Ian Douglas
49 кн.
W piątej części opowieści o zmaganiach ludzkości z potężną prastarą cywilizacją pewne sprawy zostają wyjaśnione, ale nowe wydarzenia przynoszą również wiele pytań. Ludzie wciąż muszą walczyć – zmagać się ze śmiertelnym zagrożeniem w bezlitosnej pustce kosmosu, na obcych globach, nie rozumiejąc do końca sposobu rozumowania wroga, nie mając pojęcia o jego rzeczywistych zamiarach. Ian Douglas, wciąż w znakomitej formie, prowadzi czytelnika przez meandry wydarzeń, nie szczędzi zwrotów akcji, a...
| Автор | Ian Douglas |
Douglas kontynuuje swoją fascynującą opowieść o kosmicznej armadzie, która atakuje terytorium potężnego wroga, i która jest wyklęta przez dowództwo na Ziemi. Koenig zdaje sobie sprawę, że będąc w defensywie Ziemia nie przetrwa, tym bardziej, że wróg zaatakował już Układ Słoneczny. W trzecim tomie główne skrzypce po raz kolejny grają Koenig i Trevor Gray. Polityka miesza się tutaj z wojną, a heroizm nie jest niczym wyjątkowym, lecz staje się sposobem życia. Szaleńczy wyścig z czasem,...
| Автор | Ian Douglas |
Wiek XXV. Tajemniczy władcy Galaktycznego Imperium Sh’daar uznali, że gwałtowny rozwój genetyki, robotyki, infotechnologii oraz nanotechnologii (GRIN) doprowadzi gatunek ludzki do punktu osobliwości technologicznej, w którym ludzkość osiągnie transcendencję. Sh’daar uważają, że jest to zagrożenie dla całego Wszechświata – dlatego gatunek ludzki musi zostać powstrzymany, nawet jeśli miałoby to oznaczać jego całkowitą eksterminację. Lecz ludzie nie byliby sobą, gdyby podporządkowali się bez...
| Автор | Ian Douglas |
Nie ma już czasu… Zawsze jest czas… Trevor Gray stracił dowodzenie nad lotniskowcem kosmicznym „Ameryka” i nie wie, co ze sobą począć. Wiedział, że zastosowanie się do rad super-AI zwanej Konstantinem może mieć poważne konsekwencje. Nie myślał jednak, że zostanie przez to wyłączony z walki. Ziemię czeka bowiem starcie ze złowieszczą obcą istotą, tak zaawansowaną technologicznie, że ludzkość ma niewielkie szanse na przetrwanie. Gray sprzeciwił się rozkazom właśnie po to, by ją zatrzymać. A teraz...
| Автор | Ian Douglas |
Nie ma już czasu… Zawsze jest czas… Trevor Gray stracił dowodzenie nad lotniskowcem kosmicznym „Ameryka” i nie wie, co ze sobą począć. Wiedział, że zastosowanie się do rad super-AI zwanej Konstantinem może mieć poważne konsekwencje. Nie myślał jednak, że zostanie przez to wyłączony z walki. Ziemię czeka bowiem starcie ze złowieszczą obcą istotą, tak zaawansowaną technologicznie, że ludzkość ma niewielkie szanse na przetrwanie. Gray sprzeciwił się rozkazom właśnie po to, by ją zatrzymać. A...
| Автор | Ian Douglas |
There’s no more time…There’s always more time…Trevor Gray has been stripped of his command of the starship America, and is unsure what to do with his life. Having dedicated so much of himself to the service, he knew following the super-AI Konstantin’s advice could have severe consequences. He just never thought he would be out of the fight.Because that’s what Earth is in: a fight against a sinister alien force so technologically advanced that there seems little hope. That’s why he disobeyed his...
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Big, bold military science fiction action from one of the genre’s biggest names.In the 23rd Century, war is still hell…Corpsman Eliot Carlyle joined the Navy to save lives and see the universe. Now, he and Bravo Company’s Black Wizards of the interstellar Fleet Marine Force are en route to Bloodworld – a hellish, volatile rock, colonized by the fanatical Salvationists who desired an inhospitable world where they could suffer for humanity’s sins. However, their penance could prove fatal – for the...
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It’s time for humanity to claim its rightful heritage…2040: Ruins of ancient civilization uncovered on Mars reveal startling truths about the creation of humankind.2042: In the grey dust of the Earth's Moon, an extinct enslaving race left behind more answers, more questions…and a grim warning.2067: As Earth's warring factions clash in space for scraps of alien technology, a strange artifact lies trapped beneath the ice-locked oceans of Europa: a machine that holds the key to the final human...
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When called to do battle many light years from home, the 1st Marine Interstellar Expeditionary Unit rose to the challenge – and now thousands of enslaved humans have been freed, but the earth has moved on…Earth is twenty-one years older than the home planet they originally left, and the Marines need time to retrain and readjust – time they do not have, due to the bizarre disappearance of a detachment of their brothers- and sisters-in-arms. It is a mystery, but there is a starting point: an...
| Автор | Ian Douglas |
Big, bold military science fiction action from New York Times bestselling author, Ian Douglas.Marines are still the toughest sons of guns in the galaxy.As Bravo Company defuses a hostage crisis on an orbiting mining station, Navy Corpsman Elliot «Doc» Carlyle not only saves the lives of a wounded Marine and two extraterrestrial friendlies – he averts a terrorist strike intended to kill billions. His reward? Deployment on a recon mission into the darkest depths known to man…Abyss Deep is a...
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Now that the secrets of Mars have been unearthed, nation stands against nation in the brink of a catastrophic war. A war that threatens our entire existence.The revelations on Mars – a half-million year-old legacy of the vanished star-traveling Builders – have fed the flames of catastrophic war. A beleaguered United States and its Russian and Japanese allies struggle to hold their own against the indomitable forces of the enemy United Nations. The bloody conflict that has swept over the home...
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In the future, earth's warriors have conquered the heavens. But on a distant world, humanity is in chains…Many millennia ago, the human race was enslaved by the An – a fearsome alien people whose cruel empire once spanned the galaxies, until they were defeated and consigned to oblivion. But a research mission to the planet Ishtar has made a terrifying – and fatal – discovery: the Ahanu, ancestors of the former masters, live on, far from the reach of Earth – born weapons and technology … and tens...
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The first book in the epic saga of humankind's war of transcendenceThere is a milestone in the evolution of every sentient race, a Tech Singularity Event, when the species achieves transcendence through its technological advances. Now the creatures known as humans are near this momentous turning point.But an armed threat is approaching from deepest space, determined to prevent humankind from crossing over that boundary—by total annihilation if necessary.To the Sh'daar, the driving technologies...
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In the vein of the hit television show “Battlestar Galactica” comes the fourth book in this action-packed, New York Times bestselling, science fiction series in which humankind is in a vast power struggle to bring down an evil empire.20 years after the fragile truce with the Sh’daar, Koenig is now President of the USNA, and Gray is skipper of the CVS America… soon to be promoted to commander of the entire battle group, Koenig’s old position, and one which he might not be ready for. The truce...
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War is foreverThe people on Earth no longer remember how the human race was nearly obliterated centuries earlier during the terror visited upon them by the merciless Xul. But the Star Marines, thirty thousand light years from home, know all too well the horror that still lives.In the year 2886, in the midst of the intergalactic war that has been raging non-stop for nearly a decade, the unthinkable has occurred. Intelligence has located the gargantuan hidden homeworld of humankind's dedicated...
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The final conflict has arrived…Chaos has erupted throughout the known galaxy, threatening countless colonies and orbital habitats—as the Associative struggles vainly to keep the peace. Extreme measures are called for in these times of dire crisis, and the Star Marines are awakened from their voluntary 850-year cybe-hibe sleep. But General Trevor Garroway and his warriors are about to discover that the old rules of engagement have drastically changed . . .The end begins with an old-style assault...
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The second book in the epic saga of humankind's war of transcendenceIn the evolution of every sentient race, there is a turning point when the species achieves transcendence through technology.The warlike Sh’daar are determined that this monumental milestone will never be achieved by the creatures known as human.On the far side of known human space, the Marines are under siege, battling the relentless servant races of the Sh'daar aggressor. With a task force stripped to the bone and the Terran...
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The third book in the epic saga of humankind's war of transcendenceThere is an unseen power in the universe—a terrible force that was dominating the galaxy tens of thousands of years before the warlike Sh'daar were even aware of the existence of Sol and its planets.As humankind approaches the Singularity, when transcendence will be achieved through technology, contact will be made.In the wake of the near destruction of the solar system, the political powers on Earth seek a separate peace with an...
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The fifth book in the epic saga of humankind's war of transcendence…An enemy might just have to become an ally . . . in order to save humankindThe United States of North America is now engaged in a civil war with the Earth Confederation, which wants to yield to the demands of the alien Sh'daar, limit human technology, and become a part of the Sh'daar Galactic Collective. USNA President Koenig believes that surrendering to the Sh'daar will ultimately doom humankind.But when highly advanced,...
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Planet by planet, galaxy by galaxy, the inhabited universe has fallen to the alien Xul…Now only one obstacle stands between them and total domination: the warriors of a resilient race the world-devourers nearly annihilated centuries ago . . .A power vast, ancient, and terrifying, the mighty Xul have lost track of the insignificant humans hundreds of years after devastating their home world—which has enabled the United Star Marines to operate unnoticed and unhindered. A near-autonomous...
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The Marines have landed on Mars to guard the unearthed secrets of an ancient and dangerous alien race: Ourselves.The Year is 2040.Scientists have discovered something astonishing in the subterranean ruins of a sprawling Martian city: startling evidence of an alternative history that threatens to split humanity into opposing factions and plunge the Earth into chaos and war. The USMC – a branch of a military considered, until just recently, to be obsolete – has dispatched the Marine Mars...
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The seventh book in this action-packed, New York Times bestselling science fiction series – STAR CARRIER.The civil war might be over, but war for the galaxy might just be beginning…2425. The civil war between the United States of North America and the Pan-European Confederation is over. But before a new era of peace on Earth can begin, humankind must martial its interstellar forces as one fleet to engage in a war against an alien entity in Omega Centauri.Without provocation, it destroyed a...
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The sixth book in this action-packed, New York Times bestselling science fiction series – STAR CARRIER.The clock is ticking in the struggle for galactic independenceOnce rebels themselves facing off against the Earth Confederation, the United States of North America is now the dominant force in negotiations with the interstellar Sh'daar Collective. But just as the Marines root out the last violent dissenters, an alien ship of unknown origin suddenly flees Earth's orbit. Is it mere coincidence ....
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The ultimate battle is about to be waged in a war that will alter the universe forever . . .With the planet's fighting men and women deployed across the galaxy—battling in the noble cause of enslaved humanity—the insidious Xul have reached across space to devastate the unsuspecting Earth with asteroid fire. Without warning, a once majestic world is reduced to near-rubble—and the very future of humankind is in dire jeopardy.Interplanetary leaders are on the brink of abandoning Earth and its...
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