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There’s a sense of normalcy for the community in Monterey, California, but their peace doesn’t last long. When they’re pushed to leave, they encounter something they never expected to find. The Glass remain, but they’ve shifted positions. Peggy reveals she used to have dreams, but prescription medication kept them at bay. Now she’s off the pills and is determined to visit Spokane with Will.

2080: At a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers, and physicians gather to gamble humanity’s future on one last-ditch experiment. Their goal: to make a tiny alteration to the past, averting a global catastrophe while at the same time leaving recorded history intact. To make the experiment work, they just need one last recruit: an ageing schoolteacher whose late mother was the foremost expert on the mathematics of paradox. 2028: A young woman goes into surgery for routine brain surgery.

The Complete Hard Time Series: A speculative fiction serial of adventure novellas. This omnibus contains all six books that complete the saga: Metal, Longhorn, Cult, Trune, Synth, and Deity.

Where survival is the meaning of life. A speculative fiction serial of adventure novellas set in a strange and punishing world. In Book 3, Cult, missionaries arrive on a holy quest to fulfill their scriptures. But the desert has other plans. Will they escape with their faith, or even their lives, intact?

Where survival is the meaning of life. A speculative fiction serial of adventure novellas set in a strange and punishing world. In Deity, an entity guides a motley crew of creatures toward a new beginning in a planet's last gasp at life.

A speculative fiction serial of adventure novellas set in a strange and punishing world. In book 5, Synth, an ancient guardian faces a foe that could destroy them all. Can the last remnants of humanity escape the terrible wrath pursuing them from the past?

A speculative fiction serial of adventure novellas set in a strange and punishing world. In Book 4, Trune, a long-awaited arrival bursts into the world, slaughtering all that stand in her way. As characters from previous novels reappear and unify, will they survive to understand their greater destiny?

Where survival is the meaning of life. A speculative fiction serial of adventure novellas set in a strange and punishing world. In book two, Longhorn, a man finds himself in a terrifying landscape without shelter, explanation, or memory. Join him as he searches for answers and struggles to survive. Find out if life and knowledge of his past are truly worth the price.

Where survival is the meaning of life. A speculative fiction serial of adventure novellas set in a strange and punishing world. In book one, Metal, a woman finds herself in two different worlds, as two different people. In one she is a criminal, sentenced to a new and terrible punishment. In the other, she is a stranger and then a prophet, granted the visions of God.

Decades ago, a vast object called the Anomaly was discovered moving through space. Missions sent to explore it found that anyone entering the Anomaly was unable to die. It kept moving, across our solar system, until finally the Anomaly enveloped Earth. Thirty years later, on the West Coast of the US, Theo hears that his missing wife has been sighted—in London. He’s sick, and getting worse, so he sets off to find her.

Robert Baxter once reveled in the intoxicating delights of Atopia - the man-made island where humans lose themselves in a world of boundless virtual realities. Now, Bob has returned to immerse himself in this mind-altering, consciousness-sharing refuge from the eroding Earth. But something is very wrong. Bob feels a tidal wave of doom cresting above the pleasure dome that is Atopia. As alternate universes perish, the salvation of all he loves - and all that exists - rests with Bob alone.

Der 5. März 2092 ist kein guter Tag. Major Jarle Dennoy, Geologe für die ESA, ist mit seiner hochschwangeren Frau auf dem Weg in die Klinik. Sie schafft es nicht. Während er seine Tochter in den Armen hält, erfährt er, dass Chiron, ein 228 Kilometer großer Komet, die Erde in sieben Jahren zerstören wird. Juni 2099. Zucchero lebt auf den Straßen Roms. Die Welt geht vor die Hunde. In wenigen Stunden ist es soweit, für sie ein Tag wie jeder andere. Sie wird Zeuge, wie bestens ausgerüstete Attentäter eine gepanzerte Limousine angreifen.

Fractured Time is the first book in a trilogy. Humans are stranded on a strange and hostile world after a catastrophic phenomenon displaces several regions and time periods to an alien world. Survivors battle a variety of creatures as they fight for survival and search for a way home. Billy Brock, the unwilling leader of the group, finds himself targeted by the wizard responsible for their misfortune, while everyone thinks he's crazy. The coincidences add up as Billy tries to solve the mystery of their presence on the planet Vesula.

In a city isolated from the rest of the world following the third global war, a young inventor is approached by a time-traveling android from the future who tells him it is his destiny to save the city from destruction. As they perform maintenance around the city, preventing catastrophes before they happen, he discovers that his destiny is not at all what he thought it would be—but does he even have a choice? Adhara's Sonder is a classic tale of fate and destiny versus personal choice and the consequences presented by both, made fresh and new with a futuristic sci-fi twist.

The Stars That Bend Time is the second book in the widely acclaimed STARPATH series. It is is an action-packed, hard science fiction space adventure that follows the problem-plagued journey of a mismatched band of post-apocalyptic space explorers as they seek to find a new world to call home. Written with intelligence, humour, a dash of romance, and a twist of time travel thrown in for good measure, it is a thoroughly engaging and compelling listen.

AD 7.783 - In 43 Stunden startet das letzte Raumschiff. Die Jericho-Mission ist das teuerste Fiasko der bemannten Raumfahrt. Dennoch wird Ben, Fernaufklärer und Scharfschütze, aus dem Kälteschlaf geholt. Der Einsatz: Sicherung einer Stellung im Nirgendwo, dem HWY51. Natürlich gibt es hier keinen Highway, sondern nur extraterrestrischen Wüstendreck. Noch 7 Stunden. Als Ben erkennt, was auf dem Mond läuft, fliegt ihm der Laden bereits um die Ohren. Kein Ding, damit kommt er klar. Mehr zu schaffen machen ihm seine Erinnerungen.