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Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this would be impossible. But all the players are "threeps", robot-like bodies controlled by people with Haden's Syndrome, so anything goes. No one gets hurt, but the brutality is real, and the crowds love it. Until a star athlete drops dead on the playing field.

Ein packendes, temporeiches Abenteuer in einer gefährlichen Parallelwelt – perfekt für Fans von Adrian Tchaikovsky und Michael Crichtons Jurassic Park! Sie sind groß, gefährlich und vom Aussterben bedroht … Jamies Traum war es, bei einem Tech Start-up in New York City groß herauszukommen. Doch die Wirklichkeit sieht anders aus: auf eine demütigende Entlassung folgt ein schlecht bezahlter Job als Lieferfahrer inmitten einer Pandemie. Es sieht düster für ihn aus, doch schließlich trifft er beim Ausliefern einer Bestellung einen alten Bekannten wieder.

Der dritte und abschließende Band der Imperium der Ströme-Trilogie aus der Feder des Science-Fiction-Bestseller-Autors John Scalzi. Der Kollaps der Ströme macht mittlerweile auch den Köpfen der mächtigen Handelshäusern große Sorgen. Allen ist klar, dass allein auf dem Planten Ende ein Leben nach der Interdependenz möglich ist. Ihr Plan: Ende in ein Habitat für die Reichen und Mächtigen zu verwandeln, während der Rest der Interdependenz seinem Schicksal überlassen wird. Die Imperatox Grayland II. möchte weiterhin einen Großteil ihrer Untertanen vor dem drohenden Kollaps retten.

Le temps a passé depuis l'époque où la Terre alimentait docilement les Forces de défense coloniale en main-d'œuvre. Bientôt, l'Union sera à court de soldats, laissant les colonies humaines vulnérables face aux peuples du Conclave, qui n'attendent que le premier signe de faiblesse pour détruire l'humanité à genoux. Mais dans les tréfonds de l'espace se profile également un groupe anonyme, dressant les humains les uns contre les autres et manipulant le conflit imminent contre le Conclave.

In John Scalzi's re-imagining of H. Beam Piper's 1962 sci-fi classic Little Fuzzy, written with the full cooperation of the Piper Estate, Jack Holloway works alone for reasons he doesnt care to talk about. Hundreds of miles from ZaraCorps headquarters on planet, 178 light-years from the corporations headquarters on Earth, Jack is content as an independent contractor, prospecting and surveying at his own pace. As for his past, thats not up for discussion.

Wildcat colonies are illegal, unauthorized, and secret - so when an injured stranger shows up at the wildcat colony New Seattle, the colony leaders are understandably suspicious of who he is and what he represents. His story of how he’s come to their colony is shocking, surprising, and might have bigger consequences than anyone could have expected. Walk the Plank is a tale from John Scalzi's The Human Division, a series of self-contained but interrelated short stories.

The news that humanity had been dreading for ages had come true. Zombies are real. Worst of all, we created them. The apocalypse was upon us, and every man, woman and child had to answer a simple question of themselves: "What do we do now?"

Captain Sophia Coloma of the Clarke has a simple task: Ferry around representatives from Earth in an aging spaceship that the Colonial Union hopes to sell to them. But nothing is as simple as it seems, and Coloma discovers the ship she’s showing off holds suprises of its own...and it’s not the only one with secrets. "Tales from the Clarke" is a tale from John Scalzi's The Human Division, a series of self-contained but interrelated short stories set in the Old Man's War universe.

At last, the Earth and the Colonial Union have begun formal discussions about their relationship in the future - a chance for the divisions in humanity to be repaired. The diplomats and crew of the Clarke are on hand to help with the process, including Ambassador Ode Abumwe and CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson, both of whom were born on Earth. But not everyone wants the human division to be repaired.... And they will go to great lengths to make sure it isn’t....

Hard-core military science fiction at its very best, John Scalzi's The Last Colony is the third in The Old Man's War series. They must save themselves – or die trying. John Perry was living peacefully on one of humanity's colonies – until he and his wife were offered an opportunity these...

The military SF sequel to his extraordinary Old Man's War, John Scalzi's The Ghost Brigades is the second in The Old Man's War series. Who can you trust, if you can't trust yourself? Three hostile alien races have united against humanity, determined to halt our expansion into space. The...

Ein Virus geht um die Welt und die Folgen sind katastrophal. Die meisten Opfer kommen mit einer Art Grippe davon, doch für einige wenige wird die Ansteckung zum Horror: Sie fallen in ein totales Wachkoma, das sogenannte Haden-Syndrom. Millionen von Menschen sind betroffen und in den USA ist nichts mehr, wie es einmal war. Als der junge FBI-Agent Chris Shane auf einen mysteriösen Mordfall angesetzt wird, stechen er und seine Partnerin in ein Wespennest - ein brutales Versteckspiel beginnt, in dessen Zentrum möglicherweise die Antwort auf das Rätsel des Haden-Virus steht.

How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history? I ask because it's what I have to do. I'm Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match to save humanity, or to see it fall. Witness to...

Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces warrior Jane Sagan, he farms several acres, adjudicates local disputes, and enjoys watching his adopted daughter grow up. That is, until his and Jane's past reaches out to bring them back into the game — as leaders of a new human colony, to be peopled by settlers from all the major human worlds, for a deep political purpose that will put Perry and Sagan back in the thick of interstellar politics, betrayal, and war.

The universe is a dangerous place for humanity—and it's about to become far more dangerous. Three races that humans have clashed with before have allied to halt our expansion into space. Their linchpin: the turncoat military scientist Charles Boutin, who knows the CDF's biggest military secrets. To prevail, the CDF must find out why Boutin did what he did. Jared Dirac is the only human who can provide answers—a superhuman hybrid, created from Boutin's DNA, Jared's brain should be able to access Boutin's electronic memories.

Ashley Perrin is fresh out of college and starting a job as a community liaison for the Third District–the city’s only sector with more alien residents than humans. Ashley’s barely found where the paper clips are kept when she’s beset with constituent complaints–from too much noise at the Annual Lupidian Celebration Parade to a trip-and-fall chicken to a very particular type of alien hornet that threatens the very city itself. And if that’s not terrifying enough, Ashley is next up at the office karaoke night.