Ergebnis für "Space Opera" in Fantasy

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.

Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes in on him because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason.

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.

Six million years ago, at the very dawn of the starfaring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones: the shatterlings. Sent out into the galaxy, these shatterlings have stood aloof as they document the rise and fall of countless human empires. They meet every 200,000 years to exchange news and memories of their travels with their siblings.

2057. Humanity has raised exploiting the solar system to an art form. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclear-powered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. They mine comets. And they're good at it. The Rockhopper is nearing the end of its current mission cycle, and everyone is desperate for some much-needed R & R, when startling news arrives from Saturn: Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, has inexplicably left its natural orbit and is now heading out of the solar system at high speed.

Late in the 26th century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the Inhibitors---alien-killing machines designed to detect intelligent life and destroy it. The only hope for humanity lies in the recovery of a secret cache of doomsday weapons---and a renegade named Clavain who is determined to find them. But other factions want the weapons for their own purposes---and the weapons themselves have another agenda altogether.

Der Krieg zwischen der Allianz und den Syndikatwelten tobt weiter und Captain "Black Jack" Geary wird zum Admiral befördert, obwohl der Rat befürchtet, dass er einen Militärputsch vom Zaum brechen könnte. Gearys neuer Rang verleiht ihm die Befugnis, mit dem Feind zu verhandeln. Die Syndiks mussten gewaltige Verluste hinnehmen und sind möglicherweise endlich dazu bereit, in Friedensverhandlungen einzutreten.

Noah wurde einst als Waise von der sterbenden Erde gerettet. Heute ist der Planet Sora seine Heimat. Er gehört zu den letzten 38 Menschen, die dort auf ihren Einsatz im immerwährenden Krieg gegen die Xalaner vorbereitet werden. Doch dann rettet Noah eine jungen Novizin vor einem Attentat, und plötzlich befindet er sich auf einer Odyssee durch den Weltraum. Auf der Suche nach den Hintermännern des Anschlags stoßen er und seine Begleiter auf ein finsteres Geheimnis, das alles Leben auf Sora vom Angesicht des Planeten tilgen könnte.

Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.

Humanity has colonized the planets - interstellar travel is still beyond our reach, but the solar system has become a dense network of colonies. But there are tensions - the mineral-rich outer planets resent their dependence on Earth and Mars and the political and military clout they wield over the Belt and beyond. Now, when Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw the entire system into war.

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all.

Viele Sagas berichten von Leman Russ, dem Herrn des Winters und des Krieges, dem meistgefürchteten Primarchensohn des Imperators. Auf dem Höhepunkt des Großen Kreuzzuges kämpfen seine Space Wolves um die Konformität der rebellischen Welt Dulan. Erzürnt über den Trotz des Herrschers Durath schwört Russ, den Tyrannen persönlich niederzustrecken – doch sein Bruder Lion El'Jonson von den Dark Angels rät ihm zur Vorsicht. Obwohl zwei Legionen gegen Durath aufmarschiert sind, droht die Rivalität zwischen dem Wolf und dem Löwen die imperialen Streitkräfte zu spalten.

For nearly a billion years, every known sentient species in the universe has been the result of genetic and cultural guidance - or "uplifting" - by a previously uplifted patron race. Then humans are discovered. Having already uplifted chimps and dolphins, humanity clearly qualifies as an intelligent species, but did they actually evolve their own intelligence, or did some mysterious patron race begin the process, then suddenly abandon Earth?

Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed stand-alone novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Who will inherit this new Earth? The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age - a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden.

While the crew of the starship Flying Dutchman have been trying to assure that hostile aliens do not have access to Earth, the UN Expeditionary Force has been stranded on the planet they nicknamed "Paradise". The Flying Dutchman is headed back out on another mission, and the UN wants the ship to find out the status of the humans on Paradise. But Colonel Joe Bishop warns that they might not like what they find, and they can't do anything about it without endangering Earth.

In ferner Zukunft wird der interstellare Krieg gegen Alien-Invasionen mit scheinbar bizarren Mitteln geführt: Für die Verteidigung der Kolonien...

Das Sternenreich der Menschen steht vor dem Untergang... Die Menschheit hat sich in der ganzen Galaxis ausgebreitet und ein gewaltiges Sternenreich errichtet - ein ebenso mächtiges wie fragiles Gefüge aus Planeten und Raumstationen, die alle aufeinander angewiesen sind, um zu überleben. Extra-dimensionale Sternenstraßen halten dieses Imperium zusammen, sogenannte Ströme, auf denen Raumschiffe in kürzester Zeit Lichtjahre zurücklegen können.

Die galaktische Ordnung gerät aus den Fugen. Die Ixa-Prophezeiungen bewahrheiten sich ... ... und die letzte davon sagt den Untergang der Menschheit voraus. Damit will sich Captain Keyes nicht abfinden. Es ist ihm gelungen, eine brüchige Allianz zu schmieden wobei er sich mächtige Feinde gemacht hat.

Es ist das Jahr 1312 Neuer Galaktischer Zeitrechnung. Eine dunkle Macht überzieht die friedliebenden Zivilisationen in Andromeda mit Terror und Verwüstung. Gemeinsam mit einer Handvoll treuer Gefährten eilt der Terraner Perry Rhodan zu Hilfe. Doch in der Nachbargalaxis trifft er auf eine Gefahr, die jede Vorstellungskraft übersteigt... Alle sechs Hörbücher in einem Paket - ein Ereignis für alle SF-Fans.

Darth Plagueis: one of the most brilliant Sith Lords who ever lived. Possessing power is all he desires. Losing it is the only thing he fears. As an apprentice, he embraces the ruthless ways of the Sith. Darth Sidious: Plagueis’s chosen apprentice. Under the guidance of his Master, he secretly studies the ways of the Sith, while publicly rising to power in the galactic government, first as Senator, then as Chancellor, and eventually as Emperor. as Chancellor, and eventually as Emperor.