Alien Contact Fiction

Ich bin ein Cyborg. Halb Mensch, halb Maschine. Mein Schöpfer hat mich optimiert, bis ich seinen Vorstellungen entsprach. Ich bin zum unbarmherzigen Kopfgeldjäger geworden, dessen Beute all die sind, die den sicheren Fortbestand der Menschheit gefährden. Versagen ist ein Fremdwort für mich. Mitleid ist nicht mehr als eine Phrase. Gefühle kennt mein mechanisches Herz nicht. Bis mich ein Auftrag an die Seite von Mara führt. Für sie sind Cyborgs kaum mehr als Handlanger, die kommentarlos all das erledigen, wovor die Menschen zurückscheuen. Doch ich weiß etwas über sie, dass mir Macht über sie gibt. Macht über einen Menschen.

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...

When Teagan Ward donates her eggs to science, she never imagines that the consequences will ripple across the cosmos. As Earth crumbles under the weight of conflict and climate disaster, Teagan discovers that seven children, born from her donated eggs, are the centerpieces of a daring experiment to populate the stars. Determined to reunite with her children, she finds herself entangled in a web of greed, betrayal, and cosmic ambition. By the year 2068, humanity's hope for survival lies beyond the confines of Earth.

Bestselling Divergent and Carve the Mark author Veronica Roth delivers a stunning collection of novella-length stories set in the future. No world is like the other. Within this masterful collection, each setting is more strange and wonderful than the last, brimming with new technologies and...

A mysterious object crests the Sun during a total solar eclipse. Cryptic radio-frequency noise jams TVs and radios worldwide. Sinister alien artifacts inexplicably appear in the capitals of the world's powers. Paralyzed with fear, society begins to crumble. Former NASA scientist Jasmine Evans is the first to spot the object and sound the alarm. Recalled to investigate the mystery, her team makes a critical discovery. But nothing is what it appears to be.

Cleo Xavier is a renowned astronaut and explorer—not an addict. At least, that’s what she tells herself. She’s always been able to navigate the isolation and loneliness that come with space exploration, which makes her a perfect candidate to join four other astronauts on a mission to Orbis Alius, the farthest planet in the solar system, to test its terraforming viability.

“These smugglers are sure to steal your heart....” A fiery desire that’s growing bright. A true test of love and friendship. A horrific fate awaiting a planet. A mission determining friend from foe. Becca and Falax have agreed to take on one last job. Easy enough. Deliver the goods for the client and get out. But things are bound to get complicated once they try to add a baby to the mix, and suddenly the smuggler’s life doesn’t seem as simple.

Arcurus Gate ist ein besonderes Sternentor. Es ermöglicht Verbindungen zwischen den Welten und katapultiert die Erde aus dem Jahr 2020 in eine unbekannte Zukunft. Die Geschichte, die mit Adam begann, endet nun ... mit einem Adam, der immer noch nichts versteht und nichts lieber tun würde, als wieder Plätzchen auf der Erde auszuliefern. Aber das Schicksal sucht sich den Helden aus, nicht andersherum. Eine Regel, die leider auch im All gilt.

The Black Star trilogy is a fast paced science fiction thriller, a fantastic space adventure. In book 2 Henry Jäger and Thana "Monty" Montgomery have returned to Earth after a dramatic journey through a wormhole in the universe. Now they must convince the authorities of the threat Earth is...

What would intelligent life—forms on another planet look like? Would they walk upright? Would they wear clothes? Or would they be hulking creatures on six legs that wallow in their own excrement? Upon first contact with the Utod—intelligent, pacifist beings who feel no pain—mankind instantly views these aliens as animals because of their unhygienic customs. This leads to the slaughter, capture, and dissection of the Utod. But when one explorer recognizes the intelligence behind their habits, he must reevaluate what it actually means to be "intelligent."

Jake McGraw, independent space trucker, has been shanghaied. He and his crew, fresh off their adventures in Starrigger and Red Limit Freeway, are plucked off the Skyway by a creature of unknown power. Now on an alien planet where most of the rules of the regular universe do not seem to apply, Jake confronts the builders of the Skyway once and for all. Will he and his crew make it out alive?

Cat in an Alien X-Ray takes the Las Vegas gang on a science-fictional roller-coaster ride, as Midnight Louie, feline PI, and company encounter UFO enthusiasts, conspiracy nuts who are too bizarre even for tin foil hat therapy. An Area 51 attraction on the Strip threatens to bring more than starry-eyed enthusiasts to town. Once again it is up to that furballed PI Midnight Louie to keep his crew in line and save them from the attack of the creatures from the beyond...or common criminals that prey on the innocent.

"This is it, folks. We've arrived at our base camp for the next six months." The team cheered as they disembarked from the chopper, helmets on and goggles firmly in place against any glare aside from the wind chill too. Dr. Carter led them across the frozen tundra to a large metal structure that would serve as their base of operations, towering above them like a sentinel guarding them against that great blinding white beyond it.

Part alien invasion story, part buddy comedy, and part workplace satire, After The Fall by Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7 (inspiration for the film Mickey 17), asks an important question: would humans really make great pets? Humans must be silent. Humans must be obedient. Humans must be good...

Die ferne Zukunft: Die Galaxis wird von intelligenten außerirdischen Zivilisationen regiert - und die Menschheit steht kurz vor dem Aussterben. Einer der letzten Menschen, ein Mann, der sich schon seit Jahrhunderten selbst immer wieder geklont hat, ist inzwischen zum Berater der galaktischen Regierung aufgestiegen. Als auf der alten Erde ein seltsames Artefakt gefunden wird, soll er ermitteln, was es damit auf sich hat. Es birgt, das wird bald klar, das Geheimnis der Zukunft des Universums.

Have you ever wondered what a UFO abduction is like from the alien’s viewpoint? Can a machine provide comfort to a dying woman? What would it be like to fall into the hands of a get-rich-quick scheming extraterrestrial? All these questions and more are answered in this book of wonderfully crafted short stories by breakout author J.J. Harlan.

Outwardly alien arrivals from a distant sea, the lambdas are genetically human. The government has noticed them. So has a whole gamut of extremist groups. Cara Gray has noticed them too, first as a haunting presence in her otherwise ordinary childhood, then as the impossibly shifting target of her work as a police officer. When a bomb goes off at a school, Cara finds herself the weak point in a surveillance regime that has failed to prevent the worst terrorist atrocity in decades. A nebulous group of lambda extremists claims responsibility for the attack.

When a stranger with a high-tech implant is found in the remote Finnish wilderness, neurosurgeon Bill and his computer scientist friend Steve see an opportunity. But they don't know what powers they're up against. They soon must ask themselves what moral boundaries they're willing to cross in order to succeed. Ten years later, the world has changed. Airships roam the skies, strange plants grow in the forests, and entire swaths of land are deserted.

The day after the winter solstice, Samantha Hunter is found naked and bleeding in a remote cabin in the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico. As Sam works to understand what’s happened to her, she is whisked into the Underground - a secret community of scientists, civilians, and aliens that are connected to her story and to Lucien - the alien boy she’s in love with. This is where the fight begins, and Sam must decide what price she’s willing to pay for life and love.

Forestry student Jerry Conklin is fly-fishing when something huge lands on his car, crushing it into the earth. It looks like a big black box-about fifty feet high and two hundred feet long-and the object stirs up quite a commotion among the townspeople of Lone Pine, Minnesota. One of them even shoots at it-and quickly pays for it with his life.