Space Opera First Contact

Die spannende Weltraum-Saga geht weiter! NOMADS 13 - Zu neuen Ufern. Schon lange schwelten Unruhe und Angst an Bord der Durana. Die Grausamkeit der Akkato und ihr Verlangen, die Stärke ihres Reiches mit allen noch so schrecklichen Mitteln zu erhalten, haben Dominic Porter endlich veranlasst zu handeln. Ein uraltes Alienraumschiff spielt in seinen Plänen eine entscheidende Rolle. Doch um seinen Plan auszuführen, muss er sein Leben und das seiner Freunde aufs Spiel setzen ...

Earth has survived an alien virus in this post-apocalyptic story. The alien virus was used to cleanse the planet before harvesting, and the surviving humans were given thousands of spaceships and robots as war reparations. The few survivors must adapt to survive.

Contains books one and two of The Acheron series: The Acheron and The Prodigal. Sandi and Ash never set out to be heroes. She joined the Fleet to please her mother, the Admiral. He signed up to escape the grinding poverty of the Housing Blocks. And the unlikely friends envisioned boring, peacetime careers as shuttle pilots. The Tahni Imperium had other ideas.

Six crew members went out on the Parada, Earth’s first starship. All contact was lost, and the ship vanished for almost two centuries. When the Parada’s successor found the drifting ship and somehow managed to bring it home, the six crew members were not only still alive but barely older, due to the time dilation effects of near-FTL travel. Their return was a miracle - but it could not be revealed to the waiting world. The problem was, six individuals went out to the stars. More than seventy fractured personalities came back.

Tev is a hunter, raised from birth to protect and feed his clan. Among his people, his skills are unmatched. With a spear and knife in hand, he has never failed. He longs to explore the world beyond the boundaries of his hunting grounds, not knowing the cost that wish will have. His life, and the lives of every member of his clan, are shattered when fire descends from the sky, bringing with it dangers far beyond any that existed before. Tev's hard-won skills are all that separate his clan from complete annihilation.

Anno 2066. Un tirocinante della Caltech Astrofisica nota un'anomalia nei dati forniti da un potente telescopio spaziale: qualcosa si sta approssimando all'orbita di Saturno. La sua velocità è in diminuzione, la traiettoria di avvicinamento sotto controllo... A quanto pare non si tratta di un semplice oggetto orbitante nello spazio. Il governo degli Stati Uniti giunge all'inevitabile conclusione: quell'oggetto è un'astronave aliena, e chiunque l'abbia costruita deve avvalersi di una tecnologia molto avanzata.

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.

In a surprise attack that killed many of her dearest subjects, Hail Bristol, empress of Indrana, has been captured by the Shen - the most ruthless and fearsome aliens humanity has ever encountered. As she plots her escape, the centuries-long war between her captors and the Farians, their mortal enemies and Indrana's oldest allies, finally comes to a head.

In the aftermath of the brutal slaying of a sacred auk'nai deity, Cade and Nella Castus are taken from their home and brought deep into the wilderness. They must make their way back to civilization, traversing dangerous landscapes as they are pursued relentlessly by their captor—a winged abomination. As Denton and Eliana search for their missing children, they uncover something that will change life on Kamaria forever.

Der letzte Mensch auf seiner gefährlichsten Mission: Das neue Science-Fiction-Hörbuch von Bestseller-Autor Andreas Brandhorst. Als letzter, unsterblicher Mensch in der Milchstraße steht Aron in den Diensten der Moy, einer alten Superzivilisation, die seit unvordenklichen Zeiten über den Kosmos wacht. Sein Auftrag: der Schutz des Kulturguts unterentwickelter Lebensformen vor den Blendern, die überall Zwietracht säen. Die neue Mission führt ihn auf den Planeten Mulkain, wo einige Abgesandte der Moy verschwunden sind.

Clarity's home is her spaceship. Living on the move. Planet to planet. When money trouble forces Clarity and her traveling companion, Irohann, to take on passengers, Irohann worries his secret identity will be revealed. He's a canine alien on the run from an empire of sentient plants, and their queen has a personal vendetta against him. Heartsick at the idea of losing their ship, Clarity accepts an offer that's clearly too good to be true, and they find themselves swept up in the crazy schemes of a rogue AI in a stolen robot body, and her haphazardly assembled team of disparate aliens.

Dr. Cass Baros is haunted by dreams of an alien world, and will do anything to find it. Relentlessly, she works her science team and her fiancé, Dr. Julian Saunders. Captain Lewis’ military Spec Op team joins the scientists. Egos clash and agendas cross. Trapped, the team is plunged into a dangerous adventure beyond their control. They struggle to unravel millennia old secrets in an alien world where nothing is what it seems, especially the aliens.

If you like bold characters, planet-hopping, and edge-of-your-seat action, then you'll love Michael Robertson's thrilling series. The Shadow Order - Book one of the Shadow Order series. In a fight, Seb is unbeatable. But in this galaxy, there are a million ways to lose… Seb Zodo has never backed down from a fist fight. After all, he's been gifted with powers that make losing impossible. But lately, Seb's gift seems more like a curse… This bundle also includes The First Mission and The Crimson War, the second and third books of The Shadow Order series.

In the year 2245, Mars has already been occupied by humans, and digital currencies and self-flying spaceships are being used. Mark's lead role is a space explorer where he sets out on a suicide space mission through the black hole. He then finds himself caught in a different universe where there is full-blown war between two different planets. A futuristic space war between two different planets in an alien galaxy continue while Max finds himself between life and death as he faces an identity crisis of being half-human and half-alien.

Twelve light-years from Earth, Lieutenant Commander Valory Jeanne, is alone in the astrophysics lab when an unexpected meteor storm strikes the United Earth Space Force ship Copernicus. After just four orbits around a newly discovered planet in the Tau Ceti star system, the ship is destroyed. Now stranded onboard without any means of escaping to the planet below, the PhD astrophysicist must struggle against insurmountable odds to stay alive on a dead spaceship.

It’s been ten years since the Lunar Free State established itself on Earth’s moon. Since then, other Earth nations have pushed into space, but - thanks to the advantages provided by its gravity-driven spacecraft - the LFS has continued to prosper. When the research ship LFS Stephen Hawking encounters an alien probe near Saturn, though, the craft leads Hawking on a chase before vanishing into hyperspace. Now the Lunar Free State must face two facts: The humans of Earth are not the only intelligent life in the universe, and travel to other star systems is possible.

The newly formed Military Assistance Command-Maltaan (MACM), led by General Ellis Boudreaux, is facing serious problems. The Maltaan rainy season has begun, and the unpredictable weather has significantly reduced flight operations. The east-west highway which connects the capital Daarben to Ulvaan, the only major city in the east, is choked with convoys. The increasingly vulnerable rail line is the sole means of moving supplies to support Space Marines deployed in the east. Thousands of PCS were abandoned by their mercenary handlers, and it’s up to the Space Marines to collect them.

Tyler Harris und seine Freunde werden als Verräter und Terroristen gejagt. Wenn es eine Chance geben soll, den Tyrannen Kaito Tanaka zu stürzen, brauchen sie unbedingt schlagkräftige Verbündete. Doch es gibt nur noch einen Ort, wo sie diese vielleicht finden könnten: auf der anderen Seite der Milchstraße, in der ehemaligen Heimat der Menschheit. Doch seit dem letzten Kontakt sind rund eintausend Jahre vergangen, und was sie nach einer langen und gefahrvollen Reise vorfinden, entspricht nicht ihren Erwartungen.

2187. Earth is cold, dead and divided. The rich hide away while the rest will do anything to survive. Humanity have only one hope: crossing hostile alien territory to reach a habitable planet. Jinnifer Blue is on the run. An expert pilot, she apprehends criminals on behalf of the government and keeps her illegal genetic modifications a closely guarded secret. But when a particularly dangerous job goes south, Jinn is left stranded on a prison ship with one of the most ruthless criminals in the galaxy.

It was an easy job—until the pirates showed up—but ultimately, Dahkal and Ryan completed their contract on the planet Ruul and ended up with the mining rights to the entire planet. But when their new Emerald Dragons mercenary company returned to the Salvage System, they found Dahkal’s sister, Reuan, waiting for them. As only the heir of Shein is ever allowed to leave the Sheinrah System, the question was…why was she there?