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An ice miner gets cut in half by divorce and his now ex-wife has gained control of their private holiday planet. The miner wants payback with plausible deniability. He wants Rax and crew to steal the emerald moon orbiting their private planet. The methane filled emerald moon that made soothing sounds was literally the talk of the sector. And the ice miner wanted it back.... back at his shack on the ice belt.... which was all he had now.

A terrible prospector, a broke mining executive and Rax get together to do a good deed. Well, of course not. The three men from different arms of the galaxy unite under a common unethical spirit to pull a fast one on a major mining corporation. If it all falls apart, Rax has a secret project on the down low.

Fresh from his rebirth in the galactic graveyard, Mick Triton is a man with a new ship and an old problem: a dwindling bank account. To get back in the game, he takes a job that sounds too good to be true, a contract from a desperate corporate suit to retrieve the Star Wanderer, a legendary multi-trillion-credit luxury liner that vanished on its maiden voyage in the Sargasso Nebula. Every spacer knows the stories—the Nebula is a place where ships go to die, a navigational nightmare of gravimetric tides and phantom signals. But the payday is obscene, a king's ransom that could set him up ...

The Krakau came to Earth to invite humanity into a growing alliance of sentient species. However, they happened to arrive after a mutated plague wiped out half the planet, turned the rest into shambling, near-unstoppable animals, and basically destroyed human civilization. You know - your standard apocalypse. The Krakau’s first impulse was to turn around and go home. (After all, it’s hard to have diplomatic relations with mindless savages who eat your diplomats.) Their second impulse was to try to fix us.

Some starship captains explore strange new worlds, seeking out new life and new civilizations. Some lead missions of discovery through wormholes to the other side of the galaxy. Then there's Captain Iridius B. Franklin, someone who spent too long seeking out strange new bars and new alien cocktails.

When John Dawson and the rest of the residents of the Potato returned to Earth, they presented a difficult puzzle for the Realm: how can AIs and spaceships and life extension treatments be integrated into a society that has a medieval level of technology? King Harold taps Jack Ross to lead the effort, but new players - one friendly and one hostile - complicate his plans. Meanwhile... John Dawson evaluates how to use an intriguing new capability. Lord Jeffrey's new army is active and on the move. The Valkyrie-200 is threatened, and Alexis scrambles to protect it. Maestro falls in love and ...

Micah, Jess, and the ever-loyal Golden Retriever, Grover, seek refuge in the snowy seclusion of a New Hampshire farm, along with their new Kynolari friends. As winter's grip tightens, so does the Draun's hold on Earth. The signal sent by the Visionary has awakened the Draun DNA inside two hundred and fifty million humans, the number increasing every day. Nowhere is safe, and humanity is on the brink of unimaginable chaos. Forced to flee after a devastating attack on the farm, the heroes are scattered, pursuing desperate gambits across the globe.

A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented - something to cheer up everyone who was left and bring the shattered worlds together in the spirit of peace, unity, and understanding. Once every cycle, the civilizations gather for the Metagalactic Grand Prix - part gladiatorial contest, part beauty pageant, part concert extravaganza, and part continuation of the wars of the past.

The critically acclaimed author of The Radleys shares a clever, heartwarming, and darkly insightful novel about an alien who comes to Earth to save humans from themselves. When an extraterrestrial visitor arrives on Earth, his first impressions of the human species are less than positive. But as time goes on, he starts to realize there may be more to this weird species than he has been led to believe. Eventually, the narrator sees hope and redemption in the humans' imperfections and begins to question the very mission that brought him there.

The bounty hunter Mr. Christopher has kidnapped Erica, and The Librarian and his dog, Chewy are desperate to get her back. Willie and Coy like money and they are after The Librarian to collect the price on his head. Hawk and his gang of wasteland raiders are after Willie and Coy for a breach of contact. In the powerful city of Alasis, a movement is growing and the people consider The Librarian a hero. Lord Invictus wants the movement stopped and has sent the fearsome and mysterious Skinners to finish what Mr. Christopher started.

Elvis is spending his golden years at the Mud Creek Shady Grove Convalescence Home alongside a man claiming to be President John F. Kennedy. Strange sights and sounds leads the two to discover an ancient Egyptian mummy stalking the corridors of their retirement home. They soon face off against the monster...but will anyone believe their story or shrug it off as more tall tales?

In his last life, Liam lived as a moral, responsible person...but died deep in debt and betrayed by his wife. Reborn into the ruling family of a vast interstellar empire, Liam knows that life is divided between the downtrodden and the ones who do the stomping, so this time he's going to take what he wants and live for himself. But somehow, things refuse to work out that way. Despite doing his best to become a tyrant, Liam's decisions lead to nothing but peace and prosperity for the empire under his rule, and he just gets more and more popular!

Twelve stories by science-fiction master Stanislaw Lem, nine of them never before published in English.

In Saucer Holler, the crew come back to Earth to have some babies and catch up on some well-deserved R&R. Babies attract mother-in-laws, though, and Bob has one for the books. The crew of the Gene are off to take Joanna’s new friend home in Roo the Day. Finding derelicts with no survivors gets them down, and one of them brings Topper to a crisis of conscience. When they find a ship that looks like Zoom built it, Bob hires the builder.

A price on their heads has driven Jerry, the post-apocalyptic nomadic warrior, Erica, and their loyal mastiff west in search of a new beginning. But when their truck breaks down in what was once Southern Colorado, they are swept into an epic quest at the behest of King Elias, ruler of the Kingdom of the Five Peaks. On their quest, they will meet old friends and new foes, mutant cannibals, savage mountain men, fearsome knights, and much, much more.

The question is, how can you tell the President's brain is missing? And are we sure we need it back?

A secretive cabal called “The Order of the Stump” has been absorbing wealth, controlling the news, and positioning itself as the gatekeepers of history. But their success has left them bored. So, they’ve decided it’s in the best interest of humanity that everyone on the planet dies. However, their diabolical plan did not account for a walrus-shaped hero named Gob. After accidentally killing the doomsday cult’s most important scientist, the misshapen misanthrope commits to a life of crime and attempts to save the world through a series of increasingly violent acts. Can a sea cow ...

Frage: Darf man BAND 1 hören, den drittletzten Teil der Daswarsdann-Trilogie, ohne den ersten oder die beiden viertletzten Teile zu kennen? Antwort: Der drittletzte Teil Band 1 ist amüsant. Eine gute Werbung für alles Gewesene und das Kommende. Frage: Wie viele Teile der ›Trilogie‹ sind geplant? Antwort: Von einem Plan kann keine Rede sein. Band 2 des drittletzten Teils der Daswarsdann-Trilogie folgt sehr wahrscheinlich. Alles Weitere entscheidet sich in ebenjener Geschichte.

Hiromi Tanaka’s life was going nowhere fast, until the day it went everywhere, all at once. All it took was a stolen tube of Pringles, a mysterious inheritance from a mad uncle, and one very, very bad decision. One minute, she's a stressed-out IT worker in London. The next, she’s the unwilling owner of a doomsday weapon, the reluctant leader of a crew of cosmic oddballs, and the most wanted woman in the galaxy. Hunted by fanatical zealots and shadowy government agents, Hiromi must navigate a universe of treacherous aliens, high-stakes cons, and mind-bending technology. She's not a hero....

You can fight the future, but the future fights back. Paul Bayes has begun to feel like all of his actions are dictated by forces beyond his control. But when his suicide attempt is foiled by a mysterious young woman named Tali, Paul begins to wonder if the future is really as bleak as it seems. Tali possesses a strange power: the ability to predict tragedies and prevent them from happening. The possibility of breaking free from the grip of fate gives Paul hope. But when Tali disappears, Paul begins to realize that altering the future isn’t as easy as it seems: you can fight the future, ...