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Zu Beginn des 31. Jahrtausends hat das Imperium der Menschheit seine Herrschaft über die Galaxis wiederhergestellt. Es ist ein goldenes Zeitalter der Wiederentdeckung und Eroberung, in dem die übermenschlichen Primarchen an der Spitze der mächtigen Space-Marine-Legionen marschieren. Es ist der Große Kreuzzug des Imperators, die größte militärische Macht, die jemals versammelt worden ist. Doch als der Kreuzzug in seine letzte Phase eintritt, und der idealistische Horus zum Kriegsherrn des Imperators und Anführer seiner Brüder erhoben wird, treten düstere kosmische Wahrheiten ans Licht.

Evelyn War is a Believer. She knows that long before the Time of Ice, the Masters fought a war with Them, great chitinous beasts that stalked the world and rended and killed. She knows the Masters sent fierce, doglike Aux like her to watch over their great sleep. Them were real. But in the frozen ruins of Berlin, Them have not been seen for many years. Now the Aux fight among themselves and say all that was just stories. They scorn Evelyn and mock her warnings. But the ice is melting, and the whistling calls of Them can be heard in the tunnels of the U-Bahn once more....

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.

For more than 200 years, the armies of the Emperor of Mankind fought to reconquer the galaxy - led by the superhuman primarchs, the Space Marine Legions brought countless worlds back under the rule of ancient Terra. Now Horus, once honoured Warmaster and favoured son of the Emperor, has been corrupted by the whispered promises of Chaos. At his command the Imperium is torn apart by a terrible and bloody civil war, the likes of which the galaxy has never seen....

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.

In early 20th Century England Hamilton James Macaulay relates the tale of how he found himself in a Scarborough Bric-a-brac shop. The owner of the shop has 13 long playing records that each contain a hidden track at the end, that tell strange tales of future times. These 13 tales of terror will change Hamilton James Macaulay's life forever and he will leave the shop a murderer. Thirteen is a portmantaeu audio anthology, harking back to the classic horror albums of the 1970s.

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.

When the TARDIS is invaded by a holographic marketing scam, the Doctor and Donna find themselves trapped on the Edifice, a purpose-built complex of luxury apartments in space. Their new environs leave much to be desired: millions of beings from across the Universe have been gathered to live side by side in similar apartments. Instead of creating neighbourly affection, it's led to terrible battles being waged in the corridors and on the stairwells.

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.

In the sprawling Imperium of Mankind, everyone serves the Emperor in their own way. From the Inquisitors who hunt the hidden enemies of humanity in the dark places of the galaxy to the brave soldiers who stand on the front line, and the Imperial Assassins who can change the tides of war with a single shot, each has a part to play in preserving the Imperium. This audio drama anthology contains eight stories of the agents who dispense the Emperor's justice.

Im finsteren 41. Jahrtausend sind die Space Marines die besten Verteidiger der Menschheit, die ultimativen Schocktruppen des Imperators. Der Orden der ...

In der Stadt Königin Mab ist nichts wie es zu sein scheint. Unberührbare, Spionin, Agentin der Inquisition - Alizebeth Bequin ist all das, und doch nichts davon. Sie ist ein Rätsel, sogar für sich selbst, und findet sich zwischen den Inquisitoren Gregor Eisenhorn und Gideon Ravenor wieder. Einst Verbündete sind sie nun Feinde und spielen ein tödliches Spiel gegen einen geheimnisvollen und tödlichen Widersacher. Begehrt vom Erzfeind und verfolgt von der Inquisition wird Bequin in eine dunkle Verschwörung verwickelt, in der sie weder ihre Rolle, noch ihr Ziel kennt.

Der Krieg mag vorbei sein, aber die Pflicht der Soldaten des Astra Militarum endet nicht. Die frisch ausgehobenen Geister von Tanith finden sich in der zerstörten Grenzstadt Vincula mit ihrem Kommandeur Ibram Gaunt in einem undankbaren Polizeieinsatz wieder, dessen Ziel es ist, einen permanenten Frieden zu ermöglichen. Doch irgendetwas pirscht durch die finsteren Straßen und macht Jagd auf die unerfahrenen Geister, die an diesem entlegenen Ort mit finsteren Geheimnissen über sich selbst konfrontiert werden.

In der mysteriösen Stadt Königin Mab sind die Mächte des Lichts und der Dunkelheit in einen tödlichen Konflikt um die Wahrheit verwickelt. Die Diener der Heiligen Inquisition liefern sich einen Kampf mit ihrem zwielichtigen Pendant, den berüchtigten Cognitae, um die Identität des rätselfhaften und äußerst mächtigen Königs in Gelb herauszufinden. Im Herzen dieses Konflikts steht Alizebeth Bequin, eine psionisch Unberührte, die sich nun entscheiden muss, ob sie sich der Inquisition anschließt oder den Cognitae, die sie aufgezogen und ausgebildet haben.