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Maureen O’Brien narrates the BBC TV soundtrack of this two-part starring William Hartnell as the Doctor. “There's always Koquillion. He could keep me here forever...” Landing on the planet Dido in the 25th Century, the Doctor, Ian (William Russell) and Barbara (Jacqueline Hill) discover a...

In the far future, humanity thrives in space. But the human race is not alone. Some aliens are friendly while others are more hostile. Among them is one who possesses incredible power. The military will need to expand their horizon if humanity wishes to avoid extinction.

Attacks against Cercia appear never-ending, and each mercenary fleet escalates the planet’s danger. The conclave desperately feeds resources to the Malia system to aid its defense. In addition, Minimalist, Luther, and Morgoth double the number of EMP platforms above and below Cercia. With controllers embedded in the EMP platforms, Commander Nira Racine of Outpost Fourteen: Colony Five and the fleet’s SADEs possess the capability to target attacking ships and missiles. Cremsylon speaks to Orion, the SADE handling Metter drone production.

Eleonora Delle Grazie verlor ihre Eltern früh bei einem tragischen Raumfahrtunglück der NASA. Die Welt ahnt nichts von dem sogenannten "Mysterium", dem Eleonoras Eltern auf der Spur waren, und Eleonora ist fest entschlossen, die geheime Mission ihrer Eltern fortzuführen. Als sie Jahre später an Bord der "Mars Discovery" ins All aufbricht, scheint sie dem Ziel nah. Kurz nach dem Start erfährt sie von einem außerirdischen Artefakt auf dem Mars. Doch was Eleonora tatsächlich auf dem Roten Planeten findet, übersteigt die Vorstellungen der Menschheit.

Planet of Dread is a gripping classic of mid-century science fiction that plunges listeners into a brutal fight for survival on an alien world. Written in the early 1960s, this novel follows Moran, a man betrayed and abandoned aboard the spaceship Nadine, then cast onto a cloud-shrouded planet teeming with gigantic insect life and hostile, unfamiliar ecosystems. As Moran struggles to adapt, the story explores isolation, moral ambiguity, and humanity’s relentless drive to survive when stripped of all safety and certainty.

One fleet. Three ships. Many destinies. An unidentified alien entity has free run of the starship, Bres, but that’s the least of Waylis’s worries. She left behind her family, her friends, and her entire species on her home planet, the first world to be visited by the Interstellar Fleet. Her decision has grown to be the greatest regret of her life. As a shapeshifter and a relic of humanity’s evolutionary past, among the humans she’s a freak, and they take every opportunity to remind her. To the ship’s scientists she’s little better than a lab rat.

A new age of exploration is taking humanity to the stars. It's a chance to build a new life from the ground up, to make your fortune and help the colonies grow. Anyone can become someone out in the stars. When John Carver, a veteran of the Halfway War, arrives on the colony of Greenworld, he finds it completely abandoned, as though its residents simply walked out, leaving all of their belongings behind. All that remains are half-built greenhouses and habitats, poorly maintained farmlands, and basic supplies.

Arrakis, der Wüstenplanet, wurde zerstört. Das, was vom alten Imperium noch übrig war, wurde von den Geehrten Müttern vernichtet. Ihrem endgültigen Sieg über die Galaxis steht nur noch eine Kraft im Weg: Die Schwesternschaft der Bene Gesserit, die einst hinter den Kulissen die genetischen Verflechtungen der Herrscherhäuser kontrolliert hat. Darwi Odrade, die Anführerin der Bene Gesserit, will einen neuen Planten zum Wüstenplaneten machen, um dort Sandwürmer anzusiedeln und Gewürz zu ernten.

Sci-fi román, který navždy změnil podobu žánru Předloha kultovního filmu Stanleyho Kubricka Audioknižní operní opus, který posouvá hranice mluveného slova V měsíčním kráteru Tycho je nalezen záhadný objekt: černý monolit, který vysílá pravidelný elektromagnetický signál na jeden ze Saturnových měsíců. Vůbec poprvé je proto hluboko do Sluneční soustavy vypravena lidská posádka. Ještě než dosáhne cíle, objeví se podivné technické obtíže, které postupně narůstají do děsivých rozměrů. Kapitán lodi David Bowman musí čelit selhávajícímu lodnímu systému, jež mění vědeckou misi v boj o život.

Captain Cherry Pendit is a very improper oracle. A proper seer warns the hero, then retires to the luxury of her temple while the hero saves the day. Pfft. Boring. Cherry doesn't need a hero to defy fate. In fact, she intends to rescue the hero. There might be a few bumps along the way—like an entire alien species her oracular talent didn't warn her about—but Captain Cherry Pendit of the Delphic Dame is prepared to adapt and overcome. If only the pirates, the good guys—who might be bad guys—and her allies would just stop freaking interfering by pushing their own stupid agendas.

In her breathtaking debut—part space odyssey, part sapphic rom-com—Emily Hamilton weaves a suspenseful, charming, and irresistibly joyous tale of fierce friendship, improbable love, and wonder as vast as the universe itself. So, here’s the thing: Cleo and her friends really, truly didn’t...

A man in exile, banished to a planet far from home and cursed with immortality, discovers that a ship has crash-landed near his settlement. After two hundred years, his heart’s desire has come true. A visitor has finally arrived on his lonely little speck in the stars. He’ll have companionship again. Someone he could love forever. As the weary traveler heals, the two men form a tender bond. But all they’ve come to share may not be enough to curb the visitor’s irrepressible wanderlust.

Simon is the best delivery boy that Mr Edwards’s restaurant has ever had. He’s on time every time, and he’s gotten nothing but good reviews. But he needs more money. His mother’s medical treatment won’t pay for itself, and his father is already working three jobs to try to make ends meet. But it might just be his lucky day: Mr. Edwards has another job for him. It’s more delivery work, but not the usual kind. You might even say that it’s out of this world. Oh well. Beggars can’t be choosers, and the pay is fantastic.

Die Entscheidungsschlacht gegen die in der Milchstraße entstandene KI wurde zwar gewonnen, doch es hat sich schnell herausgestellt, dass die Mikroreplikatoren damit noch lange nicht geschlagen sind. Im Leerraum zwischen den Galaxien sind weitere Systeme der kalten Sonnen erwacht, und im Andromedanebel sinnt die dortige KI auf Rache. Nach Jahrmillionen glaubt sie, endlich einen Weg gefunden zu haben, nicht nur Andromeda, sondern auch die Milchstraße in ihre Gewalt zu bekommen. Der Krieg zwischen biologischem und maschinellem Leben tritt in die entscheidende Phase.

Die Mission in Andromeda scheint gescheitert zu sein. Die Gruppen um Jason Wu und Leya Mamoa wurden getrennt, und jeder hält die anderen für tot. Und zugleich läuft die Zeit davon, wenn es noch eine Chance zur Rettung der Milchstraße geben soll.

Jeff Dolan always wanted to be an astronaut. After helping a private space company build a ship that can travel to Saturn's largest moon in five months, he gets his chance. Shortly after launch, a devastating malfunction forces Jeff and the crew to make a choice: continue to Titan or go back home. As the truth about their mission unravels, one thing is clear: Someone on Earth knew about the system flaw and covered it up. Yet surviving the journey isn't the crew's only concern. Even if they make it to Titan, they will face another problem: Something is already there.

Mysterious gateways are appearing throughout the universe, bridging violent civilizations, leading to war, and sowing chaos. While some species succumb to the pandemonium, the Chut’un forge an unholy symbiotic relationship—The Order—with red Europhids, a vast hive intelligence populating the universe’s far reaches. Desiring structure and fearing the unknown, they cull everything opposed to their plan, including the Europhids’ blue counterparts, carrying out a galactic genocide until only one blue Europhid remains...inside Moses Montgomery, a.k.a. "Dark Horse".

Zwei große Science-Fiction-Romane von Ursula K. Le Guin - in vollständiger Neuübersetzung. Ursula K. Le Guins visionäre Hainish-Romane, die davon erzählen, wie die Menschheit ferne Planeten besiedelt, haben die Landkarte der modernen Science Fiction neu entworfen. In Das Wort für Welt ist Wald, gelesen von Oliver Siebeck, versklaven Kolonisten einen ganzen Planeten, um sich seiner Ressourcen zu bemächtigen - doch die Waldbewohner wissen sich zu wehren.

Commander Mariucci and his hand-picked research team know they will have to muster all of their expertise, creativity and teamwork to survive the very harshest of conditions in orbit around the king of planets. But when they intercept a peculiar radio transmission, they have to investigate. Nothing should work in these impossible conditions, so what is sending the signal...and why? With a degrading ship and crew at breaking point, there's every chance they will tear themselves apart before they ever find the answer to the ultimate question.

Al-Khidr, a medieval alchemist, is awestruck when he discovers a mysterious metallic sphere inside a pyramid. His curiosity catapults him through space and time to an alien planet called Lyra, where he learns that aliens consider Earth a cursed planet, and the pyramids on Earth were built by them. The queen wants to send the human back to Earth to bring a cure to the Mutmut disease. But a rebellion breaks out! With danger looming, a short time frame, and his life on the line, Al-Khidr has to do what he thinks is right and just.