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Auf der Welt Verghast herrscht ein zermürbender Krieg zwischen zwei Makropolen. Eine steht loyal zum Imperium, während die andere den Dunklen Göttern verfallen ist. Kommissar-Oberst Gaunt und das Erste und Einzige Tanith werden als Speerspitze einer Entsatzstreitmacht in den Kampf geschickt, doch erbitterte Konkurrenzkämpfe und Verrat drohen, die Verteidigung der Vervun-Makropole scheitern zu lassen. Gaunt ist gezwungen, das Kommando zu übernehmen und zu versuchen, die drohende Niederlage in einen Sieg zu verwandeln.

Auf Monthax warten Kommissar-Oberst Ibram Gaunt und das Erste und Einzige Tanith den Befehl zum Vorrücken in einen drückend heißen Dschungel, um die fremdartigen Eldar von dem Planeten zu vertreiben. Als der Zeitpunkt der Schlacht immer näher rückt, marschiert Gaunt die Reihen entlang, stärkt den Kampfgeist der Männer und erinnert sich ihrer größten Heldentaten - und der Tragödien, welche die Geister seit ihrer Gründung auf dem zerstörten Tanith heimsuchen. Der Tag, an dem Gaunt als Geistermacher bekannt wurde.

Ein großer Krieg zieht auf und er wird das Imperium der Menschheit verschlingen. Die Space Marines der Alpha Legion, der geheimnisvollsten Bruderschaft der Legiones Astartes, erreicht eine aufständische Welt, um dort die Imperiale Garde bei einem Befriedungseinsatz gegen seltsame und unheimliche Kräfte zu unterstützen. Doch was treibt die Alpha Legion an? Auf welcher Seite wird sie in dem Krieg stehen, der sich am Horizont abzeichnet?

Join the Doctor and Martha on these journeys in Time and Space. The first five stories detail Martha’s journey around the Earth during the Master’s reign, and the stories she tells of her adventures with the Doctor. The last three novels tell of the Doctor’s own adventures as he partners with the Judoon on the trail of a notorious criminal, encounters Slitheen in Ancient Greece, and joins a party of Dalek bounty hunters in an era before the Time War.

On Malinter, the Divine Fratery, servants of the Runious Powers, do battle with Inquisitor Gideon Ravenor and his companions. But someone else is waiting in the shadows, someone that the Fratery want to see dead even more than they do Ravenor. As daemonhosts battle in the skies and the air fills with gunfire and rain, Ravenor meets with an old friend, summoned by a simple message: Thorn Wishes Talon.

Amon Tauromachian, one of the Emperor's elite Custodian Guard, returns to the Imperial Palace after a year on one of the Blood Games by which these exalted heroes train. Tasked with a new mission, he is sent to the hives of Hy Brasil to check on the loyalty of a notorious troublemaker. With the galaxy at war and half the Imperium's armies in rebellion, any hint of heresy on the Throneworld must be stamped out.

Something is here that shouldn't be here. Something is watching. In Cardiff's secret heart, the members of the Torchwood team struggle to define and locate the intruder, and contain it before anyone gets hurt.

Michael Maloney reads this original adventure by Dan Abnett, featuring the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory. For centuries the Maintainers have worked. With no help from other worlds, they subsist on the food they can grow and that’s little enough. But their purpose, their whole life, is to maintain the machines that will one day make their world as habitable as old Earth. Life used to be hard. Now as crops fail, livestock sicken, and the temperature drops, it’s becoming impossible.

It is the year 2010. Her Divine Majesty, Queen Elizabeth XXX sits upon the throne. Great Britain’s vast Empire is run by alchemy and superstition. Now Sir Rupert Triumff, dashing swordsman, has uncovered a vile plot to dethrone her glorious majesty. For the honour of the nation: to arms! Multi-million selling author Dan Abnett whips up a furious maelstrom of incredible swordfights, wild invention and truly outrageous jokes.

Hydra has a synthetic pathogen that will make the entire human race dependent on them for the cure. A.I.M.'s newly developed nanotech compound to enslave humanity is dangerously close to contaminating the world's water supplies. Ultron is poised on the edge of Singularity, Earth's technology at his metallic fingertips. Dormammu has a plan to save the world - by claiming it as his own. The High Evolutionary is rewriting the human genome in a bid to turn humankind into a eugenic slave-race. Everybody wants to rule the world - and only the isolated Avengers can stop them.

Brought to you by Penguin. Late 21st century and Earth has been reduced to an uninhabited wasteland. What was left of humanity was evacuated into overpopulated space stations, or 'Habitats'. A hotbed for crime and strange new religious sects, the Habitat Security Division has no shortage of work...

Sons of the primarch Roboute Guilliman, the Primaris Ultramarines are peerless warriors whose sworn duty is to protect mankind from the predations of the xenos and the foul traitors of the Heretic Astartes. In a galaxy riven by eternal war, they and the other armies of the Imperium are all that stand between mankind and damnation. Their ship damaged by warp storms, the Ultramarines of strike force Cassian make for Kalides Prime. Also within this book is a host of awesome short stories to give you a flavour of the many warring armies that exist within the worlds of Warhammer 40,000.