Science fiction: udforskning af verdensrummet

2671: Der Wissenschaftler und Raumschiffpilot Aven Barker gerät in eine Anomalie und stürzt völlig alleine auf einem Eisplaneten ab. Dort findet er eine seltsame, verlassene Station vor.In der Hoffnung, Teile zur Reparatur seines Raumschiffes zu finden, begibt sich Aven auf eine Forschungsmission. Als er jedoch von einer fremdartigen Macht angegriffen wird, bleiben nur die Flucht und Verbarrikadierung in der menschenleeren Station.Vor die Wahl gestellt, zu sterben oder alles zu riskieren, dringt Aven immer tiefer in die unterirdischen Ebenen des Bauwerks vor - verfolgt von den tödlichen Erscheinungsformen jener bösartigen Spezies. Wird es ihm gelingen, nicht nur die Hintergründe der Basis und seines Absturzes zu enthüllen, sondern auch gegen den Verursacher vorzugehen?

Écrit par quelqu'un qui connaît réellement la science... un petit bijou de hard SF. (Gregory Benford, auteur de best-sellers consacré par le New York Times) : En 2066, un trou noir est sur le point d'entrer en collision avec la Terre. Le scientifique de la NASA Burt Radcliffe trouvera-t-il une solution pour sauver le système solaire ?*** Par le best-seller consacré par USA Today ***Nous sommes en 2066, et le monde ignore la menace invisible à laquelle il va devoir faire face.Le destin de l'humanité repose sur les épaules de Burt Radcliffe, le nouveau directeur du programme NEO de la NASA consacré à l'étude des objets géocroiseurs.Burt met les bouchées doubles pour terminer DefenseNet, un anneau de satellites destiné à servir à la fois de système de première alerte, et de moyen d'éliminer les menaces entrantes.Et pourtant, en dépit de tous ses efforts pour se protéger, le monde ne peut rien contre l'alerte que Burt vient juste de recevoir.Venu des profondeurs de l'espace depuis l'aube des temps, le danger qui menace notre Terre a un nom : trou noir. Et rien ne semble pouvoir l'empêcher de semer la mort et la désolation dans son sillage.Un homme, véritable Einstein des temps modernes, avait eu la vision de cette menace primale, avant de disparaître sans laisser aucun détail sur la manière de nous en protéger. Son nom ? Dave Holmes. Il fut le premier architecte de DefenseNet.Holmes pourra-t-il être retrouvé à temps ? Mais même dans ce cas, sa solution suffira-t-elle à écarter tout danger ?Le monde a moins d'un an pour le découvrir.

By now, the rest of them must have seen the rocket entering the atmosphere, and started to flock from wherever they had wandered, all migrating towards the beacon, the ride home. They will never hear the apology, but their friends and family, thinking corpses of them, will.None of them will reach it in time...

The lone survivor of a battle in space, Jarl Hawkins fights for survival as his dying spaceship drifts out of control. But there is nothing he can do and his own death is certain.But his rescue comes in the form of an old wizard named Kvasir, who offers Jarl his chance at a new life on Vanir, a planet with black-powder weapons, wild nomads who roam the Ghost Plains, wizards and witches who use magic, and a church seeking to be all powerful. Separated from Kvasir, Jarl fights in a battle he does not fully understand, patrols with the Kettlewand Rangers, witnesses the brutal murder of a Ghost Raider, and travels to Tyr, the capital city, to locate Kvasir or another wizard. Once there, he is imprisoned for as a sorcerer and his modern weapons are taken from him. He encounters a samurai-like warrior, who becomes a friend and protector while in prison. After a pardon from the King himself, Jarl returns to Tyr and forms a printing company, and then commences on a most dangerous endeavor, the printing of a translated Vanir bible. This infuriates the Church leaders, and is only with the King's protection that he and his printing company can survive. But Kvasir is still missing, and without the help of the old wizard, Jarl is powerless to make his way back into space.

They came to bring life to a barren planet, but a lethal betrayal left them battling for mere survival. Carol had plans for farms, parks and forests, but now she must fight the elements to get crops growing before they run out of food.Gary wanted a new life. He signed up to build houses for the homesteaders, but deadly sabotage permanently changed the course of his future.Tucker was thinking about retirement from law enforcement on a new planet with few problems until the deaths and disappearances began.Together they have to push past the lies and deceptions to survive in a punishing environment with no hope for rescue.

Judit had thought her choices were lousy before.Now, she has forbidden aliens in control of the engines, a ship designed to break down regularly, and the Cartel hunting them through every system in known space.What's worse?She cannot trust the crew. Even Saxon has been compromised by the death of Camelot.But Judit cannot fight the entire galaxy on her own, though Isten help her, sometimes she's angry enough that she thinks she can.Somehow, this crew has to come together. Learn how to run a con together to save themselves. Or everything-all those second chances-will be lost.Project Nyx-the second book in the space opera series The Long Run-continues the chase through alien space stations, corporate machinations, and the importance of finding just the right threat to get your crewmembers to behave.Be sure to read all the books in this completed series, starting with Project Nemesis!

When Parker signed up for the new colony world, they said the journey would be easy; just a nice, long stasis nap, followed by a smooth descent in landing pods.They were wrong.When an asteroid impact damages their pod, Parker and her fellow passengers are prematurely launched and left stranded on a wild, uninhabited moon-the remnant of a failed terra forming experiment.With no way to call for help, the group must race against a rapidly-closing window of time to reachan abandoned camp before their slim chance at rescue is gone forever.Their journey will be far from easy as the dangers of this new alien landscape reveal themselves at every turn.The only one who can lead them through it is Parker.But she has her own priorities-Survival may not be one of them.

Peace has again settled over the Laima System. King Aden of Kealt and Earth Alliance officer Abby Watanabe are looking forward to their oft-delayed wedding, when she is recalled to Earth to resign her EA commission, and he is summoned to Seti by his sister Celesta.On Seti, Celesta informs Aden they've finally figured out purpose of the alien device the Ardalans discovered on planet XR564 during the Zon War. It is a doorway to the multiverse, through which its creators fled millennia ago to avoid their imminent destruction. When an accident causes Aden to fall through the doorway, he finds himself 20 years in the future and stranded on an alternate version of Seti, surrounded by slaughtered taals, the powerful and enigmatic rulers of Seti.Determined to get home, Aden must find his new realty's version of the alien device. Little does he know he's about to embark on a journey that will take him to multiple worlds across two galaxies, meet long-dead friends, and learn shocking things about himself!