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On a toroidal station orbiting a black hole, ancient aliens keep watch over prisoners whose frozen minds could unravel dimensions and erase entire worlds. For billions of years, the Empyrean have slept—cosmic beings of thought and power, bound beyond time itself. But when a single fragment of their awareness breaches the void, the balance begins to shift. Eons later, in the Sol System's glittering sprawl, prodigy Guile Hagan sees what others cannot: auras of intent, patterns in the void, whispers of impossible forces moving beneath reality.

Evan Marshall has lost too many good people. Friends. Allies. People who trusted him. Now the enemy isn't just hunting him. They're hitting everyone he's ever worked with, and they don't care who dies in the crossfire. So Evan hits back. A desperate strike deep behind enemy lines changes the balance of power. But victory comes at a cost, and the window to stay ahead is shrinking fast. A breakthrough aboard the Ascendant reveals capabilities no one imagined, and points toward a destination that's been awaiting their arrival for four thousand years.

Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson is the first book of G. I. Gurdjieff's monumental trilogy All and Everything. Conceived as both a cosmological epic and a profound work of inner instruction, the book presents its teachings through an unusual narrative framework that deliberately challenges the reader's habitual modes of perception and understanding. The story is framed as a series of conversations between Beelzebub — a high-ranking cosmic being exiled from the Solar System — and his beloved grandson Hassein.

Eine exotische Wasserwelt, angenehm temperiert, bisher nicht von intelligenten Wesen bewohnt – die Grosnopfe sind glücklich. Wird das die neue Heimat ihrer Zivilisation, nach der sie schon so lange gesucht haben? Marchenko ist skeptisch. Dieser Planet wirkt einfach zu perfekt – als wäre er exakt für die Bedürfnisse ihrer Alienfreunde geschaffen worden.

Im Jahr 2456 steckt das Reich der Vereinigten Sonnen in der Klemme, zwischen der Terranischen Hegemonie und den von ihr eingesetzten BattleMechs auf der einen Seite und dem Lyranischen Commonwealth, das gerade die Pläne zum Bau seiner eigenen wandelnden Kriegsmaschinen ergattert hat, auf der anderen. Nachdem er auf allen Seiten von Feinden umgeben ist, was soll Prinz Simon Davion tun? Nun ja, er setzt seine hinterhältigste Waffe ein – einen diplomatischen Gesandten, den er mit dem expliziten Auftrag nach Tharkad schickt, sich Zugang zu den gestohlenen BattleMech-Plänen zu verschaffen.

Step into a world where the line between reality and illusion blurs, where characters grapple with their inner demons while navigating a web of family drama and ancient prophecies. In “The First Step on The Path to Truth,” protagonist Eiran Hive, known as “Little Bear,” battles schizophrenia and isolation within his wealthy family. His journey towards self-acceptance is intertwined with mysterious Void-based light powers that both empower him and threaten his sanity. Meanwhile, Zell Hive Sr., also known as “Zell” or “Smiling Spider,” stands at the crossroads of ambition and redemption.

Der Orden des Weißen Feuers ist kein gewöhnlicher Fantasy-Roman. Es ist eine düstere, literarische Space Dark Opera über eine Welt, die sich nicht mehr durch Wahrheit erhält, sondern durch Angst, Kontrolle und heilige Auslöschung.

Major Ethan Irons thought surviving Earth’s near-extinction was the worst thing that could happen to him. Then the alien fleet arrived. When the remnants of humanity are hurled into a galactic war they didn’t start, don’t understand, and are unprepared for, Ethan finds himself leading a desperate fight for survival among alien empires, ancient grudges, impossible odds, and enough political backstabbing to make Game of Thrones look like a polite family dinner. His assets?

Flint was having a rough year. A dead-end job, a failed marriage, a lost custody battle. In short, life hadn't been going his way. His luck had to change soon, and surely evil space monsters, gladiatorial battles, vampires, sentient warships, and out-of-control nanotechnology wouldn't make his life harder, right? Flint goes from earthbound dullard to intergalactic privateer through painful, frightening, and all too often out-of-control events for which he is completely unprepared.

Das Heilmittel für die Fäulnis könnte die Galaxis retten – oder sie vernichten. Während die mysteriöse Fäulnis Welten verschlingt, verliert das Ranger-Korps seinen Kampf zum Schutz der Bürger der Union. Doch jetzt taucht eine noch größere Bedrohung auf. Hrawnor Deg, ein rücksichtsloser Verbrecherboss, steht kurz vor dem Einsatz von Omnipotent – einer uralten Technologie, die angeblich das Leben selbst umschreiben kann. Nur Fin und die Crew der Black Sheep können Deg und diese enorme Macht aufhalten.

Margaret and Philip are two of the best space archaeologists at the Royal Institute of London. While being sent to retrieve some valuable relics, they stumble upon an unknown space object, which brings them to a rogue planet, filled with green lush vegetation. Facing the unknown, they decide to explore further, and to their surprise, they find an inhabited city. At the invitation of the prominent leader of the Elders, the people who oversaw this city hidden in a great forest, they stayed and tried to adapt to this remote community, where time seemed to pass extremely slowly.

Book Two in the stunning conclusion to Frank Herbert's worldwide bestselling Dune Chronicles At the end of Frank Herbert's final novel, Chapterhouse: Dune, a ship carrying a crew of refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from a terrifying, mysterious Enemy. The fugitives used...

A company of Army Rangers is sent on an interstellar colony ship to secure a foothold on a dangerous, alien planet through violence of action. Leaving behind a warring Earth flung headfirst into a conflict of mutual assured destruction, the Rangers and the accompanying crew of first colonists are guided on a 40-year journey by an unprecedented artificial intelligence. But when they emerge from the frigid embrace of cryosleep, they awake to a nightmare, finding themselves greeted by the same ruthless enemy that brought about the ruin of Earth.

The military SF sequel to his extraordinary Old Man's War, John Scalzi's The Ghost Brigades is the second in The Old Man's War series. Who can you trust, if you can't trust yourself? Three hostile alien races have united against humanity, determined to halt our expansion into space. The...

For someone who didn't intend to wreck the solar system's fragile balance of power, Jim Holden did a pretty good job of it.While Earth and Mars have stopped shooting each other, the core alliance is shattered. The outer planets and the Belt are uncertain in their new - possibly temporary - autonomy. Then, on one of Jupiter's moons, a single super-soldier attacks, slaughtering soldiers of Earth and Mars indiscriminately and reigniting the war.

On Aurora, the first and greatest of the Spacer planets, Elijah Baley and R. Daneel Olivaw investigate yet another seemingly impossible crime – this time, a roboticide. Someone has destroyed the positronic mind of R. Jander Panell, a humanoid twin to Daneel. His creator, the master roboticist Han Fastolfe, denies all involvement. So does Gladia Delmarre, the robot’s owner. And lover. 

The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture 10,000 years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment. Now they've made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilizations: They are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new and almost infinitely more rich and complex existence.

Saint Sabbat has returned, and she is being hunted by the deadliest of assassins. Gaunt's Ghosts must fight to protect her - but can they defend against treachery from within? It's the culmination of a massive story arc that sees tragedy strike even as the Sabbat Worlds Crusade is given new hope with the reappearance of the Saint herself. Mysticism and warfare collide, with compelling results.

It is the 31st Millennium. Under the benevolent leadership of the Immortal Emperor, the Imperium has stretched out across the galaxy. It is a golden age of discovery and conquest. But now, on the eve of victory, the Emperor leaves the front lines, entrusting the great crusade to his favourite son, Horus. Promoted to Warmaster, can the idealistic Horus carry out the Emperor's grand plan, or will this promotion sow the seeds of heresy amongst his brothers?

A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle. Ships are disappearing without a trace. Private armies are being secretly formed. The sole remaining protomolecule sample is stolen. Terrorist attacks previously considered impossible bring the inner planets to their knees. The sins of the past are returning to exact a terrible price.