Hard Contact

I’d lived on a starship long enough to value the small sounds the Fox made: the whoosh of air through vents, the bone-deep growl of lift engines, and the reassuring almost-whine that meant not only gravity, but that we were moving through subspace under power. Sound meant we were safe and all was well. Silence meant the opposite....

Kelvoo is overcome with wonder at the arrival of the humans. With flawless memories and innate curiosity, Kelvoo’s community embraces the benevolent humans and their knowledge of the boundless universe beyond the cloud-covered sky. After the departure of the first contact mission, an unscrupulous human lands in Kelvoo’s village, inviting Kelvoo and eight others to join a “goodwill mission” to faraway worlds. Lured into a trap and enslaved by an outlaw gang, Kelvoo’s group is forced to participate in an interstellar crime spree, and subjected to the worst of human nature.

At the start of the 22nd century, the starship Acheron is in orbit around WISE 5571, only, unbeknownst to the crew, the ship has been overrun by telepathic extraterrestrials. How do you fight an enemy that distorts everything you see? What do you do when you can't trust your own senses, let alone anyone around you?

Particle physics was always an unlikely path to the stars, but with the discovery that space could be compressed, the entire galaxy had come within reach. The technology was astonishing, yet nothing compared to what humans encountered 4,000 light-years from home. Now, with an invitation from a mysterious gatekeeper, the people of Earth must decide if they're ready to participate in the galactic conversation.

The spaceship Majestic Draght reaches a star system whose only planet is bombarded with deadly radiation from its sun. Here, of all places, something happens that should never happen – and the crew sees their only salvation in landing on the mysterious planet orbiting the hostile star.ould have expected ... "The Proxima Logfiles" is a multi-part series based on the "Proxima" Trilogy, but can be listened to independently. "Star Trek" meets "Lost in Space" – reimagined with the scientific and technical realism of hard science fiction.

Get all four volumes of Salvage-5 in one convenient bundle! Retired Colonel Tucker Petersen is suddenly recalled to active duty and put in charge of the Salvage-5 mining/recovery mission. Tucker travels with his crew to discover what went wrong with the CSMO mining dredge at 15 Eunomia. What they find will change their lives forever.

Years ago, one starship and its crew discovered an alien entity which changed everything. Its discovery finally bought an end to the interstellar war being fought between the masses of humanity and the few pockets of genetically engineered colonists. An uneasy peace was negotiated as the human race realised there was something else sharing our universe. Something that had plans for us. But the aliens have remained silent. The earthers have begun to test the edges of the peace treaty.

Через пятьдесят лет после первого контакта с древней теократической цивилизацией ссеан земляне безуспешно пытаются смириться с их менталитетом, ради невероятных мицелиальных технологий закрывая глаза на кровавые жертвоприношения, грибные споры, проникающие в вены, и ритуальные снадобья, способные полностью сломить человеческую волю. "ссенский религиозный фанатизм, их обычаи, язык, культура постепенно изменяют земное общество. Лукас Хильдебрандт, долгое время бывший послом на "ссе, понимает, что вскоре процесс станет необратимым и Земля полностью утеряет свою независимость.

Mit dem "Armageddon-Zyklus" hauchte Peter F. Hamilton der klassischen Space-Opera neues Leben ein. Seine einzigartige Mischung aus gnadenlos spannendem Abenteuerroman und wissenschaftlicher Science Fiction ist unvergleichlich. Dieselbe Mischung findet sich in diesem Band mit längeren Erzählungen, die im berühmten Armageddon-Universum angesiedelt sind. Gibt es wirklich eine zweite Chance auf Eden?

Der Übergang durch den Versuchsteleporter von Al'Antis ist geglückt. James und sein Team haben den ursprünglichen Teleporter der Ältesten gefunden. Doch was sie auf der anderen Seite erwartet, ist nicht das, womit sie gerechnet haben. Sie finden die Antworten, die sie sich so sehnlich wünschen, aber keine davon macht ihre Zukunft angenehmer oder leichter. Im Gegenteil: Sie sehen sich plötzlich einer letzten, großen Gefahr gegenüber, die ausgerechnet ihrem Heimatplaneten gilt, der unerreichbar schien: die Erde.

Dr. Tahira Piriyeva has the world's attention as she expounds the true danger of the riebeckite threat. When an old friend unexpectedly offers her the chance to be the first to examine a new sample retrieved from the moon, she puts her speaking tour on hold and hastens to investigate. But the journey is not what it seems, the sample is not what she expects, and the even more horrifying truth about the riebeckites' origins begins to reveal itself.

Im Jahr 2117 wird die Welt ausschließlich von matriarchalischen Machtblöcken regiert. Der Architekt Alex Korden gerät in die Gefangenschaft gnadenloser Terroristinnen. Seine Flucht bildet den Auftakt zu höchst gefährlichen Abenteuern. Schließlich gelingt es ihm, das Multigenerationsraumschiff APEIRON zu kapern. Eine multikulturelle Gruppe risikobereiter Frauen und Männer unterstützt ihn dabei und verlässt mit ihm gemeinsam die Erde.

Am Gemini North Observatorium entdeckt die NASA-Physikerin Melody Adams in Teleskopdaten einen Himmelskörper nahe Pluto, der gar nicht existieren dürfte. Was sie für ein künstliches Objekt extraterrestrischen Ursprungs hält, wird von weiten Teilen der Wissenschaftswelt als Messfehler abgetan und die NASA scheut Ablenkungen von ihrem Artemis-Programm. Erst zwei Jahre später erhält Melody Besuch vom Secret Service. Das Objekt nähert sich Saturn und verhält sich eigenartig: Es wird langsamer.

From the moment Sam Newman and fourteen others awaken inside metal coffins next to the burning wreckage of a spacecraft, they face a constant struggle to stay alive on a seemingly uninhabited planet light-years from home. Worse, the last any of them remember, they were back home on Earth—at a time when interstellar travel was little more than a distant pipe dream. Survival means finding out who-or what-brought them to this place. Yet what few answers they find amidst the steaming jungles and the ruins of that distant world defy all logic or sanity.

Humanity stands on the precipice of a great change. Cassie Voges has made it back to Earth, but her return opens a Pandora’s box that will irrevocably change humankind. The world is in the grip of a new pandemic that may be alien in origin. Politicians, researchers, and soldiers grapple with this new reality. If a solution cannot be found, will it herald a new age, or will it be the end of civilization?

La forma de vida que nuestros exploradores han descubierto en Encélado les ha dejado un mensaje inequívoco: en la luna Ío de Júpiter anida un peligro que amenaza a toda la humanidad. Sin embargo, resulta desconcertante que Ío pueda albergar nada. Su superficie, hecha de lava ardiente, mares de azufre y erupciones es lo más parecido al infierno que hay en todo el universo. Nuestros héroes tendrán que desviarse de su camino de regreso a la Tierra para indagar, sin saber que ya llevan un peligro oculto a bordo.

Año 2031. Se encuentran rastros de actividad biológica en Encélado, una luna de Saturno. La noticia corre como la pólvora: es posible que exista vida extraterrestre. Una misión estelar parte rumbo a Encélado en busca de respuestas. Sin embargo, un accidente hará que toda la misión se vea alterada. Ya no es posible volver, y lo que aguarda al frente no es nada alentador.

Years have passed since Earth encountered its first known interstellar object: Oumuamua. Now an even larger one has been discovered, following the exact same trajectory as its predecessor. Scientists around the world theorize that this can no longer be passed off as mere coincidence - the new contact must be an artificial construct of some kind.

Are the extraterrestrial Flickers what they seem to be? They're outwardly friendly, sometimes more than that. But troubling questions have emerged: What of the destroyed village on the Flicker world Alpha Orionis 8? Is there an acceptable explanation for the adult humans living on Flicker worlds, who were taken up by flying saucers as infants? And the biggest questions of all: What drew the Flickers to the solar system in the first place, and are the communities on Mars the first wave of a Flicker invasion? These are just some of the questions troubling Mac and Chuck, and there's more.

In the far reaches of the solar system, the outer planets - billions of miles from Earth, unknown for millennia - are being settled. Neptune, the ice giant, is swathed in clouds of hydrogen, helium, and methane and circled by rings of rock and dust. Three years ago, Ilona Magyr’s father, Miklos, disappeared while exploring the seas of Neptune. Everyone believes he is dead - crushed, frozen, or boiled alive in Neptune’s turbulent seas.