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For centuries, the world of Safehold, last redoubt of the human race, lay under the unchallenged rule of the Church of God Awaiting. The Church permitted nothing new - no new inventions, no new understandings of the world.What no one knew was that the Church was an elaborate fraud - a high-tech system established by a rebel faction of Safehold’s founders, meant to keep humanity hidden from the powerful alien race that had destroyed old Earth.

Once the Church of God Awaiting dominated all the kingdoms of Safehold. Then, after centuries of stasis, the island kingdom of Charis began to defy the edicts of Mother Church—egged on, some say, by the mysterious warrior-monk Merlin Athrawes, who enjoys the Charisian royal family's absolute trust. What vanishingly few people know is that Merlin is the cybernetic avatar of a young woman a thousand years dead, felled in the war in which aliens destroyed Earth...and that since awakening, his task has been to restart the history of the long-hidden human race.

The Charisian Empire, born in war, has always known it must fight for its very survival. What most of its subjects don’t know even now, however, is how much more it’s fighting for. Emperor Cayleb, Empress Sharleyan, Merlin Athrawes, and their innermost circle of most trusted advisers do know. And because they do, they know the penalty if they lose will be far worse than their own deaths and the destruction of all they know and love.

Stephanie Harrington didn’t discover treecats—they were indigenous to the planet Sphinx, a colony of the tiny Star Kingdom of Manticore. But at age ten she was the first human to bond with one. Now, almost 17, she is the species greatest champion. To the rest of the human galaxy, if they are known at all, they are recognized as tool using, socially organized, fuzzy little creatures, with no known method of communication—who also happen to be fierce hunters. But are they sapient?

After an industrial ship carrying advanced self-replicating machines explodes on its way to Mercury, analysis of the wreckage reveals it to be forty years too old. Raibert Kaminski, the Gordian Division’s top agent, and his crew on the TransTemporal Vehicle Kleio soon discover the ship had been transported to an uncharted universe, one with temporarily accelerated time. Forty years passed for the ship’s industrial machines while everyone else experienced only a few short days. Raibert is certain a powerful weapon of some nature has been built out in the unexplored reaches of the multiverse.

The hottest military science-fiction series of all time continues. The mission: to boldly explore David Weber’s Honorverse; to deliver all the action, courage, derring-do, and pulse-pounding excitement of space naval adventure with tales set in a world touched by the greatness of one epic heroine—Honor Harrington.

We've come a long way in the forty years since the Shongairi attacked Earth, killed half its people, and then were driven away by an alliance of humans with the other sentient bipeds who inhabit our planet. We took the technology they left behind, and rapidly built ourselves into a starfaring civilization. Because we haven't got a moment to lose. Because it's clear that there are even more powerful, more hostile aliens out there, and Earth needs allies. But it also transpires that the Shongairi expedition that nearly destroyed our home planet ... wasn't an official one.

In nur wenigen Jahren hat David Weber sich an die Spitze der internationalen SF geschrieben. Im Mittelpunkt seines Werks steht Honor Harrington, die zäheste und intelligenteste Sternenschiffkommandantin der ganzen Galaxis. Zu ihren Ehren statten David Weber und andere Spitzenautoren der SF dem Universum Honor Harringtons einen Besuch ab und verraten Neues über die Baumkatzen, den erbitterten Kampf zwischen Manticore und Haven und Honors Königin Elizabeth III.

There’s the new treecat adoptee who needs to be kept from becoming a risk to the carefully guarded secret of just how smart the arboreal inhabitants of Sphinx really are. There’s the overeager journalist whose campaign to protect the treecats from exploitation as the newest, coolest pet on any planet could threaten the very creatures he seeks to defend. And there’s the mysterious rash of weird accidents that are plaguing Sphinx’s younger inhabitants—including some of those nearest and dearest to Stephanie.

Yesterday, the Star Kingdom of Manticore was a small, unimportant interstellar backwater. A quiet little star nation, only recently recovered from the devastating blow of the Plague Years. More affluent than some, perhaps, but with little to attract trade or interstellar commerce, it had little need for a navy...and even less interest in paying for one. But Manticore has now become a target. The Star Kingdom isn't certain who is attacking it, or why, or what its mysterious foe can possibly want, but Queen Elizabeth I knows she has to find out.

The Solarian League lies in defeat, crushed by the Grand Alliance of Manticore, Haven, and Grayson. Obedient to the Alliance's surrender demands, the League is writing a new Constitution, to prevent the reemergence of out-of-control bureaucrats, like the "Mandarins" who led it to disaster. Frontier Security has been disbanded, the outer worlds have regained control of their own economic destinies, and multiple star systems will soon secede from the League entirely.

Nach acht blutigen Kriegsjahren ist Honor in havenitische Kriegsgefangenschaft geraten und vor laufenden Kameras hingerichtet worden. Ihre Freunde sinnen auf Rache. Ein neuer Krieg steht bevor. Doch niemand ahnt, was sich auf dem Gefängnisplaneten Hell abspielt.

Innerhalb einiger weniger kurzer Jahre hat sich David Weber mit seiner Serie um Honor Harrington, der zähesten und tüchtigsten Kommandantin eines Sternenschiffs in der Galaxis, an die Spitze der amerikanischen Science Fiction geschrieben. In diesem Hörbuch berichtet er u. a. von einer Vorfahrin seiner Heldin, die als erster Mensch die Brücke schlägt zu einer der geheimnisvollsten Spezies der Milchstraße - den Baumkatzen von Sphinx. Zum ersten Mal teilt David Weber sein Universum mit zwei bekannten Co-Autoren: David Drake und S. M. Stirling.

If you’re ready to take a journey into yourself unlike ever before, you’re ready for My Life Has No Purpose! It’s a hands-on guide for those truly ready to understand themselves and the world around them with incredible clarity...Imagine knowing- truly knowing at a core level - what is really going on and being able to find your own purpose using your own innate gifts. In other words, what if you could live your life for you?

Nicht mehr lange, dann wird der Bergbau im Ruhrgebiet Geschichte sein. In "ZECHENKINDER" erzählen 25 Kumpel von der schwarzen Seele des "Potts". Über Kameradschaft, von Maloche unter Tage, über den Willen zu überleben und den Fluch der Staublunge. Über eine Arbeiterwelt, in der das Wort "Arschloch" keine Beleidigung sein muss und ein gemeinsames Bier verdient sein will. Ungeschliffen, kraftvoll, ungekünstelt - eben Menschen aus dem Ruhrgebiet.

Diesmal sitzt Honor wirklich in der Klemme. Die Republik von Haven hat endlich einen General gefunden, der es versteht, Schlachten zu gewinnen. Honor und ihre Crew geraten in einen Hinterhalt und müssen kapitulieren. Man verspricht ihnen jedoch, sie mit allen Ehren zu behandeln - nur dass dieses Versprechen sehr schnell gebrochen wird. Honor befindet sich plötzlich auf dem Weg zu einem Gefängnisplaneten mit dem vielsagenden Namen "Hölle", ihre Exekution ist bereits beschlossene Sache.

Agent Raibert Kaminski and the crew of the Transtemporal Vehicle Kleio have stumbled across a temporal implosion that has claimed two whole universes, and neither Raibert nor his crew can ­ figure out what caused this calamity, or how to stop its spread. Meanwhile, old colleagues of Raibert’s from the Antiquities Rescue Trust, together with a version of Samuel Pepys transplanted from the 17th century into the 30th, have proposed an expedition into the past. The goal? To branch the timeline by preventing the Plague of Justinian, one of the worst pandemics in human history.

The war between magically gifted Arcana and psionically talented Sharona continues to rage. The dragon-borne Arcanan assault across five universes has been halted at Fort Salby by a desperate defense, but at atrocious cost. One of those costs was the life of Crown Prince Janaki, heir to the newly created Sharonian Empire, who went knowingly to his death in the tradition expected of the House of alirath.

The hottest military science fiction series of all time continues. The mission: to boldly explore David Weber's Honorverse; to deliver all the action, courage, derring do, and pulse pounding excitement of space naval adventure with tales set in a world touched by the greatness of one epic heroine: Honor Harrington.

Arcana has never encountered another intelligent species while exploring scores of other worlds. No cities, no vast empires, no civilizations, and no equivalent of their own dragons, gryphons, spells, and wizards. But all of that is about to change. It seems there is intelligent life elsewhere in the multiverse. Other human intelligent life, with terrifying new weapons and powers of the mind...and wizards who go by the strange title of ''scientist''.