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What if you received a video showing exactly what happened to Amelia Earhart? And then similar videos of the Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Tulsa Race Massacre? What would you do if historians and experts verified every detail, and none of the videos showed traces of CGI? If you’re Rich Penton, lead reporter at the investigative news show, RECON, you’d try to figure out who made the videos, who sent them to you and what you’re supposed to do about them. The only thing you’d know for sure is that the existence of the videos is absolutely impossible.

Grimm Intentions is the follow-on volumes to the Reaper Series. Jane, narrating in first person who delivers a riveting confessional that bridges fact and fiction in a tale of shadowy conspiracies and unrelenting duty. Chronicling her transformation from a covert operative in the Grimm Reapers-a...

Leo and Sarah's world has crumbled around them, but at least they have each other...for the moment. To save Sarah's youngest brother's life, they take to the road to find a doctor they know little about. Neither of them have ever ventured outside the city before, and have no idea what dangers...

This coming of age tale follows Leisha Camden. She is the first person genetically altered before birth so that she does not need to sleep. Her rich industrialist father pays for the procedure so that his daughter will have a competitive edge over others. It's soon discovered that Leisha's mother is also carrying a "normal" child. As Leisha grows older she finds others who've had the non-sleep genetic alteration.

Lost Town is being rebuilt in the wake of tragedy. With no connection to Earth for three months, Caesar has the chance to regroup and determine the threat level from Lithos. John can't shake the sensation that the worst is yet to come, and it's confirmed when Anders and Haley leave to investigate a potential second alien tower on Arcadia. While Harrison takes a step back, Amelia must keep the peace between the rogue agents who are putting their mission in danger. Meanwhile, on Earth, Summer is contacted by a mysterious stranger who predicts a looming invasion.

When a group of men crash on the surface of an alien planet, they are hemmed in on every side by a deadly, impenetrable bog and attacked by an unknown, unseen enemy.

When a multinational games company recruit Tom, a smart, streetwise Dublin teenager, to get a team together and come to San Francisco to immerse themselves in a massive fantasy world, he thinks it is the job of his dreams. His challenge is to level up fast so as to eliminate an AI dragon that has gone rogue and is preventing the release of the game. As Tom comes closer to that goal, he starts to realize that the game is not what it seems, not least because a powerful crypto-currency company seem to have funded the creation of the game for their own purposes.

Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko...Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman.

In the near future, the nano-drug Nexus can link mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are some who want to eradicate it. And there are others who just want to exploit it. When a young scientist is caught improving Nexus, he’s thrust over his head into a world of danger and international espionage, with far more at stake than anyone realizes.

The strategists of Leviathan are cunning and devious. They also fear Captain Maddox because of his unusual luck, his ability to turn sure odds into a disaster for them. Before Leviathan begins its invasion of the Commonwealth, they want Maddox neutralized. Thus, using elaborate deception, the strategists convince Star Watch that ancient doomsday weapons lie in the Aquila Rift. It’s a region of space 700 light years from Earth. Thick molecular clouds and dense gases hide its stars and planets.

Despite political foes, professional jealousies, and the scandal which drove her into exile, Capt. Honor Harrington has been offered a chance to reclaim her career as an officer of the Royal Manticoran Navy. But there's a catch. She must assume command of a "squadron" of jury-rigged armed merchantmen with crew drawn from the dregs of her service and somehow stop the pirates who have taken advantage of the Havenite War to plunder the Star Kingdom's commerce.

Ein spannender Near-Future-Space-Thriller von Hard-SF-Autor Phillip P. Peterson. Ein Flug zum Mond – dank milliardenschwerer Investitionen der Firma FrontierTech ist das nun auch für Privatpersonen machbar. Die Lehrerin Luna Patel ist eine der ersten begeisterten Mond-Touristinnen. Das Ziel ihrer Landefähre ist eine kleine Station im Tal Taurus-Litrow. Doch als es zu einer Triebwerk-Fehlfunktion mit anschließender Bruchlandung kommt, verwandelt sich der Traum in einen Alptraum.

Read by Sophie Aldred (Doctor Who). ‘Thrilling, terrifying and fascinating’ Tim Peake, British ESA astronaut They looked into darkness. The darkness looked back . . . An utterly gripping story of survival and first contact on a hostile planet from Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Arthur C...

Die Crew des Raumschiffs "Majestätische Dracht" erreicht ein Sternsystem, dessen einziger Planet von seiner Sonne mit tödlicher Strahlung bombardiert wird. Ausgerechnet hier passiert etwas, das nie passieren sollte – und die Crew sieht ihre einzige Rettung darin, auf dem geheimnisvollen Planeten zu landen, der den lebensfeindlichen Stern umkreist.

Charlie7 has his secrets. Every robot knows that history has a dark period where he was the only one alive, with no one to corroborate his story. That was before an old adversary, long believed dead, emerges from hiding to expose Charlie7 as a fraud.

The record-breaking debut novel that won every major science fiction award in 2014, Ancillary Justice is the story of a warship trapped in a human body and her search for revenge. Ann Leckie is the first author to win the Arthur C. Clarke, the Nebula and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in the same...

"Such realistic brilliance you can see a whole civilisation in it" - The Times "Simply amazing science fiction that will have me grabbing book two" - Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars "one of the best scifi concepts out there" - Amazon Reviewer, 5 stars Stephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel...

Fifty years after the events of ALTERED CARBON, Takeshi Kovacs is serving as a mercenary in the Procterate-sponsored war to put down Joshuah Kemp's revolution on the planet Sanction IV. He is offered the chance to join a covert team chasing a prize whose value is limitless - and whose dangers...

Der 5. März 2092 ist kein guter Tag. Major Jarle Dennoy, Geologe für die ESA, ist mit seiner hochschwangeren Frau auf dem Weg in die Klinik. Sie schafft es nicht. Während er seine Tochter in den Armen hält, erfährt er, dass Chiron, ein 228 Kilometer großer Komet, die Erde in sieben Jahren zerstören wird. Juni 2099. Zucchero lebt auf den Straßen Roms. Die Welt geht vor die Hunde. In wenigen Stunden ist es soweit, für sie ein Tag wie jeder andere. Sie wird Zeuge, wie bestens ausgerüstete Attentäter eine gepanzerte Limousine angreifen.

"Narrators Daniel Thomas May and Caitlin Davies breathe life into the large cast of Burke's debut science fiction...both excel at utilizing accents, inflections, and personality traits to quickly build characterizations. The unusual cadence and inflections used for the aliens work to captivating...