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Es ist kurz vor Weihnachten in einer fernen Zeit weit in der Zukunft. Das Fernsehen gehört schon längst der Vergangenheit an und die Menschen möchten am Liebsten von Morgens bis Abends Hörbüchern und Geschichten zuhören. In der Firma Ohrdebil liegt es den Mitarbeitern daher sehr am Herzen, dass alle Geschichten schnell und reibungslos zu ihren Kunden finden. Doch dann geschieht es. Wenige Tage vor Heiligabend erhält die Firma einen mysteriösen Anruf, der alle in Angst und Schrecken versetzt: In vier Tagen soll die ganze Firma ruiniert werden und schließlich offline gehen.

Die Erde ist doch nicht gesprengt worden! Arthur Dent ist nach seiner Odyssee durch den Weltraum wieder auf dem Heimatplaneten gelandet...

Eis essen mit einem Brontosaurus? Ein Basketball-Match mit Michael Jordan? Alles kein Problem im Virtual-Reality-Resort Pangalaman Island. Derek, Sohn der Besitzerin, konnte seine kühnsten Träume schon als Kind ausleben. Nun hat er das ganze Imperium geerbt–und steht vor einem Problem: Der Promi Mr. Wagner ist in einem virtuellen Abenteuer verschwunden.

Jack Gripper loves playing pranks and eating pizza. But when he’s tasked with selecting an alien species to mentor Earth for the next 100 years, he’d better make the right call or the Earth is doomed! Can he overcome obstacles and diabolical plots to pick the right alien? And, just as important, can chocolate and pizza survive the alien encounter?

Over the last six years, the mercenary crew of Seven’s Plumbing has gained a name for themselves as efficient and unorthodox soldiers of misfortune. Consisting of an ever-scornful veteran, a cybernetically augmented engineer, a snarky alien medic, and the brazen Captain Seven, they survive by performing jobs that are either out of any government’s jurisdiction, or too dangerous for any sane group to do.

It’s been four and a half years since my friends and I revolutionized the world with our Brainocyte technology. I have a beautiful wife, a genius son, and more money than I know what to do with. My current problem? Not everyone appreciates the brave new world we've built. With enemies where I can least expect them, our life-saving technology could turn out to be the end of everything...even humanity itself.

Praticamente Inofensiva é tão polêmico quanto seu criador. Muitos o consideram o último volume da série O Mochileiro das Galáxias e outros afirmam tratar-se de um título independente, que apenas utiliza os mesmos personagens. Parte dessa controvérsia se deve aos 13 anos que separam este livro da primeira aventura de Arthur Dent, já que Adams iniciou a coleção no final dos anos 1970 e somente em 1992 retomou a história.

When Georgie's family decides to emigrate, Demi sets about doing the only logical thing—cracking the secret of time travel so she can go back in time and correct their "mistake". However, time travel raises more questions than it answers, as Demi's journey takes her through her own childhood, the history she never learned in school, Aberfan, and, of course, where all time travelers go to meet—Berlin in 1932. Demi also discovers that time travel is a male-dominated industry, and she is going to have to fight hard to become the world's first female time traveller.

Balloon has always been a morbidly obese moron. But recently, something about his feeble brain has changed. Every time he guesses, he’s right. Victory, the girl he’s been crushing on for over 10 years, needs his abilities to save her dying father. Desperate for her affection, Balloon agrees to help.

Beautiful. Magnificent. Indestructible. These are the plaudits given to the luxury space liner as it sets forth on its maiden voyage to distant vacation planets. Onboard, far below the decks of the rich and famous, is an unhappy, forlorn janitor named Chuck who mops and sweeps and dreams of, one day, becoming a captain and piloting a great spaceship such as this.

It sounds like the easiest mission ever: Go to Earth (you know, the blue planet in the middle of nowhere). Sell hot dogs. Record interactions with human beings using the loop recorder in his brain. Unfortunately, humans refuse to buy Charlie’s hot dogs at the corner of Bay and College Street in downtown Toronto, Canada, North America, Earth. They prefer Earl’s Dogs, the cart across the street.

A wandering alien life form seeks a compatible host to share its life. The life has lived for a long time and shared life with many life forms. Throughout the alien's life it is able to find suitable hosts for short periods of time and in other hosts life is hard and risky. Finally the alien life form travels to a planet and finds the perfect species to share its life with.

It’s been three years since Esa left her backwater planet to join the ranks of the Justified. Together, she and fellow agent Jane Kamali have been traveling across the known universe, searching for children who share Esa’s supernatural gifts. On a visit to a particularly remote planet, they learn that they’re not the only ones searching for gifted children. They find themselves on the tail of a mysterious being with impossible powers who will stop at nothing to get his hands on the very children that Esa and Jane are trying to save.

Come experience a classic hero's journey like nothing you've seen. Breath of Life is the story of a strange being who wakes up into the bones of a lost civilization, worshipped by the primitive aliens who discover her. The gentle illusions quickly take a dark turn for the deadly when she learns just what plans the diabolical Archon has in store for her.

After his last two jobs left him broke and in debt, The Human for Hire is looking for a way to make some quick cash. And that's when three Human friends from his past show up, offering him a piece of the action in an upcoming bank robbery. At first, he says no. But then the details come out. It's behind enemy lines . . . and it's a Klin bank they'd be robbing. As Adam Cain says, "This could be the perfect crime." Get ready for Kelly's Heroes in Space, as Adam Cain and friends embark on a hair brain scheme to rob half-a-billion energy credits from a Klin bank.

When the Volywr descend in their enormous mothership, seven strangers find their lives irrevocably changed. Bound by newfound friendships, they must harness untapped skills and navigate an alien reign that defies all expectations. Through unexpected alliances, unique challenges, and the extraordinary power of human connection in the face of the unknown, they conquer an alien invasion.

It started out as a simple weapons delivery to a planetary warlord. But when Adam Cain—AKA The Human—is asked to transport an innocuous-looking package back to the warlord's capital, things take a turn for the worse. Yeah, you know what happens: Adam looks in the package! Now meet Siri, a sexy, feline-like mutant whose special powers have made her the target of the two most powerful warlords on the planet Ellios.

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.

Bounty hunting isn't any better, but it's what Sloane Tarnish needs to do if she wants to fix the rundown spaceship her uncle dumped on her. So she can find him and dump it right back. Problem A: Her uncle also ditched his motley crew–made up of a cranky ace pilot and an extraneous mad scientist–and they don't exactly see her as the captain.

Madeleine „Max“ Maxwell wollte Archäologin werden, um Abenteuer zu erleben, unfassbare Entdeckungen zu machen und gelegentlich die Welt zu retten. Doch die Wirklichkeit holt sie ein: Archäologen verbringen ihre Zeit in Museen zwischen staubigen Büchern und noch staubigeren Fundstücken, die niemanden interessieren. Da erhält sie ein besonderes Jobangebot. Wenn sie die Zusatzausbildung übersteht – und die wenigsten tun das – wird sie Abenteuer erleben, die jene von Indiana Jones wie einen Sonntagsspaziergang aussehen lassen. Und wenn sie überlebt, wird sie wenigstens ein paar Mal die Welt retten.