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Mars has been colonised and the long process of terraforming is underway. The regular supply spacecraft from Earth is overdue, and life on the red planet is becoming harder. When a mysterious alien artefact is discovered by Kevin Maddock, he and his sister Simone accidentally activate it. What is the artefact's purpose and can it help the fledgling Martian colony?

The Meteor Shooters Association has protected deep space colonies from the destruction of meteor showers for over 80 years. For the members, it’s a competition to see who the best shooter is. Van Wilcox was behind schedule and struggled to charter a private spacecraft to take him on the final stretch. Thankfully, he found an unorthodox pilot willing to go against protocol, because they needed all shooters armed and on the firing line for this storm.

Hundert Jahre ist es jetzt her, dass Bender sich auf den Weg zu den Sternen gemacht hat. Seither haben Bob und die Klone nichts mehr von ihm gehört. Bob ist fest entschlossen, eine Expedition in den Deep Space zu organisieren, um herauszufinden, was mit Bender geschehen ist, doch er hat ein gewaltiges Problem: Inzwischen sind seine Klone in der 24. Generation. Manche von ihnen haben sich so verändert, dass sie gar nicht mehr er selbst zu sein scheinen. Sie haben ihre eigenen Pläne. Und so droht über Bobs Suchaktion ein Bürgerkrieg zwischen den Klonen auszubrechen.

A planet in the endless emptiness of space, far from the warmth of any sun. And yet there are people who populate its vast caverns, living, working and loving. Since time immemorial, they have been on course for Andromeda, the neighboring galaxy of the Milky Way. This is the prophecy of the ancients, the one goal that unites them all, their cult. But then the unthinkable happens: the journey stops because the planet enters the orbit of a mysterious object that can't be seen in any telescope.

After two years of pensive peace, an investigation points to the use of a Galio super-weapon as the culprit. The Jarog, Valdivia assists mankind's march into unknown space. With the galaxy's most powerful empire nipping at Earth's borders, First Lieutenant Warder must put every ounce of his skill and luck into stopping the imminent onslaught of his people in the most dangerous mission he's been given yet.

Ein Artefakt am falschen Ort. Zwei Menschen in der falschen Zeit. Opfer in einem falschen Spiel. Max und Liz sind dem rätselhaften Zeitphänomen entkommen. Die Mars-Kolonie verspricht ihnen ein ganz neues, spannendes Leben. Aber sie haben jemanden zurückgelassen, der ihnen wichtig ist. Sollen sie eine Reise antreten, von der noch nie jemand zurückgekommen ist? Und warum scheint ihnen schon beim Versuch jeder Steine in den Weg zu legen?

Astrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit, searching for somewhere to hide. They meet on Deep Wheel Orcadia, a distant space station struggling for survival as the pace of change threatens to leave the community behind.

The diplomatic mission has arrived at Viktorkinde. Palmutter is getting more unstable and unreliable each day. On Sarkovie, Anders Eindride learns that the people responsible for the tragedy on Novalis III are planning something big, a real game changer. He's unable to warn his Commonwealth contacts before being put on a ship back to Viktorkinde, where the factions among the Kelk are splintering.

The greatest scientific challenge of our age wasn't to enable time travel, it was to prevent it. The laws of physics had turned out to be idiotic, erecting no barriers to hopping time. In fact, they make it hard to avoid. I'm in the business of preserving the timeline - making sure the world sticks to the sacred rule of One Second per Second, and that history unfolds according to plan. The problem is, there is no plan until I make it.

The UN warship Magellan is twelve light-years from Earth, exploring a cold eye, a tidally locked super-Earth called Bee. At least two advanced intelligent species evolved on the planet, but the crew's attempts at radio communication result in garbled replies. No one is waiting for them in orbit. The crew has to figure out why. Any misunderstandings could lead to war.

Where life as we know it is impossible, the real adventure begins. Venus is a hostile planet, covered by active volcanoes, but NASA launches an expedition to search for life there anyway. Their specially developed airship cruises in the clouds of Venus to serve as a research platform for its four astronauts. When they discover dangerous activities on the glowing-hot surface, there can only be one explanation: A highly sophisticated life form must be at work.

2058. Elisabeth ist Professorin für Mathematik. Vieldimensionale Formen haben es ihr angetan, die in der Wirklichkeit keine Entsprechung haben. Doch dann schickt ihr Chef sie zum Fundort eines realen Artefakts, das ihren Theorien entsprungen sein könnte - oder der Technologie einer außerirdischen Zivilisation. 30 Jahre zuvor. Physiker Max will nichts geringeres, als Einstein zu verbessern. Seine neueste Theorie scheint fehlerfrei - allerdings sagt sie das Ende der Menschheit voraus. Verhindern ließe sich die Auslöschung der Erde nur, wenn Max ein vieldimensionales Objekt fände.

Jeff Dolan always wanted to be an astronaut. After helping a private space company build a ship that can travel to Saturn's largest moon in five months, he gets his chance. Shortly after launch, a devastating malfunction forces Jeff and the crew to make a choice: continue to Titan or go back home. As the truth about their mission unravels, one thing is clear: Someone on Earth knew about the system flaw and covered it up. Yet surviving the journey isn't the crew's only concern. Even if they make it to Titan, they will face another problem: Something is already there.

In this sixth chilling novel in the pseudoverse, Detective Lori Lynn Gutierrez, and former journalist Amanda Sese, both poisoned in Onyx and "recruited" by the NIB, have their work cut out for them as they are pulled into the biggest gun battle the nation has ever witnessed. An America divided is on the verge of a New Civil War over weapons that never need reloading while pushing the second amendment to its limit.

The crew of the DSM Boone are still reeling from being the target of a saboteur and the loss of a friend, but Captain Greg Daniels pushes them back out to lasso another asteroid. Will this break their spirit and cause a mutiny? Computer specialist Zayna Watson doesn’t know who she can trust. Her world is being thrown into a roller-coaster ride of adventure, betrayal, and self-discovery.

Earth’s entire fleet and all her legions are conscripted by the Galactics. Centurion McGill of Legion Varus is among countless troops pressed into service as cannon fodder for the Empire. Not everyone on Earth is happy with the demands of the Galactics. Earth has built up her military for decades, and now she might lose everything in a foreign war no one understands. As the man who has killed more Mogwa than any other human in history, McGill is approached and given a mission. He has a fateful decision to make.

Professor Alice Sutton, a self-taught physicist, grew up in the Appalachian Mountains of southern Ohio. While still in her teens, she stunned the scientific world with her discovery of a fifth force of nature, with profound implications for cosmology. She became a full professor at MIT in her early 20s. But, her hillbilly ways and beliefs stayed with her, guiding her through mind-bending adventures in scientific discovery. This hard science fiction novel pulls no punches in describing the physics behind Dr. Alice’s work.

Something strange is happening on Mars. And it’s his job to find out. In the near future, a new space race begins. Private industry is now pushing the limits of human exploration and colonization. NASA has changed its mandate into a regulatory agency that oversees all US-based interests involved in interplanetary expansion. Stilicho Jones always has his hands full working as a corporate fixer for eccentric trillionaire Errol Flux and his numerous cutting edge space projects.

After John and Nikaela are rescued from the rogue warship Sycorax, Katrine Primatov has only a lone hunter-killer to back her in the remote Sarkovie system, and she is faced with a Kelk force of overwhelming firepower superiority. The Kelk decide to take John and Nikaela back to Viktorkinde, whether Katrine likes it or not, and everyone is pretending they're not prisoners. But the Kelk are quietly at war among themselves, fighting their own battle against superstition and irrationality. John and Katrine begin to learn the roots of the Kelk hatred of the Blacksword.

Danny Ortega was a failure. He couldn't tolerate the implant to be a starship captain. But Danny Ortega has run his deep-space research vessel Ghost alone for years, flaky AI and all, mapping the most unstable and unexplored regions of the Rift for the Cartographers Guild. When his latest mission lands in a mass graveyard of ships, including some ships out of legend, lost for hundreds of years, the guild isn't happy with him. He picks up a misfit crew out of the asteroids, and the games begin!