Space Opera Horror

This superlative collection of futuristic tales explores ground-breaking supernatural themes from the founding heroes of the science fiction genre. The short story form is perfect for capturing the atmospheric tension of these legendary stories.

Beast Nea Diehl gehört zu den fähigsten Scouts, die für die Hafenbehörde auf der Welt Sculpa Trax arbeiten. Allerdings bewegt sie sich auch gerne jenseits der gesetzlichen Pfade. Die Mannschaft des Scavenger-Schiffes Rimmon, unter dem Kommando von Zeb Greenwood, gehört zu ihrem engeren Freundeskreis. Mit dieser Gruppe von Glücksrittern wagt sie sich auch diesmal auf einen abenteuerlichen und vielversprechenden Beutezug. Alles läuft bestens, bis sich Piraten und imperiale Truppen für ihre Schätze zu interessieren beginnen. Die Scavengers.

Im Auftrag der Zefren Company führt Nea Bergungsoperationen durch, die sie in die entlegensten Regionen der Galaxis führen. Bei ihrer aktuellen Mission trifft sie auf Iona. Die Scavengers. So nennt man die Banden von Glücksrittern und Abenteurern, die in den Hinterlassenschaften zahlreicher Kriege nach Schätzen und Geheimnissen suchen.

CONTENTS: Introduction; I Just Make Them Up, See; Someday; The Feeling of Power; Living Space; Satisfaction Guaranteed; The Last Question; Jokester; The Immortal Bard; Spell My Name With an "S"; The Ugly Little...

The best science fiction and fantasy stories from 2019, guest-edited by author of the mega-best-selling Outlander series, Diana Gabaldon. Today’s readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an...

Brilliant government scientist Richard Seaton discovers a remarkable faster-than-light fuel that will power his interstellar spaceship, The Skylark. His ruthless rival, Marc DuQuesne, and the sinister World Steel Corporation will do anything to get their hands on the fuel. They kidnap Seaton's fiancée and friends, unleashing a furious pursuit and igniting a burning desire for revenge that will propel The Skylark across the galaxy and back.

A WOMAN ON THE RUN. A CAPTAIN ADRIFT IN SPACE. ONE OF THEM IS INFECTED WITH AN ALIEN PARASITE. In this dark science fiction thriller, a young woman must confront her past so the human race will have a future. Rosalyn Devar is on the run from her famous family, the bioengineering job she's come...

Zilfaquir is having a bad day. Shin-Sho Corporation dispatched his emergency engineering team (EET) to the remote ice planet, Xiao 2, to investigate a communications blackout. The Xiao 2 facility, composed of three subsurface ocean stations, awaits his team below hundreds of meters of ice and kilometers underwater. Upon arrival, he discovers the Xiao 2 facility has experienced an epidemic, leaving most of the station’s personnel either dead or dying. Or transforming. Worse, the stations are in danger of imploding due to sabotage.

The generation ship Peerless is in search of advanced technology capable of sparing their home planet from imminent destruction. In theory, the ship is traveling fast enough that it can traverse the cosmos for generations and still return home only a few years after they departed. But a critical fuel shortage threatens to cut their urgent voyage short, even as a population explosion stretches the ship’s life-support capacity to its limits.

Mehr als 3000 Jahre in der Zukunft: Längst verstehen sich die Menschen als Terraner, die ihre Erde und das Sonnensystem hinter sich gelassen haben. In der Unendlichkeit des Alls treffen sie auf Außerirdische aller Art. Ihre Nachkommen haben Tausende Welten besiedelt, zahlreiche Raumschiffe fliegen bis zu den entlegensten Sternen. Perry Rhodan ist der Mensch, der von Anfang an mit den Erdbewohnern ins All vorgestoßen ist. Nun steht er vor seiner vielleicht größten Herausforderung.

After three years of exile from humanity's war against the Kurians, David Valentine returns to battle. The Lifeweavers, Earth's allies in the conflict, have mostly vanished, but those that remain are held captive by an overlord known as the Seattle Kurian. To free them, Valentine must convince the legendary resistance fighter known as Adler to join his cause. But the "Old Man" is something of an overlord himself....

The last thing Captain Stuart Flane expected while working to solve the enigma of the Kilgary was a day-long running battle with the undead! Their troubles didn’t end there though, because the Mercury, their only ride home, was also in trouble!

Nachdem die riesige Durana in einer Wüstenebene von New Mexico abgestürzt ist, richten sich die Augen vieler Parteien auf das havarierte Schiff und auf die Erde. Machtparteien der Menschen, der Akkato und zahlreiche kleine Gruppierungen, von denen man bisher kaum etwas wusste, treten in den Kampf ein, der gegen die Akkato geführt wird und das Schicksal der Erde für immer verändern könnte. Zudem verfügt Serwan Brooks über ein Geheimnis, das die Zukunft der Menschheit zum Guten wenden und das Sonnensystem von der Herrschaft der Akkato befreien könnte.

COLLECTION THREE: NOMADS - Eine epische Space-Opera! [Bücher 10 bis 14 in einem Download!]. Nomads werden die Menschen von den Aliens der Milchstrasse genannt. Als Überlebende und Flüchtlinge versuchen sie sich zu behaupten. Etliche von ihnen haben es geschafft, sich in der feudalen Gesellschaft ASGAROONS einen Namen zu machen. Andere fristen ein Dasein als Wanderer. Doch ungeachtet ihres Status, begegnet man den neuen Bewohnern Asgaroons mit Verachtung.

Die Rebellen von Sculpa Trax. Drei Bücher in einem Download – Eine epische Space-Opera von Allan J. Stark. (Reihenauftakt). Buch 1 – Vergeltung. Aseera ist eine junges Mädchen, fast noch ein Kind und gehört der Kriegergemeinschaft der Tengiji an. Aseera dient dem Hause Zimaroo, bis dieses vom Kaiser Asgaroons an die feindlichen Gulduri verraten wird. Ihr bleibt nur noch die Flucht in ein fernes Sternensystem, um ihr Leben zu retten und eine Gelegenheit abzuwarten, ihren Herrn zu rächen.

Lasadi doesn't like strangers on her ship, but she'll need a bigger crew if she's going to steal a mysterious artifact from a dead pirate's long-lost space station. She takes a chance on a charming grifter named Raj, along with a skilled hacker and her genius little brother. And it's...nice? If Lasadi isn't careful, she's going to start enjoying having a crew aboard. Raj's last bit of luck capsized right before he ran into Lasadi, and this job could finally get his life back on track—as long as Lasadi never learns the truth about his past.

As one of the last survivors of a race of shape-shifting spiders, her will to survive and her lust for revenge both point to the same strategy—exterminate her enemies before they find her. For the Spider Queen, friends are hard to come by, and her one-time victim Count Darith may be her only hope.

They first battled each other and then fought the world together. Now, the shifter spider and her count are separated by a galaxy. Silvia struggles to free herself and return Darith’s wife, Marim, to him...even if doing so goes against her own heart.

The luxury starliner Sovereign of the Stars makes an unscheduled and unannounced landing at Armstrong Base, mankind’s first permanent facility on the moon. Armstrong’s commander, Colonel Michael Hansen, boards the vessel and discovers the mummified remains of the passengers and crew. A single comatose survivor is found. A team from earth arrives to begin an investigation. They are led by Lindsay Dwyer, a bureaucrat who far outranks Hansen and who becomes the de facto commander of Armstrong.

Retired (and exiled) Marine Lieutenant General Colby Edison’s farm is overrun by a horde of alien plants, leafy gremlin-like creatures that begin systematically destroying first his crops and then his home. And not just his farm, but all the surrounding farms as well. The relentless plants have apparently killed his neighbors, and clearly, he and his dog Duke are next. But as a retired Marine, Colby has resources and skills not shared by other farmers on the newly terraformed agricultural world of Vasquez and soon he is bringing the fight to the invaders.