Space Opera

Four hundred degrees! Toxic atmosphere! Gravity beams that crush men in armor like beer cans! Welcome to Infernus. Legion Varus assaults an alien stronghold that's too close to Mother Earth. The battle turns into a meat grinder that chews through soldiers faster than revival machines can spit...

Zardu Layak is destined to change the galaxy forever, but there's something he must do first. As the echoes of his past surround him on the forgotten world of Helwain, the Word Bearer must reckon with the question that turned his Legion from the Emperor. Zardu Layak is not mad. He has been chosen by the gods. After receiving visions of his father, Lorgar, in his dreams, the Word Bearer now understands the truth – in the war to come, he is destined to set the stage, open the way, and change the galaxy forever. But he is not yet ready.

With the Stillness and their Wulgor allies growing in power, Van and the Fist of Orion reach a crossroads of epic proportions. Who will lead the charge for justice? Will it be Van and his friends, or will the former GKU demand a seat at the table in a universe where nothing is ever settled, and old grudges don't die—they just linger? Old problems require new solutions, and Van sees the need for soldiers as an opportunity. From the growing ranks of the Shrikes, elite young leaders emerge, ready to answer the call when the Fist of Orion decides that sometimes, the best defense is a good offense.

With the alien scourge responsible for the greatest war in humanity's history in full retreat, Kira Forrest anticipates a few months of rest and relaxation while she and her found family recover from their ordeal. Her hard earned peace is cut short when an attack on the Great Houses reveals...

Zander and crew had been sent out to do the impossible: take back an Entoma-infested world. No one thought they'd survive, much less make it back without enormous losses. Zander wasn't about to let the Assembly cost good men and women their lives, and he used practically every trick he had to ensure as few people died as possible.

After humanity's deep space probe Squanto goes missing in the Gauntlet, Staff Sergeant Martin Kelvin and Sergeant Frank Cage are pulled from leave to search for the vessel. Three teams have already vanished in the quantum corridor where time fractures and physics breaks down. But Squanto didn't just find a path through; they found something waiting in the darkness.

He'd been a Guild Peacemaker, once. But he lost his badge, his family, even his home, to a few bad decisions. Now he works as muscle for one of the planet's more wretched crime lords. Even at rock bottom, Gaelin still believes in honor and protecting the innocent. But in those low circles, being a man of integrity just means absorbing more lumps than he dishes out. A mysterious figure from his past appears out of the shadows. The Peacemaker Guild that once cast him down now needs his help. But help with what?

The wrong guy just got the right AI. In a society where every citizen is given an AI at birth, Cal Bennett is one of the rare few who doesn't have one. These AIs can do all sorts of things, depending on how expensive they are, so the rich have the best and the poor have the worst. Cal never...

Reissued after seventy-five years out of print—and in hardcover for the first time in a generation—David Starr, Space Ranger is the first book in the Lucky Starr series written by the legendary Isaac Asimov, author of Foundation, the Galactic Empire series, and I, Robot. Conway could...

Nach dem Krieg gegen die Sternenflotte ist im Bobiverse nichts mehr wie es einmal war: auf mehreren Planeten hat sich eine Anti-Bob-Bewegung gegründet, eine KI bedroht den brüchigen Frieden und mehrere Bobs wollen ihren Job an den Nagel hängen. Doch all das ist harmlos im Vergleich zu der Entdeckung, die Dädalus und Ikarus auf ihrer Reise zum Zentrum der Galaxie machen.

A thousand years in the future, human civilisation has been driven to the brink of extinction by the Killers, a mysterious alien race seemingly intent on exterminating every other form of sentient life. Desperately fleeing utter annihilation, a handful of starships use an experimental stardrive in a bid to escape, only to find themselves thrown back in time to the dawn of the First Interstellar War in 2308, where mankind is making its first stand against an alien foe.

Seit er sich Omega Force angeschlossen hat, lebt Kapitän Jason Burke mit der tiefen Angst, dass eines Tages die Erde entdeckt werden könnte. Sein Wunsch, die Existenz und den Ort der Erde geheim zu halten, hat ihn zu Extremen getrieben und ihn lange Zeit von seiner Heimatwelt ferngehalten. Aber jetzt wird Jasons größte Angst wahr, und eine Flotte außerirdischer Schiffe hat seinen Planeten angegriffen. Omega Force eilt zur Verteidigung der Erde, aber die Schiffe sind wie keine, denen sie jemals begegnet sind, und sie setzen Waffen ein, für die sie keine Verteidigung haben.

Lord Maddox the New Man, leader of a gargantuan fleet, waits for the Torus to reopen a breach into our dimension. Then, he will invade, annihilate Star Watch’s pitiful force and grind weak humanity under his heel. Captain Maddox has vowed to stop his alternate self, and is planning a daring commando raid into the other dimension to destroy the Torus and thereby end the threat.

After thirty-three years of peace, the millennia-spanning House War reignites with brutal force. The galaxy trembles as the Corvad House, a dynasty once thought vanquished, emerges from the shadows with a vengeance. In a precarious alliance with the Colonial Council, the Corvad goal is the complete obliteration of the Nexus House, the guardians who have steered humanity through its darkest epochs.

When talented but trigger-happy SAS Operator Andrew Rivers takes one last, off-the-books job to clean his slate, everything changes. The mission fails violently, catapulting him and his volatile cargo into an alien galaxy complete with dwarves, orcs, elves, and the stuff of nightmares. Rivers emerges, Awakened, into a Galactic System where his previous life experiences are fully rewarded, granting him the Legendary Skill: Swashbuckler.

Wenn man einen Krieg im Weltraum führen will, braucht man Raumschiffe. Charlie hat ein Hauptquartier, ein Ziel und eine Armee – alles, was man braucht, um einen Widerstand aufzubauen. Was ihm fehlt? Kriegsschiffe. Die Anguilar haben reichlich Kriegsschiffe, aber sie wissen auch, dass der Widerstand hinter ihnen her sein wird, und haben einen hartgesottenen Killer auf Charlie angesetzt.

Marine Corps Captain Jacob Brown und sein Kampfsynth-Partner Blechmann waren auf sich selbst gestellt … Die beiden waren auf ihrem Schiff, der Boneshaker, unterwegs, seit sie eine enorme Verschwörung aufgedeckt hatten. Die Cridal-Premierministerin, Seeladas Dalton, war durch eine kybernetische Doppelgängerin ersetzt worden. Jetzt hatte Jacob entdeckt, dass diese Täuschung viel tiefer reichte.

Evan Marshall has a target on his back the size of two galaxies. On Earth, the hunt continues, but now there's a new player with their sights set on him. The most dangerous kind of player. One with nothing to lose.

Der HYPERION-Verband sieht sich einer aussichtslosen Lage gegenüber. Ein Kampf gegen eine Übermacht des Imperiums, der nicht gewonnen werden kann. Commodore Cross muss eine Entscheidung treffen, die weitreichende Konsequenzen hat und den weiteren Weg einer Hauptfigur für immer verändert. Gleichzeitig sieht sich die Republik einer inneren Gefahr gegenüber, die sie noch nicht einmal bemerkt hat. CABAL ist überall und hilft der Tochter seines Erschaffers dabei, aus dem Schatten zu treten.

For three hundred years, humanity’s greatest works of art have been on loan at the Greenwood Museum. It was finally time for them to come home...but the alien curators were disinclined to return them. Force was out of the question. Earth’s government was clear: they were not going to press the issue. So, all we had was guile and hubris to fuel our little intergalactic art heist.

The Berserkers forged him into a weapon. They've regretted it ever since. When Jack Ames fled the choking sprawl of his dystopian homeworld, he never meant to crash-land in the Berserker Corps—the galaxy's deadliest mercenary outfit. But he found a new home. Strapped into a 135-ton gravtank or...

Bryan Norton's adventure continues as an attempt on his life prompts the crew of Independence to search the universe for a hidden adversary, one intent on their destruction. An unexpected appearance leaves Bryan at odds with his female companions as a new alien female captures his attention, and...

July 20, 2039. Seventy years to the day after humanity first walked on the Moon, Commander Corbin "Ben" Dallas and his Vanguard team were supposed to make history as our first pioneers on Mars. Instead, they trigger an ancient artifact that violently catapults them into the unknown. Lost in the ruins of an alien transit network, the human operators find themselves in the crosshairs of an apocalyptic interstellar war. Stripped of their support and outgunned by an unfathomable enemy, the team must rely on their tactical training and whatever they can scavenge to stay alive.

Es ist das Jahr 4544 nach dem Alten Kalender – neun Jahrhunderte, nachdem die Alexandria-Welle große Teile der galaktischen Zivilisation verwüstet hat. Die Erde ist längst ein Mythos, verloren im dunklen Meer der Sterne. Doch es gibt einen Weg zu ihr. An Bord ihres Sternenschiffs Vimana begibt sich die junge Abenteurerin Kim Hunter auf die Suche nach dem Ursprung der Menschheit.

Revolutionäre aus Versehen. Charlie und die anderen hatten nicht vor, die Galaxie zu befreien, aber das Schicksal hatte andere Pläne … ebenso wie der uralte KI-Roboter Lenny, der sie zusammen- und nach Sanctuary brachte. Jetzt erwartet ein ganzer Planet von Copperell-Flüchtlingen, dass Charlie sie anführt, und seine erste Aufgabe als ihr Kommandant besteht darin, Waffen für die KI-gesteuerten Zooschiffe aufzutreiben, die ihre gesamte Militärflotte ausmachen. Und nur die Anguilar haben die Waffen, die sie brauchen.