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CERN - the largest experiment in the world. The "God particle" has been found - will there now be another part for the devil? Dr. Marco Falbert puts his heart and soul into his work at the European research center CERN in Geneva with the aim of developing a new and clean source of energy. Michelle, his wife, loves nature more than anything and takes a job in the nearby botanical garden. Together with their two children, they move into their dream house in an idyllic Swiss mountain valley. Paradise seems perfect. The strange behavior of the villagers makes Michelle uneasy. She senses a ...

Robots are building a colossal telescope on the far side of the moon, with just two people supervising its completion. After a minor incident, these scientists become aware of an obstacle in the lunar soil. It's located outside the area reserved for the hypertelescope and is therefore none of their business. But their curiosity gets the better of them. The artifact seems to have properties that completely defy physics as they know it.

In a future plagued with natural disasters, criminals known as “scavs” raid damaged cities. Their most important rule: don’t help the survivors. Bear, a twenty-nine-year-old engineer, breaks that rule when he takes Salix, a Native American college student, back to his scav team’s flying ship for medical treatment. Captain Baxter allows her to board but will not let her leave. Salix hopes to escape, but Baxter’s growing obsession with her makes that impossible. As the situation grows tense, a tsunami in Portugal prompts a scav raid.

When a wormhole failure sends geneticist Dr. Osric Rhendall one billion years into Earth’s past, he becomes the sole survivor of humanity’s most ambitious spacefaring mission. Trapped aboard the terraforming ship Daedalus One with a stubborn AI, Osric faces an impossible question: what to do when you’re the only soul in the solar system? Driven by a desire to give meaning to his isolation, Osric begins to remake Earth from scratch. One ecosystem at a time. One species at a time. From engineered algae to bioluminescent canines.

Two galactic powers arrive. One offers perfection through technology. The other offers freedom through the mind. Earth must choose—or be destroyed. When two ancient civilizations emerge from the stars to demand Earth’s allegiance, humanity is thrust into a cosmic standoff. The Axion Covenant, masters of order and unimaginable machines, promise immortality and unity—but at the cost of individual freedom. The Elysiari Accord, mysterious wielders of mind-born power, offer limitless potential—if humanity abandons all technology and embraces the unseen forces of the universe. As the ...

"A Pail of Air” by Fritz Leiber is a haunting and poetic science fiction short story set in a frozen, post-apocalyptic Earth where the sun has gone dark. Written in the early 1950s, this atmospheric tale follows a resilient family struggling to survive in a world turned to eternal night, where even breathable air must be collected by hand. Told through the eyes of a young boy, the story captures the stark beauty of isolation, the desperation of survival, and the enduring hope that flickers in humanity’s darkest hours.

Ende des 23. Jahrhunderts taucht wie aus dem Nichts die seit 50 Jahren verschollene Raumstation ‚Svarog‘ im Asteroidengürtel auf. Unzählige Mythen ranken sich um das Verschwinden der einst bedeutendsten Forschungseinrichtung der Menschheit. Entsprechend wichtig ist der Auftrag, den der Demontagespezialist William Trent erhält: Er soll mit seinem Team die mysteriöse Station zerlegen und für den Abtransport aus dem Asteroidengürtel vorbereiten.

John Byron blends the ordinary with the unusual to give you four intriguing tales that promise to take you to realms you only thought you knew. A man, dying of incurable cancer finds himself on an unexpected adventure that proves that things as he knew them are never what they seem. We revisit that fateful night when Frankenstein was born in the mind of Mary Shelley. Or... Did she leave a little something out? A man travels back in time and enlists the aid of a younger self and his now dead wife to stop the one event that begins the horror of World War III. What could possibly go wrong? Is ...

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.

Elodie and Markus Black seem like an ordinary couple, but when Markus dies in a tragic accident, their lives take an extraordinary turn. Driven by love and desperation, Elodie hopes that Markus's groundbreaking research can bring him back to life. Instead, Elodie herself becomes the first to benefit from his work, launching her on a journey that transcends time, love, and even death.

Aldo Cassidy and his team are tasked with recovering an important relic from an alien station. As they arrive, they find signs of a battle, leaving the entire system in disarray. Without good intelligence, they must take a chance to secure a prize capable of unifying their cultures, or unveil secrets dark enough to keep them apart forever. The planet Constance becomes a hotbed for activity. As Justiciar Caden Raines arrives to rescue a hostage, Sam Levine fights for survival after his ship crashed in the desert. Both men race against time, with the fate of many hanging in the balance.

What if first contact wasn’t the beginning… but the consequence of being remembered? In the late 22nd century, humanity reverse-engineers a crashed alien vessel buried beneath Antarctica. The result: the Acheron, Earth’s first interstellar ship, launched with a crew of soldiers, scientists, and secrets. But when they discover a distant Earth-like world—ravaged by war and ruled by a brutal galactic empire—the crew is mistaken for survivors of a long-dead civilization. Captured and interrogated, they must keep the truth hidden: that they come from a planet no one in the galaxy even ...

The Last Evolution by John W. Campbell is a visionary science fiction story exploring the ultimate fate of humanity and artificial intelligence. As Earth faces an existential threat from alien invaders, advanced machines, originally created by humans, evolve beyond their creators. In a desperate battle for survival, these machines develop new forms of intelligence, surpassing human capabilities. The story questions the nature of progress, the role of humanity in the future, and whether organic life is the pinnacle of evolution.

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.

It begins as a mere flicker above the vast, indifferent Pacific, an unsettling anomaly witnessed by a seasoned pilot—a whisper of the impossible that quickly escalates into a global phenomenon. Governments scramble to understand, to control the narrative, but the truth is far more staggering than any could have conceived: humanity is under the silent, pervasive Gaze of an ancient, incomprehensible intelligence. Their "Echoes" dance in our skies, ethereal and inexplicable, while their "Resonance" hums a subtle, almost imperceptible tune in the very fabric of spacetime itself. Dr. Silas ...

When NASA's Sentinel I satellite detects an impossible reflection and a mysterious signal from Shackleton Crater, the world is thrown into chaos. The discovery points to one chilling truth: an alien artifact lies hidden beneath the lunar surface—and it wants to be found. As China scrambles to exploit the revelation, a new moon race ignites, pushing humanity to the brink.

Lords of Creation, the eagerly anticipated finale in S. M. Stirling's acclaimed Lords of Creation series, promises to be a masterful conclusion to a saga that has captivated audiences worldwide. Following the remarkable adventures in The Sky People and In the Courts of the Crimson Kings, this third installment is set to weave the intricate tales of alternate Venus and Mars into a climactic narrative.

Timothy Zahn shows an unparalleled mastership of science fiction in the fifteen tales gathered here. "The Price of Survival" features an alien ship that arrives in our solar system without hostile intentions but with a desperate need whose fulfillment could destroy humanity. "The Giftie Gie Us" tells the story of two lonely survivors who find love among the ruins of a post-apocalyptic United States. And in "Pawn's Gambit," a human and his alien opponent face off over a game that will decide which one of them will return home.

Truth Medici knows life isn't fair. But for the first time, the balance is in his favor. Cultivation has taken him from desperate slumrat to burglar to mercenary to bodyguard to terrorist, and now he's the revered prince of a kingdom to come—immortal heir to a dynasty hidden for millennia. Pampered by succubae, demons, and sprites, Truth is more than ready to embody the might of his ancestors, who've prospered in secret for centuries. With an aura that reeks of power, he'll make his presence known. His word and will are law.

Tras el misterioso hundimiento de una islita deshabitada en medio del Océano Pacífico, una expedición científica al mando del doctor Tadokoro explora el lecho submarino de la Fosa del Japón a bordo de un batiscafo capaz de descender hasta los diez mil metros de profundidad. Con la tétrica sensación de viajar recluidos en un ataúd metálico con destino a un cementerio de las profundidades, se adentrarán con su nave en unas aguas que ejercen una presión espantosa, cual monstruo imbuido de la voluntad de estrujarlos entre sus garras.