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Nothing ever changes in Sanders. The town's still got a video store, for God's sake. So why doesn't Eli Teague want to leave? Not that he'd ever admit it, but maybe he's been waiting - waiting for the traveler to come back. The one who's roared into his life twice before, pausing just long enough to drop tantalizing clues before disappearing in a cloud of gunfire and a squeal of tires. The one who's a walking anachronism, with her tricorne hat, flintlock rifle, and steampunked Model A Ford.

Who will inherit the dying earth? The Ark Project is the epic story of a desperate attempt to redefine what it means to be human in a world perched on the edge of destruction with the technology to engineer humans capable of living in space. When one scientist takes it upon herself to make the hard decision of who gets to live and who must die, Kaiden, a courageous security officer plagued with memories from a past he did not live and a family he never had, sets out to stop her.

Bot, a loner mediocre, was set on a scientific mission from his home planet Proxima-b to explore the virgin planet Earth and confirm its suitability to be inhabited by humans. Bound in secrecy to give the proximals an advantage over their eternal enemy, the Centaurians, Bot started the journey that would take him only about nine months in Earthlings calendar to reach that 4.2 light years distant planet, in an unprecedented attempt, or so his people thought.

Andrew Frost doesn't have time to relax. Having defeated an enigmatic killer and made a massive sacrifice to protect his family, he now has an even bigger problem on his hands. It seems his daughter's mere existence could bring about the collapse of the universe. So, on the advice of Tim, his super-intelligent canine AI companion, Andrew decides to travel forward in time to get some help from someone who should know exactly what to do: himself.

Listen, having kids is great, my little Gigi Collins and Pete’s daughter Hannah are sweet little fluffs of cotton candy, spun from the silk of fairy spiders who live in the clouds. But man, can they cause trouble. Seriously, you’d think a two-year-old couldn’t possibly threaten the very existence of our physical reality, but, well, you know where this is going. So join me and Pete, and Bobo, and of course the man himself, Nikola Tesla, on another spine-tingling, bowel-loosening thrill ride, and remember: bring your adult diapers.

Robbed of his chits and betrayed by one of his oldest contacts, Roak is now on a rampage across the galaxy to hunt the duplicitous scumbag down and exact some serious payback. Bishop is on the run and Roak is right behind him. System by system, planet by planet, contact by contact, Roak leaves no rock unturned and no lead unchecked. He beats answers out of those who dare help Bishop. He kills those who refuse to answer. Roak is waging war on the criminal grapevine and no one is safe from his wrath.

'The Squall feed on psychic energy. They spread like a plague and if they are not stopped they will strip the Earth clean...' London 1910: an unsuspecting thief finds himself confronted by grey-skinned creatures that are waiting to devour his mind. London 2789: the remains of an ancient android...

There's a thief on the loose. The Tigres excel at tipping the scales in their favor, be it through bribes, politics, or blood. They unofficially run Viterbo, Italy—and somebody stole from them. Private investigators David and Mafalda De Campo have been hired to help find the thief. They're in it for the money, but the Tigres just want to make a statement. Meanwhile, the Heredes have returned: ruthless idealists and revolutionaries. It's not clear what they're up to, but they keep getting in the way.

Jake McGraw, independent space trucker, has been shanghaied. He and his crew, fresh off their adventures in Starrigger and Red Limit Freeway, are plucked off the Skyway by a creature of unknown power. Now on an alien planet where most of the rules of the regular universe do not seem to apply, Jake confronts the builders of the Skyway once and for all. Will he and his crew make it out alive?

Majors Rachael Henderson and Tom Prescott join together to investigate the mystery. They quickly discover the ship was commissioned in the year 2515. However, carbon dating indicated the ship has been deep beneath the ice for over 700 years. Their only chance to unravel the mystery is to awaken the crew that is in a cryogenic sleep state.

Aloysius 'Spider' Webb fixes time machines for a living. He hates his job; he hates his life, and hates time travel even more. He simply wants to get on with his life. He's a hard working Australian bloke - a good man in a bad situation who is willing to do almost anything to regain his self-respect and the affection of his nearly ex-wife, Molly; a mad sculptress on her way to international fame and fortune. Spider's life and his world are changing.

Tom Huttle believes that he is on the path to a glamorous new life when he completes the first chapter of his novel, The Pyongyang Paradox, featuring dashing hero Buck Samson. The novel might give Tom the confidence he needs to pursue the woman of his dreams, and fulfill his abiding conviction that he is destined for a life of action and romance. Tom gets more excitement than he bargained for when the explosion of a top-secret satellite sends him to Buck Samson’s fictional world, just as Buck takes over Tom’s pedestrian life.

Yellow, a former Temporal Enforcement Bureau agent, is framed for tampering with the timeline and forced into hiding. Hunted by her own agency, she discovers that a rogue faction called the Chrono Collective is responsible for destabilizing time. Teaming up with Kal, an engineer from the future, Yellow travels across key historical moments to uncover the Collective’s plan and clear her name.

The allure of immortality has always fascinated humanity. What happens when simulated technology allows anyone with enough funds to access a world devoid of sickness or death? Henry and Dale are two brothers that wade through the complexities of infinite time. But not everything is what it seems. Could one truly be prepared for what happens when paradise turns to hell?

Jack Finney's beloved sequel to his classic, New York Times bestselling illustrated novel Time and Again. Simon Morley, whose logic-defying trip to the New York City of the 1880s in Time and Again has enchanted readers for twenty-five years, embarks on another trip across the borders of time...

Ed und seine Crew brachten von ihrer letzten Mission ein Wurmloch in ein neues Universum mit. Doch die Menschen lehnen das kosmische Geschenk ab und greifen die außerirdische Intelligenz im äußeren Sonnensystem an. Während sich zwischen Menschen und Außerirdischen ein unbarmherziger Krieg entwickelt, reisen Ed und seine Freunde mit der Helios an einen fernen Ort, um das ungewöhnlichste Artefakt unseres Universums zu untersuchen.

Lost in time and space, Anna must follow a trail laid down by her father decades earlier. With the help of a mysterious scientist and his amazing inventions, she embarks on a universe-spanning mission, but does she have the strength to unleash the universe’s most devastating weapon? If not, it could spell disaster for existence itself. How far will she go to save her father, her family, and the universe?