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When humanity reaches for the stars, our probes are destroyed. They crash into an incredibly advanced piece of technology: a massive force-field. Unknown beings have placed a barrier around our star and planets, enclosing us within. We’re locked inside a Great Sphere. Was this invisible obstacle built to imprison us - or to protect us? No one knows the truth, but it soon becomes clear the barrier has leaks. Aliens infiltrate and try to sabotage our efforts to escape our cage.

The alien race known as the Ancients vanished before Earth's last ice age - but not before building interconnected rings that form a highway system across the galaxy. Humanity has used these rings for years but has never figured out how to build its own, or even how to alter the connection pattern. Now, the Imperial starship Pandora is on a mission to discover and explore new interstellar connection points. While on Venus, an unexpected guest arrives - Marvin, a rogue robot who puts his strange mind to work on reconnecting the rings into a new pattern. Everything goes haywire.

To kolejny kiepski rok Kyle'a Riggsa. Okrety nanitów maja nowa misje - ale to wyrok smierci dla pilotów. Do tego ziemski rzad zamierza skrasc technologie Sil Gwiezdnych. Co gorsza, Ziemia obiecala cos makrosom i maszyny wkrótce upomna sie o to... Wojna wsród gwiazd nie zakonczy sie szybko. I nikt nie ma pojecia, jaki bedzie jej final.

On June 30, 1908, an object fell from the sky, releasing more energy than a thousand Hiroshima bombs. A Siberian forest was flattened, but the strike left no significant crater. The anomaly came to be known as the Tunguska Event, and scientists have never agreed whether it was the largest meteor strike in recorded history - or something else. Alien artifacts have been uncovered since the 1908 event, and a new star drive is discovered.

Long awaited, Dream Magic has finally been released and ends the Haven Series. Twice the length of any other story this book includes three appendices that explain and discuss the underlying world. Brand is no longer young, but he still wields a mean Axe. Myrrdin and Oberon resolve their differences as father and son at last. A new power, the most terrifying ever seen, arises and threatens all the rest. In the final war of the Jewels, every power of the Nine plays a key role. Brand’s usual allies turn against him, while former enemies become friends.

Sometimes defending those you love means risking everything and attempting the most dangerous task in the universe: making a planetary assault against a heavily entrenched enemy. It's grim and always ugly. But as long as men refuse to bow their heads to conquerors, they will take the fight to the enemy or die trying. Three masters of military science fiction have come together here to tell harrowing tales of high-tech mayhem.

When a huge alien spacecraft crashes on the island of Cuba, the world scrambles to investigate. Secretive organizations have waited for generations for this opportunity, and they do not hesitate to send in recovery teams. Cooperation between nations breaks down as every government wants the newly discovered technology for themselves. Naturally, the Cubans have beaten everyone else, and the island is beginning to change. Aircraft flying reconnaissance are swatted from the skies.

After centuries in stasis, a lost task force returns home. Arriving from the infinite void the surviving ships discover that the Imperium lies in ruin. The Homeworld itself is destroyed, and nothing lives in the Ancestral System except an infestation of unknown bipedal beings - creatures soft, red of blood and warm of flesh.... When you colonize a planet, make sure the owners aren't coming back.... MECH is the story of a new Earth colony built upon the ancient Homeworld of a civilization presumed (incorrectly) to be long dead.

The Skaintz Imperium was eradicated from the backwater planet of Garm, but at great cost. The population of the world was decimated within weeks, and Garm will never be the same. At least humanity can breathe easily knowing that the mysterious aliens are all dead.... But are they? Using their natural form of communication, Skaintz radio signals did chirrup and click, however briefly. Transmissions in their ancient language now spread at the speed of light in a growing sphere.

Death awaits the curious! Out along the rim of the galaxy hangs a loose configuration of some 60 stars known as the Faustian Chain. This whorl of sparkling suns is rich in planets and occupies an irregular volume of space some 20 light years in diameter. From an external viewpoint, the Chain presents a colorful display of plasma-streams, luminous nebulae and sparkling pinpoints of light.

The humans have no magic and are hunted for sport, but that is about to change. War is coming.... The Sun Dragon spawned nine lesser dragons which devoured their parent for the power the elder possessed. These young dragons fought for choice bits of the Sun Dragon, but each only managed to eat a portion, thus giving them specific powers. Over time, these foul dragons were hunted down and slain by heroes of old.

In Sky Magic, the second book of the Haven Series, the Pact that has kept the peace for centuries between humanity and the Faerie is broken. Oberon, King of the Faerie, lost his Blue Jewel and can no longer command the marching Rainbow to keep the peace. Once again the darkest and most evil of his kind plague human lands. In defense of the Haven, a champion must be chosen to wield the Axe Ambros.

In Shadow Magic, the third book of the Haven Series, Herla of the Wild Hunt makes his move to gather all the Jewels of Power. Hunting down and killing those who wield them, the undead king is as relentless as death itself. He is not the only interested party, however, as several armies march to meet Brand and his allies in a desperate battle for control of the River Haven.

Known as the Primal Jewels, the Black, the Quicksilver, and the Sunstone have long been lost. This is the story of their return to the lands of Cymru. Many old evils stir. Four score marriages between the Fae and the River Folk result in interesting offspring that have not been seen for centuries. King Arawn of the Dead schemes to raise an army to invade the River Haven. The Kindred face a mysterious plague, Myrrdin is nowhere to be found and Oberon is up to something.

The Red Jewel is rediscovered and wielded in this, Book number five of the series. Blood Magic reigns supreme, but who will master the Red Jewel first? The elder races gather, unhappy with the upstart humans and their possession of powerful Jewels. Brand leads an army of the River Folk and the Wee Folk to the Black Mountains to answer the request of the Kindred for aid. Enemy hosts march to face him. Fantastic forces are unleashed upon the world in a new war that will not be soon forgotten.

In Dragon Magic, the fourth book of the Haven Series, the Kindred call upon Brand for help. Things are not right in their kingdom beneath Snowdon. Modi has led a treasure-hunting expedition deep into the Everdark, a place where spine-terrors, blind croaking things, and great wurms reside. But it's been weeks; Modi is overdue, and the Gudrin fears the worst. Brand journeys into the magnesium bowels - and beyond - and discovers things buried there that he wishes he had never disturbed.

W "Unicestwieniu", siódmej powieści z serii Star Force, nic nie idzie zgodnie z planem. Trzy niedawno założone ludzkie kolonie w układzie Eden radzą sobie coraz lepiej, lecz liczne siły dążą do ich wyeliminowania. Skorupiaki proszą o pomoc, choć są zaprzysięgłymi wrogami Sił Gwiezdnych. Czy okażą się potencjalnymi sojusznikami, czy też podstępnymi zdrajcami? I dlaczego temperatura oceanów na ich światach rośnie?

Kyle Riggs od dawna nie odwiedzał Ziemi. Nie ma pojęcia, co tam się dzieje. Nadchodzące raporty są coraz rzadsze i coraz dziwniejsze. Riggs, odizolowany w systemie Eden ze swoimi marines, zaczyna zdawać sobie sprawę, że przeciwko niemu formuje się sojusz. Dwie ogromne floty wkrótce ruszą, by zniszczyć siły pułkownika. Ostatni obrońcy z Sił Gwiezdnych muszą stawić czoła wrogom. Trzeba zawrzeć przymierze z obcymi biotami. Ale które gatunki są naprawdę godne zaufania?

James McGill zostaje wezwany na misję sabotażową, której podołać może wyłącznie człowiek obdarzony jego wyjątkowymi zdolnościami. McGill radzi sobie dobrze. Aż za dobrze. W wyniku jego działań, rozwścieczeni Rigelianie wypowiadają Ziemianom wojnę. Na pomoc obu stronom przybywają dwie floty ze Światów Centralnych. Tymczasem w samym środku Drogi Mlecznej trwa wojna domowa o władzę w Imperium. Potężne okręty ścierają się w bitwach, niszcząc tysiące zamieszkanych planet. Konflikt pomiędzy galaktycznymi supermocarstwami rozszerza się na kosmiczne prowincje. Ludzkość zostaje wciągnięta w sam środek burzliwej walki.