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He broke the chains. Then he broke the world…. A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw. Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered and outgunned, is he still...

Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society’s mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart from within. Finally, the time has come.

‘Planet B’ is a virtual world with the slogan 'where you can be whatever you want to be.' Users can download themselves into it and play as a life-size avatars in a 3-D world. When Lioba Fielding dies in the real world, her boyfriend John Armstrong downloads himself into Planet B in an attempt to find her avatar. As he travels between various worlds he becomes entangled in an array of strange scenarios, teleporting from each adventure to the next with his companion Medley, a 'rogue avatar' who has no human controller.

Ana da Silva always assumed she’d die young, she just never expected it to be at the hands of Famine, the haunting immortal who once spared her life so many years ago. But if the horseman remembers her at all, he must not care, for when she comes face to face with him for the second time in her life, she’s stabbed and left for dead. Only, she doesn’t quite die.

The apocalypse is approaching as his Doom Points tick up and John is finding it harder and harder to keep it together. His deepening knowledge of magic seems to be helping but as a hidden society creeps out of the shadows, intent on throwing the world into chaos, it may not be enough.

A mysterious signal from deep space may hold humanity’s last chance of survival. And could reveal the ultimate truth of human origins. The race to unravel the secrets of the Atlantis world has begun.

World Peace turns into global civil war. In the future, the leaders of Hive nations—nations without fixed location—clandestinely committed nefarious deeds in order to maintain an outward semblance of utopian stability. But the facade could only last so long. The comforts of effortless global travel and worldwide abundance may have tempered humanity's darkest inclinations, but conflict remains deeply rooted in the human psyche. All it needed was a catalyst, in form of special little boy to ignite half a millennium of repressed chaos.

Powerful necromancers are on the move, and the dungeon has become a battleground. Without his faithful Wisp, Cal's mind slips—he begins creating traps and monsters that go against his already loose morals. A direct threat from an unexpected force causes Cal's mind to stabilize, but he doesn’t know for how long. Using every resource at his disposal, he works to keep his mind clear while he funds a search for his lost companion. When others fail him again and again, Cal takes matters into his own hands.

Vingt ans se sont écoulés depuis que Dark Bane a anéanti l'ancien ordre voué au côté obscur et s'est imposé comme le dernier Seigneur Noir des Sith. Désormais ne subsistent plus que lui, pour incarner le pouvoir, et Zannah, son apprentie, pour le convoiter. À l'issue d'un ultime duel, Zannah doit tuer son maître et prendre sa place, mais elle tarde à relever le défi. Bane, qui refuse de voir son rêve se briser à cause de la faiblesse de son apprentie, s'est juré de trouver l'holocron de Dark Andeddu qui renferme le secret de l'immortalité.

Three more adventures for everyone's favourite transtemporal Adventuress and her long-suffering travelling companion, Panda. 'The Iris Wildthyme Appreciation Society'. Written by Cavan Scott. Panda isn't happy. One minute he's due to be crowned an intergalactic hero, with concubines galore, and the next Iris is dragging him to the planet Trull, the 42nd-century equivalent of Milton Keynes. As Iris becomes the hottest celeb in the galaxy, little do they know that everyone on Trull is about to die....

On the moon, Ronin Hayashi trains to protect the colonies from the inevitable invasion of the machines. While he prepares to stand his ground, Sergeant Tadhg Walsh is planning an escape mission to deliver a weapon to the resistance on Earth. At Neptune Station, Captain Akira Hayashi and Shadow Squad have returned from a deadly journey into enemy territory where they learn the machines are building an army at an astonishing rate. After continued attempts to contact the Lunar Defense Corps for help, Shadow Squad accepts the hard truth—the LDC isn’t coming.

In the future, the leaders of Hive nations–nations without fixed location–clandestinely committed nefarious deeds in order to maintain an outward semblance of utopian stability. But the facade could only last so long. The comforts of effortless global travel and worldwide abundance may have tempered humanity's darkest inclinations, but conflict remains deeply rooted in the human psyche. All it needed was a catalyst, in form of special little boy to ignite half a millennium of repressed chaos.

Die Tote packte mit ihrer skelettierten Hand den Unterarm der jungen Frau und zog ihr Opfer an sich. Die spitzen Fingernägel bohrten sich tief in ihr Fleisch. Blut spritzte! Trotz des hypnotischen Zustandes versuchte sich die Frau instinktiv zu befreien, doch es war bereits zu spät. Die Finger der linken Hand der verstorbenen schnellten vor und gruben sich tief in den Hals des Opfers, rissen die Halsschlager auf... Pulsierend schoss der rote Lebenssaft aus ihrem Körper. Tod! Larry Brent, alias X – Ray 3, Spezialist in Sachen Horror, hat schon die Spur aufgenommen.

Die MARION kommt der Atmosphäre des Planeten immer näher - und droht, darin zu verglühen. Damit die Crew überhaupt eine Chance hat, sich zu retten, muss die Brennstoffzelle der NARCISSUS ausgetauscht werden. Und da alle Energieträger auf dem Planeten lagern, sehen Hooper und die anderen nur eine Möglichkeit: Sie müssen mit der letzten intakten Landefähre zu den Minen fliegen. Doch ausgerechnet in der SAMSON lauern die Aliens auf frische Beute.

Nachdem sich alle Zufluchten als Illusionen erwiesen, sehen Mana und der Wanderer nur einen Ausweg: Statt weiterhin vor der Macht des Imperiums zu fliehen, wollen sie in die Offensive gehen und es in seiner Bergfestung angreifen. In dessen Minen bauen geistig verwirrte Sklaven und bizarre Maschinen unermessliche Bodenschätze ab. Doch unsere Helden treffen hier nicht nur einen alten Feind wieder, sondern entdecken zudem endlich die Wahrheit über die geheimnisvollen Herrscher des Imperiums und deren welterschütternde Pläne.

Dr. Schneider bekommt Besuch von der Erde: Seine beiden Söhne, Roland und Martin, wollen einige Zeit bei ihrem Vater wohnen, der auf der Raumstation Orbit Challenger nach einem neuartigen Medikament forscht. Den beiden Jungen fällt sofort James Wingrove unangenehm auf; als kurz nach ihrer Ankunft eine Explosion im Labor ihres Vaters stattfindet, wird Wingrove sofort von den beiden verdächtigt.