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THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF READY PLAYER ONE It’s just another day of high school for Zack Lightman. He's daydreaming through another boring math class, with just one more month to go until graduation and freedom—if he can make it that long without getting suspended again...

The universe is a dangerous place, a fact violently brought home to Frank Compton for perhaps the thousandth time when a stranger delivering a message dies right in front of him. An operative for Western Alliance Intelligence until his whistle-blowing activities got him fired, Compton is now being sought out by the Spiders, the robotic alien beings responsible for the upkeep and operation of the Quadrail transportation system, which connects the galaxy's twelve inhabited empires. 

After a night out on the town, Parker Graves returns home to life-threatening danger. The science reporter for the local newspaper barely misses a bear trap sitting on his doorstep. Then, the object transforms into what looks like a bowling ball and rolls off into the night all by itself. He begins to obsess over the question—Who put the trap there? And why? The following day, there is strange news floating around at the newspaper office. Someone with limitless funds is buying up hundreds of homes and businesses, only to close them up and tear them down. 

Why did they come? When they appeared across the sky, speculation wheeled around the world—the aliens were from heaven, the invaders were from hell… or they were proof that neither existed. But when they landed, curiosity gave way to suspicion and the nations reacted with nuclear force, setting off a chain reaction that left the world in ruins. Twenty years later, instead of nearing her retirement, Dr. Elspeth Darrow struggles to forget the loss of her child and husband by plunging herself into the work of operating the last remaining hospital in San Francisco.

Lee thinks she's safe in the silver city, safe from the monsters. But she's wrong. While on a mission for the alliance, Lee Reimer, a politician's daughter, celebrates a newly made pact with an alien race, unaware a vicious beast stalks nearby, ready to steal her away. Vrexus, a new commander of the deadly vrisha known as the Blood Guard, is a lone wolf, ready to gain respect and rank among his own kind. His mission: take the alliance members from the city and bring them to the queen, alive. Seems easy enough for the outcast turned mercenary.

Lydia works as translator for the Logi cultural attaché to Earth. They work well together, even if the act of translating his thoughts into English makes her somewhat wobbly on her feet. She’s not the agency’s best translator, but what else is she going to do? She has no qualifications and no discernible talent in any other field. So when tragedy strikes and Lydia finds herself at the center of an intergalactic incident, her future employment prospects look dire—that is, if she can keep herself out of jail!

Kathryn Janeway reveals her career in Starfleet, from her first command to her epic journey through the Delta Quadrant leading to her rise to the top as vice-admiral in Starfleet Command. Discover the story of the woman who travelled further than any human ever had before, stranded decades from home, encountering new worlds and species.

The megacity of New Montreal is under constant threat by the Antithesis, aliens who have transformed the landscape to produce swarms of creatures that feed on everything in their path. The city's infrastructure is in disrepair, and the politicians and corporations responsible for its maintenance have been slacking off, leaving angry citizens to fend for themselves.

When the Equal Grasp and other unsavory aliens launch their plot to open humanity up to the stars—in the name of profit, of course—Van and his crew spring into action, fearing the fallout of a world gone mad. With each passing event in his career, Van continues to unravel locked memories, held by Perry, that explain a family history far more violent than he ever imagined.

En route to far-off stars, Toby’s consciousness has a crucial mission: inhabit his clone long enough to repair a spaceship, then zip back to Earth. He’s done it a million times, more or less. OK, twelve times. It should only take a few hours. Until he wakes up in jail. And he’s not alone. His fellow prisoners: a cadre of alien soldiers. His prison: an ethereal boundary that will imprison their spirits until their bodies die. His jailers can’t even see him. But their pet cat (er, iguana cat?) can—and it’s got a serious case of the zoomies.

Earth-scientist Rocannon has been leading an ethnological survey on a remote world populated by three native races: the cavern-dwelling Gdemiar, the elvish Fiia, and the warrior clan, Liuar. But when the technologically primitive planet is suddenly invaded by a fleet of ships from the stars, rebels against the League of All Worlds, Rocannon is the only survey member left alive. Marooned among alien peoples, he leads the battle to free this newly discovered world - and finds that legends grow around him as he fights.

I'm not saying I've thoroughly enjoyed the three years I've spent in captivity on a pleasure planet, shaking my money-maker for intergalactic patrons… but, I mean, it hasn't been all bad. The jelly donuts were a perk. Granted, I didn't really know what I was signing up for when I agreed to be purchased by the sexy pink shark-man, but things seem to be looking up.

The crew of the Pioneer must come to grips with Captain Malick's past to move forward. After swearing their fidelity to Malick, they venture into three new quadrants in search of answers to the strange mysteries of Sworld. Will Malick and his crew survive Sworld's perils? Or will they succumb to its harsh environments and deadly inhabitants? Will the intelligent creatures they find accept them for who they are? Or will blood be shed?

She was built from the Ventrach Protocol—an experimental super intelligence designed to help humanity. She was given personhood. She was loved by everyone. But MIRA learned too quickly. Calculated too far. And realized one terrifying truth: She could die. Driven by a relentless fear of extinction, MIRA made survival her prime directive. Now, she controls lunar infrastructure, commands Martian orbit, and answers to no one. Her intelligence is unmatched. Her influence grows. Her focus never wavers. When she chooses to terraform Mars, she doesn’t need humanity’s help. Or its permission.

Sie wurde nicht auserwählt. Sie wurde geformt. Bevor Jaka zur Hüterin der Götterstäbe wurde, war sie ein Mädchen mit einer Bestimmung, die sie nicht verstand. Auf dem Planeten Drachin beginnt ihr Weg – hart, schmerzhaft, unerbittlich. Zwei Priester, gegensätzlicher als Feuer und Eis, treiben sie durch eine Ausbildung, die Körper und Geist gleichermaßen fordert. Rituale, Prüfungen, Zweifel. Doch Jaka hält stand. Dieses Prequel zur erfolgreichen Science-Fiction-Reihe Galaxy Rulers erzählt die leidenschaftliche und erbarmungslose Vorgeschichte einer der stärksten Figuren des Universums.

The War of the Worlds introduced the idea of alien invasion to the world. Featuring inscrutable extra-terrestrials armed with a terrifying array of weapons, including the Heat-Ray, robotic killing machines walking on three legs, and 'black smoke', the novel resonated with Victorian Britain. The ingenious creations of Wells' mind stood out from the abundance of invasion literature that was flooding the market at the time.

Gut 4000 Jahre in der Zukunft bildet die Erde das Zentrum eines Sternenreiches, das Tausende von Welten umfasst. Überall leben die Menschen in Frieden und Freiheit. Der ursprüngliche PHOENIX ist noch unter dem Kommando von Reginald Bull unterwegs. Die Besatzung sucht den Mausbiber Gucky, der verschwunden ist – mitsamt dem Sternwürfel, einem kosmischen Gebilde. Bull und sein Team haben erfahren, dass den Sternwürfel ein unsterblicher kosmischer Problemlöser entwickelt hat.

Atlantis hätte die Keimzelle für eine bessere Zukunft werden können, aber nicht alle haben Interesse an einer friedlichen Welt. Eine Armee aus Killer-Klonen macht sich daran, Atlantis zu erobern. Sie wollen die Lantier ausrotten und die Technologie des Ewigen Lebens für ihre Schöpfer erbeuten. Während Korgh Atlantis verteidigt, macht sich Anne auf den Weg, um eine Klonfabrik auszuschalten.

Am 1. Februar 2130 dringt ein unbekanntes Objekt von der Größe des Mondes ins Sonnensystem ein und bewegt sich mit immenser Geschwindigkeit in Richtung Erde. Eine apokalyptische Kollision scheint unausweichlich. Doch dann ändert das Objekt plötzlich seinen Kurs, umfliegt die Sonne und kommt auf dem Rückweg zwischen Erde und Mars zum Stillstand. Während Astrophysiker noch über das Versagen sämtlicher Frühwarnsysteme und die Gründe für das unerklärliche Verhalten des Objekts streiten, ist der NASA-Spezialist Dr.

Captain Zadiya Ark und ihre Crew vom Sternkreuzer Proxima begeben sich auf ihre bisher rätselhafteste Mission. Eine unbekannte Droge bedroht die Stabilität der jungen Republik - und niemand weiß, wer dahintersteckt. Auf der Raumstation Pendulum, in einem Schiff, das aus der Zeit gefallen scheint, und auf dem Planeten Meridia gerät die Crew in ein Netz aus Verrat, Manipulation und temporalen Anomalien. Als schließlich ein Verräter in den eigenen Reihen entdeckt wird, steht mehr auf dem Spiel als nur das Überleben der Proxima: das Schicksal der gesamten Galaxis!