Showing results by author "James" in First Contact

The super dreadnaught Atlas has returned from the dead, but something has gone very, very wrong. As it arrives over the skies of the AIC homeworld, terrorists unleash panic in the streets below. Soon, the Atlas commences an attack on the civilian population with devastating effect. As the scope of the attack - and the truth of what is behind it - becomes clear, panic spreads among the colonies and Earth alike.

300 ans après les événements d'"Alien - La Sortie des Profondeurs" et "Alien - Le Fleuve des Souffrances", "Alien - La Mer des Désolations" retrace la redécouverte des Xénomorphes (Aliens) en état de sommeil dans les mines abandonnées de LV-178, le planétoïde d'"Alien - La Sortie des Profondeurs", désormais transformé et renommé New Galveston. La Weyland-Yutani Corporation, réformée après l'effondrement de l'armée du système des Nations Unies, poursuit ses efforts incessants pour armer les créatures.

Under the benevolent leadership of the League of Peoples, there is no war, little crime, and life is sacred...unless you're an Explorer. The ugly, the flawed, the misfit, the deformed, they are the unwanted, flung to the farthest corners of the galaxy to investigate hostile planets and strange, vicious creatures. Out there, there are a thousand different - and terrible - ways to die.

Years ago, a vast and mysterious object known as the Anomaly was discovered in deep space. All missions to explore and explain it failed. Now, the Anomaly has almost reached Earth, threatening to swallow the planet whole. On an orbital research station, a team of scientists desperately search for a way to stop it or destroy it. One of the crew, Ali, has lost faith in the mission. Following the death of a close friend, her only interest is returning to the ground—to her young son. But strange events, both inside the station and in the void beyond, force Ali to pursue a new mystery.

300 ans après les événements d'"Alien - La Sortie des Profondeurs" et "Alien - Le Fleuve des Souffrances", "Alien - La Mer des Désolations" retrace la redécouverte des Xénomorphes (Aliens) en état de sommeil dans les mines abandonnées de LV-178, le planétoïde d'"Alien - La Sortie des Profondeurs", désormais transformé et renommé New Galveston. La Weyland-Yutani Corporation, réformée après l'effondrement de l'armée du système des Nations Unies, poursuit ses efforts incessants pour armer les créatures.

Spread across post-apocalyptic North America, the nine great cities ruled by the alien-human hybrid barons have crumbled…ushering in not defeat, but a new epoch of alien rule of Earth. But their assault is threatened by a force of extraordinary humans, the Cerberus rebels, dedicated to freeing humanity from the aeons of slavery that the alien Annunaki race have placed upon it. In Louisiana, a salvaged piece of sentient spaceship signals the beginning of the long-awaited second salvo.

Desperate to escape her home world of Thuria, Flor crash-lands on a planet she’s never heard of before. One called...Earth. To hide amongst the population, she must kill and consume a human to take their form. One taste, and she finds herself ravenous for more. Consumed by her hunger, she launches into a frenzied hunt for her next victims.

Das Grauen kehrt zurück - ein allerletztes Mal! Mit "ALIEN - Wüste des Grauens" präsentiert Audible den dritten und letzten Teil seiner "ALIEN"-Hörspiel-Trilogie - und setzt dem Horror um die bekanntesten Kreaturen der Sci-Fi-Geschichte damit ein würdiges Ende. Inhaltsangabe: Dreihundert Jahre nachdem Ellen Ripley ihren schwersten Kampf gegen die Aliens ausgetragen hat, lebt ihr Nachfahre Alan Decker auf New Galveston - ehemals bekannt als Planetoid LV 178. Sein Job ist es, die Kolonialisierung zu überwachen und somit die Sicherheit der Siedler zu garantieren.

A century ago, an alien fleet attacked Earth. Over decades of bitter war, humanity slowly pushed them back. Eighteen months ago, a truce was struck. The aliens disappeared. Humanity stood down. But there are those who will never trust the aliens. The captain of the aging battleship Walker Pierce is one of them. He has spent months in disputed space, against the wishes of his superiors, looking for proof of alien treachery, afraid of what he might find. Because this time, if the aliens return, humanity won't be so lucky.

Reborn after near nuclear eradication, humanity struggles in a world defined by a secret history of conspiracy, rivalry and inhuman domination. As an ancient powerful race attempts to retake planet Earth, a courageous and sophisticated band of freedom fighters, the Cerberus rebels, leads the resistance in a daring battle to free humanity from the grips of an alien power struggle. In the Middle East's legendary Fertile Crescent, millennia-old artifacts are unearthed. Shockingly, they appear to belong to one of Cerberus's own.

Join Captain Bartholomew Quasar and the crew of the Effervescent Magnitude in this hilarious collection of short stories as they confront bands of nefarious space pirates, cantankerous bandits, exotic aliens, devious powers of persuasion, mysterious ghosts from the past, deep space identity crises, a runaway hyper-speed train, an insidious computer virus, and a villain with the fastest thumbs in the quadrant.

When Bonesaw, an early 20th-century gangster, is rescued from prison by the Brotherhood, he doesn’t realize it is actually a kidnapping. They need him to spy on one of their own generals, and to do so, he has to go through their version of Basic Training, also known as the Gauntlet. Nearly a century later, Detective Katherine Wheeler investigates a string of murders with similar, horrifying details: Each victim dies when something huge erupts out of their bodies. Unbeknownst to her, the attacks are the beginning of an invasion, one that could wipe out all of mankind.

A meteorite crashes to Earth, and brings with it a deadly disease that will kill every living thing on the planet in under a week. Just when things look their bleakest for the human race, comes first contact with an alien species. But are they here to help, or here to finish the job the disease started?

They fell from space and were hatched. In three weeks, they were fully grown three-feet-high creatures with an IQ about the same as a two-year-old human. Russia and China decided to attack them. When that didn't go well, they destroyed 500,000 of the beings. In the US, Bob Michaels wanted to try a different way. He simply brought two of them home and tried to communicate with them. He began learning from them, and they learned from him. Hell, he even toilet-trained them.

Alex Cave receives an urgent message about an unusual geologic event in Iceland. Giant globules of molten rock are floating up out of an ancient glacier. Alex and his friend Okana descend into the lava tube of a volcano and discover an alien artifact of incredible power. But before he can take it to a safe location, it is stolen by Janice Sloan, a ruthless woman dealing in stolen advanced technology. When she turns it on, the device begins changing the orbit of the moon and dragging satellites from the sky, but it won't shut down.

Geologist Alex Cave discovered four alien artifacts that seemed designed to destroy all life on our planet. He thought they were locked up at a top-secret facility, but two of the devices have gone missing, and one of them is in orbit over our planet. John Essex had good intentions when he modified one of the stolen artifacts to collect and recycle the orbiting space debris. When he turns it on, the signal is detected from deep inside the earth by a powerful artificial intelligence who wakes one of its women, named Pandora, and takes control of her mind and body.

No longer bound to Earth or the Core Sol System, the human race has expanded into the far beyond, seeding itself throughout the final frontier. It has been a time of great expansion, hope, and progress. These remote colonies, some found at the fringes of the Outer Rim, rely on supplies brought to them by deep-space commercial shipping vessels, which transport the needed goods and commodities to keep humanity alive and thriving in the most remote and austere locations.

When a distress beacon far off the main trade routes appears on the scanner, they stop to investigate. The source, a large ship with a gaping hole in the hull, drifts dead in space. Aboard the derelict ship, floating millions of miles from the nearest civilization, a single woman, Earth Force Agent Iaka Kazumi, survives in a sealed cryochamber. When Marcus wakes Iaka, he steps into a conspiracy that could take down the entire Earth government. Marcus, Solomon, and Iaka soon find themselves on the run from Earth Force agents who want them silenced, permanently.

Retired Astrophysicist and U.S. Black Ops program scientist Dr. Horace Mitchel has been placed on an international government hit list. He’s on the list because he’s in possession of highly classified information, information that would literally change the world’s entire traditionally accepted religious and historical views and destroy the system.

In 1969, astrophysicist Dr. Horace Mitchel spent three years totally alone in a Nevada desert "Deep Underground Military Base" with what was believed to be a female extraterrestrial visitor from another world. The highly classified black project was a scheduled visitation called Project Mogul. Without any supervision or oversight, they grew very close and more intimate with each other, finally making the discovery that their bodies were sexually compatible. They fell in love. Against protocol, she decided to give him forbidden knowledge.