Novedades

The Search for Kracks is the second volume in the Linda Eccles Series that began with The Chance Encounter. It has been three years since Captain Linda Eccles lost her job with UMU and command of the Privateer. Now commanding a short-range freighter through the Shipping Guild, she once again contemplates retirement. Unknown to Linda, the buoy recovered after her encounter with the Kracks has begun to spill its secrets. Earth Defense is ready to return to find the Kracks and try to communicate with them. Admiral Philip Litton would like to have Linda command the science ship that will ...

What happens to the regular people during an alien invasion? What about after humanity gets it's butt kicked? If you, like me, aren't a super soldier, trained assassin, billionaire playboy philanthropist, god or hulk, then you start working for your new alien overlords. And no, you don't get some cool "fly a spaceship around" job- you get to be a farmer!

On a planet shrouded in darkness, a stranded crew must fight for survival. But, the darkness may have plans of its own in this wildly original story from Adrian Tchaikovsky, Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke Award–winning author of Children of Time.

My name is Haldin Raish. Legionnaire. And the High General just murdered my parents. My dad was well respected in the Legion. Always had a reputation for doing the right thing, no matter the cost. He was a good man. And whatever he stumbled onto got them both killed. Messily. Now, that red-eyed thing is coming for me. It walks like the High General. Talks like him, too. But it's not. Human beings don't shirk off gunfire and smack grown men across the room like that. Not even High Generals. And he's not the only one. The only reason I'm alive is Carlisle.

Deep in space lies the black hole known as Angelmass, so called because it emits enigmatic particles with the unusual ability to render humans calm, reasonable, and incapable of lying—which would normally be seen as a good thing. But not by everyone. Academic Jereko Kosta is pressed into service by the Pax to spy on the Empyrean, joining the crew of a ship actively hunting the particles. But what he learns turns out to be both scientifically fascinating and morally frightening.

When a series of unexpected events leads me to cross paths with a captivating human, I can't help but wonder if fate has finally brought me the one I've been searching for. As I find myself drawn to her, risking everything to keep her safe, I start to believe in the magic of the fates.

Los Angeles lies in ruins. While the city is sealed off to contain an unknown contamination, the survivors battle strange anomalies under the toxic dust cloud. Among the survivors are Lee and Branson. The astronaut must find a way out in order not to miss his flight to Cassandra, and the captain is faced with a terrible truth that he can no longer deny.

An ancient legend. A snarky sword. And a reluctant hero who’s about to regret everything. Nate Arturi never wanted to save the world. He wanted to graduate, land a decent job, and maybe figure out why his neighbor's corgi keeps climbing onto roofs. But when a deranged alien beacon wakes up on Earth, Nate’s mundane life goes up in smoke—literally. Ambushed by an alien monster, saddled with a sarcastic sword, and scammed by a scruffy wizard claiming to be the Merlin, Nate is thrown into an adventure that’s way above his pay grade.

A dozen sentient species occupy the galaxy, and the Quadrail connects them all. Arriving at Proteus Station under a cloud of suspicion, ex-government agent Frank Compton finds he must answer for the death of six members of the Filly elite, a crime for which he has been falsely accused. Filiaelian captivity, however, is the least of Compton's worries, for his horse-faced alien accusers are guarding a terrible secret that dates back centuries: the Shonkla-raa, a race of super-soldiers believed to be extinct.

When the solar flare took out the world's power… nobody could explain why the street lights still glowed in Jakarta. Was it a signal from space? When the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) transmits strange images of the red planet: a scientifically unexplained light phenomenon on the summit of Elysium Mons has the experts both concerned and baffled. A team needed to check it out. The mission to Mars was set. Now, they had to build the team.

The Pleasure House of Tarma is famed throughout the galaxy for its well-trained Pleasure Consorts. But beneath the shining surface, dark corruption is lurking. Aurelian Reynard has been disgraced, the stain of scandal upon him, and he is looking to restore his reputation. Kait Pyne is willing to do whatever it takes to uncover the truth of her sister’s murder. Together, will the two of them uncover the secrets of the Pleasure House, or will they fall victim to those who keep its secrets?

Denver, Earth. The twenty-fifth century. After a devastating alien invasion, the Terran Democratic Empire is occupied by the Ryqril race. The once-heroic resistance warriors known as the blackcollars now serve as strong-arm security for Denver's criminal elements.

The Black Celeste is a ghost story. A once-legendary spaceship collecting dust in a cosmic graveyard known as the Clutch. Only famed pirate Bitter Amandine knows better, and she’ll do anything to never go near it again. No matter the cost. Faven Sythe is crystborn, a member of the near-human species tasked with charting starpaths from station to station. She’s trained to be a navigator her entire life. But when her mentor disappears, leaving behind a mysterious starpath terminating in the Clutch, she is determined to find the truth. And only Amandine has the answers.

President Maggie Lawson is thrust into an unprecedented crisis when an alien craft crash-lands near her hometown while she gives a local speech. As the Secret Service mobilizes and special forces race to secure the site, Lawson's worst fear comes true—her fifteen-year-old daughter has gone missing. When it becomes clear that her daughter has been abducted by the extraterrestrial visitors for reasons unknown, Lawson calls on Curt Holt, a notorious former Army military intelligence officer known for his ability to interpret and handle unexplained aerial phenomena.

He was put out here because he qualified: Braniac, Electrical Engineer, and definitely a nerdy loner. Psyche report so stamped in red. A twenty year contract. A chance to get rich, waiting to be paid. Then, the aliens got creative. Alone no more. Another engineer, as smart as himself, and a hell of a lot better looking! The aliens want what he is developing. He has to bring her around to his side, and the two have to get the hell off this damned needle, somehow. They cannot lose themselves doing it. They cannot let the aliens kill them. Will love help them through or hold them back? No one ...

Em 1991, o direito feminino ao voto e à participação política são sumariamente revogados. Em 2205, são consideradas úteis apenas as mulheres que podem servir aos homens em cargos específicos e a eles subordinados. Contudo, a economia mundial depende de um número reduzido de mulheres linguistas, que atuam como tradutoras em negociações entre povos alienígenas e corporações familiares da Terra. Quando perdem sua utilidade, elas são enviadas para as Casas Estéreis, onde apenas aguardam a morte.

In den dunklen Tiefen der Galaxis, wo die Konsularische Hegemonie und das Triarchat von Vaylen einen fragilen Frieden wahren, wartet ein Geheimnis, das die Zukunft aller Spezies verändern könnte. Als Überlebender einer Mission, die nie hätte scheitern dürfen, stehst du vor einer Wahrheit, die dein gesamtes Dasein infrage stellt. Deine Entscheidungen bestimmen nicht nur dein eigenes Schicksal – sie werden über den Verlauf der Geschichte der ganzen Galaxis entscheiden.

There are two days until Christmas. Bob Ashworth, a young associate attorney at the Haunted Law firm, and his wife Samantha are on their way to spend the holiday with Big Jim Tompkins, one of the firm’s major clients, at the Tompkins mansion deep in the North Carolina mountains. In the meantime, Mitch and Diana McCaffrey and Diana’s sons are preparing to celebrate Christmas with their friends Ben Callahan and Alyssa McCormick, a couple of mountain ridges over from the Tompkins place. The most severe snowstorm in thirty years is moving in. The quiet holiday takes an unexpected turn when ...

Three days have passed since the Xenos spaceship departed Earth, and Emissary Lee Ping moved to the virtual world of Planet Asbeth. But even as normalcy returns, a new threat emerges. Alien marauders have intercepted critical supplies required to complete the shield. From bestselling author D. Ward Cornell comes a tale of two worlds bound by a mutual adversary.

Getting abducted is the best thing that ever happened to her! Keri is so sick of men. She's in her late thirties and still doesn't think she's ever been in an adult relationship. When her useless, younger boyfriend asks for money for a guitar during an intimate moment, she thinks she's hit rock bottom. She wishes she could run away, but there's nowhere to go. Then a light appears above her. Some people would call it an abduction, but Keri would say that she was rescued! The aliens give her a choice. She can return to Earth with her memories erased or come with them and become a sex bomb to ...