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Welcome to Termush: a luxury coastal resort like no other. All the wealthy guests are survivors, who reserved rooms long before the Disaster. Inside, they embrace exclusive radiation shelters, ambient music and lavish provisions; outside, radioactive dust falls on the sculpture park, security men step over dead birds, and a reconnaissance party embarks. But despite weathering a nuclear apocalypse, their problems are only just beginning.

Halley is on the run from an interplanetary political scandal that has put a huge target on her back. She heads for what seems like the perfect place to lay low: a gigantic space barge housing the cryogenically frozen bodies of Earth’s most wealthy citizens. The ship and its cryo program are long defunct, but Halley starts to think she sees figures crawling in the hallways, and there’s a constant scraping, slithering, and rattling echoing in the vents. It’s not long before Halley realizes she may have gotten herself trapped in an even more dangerous situation than the one she was running from.

Mallory Viridian has had a quiet few months. Even with the increased influx of humans visiting Station Eternity, she hasn’t seen so much as a bar brawl. Used to people dying left and right around her, the lack of murders to solve has left her unexpectedly…bored. But humanity's favorite way to waste time is on its way to her sector of the galaxy. The Alexandria, a giant data ship that contains the entire Internet from Earth, docks outside of Eternity and offers access to the world wide web to anyone on board who's interested.

Der neue Killerbot-Roman – bald als Serie bei Apple TV+. Wenn die SecurityUnit namens Killerbot nicht gerade Attentäter zur Strecke bringt oder Fernsehserien suchtet, ist sie als Begleitschutz für Forschungsmissionen unterwegs. Diesmal geht allerdings alles schief. Der Konzern Barish-Estranza schickt gleich mehrere Schiffe, um Siedler auf einem neu kolonisierten Planeten zu retten. Killerbot ist mit dabei, aber leider auch mehrere andere SecUnits. Schon bald hat der neurotischste Roboter von allen den Verdacht, dass der Konzern eine geheime Agenda verfolgt – und auch Killerbots eigenes System läuft nicht rund. Und wenn Killerbot nicht das Leben der Siedler gefährden will, muss er schleunigst eine Lösung finden.

Born of the sun and of the moon, disfigured by fire and malady, comes the most powerful witch Algiers has ever seen... This is the story of a young woman, treated with utter disdain, complete distrust and even, hate, when all she tried to do was help... This is the story of Sycorax.

From the ancient sands of Babylon to the birth of the American Revolution and through the Roman Empire at its zenith, King's exploits are a thrilling blend of historical intrigue and futuristic heroism. Whether he's rescuing a doomed Babylonian prince, navigating the treacherous waters of the Caribbean as an immortal pirate, or battling a plague-ridden Roman centurion, King's actions ripple through time.

Welchen Preis ist wahre Freiheit wert? Das Finale der zweiten Phase der Hohen Republik. Seit fünf Jahren herrscht Krieg zwischen den Planeten Eiram und E’ronoh, doch endlich bietet sich die Möglichkeit auf Frieden. Denn Jedi-Ritterin Gella Nattai weiß nun, wer die geheimen Kriegstreiber sind. Die mysteriösen Verschwörer vom Pfad der offenen Hand, die von den Jedi auch für die Katastrophe von Jedha verantwortlich gemacht werden, haben ihre Finger im Spiel. Gella kann sie besiegen, doch dafür benötigt sie die Hilfe von Axel Greylark.

The TARDIS arrives on the planet Manussa, about to commemorate its ancient banishment of the evil entity known as the Mara. Unbeknownst to the Manussans, the Doctor's companion, Tegan, has become an unsuspecting medium for the Mara. Now she has helped it to return home. The Doctor realises that this could mark the spectacular revival of the Mara's reign of terror - but it seems that no-one will heed his warning.

First published fifteen years ago, shortly after his death, inside this collection are some of the finest short stories of science fiction writing from one of the genre’s greatest writers, Isaac Asimov. Isaac Asimov was the Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America, the founder of robot ethics, and one of the world's most prolific authors of fiction and non-fiction. The Good Doctor's short fiction has been enjoyed by millions for more than half a century. Now the definitive Asimov collection is underway with Volume One of The Complete Stories.

Technology never works well the first time. Or even the second. Army veteran John Reiff is living proof. This time he is revived in the back of a dilapidated ambulance, on the run from a shadowy organization that is desperate to take him back. He is the first one, their archetype, and they need to know what happened after his escape. What is happening to his body and his mind. And they need to know now. Because Reiff knows things he shouldn’t. About them and about what they are hiding. A secret that has been in cold storage for several hundred years.

Watch and weep as this epic tale unfolds...It's drama, darling! In this festive tale, the nation's favourite film producer, Calvin Cutter, returns to darken the doors of St Mary's once again...

2559. It has been a year since the rogue artificial intelligence Cortana seized control of the Domain, an otherworldly dimension housing a vast information network. With an array of Forerunner weapons at her disposal, Cortana set out to enforce an authoritarian peace on the civilizations of the galaxy. But as the United Nations Space Command flagship Infinity prepares to strike against Cortana at Zeta Halo, another plan has also been set in motion.

A month ago, the supernova Aeon detonated in the skies over Antarctica. Global sea levels rose by five feet, temperatures by ten degrees. A mass human and animal exodus to the north is underway even as the global electronics and power and communications grids have been destroyed. Max Carver made it back to America in time to be with Talisha and witness the birth of their child, Charlotte, but he was unsuccessful in stopping Ben Belloc from leaving the Amazon with the Colony technology.

It's ten years since Harry Sullivan left UNIT and gave up his travels in the TARDIS with the Doctor and Sarah Jane. Since then he has been engaged in top secret work, developing antidotes to nerve toxins. But when he is transferred to Yarra in the Hebrides to work on weapons research, he has severe misgivings. For one thing, it goes against much of what he believes in. For another, someone is out to kill Harry Sullivan.

The Jedi reluctantly team up with the nefarious Lourna Dee in this all-new Star Wars audiobook original, narrated by a full cast.

The Jedi reluctantly team up with the nefarious Lourna Dee in this all-new Star Wars audiobook original, narrated by a full cast.

Cego is released into a war-torn world where the lines between shadow and light are blurred. He must decide which path to follow: one of his brother's righteous rebellion, or the one that leads to the family he's finally found.

Jack Sigler, call sign King, and the elite Chess Team operatives have been relentlessly hunting for their abducted former leader, Tom Duncan. An urgent call from George Pierce's shadowy Cerberus Group catapults them to the treacherous Southern Ocean, where they clash with ferocious prehistoric nightmares in a fight for survival.

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With the fourth stand-alone NeoG novel, Die Hard meets A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this nail-biting, action-filled story that’s as much about found family as it is about survival when a peaceful transition of power in the Mars Orbital Station goes terribly wrong as rebels decide this is the moment to make their move, leaving two NeoG members stranded inside a ticking time bomb.