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The revelations on Mars - a half-million year-old legacy of the vanished star-traveling Builders - have fed the flames of catastrophic war. A beleaguered United States and its Russian and Japanese allies struggle to hold their own against the indomitable forces of the enemy United Nations. The bloody conflict that has swept over the home planet now rages across the blackness of space - with the U.S. Marine Corps in the vanguard, leading the charge as always.

With the planet's fighting men and women deployed across the galaxy—battling in the noble cause of enslaved humanity—the insidious Xul have reached across space to devastate the unsuspecting Earth with asteroid fire. Without warning, a once majestic world is reduced to near-rubble—and the...

When called to do battle many light years from home, the 1st Marine Interstellar Expeditionary Unit rose to the challenge -- and now thousands of enslaved humans have been freed from the alien yoke. But Earth is twenty-one years older than the home planet they originally left, and the Marines...

2040: Ruins of ancient civilization uncovered on Mars reveal startling truths about the creation of humankind. 2042: In the gray dust of the Earth's Moon, an extinct enslaving race left behind more answers, more questions...and a grim warning. 2067: As Earth's warring factions clash in space for scraps of alien technology, a strange artifact lies trapped beneath the ice-locked oceans of Europa: a machine that holds the key to the final human destiny. It is called "The Singer" for the eerie tone it emits.

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.

New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas's virtuosic Star Corpsman series proves one thing: The Marines are still the toughest sons of guns in the galaxy. As Bravo Company defuses a hostage crisis on an orbiting mining station, Navy Corpsman Elliot ""Doc"" Carlyle not only saves the lives...

With his Heritage, Legacy, and Inheritance trilogies, New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas established himself as one of the true masters of military sf—sharing center stage with such authors as Rick Shelley, John Ringo, David Sherman, and Dan Cragg in a wildly popular sub-genre of...

Galaxies collide in a thrilling new series from bestselling author Ian Douglas, as the last humans in the universe face off against a new threat 2162. Thirty-eight years after first contact, Lord Commander Grayson St. Clair leads the Tellus Ad Astra on an unprecedented expedition to the Galactic...

In the future, earth's warriors have conquered the heavens. But on a distant world, Humanity is in chains ... Many millennia ago, the human race was enslaved by the An -- a fearsome alien people whose cruel empire once spanned the galaxies, until they were defeated and consigned to oblivion. But...

Four classic TV novelisations in which the Doctor and friends are witnesses to alien invasion. In Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet, by Gerry Davis, the First Doctor, Ben and Polly help the crew of an Antarctic tracking station as they resist invasion by the Cybermen, intent on enslaving humanity...

Czy to koniec? Czy nowy początek…? Admirał Trevor Gray stoczył wiele bitew z obcymi, wielokrotnie pokazując im, że nie warto zadzierać z ludzkością. Teraz jego samego i dowodzony przez niego lotniskowiec gwiezdny „Ameryka” czeka nowe zadanie: z pomocą Konstantina, zaawansowanej sztucznej inteligencji, przemierzyć czas i przestrzeń, by dowiedzieć się, czy ludzkość rzeczywiście może osiągnąć osobliwość i jednocześnie uniknąć zagrożeń, z którymi zmagały się inne napotkane przez Ziemian międzygwiezdne cywilizacje.

Lord Alfred receives a letter from Dr. Albert Frankenstein, the grandson of the notorious Victor Frankenstein, who asks Alfred if he would look into the origin of some giant footprints. However, on arrival in Grindwald, the remote mountain hamlet where Frankenstein and his family live, Alfred and his entourage are told it was just a hoax. Slowly, it becomes apparent that Albert Frankenstein is involved in something very suspicious.

Welcome to the podcast for techintervide.guide. I‘ve been in the tech industry for over 25 years and have spent more than a decade in management and leadership roles involved in the interview process at many organizations. I‘ve helped people get jobs at all kinds of companies, from small startups to FAANG organizations. I live stream career coaching and interview preparation advice for people in the tech industry who are looking for their first, or next, technical job . This podcast is made up of Q&A / AMA sessions that I host a few times each month. I talk about behavioral questions, ...

Rok 2425. Wojna między Stanami Zjednoczonymi a Unią Europejską zakończyła się. Jednak zanim na Ziemi rozpocznie się era pokoju, ludzkość musi połączyć swe siły i stworzyć wspólną flotę kosmiczną do walki z nieznanym zagrożeniem przy Gwieździe Kapteyna. Bez ostrzeżenia obca potęga zniszczyła tam ludzką placówkę naukową. Zagrożenie musi zostać zneutralizowane, zanim obcy zainteresują się Ziemią. Admirał Trevor "Piachu" Gray, dowódca lotniskowca „Ameryka”, ma własną misję. Konstantin, sztuczna inteligencja o niezwykłych możliwościach, przekonał go, że jedyną szansą na przetrwanie ludzkości jest technologia, którą można znaleźć w pewnym odległym układzie.

Over 20 years have passed since the events of Warstrider: Symbionts. Contact with the DalRiss and Naga, and their technology, has radically altered human society - as has the constant struggle between the Hegemony and the rebel Confederation for control over the dozens of human-inhabited planets. But the Hegemony has a new technology that could suppress any resistance to Earth's rule.

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.

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.

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.

The Web, a vast machine intelligence of unbelievable power, is steadily consuming the galaxy, indifferent to any species that stands in its way. Fighting the Web brings together an alliance between disparate societies and alien civilizations that must stand against it in battle. And overcoming the Web means learning where it came from, what goals drive its single-minded advance, and, ultimately, what the future holds for intelligent life in the universe.

Dev Cameron helped the rebel Confederation defeat the Hegemony forces at Herakles, but his experience merging with an alien Naga consciousness has changed him irrevocably, and the rebellion rages on. After the passive DalRiss unexpectedly attack the Hegemony, Dev and Katya Alessandro are sent to meet with the aliens to determine if they have a common enemy.