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Hadrian Marlowe, privileged first son of a Duke, was destined for greatness, and he has become a legend. The Sun-Slayer. The Breaker of Sieges. The Crusher of Civilisations. His is a story which defined the course of worlds. This novel is not that story - not the only laid out in the history books, charting the 300 years of his life. Rather this is Hadrian's story, told in his own worlds.

The universe is a dangerous place in John Scalzi's Old Man's War, the first in The Old Man's War series. At seventy-five years old, John Perry is after a fresh start - so, naturally, he joins the army. Earth's military machine can transform elderly recruits, restoring their lost youth. But in...

Ethan is a ranger, sworn to protect his walled settlement from the dangers of his ravaged wasteland planet. One night, a mysterious light thunders overhead and Ethan investigates, discovering a crashed spacecraft and two soldiers from a moon base he didn’t even know existed. Captain Salus and Commander Kurren have risked everything to find a Planetsider to help save their people. Ethan needs them to answer questions that have haunted him all his life – what happened to his world and why?

James Orson thought fighting the insectoid Krall was the hardest job in the galaxy. He was wrong. Armed with a Sovereign Privateer Warrant that wipes his slate clean, James accepts a suicide mission: infiltrate the territory of the Cephalopod Hegemony–an ancient, aquatic apex predator that...

The arrival of the Iglax introduced Humanity to the wider Galaxy of Astroba, as the hip-high, blue-furred aliens hired humans as miners, workers, and in one case, Earth's first-ever starfighter. Through brains, brawn, and guts, Darius Rutledge became more than just a mercenary pilot: He became a legend. When war broke out with the Iglax, Darius outwitted them and forced the treacherous aliens into ceding a stretch of untapped star systems known as Fringe Space.

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...

Die Beschreibung enthält keine HTML-Tags oder Entities, daher gebe ich reinen Text zurück. In den letzten Tagen des Zweiten Krieges steht Major Ambrosius Roth vor einer nahezu unmöglichen Aufgabe. Er soll die Mauern der verlorenen Makropole gegen einen massiven Xenos-Ansturm halten, doch es fehlt ihm an allem – an Soldaten, Waffen und vor allem an Zeit. Während Armageddon brennt und Tartarus zu zerbrechen droht, ist Prioris Sabreen vom Orden der Heiligen Märtyrerin die letzte Beschützerin der kostbaren Reliquie eines Heiligen.

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 FUTURE IS FOR THE TAKING. One rogue AI threatens to unravel reality across a thousand possible futures. Captain Blite and Agent Cormac are running out of options. Yossander's Hold is under siege from the prador ship, Kinghammer, a kamikaze weapon streaks towards the planet, and Sheen Brice...

Hard-core, fast paced science fiction, John Scalzi's Zoe's Tale is the fourth in The Old Man's War series. She won't go down without a fight. It's not every day you up sticks and move to another world. But then, Zoë Boutin-Perry's life has never been ordinary. She's the adopted teenage daughter...

The extraordinary second volume in Peter F. Hamilton’s space opera masterpiece, the Salvation Sequence. ‘Action-oriented hardcore science fiction at its page-turning best’ – The Guardian Fight together - or die alone. In the twenty-third century, humanity is enjoying a comparative utopia...

After 26,000 years the Void Wraith have returned. The Eradication has begun. Mankind’s outer colonies are disappearing. Without warning. Without a trace. Fleet command chalks the attacks up to pirates, but Captain Dryker of the UFC Johnston isn’t buying it. Humanity cannot stop them. Not without help. Captain Dryker’s only hope is to forge an alliance with mankind’s greatest enemy, the savage Tigris. One maverick captain, an unlikely crew, and an aging vessel are all that stand between humanity and the Eradication.

Aliens ripped a hole above Earth, arriving with a massive space station. I sorta figured we'd be enslaved to fight in their wars or exterminated for our resources. Nope. The hip-high Iglax were merchants with ugly squished faces and thick blue fur. While they weren't much to look at, they sure did have some wonderous technology.

Vaka Sevah, Book 1 - The Great Ice opens with an arrival. A powerful alien has crossed the stars, but he didn’t come to invade. Instead, he came for knowledge, for the answer to a mystery that fires his world. And if the lore of his Quest is true? The answer lies in the mind of a boy. A young man who lives, by every indication, in East Detroit.

The Space Warfare Group books are a new kind of space thriller with hardcore military action, dark political conspiracies, and compelling world building. When the princess of an unfamiliar alien planet fails to arrive in time for a diplomatic summit with humanity’s top government officials and her spaceship is found floating dead in space, the Space Warfare Group is called into action.

Die falsche Crew. Das falsche Schiff. Der richtige Kapitän.Der idealistische Navy-Lieutenant Jacob Grimm wollte nur das Opfer seiner Mutter im letzten großen Krieg ehren. Als er gezwungen wurde, das Feuer zu erwidern und zur Verteidigung ein Geschwader von Schiffen zu vernichten, hält er sich...

The Terran Coalition faces repeated and brutal attacks from the repressive League of Sol. To defend his home planet, David trades his dream of becoming a rabbi for a battlefront in the far reaches of space. When particle beams fly, his courage under fire brings quick promotion. But in the lulls between battles when he must confront his soul, David finds a different enemy: the ghosts of those killed under his command. Yet in war, it’s kill or be killed - and the enemy shows no mercy.

Darius has enjoyed a nice break from an action packed integration into the GGA. With Earth in limbo, and a lost colony likely in need of help, he knows his vacation is on borrowed time. He owes the Merchant Marines, Pavia, and humanity itself to do more, to be more. So when life is turned upside down again, he ventures back into the stars, helping those he can, when he can. The adventure is intense, his family bonds are tight, and the dangers ever-present.

Wer will schon ein Parfüm, das die Leute abschreckt? Max und Kevin entwickeln so ein Parfüm und Max testet es an sich selbst. Auf einmal mag ihn niemand mehr! Was ist zu tun? Max findet eine Lösung. Es handelt sich um KI-generierten Audio Content...

A conspiracy is about to erupt, and her family’s grimy fingerprints are all over it. This time, they’re not playing small. Their latest weapon—fifty thousand units of cyberware designed to hijack a person’s mind and rewrite their loyalty—could destabilize the entire system and kill millions. Anyone could turn on her. Even the person she loves the most. He’s already compromised. No one knows when it’ll activate—or if it already has.