Hard Science Fiction Space

Julie E. Czerneda's acclaimed Web Shifters series continues with the story of Esen - the last survivor of a unique alien race. Able to take on the form of any creature she observes, Esen has long since broken the cardinal rule of her species: noninterference.

Raul und Aenea befinden sich seit vier Jahren im Exil auf der Erde, die in der Magellanschen Wolke festgehalten wird. Doch der Pax setzt all seine Mittel ein, um Aenea aufzuspüren und zu töten. Währenddessen verfolgt der Technocore, ein Machtverbund künstlicher Intelligenzen, seine eigenen Ziele...
Als Aenea und Raul schließlich den Vatikan erreichen, stehen Veränderungen bevor, die das ganze Universum betreffen: Auf dem Planeten Pacem, der Heimat der Kirche, kommt es zum großen Finale.

The complete Torchship series in a single volume! Includes: Tochship, Torchship Pilot, and Torchship Captain. A captain who’ll take any job if there’s enough money in it. A pilot with an agenda of her own. And a mechanic with an eye on the pilot.

Aus den Tiefen des Alls, aus interstellaren Fernen, taucht ein Objekt auf, das zunächst für einen Asteroiden gehalten wird. Doch dann steuert es eine Umlaufbahn um den Saturn an und beginnt, ein regelmäßiges Signal auszusenden. Man tauft es auf den Namen Zeta. Eine auf dem Saturnmond Titan stationierte Forschungsgruppe, eine vom Mars entsandte Expedition und ein Forschungsschiff der Erde machen sich auf den Weg, um die Geheimnisse des Objektes zu erkunden. Noch ahnt niemand, dass Zeta die Menschheit vor ihre größte Herausforderung stellen wird.

A mathematical genius. A formula that speeds up space travel called SHORTCUT. His loving wife. When Laura Maxx disappears after an attack that leaves Jason Maxx in the hospital, his only goal is to find her and bring her back. Then he gets a message from Voyager One: Laura is alive. In space. To get her back, he’ll do whatever it takes—even taking on government agents who might try to stop him.

En route to a job in the asteroid belt, the transport ship that Jonathan and Gaby are travelling on is required to give assistance to a space station in trouble. Astoria Station stopped responding to everything except automated messages. Jonathan and Gaby, familiar with disease and habitat collapse, offer to help. But not even they are prepared for what they find, or the efforts by some to sweep it under the carpet.

While space biologists Jonathan Bartell and Gaby Larsen attend a conference held at a base in the asteroid belt, a man approaches Jonathan in great distress. He's been asked to take over command of a previously commercial research station, but strange things started happening: plants glowing in the dark, lights turning themselves on and off, computers misbehaving. He discovered the cause, but Section Command issues a gag order on the issue. This is strange, because the Force is investing big in research.

Jonathan Bartell is a young man, just out of university, when he signs up for the position of Quarantine Officer at the Orbital Launch Station. He is part of a crop of students who flocked to study exo-biology when bacteria were discovered on Mars and who are now all making their living flipping burgers because the jobs are few and hard to get. He is lucky to get a job in space, no matter how mundane. Or so he thinks.... Gaby Larsen is a doctor at the tiny hospital at the space station, and she keeps secrets.

The Primus, Vasilia Newling, is facing her worst nightmares. A revolution on Luna. Titan and the Asteroids abandoning the Solarian Union. Defections from within her own government. All because of those damned Cassidys! But she's still as ruthless as ever.

Admiral Jon McCarthy, a Nexus Ten with the gift of foresight, stands as humanity's last beacon of hope against the relentless Korilian Empire. With the outcome of the brutal 33-year war tilting in the Korilians' favor again, McCarthy must lead 3rd Fleet on a perilous mission behind enemy lines. By his side is Lara Anderson, a woman whose absence from a prime timeline—rendering her past and future indiscernible—may hold the key to humanity's survival.

After two years of pensive peace, an investigation points to the use of a Galio super-weapon as the culprit. The Jarog, Valdivia assists mankind's march into unknown space. With the galaxy's most powerful empire nipping at Earth's borders, First Lieutenant Warder must put every ounce of his skill and luck into stopping the imminent onslaught of his people in the most dangerous mission he's been given yet.

The diplomatic mission has arrived at Viktorkinde. Palmutter is getting more unstable and unreliable each day. On Sarkovie, Anders Eindride learns that the people responsible for the tragedy on Novalis III are planning something big, a real game changer. He's unable to warn his Commonwealth contacts before being put on a ship back to Viktorkinde, where the factions among the Kelk are splintering.

After John and Nikaela are rescued from the rogue warship Sycorax, Katrine Primatov has only a lone hunter-killer to back her in the remote Sarkovie system, and she is faced with a Kelk force of overwhelming firepower superiority. The Kelk decide to take John and Nikaela back to Viktorkinde, whether Katrine likes it or not, and everyone is pretending they're not prisoners. But the Kelk are quietly at war among themselves, fighting their own battle against superstition and irrationality. John and Katrine begin to learn the roots of the Kelk hatred of the Blacksword.

Danny Ortega was a failure. He couldn't tolerate the implant to be a starship captain. But Danny Ortega has run his deep-space research vessel Ghost alone for years, flaky AI and all, mapping the most unstable and unexplored regions of the Rift for the Cartographers Guild. When his latest mission lands in a mass graveyard of ships, including some ships out of legend, lost for hundreds of years, the guild isn't happy with him. He picks up a misfit crew out of the asteroids, and the games begin!

Lem’s a mace-wielding teen space-ninja in a universe of sentient insectoids, purple jungles, and insane electromagnetic fields. She solves most problems by hitting harder, and never plays by her enemy's rules - until Jared Diebol captures her. Diebol is the rising leader of an army uniting the galaxy by force. He believes that the violent energy being Njande has “contaminated” Lem and her friends from another dimension to conquer the matter-based universe. Diebol’s army usually kills contaminated people - but he vows to cure Lem.

Kraken, the first colony of Earth - an Earth-twin that never suffered the dinosaur extinction meteor strike and subsequent entry into radical cycles of climate. A world that should have been paradise for those first colonists is on the brink of war...with its own motherland. Kraken citizens are split in their loyalty. Hostile acts against the colony by a desperate motherland are rising. Jankin Decatur takes a desperate peace mission to Earth to appeal to the NAU Senate on what may be their final hope for survival.

Melati escaped New Jakarta Space Station when it fell into Allion's hands. Her family was left behind the enemy lines. She signed up for active duty with the International Space Force in the hope they would liberate the station. Instead, they chose to maintain a crippling siege that has lasted for 10 months.

Zwei Outlaws suchen nach einer Astronautin, die von den Toten auferstanden ist. Eine Söldnergruppe hat den Auftrag, das Geheimnis des Eindringlings in unser Sonnensystem zu bergen, koste es, was es wolle. Für beide Gruppen scheint Amphitrite, der Schwarze Planet, die Bühne zu sein, auf der sie ihre Kämpfe austragen. Aber nirgends sind Leben und Tod so eng verwoben wie auf dieser seltsamen Welt, die schließlich auf ihre ganz eigene Art in das Geschehen eingreift. Hätte die Menschheit doch lieber Abstand gehalten! Denn Amphitrite ist kein gewöhnlicher Himmelskörper.

In a future where humanity has scattered itself across the stars and Earth itself is now a dimly remembered place of legend, two worlds of near-supernatural strangeness challenge two naive but courageous heroes.

For many, the dying part is hard. For some, the living part is harder. At 16 years of age, Mathius’ life is focused on scrounging bits of food in the midst of a five-way civil war on the planet Novalis III. Two government factions and three rebel factions are all hell-bent on killing one another, and the civilian population is caught in the middle. If Mathius doesn’t find food, he and his father, mother, and sister will go hungry for the day, a not-so-unusual occurrence.