Hard Science Fiction Space

Lux keeps inventing things or adapting alien tech (ancient tech to the aliens) because the active alien civilizations they discover through portals and probes have gone through cycles of war, decline, and rebirth several times. Lux further develops the portals using discovered alien tech. Earth empties refugee camps the UN was running (1,200,000) and sends them with a military escort for their "safety." The military sends many ships for escort duty with orders to take over the colony and use the refugees as a labor force.

The ability for easy travel throughout the solar system has created nations and organizations on Earth who want to control Mars and the rich resources of the solar system. Mars has started its own military and is building a fleet to survive the brutal attacks from Earth. Mars has set up embassies on Earth and is facing spies and saboteurs intent on disrupting a content populace that is growing rapidly. Lux has developed new weapons, and Prissy joins the colony military.

Nouvelle inédite dans l'univers des "Guerriers du silence" en préambule à la saga.

The game never changes, only the players do. Others might call it rebellion, call it cowardice. The vanguard will not forgive, nor will they forget. Their trust lays with one another, in those that have shed blood with them and joined the net. Empires, government, leaders, alliances, planets, corporations - many have fallen in humanities past. Now a new Empire will stand on the shoulders of the vanguard, the troopers, the people of Tricticus, and the Victor Corporation. Their goal: survive, and defend those they care for by any means necessary.

When a human team is sent to scout a few hundred light-years in front of the death wave, it encounters a civilization far in advance of our own, a civilization of machine intelligences.These sentient, intelligent machines have existed for eons and have survived earlier "death waves" - gamma-ray bursts from the core of the galaxy. They are totally self-sufficient, completely certain that the death wave cannot harm them, and utterly uninterested in helping to save other civilizations.

Das Abenteuer um Hyperion geht weiter. Können die sieben Pilger das Shrike, ein Wesen zwischen Mensch und Maschine, bezwingen? Das Schicksal der Menschheit steht auf dem Spiel...

Rachel Adams beobachtet das All mit Hilfe des Chandra-Röntgensatelliten. Als ihr Kollege Shawn Whitfield sie bittet, ein kosmisches Phänomen zu untersuchen, sagt sie zu – nicht ahnend, dass das Routine-Projekt ihr Leben dramatisch verändern wird. Denn schnell stellt sich heraus, dass Shawn keinen simplen Asteroiden gefunden hat – das Objekt scheint keinen natürlichen Ursprung zu haben. Rachels Neugier ist geweckt, und selbst, als man ihr das Projekt als nationale Verschlusssache wegnimmt, ist sie nicht zu bremsen. Und dann bewegt sich das Objekt auch noch auf die Erde zu!

Im Jahr 2330 steht die Menschheit vor einer historischen Entdeckung: Ein unbekanntes Objekt tritt in das Sonnensystem ein. Klar ist: Es korrigiert selbstständig seine Flugbahn und sendet Strahlung aus, wie es kein natürliches Objekt könnte. Militärs und Politiker sind bereit, alles auf eine Karte zu setzen – notfalls mit Gewalt. Während die Regierungen der Erde in Machtspielen versinken, wird Holmgren auf eine gefährliche Aufklärungsmission geschickt. Was als Suche nach Informationen beginnt, entwickelt sich schnell zu einem Albtraum und endet in einer Katastrophe.

Commander Tanis Richards has finally come into port after a seven month tour on the edge of Jovian space, and she's looking forward to some much deserved shore leave. But Tanis's commanding officer has other things in mind for her. Enfield Technologies has developed a new technique to pair enhanced L2 humans with AIs, and the military wants Tanis to undergo the procedure. Though she feared the worst, after meeting Darla, Tanis realizes that having an AI - especially a fabulously wealthy one - is better than she'd ever imagined. Darla foots the bill for Tanis to enjoy her convalescence.

Gestrandet auf dem Mars - Das Science Fiction Ereignis des Jahres! Bei einer Expedition auf dem Mars gerät der Astronaut Mark Watney in einen Sandsturm und wird bewusstlos. Als er aus seiner Ohnmacht erwacht, ist er allein. Auf dem Mars. Ohne Crew. Die spektakulärste Rettungsmission um das Überleben eines einzelnen Menschen beginnt.

When a colonist dies in tragic circumstances, just a few sols before a major terraforming experiment, Dr. Jann Malbec begins to suspect that all is not what it seems. Her fears begin to grow when every attempt she makes to investigate the death is thwarted by the ruling council on Mars. In desperation, she resorts to secretly recruiting a recently arrived colonist, Mia Sorelli, an ex-cop with a troubled past, to quietly look into the incident. But Mia has some very good reasons why she left her old life on Earth behind.

Roy Holland and the crew of the Poseidon were tasked with bringing home the scientists aboard the unresponsive research vessel Athena II. But as the Poseidon approached the ship resting near the event horizon of black hole V616, they discovered something truly terrible.

Copilots Msizi and Tariro are testing a newly constructed wormhole jump that presumably leads to unsettled habitable worlds. Then an explosion sends them off course, far from where they started and with little chance of ever making it back. Now they’re stranded on their new home for the diaspora. It’s called Malcolm X-b. But they’re beginning to wonder how many light-years from civilization they really are.

Time is of the essence. The race to the end is on.

Senior co-administrator of the Norcoast Salmon Research Facility, Dr. Mackenzie Connor was a biologist who studied the spawning habits of salmon. Then, last season, just as she and Dr. Emily Mamani were starting their research, they were interrupted by the arrival of Brymm, the first Dhryn to set foot on Earth. And suddenly everything changed for Mac, Emily, Brymn, the human race, and all the member races of the Interspecies Union. Base was attacked, Em was kidnapped by the mysterious Ro, and Mac and brymn had to flee for their lives to the Dhryn home world.

The first US/UN invasion of the renegade lunar colony of Aristillus has failed—but the powers-that-be in Washington and elsewhere can't give up. Their political careers—and an escape from the economic decline of Earth under a command-and-control economy—depend on conquering the lunar expats. A second—and final—invasion is planned. The lunar settlers prepare to repel the onslaught, but what can a small population of 1 million do against the combined might of billions on Earth—especially now that the PKs have the secret of the antigravity drive?

It's been six months since the events on Europa. During that time, Tanis and the crew of the Kirby Jones have been working to uncover who was behind her betrayal and the oligarch's near assassination. When a routine intel handoff with the Jovians takes a turn for the worse, Tanis finds herself deeper in the spy game than she ever wanted to be. Now, on a short timetable to get to Earth, Tanis is forced to make a stop at Saturn. When she arrives, she finds things to going just like they always are. Crazy.

Death. The Big Sleep. The Dirt Nap. Le Petit Filous. What Shakespeare called ‘The Final Macarena’. Whatever you call it, it comes for us all in the end. But Captain Space Hardcore has spent his whole life of galactic adventuring not dying and he’s not about to break that streak, even when a species of highly evolved, omnipotent extra-dimensional reptiles sentences him to death. No, he’s got worse things to worry about than a little case of mortality and the promise of doom from some godlike toads that want to see him croak.

What was the light that mazed every mind's sky - and then was gone? Why has it brought a flying tepui mountaintop home from the stars, and sent investigators into the orbital habitats floating above Earth? How is it connected to a "living fossil" fungus of great entheogenic powers? Or to a dead madman? Or to the fate of a planet overpopulated, hypermediated, corporate dominated, and heat-gas insulated? Forces that are socially and politically polarized, both good and evil, selfless and selfish, must search for the answers to these questions.

A propulsive science fiction tale of murder and memory, all set on a futuristic space station. Hundreds of miles above Earth, the space station Ciudad de Cielo -- The City in the Sky -- is a beacon of hope for humanity's expansion into the stars. But not everyone aboard shares such noble ideals...