Ergebnis für "Space Opera" in Action & Abenteuer

High Protector Vance Turbo managed to save the entire galaxy and retrieve his wayward child, Astrid. As such, he's been looking for a safe job to raise his daughter and find some peace. Unfortunately, that turns out to have been a terrible idea because while Vance believes the universe doesn't need him, the universe disagrees. Sent on a crazy mission to assassinate a Sorkanan warlord and recover a long-lost space pirate treasure, Vance discovers that humanity is on the chopping block for its many sins.

The once-utopian Chasm City - a domed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet---has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague, capable of infecting any body, organic or computerized. Now, with the entire city corrupted - from the people to the very buildings they inhabit---only the most wretched sort of existence remains. The stakes are raised when Tanner Mirabel's search brings him face to face with a centuries-old atrocity that history would rather forget.

A.D. 41.832 Jael hat vergessen, wer sie ist. Vergessen, wie sie heißt. Vergessen, woher sie kommt. Sie kennt nur den Wunsch, den Ort zu finden, an dem das Licht von 1000 Sonnen den Boden berührt. Das ist ihr nicht gelungen. Eine Lüge führt sie zurück in ihre Heimat, zurück zu ihrer Familie, dem dunkelsten Ort im gesamten Universum. Um ihre Ideale nicht zu verraten, muss sie zu dem werden, was sie verabscheut: Matriarchin eines interstellaren Konzerns mit mehr als siebzehn Milliarden Mitarbeitern.

Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap out of the audio, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants. The result is a heart-pounding epic science fantasy. Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse.

Die erfolgreiche Military-Science-Fiction-Serie: Jetzt die Folgen 7-12 in einem Hörbuch! Die Space Troopers konnten den Vormarsch der Aliens nicht stoppen. Die letzte Kolonie der Menschen ist gefallen und die Washington nimmt Kurs auf die Erde. Da erhalten John Flanagan und sein Team neue Befehle: Auf Kassiopeia 1.3 sollen sie nach den Ruinen einer fremden Zivilisation suchen. John findet in den Ruinen ein altes Artefakt - nichtsahnend, wen oder was er damit anlocken wird. Denn die Space Troopers sind nicht allein auf dem Planeten.

On the grim death world of Fenris, the Space Wolves Chapter selects its aspirants from the best and brightest of the young tribesmen. Ragnar of the Thunderfist tribe finds his life changed forever when he is chosen. After being revived from a savage death on the battlefield, Ragnar is recruited into the fearsome Space Wolves Chapter. He is then thrown into a galactic war against the dark forces of Chaos. However, the implanting of the Canis Helix unleashes his primal instincts and Ragnar must fight to control the beast within him.

Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper. In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed and to find weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the imaginable. But the price of that knowledge may be higher than she can pay.

Der Jedi-Meister Qui-Gon Jinn und sein Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi werden beauftragt, Amidala, die junge Königin des Planeten Naboo, zu beschützen. Doch die Lage auf Naboo eskaliert, die beiden Jedi und Amidala müssen vor Kampfdroiden flüchten und auf dem Wüstenplaneten Tatooine notlanden. Dort lebt der Sklavenjunge Anakin Skywalker, dessen größter Traum es ist, ein Jedi-Ritter zu werden. Er besitzt ein ungewöhnlich starkes Bewusstsein für die Macht.

Jack Bennet returns from the war to find the life he left behind has moved on without him. The only option he has to make ends meet lies in a military surplus junkyard starship. What’s a former Combat Search and Rescue soldier to do? Fix up the ship, hire the cheapest pilot—a notorious drunk—and take the first contract that comes up: collect a bounty on one of the most ruthless killers in the Pirate Worlds, a place crawling with thieves, cutthroats and con artists whose primary language is violence. Jack must abandon his nice guy persona, or exploit it, if he is to survive.

The complete Baldwin's Legacy series.

Harrowhark Nonagesimus, last necromancer of the Ninth House, has been drafted by her emperor to fight an unwinnable war. Side-by-side with a detested rival, Harrow must perfect her skills and become an angel of undeath - but her health is failing, her sword makes her nauseous, and even her mind is threatening to betray her.

The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the 1,300 solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again.

The Expeditionary Force saga continues with Gateway from epic sci-fi writer Craig Alanson and narrated by none other than R.C. Bray.

All her life, Spensa has dreamed of becoming a pilot. Of proving she's a hero like her father. She made it to the sky, but the truths she learned about her father were crushing. The rumours of his cowardice are true - he deserted his flight during battle against the Krell. Worse, though, he turned against his team and attacked them. Spensa is sure there's more to the story. And she's sure that whatever happened to her father in his starship could happen to her. When she made it outside the protective shell of her planet, she heard the stars - and it was terrifying.

Ein Mann, ein Wort. Seit Colonel Joe Bishop unverhofft zum Weltraumretter wurde, geht in seinem Leben so einiges drunter und drüber. Aber er hat ein Versprechen gegeben, und er wird alles tun, um es zu erfüllen–koste es, was es wolle. Sein Auftrag: das gekaperte Raumschiff "Fliegender Holländer" zurückzubringen. Das Problem: der Beschluss der UNO, fast siebzig sogenannte Spezialisten mit auf die heikle Mission zu schicken.

Nachdem die Menschheit überraschenderweise als potenzielle Erbin einer vor mehreren hunderttausend Jahren verschwundenen Spezies und deren technologischen Errungenschaften infrage zu kommen scheint, mehrt sich die Zahl derjenigen, denen diese Entwicklung ein Dorn im Auge ist. Selbst innerhalb der verbündeten Völker der Hegemonie von Krayt gibt es Neider und solche, die alles daransetzen wollen, der Menschheit dieses Erbe streitig zu machen.

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

The Alliance has been fighting the Syndics for a century—and losing badly. Now its fleet is crippled and stranded in enemy territory. Their only hope is a man who’s emerged from a century-long hibernation to find he has been heroically idealized beyond belief… Captain John “Black Jack” Geary’s legendary exploits are known to every schoolchild. Revered for his heroic “last stand” in the early days of the war, he was presumed dead. But a century later, Geary miraculously returns from survival hibernation.

When a peaceful settlement on a moon in the furthest reaches of the universe finds itself threatened by the armies of the tyrannical Regent Balisarius, Kora (Sofia Boutella), a mysterious stranger living among the villagers, becomes their best hope for survival. Tasked with finding trained fighters who will unite with her in making an impossible stand against the Mother World, Kora assembles a small band of warriors—outsiders, insurgents, peasants and orphans of war from different worlds who share a common need for redemption and revenge.

The Merry Band of Pirates stopped the enemy from stealing a Sentinel, and destroyed its Elder starship, so why weren’t the Pirates planning a victory party? The enemy was not what they thought it was. It was much, much worse.