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A mysterious object threatens to destroy our solar system. The survival of humankind is at risk, but nobody takes the warning of young astrophysicist Maribel Pedreira seriously. At the same time, an exiled crew of outcasts mines for rare minerals on a lone asteroid. When other scientists finally acknowledge Pedreira's alarming discovery, it becomes clear that these outcasts are the only ones who may be able to save our world, knowing that the Hole hurtles inexorably toward the sun.

Graham, a functioning alcoholic and Harvard medical student, stumbles across a puzzling communication from his deceased Navy SEAL brother. Graham must work to unravel a litany of secrets sobering in their implications not only for himself, but for the past 12,000 years of human history and the secrets of the universe.

When the Rho Project’s lead scientist, Dr. Donald Stephenson, is imprisoned for his crimes against humanity, the world dares to think the threat posed by the Rho Project’s alien technologies is finally over. The world is wrong. In Switzerland, scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider have discovered a new threat, a scientific anomaly capable of destroying the earth - and only Rho Project technology can stop it.

George R. R. Martin and science fiction's top authors delve into the adventurous superhero universe Wild Cards in the sixth book of this fan-favorite series. Since a strange alien virus created the superhuman beings known as Aces and Jokers four decades ago, they have struggled for respect and recognition. Now they are key players in a presidential convention torn by hatred and dissent.

Ein mysteriöses Objekt droht, unser Sonnensystem zu zerstören. Obwohl das Überleben der Menschheit auf dem Spiel steht, nimmt niemand die Entdeckung der jungen Astrophysikerin Maribel Pedreira ernst. Währenddessen schürft an der Grenze unseres Sonnensystems eine eingeschworene Crew von Außenseitern auf einem Asteroiden nach seltenen Erzen - bis sich herausstellt, dass sie die Letzten und die Einzigen sind, die unsere Welt vielleicht noch retten können. Denn The Hole rast unerbittlich auf die Sonne zu.

Marcus Aimond, untrained tag-along aboard humanity's first intergalactic exploratory commerce vessel, has a singular mission: sell off-brand misprinted merchandise. When the rookie and his crew encounter the Nerelkor, a frog-like civilization, he is thrust head-first into an alien civil war. The opposing factions, Rejault and Dinasc, are stuck in an ill-fated feud driven by deep-rooted ineptitude. To avoid the planet’s annihilation and establish a local sales office, Aimond and the crew must survive arena combat, reshape the very structure of the planet, establish world peace, and stay alive.

Laser O'Hara and his younger sister Gabby find themselves in a dire predicament after their family has been relocated, discovered, and then threatened because of the research of their long missing scientist father. Luckily, through instructions his Dad left coded and hidden for him in case of such a threat, Laser is able to build an L.D.D., a machine that makes it possible to travel inter-dimensional levels and to find and rescue their trapped father.

A heavy equipment operator discovers an artificial cave while cutting blocks from a limestone quarry. He plans to investigate alone, but an archaeology student bullies him into letting her join his underground foray. The two declare an uneasy truce when an ancient installation that predates humans unexpectedly sends them through a wormhole to another planet—one with creatures from Earth’s past.

En una pequeña ciudad minera en el salvaje oeste americano el sheriff Rooster Chance va a tener que enfrentarse a algo más que una banda de forajidos, cuando detiene y mete en el calabozo a su jefe. Y se va a encontrar solo, con la única ayuda de Chico, un delicuente arrepentido del que no se puede fiar demasiado. Pero a medida que va avanzando la noche se va a dar cuenta de que el ambiente del pueblo se está enrareciendo y van a tener que enfrentarse a algo mucho más salvaje y desconocido que una banda de cuatreros...donde está la gente?

Mark is in the center of the economic powerhouse planet, Mars. In the year 2245, Mars has already been occupied by humans, and digital currencies and self-flying spaceships are being used. His lead role is a space explorer, where he sets out on a suicide space mission through the black hole. He then finds himself caught in a different universe where there is full-blown war between two different planets.

William Johnson had a problem. Two days ago a department of the government ordered his family eliminated. He was stunned and he was angry. Ever since 2025, the government has been out of control. Doing as it pleased without concern for who it hurt along the way. He had ignored it up to this point, but no longer. He was determined to make a change. He didn’t know how, or when, or what form it would take, but it was going to change.

Norman Dohring doesn’t own a smartphone. He’s driven the same truck for 20 years. He’s tough, hardworking, and self-sufficient. For a human. When a wormhole transports Norman to the planet Bomba, he encounters a species that’s bigger, stronger, and able to handle Bomba’s scorching weather and 31-hour days. Norman struggles to survive. But he'll have to because there's a person on Bomba who needs his help. It’s someone he knows, someone he loves.

Two tours of Iraq and Navy SEAL training couldn't prepare Erik for the night half his house was destroyed by a Florida sinkhole. What he finds at the bottom of that new chasm will lead him on an interplanetary journey that questions not only his reality, but that of the human race.

Captain Joe Storn, shanghaied in Luna, promoted to admiral, and ordered back to space, cannot refuse. Mother Earth is dying. All her creatures need a lifeline. Joe must take a fleet of seven vast freeze-ships halfway across the Galaxy to the Magnus System, where three Earth-like planets promise hope. His ships carry the basic material to recreate every living thing from Earth, including humans, in deep stasis to withstand the 1,000-year voyage. An unforeseen magnetic anomaly inexorably drags the fleet to the wrong planet, which has some decidedly unfriendly denizens.

Joe Storn has come a long way since the Dirtsider Expedition landed and he formed the 100-strong Dirtsider Troop, men and women who followed him because they chose not to live under draconian rules laid down by those who equated “daring” with “dying”. But now, their numbers are dwindling through accident and suicide, and the only hope of fulfilling the mandate he was charged with, as admiral of the Expedition, “save humanity from extinction”, lies in replenishing their population from the cryostasis chambers aboard the seven ships they arrived in.