Space Opera First Contact

Decades after Bull took control of the long-abandoned facility on the moon of Tambu, it has become a refuge, a weapons manufacturing facility, and a holding point for The Company’s varied assets. It has remained one of The Company’s closest-held secrets.

Spoiled teenager Jenny Halpen's parents were against her going on a cruise, but her doting uncle thought it a fine graduation gift for his niece. Before Jenny has a chance to enjoy the voyage, the Cassandra collides with a meteor shower, and her escape pod is separated from the others. Landing on an uninhabited world might not be so bad if Jenny's pod-mates were human, but they're poodles—and not just your garden-variety poodles, either. They're the telepathic royal family of Canaris, and they're of the opinion that Jenny is now their servant, existing only to protect and serve them.

In book six of the Colony Ship Warren series, Beth and Allen are pursued by the apex predators of the galaxy. They encounter some new people, but are they friends or foes? And are the apex predators the only threats they face? Or are some nefarious forces working within the Colony Ship Warren?

Die beiden Weltraum-Schürfer Bera Sansa und Edian Tarkin stehen kurz davor, ihr Geschäft aufzugeben: Zu wenig einträglich ist die Suche nach Rohstoffen am Rande der bekannten Galaxis. Da entdecken sie ein herrenloses Schiff. An Bord wecken sie vier gelartige, formlose Wesen aus dem Kryo-Schlaf. Diese verwandeln sich - in perfekte Kopien von Bera und Edian! Eine Generation später: Minarel Tarkin, Tochter von Edian und Bera, leitet ein einträgliches und sehr verschwiegenes Unternehmen.

Ashton Chayton was born with a powerful gift, a unique inhuman telepathic ability. Orphaned and raised by the hyper-intelligent Red Wolves of Opan, he is pursued by merciless and powerful enemies. Ashton only wants one thing: Revenge against those that destroyed his family. If you had unique powers, wouldn't you use them to get what you want?

Adrian Cole's acclaimed Star Requiem series welcomes listeners to Innasmorn, a planet where the elements are worshipped as gods...and where mankind is considered the enemy. In the impenetrable West of Innasmorn lies the forbidden city of Shung Hang - a mystical place shrouded in legend...and guarded by the winged warriors of the last goddess, the Aviatrix. Pursued by the relentless death machine of the corrupt prime consul Zellorian, the last remnants of an exterminated mortal race make their way across a perilous, devastated land.

Peter Cochrane and his wife, Karina, have been married less than a year. And although things have been quiet in relation to the old Empire during that time, they're about to get a lot hotter. They find themselves on a diplomatic mission to Korivar, an old ally of Pendax, a new member of the Union. But during their mission, the government of Korivar attacks Peter's new command, Defiant, and tries to assassinate him and his wife.

It had been ten years since Roy came to New Terra. At the conclusion of the great interstellar war against the Serpent People, Roy went from being an ace fighter pilot to a simple farmer, married to his beloved wife Katreena and father to their three beautiful children. He had discovered a happiness that he had long given up on having again in his lifetime. However, their lives were overshadowed by a dark prophesy.

Sasha Kelty joins the Intergalactic Guard to get into space where she’s always wanted to be. Her off-the-charts military testing gets her placed on an experimental ship bound for the outer reaches of known space. Once in the void, her willingness to question authority, uninhibited behavior, love of ancient rock and roll music, and absolute sense of right and wrong, put her in disfavor with the ship’s crew. After rescuing an enormous alien war-dog, then blowing an alien slaver camp sky-high with her own brand of energy magic, Sasha is considered a freak of nature and disavowed.

Al Clark is going home. His wife of 32 years has passed away, and the kids have moved on. There is no longer a reason to stay in the village they founded. After an absence of 74 years, he returns to an Earth he does not recognize in search of his past. Amnesia has robbed him of the first 42 years of his life, which he hopes to recover. It was supposed to be an easy trip, where he would sleep through the long journey and be awakened upon arrival. That is not the way it works out.

In the past 24 hours, stoner Charlie Hong has been promoted from fugitive pot-grower to captain of the Starseed. Whether he likes it or not, the massive, living, interstellar spaceship - and its five hundred billion inhabitants - are now his responsibility. As his suspicious crew gives him a tour of the ship, a quiet invasion unfolds. When the rest of his team is disabled by the buggy invaders, Charlie is left with a decision: to try to save the ship armed with only his stoned wit and a plump red hen, or to hightail it back to his old life on Earth.

Light years from Earth, an alien planet forced their queen from power and cast her into space. For millions of years, the queen's ship wandered the cosmos, until it crashed on Earth. As a child, Michael Hems first lost his mother to cancer, and then his father to the bottom of a bottle. Growing up in a small town, Michael's friends became his life. The only one he knew. The only one he wanted. But the night he found the ship, everything he loved was thrown into jeopardy.

The cast of cosmic characters: A prodigal worm, a telepathic, egotistical, totally unscrupulous little alien running away from his father becomes the biggest prize in the universe. Capture the slimy brat and win an entire planet! A cosmic hustler, an effete snob who ekes out a comfortable living as the president's son-in-law and perfects his reflexes with endless contests of cosmic pool, becomes the most important element in a delicate game of interspatial espionage - and the galaxy's prime target for assassination.

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?

The battles never end for Admiral James Henry. After months of negotiations, galactic alliance talks between the Independent Systems Federation and the Terran Coalition have stalled. There’s no urgency to strike a deal since the antidote nullified the Jalm’tar Empire’s Curall threat. But Jim suspects the usurper on the Jalm’tar throne still has a decisive hand to play in war games.

Immunity should have been a good thing. But to escape the captors holding me and my family hostage for immunity testing, I didn’t just jump out of the facility, but off the planet. Now I'm light-years from Earth and escaping aliens, but getting back home means ending an intergalactic trafficking ring. Can I do it before everyone I love is gone? They're immune from the virus that's left Earth a wasteland. Unfortunately, that means their bodies are just what the government wants to find a cure. But Karana and her brother Morren aren't having it.

Atemberaubende Spannung im All – von Weltbestseller-Autor Christopher Paolini. Auf dem unbewohnten Planeten Talos VII wird eine Anomalie entdeckt: eine riesige kreisförmige Grube, deren Abmessungen so perfekt sind, dass sie nur einen Schluss zulassen: Die Senke muss künstlich angelegt worden sein. Ein kleines Wissenschaftsteam soll mehr darüber herausfinden, wer das Loch gebaut haben könnte und warum. Schnell wird ihnen klar, dass die Erbauer keine Menschen gewesen sein können. Für einige Forscher ist diese Mission die Chance ihres Lebens.

Rivka Anoa has a gift and a galactic mandate. She's a lawyer accused of a murder she did commit. She stands ready to accept her fate, even though her victim was a murderer. A second chance appears. Become more than a lawyer. Be one who judges and punishes the guilty. Could she look herself in the mirror after meting out justice? She's about to find out. Rivka heads to space to be the Judge, Jury, & Executioner. Criminals have nowhere to go.

Years ago, one starship and its crew discovered an alien entity which changed everything. Its discovery finally bought an end to the interstellar war being fought between the masses of humanity and the few pockets of genetically engineered colonists. An uneasy peace was negotiated as the human race realised there was something else sharing our universe. Something that had plans for us. But the aliens have remained silent. The earthers have begun to test the edges of the peace treaty.

Less than three months have passed since Captain Charlotte Omandi and the crew of Earth’s first starship, the TSS Bladerunner, narrowly prevented an extinction-level event from wiping out humanity. Omandi knows Earth remains on borrowed time, until she meets with leaders of the Galactic Confederation to convince them that our planet no longer represents a threat. As she and her crew prepare to become the first humans to travel outside our solar system, a string of assassination attempts lead them to an unlikely mystery.