Adult Space Opera

A Newbery Honor Book and a Book Sense 76 Selection, Enchantress from the Stars is a science-fiction classic. Three alien races meet on the small green world of Andrecia. The Imperial Exploration Corps wants to claim the planet for its own, but the Anthropological Service stands in the way. And when young Elana makes contact with native Georyn, a love story exploring the very depths of human emotion unfolds.

Eavan is er heilig van overtuigd dat haar voorouder het hele verhaal, dat ze in een dagboek heeft opgeschreven, niet uit haar duim heeft gezogen. Samen met haar vriend Chris gaat ze op zoek naar de planeet waarvan zij vermoedt dat Wendy daar ooit terecht is gekomen met de vreemde jongen. Maar ze is niet voorbereid op wat ze daar werkelijk aantreft.

Just days before Jake Saunders plans on proposing to the love of his life, Jake is called upon once again to save his home, Earth. The Earthen Legion troops and its allies think they’re battling only pirates, but a new, more powerful foe from another galaxy flanks their forces and invades, in search of a weapon the planet didn’t even know it had.

The imagination of humanity has a tendency toward the extremes. It's at the extremes that the excitement is found. Fortunately, reality has a tendency toward the mean. The reality for the humanity of the 2080s is about what you'd expect. Life on Earth is rough, but not especially rough compared to eras past. The second space race has come and gone, leaving the masses to figure out the rules of yet another new status quo.

Galactic Central, a collection of floating cities in a vast, manmade, planetless cloud. Scout Shannon longed to see it since she first heard of it. This place long represented her shining future. But in her less shiny present, she reaches it by smuggling herself aboard a cargo ship and hides in the lower sewer-like levels of the most opulent of the floating cities. Teams of girl assassins still hunt her. Worse, her friends are in danger and don’t even know.

Der sechzehnjährige Zachariah Aurelian träumt davon, der prestigeträchtigen Earth Alliance Fleet Academy beizutreten, wo nur die besten Kadetten einen Platz unter den Sternen verdienen. Mit seiner unbeugsamen Entschlossenheit und seinem cleveren KI-Begleiter Giles ist Zach bereit, die harten Aufnahmeprüfungen der Akademie zu bestehen. Doch der Weg zum Flottenkommando ist alles andere als einfach. Simulierte Weltraumschlachten bringen seine Fähigkeiten an ihre Grenzen. Politische Spannungen zwischen der Erde und den unabhängigen Kolonien drohen einen neuen Krieg auszulösen.

Fast vollständig wurden die Jedi-Ritter vernichtet, doch eine Rebellengruppe widersetzt sich den Befehlen Darth Vaders: Der junge Luke Skywalker erfährt von Jedi-Meister Obi-Wan Kenobi seine Bestimmung - und nimmt gemeinsam mit dem Schmuggler Han Solo und Prinzessin Leia Organa den Kampf gegen die Dunkle Seite der Macht auf... Gelesen von Wolfgang Pampel, der Synchronstimme von "Han Solo" (Harrison Ford).

Scout Shannon wants nothing more than to leave her home world and its petty squabbling factions behind. Galactic Central with all of its excitement and opportunities awaits her. She makes it as far as her own planet’s orbit before the snares of bureaucracy close around her, trapping her on a space station populated by her people’s oldest foe. Then her rescuer, her only friend in the galaxy, disappears, abducted by a group of strangers the moment he steps off his ship.

Esmae once wanted nothing more than to help her golden brother win the crown of Kali, but that dream died with her best friend. Alexi broke her heart, and she vowed to destroy him for it. And with her sentient warship Titania beside her, how can she possibly fail? As gods, beasts, and kingdoms choose sides, Alexi seeks out a weapon more devastating than even Titania. Past lives threaten the present. Old enemies claim their due. And Esmae cannot outrun the ghosts and the questions that haunt her.

In AD 2076, Earth has been conquered and humanity brutally enslaved under the cruel tyranny of the Kalkar invaders whose evil was spawned from Va-nah, the Moon’s hollow interior. But when a desperate plea comes from the planet Barsoom, Julian Seventh - descendant of the great hero who nearly defeated the Kalkars - is hurled upon a lonely quest into the heart of Va-nah. There he must team up with a U-ga princess and a fierce alien quadruped to launch a daring rescue to save a lost Barsoomian ambassadorial mission.

Creían estar a salvo. Soñaban con poder volver. Habían olvidado los defectos, pero también las virtudes, de la otra mitad del grupo. El reencuentro tumba todos los supuestos que los doce jóvenes traen de sus aventuras previas y los lleva, junto con el robot de la Calypso, a unir fuerzas ante un último desafío. Solo uno de ellos, sin embargo, podrá superarlo. Rompiendo las normas de la narrativa juvenil actual, Cénit cierra la saga Doce Soles con una valiente reflexión sobre el fracaso, la responsabilidad, el amor y la convivencia entre humanos y máquinas.

Ever wonder what else is out there? So does twelve-year-old Drew Shipley, a daydreamer whose only fear is growing up. To escape his present and avoid his future, Drew and his friends roam their small town playing night tag, fantasizing about aliens and spaceships, and exploring the haunted Gladhill barn. But Drew’s fantasies become reality when a starfighter from another dimension crashes in the cornfield behind his house: Sheela Vestril, commander of the Dimension Warriors and last hope in a galactic war to save their world from the vile Lord Malgore.

Mitch Mythic was a normal kid living a normal life, but after he takes a stick to the crotch during a hockey game, the video of the incident breaks the internet, and his life spins out of control. As he becomes an online laughing stock and his friends abandon him, he is certain he has hit rock bottom. Oh, how wrong he was.

Felicitas kann es gar nicht glauben. Sie ist Erster Offizier auf dem Raumträger Elysion. 2169 in Dienst gestellt und mit dem experimentellen Antimaterie-Tachyonen-Antrieb ausgerüstet, bricht der Stolz der Terranischen Space Force nach Proxima Centauri auf. Und sie ist mit dabei, an Bord dieses riesigen Trägers, seinen Piloten, Soldaten, Jägern und Begleitschiffen. Nervös betrachtet sie sich im Spiegel und fährt mit dem Finger über die kleine Schwinge, das Symbol des Ersten Offiziers eines terranischen Raumträgers.

Welcome to Fina. A planet of bandits, soldiers, and revelers. For a time Atticus knew nobody was aware he was hiding on Fina until Captain Reno Bahm showed up at a bar. When news spreads of a devastating enemy arising in the galaxy again, everyone turns to the people of Fina. An unlikely group of sojourners embark on a journey that will change their lives and the galaxy.

Fear returns when a trio of skilled assassins attacks the peaceful colonized world, conducting a sinister heist. No matter the cost, pilots Taft Gaurdia and Kaytha Morrow vow to track down those responsible and get back what they've taken.. Is this the return of DeCorp seeking revenge or an emerging new threat? Taft and Kaytha must unravel the mystery and stop the coming darkness before it's too late.

The story continues with Battle Tested, book four in the Heretic of the Federation series, where the fights explode on Earth and for Dreth. When the beast doesn't get his way, that which remained hidden becomes needed. Perhaps a bit early.

NOMADS - Eine turbulente Space-Opera! Nomads werden die Menschen von den Aliens der Milchstrasse genannt. Als Überlebende und Flüchtlinge versuchen sie sich zu behaupten. Etliche von ihnen haben es geschafft, sich in der feudalen Gesellschaft ASGAROONS einen Namen zu machen. Andere fristen ein Dasein als Wanderer. Doch ungeachtet ihres Status, begegnet man den neuen Bewohnern Asgaroons mit Verachtung …Die InvasorenAm 21. Februar 4589 erfolgt der Kontakt mit den Außerirdischen.

The Telvanni have grown suspicious from Titan, not everyone can be trusted on Lunar, and there's something deadly lurking in the void—join Elliot Adams in a brand new adventure as he steps deeper into the aftermath.

Space Girl Green was the least confident member of her legendary Space Girl Unit right out of the academy. Of course the universe charged her with saving not just her father’s home world, but a whole pocket universe. Space Girl HQ gave her a flying saucer with a melodious personality, powerful rayguns and told her to go change the galaxy. Perhaps it was a bad idea to visit the destroyed world of Gamalon right off the bat, because a pair of mysterious scientists gave her an epic quest, putting Gamalon’s destiny in her untried hands.