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Triana Moore programs the robots that clean the glitzy Station Kelly Kornienko. Avoiding the wealthy inhabitants on the upper levels of the station is her number one rule. Well, number two, right after "eat all the chocolate."

In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe designated the Andromeda Strain came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. A team of top scientists assigned to Project Wildfire worked valiantly to save the world from an epidemic of unimaginable proportions. In the ensuing decades, research on the micro particle continued. And the world thought it was safe. Deep inside Fairchild Air Force Base, Project Eternal Vigilance has continued to watch and wait for the Andromeda Strain to reappear. For years, the project has registered no activity until now.

The Kobayashi Maru is the test given to cadets at the Starfleet Academy - a simulated no-win situation in space. Now, the Starfleet officers share with each other the painful, often fierce lessons of their Kobayashi Maru as each man struggles to tap his inner strength and to overcome the most desperate situation of their careers! Featuring a dramatic reading by James Doohan and enhanced with sound effects and an original score!

Euphemia Williams, known to her few friends as Effie, and everyone else as Eff-Bomb, will punch you for looking at her funny, for using her full name or for noticing that she's a genius. But when an elite global entity known as Unity takes note of her intelligence and offers her a chance to escape the hum-drum life of a foster-child, she signs up. At best, she expects her time abroad to be a vacation. At worst, an actual challenge. But what she finds, upon being swept up in a futuristic transport, is far, far worse.

In a desperate attempt to escape destruction decades earlier, humankind was forced underground into the depths of the Earth, creating a new society called the Tri-Realms. After her parents and sister are abducted by the Enforcers, 17-year-old Adele, a member of the middle-class moon dwellers, is unjustly sentenced to life in prison for her parents' crimes of treason.

When maintenance technician Triana Moore arrives on the planet Sally Ride, she just wants to get through the high-lev meeting and get her relationship with Agent Ty O'Neill back to normal. But everywhere she turns, she's reminded of the serial killer who got away. When a short escape from the boredom leads her to an eerily familiar crime scene, she starts to wonder if she's losing it. With the help of Ty, her frenemy Vanti, and a cupcake truck, will Triana survive the most boring meeting in the galaxy?

When maintenance technician Triana Moore gets temporarily transferred to a passenger liner, she doesn't expect luxury and relaxation. Bot-minding is the same on a station or a ship. But with 12-hour workdays and five roommates in her cabin, Triana thinks she should have read the employment contract more carefully. Days into the cruise, her boss goes missing. Triana dusts off her sleuthing skills to go snooping. Together with a retired Marine Corps dance instructor, a socially inept hospitality intern, and her favorite security agent, she must navigate more than just the solar system.

It's a dirty galaxy and someone has to clean it. Avoiding the wealthy inhabitants on the upper levels of Station Kelly Kornienko is bot-programmer Triana’s number one rule - until one of her cleaning bots finds a dead body. A girl has to pay the rent, even on a crappy studio compartment, so Triana lends her programming skills to Agent O’Neill’s investigation. Together, they find more victims and evidence of a major cover-up. It will take all of Triana’s technical talents and some really excellent croissants to stop the murders, save her job, and ultimately, her life.

Here are the greatest stories of one of the greatest writers working in any genre today. All ten of the stories gathered here are Hugo or Nebula award winners - some even have the distinction of winning both. With a new Introduction by the author and personal afterwords to each story, plus a special look at three of Willis' unique public speeches - this is unquestionably the collection of the season, an audiobook that every Connie Willis fan will treasure.

In a desperate attempt to escape destruction decades earlier, humankind was forced underground, into the depths of the earth, creating a new society called the Tri-Realms. After her parents and sister are abducted by the Enforcers, 17-year-old Adele, a member of the middle-class moon dwellers, is unjustly sentenced to life in prison for her parents' crimes of treason.

When Frankie’s brain is transplanted into a cybernetic body, she fights back against the system and sparks a revolution against the tyrannical corporations that rule the world.

When Holly Winseed wakes up in a hospital room, her memory compromised and a new identity imposed on her, a team of government agents wastes no time stating their objective. With intent to infiltrate and defeat the terrorist group ICON, the agents tell Holly that she is now a Provisional Replica and has one week to hunt down and kill her Original for the murder of her husband, Jonathan. If she succeeds, she’ll assume her Original’s place in society. If she fails, her life will end.

After rescuing her father and younger sister, Adele is forced to leave her family and Tristan behind to find her mother in the cruel and dangerous realm of the star dwellers. Amid blossoming feelings for Adele, Tristan must cast his feelings aside and let her find her own way among the star dwellers while he accompanies Adele's father to meet with the leaders of the moon dwellers and decide the fate of the Tri-Realms.

In der Stadt Königin Mab ist nichts wie es zu sein scheint. Unberührbare, Spionin, Agentin der Inquisition - Alizebeth Bequin ist all das, und doch nichts davon. Sie ist ein Rätsel, sogar für sich selbst, und findet sich zwischen den Inquisitoren Gregor Eisenhorn und Gideon Ravenor wieder. Einst Verbündete sind sie nun Feinde und spielen ein tödliches Spiel gegen einen geheimnisvollen und tödlichen Widersacher. Begehrt vom Erzfeind und verfolgt von der Inquisition wird Bequin in eine dunkle Verschwörung verwickelt, in der sie weder ihre Rolle, noch ihr Ziel kennt.

With those she's closest to dying around her, Adele embarks on a secret mission to the Sun Realm to assassinate the president. Along the way she'll uncover secrets about her relationship with Tristan that she might not be ready to face.

Claudia Zimmerman smacks rock bottom then falls off the edge. Used as a scapegoat by her employers, the medical researcher travels to the fringes of known space but is shattered when she becomes a victim of blackmail. Coerced into joining a landing party to an uncharted planet, her thrill at discovering a new intelligent race turns to horror when she realizes they are to be exploited. Worrying about what they aim to do with them, Claudia tries to guard their well-being while avoiding the captain's hair-trigger temper.

They called the comet Cain, after the astronomer who discovered it. It passed 500,000 miles from Earth. We were spared planetary destruction and granted a light show like no other. But, one year later, Earth span into the debris field left by the comet and a meteor storm struck. Roads, buildings and even a small town were annihilated. It was the night of a mysterious double murder, the deed overshadowed by the discovery that the burning remains of the rock contained an unknown substance more precious than gold.

In der mysteriösen Stadt Königin Mab sind die Mächte des Lichts und der Dunkelheit in einen tödlichen Konflikt um die Wahrheit verwickelt. Die Diener der Heiligen Inquisition liefern sich einen Kampf mit ihrem zwielichtigen Pendant, den berüchtigten Cognitae, um die Identität des rätselfhaften und äußerst mächtigen Königs in Gelb herauszufinden. Im Herzen dieses Konflikts steht Alizebeth Bequin, eine psionisch Unberührte, die sich nun entscheiden muss, ob sie sich der Inquisition anschließt oder den Cognitae, die sie aufgezogen und ausgebildet haben.

Das dritte Buch aus der Serie um Herbert, unseren attraktiven Mittdreißiger, der in einer Reproduktionsanlage auf dem Planeten Goni entstanden ist und unbedingt als Scout auf die Erde wollte, schon wegen all der schönen Frauen - Science Fiction, aber eine sehr bodenständige Art von Scifi. Eine verschwundene Atombombe bringt Herbert zur Verzweiflung. Auf der Erde sind seltsame Kreaturen unterwegs, Flugzeuge werden von kleinen Raumschiffen belästigt und die Mafia hat wieder funktionierende Munition.

Kaum noch Waffen und zunehmend außerirdische Touristen aus Goni auf der Erde. Widerstand formiert sich, es braut sich was zusammen. Ehemaligen politischen Hardlinern, Militärs, Geheimdienstlern und Gangstern gefällt das neue friedliche Dasein auf der Erde gar nicht. Sie planen Anschläge auf Gonim, erwischen sie beim Wasser- und Schneesport und töten sie. Sie wollen ihre Waffen zurück. Selbst vor Raketen-Anschlägen auf Herbert schrecken sie nicht zurück.