Hard Times Apocalyptic

A nuclear disaster strikes Europe… …but inside the cutting-edge thorium reactor, everything appears normal. No system failures. No containment breach. Not a single malfunction. Yet - hospitals overflow with radiation victims. Wildlife drops dead in forests. Trees wither and decay for miles. Something is poisoning the land—something no sensor can detect. Something that shouldn't exist. When the IAEA sends specialist investigator Jonathan Beck to the scene, he faces an impossible paradox. The reactor is clean. The science says it's safe. But people are dying. He isn't alone in the hunt....

A private investigator is hired to look into a mysterious, high-profile death aboard the starship Halcyon in this fresh new science fiction masterpiece from the "mastersinger of space opera" (The Times) and the creator of the beloved Revelation Space universe. Strap in for a gripping murder...

John Twelve Hawks, bestselling author of The Traveler, returns with a masterful journey through the near future of Artificial Intelligence, in which a wise, orphaned ten-year-old girl goes on the run with only her trusty "Interactive Toy" to guide her toward New York City, where a dark landscape...

The Complete Hard Time Series: A speculative fiction serial of adventure novellas. This omnibus contains all six books that complete the saga: Metal, Longhorn, Cult, Trune, Synth, and Deity.

He is John Braun, Vatican archivist … and CIA deep cover agent. He has a genius for decrypting codes in the archives … and for deniable black ops in the dark of night. His life is one of research and history… and of anti-terror and explosive violence. Now he has survived an attempt on his life. Braun is blamed for the acts of terror by the very men tasked with his assassination. He is determined to take down his ruthless, mysterious enemies. But he soon finds himself at the center of a generational conspiracy that will topple governments and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. He ...

He is John Braun, Vatican archivist … and CIA deep cover agent. He has a genius for decrypting codes in the archives … and for deniable black ops in the dark of night. His life is one of research and history… and of anti-terror and explosive violence. Now he has survived an attempt on his life. Braun is blamed for the acts of terror by the very men tasked with his assassination. He is determined to take down his ruthless, mysterious enemies. But he soon finds himself at the center of a generational conspiracy that will topple governments and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. He ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Jason M. Hough’s pulse-pounding debut combines the drama, swagger, and vivid characters of Joss Whedon’s Firefly with the talent of sci-fi author John Scalzi. In the mid-23rd century, Darwin, Australia, stands as the last human city on Earth. The world has...

What if the end of the world already happened 450 million years ago? For Dr. Samuel White and four of the world’s leading quantum scientists, the nightmare is identical: a terrifying vision of non-Euclidean geometry, a cryptic SOS, and a maddening signal humming at exactly 400 Hertz. Driven to the brink of insanity, the strangers abandon their lives and converge on a dead zone in the freezing, desolate wastes of the Arctic Ocean. But what they find buried beneath two miles of multi-year pack ice isn't a crashed ship or a lost research station. It’s an ancient, continent-sized machine. ...

This apocalyptic tale is torn straight from current headlines. The US stock markets have a terrible day, the economy is a mess right now, and it only takes a small nudge to fall apart. Wayne Cook and His wife have been preparing for years in the event that the world is turned upside down, and with the nudge of the markets, that event looks to be landing on their New Mexico town. Could the Stock market really crash? The markets have safeguards to prevent a complete crash from happening, but nothing if full proof and Wayne is going to find out if all the planning is truly going to be enough.

Book 4 - The story's conclusion Survival. Sacrifice. Defiance. The galaxy is dying. The Harvesters—immortal, godlike, and relentless—move through the interwoven veins of black holes, waiting in the frozen depths of time as their civilization ascends beyond comprehension. To them, humanity is nothing more than a tool, a resource to be farmed, reset, and enslaved in an eternal cycle of conquest. Entire star systems have vanished, their suns extinguished, their people harvested. As the Harvesters close in, humanity’s fate will be decided. Time itself bends to their will. Can their hold ...

Brought to you by Penguin. In a disintegrating and increasingly lawless land, a young man is travelling north. Ben is a young painter from the crowded, turbulent city. For six months his fiancée Cara has been living on the remote island of Sanctuary Rock, the property of millionaire...

If you went back in time, could you fix your worst mistakes? In this hardcore Sci Fi thriller, the “Girl with the Turtle Tattoo” inadvertently causes the surface of the Earth to be incinerated. But she escapes back into Time, determined to change Fate. From Cretaceous dinosaurs to a 12th Century nunnery to a thriving Mars colony, Sally desperately seeks to stop or divert the “terrible momentum” of history: where whatever she attempts just makes things worse. She quickly learns her only hope to stop the dreaded “butterfly effect” is to acquire an exceedingly rare Vision. But will...

An eclectic collection of stories of strange voyages in time and space. •Dragon Fire - The pilot of a Fokker Triplane is transferred through time to fight aerial duels with dragons. •Twilight’s Last Gleaming - An AI interstellar space probe is the last defense for the human race. •Second Chance - The crew of a small base on the Moon discovers the remains of ancient alien visitors. •Prize Crew - Privateers fight a querrila war against the powerful UNE Navy in the Asteroid Belt. •Assassin - Ruthless aliens invade the Solar System and an ancient warship is Earth's last defense. •...

A charming rogue, Dan Courtney is learning fast that it takes more than a little charm to lay the groundwork for a railroad. Particularly when the plan is to build it across some of the roughest and most dangerous territory on earth. Courtney's been hired to survey the land that would link up the Uganda Railway to the Anglo-Egyptian railroad. Running through desert, jungle and mountains, this is one line—and story—with more twists and turns than the New York City subway system.

Where survival is the meaning of life. A speculative fiction serial of adventure novellas set in a strange and punishing world. In Book 3, Cult, missionaries arrive on a holy quest to fulfill their scriptures. But the desert has other plans. Will they escape with their faith, or even their lives, intact?

A speculative fiction serial of adventure novellas set in a strange and punishing world. In Book 4, Trune, a long-awaited arrival bursts into the world, slaughtering all that stand in her way. As characters from previous novels reappear and unify, will they survive to understand their greater destiny?

Where survival is the meaning of life. A speculative fiction serial of adventure novellas set in a strange and punishing world. In Deity, an entity guides a motley crew of creatures toward a new beginning in a planet's last gasp at life.

A speculative fiction serial of adventure novellas set in a strange and punishing world. In book 5, Synth, an ancient guardian faces a foe that could destroy them all. Can the last remnants of humanity escape the terrible wrath pursuing them from the past?

Where survival is the meaning of life. A speculative fiction serial of adventure novellas set in a strange and punishing world. In book one, Metal, a woman finds herself in two different worlds, as two different people. In one she is a criminal, sentenced to a new and terrible punishment. In the other, she is a stranger and then a prophet, granted the visions of God.

AD 7.783 - In 43 Stunden startet das letzte Raumschiff. Die Jericho-Mission ist das teuerste Fiasko der bemannten Raumfahrt. Dennoch wird Ben, Fernaufklärer und Scharfschütze, aus dem Kälteschlaf geholt. Der Einsatz: Sicherung einer Stellung im Nirgendwo, dem HWY51. Natürlich gibt es hier keinen Highway, sondern nur extraterrestrischen Wüstendreck. Noch 7 Stunden. Als Ben erkennt, was auf dem Mond läuft, fliegt ihm der Laden bereits um die Ohren. Kein Ding, damit kommt er klar. Mehr zu schaffen machen ihm seine Erinnerungen.