. Im Gegenteil: Er befindet sich in Gefangenschaft, die Invasionsflotte des Gegners ist im Anmarsch und die Milchstraße steht vor dem Untergang. Nur ein verwegener Plan könnte vielleicht die Wende bringen, doch durch ihn erweckt man die Aufmerksamkeit machtvoller Entitäten, von deren Existenz man bisher nicht einmal etwas ahnte. Doch es ist nicht klar, auf welcher Seite sie stehen.

On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the East Coast of the US, including Washington, DC. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the Earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space and requires a much-larger share of humanity to take part in the process. Elma York’s drive to become the first lady astronaut is so strong that even the most dearly held conventions of society may not stand a chance against her.

Half a million years in the future, on a dead, war-ravaged world at the centre of the galaxy, there is a mile-high statue of Michael Poole. Poole, born on Earth in the fourth millennium, was one of mankind's most influential heroes. He was not a warrior, not an emperor. He was an engineer, a builder of wormhole transit systems. But Poole's work would ultimately lead to a vast and destructive conflict, a million-year war between humanity and the enigmatic, powerful aliens known as the Xeelee. The Xeelee won.

The Difference Engine is an alternate history novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. It is a prime example of the steampunk sub-genre; It posits a Victorian Britain in which great technological and social change has occurred after entrepreneurial inventor Charles Babbage succeeded in his ambition to build a mechanical computer called Engines. The fierce summer heat and pollution have driven the ruling class out of London and the resulting anarchy allows technology-hating Luddites to challenge the intellectual elite.

DAS ENDE EINER FURCHTBAREN REISE - ODER DER BEGINN VON ETWAS NOCH GRAUENVOLLEREM? Zwei Menschen, ein Schicksal - miteinander verbunden, ohne dass sie davon wissen. Eine Gejagte, die endlich den Fängen Dunia Lains entkommen konnte. Doch der Albtraum ist noch nicht vorbei. Die Welt, in der ihre qualvolle Reise ihren Anfang nahm, ist nicht mehr die, an die sie sich erinnert. Ihre Heimat ist zu einem dunklen und gefährlichen Ort geworden. Doch was ist passiert? Eine Mutter, die um ihr Kind trauert und auf der Flucht vor ihrer Vergangenheit nach einer neuen Zukunft sucht.

When Chen’s parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning, he devotes his life to cracking the secret of the mysterious natural phenomenon. His search takes him to stormy mountaintops, an experimental military weapons lab, and an old Soviet science station. The more he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just the tip of a new frontier in particle physics. Although Chen’s quest provides a purpose for his life, his reasons for chasing his elusive quarry come into conflict with soldiers and scientists who have motives of their own.

Wie begann Sal Haggards Karriere im Konzernmilitär der Cynarian Corporation? Wie wurde der Titan-Bund ins Leben gerufen? Was geschieht auf der Raumstation Aurora nach dem Abzug der Mutanten? Wie wurde Terence McLean zum reichsten Menschen des Sonnensystems? Diesen und anderen Fragen widmen sich 8 Kurzgeschichten, in denen verschiedene Nebencharaktere aus den Bänden 1 bis 3 der "c23"-Reihe die Hauptrolle spielen. Zum Verständnis der Romane nicht zwingend erforderlich.

From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades. The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its...

Truth Medici knows life isn't fair. But for the first time, the balance is in his favor. Cultivation has taken him from desperate slumrat to burglar to mercenary to bodyguard to terrorist, and now he's the revered prince of a kingdom to come—immortal heir to a dynasty hidden for millennia. Pampered by succubae, demons, and sprites, Truth is more than ready to embody the might of his ancestors, who've prospered in secret for centuries. With an aura that reeks of power, he'll make his presence known. His word and will are law.

From Joshua Dalzelle comes the follow-up to the number-one best seller Warship. Captain Jackson Wolfe survived the initial incursion of a vicious alien species into human space...barely. He had assumed the juggernaut that had devastated three Terran systems was the herald for a full invasion, but for the last few years it has been eerily quiet along the Frontier. Jackson now struggles to convince the Confederate leadership the threat is still imminent and needs to be taken seriously.

Die Erde steht am Rande des Kollaps. Naturkatastrophen, politische Unruhen und eine immer brisantere Ressourcenkrise haben die Welt in einen Zustand der Instabilität versetzt. Inmitten dieser Krise tritt eine dramatische Entscheidung auf den Plan: Eine letzte Evakuierung soll die letzten Hoffnungsträger retten – 10.000 Menschen, die das Überleben der Menschheit sichern sollen. Der Mars – der letzte Zufluchtsort. Leona Miles, eine angesehene Ethik-Professorin, steht vor einer unmöglichen Wahl.

After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. There are two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds. The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap unimaginable riches.

Frederik Pohl was on a streak when this Hugo Award-finalist novel was published in 1980. Now back in print after an absence of nearly a decade, this unique science fiction novel is as fresh and entertaining as ever. The story begins when the hero of Gateway finances an expedition to a distant alien spaceship that may end famine forever. On the ship, the explorers find a human boy, and evidence that reveals a powerful alien civilization is thriving on a transport ship headed right for Earth....

The New York Times bestselling author of Neuromancer and Agency presents a fast-paced sci-fi thriller that takes a terrifying look into the future. DON'T MISS THE SERIES—NOW STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON PRIME VIDEO! Flynne Fisher lives down a country road, in a rural America where jobs are scarce...

Cayce Pollard is a new kind of prophet - a world-renowned "coolhunter" who predicts the hottest trends. While in London to evaluate the redesign of a famous corporate logo, she's offered a different assignment: find the creator of the obscure, enigmatic video clips being uploaded to the Internet - footage that is generating massive underground buzz worldwide.

The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city - intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began.

EINE VERZWEIFELTE MISSION - EINE HANDVOLL ÜBERLEBENDER - EIN GEHEIMNISSVOLLER PLANET. Kriege, Umweltzerstörung und Seuchen - die Erde des 22. Jahrhunderts steht vor dem Kollaps. Das Ende der Menschheit droht! Daher soll die Terraforming-Mission Genesis einen weit entfernten, erdähnlichen Planeten urbar machen. Doch es kommt zur Katastrophe, und die Genesis stürzt auf einem unwirtlichen Gesteinsbrocken ab. Wie konnte das passieren? Was erwartet die wenigen Überlebenden auf diesem unbekannten Planeten? Und werden sie die Erde je wiedersehen?

Als ein transgenes Experiment außer Kontrolle gerät, wird das Schiff selbst zur lebendigen Bedrohung. In einer klaustrophobischen Atmosphäre aus technologischem Verfall, organischem Schrecken und psychologischem Terror kämpfen Aris, Elara und Kaelen gegen eine Kreatur, die mehr als nur Materie verschlingt – sie assimiliert Bewusstsein. Ein düsterer, bildgewaltiger Roman über Schuld, Hybris und das, was passiert, wenn der menschliche Drang zur Schöpfung die Kontrolle verliert.

From the rich imagination of science-fiction great Alan Dean Foster comes the story of Midworld, a Humanx Commonwealth planet that's equally fragile and hostile. Covered by a lush rainforest, Midworld is home to a primitive society that lives in harmony with the natural world. But the arrival of an exploitative human company, whose workers know nothing of Midworld's delicate ecosystem, sparks a conflict. Should Midworld's villagers aid the humans or stand against them?

Investigative reporter Andrew Worth turns down a documentary on a mysterious new mental illness - "Distress," or acute clinical anxiety syndrome, for another assignment. He's on his way to the artificial island of Stateless, where the world's top physicists are gathering to decide on a new TOE, or Theory of Everything, to replace Einstein's outmoded legacy.