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In einer fernen Zukunft dreht sich die Erde nicht mehr. Einer Nacht von einem halben Jahr, folgt ein Tag von einem halben Jahr. Die Menschen haben sich in Stationen zurückgezogen, leben von Insekten und nutzen die kurze Zeit der Erwärmung, um spezielles Getreide und Gemüse anzubauen. In der Nacht muss Strom gespart werden, der tagsüber in die gigantischen Akkustationen gespeist wurde. Das Leben ist hart, aber man hat sich arrangiert und nur die Ältesten haben noch als kleines Kind eine andere...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
The Federation Navy wants her, but she has to decide if she wants the Federation Navy. Stephanie Morgana comes from a long line of Morganas, much longer than she ever realized. The Artificial Intelligence that runs the Virtual World has decided that it needs to break a few rules in order to follow its prime directives. Can it help Stephanie acquire her skills quickly enough to help defend against an evil already heading toward the Federation? Will Stephanie overcome her injuries from the battle...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Teil zwei des aufregenden, neuen Red-Rising-Abenteuers von Bestsellerautor Pierce Brown.Zehn Jahre lang verkörperte Darrow die Revolution gegen die farbenbasierte Weltengesellschaft. Nun ist er von der Republik, die er selbst gegründet hat, zum Gesetzlosen erklärt worden, und führt auf eigene Faust Krieg auf dem Merkur, um Eos Traum doch noch zu verwirklichen. Doch ist er, der überall Tod und Verwüstung hinterlässt, wirklich noch der Held, der einst die Ketten sprengte? Oder wird sich eine neue...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
"The interconnected works of Volodine—think Faulkner, but after an apocalypse—constitute the most exciting project in contemporary French literature."—Maria Clementi That is what we had called post-exoticism. It was a construction connected to revolutionary shamanism and literature. . . . It was an interior construction, a withdrawal, a secret welcoming land, but also something offensive that participated in the plot of certain unarmed individuals against the...
| Автор | Antoine Volodine |
Fälschlicherweise des Mordes am König beschuldigt, bleibt den Überlebenden der Söldnereinheit Skull nur die Flucht in die unbewohnten Weiten des Weltraums. Sie werden nun nicht allein vom Zirkel und dessen militärischem Arm gejagt, sondern auch von der Colonial Royal Navy, die den Tod ihres Monarchen unter allen Umständen rächen will. Die Hinweise verdichten sich, dass der Zirkel inzwischen die Kontrolle über die Regierung des Vereinigten Kolonialen Königreichs erlangt hat. Admiral Oscar...
| Автор | Stefan Burban |
South of the Ecliptic description:<br><br>South of the Ecliptic is a science fiction military adventure that tells the story of the resurgence and finally the reinstatement of the Mars Legion. <br><br>Having unwisely chosen the side of the Federation over the Imperium nine years before our story begins, the Legion is defeated in the final battle at Vincent's planet.<br><br>Brigadier General Jerrad Piehl, in command at the last battle, and who would not...
| Автор | Donald Ph.D. Ladew |
This is the first of the Alliance of Worlds Novels. The Phoenix Rising won 2010 Indie Excellence Award Finalist in Science Fiction <br><br>A huge battle is about to explode. Composed of 250 assorted civilizations, the Alliance of Worlds is an impressive conglomeration of space-faring races with extraordinary array of resources. However, the Alliance will soon face its biggest threat–one that might lead to their fall. As two evil forces attempt to eliminate them, a seasoned...
| Автор | Gary MDiv Caplan |
science fiction / inspirational<br><br>PW-1 is the incredible story of Ralph Diamond who lives with his wife Tina, on a 40-acre ranch in the mountains of central California. While enjoying a ride on his ATV, he spots a large translucent elliptical shaped object resting on his property. When fear turns to excitement and curiosity, he investigates and to his amazement finds himself inside a UFO with five alien beings who have been stranded on Earth for six days. Their ship has lost all...
| Автор | Spencer Scarcello |
William Fennimore is bored and depressed. He is a short man trapped in a tall world. While at a bus stop, waiting for his ride, he notices a perfectly written, copperplate script ad on the wall of the bus stop. It is surrounded by illiterate graffiti and stupid advertisements.<br><br>On a whim, he calls the number, makes an appointment and meets a beautiful girl who is taller, but then not. Miss Annie Brown, in a peculiar accent, says she works for a company called "For a...
| Автор | Donald Ph.D. Ladew |
2245 AD<br><br>It wasn't supposed to end this way.<br><br>Captain Jack Mallory of the United Earth Marine Corps is wasting away on a space station in the middle of nowhere, the furthest he and his recon squad could possibly be from the fighting on Alpha Centauri. Under investigation, all he and his three men can do is wait, until an admiral appears with new orders, and the recording of a garbled transmission.<br><br>"Echo-two,...
| Автор | Aaron Ph.D. Dov |
Can you be a selfish misanthrope and still a survivor in a brutally violent new world? <br><br>It is Britain in the year 2030. Zan is an unstable, arrogant and successful trader in the City of London, fighting to suppress painful memories. Tragedy strikes when not only his success comes to an end but his very life is threatened by a darkness let loose on the world, a darkness caused by those who abandoned him. Now he must rediscover himself and prove to others just what he's...
| Автор | Stuart Irving Irving |
What if the end of man is not caused by some cataclysmic event, but by the nature of humans themselves? In Age of Blight, a young scientist's harsh and unnecessary experiments on monkeys are recorded for posterity; children are replaced by their doppelgangers, which emerge like flowers in their backyards; and two men standing on opposing cliff faces bear witness to each other's terrifying ends.Age of Blight explores a kind of post-future, in which the human race is finally abandoned to...
| Автор | Kristine Ong Muslim |
Witches are being murdered in Austin, but how do you put the monster back in the vault? The three witches of Pressler Street are the city's only hope, but they are running out of time. A deadly creature has been locked away for millennia in plain sight. But big sister Laura accidentally set the creature free, and no one remembers how to put it back. They need to find the witch-killer and stop its path of destruction on Austin. But what spell to use? Can the sisters figure it out? Better...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Fake Fruit Factory is a stick-slapping, gut-punching comedic novel about the eccentric small town of Dyson, Ohio. When NASA determines an errant satellite will crash there, the town's young mayor uses the ensuing media circus to attract tourism and save his bankrupt rust belt community. Unless, of course, the satellite completely wipes it from the map.In Fake Fruit Factory, Wensink’s motley cast of characters are the heart of “America’s Boringest...
| Автор | Patrick Wensink |
How far would you go to avenge the one you love? Would you go beyond death?<P>Born into the stifling confines of French upper society, Babette Varanus never thought that she would have to answer that question. Surrounded by wealth yet ostracized by her peers, Babette had little interest in love until she met Korbinian, a scandalous German baron with the audacity to regard her as his equal. But when the intrigues of her grandfather's enemies conspire to tear them apart, Varanus will...
| Автор | G.D. Falksen |
Life moves fast in the Thirty-Second Century. Attention is the only currency; memory, a luxury most cannot afford.<br />When an aging anonymous secretist turns author and writes a controversial memoir, they incur the enmity of their former employer, the dread Ministry of Secrets, a shadowy cult that’s become a social institution and cornerstone of Thirty-Second society. The Ministry dispatches its agents, the so-called Brims & Trenches, psychopathic frenemies and past allies of the...
| Автор | T Van Santana |
The Eternal Emperor was dead, and the five members of the Privy Council ruled in his place. But they quickly discovered that their power would collapse around them if they didn't locate the Emperor's secret source of Anti-Matter Two, the economic keystone of the Empire. And so they sent a team of crack commandos to capture Sten, one of their late ruler's few surviving confidantes. But Sten, as usual, had his own agenda. For he knew something about the Eternal Emperor that would...
| Автор | Allan Cole |
The Eternal Emperor had returned at last from the dead, to pick up the pieces of his crumbling Empire. But even that great leader could not halt the Empire’s decline alone. And so Sten – master spy, military strategist, and assassin – found himself appointed Ambassador Plenipotentiary to the Altaic Cluster, where a brewing civil war threatened the stability of the Empire itself. Quelling a civil war is nothing new for Sten, but as the war intensifies, he begins to suspect that he is up against...
| Автор | Allan Cole |
The stories collected in Nine Bar Blues weave emotion, spirit, and music, captivating readers with newfound alchemy and the murmurs of dark gods. Rooted in rhythm, threaded with magic, these tales encompass worlds that begin in river bottoms, pass through spectral gates, and end in distant uncharted worlds. These stories describe the pain that often accompanies the confines of sanctuary and the joy that is inextricably bound to the troubles of hard living. Nine Bar Blues sings a multiverse of...
| Автор | Sheree Renée Thomas |
"The Scientists Revolt" qualifies as a publishing curiosity. A collaboration between author Edgar Rice Burroughs (famous for Tarzan and the Martian novels, among others) and Ray Palmer (editor of numerous pulp magazines), it is a slam-bang pulp action story set in the 23rd Century, where the struggle of the intelligentsia against the proletariat has played out to rather silly results. Complete with 1920s-style archetypes (including hardboiled Irish cops), sci-fi trappings like matter...
| Автор | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
„Cyberpunk. Odrodzenie” pozwala zanurzyć się w otchłani gigantycznego, rozświetlonego neonami miasta, w którym rządzą zbrodnia i nauka przyszłości. Okryte mgłą i spowite deszczem wieżowce, wąskie, zatłoczone uliczki, pulsujące neony i wielkoformatowe reklamy dają tło rzeczywistości, w której kwitną przestępczość, nielegalny handel bronią, danymi, a nawet ludzkim ciałem. To świat, w którym jednostka nic nie znaczy, a za los ogółu odpowiadają wielkie korporacje i gangi. To Zakazane...
| Автор | Andrzej Ziemiański |
What's a billionaire heiress supposed to do when the world seems hell-bent on stopping her from completing her mission? Chloe is on the cusp of finishing her quest, but forces inside and outside the game are colluding to stop her. What is it going to take? Now, Chloe must take to corners of the game never designed to be experienced by human players. By tearing open the fabric of Obsidian's AI, can she find the missing pieces of the armor and save Hammersworth and the entire mortal...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
This dark comedy explores the lost universes of disgraced idol Dylan Greenyears. Dylan had always wanted to live as many lives as he could—that was the appeal of being an actor. But at the end of a brief stint as a Hollywood heartthrob, Dylan loses the lead in [i]Titanic and exiles himself and his wife to a recently settled exoplanet called New Taiwan.At first, life beyond Earth seems uncannily un-wondrous. Dylan teaches at an American prep school, raises a family with his high school...
| Автор | M. Thomas Gammarino |
It is 2023 a.D. and we’re in one of the tranquil municipalities of the Po Valley. Two families make dinner plans, as they have done so many times before. However, a twist of fate will provide two long-time friends, Alex Brugellis and Angelica Benassi, with a close encounter of the first kind with a UFO. They’ll be taken away from their respective families and transported to a surreal place, catapulted into an adventure that goes beyond their wildest imagination. It is 2023 a.D. and we’re in one...
| Автор | A. J. Mitar |