Hard Space Opera

In Tesla Prime and the Regulus Event, a group of seven astronauts embark on a mission to explore the distant and alien world of Proteus. Twenty-seven years later, the crew of Tesla Prime returns to find that the Earth has vanished. The only clues are a cryptic message left behind on the Moon and a ring structure larger than the Earth itself. The woefully unprepared group of scientists and engineers must band together and find a way to save the human race from extinction.

When Melanchthon arrived at the dim red star after a 40-year journey, Theodore awoke from suspended animation eager to implement the Lutheran Interstellar Terraforming Society’s plan to transform a barren rocky world into New Augsburg, a refuge for faith and life. A challenging plan: Move an icy asteroid billions of miles, quickly convert the asteroid into new seas and a breathable atmosphere for the rocky world, then seed the surface with life. Yet Theodore felt confident in his team’s ability to complete the mission.

Chon Ko Gonin, Captain of the Green Jinn, ventured into unexplored territory in search of a wanted interplanetary criminal with the best of intentions. But the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Right from the start, the Green Jinn found itself dragged into battle to save an ancient people from Merc invaders. Ancient forces of good, and evil fought for control of Sibyl's Orb and dragged Chon ko Gonin into the middle of it.

The second instalment of Drew Wagar's Shadeward Saga, Shadeward: Exoneration continues charting the adventures of Kiri, Zoella, and the priestesses of Drayden along with the grand and terrifying tasks of Meru all under the watchful, changing eye of Lacaille...A people exiled, begin to unravel myth and legend, unearthing clues to their tempestuous past. Pioneers rediscover technology from ancient artefacts. Priestesses with remarkable powers turn their devastating abilities on those they see who offend their god, the star that blazes unchanging in the skies above.

"Earth could not stop the Enemy's remorseless advance from outer space. Neither could the Enemy!" Step back in time with this classic space opera from an all-star sci-fi writer in Fritz Leiber.

Things are never so bad they can’t get worse. For the Brightstars, they just did. Dirck Brightstar knows his family is in serious trouble. If his father doesn’t finish building the heat exchanger before Opposition’s heat sets in, they’ll all perish. Then what little money they had will be confiscated and his father hauled off to prison in a midnight raid. And it all started because his missing sister, Creena, couldn’t follow the rules.

Pleo Tanza is a survivor. Her father was broken by tragedy, her twin sister is dead - chewed up and spat out by the corruption and injustice of Chatoyance - but she's going to make it, whatever it takes. She's going to get off this rock. But escape is for the rich or lucky. Pleo's framed for the murder of a rival student - the daughter of one of the colony's wealthy, squabbling clans - and goes on the run, setting off a chain of events that could destroy the fragile balance of the old colony forever.

John Bandicut and his company have been rewarded for their heroism in saving Shipworld. The prize: to be flung back into inhabited space — not to their home planets, as they had hoped, but to the bottom of an alien sea. Helpless and sinking, they are rescued by strange mer-creatures and brought to an undersea city, where a race of sea-people known as the Neri live in perpetual twilight. The Neri are well adapted to their world, but their survival is in jeopardy.

John Bandicut and his companions are summoned to a star-cloud called Starmaker, known to humans as the Orion Nebula, to discover what force threatens newborn stars - and possibly every world within a thousand light-years. Their journey takes them not just into the perils of a stellar nursery, but into confrontation with the Mindaru, a billion-year-old AI and adversary of life as they know it. The task is daunting. But with the aid of Deep and Dark, sentient clouds who are perhaps the strangest beings they have met yet in their exceedingly strange journey, there may be hope.

An army of 7000 artificial soldiers accidentally received the same brain implant. A space fleet with 7,000 artificial human marines hurtles through space at near-light-speed to an interstellar war...Dr. Charlotte West, the neuro-technologist responsible for the soldiers’ artificial brains, travels in the support fleet. Two months before the arrival at the war site, the marines start fighting each other and disobeying commands. When they are brought in for tests, Charlotte finds that someone has made a mistake that endangers the entire space fleet. They're all in love with her.

Valentine and her Novas are the only known survivors of the fall of Epsilon Eridani. A new and deadly threat known only as the Ski’ligs sweeps through the Eridani System, capturing planets and moons in a matter of weeks. This high-tech race displays an unsurpassed knowledge of science and warfare that threatens the safety of the Alliance and beyond. Their avian species thrives on hunting and war and uses their aerial abilities to hit and run before they can be brought to battle.

Where the cream of humanity has left for the outworlds, leaving the rest behind; where genetically redesigned T-rexes have supplanted pit bulls; population control measures have created an underclass of Urchins, unlicensed children who have no rights - not even the right to exist; where wireheads with chips in their brains live vicariously through the downloaded experiences of others; and where the UN has been turned into a brothel known as Dydeetown, peopled by clones of famous personalities from history and entertainment.

Kryuome: the desert world on Valentinian's treasure map. A place where he hopes to find friends and surprises if his crew can survive the dangerous aliens of Wildspace, while the Widow tracks him and his crew mate. The next exciting installment of the Shadow of the Dominion series!

For John Bandicut, Earth is but a memory. Stranded at the edge of the galaxy in a structure populated with beings from a thousand worlds, Bandicut finds unexpected friends...only to be caught up in a cascade of forces that threaten the Shipworld itself. Confronting an entity known as the "boojum", Bandicut discovers greater peril than ever in his journey into the unknown.

Before the time of man, according to the ancient legends, the gods walked the earth. The Egyptians had a name for this time. They called it "Zep Tepi" - the first time. That time is where this story began. Five Moons: Zep Tepi picks up the story 10,000 years later.... It all started with an emergency call from a world at the farthest edges of explored space. “You are our only hope,” they tell Dallas Blake and the crew of the Five Moons. A deadly virus will kill them all if the Five Moons doesn’t get the vaccine to them right away.

This omnibus contains all four books of the Adrift on a Sea of Stars series. Together, they tell the epic saga of the crew of the Beagle, sent to explore our stellar neighborhood.

The four books are:

• Adrift on a Sea of Stars
• Earth Not Forgotten
• The Tarden Agenda
• Republic and Empire

Die Erde der Zukunft ist durch die Große Katastrophe von ihren ehemaligen Kolonien abgeschnitten worden. Captain William Sparhawk von der Sternengarde soll als Kommandant der Defiant, dem gigantischen Schlachtkreuzer der Beta-Kolonisten, den er zur Erde zurückgebracht hat, zu einer brisanten Mission aufbrechen: die verloren geglaubten Sternensysteme der ehemaligen Kolonien erkunden und neue Handelsbeziehungen anknüpfen. Die Kolonisten, auf die sie treffen, scheinen allerdings wenig erpicht auf den erneuten Aufbau friedlicher Handelsbeziehungen mit der Erde, so dass Sparhawk und seine Crew sich immer wieder in Kampfhandlungen verwickelt sehen.

Earth’s first colony ship finally reaches the target world. The excitement of planetfall is indescribable, but quickly transforms into sick disappointment when they find the atmosphere is a roiling mass of hydrochloric acid, carbon dioxide, and other deadly poisons. They fly onward, seeking better planets. They find them, but none are ideal. The search goes on for a century, then longer still. As they move farther from Earth, aliens discover the intruding ship, and they begin to investigate humanity. They find our species unacceptable.

The age of exploration had been replaced by the age of war. The Tarden Republic lay fractured. The rebellion on Brakk had been brutally beaten down for a second time leaving the race near extinction. Ducis Iratus's assassination of most of the members of the Senex failed to cower the core worlds. As he fortifies the solar system against an attack from the Republic, a shadowy presence at the star closest to Earth grows in strength. With humanity refashioned as his personal slave army, Iratus above all dreams of conquest.

After the battle of Threnody, the Seraphim and her crew are broken. Months of relentless war by the Children, a race of genocidal artificially intelligent life forms bent on taking revenge on their creators, strains every resource available to the Planetary Alliance. The fight runs the spectrum from open combat to countless subtle plots by the Children, and it's all the Alliance can do to stave off utter catastrophe.