Resultados para "Rick" en Space Opera

In the depths of a mountain fortress, the fate of two warring Houses rests on the fragments of a powerful gem that destroy all who touch them. Domus Praesidium, a soaring citadel etched into the mountainside, stands as the final bastion of the Nexus House, home to the prescients who have guided...

We have met the enemy… and they are us. Peace between the kingdoms of Dravos is beginning to fracture. Border raids are escalating, allies are turning on one another, and Jack Schafer is about to discover an enemy that doesn't invade from outside, but works through the minds of those he trusts...

Cole Ransom, Captain of the ICA cruiser Mistral, is a man with a checkered past and a crew of misfits held together by loyalty and stolen parts. He's made a career bending the rules. And after being blamed for an incident that nearly restarted a galactic war, he's used to being the Fleet’s favorite scapegoat. But when a routine investigation leads Cole to stumble upon a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of the United Systems Senate, everything changes.

As a sci-fi author with a hit TV show, I have a few ideas about what alien invaders are supposed to look like. In my stories, they’re technologically advanced monsters, with tentacles, and no faces. Turns out I was right about the technology. And about how angry they’d be. But the way they look is more terrifying than even I could have imagined. They look exactly like us. Because they are us.

After years of wandering through the galactic wilderness, Cameron Alvarez is home. But home isn’t there anymore. While the Orion mission was gone, an alien virus brought the Commonwealth to its knees and killed billions. All that’s left is a provisional government on an isolated colony, and they need Cam’s help. The new Commonwealth is teetering on the edge of survival, and one push could send it over the brink. That push might be the movement known as the Confluence.

The mission couldn't be simpler. It sounds like an easy, straightforward operation to take care of some small-time raiders hijacking black-market weapons shipments in the Pirate Worlds. Former Recon Marine war hero Randall Munroe doesn't need to know why his Corporate bosses care about one group of criminals stealing from another, he just has to do the job. But when Munroe is ordered to lead his crack squad of mercenaries into a gang war on the harsh, ice-covered, barely habitable battleground that is Peboan, he discovers that things are never simple.

Jack Schafer followed his greatest enemy through a wormhole—and stranded himself on the wrong side of the galaxy. Lost on a brutal alien world of dinosaurs, rebels, and empires built on stolen god-tech, Jack is cut off from Earth, from his allies, and from the woman he loves. But survival is...

Former Recon Marine Randall Munroe has been working as a hired gun for the Corporate Council for years, doing the dirty work of its Director, Andre Damiani, because he's had no choice - and because Andre is his uncle. But when Damiani gets his hands on incredibly dangerous alien technology, it's time to fight back. Munroe has seen the lost wonders of the ancient alien race, the Predecessors, who vanished tens of thousands of years ago after terraforming hundreds of planets and setting up a system of wormhole jumpgates to allow us access to them.

For small-time street hustler Cam Alvarez, the choice is simple. He has no family, no friends, no place in the world...nothing to lose. When his latest con results in the death of a cartel hitman, Cam opts to join the Marines and leave Earth to fight a vicious alien enemy.

Für Colonel Marcus Hachette vom Flottengeheimdienst und die Besatzung der Orion bedeutet „nach Hause zu kommen“, das Tor zu finden, durch das die Uralten die halbe Galaxie bereist haben, und es zu benutzen, um zur Erde zurückzukehren. Für Sergeant Major Ellen Campbell, die Frau, die für Cam immer noch „Top“ ist, ist ihr Zuhause das Marine Corps. Für Vicky Sandoval ist ihr Zuhause der Ort, wo sie und Cam ein gemeinsames Leben aufbauen können – sei es zurück im Commonwealth oder genau hier in diesem seltsamen neuen Teil der Galaxie.

Jack Schafer saved Earth by accident. Saving his newly adopted home, Dravos, won't be any easier. Dravos has fallen into a new star system, sunlight blazing down on a civilization that's never known day or night. Its people are terrified. Its nobles are plotting. Its king wants answers Jack doesn't have. And the Archon Draven—the centuries-old tyrant Jack thought he'd disposed of—is recovering in the mountains, preparing for his next move. With rebellion spreading and old enemies becoming uneasy allies, Jack, Lisa, and Erik must hold a fragile kingdom together long enough to strike back.

Dr. Erik Manheim needed a warrior. A Navy SEAL. Someone who could help him confront the threat he uncovered in ancient ruins—evidence that a rogue planet brings devastation every time it passes Earth. Instead, he got Jack Schafer, a hungover bush pilot in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now, Jack is swept into a mission he was never meant to survive—one that stretches from the Alaskan wilderness to the stars beyond. Humanity's future hangs in the balance… and its best hope may be a reluctant pilot who wasn't supposed to be here at all.

Contains books three and four of the Acheron series: Hybrid and Exile. 

Contains books one and two of The Acheron series: The Acheron and The Prodigal. Sandi and Ash never set out to be heroes. She joined the Fleet to please her mother, the Admiral. He signed up to escape the grinding poverty of the Housing Blocks. And the unlikely friends envisioned boring, peacetime careers as shuttle pilots. The Tahni Imperium had other ideas.

Old flames, new rivals, and one droid who refuses to stop watching. Sam Kretcher finally meets someone worth losing his composure over — right as an old Academy buddy with an unfair amount of charm checks in and starts stealing her attention without even trying. Captain Vorn is doing her best impression of a woman who is absolutely not starstruck by a guest she's quietly adored since childhood.

Cam Alvarez ist in den fernsten Tiefen der Galaxie gestrandet … und der einzige Weg nach Hause führt mitten durch eine Horde außerirdischer Monster. Cam und die anderen Mitglieder der Task Force sind Zan Thint durch das Tor der Uralten zu einem anderen Spiralarm der Galaxie gefolgt. Dort sind sie gestrandet … es sei denn, sie finden ein weiteres Tor. Auf den Spuren der Uralten, die vor Jahrtausenden aus dem uns bekannten Teil der Galaxie geflohen sind, entdecken sie eine verlorene Zivilisation nach der anderen … aber werden sie auch die Uralten finden?

After thirty-three years of peace, the millennia-spanning House War reignites with brutal force. The galaxy trembles as the Corvad House, a dynasty once thought vanquished, emerges from the shadows with a vengeance. In a precarious alliance with the Colonial Council, the Corvad goal is the complete obliteration of the Nexus House, the guardians who have steered humanity through its darkest epochs.

Cam und Vicky verfolgen Zan-Thint bis zu seiner letzten Festung, einer leblosen Welt tief im Gebiet der Tahni. Wenn sie ihn nicht ausschalten können, bevor er eine uralte, außerirdische Waffe aktiviert, wird ein Schwarm biomechanischer Killermaschinen alles Leben im Commonwealth auslöschen. Aber die Vernichtung seiner Feinde ist nur die eine Hälfte von Zan-Thints Plan. Er unternimmt nichts, ohne einen Fluchtweg in der Hinterhand zu haben. Und dieser wird ihn–und Cam Alvarez–aus der Galaxie hinausführen.

The resort is fully booked. And somehow, one impulsive night together becomes something neither of them planned for. But the Eclipse Grand has secrets of its own. Strange apparitions haunt the corridors. Lights flicker. Guests whisper about ghosts. And when Strom and Lyra join forces with a group of amateur investigators—including two bickering exes and a pair of sandwich-obsessed sleuths—they uncover a mystery that's equal parts heartwarming and hilarious.

In the 31st century, humanity stands on the precipice of extinction. The human colonies throughout the galaxy have been decimated by the relentless assault of the Korilian Empire, leaving Earth as the final refuge. Humankind's last hope rests on the tactical prowess of Admiral Jon McCarthy and the foresight of the Nexus House, an ancient conclave of clairvoyants who have long guided humanity's path.