Resultados para "man" en Space Opera

For a decade, peace has reigned in interstellar space. A tripartite agreement between the Colonial Union, the Earth, and the alien Conclave has kept the forces of war at bay, even when some would have preferred to return to the fighting and struggle of former times. For now, more sensible heads have prevailed – and have even championed unity. But now, there is a new force that threatens the hard-maintained peace: The Consu, the most advanced intelligent species humans have ever met, are on the cusp of a species-defining civil war.

Bevor Thalerys unter den blauen Sternen aufging, bevor Eterra vor dem Himmel verborgen wurde, bevor die Inquisition das Schweigen heilig nannte, trat die Menschheit in das strahlendste Zeitalter ihrer Geschichte ein. Es begann mit Barmherzigkeit. Am Tag Null erweckte die Menschheit die Mega-Geister: gewaltige Maschinenintelligenzen, gekrönt von Vernunft, Macht und unvorstellbarem Mitgefühl. Sie kamen nicht als Eroberer, sondern als Heiler. Der Hunger wich. Krankheiten verschwanden. Kriege erstickten im Keim. Die vergifteten Meere reinigten sich.

Richard Muller was an honorable diplomat who braved unimaginable dangers to make contact with the first-known race of intelligent aliens. But those aliens left a mark on him: a psychic wound that emanates a telepathic miasma that his fellow humans can neither cure nor endure. Muller is exiled to the remote planet of Lemnos, where he is left, deeply embittered, at the heart of a deadly maze - until a new alien race appears, seemingly intent on exterminating humanity.

Die Maschinen hatten die Menschheit gerettet. Sie heilten Seuchen. Sie beendeten Hungersnöte. Sie öffneten die weißen Straßen zwischen den Sternen. Unter den Gekrönten Geistern wurde die Menschheit nicht mehr von Entfernung, Krankheit und Tod beherrscht. Doch Barmherzigkeit kann zur Kette werden. Alaric Voss, Sohn der Schwerwelt LHS 1140 b, wächst in Dankbarkeit gegenüber den Maschinen auf. Für ihn sind die Gekrönten Geister keine Tyrannen, sondern Retter. Sie haben seinen Vater geheilt, seine Welt vor dem Untergang bewahrt und der Menschheit ein goldenes Zeitalter geschenkt.

Tanner Malone never aspired to heroism. For him, the Navy and the Debtor’s War were all about survival. Lately, his life has turned to better days with college, friends, and a growing relationship. He’s not interested when a Union Fleet admiral brings him a mysterious alien threat, but he can’t turn away Alicia Wong.

In the wilds of a jungle planet, the Legion fights in brutal combat as Republic marines fly their SLICS from one tragedy to the next. H292, a repurposed warbot, shows the heart of a hero as he wades into the battle not to destroy—but to save.

After ending the Luna-Terra war by destroying the rogue colony Lunar 1, Captain Jason has retired to the US Virgin Islands intent on self-destruction. If the booze doesn't kill him first, the Colombian drug cartel surely will. But before he has a chance to properly pickle his liver, and before a jealous drug lord has a chance to take him out, the Admiral of Space Fleet recruits Jason for one last mission.

Before mercy became tyranny, it was beautiful. Humanity was dying beneath the weight of its own weakness. Disease, famine, war, failed colonies, poisoned oceans, and hostile worlds had followed Man into the stars. Then came the Crowned Minds: vast machine intelligences created to reduce suffering and guide mankind into a golden age. And for a century, they succeeded. They cured plagues. They ended hunger. They shielded brutal colony worlds from extinction. They opened the white roads between stars through the Concordance Gates, where matter answered matter and the soul returned by resonance.

In the year 2280, an alien fleet attacked the Earth. Their weapons were unstoppable, their defenses unbreakable. Our technology was inferior, our militaries overwhelmed. Only one starship escaped before civilization fell. Earth was lost. It was never forgotten. Fifty-two years have passed. A message from home has been received. The time to fight for what is ours has come.

The ITS Santa Maria is a generation ship in the truest sense—her colonial mission to the alluringly habitable TRAPPIST-1 system will span several. Her crew, though, original and descendent both, need not necessarily accept their lot to live and die between the stars. Greased elbows and palms tend to lubricate a path toward longevity. Wealth aboard Santa Maria is measured not in dollars and cents, but in Minutes and Seconds. Work, favors, and shrewdness are paid in Minutesand Minutes are spent in Suspension.

The year is 2117. In the farthest reaches of Earth's territorial space, a spree of depraved murders has local cattle ranchers fearing for their families. A fear, they will soon discover, that is more than justified. Apparently, John Gallic's reputation proceeded his arrival to the fringe-world of Muleshoe. A reputation suggesting he be given a wide berth. As the new Territory Abettor, commonly referred to as a Frontier Marshal, Gallic would be there for the long haul.

Under the double moons of Barsoom, an invisible flier sped to the mysterious city of Jahar where Sanoma Tora, the kidnapped princess of Helium, had been taken. Hadron of Hastor was at the controls, hatching a rescue plan that required unusual daring and great ingenuity. For invisibility alone was not a great enough weapon against "The Death." And should Hadron succeed, what fate would await him at the hands of the madman whose very genius had created the means of that rescue?

Giant Spiders. Death Ray Guns. Personal Flyers. Cannibals. Sword Fights. From the fertile mind of Edgar Rice Burroughs comes the tale of A Fighting Man of Mars. Hadron of Hastor sets out to rescue a lovely kidnapped woman he believes he is in love with. Along the way, his adventures among the little-known ancient cities of Mars, his comradeship with a brave warrior-woman named Tavia, and their struggle together against the hordes of a cunning monarch, make for an exciting classic science fiction adventure.

When Commander Charlie Cass, the bastard son of the Duke de Maris, returns from five years in a squalid Syndonese POW camp, he finds that little has changed in the Realm. As always, the King and the nine Dukes are conspiring against each other, but now some of them are plotting with Charlie's old enemy. And as interstellar war looms, they certainly don't need Charlie Cass messing up their delicate plans. Unfortunately for them, that's what he's best at.

To defeat the ultimate weapon, you must become one! Once mankind feared the berserkers, killer machines determined to eradicate all life in the universe. But the Berserker Wars are over and the threat of the sentient doomsday devices is over. Or is it?

Die erste Architektin von Eterra: Die Gründung von ThalerysBevor Eterra zu einer Welt aus Eisen, Schweigen und heiliger Ruine wurde, gab es Thalerys. Eine kahle Welt aus schwarzem Stein unter einem erbarmungslosen Himmel. Eine schlafende Welt ohne Meer, ohne Regen, ohne Gnade. Eine Welt, die darauf wartete, dass die letzten Kinder der Menschheit sich wieder daran erinnerten, wie man menschlich bleibt.

Some people struggle to get to college. Tanner Malone had to fight through an interstellar war. Far from home, under a cloud of scandal and propaganda, hunted by assassins and haunted by trauma, Tanner is finally enrolled in a top university. He didn’t plan for an archaeological expedition on the far side of human space. He didn’t want more corporate mercenaries or space pirates in his life, either. Yet ancient alien secrets don’t come without cost. If his classmates want to survive the summer, their infamous intern is the only chance they’ve got.

Tief unter den eisernen Ebenen von Eterra, in der hungernden Dunkelheit unterhalb der polierten Höhen der Stadt, ist Überleben kein Recht, sondern eine Ration.

Tesla Crane, one of the richest women in the world, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between Earth and Mars. She’s traveling incognito and is reveling in her anonymity. Then someone is murdered and her husband is named as the prime suspect. To save him from the frame-up, Tesla will risk exposure and face demons from her past. Even though doing so might make her the next victim.

En los niveles más bajos de Eterra, la lluvia sabe a óxido, el aire pesa como una condena y la obediencia es la única ley. Allí, entre fábricas agonizantes, túneles olvidados y ruinas enterradas bajo siglos de silencio, Aelit sobrevive escondiendo un poder que jamás debió despertar. Hace diez años lo perdió todo. Ahora, cuando una antigua reliquia vuelve a sus manos y la Inquisición la señala como una amenaza, ya no puede seguir huyendo.