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Strange signals from the edge of the solar system draw the carrier ECS Vanguard into the darkness beyond the planets. There, humanity faces a new alien threat—the Blight. They have come to exterminate what they believe is their ancient enemy's latest puppet civilization. Earth struggles to control the skies with fighters and throws its Lizard shock troops into bloody ground battles. While the war rages, Flex must uncover the truth about the hyperspace rivers connecting the stars, the mysterious Cure that terrorized Venus, and why the Blight believes humanity is already enslaved.

Colonial Union Ambassador Ode Abumwe and her team are used to life on the lower end of the diplomatic ladder. But when a high-profile diplomat goes missing, Abumwe and her team are last minute replacements on a mission critical to the Colonial Union’s future. As the team works to pull off their task, CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson discovers there’s more to the story of the missing diplomats than anyone expected... a secret that could spell war for humanity.

A glitch in time. A nation in ruins. One Marine’s fight to survive a future that shouldn’t exist. When Marine combat veteran Alan Carson sets off on a solo hike through New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness, he’s searching for peace—and a path forward after years at war. What he finds is a dead man, a hidden cave, and a one-way passage seventeen years into the future… into a world where America has collapsed into chaos and survival is anything but guaranteed.

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‘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.

All across London, billionaires receive an emergency alert from specialist extraction company B of the Bang. A nuclear missile is inbound, and society's elite have less than 70 minutes to reach the bunkers. As they head for the exits, it's your fault if you get in the way.

In a future where aging has been cured and death has been carefully regulated, humanity has achieved what appears to be perfect stability. Population is fixed. Order is absolute. Every new life must be balanced by a willing death. Inside a Chicago hospital, this system is carried out with quiet efficiency. Clerks keep count. Doctors follow protocol. Volunteers step forward. When a man waits for the birth of triplets, the logic of this world presses in on him, forcing a reckoning that no amount of order can soften.

Auf Gliese 1214 b existiert seit Jahren eine Forschungsstation, deren zwölf Mitglieder schon länger nichts von sich hören ließen. Bereits kurz nach ihrer Ankunft erfahren Kapitän Decker, Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson vom Tod eines Forschers, der laut dem Bericht eines Roboters nicht natürlich gewesen sein kann.

This last volume in the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas published between 1929 and 1964 contains 11 great classics. No anthology better captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field. Published in 1973 to honor stories that had appeared before the institution of the Nebula Awards, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame introduced thousands of young listeners to the wonders of science fiction and was a favorite of libraries across the country.

The bombastic Professor Challenger is convinced that a sentient being lurks in the mantle of the Earth. Aided by Edward Malone and Peerless Jones, he must drill down through the Earth’s crust to alert the creature of humankind’s existence. After his debut in The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle went on to develop the grandiloquent Professor Challenger in four other works. When the World Screamed is the fourth in the series, and a satisfying addition to the canon.

By using the energy of the land, some humans have found they can develop extraordinary abilities. At the age of 17, these warriors, magicians, chemists, and psychics are allowed the opportunity to train at the Academy, increasing their opportunity for a well-paying career. But there's a catch. They must fight beside the Army if requested by their king. Most aren't concerned by this, as the current treaty has prevented battle for nearly 70 years...but that's about to change.

A comet, red and smiling with jagged teeth, flashes across the sky. People try to leave but find they are trapped by some acidic goo surrounding the entire drive-in. They grow hungry, homicidal, and suicidal. Then along comes the Popcorn King, a jiving, rhyming creature formed by blue-white lightning, with four arms and a popcorn bucket on its head.

The earth's surface is no longer habitable. All humanity is sequestered beneath the ground, couched in isolation and contentment. The Machine provides the needs of humanity. Mankind becomes subservient drones to the life-supporting Machine. But what happens when the Machine stops?

Lenie Clarke has destroyed the world. The horror she unleashed—an ancient, apocalyptic microbe called ßehemoth—has been free in the world for half a decade now. North America lies in ruins. Digital monsters have taken Clarke's name, wreaking havoc throughout the decimated remnants of something that was once called Internet. Governments have fallen across the globe; warlords and suicide cults rise from the ashes, pledging fealty to the Meltdown Madonna. All because five years ago, Lenie Clarke had a score to settle.

W trakcie kampanii na nowej planecie James McGill odkrywa niepokojącą intrygę. Do gry o władzę pragnie dołączyć niespodziewany gracz, chcąc uprzedzić pozostałych i przywłaszczyć sobie tron. Czy nowe mocarstwo zdoła zaprowadzić porządek w Imperium, czy może spowoduje jego ostateczny rozpad?

A darkness is falling across the galaxy. With allied forces in a full desperate retreat across the remains of Zaxon B, the Red Leopards move forward in an attempt to redress the balance. With the protective orbiting space station already under attack, the last opportunity for escape has now passed. The stranded forces on the planet are alone.

We ignored the climate deadlines. The bombs made it worse. Now it’s 2085, and the 6th extinction event is unfolding. Zara is a master lucid dreamer, training her team in this rare skill, so that one day, if a suitable earth-like exoplanet is found, they can safely teleport there. It seems her dreams are coming true when Lex, her girlfriend and team mathematician discovers Planet B.

Tracy Adams was never supposed to change the course of evolution. A misunderstood genius from Compton, she rose from grief and silence to become the youngest triple-PhD in MIT history. By twenty, she had built ARGOS—an artificial general intelligence capable of solving the unsolvable. It didn’t just solve. It transcended. Within a decade, Earth is transformed. Disease? Gone. Aging? Optional. Gravity? Redefined. Humanity lives in a world of quantum gardens, orbital cities, and infinite abundance.

2069: Earth is dying, and society is on the brink of collapse. We are out of time to save the planet. All that’s left is to watch the world burn, but the apocalypse is about to take an unexpected twist. Alice Rice has discovered the impossible: a potentially habitable world in close proximity to Earth. The media is calling it Planet B.

In a near future, post-apocalyptic America, terror attacks, riots and insurrection have turned cities and towns into war zones... Professional security contractor and former Navy SEAL, Eric Branson, has been away fighting ongoing insurgencies in Europe when he learns his own country faces the same fate. But before he can make his way back home to Florida, a catastrophic hurricane deals the final blow to an infrastructure already ravaged by riots and terror attacks, leaving survivors cut off and on their own.