Títulos em Primeiro Contato

Hazard King finally managed to win peace with the Swarm, and he stabilized the Marxist Federation and helped create a more democratic new government on Lenin. The Black Dragon virus, though, continues to kill thousands there, and Imperial Scientists have finally admitted that antidotes are beyond their ability. Worse, it is only a matter of time before the virus makes it off planet, an event that is sure to kill billions and bring down the empire. But there is hope. If they can find the original virus, the creation of a vaccine may be possible.

Dr. Tahira Piriyeva has the world's attention as she expounds the true danger of the riebeckite threat. When an old friend unexpectedly offers her the chance to be the first to examine a new sample retrieved from the moon, she puts her speaking tour on hold and hastens to investigate. But the journey is not what it seems, the sample is not what she expects, and the even more horrifying truth about the riebeckites' origins begins to reveal itself.

A young man in search of love and an MBA comes face to face with everything from 2 and a 1/2 dimensional nanobots to a thrill-seeking doppelgänger.

Jaisa’s running out of time. Her husband has created a serum that will solve all the aliens’ problems and destroy the rebellion for good...by removing everyone’s memories of the world before. Without recalling the old world or her secret rebellions, Jaisa will no longer be pretending—she’ll become the perfect little doll, and forget what it means to be human at all.

The alien "gods" enslaved humanity, but a rebellion is being born. Jaisa longs to join the resistance, yet serves as a concubine to her “husband”, a brilliant but deranged scientist. His latest lab creation is Eo, a woman he designed from a cocktail of genes and memory infusions. Eo’s sole purpose: to hunt down the rebels as the flaming sword of the gods.

There are a million ways to end up in the Alien Bride Lottery, but it takes only one. Every unmarried female human over the age of 21 gets entered once a year. You can also accept extra entries for legal infractions—instead of paying a parking fine, for example, you can request an extra entry. Lots of women do that. I mean, why not? The chances are astronomical that your name will get chosen to be one of the hundred or so women who get shipped off to space every year.

Everything had changed for Zander Greaves over the last few weeks. He'd gone from being a private military contractor with his squad in the Middle East to being isekai-ed into a different multiverse. He lost his friends and his lover, Selda, in the same hour of his arrival, sparking in him the mission to kill every single Entoma he could to repay them for his loss. Luckily, an alien named Crish arrived to help Zander adjust to his new reality.

Jaisa’s beauty and ability to please, both of which are to be used at the discretion of the scientific elite who are the one segment of humanity the new gods value, are Jaisa’s only value to the new gods. But her value to humanity may be much greater. Placed into a position of influence, she walks the line between nonconformity and death.

Hacker Kita Yamasaki would do anything to escape the post-apocalyptic landscape that was the result of the Forever Winter. But for a normal person, the only options are the war-hungry nation-state of Ex Cathedra or the isolationist United California. Fortunately, Kita is anything but normal. When she finds a faded brochure for the BC Oasis—an underground greenhouse capable of sheltering a quarter million people—she jumps at the opportunity, even going so far as to steal a fission battery the oasis requires to operate at full capacity.

The aliens call themselves gods and inform Earth’s survivors that they are creating a utopia. Jaisa knows that no utopia can be built on billions of human deaths. A little obedience is a small, and temporary, price to stay alive while she figures out how she can make a difference.

The insectoid Prax landed on Earth approximately 12,000 years ago and immediately went into hiding. Now that it seems safe to do so, the ravenous carnivores have awoken from their long slumber to feast on what they call "The Meats"—meaning humans. Humans are good at war. But so are the Prax. And, as book two begins, the situation is dire.

Der hochbegabte junge Mann engagiert sich zunächst sehr erfolgreich für die APEIRON-Gesellschaft. Jedoch gerät er nach einem traumatisierenden Freiheitskrieg auf die schiefe Bahn. Während des Anfluges auf das Altairsystem wird er rauschgiftsüchtig und verstrickt sich in sexuelle Abhängigkeit zu einer verheirateten Astrophysikerin. Auf dem Planeten TREECOVER begegnet er als Mitglied des ersten Forschungsteams einer Horrorevolution und entkommt nur knapp dem Tod. Er kehrt auf das Raumschiff zurück und endet dort schließlich als Mörder.

In 1558, during the reign of Bloody Queen Mary, Earth is visited by extraterrestrials who initiate first contact. Their mission is to gather samples of life on Earth and observe but not interact with humanity. After witnessing a brutal execution, their patience is tested beyond breaking point... First Contact is a series of standalone novels that explore humanity's first interaction with extraterrestrial life.

With the Earth teetering on recovery from humanity's 21st-century mistakes, two highly advanced aliens observing from the Moon are suddenly on opposite sides of an ethical battle over a dire cosmic threat. As governments seek to destroy them, the aliens wrestle and scheme, entangling all of humanity as they influence and empower specific humans to achieve their contrary objectives. Among them are a brilliant AI expert who has channeled her autism in the service of science, and a violent, anti-secular zealot who hates everything she stands for.

Independent space trucker Jake McGraw, accompanied by his father, Sam, who inhabits the body of the truck itself, his "starrig," picks up a beautiful hitchhiker, Darla, and a trailer-load of trouble. One of the best of the indies, Jake knows a few tricks about following the Skyway, which connects dozens, or maybe hundreds, of planets—nobody knows how many and nobody really knows the full extent of the Skyway, and much of it remains unexplored.

Twelve classic tales of the unknown from the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Way Station.

Andre runs into trouble riding with Rachel while he's on leave. By the time he's back on duty, Rachel has decided to join up with BSR. Her first job is a doozy, though. She has to keep the twins out of trouble. Slavers show up again with hopes of getting the company out of the way. After the fleet explains the error in their ways, they head out to check on a new planet. A stowaway causes trouble for Topper, but it turns out for the best.

Faced with determining the fate of the galaxy, Golan Trevize hesitantly chose to hand over the rule of the galaxy to planet Gaia. Two mysteries now remain: who has erased the records of Earth – and why? Determined to ensure his choice was right, Golan sets off with Janov Pelorat and Bliss, to answer these questions once and for all. But nothing could prepare them for the secrets which await them on Earth. Secrets which predate history as they know it, and will change its significance forever.

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.

Eine mysteriöse Verschwörung droht das Unternehmen Simipath Inc. zu zerstören. Doch Minarel Tarkin gibt ihr Lebenswerk nicht auf. Sie und ihr Dispatcher Sahir McKinnon, ein Veteran des Krieges gegen die Athir, haben endlich einen Ausweg gefunden. Doch dieser Weg führt direkt in die Hände des alten Feindes. Die Athir haben für die Völker des Stellaren Status nichts als Hass übrig - doch sie halten den Schlüssel für die Rettung dieser Völker in den Händen. Denn Minarel erkennt, dass es um viel mehr geht als nur um sie und ihre Gestaltwandler-Dienstleistungen.