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Cassandra Cannon, a disgraced soldier turned mercenary, has one desperate goal: save her brother before his unraveling digitized consciousness is lost forever. Her plan is bold—steal a gravity lance, a weapon powerful enough to siphon energy from a black hole—while staying one step ahead of the United Human Collective military and the unpredictable Auroran Order.

'ASTONISHING AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING' Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time From the million-copy-bestselling Claire North - one of the most original and dazzling voices in speculative fiction - comes an intergalactic tale of conspiracy, war and the fall of empires. ***Shortlisted for the...

The Galactics arrived with their Battle Fleet in 2052. Rather than being exterminated under a barrage of hell-burners, Earth joined a vast Empire that spanned the Milky Way. Today, Battle Fleet 921 is returning to Earth. It hasn't been seen by human eyes since our blissful day of Annexation. But what should be a joyful occasion, a chance to grovel at the feet of superior lifeforms, is rapidly becoming a nightmare.

What would you do if you materialised inside an alien starship? It’s 2049, and NASA-sponsored physicist Edward Virr is on the cusp of man’s greatest breakthrough – the ability to fold space and travel faster than light. He personally tests NASA’s futuristic prototype fold ship with a hand-picked crew. But as disaster strikes the first mission, Ed begins to suspect that he isn’t the only one developing the new technology. Discovering there’s a lot more at stake than first contact, Ed soon realises that Earth’s very survival depends on his ability to solve a crime of galactic proportions.

The crew of spaceship NT4 simply needs one small pocket of the galaxy to recover. But their ship is on the fritz…and they’re being hunted. Alisia Randolf never wanted to be a queen. She wanted to live a normal life as a historian, to fall in love and maybe have a family of her own. On Earth. Instead, she was captured by interstellar slave traders, freed herself with the help of her AI symbiont, became the leader of the ship, and made her fair share of enemies—enemies intent on annihilating her and her subjects once and for all.

Terry and Connor never expected to be chased through a hidden gateway. On the other side lies Verios, a world of vast star ships, strange empires, and a war already burning.

VOM KINDLE STORYTELLER AWARD GEWINNER, G J OGDEN-Die Union steht kurz vor dem totalen Zusammenbruch. Apophis, der Schlangengott und König des Aternien-Imperiums, steht bereit, seine Mission zu erfüllen und die verbleibenden Welten der Union zu vernichten, angefangen mit Terra Prime-der Erde. Da er keine andere Wahl hat, erklärt der Präsident seine Absicht, sich zu ergeben. Doch Apophis sehnt sich nur nach Zerstörung und Rache. Doch tief unter dem Wüstensand Ägyptens keimt Hoffnung auf. Die letzten Master Officers, angeführt von Carter Rose und Carina Larsen, haben noch nicht aufgegeben.

Die letzte Reise der Patriamer beginnt – und ihr Schicksal liegt in seinen Händen. Peregrin erwacht ohne Erinnerungen an Bord der Arche Nova, dem letzten Raumschiff seines Volkes. Ziel der Mission: Nova Domus – die Erde. Doch die Reise durch das endlose All ist gefährlicher, als irgendjemand ahnt. Neben ihm erwacht ein weiterer Patriamer – ebenfalls ohne Gedächtnis. Eine geheimnisvolle Frau, die sich als Hüterin des Schiffes vorstellt, und ein Hologramm bieten ihre Hilfe an. Doch nicht alle an Bord verfolgen dasselbe Ziel.

Hauptkommandant Carter Rose lag immer einen Schritt hinter den Aterniern, aber jetzt ist es an der Zeit, den Kampf zu seinem Feind zu bringen. Für seinen Plan muss er den Drahtzieher des Breitschwert-Offiziersprogramms finden—einen Mann, den man seit fast einem Jahrhundert nicht mehr gesehen hat. Dann erhält Rose aus heiterem Himmel eine Nachricht von Brodie Kaur, seinem ehemaligen Waffenmeister und einem augmentierten Soldaten, den er im bevorstehenden Kampf gut gebrauchen kann. Das Problem ist nur, dass er eigentlich tot sein sollte.

Xenophobia, the fear of that which is alien, different, or strange; it is xenophobia that drove the reptilian natives of Sua’kul into the arms of an alien force even more terrible than that which they feared. Driven by a radicalized ideology and malevolent intervention, the new order on Sua’kul has become a threat to the Empire. In response the half human and half Illani noble family of Valor has been dispatched to subdue the planet before it can become another front in an ever expanding war of alien aggression against the last vestige of human civilization.

Captain Graciela is where she wants to be, far from her controlling mother, in a rented solar sail cargo ship, trading and gambling throughout the heliosphere. It can be lonely in the void, but the crew on the H2LiftShip, the LunaCola, is all the help she needs: Jack, a talking dog with a nose for Earth jerky, Tang, a poker-obsessed orangutan, and Octopus, in his watery navigation station, are her constant companions on her journey.