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Das Geheimnis zur Herrschaft über die Galaxie ist auf einem weit entfernten Planeten versteckt, und interplanetare Mächte würden alles tun, um es zu entschlüsseln. Der zweite Band, nach Zerbrochene Leere, der epischen Space Opera im Universum des beliebten Brettspiels Twilight Imperium. Bianca Xing hat ihr Leben auf einem Provinzplaneten damit verbracht, davon zu träumen, die Sterne zu bereisen.

Eine tapfere Raumschiffbesatzung wird in die Machenschaften interplanetarer Mächte hineingezogen, die um galaktische Vorherrschaft streiten. Ein grandioses Weltraumepos zu dem Strategie-Brettspiel "Twilight Imperium". Captain Felix Duval und die Crew der Temerarious sind gerade auf Patrouille in einem abgelegenen Kolonialsystem der Mentak-Koalition unterwegs, als ein Notruf von einem Mond, der unter Beschuss steht, der beschaulichen Ruhe ein Ende setzt. Sie retten einen Wissenschaftler namens Thales, der eine revolutionäre Technologie zur Erschaffung neuer Wurmlöcher entwickelt hat.

Welcome to the weekly podcast Student of Life by Tim Pratt Jr. where we will dive into real life content through authenticity and balanced transparency. This space will be non-traditional because most of us don't need more knowledge, instead we need applied knowledge (wisdom) by becoming one with it. I pray as you listen to this podcast God gives you what you need by revealing what's been there the entire time. For more information go over to www.timothypratt.org

The best writers of our generation retell the classics. Literature is filled with sexy, deadly, and downright twisted tales. In this collection, award-winning and best-selling authors reimagine their favorite classic stories, ones that have inspired, awed, and enraged them; ones that have become ingrained in modern culture; and ones that have been too long overlooked. They take these stories and boil them down to their bones, and then reassemble them for a new generation of listeners.

As night manager of Santa Cruz's quirkiest coffeehouse, Marzi McCarty makes a mean espresso, but her first love is making comics. Her claim to fame: The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, a cowpunk neo-western yarn. Striding through an urban frontier peopled by Marzi's wild imagination, Rangergirl doles out her own brand of justice. But lately Marzi's imagination seems to be altering her reality.

This delightful true story, written in the first person by the spouse of the title character, will have readers reliving their own pasts. Baby boomers will surely savor references to the pop culture, history, and politics of their collective youth as they get caught up in the personal lives of the author and his spouse. In an afternoon you will learn how a speeding ticket and an interest in four-part a cappella harmony intersected with the Cold War to start the protagonists on the road to holy matrimony.

Teenager Miranda Candle finds a mysterious necklace and is suddenly transported to The Nex, the bizarre city at the center of all possible universes, where she falls in with a pair of would-be revolutionaries - the skinshifter Howlaa and the bodiless Wisp - fighting the oppressive regime of the city-state's Regent and his army of steam colossi, cynical cyborgs, and the depraved royal orphans.

The Unidentified Funny Objects series delivers an annual dose of funny, zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices!

After her grandmother is murdered in a home invasion, Tamsin Culver leaves her cushy programming job in San Francisco and returns to her Midwestern hometown to settle the estate. What she doesn't expect is to find out her grandmother's life-changing secret. She's not an Earth native but an exile from another level of the Nigh-Space continuum, an adjacent reality with technology far more advanced than ours. What's more, her grandmother ruled there as an oligarch, meaning Tamsin is the heir to vast wealth only accessible by someone from her bloodline.

Die Galaxis steht am Rande des Krieges, doch noch besteht Hoffnung, dass das riesige Netz von Intrigen aufgedeckt werden kann, bevor es zu spät ist. Als die Agentin Amina Azad einen hacanischen Botschafter vor einem Attentat rettet, zieht sie ihn in ihre Ermittlungen über eine gewaltige Verschwörung hinein. Unsichtbare Kräfte destabilisieren die gesamte Galaxie, und das zum denkbar ungünstigsten Zeitpunkt – denn gerüchteweise kehren die uralten „Herrscher der Galaxie“ zurück. Verfolgt von Agenten Dutzender anderer Fraktionen, können Azad und der Botschafter nur etwas erreichen, wenn sie sich mit ihren Feinden verbünden.