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2425. The civil war between the United States of North America and the Pan-European Confederation is over. But before a new era of peace on Earth can begin, humankind must martial its interstellar forces as one fleet to engage in a war against an alien entity in Omega Centauri. Without provocation, it destroyed a Confederation science facility inhabited by 12,000 people, and it must be neutralized before it sets its sights on Earth.

Douglas kontynuuje swoja fascynujaca opowiesc o kosmicznej armadzie, która atakuje terytorium poteznego wroga, i która jest wykleta przez dowództwo na Ziemi. Koenig zdaje sobie sprawe, ze bedac w defensywie Ziemia nie przetrwa, tym bardziej, ze wróg zaatakowal juz Uklad Sloneczny. W trzecim tomie glówne skrzypce po raz kolejny graja Koenig i Trevor Gray. Polityka miesza sie tutaj z wojna, a heroizm nie jest niczym wyjatkowym, lecz staje sie sposobem zycia.

The year is 2162. Thirty-eight years after first contact, Lord Commander Grayson St. Clair leads the Tellus Ad Astra on an unprecedented expedition to the Galactic Core, carrying more than a million scientists, diplomats, soldiers, and AIs. Despite his reservations about their alien hosts, St. Clair is deeply committed to his people - especially after they're sucked into a black hole and spat out four billion years in the future. Civilizations have risen and fallen. The Andromeda Galaxy is drifting into the Milky Way. And Earth is most certainly a distant memory.

Czwarta czesc cyklu Star Carrier. Fabula "Otchlani" osadzona jest ponad dwadziescia lat po wydarzeniach z finalu tomu trzeciego. Nie zmienili sie glówni bohaterowie, przybylo kilku nowych. Trevor Gray jest kapitanem i sluzy na "Americe", ale pod rozkazami innego dowódcy. Admirala Koeniga spotykamy w powiesci tuz po wygranych przez niego wyborach prezydenckich w USA. Obca rasa atakuje ludzka placówke.

Drugi tom militarnej septologii science fiction. W dalszym ciagu sledzimy zmagania Ziemian z obca cywilizacja. Po zwyciestwie nad okretami Turushów Homo Sapiens szykuja sie do ofensywy.

W piatej czesci opowiesci o zmaganiach ludzkosci z potezna prastara cywilizacja pewne sprawy zostaja wyjasnione, ale nowe wydarzenia przynosza równiez wiele pytan. Ludzie wciaz musza walczyc - zmagac sie ze smiertelnym zagrozeniem w bezlitosnej pustce kosmosu, na obcych globach, nie rozumiejac do konca sposobu rozumowania wroga, nie majac pojecia o jego rzeczywistych zamiarach.

Dwadziescia lat po wizycie Grupy Bojowej "Ameryka" w Chmurze N'gai ludzkosc znowu zetknie sie z nieznanym. Na ziemi konca dobiega wojna domowa miedzy Stanami Zjednoczonymi Ameryki Pólnocnej a Konfederacja Terranska. Przy udziale mysliwców z "Ameryki" zniszczone zostaja ostatnie ogniska oporu, a przywódcy pojmani.

The sixth book in this action-packed, New York Times bestselling science fiction series - Star Carrier. The clock is ticking in the struggle for galactic independence. Once rebels fighting all-out civil war with The Earth Confederation, over the demands of the Interstellar Sh'daar Collective, the United States of North America is now the dominant force in negotiations with the Sh'daar. But as the Marines root out the last violent dissenters, an alien ship of unknown origin suddenly flees Earth's orbit.

Once rebels find themselves facing off against the Earth Confederation, the United States of North America is now the dominant force in negotiations with the interstellar Sh'daar Collective. But just as the marines root out the last violent dissenters, an alien ship of unknown origin suddenly flees Earth's orbit. Is it mere coincidence...or a terrifying omen?

The United States of North America is now engaged in a civil war with the Earth Confederation, which wants to yield to the demands of the alien Sh'daar, limit human technology, and become a part of the Sh'daar Galactic Collective. USNA President Koenig believes that surrendering to the Sh'daar will ultimately doom humankind. But when highly advanced, seemingly godlike aliens appear through an artificial wormhole in the Omega Centauri Cluster 16,000 light years from Earth, President Koenig is faced with a tremendous choice.

Abyss Deep is a foreboding ocean planet torn by extremes: boiling storm world on one side, unbroken glacier on the other. Humans established a research colony there to study the planet's giant sea serpents - but the colony has gone ominously silent. When Carlyle's team arrives, they discover a vessel belonging to a warlike alien species hovering above the atmosphere. But below the ice lurks a mystery so chilling it will make even Elliot Carlyle's blood run cold.

Humanity had appeared to fend off the Sh'daar assault once and for all, though they never learned why the alien empire was driven to halt Earth's advancement toward technological Singularity. But in this war of worlds, victory is always elusive. And now a new battle begins. After 20 years of peace, not one but two fragile truces are unraveling. Alexander Koenig, the former Navy commander whose heroics forced the Sh'daar into submission, has won a second term as President of the United States of North America. But pursuing his mandate - sovereignty from the centuries-old Earth Confederation - becomes a risky proposition....

Chaos has erupted throughout the known galaxy, threatening countless colonies and orbital habitats - as the Associative struggles vainly to keep the peace. Extreme measures are called for in these times of dire crisis, and the Star Marines are awakened from their voluntary 850-year cybe-hibe sleep. But General Trevor Garroway and his warriors are about to discover that the old rules of engagement have drastically changed.

Nie ma już czasu... Zawsze jest czas... Trevor Gray stracił dowodzenie nad lotniskowcem kosmicznym „Ameryka” i nie wie, co ze sobą począć. Wiedział, że zastosowanie się do rad super-AI zwanej Konstantinem może mieć poważne konsekwencje. Nie myślał jednak, że zostanie przez to wyłączony z walki. Ziemię czeka bowiem starcie ze złowieszczą obcą istotą, tak zaawansowaną technologicznie, że ludzkość ma niewielkie szanse na przetrwanie. Gray sprzeciwił się rozkazom właśnie po to, by ją zatrzymać.

Having battled aliens to prove humanity’s worth as a star-faring species, Admiral Trevor Gray has a new mission: follow the directives of the super-AI Konstantin and lead the star carrier America on a mission through time and space to determine if humanity can truly transcend into Singularity...and avoid the pitfalls that have plagued so many of the aliens Earth has encountered since it gained faster-than-light travel.

Trevor Gray has been stripped of his command of the starship America and is unsure what to do with his life. Having dedicated so much of himself to the service, he knew following the super-AI Konstantin’s advice could have severe consequences. He just never thought he would be out of the fight. Because that’s what Earth is in: a fight against a sinister alien force that is so technologically advanced, there seems little hope. That’s why he had disobeyed his orders in the first place: to figure out a way to stop them. But now he’s beached - just what Konstantin wanted.

Center of Gravity is the second book in the explosive Star Carrier series by Ian Douglas - and a breathtaking new high in military SF, the strongest of the science fiction subgenres. Battlestar Galactica fans will adore this saga of ultimate war in deep space, as humankind risks its very future, battling a vast alien evil empire in order to achieve transcendence and become a major power in the universe.

In the final days of World War II, the Allies ransacked Berlin, but they failed to capture one of the most vital members of Adolf Hitler’s inner circle. SS Obergruppenfuhrer Hans Kammler helped to engineer Auschwitz, but he was also a liaison with silent partners whose technological wonders nearly helped the Nazis win the war - the alien species the Germans called the Eidechse. More than seven decades later, US Navy SEAL Mark Hunter has witnessed the impossible, an unidentified flying object destroying a North Korean compound used to develop weapons of mass destruction.

Having battled aliens to prove humanity’s worth as a star-faring species, Admiral Trevor Gray has a new mission: follow the directives of the super-AI Konstantin and lead the star carrier America on a mission through time and space to determine if humanity can truly transcend into Singularity...and avoid the pitfalls that have plagued so many of the aliens Earth has encountered since it gained faster-than-light travel. But there are those out there who don’t want an answer, who wish to maintain their own power with the status quo.

This collection includes four classic TV novelisations in which the Doctor and friends are witnesses to alien invasion.