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Cities all around the world reported strange alien vessels descending. Some saw them as the heralds of a new age; others fired everything they had at them. All were taken as the beams lashed down and drew them into the sky. Dean was left behind, seemingly the last man on Earth. A trail of clues left by his dead wife guides Dean on a perilous journey across America and beyond to learn the truth behind the mysterious ships and save humanity from its doom.

Racconto vincitore del “Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire” 2003. Un portale TransUniverso gestito da un’intelligenza artificiale rappresenta l’ultima difesa contro l’invasione di Alusia da parte dell’agguerrito popolo degli arkosiani. Il destino del pianeta è legato alla capacità del governatore Josef Rekl di negoziare le condizioni di un’ardua convivenza con la misteriosa diplomatica arkosiana.

Alien visitors devastate a remote farm in Lovecraft’s first and best venture into science fiction.

Humanity is on the brink of annihilation. Only one man can turn the tide. For centuries, we explored the stars and settled new worlds. But a mysterious alien threat emerged, launching devastating attacks and seizing entire star systems. Every fifty years they come, silent and relentless, before disappearing again into the dark. And as they close in on humanity’s home worlds, one more defeat could mean total extinction.

Ezra Barker is a traitor. When the Merg invaded Earth, he didn’t fight or even hide. He cooperated, helping them as they seized control of the planet and began their pillaging of its resources. While others toil away in mines and quarries, Ezra works an office job, helping his boss, The Senator, rule over the swath of territory given to her by the Merg. Sergeant Hayes is a brutal enforcer of the Merg’s rules. As an officer in the Health and Safety Department, he follows Merg orders, arresting, interrogating, and executing at their command.

Cenes é um planeta que desperta para a revolução industrial quando a espaçonave Harim, vinda do distante planeta Climar, aterrissa em uma de suas cidades. Os climarianos passaram a conviver com os cenenses, influenciando-os com sua tecnologia e cultura. Duas décadas depois, os invasores desapareceram de Cenes tão misteriosamente quanto chegaram. A nave Harim, contudo, ficou suspensa sobre a cidade de Azúlea, e há quarenta anos ela emite raios que causam uma terrível doença entre os cidadãos abaixo dela.

The crime of the century begins without a hitch. On July 5th, 2070, as it's about to be launched, the starship Alabama is hijacked - by her captain and crew. In defiance of the repressive government of The United Republic of Earth, they replace her handpicked passengers with political dissidents and their families. These become Earth's first pioneers in the exploration of space...

The two-time Hugo Award-winner expands the universe of his Coyote saga. The danui, a reclusive arachnid species considered the galaxy's finest engineers, have avoided contact with the Coyote Federation. Until, that is, the danui initiate trade negotiations, offering only information: the coordinates for an unoccupied world suitable for human life - a massive sphere, composed of billions of hexagons.

Kurz nach der epischen Schlacht des Raumschiffs Enterprise gegen Shinzon nahmen viele langjährige Besatzungsmitglieder von Captain Jean-Luc Picard neue Posten und neue Herausforderungen an. Unter den vielen Veränderungen war auch William Rikers Beförderung zum Captain und sein neues Kommando, Rikers Hochzeit mit Counselor Deanna Troi und Dr. Beverly Crushers neue Karriere beim Medizinischen Korps der Sternenflotte. Doch die Geschichte, wie es dazu kam, wurde nie erzählt... BIS JETZT.

Kurz nach der epischen Schlacht des Raumschiffs Enterprise gegen Shinzon nahmen viele langjährige Besatzungsmitglieder von Captain Jean-Luc Picard neue Posten und neue Herausforderungen an. Unter den vielen Veränderungen war auch William Rikers Beförderung zum Captain und sein neues Kommando, Rikers Hochzeit mit Counselor Deanna Troi und Dr. Beverly Crushers neue Karriere beim Medizinischen Korps der Sternenflotte. Doch die Geschichte, wie es dazu kam, wurde nie erzählt … BIS JETZT. Es hatte eine Gnadenmission sein sollen.

Lynn Raven may be the boss master of WarMonger 2050 with her online persona of "Larry the Snake", but when the CEO of Tsunami Entertainment personally asks her, as a favor, to beta test a new augmented-reality game, she has to face her greatest fear: going outside and dealing with, ugh, people.

Before the end, there is often change, and change can be very painful. Declan and Stacia come face-to-face with the most powerful elemental of them all, one with the power to eliminate mankind before the Vorsook ever show up. It’s time to confront his destiny and decide what it means to be the most powerful witch of all time.

Nova ist ein einsamer Planet, seit ewigen Zeiten unterwegs zur Andromeda-Galaxie. Und doch ist er bewohnt – von Menschen, die nie etwas anderes kennengelernt haben als die Höhlen unter der Oberfläche, die sie vor dem Vakuum und der kosmischen Strahlung schützen. Eine überraschende Begegnung ändert alles. Der Planet bekommt Besucher, die ihre eigenen Pläne zu haben scheinen und dabei so fremdartig sind, dass Kommunikation aussichtslos erscheint.

2187. Earth is cold, dead and divided. The rich hide away while the rest will do anything to survive. Humanity have only one hope: crossing hostile alien territory to reach a habitable planet. Jinnifer Blue is on the run. An expert pilot, she apprehends criminals on behalf of the government and keeps her illegal genetic modifications a closely guarded secret. But when a particularly dangerous job goes south, Jinn is left stranded on a prison ship with one of the most ruthless criminals in the galaxy.

For generations, the human race has feared an encounter with an alien race so advanced their technology might as well be magic. And yet, no such alien race has been encountered. Until now. During the Virus War, human explorers discovered proof of alien technology that was beyond human understanding, technology so strange it was impossible even to guess at its function. Now, in the aftermath of the war, HMS Endeavour embarks on a mission to the core of the alien civilization. And discovers a mystery older than the human race itself.

Jinnifer Blue opens her eyes to find herself in a nightmare. Her plan to expose the horrific truth behind the government's secret Second Species programme has failed, and now she's being turned into a weapon by her worst enemy...her mother. At the other end of the galaxy Caspian Dax, ferocious space pirate and Jinn's sometime lover, is facing an even more terrifying fate. He's being forced to fight in the arena on Sittan, a pitiless, ruthless alien landscape where blood is the only prize that matters. They will use him, destroy him, change him.

Das Geheimnis zur Herrschaft über die Galaxie ist auf einem weit entfernten Planeten versteckt, und interplanetare Mächte würden alles tun, um es zu entschlüsseln. Der zweite Band, nach Zerbrochene Leere, der epischen Space Opera im Universum des beliebten Brettspiels Twilight Imperium. Bianca Xing hat ihr Leben auf einem Provinzplaneten damit verbracht, davon zu träumen, die Sterne zu bereisen.

Eine tapfere Raumschiffbesatzung wird in die Machenschaften interplanetarer Mächte hineingezogen, die um galaktische Vorherrschaft streiten. Ein grandioses Weltraumepos zu dem Strategie-Brettspiel "Twilight Imperium". Captain Felix Duval und die Crew der Temerarious sind gerade auf Patrouille in einem abgelegenen Kolonialsystem der Mentak-Koalition unterwegs, als ein Notruf von einem Mond, der unter Beschuss steht, der beschaulichen Ruhe ein Ende setzt. Sie retten einen Wissenschaftler namens Thales, der eine revolutionäre Technologie zur Erschaffung neuer Wurmlöcher entwickelt hat.

Aliena is a nice person who turns out to be an alien in a human host. She just has things to learn about the human form and society. When her body starts immune-rejecting the alien brain, and the brain has to be replaced by another alien brain, maintaining the semblance of marriage and family becomes a challenge for both Aliena and the man who loves her.

The war isn’t going well. In five years of heavy fighting, humanity and its alien allies have steadily been pushed back toward Earth, toward the very heart of humanity itself. The virus is steadily wearing the defences down, mounting campaign after campaign to infect and enslave every other alien race. The only hope rests with newer and better weapons, with technology that may turn the tide, but can the weapons and starships be deployed in time?