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Kontinuum INC er en science fiction-roman, der udspiller sig i et virtuelt efterliv. Klienterne er alle terminale patienter eller ældre mennesker med dissociative lidelser, der ønsker at forlænge eller forny deres liv gennem kunstigt skabt bevidsthed. Romanen er en stilfærdig filosofisk, spekulativ roman, der tager temaer som eutanasi, sorg, afsavn og hukommelse under behandling i en futuristisk parallelvirkelighed.

"In this highly atmospheric horror-thriller from the Stoker Award-nominated author of The Violence, a young woman hopes to reinvent herself at an isolated artists' colony. . . only to be drawn into its dark, twisted past"--

Alien Deception, End of Times; may have all the markings of a very real prophetic word. Originally written in 2014 as a science fiction, conspiracy theory and supernatural drama, this is a story that seems strangely familiar to our current times. A far reaching tale centered on a vaccine that cures diseases, is presented to the masses as the only means of survival. Where creative license suspends disbelief, this fascinating story may not be too far from implausible. Where the government, Area 51, Grand Canyon UFO sightings and supposed alien influence all converge to create a deceptive plot so great; one can only ask... What if?

'A marvel of a collection' Kaliane Bradley, author of The Ministry of Time'A consummate storyteller' New York Times'There is nothing more terrifying than the monster that squats behind the door you dare not open...'The bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time weaves ancient fables into fresh, unexpected forms and forges new unforgettable legends.The myth of the Minotaur in his labyrinth is turned into a wrenching parable of maternal love - and of the monstrosities of patriarchy.The lover of a goddess, Tithonus, is gifted eternal life but without eternal youth.Actaeon, changed into a stag after glimpsing the naked Diana and torn to pieces by his hunting dogs, becomes a visceral metaphor about how humans use and misuse animals.From genetic engineering to the eternal complications of family, Haddon showcases how we are subject to the same elemental forces that obsessed the Greeks, as he reimagines stories from Laika the Soviet space dog on her fateful orbit to St Anthony wrestling with loneliness in the desert.'In sentences as precisely cut as paper sculptures, Mark Haddon fits ancient myth to the cruelties and wonders of the present' Francis Spufford, author of Cahokia Jazz

Wir wissen, dass wir ein Problem in der Zukunft haben, deshalb klammern wir uns an die Gegenwart, wie ein Ertrinkender, der das Wasser nicht erkennen kann. Alles um uns herum besteht aus Erzählungen, die nicht zu Ende geführt werden können, weil sich die zugrunde liegende Geschichte schneller verändert als wir denken können. Da sind Technologien, die immer schneller, immer komplexer werden - Energieerzeugung, Carbon Capture, Digitalisierung, und die Art wie wir leben - Kommunizieren, Fliegen, Arbeiten, sogar wie Politik gemacht wird. Wir erleben den Beginn der hybriden Kriegsführung, wo ein Vasallenstaat Russlands, Belarus, Menschen dazu benützt, Europa zu destabilisieren. Und wir erleben, wie sich Konzerne, gestützt auf ihre Algorithmen, zu Weltherrschern aufschwingen, weil ihre Kunden, Nutzer, oder wie immer sie heißen mögen, sich wissentlich in Abhängigkeit begeben. Und so entsteht eine neue, vernetzte Erzählung, die sich nur langsam aus dem Nebel schält. Noch ist sie unvollständig, weil sie immer wieder neu geschrieben wird. Vor allem aber von jedem Einzelnen neu interpretiert wird. Doch einige Protagonisten dieser Zukunftserzählung stehen bereits fest: Die Auswirkungen der Corona-Pandemie auf die Medizin, die Künstliche Intelligenz, die Kriege in der Ukraine, im Nahen Osten und dem Sudan, die das Potential haben, die Welt zu verändern. Und über allem schwebt der Schleier des Klimawandels, dessen Auswirkungen wir ahnen, aber nur schwer in den Griff kriegen. Immerhin sind die alternativen Energien auf dem Vormarsch. Sie könnten zum Schlüssel in eine bessere, zumindest sauberere Welt werden.

In this dual-timeline story, two women come to terms with seeing the future.Living in one of the whitest counties in Texas, twenty-nine-year-old Jess Atwood is plagued by visions she doesn't want and can't control. At the same time, she struggles to keep her family's organic farm out of foreclosure.In 1960s Tennessee, Jess's grandma Anna Mae has her own visions, which she thinks are divinely inspired. Each woman deals with her own visions differently, but both find themselves in trouble due to following-and sometimes not following-them.Jess must overcome her resistance to the visions and embrace her gift of second sight-or she may wind up as the next victim of a human trafficking and kidnapping syndicate. Anna Mae needs to stop obsessing about the visions that rule her life and drag her into danger.

Das letzte Schiff der Föderation...oder... Der NanitenkriegAdmiral Thomas Brander ist der legendäre Gründer der Erdföderation und ihrer Raumflotte, der Earth Federation Space Navy. Nun kehrt er nach 35 Jahren aus dem Ruhestand zurück, in den er nach einer verlustreichen Schlacht gegangen ist. Jung geblieben dank mittlerweile selbstverständlich gewordener lebenserhaltender Technologien will er noch einmal ein Kommando haben.Er kommandiert sein altes Schiff, die Fregatte "Moondreamer". Ein Schiff, das von der Menschheit in eine Reihe mit der "Mayflower" gestellt wird. Oder der "Santa Maria" von Christopher Kolumbus - und das genauso umstritten ist.Der Admiral wird auf eine Goodwill-Tour zu einer fremden Rasse geschickt.Doch dann geschieht das Undenkbare. Eine noch nie dagewesene Bedrohung aus einer anderen Dimension streckt ihre Klauen nach der Galaxis aus und der Admiral, seine Crew und das alte Schiff müssen noch einmal ihr Bestes geben, um den Untergang der eigenen und anderer Zivilisationen zu verhindern. Denn als das Ende hereinbricht, sind sie buchstäblich das letzte Schiff der Föderation. Allein hinter den feindlichen Linien wagt der Admiral das Unmögliche...Eine Military-Space-Opera über den Kampf mit einem Feind aus den Untiefen des Multiversums im 23. Jahrhundert einer geeinten Menschheit. Karl Layton hat ein facettenreiches Romanuniversum mit zahlreichen Fremdrassen und neuen Technologien geschaffen, das den opulenten Hintergrund für diese abenteuerliche Space-Opera bildet.+++ Eine Bemerkung zur Zeitdilatation, weil das von Lesern angesprochen wurde. In diesem Roman reisen die Raumschiffe mit Überlicht-Geschwindigkeit durch einen parallelen (Hyper)-Raum, in dem die Zeit schneller verläuft.Hingegen hätte in der Wirklichkeit heute (ohne Überlichtantrieb und solchen Parallelraum) ein auf einen Teil der Lichtgeschwindigkeit beschleunigendes Schiff (im Normalraum) einen verlangsamten Zeitablauf im Inneren. Anderer Raum, andere Naturgesetze. +++AUF EINEN BLICKAdmiral Fuhrmann ist auf diplomatischer Mission mit seinem Schiff, als um ihn herum die Hölle losbricht und eine bizarre Macht aus den Tiefen des Multiversums nach der Föderation greift.Die Föderation der Erde - Saga:Prequel: Das letzte Schiff der Föderation (dieser Roman)Band 1: Das Schiff der VergessenenBand 2: Der Verräter des Herrgotts(weitere Romane in unmittelbarer Vorbereitung)

GEDANKEN ZU LEBEN, TOD, SEELE UND DEM DANACH - gibt es ein Leben nach dem Tod?Adam und Eva waren die ersten Menschen (Homo sapiens = weiser Mensch ergänzt heute die Wissenschaft) sagt die Bibel und von ihnen stammen alle weiteren innerhalb der letzten 300.000 Jahre geborenen etwa 100 Milliarden menschlichen Nachkommen. Doch wo befinden sich die 92 Milliarden bereits Verstorbenen (8 Milliarden leben zurzeit auf der Erde) einschließlich Jesus und Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)? Werde ich, der Autor, bald Jesus und Buddha sowie Vater und Mutter von Angesicht zu Angesicht sehen? Wird Imhotep (Visier und Baumeister des Pharao Djoser) mir bestätigen, dass meine in 3 Büchern vorgestellte Theorie zum Bau der Cheops-Pyramide richtig ist? An welchem Ort im Universum befinden sich die 92 Milliarden Verstorbenen, sind sie verteilt auf Himmel und Hölle, so wie wir uns es vorstellen? Schwirren ihre Seelen dort herum oder haben sie alle ihre Körper zurück? Ist es denkbar, dass Adam und Eva mit ihren Steinzeitfreunden, die noch nicht einmal das Feuer kannten, heute freundschaftlich und verständnisvoll neben wiedergeborenen Menschen aus der Neuzeit leben, die Segen und Horror der Atomkraft beherrschten? Sitzen die Guten neben Gott, dem Vater, im Himmel, wie Jesus sagt oder nutzen sie ihre Wiedergeburt aktiv in vielerlei Berufen als Chance, für das zweite geschenkte Leben in Glück und Zufriedenheit? Das vorliegende Buch gibt die Antworten, überraschend, weil unerwartet!

Paradise in Ruins offers readers a look at the Pacific Theater of World War Two by introducing them to military and naval leaders from both sides of the conflict, as well as local populations of the Pacific islands whose lives were suddenly disrupted by the brutal events that exploded eastward from Japan in 1941. Perhaps you had family members among the many thousands of young men and women who got transported across the Pacific Ocean to those mysterious islands that they were ordered to recapture from the Japanese. If you have occasionally wondered what Grandpa (or Grandma) did in the war, you are not alone. The generation that experienced World War Two is notorious for not speaking about what they saw and learned in that previously unimagined multilingual, multicultural environment. They just didn't know how to describe their adventures to loved ones at home afterwards, so they chose silence instead.

A man's haunted past and two captive orcas desperate bid for freedom collide in HOME.Adam Svenson, adrift in prison, relives his past chasing orcas. Yet, whispers from the deep increasingly guide him toward redemption. In a sterile marine park, Persia and Tristesse, two majestic young orcas, yearn for the open sea.Will a mystic whale's wisdom unlock Adam's freedom? Can the orcas break their chains? Dive into a thrilling hunt for truth, where captivity collides with spiritual awakening and reality bends in a Spielbergian twist.HOME is a modern-day Moby Dick parable - a thought-provoking tale of captivity, life, death and spiritual redemption.

Keegan Tate is an assistant district attorney in San Francisco who stays busy putting bad people in prison. Then one day, in the midst of a traffic jam on the Bay Bridge, she receives a call from a dead woman. The voice on the phone insists that she find the Three. In that moment, her world is turned upside-down. She is jolted out of old certainties and assurances and begins free-falling into strange, often frightening realities. When she cannot make sense of what is happening, she is introduced to an old woman, a café cook, who is also a holy woman and shaman. She becomes Keegan's mentor and guide and teaches her that her life and everything in it is controlled by love. As her awakening continues, dangerous criminals appear to menace her and her loved ones. She must confront each challenge with the same spirit that is transforming her life.

Winner of the 2018 Independent Publisher Award, Gold Medal for Visionary Fiction.¿Twenty-something Pearl Swinton is on walkabout for a year across Southeast Asia with her boyfriend, Finn. Pearl is a travel writer and encounters a host of dynamic characters, from a boat boy in the Philippines, to a penitent in Nepal, to a rickshaw driver in India, each challenging her world view. In search of her life purpose, Pearl is being pulled more deeply away from all that is familiar on this journey, a path that began when she moved to Tokyo from the U.S. years earlier. Who is the self behind cultural conditioning? Who is she when no one is telling her who to be? What is her calling? The couple ends up in London, where Pearl finds some semblance of home, while Finn struggles to belong in a place he left behind years before. Pearl ultimately realizes that before she can go upward and understand this illusory "purpose", she must journey down into the self and heal. In the end, she is faced with a decision that could reduce to ashes the life she has built, and destroy all that she holds dear.

Imagine a modern-day messiah were to emerge. Imagine he was killed, and his body cryonically preserved. Imagine he was brought back to life 200 years in the future, into a world now ruled by his own religion. Now imagine he was already reincarnated. The year is 2270 and Tobianism, the Church of the Prophet Tobias, rules the world. But it is a world on the verge of revolution. The Prophet has returned to set things right - but is it as Tobias or his reincarnated self - Rene? From the most original new voice in Science Fiction. A roller-coaster ride of action and intrigue, Return Of The Prophet is a must read for anyone who loves Sci-Fi as social commentary, and which the tackles big philosophical questions of our place in the universe.

The cyber-martial arts saga that has spanned a solar system and over two decades in print returns, with creator Yukito Kishiro's new sequel that reveals the true story of Alita's childhood on Mars, and the mind-bending adventures that still await her... The operation to track down Yoko is interrupted when Gyapollo launches an ambush in the night. A clever trap does some damage, but Keun knows a duel is inevitable, and that he must put everything on the line. Meanwhile, Yoko's solo adventuring leads her to a monumental discovery--if only she understood its significance...

A journey forward into the past...

From a million-copy bestselling author, comes an unforgettable and heartbreaking story about one woman's determination to keep her family together when their world falls apart...

"In the shattered remnants of a doomed planet, the last shuttles are leaving soon... So why do these misfits want to stay behind? Faith has a metallic mystery bolted to her head. Hoshi keeps his rage in check with an emotional support chicken. On a dying world where most adults have already left and the remaining kids are training for their turn, these two are starting to wonder "what's the point?" Gradually, a cluster of lonely souls who've spent their lives emotionally adrift are pulled into one another's orbits as they try to stay in place in a universe that is moving all too quickly. With Space Junk, the startling imagination of award-winning graphic novelist Julian Hanshaw explores profound questions of past and future, trauma and recovery, staying grounded and taking flight."--

"In a world where Rome never fell, an unlikely group of protagonists are ready to burn down the empire in the first of this bold new speculative trilogy"--

The legendary Reaper, Darrow, to defend Mars from a bloodthirsty would-be conqueror, begins his long voyage home, an interplanetary adventure where old friends will reunite, new alliances will be forged, and rivals will clash on the battlefield.--

A MAGICAL, HUMOROUS, AND SPIRITUAL LOOK BACK AT THE MUSIC AND MUSICIANS OF THE 60S.KEEP YOUR PHONE HANDY --- IF YOU LOVE MUSIC, YOU'LL BE ADDING SONGS TO YOUR PLAYLIST!Recipient of the Literary Titan Book Award When Harvey Dowd, along with the help of his life-long friend Conor, opened The Dead Superstar Bar in downtown Sarasota, they weren't prepared for what was to come. The pair envisioned a local bar with a house band playing 60's music, but only music released by deceased 60's stars. They didn't foresee those stars returning to perform nightly at his bar. It turns out that heaven does have a hell of a band. Dead musicians performing live at a bar in Florida, God's Waiting Room. What could go wrong? The Dead Superstar Bar is a humorous and upbeat look back at the 60s; its music, its craziness, and the musicians who made it unforgettable.

Winner of the Silver Medal for Visionary Fiction in the 2015 Independent Publishers Awards.Turbulence opens this second book in the Elemental Journey Series as Pearl Swinton, now in her twenties, uproots from the Midwest and flies to Tokyo, where she has no job, no friends, and no home, a place where she hopes to live floating above the culture. How will she survive with her mystical visions in a country so foreign from everything she knows? Pearl lands at a Jesuit mission and is magnetized to the ethereal missionary Usui. After she is forced to leave, she is thrown unprepared into the complicated world of Japanese culture and must learn to maneuver friendships, understand love, and balance the intensity of working at one of the city's largest newspapers. When she stumbles upon Usui living as a homeless man, a journey begins that draws Pearl deep into Japan's hidden homeless underworld. Having given up any connection to civilization to "find himself," Usui brings Pearl face to face with her own homelessness and challenges her to begin the painful journey of understanding her visions and finding herself. In the end, hope flies on the paper wings of thousands of origami cranes. Pearl is called to her own mysticism, not just for herself, but for a world where the loss of magic may well be the real threat. A fundamentally radical work of art, Air tackles core issues facing individuals coming of age in today's world. How can anyone feel safe and at home on a planet threatened by escalating violence and devastating climate change? Where, truly, is home?

Die von den Medien erzeugten Emotionen machen mir Angst; egal ob sie sich gegen Klimakleber, Russland oder sonst wen richten. Feige wie ich bin, ziehe ich mich mit meinen Alterego Klaus zurück, wo er mich mit George Orwells 1984 konfrontiert. Seitdem geht mir ein Gedicht nicht mehr aus dem Kopf: Medienmacht und Medienglauben, mit der Empörung süßem Gift, auf dem Altar der Mehrheitsmeinung, täglich ihr Menschenopfer frisst.

As Samhain approaches, worlds collide. If you love witchy urban fantasy filled with magic, action, and mystery, you will love this series.