Titres dans Exploration spatiale

Die Sammlung Sterntagebücher ist eine Zusammenstellung verschiedener Reisen der großen Sternfahrer Pilot Pirx und Ijon Tichy sowie der beiden Roboter Trurl und Klapauzius. Der Autor Stanisław Lem schickt den Hörer weit in die Zukunft und vermittelt ihm auf scharfsinnige und humoristische Weise erkenntnistheoretische, psychologische, soziologische und ethische Aspekte. So werden Fragen zur Intelligenz und zum Eigenleben von Maschinen ebenso behandelt, wie die Begegnung des Menschen mit sich selbst (anhand von Zeitschleifen) oder die Relativität subjektiver Eindrücke.

Die Menschheit hat Sonden in die Tiefen des Alls geschickt, um neue Planeten für die Besiedelung vorzubereiten. Auf Nod finden die Sonden allerdings intelligentes Leben vor - doch das ist im Besiedelungsplan nicht vorgesehen, und die Sonden machen sich unbarmherzig ans Werk. Als Jahrtausende später die Erde vergessen ist und die Menschen sich auf einem anderen Planeten weiterentwickelt haben, erhalten sie plötzlich ein Signal von Nod. Etwas ist dort erwacht. Etwas, das auf die Menschen wartet.

The Sectiaan invasion has begun, and the Consortium wasn't ready. Major worlds are falling daily to the aliens' superior technology. Even Hank's coalition of Peacers, Inquisitors, and soldiers can barely slow their advance. When the aliens demonstrate their ability to control organic minds, the situation becomes truly desperate. As Emortium itself comes under attack, Hank realizes that everything they learned fighting Twain might not be enough. Some enemies can't be beaten with conventional tactics, and some wars can't be won with force alone.

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.

Deep space holds secrets… …and one astronomer for NASA has found a big one. But it's not what she thinks. Dr. Melody Adams, a physicist at the Gemini North Observatory, was studying Pluto in the telescope data, and it struck her as odd. The numbers didn't make sense. Could there be an...

Mage-Captain Roslyn Chambers is trapped behind enemy lines on the allied world the Royal Martian Navy failed to save from the alien Reezh. Her official mission is to wait because her Mage-Queen has given her word: Chimera will be free.

What comes after boarding school for an evil lord? The military academy, of course! Liam's subordinates arrange the perfect overpowered patrol fleet for his post-academy training period, but the Guide is hungry for revenge against the young evil lord and takes this as an opportunity to strike! Will the Guide succeed? And will Liam ever notice that the Guide isn't actually trying to help?

With the threat of Twain defeated, something strange is happening at the edge of known space. Ships are disappearing without a trace, and Hank's concerns are being dismissed as paranoia. But when an entire colony vanishes overnight, he knows he has to act. The problem is, no one wants to hear about a new threat so soon after the last war. Working with his closest allies, Hank begins to uncover evidence of something far worse than Twain ever was. An alien force has been watching humanity for centuries, and now they're done just observing.

After being contacted by one of the princes, Liam finds himself dragged into the Empire's succession conflict. The Guide warns him about his "true enemy," but...who could it be? Then, Liam finally completes his military service and it's time to start his college career. His friends poke fun at him for not having any "fun" in his schooling so far, so he sets his sights on a brave new world of casual flings with coeds! Will Liam finally grow into the perfect evil lord with a league of ladies by his side?

In the main kitchen of the Eclipse Grand, York is down to four hundred and twelve copies of themselves. This is progress. The breakfast dubs have declared cold storage a creative retreat. York-Prime is choosing to view this as a temporary situation. Meanwhile, the galaxy's most celebrated — and most comprehensively despised — food critic has checked in under a name generated by a witness protection algorithm for its complete unremarkability.

Bounty Hunter Wanted! Top Credits Paid! Serious Inquiries Only! For Quintus Fox and the crew of the Sly Fox, things were growing tougher out on out the wild frontier of space. Governments and corporations alike were putting the squeeze on independent-minded workers like Quintus and the others, and earning a credit to keep their bird in the black meant taking jobs they wouldn't have on any other day.

"The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall" (1835) is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The story is regarded as one of the early examples of the modern science fiction genre. The story traces the journey of a voyage to the Moon. The story opens with the delivery to a crowd gathered in Rotterdam of a manuscript detailing the journey to the moon by Hans Pfaall. The manuscript sets out in detail how Hans Pfaall, a mender of bellows, contrived to reach the Moon by benefit of a revolutionary new balloon and a device which compresses the vacuum of space into breathable air.

In the cold void of the Belt, one man and his AI dogs stand against the stars—and an empire that wants to "harmonize" humanity out of existence. When unknown ships destroy a lone miner's rig and send a dying warning to Mike Stone, the quiet shepherd of drill-bots knows the solar system just changed forever. The Thrang have arrived—rigid, insectoid conquerors who impose perfect order on chaotic worlds. Earth falls fast. Mars follows. The Belt? It's next.

Die Majestätische Dracht erreicht Gliese 514 – und die Hoffnung ist groß, dort endlich einen Planeten zu finden, der den Bedürfnissen der Grosnopfe entspricht. Doch aus der Nähe sieht es ganz und gar nicht danach aus. Der Zentralstern des Systems scheint nicht einmal einen Planeten zu besitzen!

Der Exoplanet Deuteragäa – zweite Erde.Hier haben die Menschen eine Zivilisation aufgebaut, die von mächtigen Konzernen geleitet wird und auf dem Prinzip des Wettbewerbs basiert. Nach einem Angriff der Mantis, wolfsgroßer Rieseninsekten, strandet die Journalistin Moira mit dem Konzernsoldaten Rho in der Wüste. Zunächst ist ihr Ziel nur, zu überleben, doch dann wirft das, was sie in der Wüste findet, viele Fragen auf. Wozu trainiert ein Konzern Soldaten? Wieso haben die Mantis begonnen, die Menschen anzugreifen?

From #1 bestselling author Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson comes the first of three Skyward series novellas, set between Starsight and Cytonic. When a planet-destroying Delver suddenly appears in the sky of Detritus and vanishes just as suddenly, FM knows that the last free human society...

Raised fatherless in a galactic Brinktown, Joe Pikeman only ever wanted to escape. The Galactic Guard offered that escape, with the promise of regular meals to boot. Now Joe is a full Guardsman, with his own ship and a snide partner bot who hates humans almost as much as he hates other bots. To the pirates he hunts, Joe is known as the Butcher. His bloody reputation has landed him in the center of a sweeping conspiracy that threatens to stamp out the galaxy’s last surviving human settlements.

Seit vielen tausend Jahren führt die Menschheit Krieg gegen die geheimnisvollen Crul. Und seit ebenso langer Zeit erzählt man sich Geschichten von der Hauptstreitmacht des Feindes, die seit Ewigkeiten durch die endlosen Weiten des interstellaren Raums unterwegs ist, um eines Tages die Kernwelten der menschlichen Zivilisation zu vernichten. Der ehemalige Soldat Jarl, dem man Verrat und Mord zur Last legt, ist auf der Flucht vor den eigenen Verbündeten.

A year after the Commonwealth won the war with the Theocracy, the interstellar cruise liner Supreme is on its maiden voyage, carrying a host of aristocrats thrilled to be sharing in a wondrous adventure among the stars. Then a collision with a pirate ship leaves the cruiser powerless and becalmed in hyperspace. And they’re not alone. Now, the mysterious force that’s living on this floating graveyard is coming for Supreme’s crew and passengers. As madness starts to tear at their minds, they must fight to survive in a strange alien realm.

When Kell and his team return to Earth many years after their departure, they find that their world has changed almost beyond recognition. Not only has a second wave of greenhouse flooding caused sea levels to rise, but society has been changed by the consequences of the climate shift. Few people want to face Jordan Kell's news. He must convince Earth's new rulers that the human race is in danger of extinction unless it acts to forestall the death wave coming from the galaxy's heart.