First Contact

After years of hard work, Tyler built his IT Security company into a massive success. He trusted his people and now it was time to enjoy the fruits of that labor. Everything was perfect until an unexpected discovery. Should they go through the Maya portal? Adriana's small diving instruction shop is popular enough with the tourists for her to scrape out a living, but it's not the life she expected. When she got the call, it seemed impossible. Wasn't Xibalbá a myth? In a fantastic world of danger and possibility, two people want to discover the truth, but for entirely different reasons.

Adventurers journey into the foreboding unknown regions of outer space in these two classic science fiction tales from the Hugo and Nebula Award winning author.

Step into the imaginative world of Youth by Isaac Asimov, a timeless science fiction story that explores innocence, discovery, and the wonder of the unknown. Set in a serene countryside, the tale follows two boys whose curiosity leads them to a remarkable discovery—alien creatures with a story of their own. As the boys navigate this extraordinary find, Asimov weaves a narrative filled with surprises, highlighting themes of exploration, friendship, and the intersection of humanity and the universe.

A peaceful night in Surrey is shattered when what is thought to be a meteor crashes into Horsell Common. Curious villagers approach the strange cylindrical object, only to be incinerated by a Martian heat-ray. Soon the invaders are sending out their terrible ’tripods’, causing devastation throughout England as ‘intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic’ gradually seek to eradicate the human race.

Shad Williams joined the army to fight for his country, not to fight aliens. But when he's abducted through a portal along with his terminally ill grandfather and kid sister, that's exactly what he finds himself doing. Now, deep below the surface of the planet Ganymede, they find themselves with other equally confused groups of humans drafted into serving under extraterrestrials battling for control over the Reality Engine, an advanced supercomputer capable of producing miraculous resources and technologies.

ETWAS HAT ÜBERLEBT. UND ES IST HINTER DIR HER! Die Besatzung der Sirio sitzt im Orbit Aurigas fest. Das Wurmloch ist verschlossen und damit der einzige Weg zurück zur Erde. Fieberhaft sucht man nach einer Möglichkeit, die Beschaffenheit des extraterrestrischen Ringobjekts zu entschlüsseln. Doch während eines vermeintlich routinemäßigen Außeneinsatzes geschieht ein verhängnisvoller Unfall, der alles verändert. Viktor Ford weigert sich, an bloßen Zufall zu glauben, denn er findet Hinweise, welche auf eine finstere Bedrohung schließen lassen.

В нашем мире живёт зло. Оно проникает повсюду и разрушает баланс. Но с ним не хотят бороться. Хуже того, сильнейшие кланы бьются за право принять его в свои ряды. Их... Чужаки из другого мира вселяются в тела людей и живут среди нас. Они обладают огромной магической силой и полностью лишены всяческих принципов. Но наследник рода Волковых положит этому конец! Ведь для этого есть все необходимое, включая стопроцентную гарантию, что ни одна тварь в него не сможет вселиться.

It's ten years since Harry Sullivan left UNIT and gave up his travels in the TARDIS with the Doctor and Sarah Jane. Since then he has been engaged in top secret work, developing antidotes to nerve toxins. But when he is transferred to Yarra in the Hebrides to work on weapons research, he has severe misgivings. For one thing, it goes against much of what he believes in. For another, someone is out to kill Harry Sullivan.

Daubed on walls, trending on socials, appearing in every language in every country all over the world and always reading the same. Nobody knows where it originated only that it can’t be ignored. And then – in the blink of an eye –everything changes.

A preposterous legend, dragons dueling with riggers. Nothing can live in the interdimensional Flux of interstellar space. But in the Flux, visions of the mind converge with reality, and visions can be perilous. When star pilot Jael defies an abusive ship’s master and rigs “the mountain route to Lexis,” dragons indeed appear in the night sky—and challenge her to duel to the death.