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PULSAR unveils the truth behind the technological advancements of the 20th century. Director of Space Relations and Counterintelligence for the CIA Adam Hunter receives a mysterious crate at his Washington, D.C. office one night. While doubting the origin of its contents, the promise it holds for Earth renders him unable to refuse its calling.

Ever since the first Rift appeared more than a dozen years ago, humanity has fought for its very existence. Destructive forces of alien nature, Rifts erupt as black spheres, encircling communities and transferring people to unearthly realms, where monstrous entities feed on them like cattle. Some humans, however, have found white crystal shards implanted in their chests, granting them physical and magical powers that help them survive the Rifts.

Fünf Menschen sollen sterben, damit die Menschheit überlebt. Die Expedition zur Dunkelwolke LDN 63 hat das Geheimnis der rätselhaften Vorgänge dort aufgeklärt – aber für einen hohen Preis. Tausende, höchst fremdartige Schiffe bedrohen die Abgesandten der Erde. Der einzige Weg, sie aufzuhalten, könnte eine uralte Waffe sein. Doch um sie auszulösen, müssen die Astronomin Celia Baron und ihre Kollegen sich selbst aufgeben. Und mehr als das! Dabei ist überhaupt nicht sicher, ob ihr Opfer das Schlimmste wirklich verhindern kann: Dass die Angreifer das Sonnensystem und die Erde erreichen.

A proud and reserved alien society finds its homeland destroyed in an unprovoked act of aggression, and the survivors have no choice but to reach out to the indigenous humanoids of their adopted world, to whom they are distantly related. They wish to preserve their cherished way of life but come to discover that in order to preserve their culture, they may have to change it forever.

In der Galaxie ist Krieg ausgebrochen! Die großen Raumfahrerrassen sind alle in den Kampf verwickelt, und selbst am Rande des bekannten Universums vernimmt die Menschheit das Echo der weit entfernten, blutigen Kämpfe. Unsere Oberherren und Verteidiger, die Geckho, sind ebenfalls Teil dieses galaktischen Konflikts. Ein Vorteil für die Menschheit? Dies wird sich zeigen. Einerseits machen sich die Geckho nun wohl nicht mehr die Mühe, einen von Menschen bewohnten Planeten zu verteidigen.

James Cantrel wants to be braver in his new high school. He wants to pursue a new crush, stand up to new bullies, and create a comic book with his new best friend, Matt. An odd accident derails it all. Aliens in his dreams seem all too real. When he wakes, he finds he's been out, stealing supplies to build an invention he only recognizes from his latest, trance-induced drawings.

When expert Navy linguist and cryptographer Charlie Cutter is recruited into a shadowy wing of the NCIS, she's tasked with unraveling a mysterious ancient text that has puzzled researchers for centuries. Charlie isn't eager to revisit her previous failures... but when she discovers the same strange language in top-secret photographs, she finds herself roped into a job that could make or break her young career.

2025 год. Наглый разбойничий набег, в ходе которого погибло около трёх миллионов землян и ещё четверть миллиона человек были увезены в неизвестном направлении. Война миров обязательно будет, но позже.

Best known as the author of the popular space serial Earthsearch, James Follett wrote over 50 radio dramas, 25 novels and a number of TV scripts. This gripping 3-book series, adapted and abridged for BBC Radio and read by Nigel Anthony, explores what takes place when a West Sussex village becomes cut off from the outside world by an alien force field after a UFO crash-lands.

Athshe, planète lointaine de 27 années-lumière de la Terre, a été colonisée, il y a un million d'années, par le peuple de Hain. Alors qu'elle est toute entière couverte d'eau et de forêts d'essences d'arbres terriens et peuplée par des humanoïdes à la fourrure verte, un vaisseau intervient pour installer un système de communication avec la Terre.

I thought the only good alien was a dead one. Those Pig Faces and Tooth Fairies razed human civilization and forced us underground a couple hundred years ago. I'd still be there, except my mother told us we had to flee the compound for our very lives. My brothers and I figure we'll hide out or maybe find other survivors band together to kick some alien butt. Until the first thing we see are a squad of pink, fanged Tooth Fairies waiting for us with ray guns at the ready.

Lieutenant Paul Anderson is a Guardian driver, able to pilot the massive, thirty-meter-tall mecha “Point Break” from his cockpit high above the ground. There are only two problems—the Alliance won’t let him arm the giant mecha, and even if he could, he’s a long way from where any of the fighting is occurring. When Paul learns his mother’s been killed on Lewa, he wants to get some payback… but he can’t.

When Marshal Flint Maddox stumbles upon the gruesome sight of his best friend murdered in a cornfield, it triggers the K5 PROTOCOL, a dangerous and long dormant neural implant. He comes face-to-face with the brutal past he left years ago and the memory of monsters who tried to kill him. Unable to catch the aliens before they leave the planet with his friend’s daughter, he deputizes a posse of four androids and steals a ship.

James Sutton was an average guy—he couldn’t afford college and didn’t really know what he wanted to do with his life. But when his sister Holly goes missing, he finds out he’s been living in a fantasy: An alien really did land in Roswell and the US has had a secret alliance with them ever since. They are symbiotes—capable of bonding with hosts, enhancing their strength, agility, and stamina. Now mankind finds itself in the middle of an alien civil war between two symbiote factions—those who would be our allies…and those who would subjugate us into slavery.

Josy überlebt eine unheimliche Begegnung mit einem Alien – doch niemand glaubt ihr. Ein paar Wochen danach bekommt sie Besuch von einem Vertreter der Interstellar Cooperation. Denn längst haben die führenden Völker der Galaxie die Erde im Visier und diese Vereinigung soll die Menschheit behutsam auf außerirdisches Leben vorbereiten. Merkwürdig nur, dass selbst dort niemand weiß, welcher Spezies Josy damals begegnet ist. Und sie ahnen auch nicht, dass Josy diesem Alien etwas Wertvolles gestohlen hat.

With the team learning more about themselves and how far they are willing to go to help others, Yasuko, the ship’s AI, finds her own purpose as she emerges from the Haven shackles on her capabilities to work alongside her human crew. Their determination to help brings together a disparate people, building hope in the wreckage of past mistakes. But the squad still face devastating life and death decisions, ones that will change some of them forever. And as thousands die, Zuri rises to the challenge among the city ruins, where the alien swarm descends to feed on the living and the dead.

Man schreibt das Jahr 1815. Schon vor ein paar Jahren ist eine kleine Gruppe Aliens nach der Havarie ihres Raumschiffes auf der Erde gestrandet. Die Gestaltwandler leben versteckt unter den Menschen dieser Zeit, als über der Erde ein Raumschiff auftaucht und die Hoffnung auf eine mögliche Heimkehr schürt. Eine Kette von Ereignissen nimmt ihren dramatischen Verlauf, der in einer Katastrophe mündet.

The twentieth century's so-called golden age of science fiction produced many great writers, yet none is greater than Clifford D. Simak, named Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America. His bold visions of and ingenious speculations about humankind's future, always enriched with empathy and a deep understanding of human strengths, foibles, and failings, have stood the test of time, remaining powerful, affecting, and relevant.

By the time Grey had come back with an army of new allies, the Legion had been defeated. Many an Incarnator had fallen as heroes, leaving the City on the brink of destruction. Thousands of souls still trapped inside the Cube are trying to break free from their extradimensional prison while the Star watches impassively from its celestial heights.

The Beacon is the fourth book in the Sentinels series. If you like sci-fi adventures, space battles with complex alien invaders, and unexpected twists in humanities exploration of the stars, this could be your new favorite series.