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Jacques McKeown is the most celebrated author of star-pilot fiction in the galaxy. He's rich, famous, and living in luxury, and his universe-wide fanbase eagerly awaits any news of his next book. There's just one small hitch. He's not Jacques McKeown. He's Dashford Pierce, star pilot and con artist, and if only the impatient calls from his publisher were the worst of his problems. There's also the last vestige of the Henderson crime gang, trouble brewing in the retired star-pilot community, and a small matter of somebody trying to kill him.

Against the backdrop of worldwide, unexplainable natural disasters, Dr. Virginia Marilyn Edwards (Emmy Award-winner Kerry Washington) seeks out Agent Scott Thomas (Emmy Award-winner Laurence Fishburne) at a secretive government headquarters. Virginia claims these events are signs, and unless Agent Thomas helps her, she believes things will only get worse. Her desperation is dialed up higher with a shocking proclamation as she stands before him pregnant, weak, and weary: “Agent Thomas,” she says, “I believe I am Mary.”  

When the great red star Calamity appeared in the sky, some believed the end had come. They were right. Calamity created the Epics: humans with incredible powers they didn't deserve. They could have saved mankind. They could have lifted us into harmony and prosperity. Instead they burned. They slaughtered. They conquered. And then they ruled. Jax has learned all of this the hard way. Orphaned at an early age, he's spent most of his childhood training to be a Reckoner - determined to find the Epics' weaknesses, unlock their secrets, and protect those of us who are still left.

The sequel to the number one Audible Best Seller Earthcore, Mount Fitz Roy continues the tale of Patrick O’Doyle and Bertha Lybrand, who were part of the horror show that occurred far below the mountains of Utah. They learn that the "mother of all motherlodes” discovered there was not unique, that there is another deposit similar to it three miles beneath the towering peak of Cerro Chaltén on the disputed border between Chile and Argentina. O'Doyle, a middle-aged former member of a disgraced black-ops unit, gets his aging team back together to go after this fortune.

It is the distant future, and Baird is a loner, a part time spy, and a notorious alleged thief. “Notorious” for the audacity of her crimes; “alleged” because nobody has ever been able to legally prove she committed any of them. When the hush-hush agency known as the Toolbox recruits Baird, being a clandestine operative seems like a great way to get paid to do what she already does anyway. That is, until a mission goes wrong, and Baird is infected with a deadly virus.

He may be Lord of the Seven Seas, but for The Deep, life has been a tsunami of humiliations and setbacks. After braving the childhood trauma of being the weird kid with gills, Deep rose to the very top, basking in worldwide fame with Earth’s most powerful superheroes. But his public glory masked the disrespect of his teammates who crushed him, day after day. When he found himself patrolling the streets of Sandusky, Ohio, and then swallowed up into the Church of the Collective, Deep realized he had plummeted even deeper than the Mariana Trench.

Zachary Quinto - best known for his role as the Nimoy-approved Spock in the recent Star Trek reboot and the menacing, power-stealing serial killer, Sylar, in Heroes - brings his well-earned sci-fi credentials and simmering intensity to this audio-exclusive novella from master storyteller John Scalzi. One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone - 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know.

2045, the Arctic Circle. A crew of six aboard the research vessel, The Nox, embark upon a voyage through the melting ice and Arctic dark in search of the last of the polar bears. The mission represents a ray of hope in a world ravaged by climate change, but it quickly becomes clear that some on board are in search of more than bears. Isolation and the disorientation of 24/7 darkness soon have the group losing their grip on reality – accidents, nightmares, or hauntings – no one can be sure, but the voyage seems cursed.

Loretta Pacheco has a cool job at an electric car company. Her life finally seems headed in the right direction. But in a flash, it all starts to fall apart. What were the strange voices she heard as she lay injured by the side of the road? Why, exactly, did two young boys disappear all those years ago? And what is this strange sound in her head?

Agent Isaac Steele has problems. He spends all his splibs on drink and drugs. He has some deep-seated and very much unresolved issues with his parents. And his robotic partner at Greatest Britain’s Department of Clarification, Dr Timothy Stephens, is ruled more by his heart than his hard drive. But all these issues take a back seat when Isaac stumbles upon a case involving the most sensitive information in the cosmos - a Never File, inaccessible to all except those with the highest clearance. He is expressly forbidden to involve himself. So naturally he does.

When a mysterious event leaves nearly every human being on the planet frozen and unaware, a desperate few will do whatever it takes to prevent the AI from controlling the fate of humanity. In New York, one of DELIO’s creators joins forces with a washed-up suicidal detective and a young film maker with a dark past, while in London convicted drug dealer Alfie is saved by an abused young woman trafficked into London – together, only they can stop DELIO. But can they do it before it’s too late?

James Patterson’s thrilling adventure series gets an exclusive, audio-only origin story in Daniel X: Genesis, brought to life by an all-star cast. We meet Daniel, an ordinary teen just trying to navigate his way through high school. That all changes when he discovers he has super powers and can conjure up anything, at any time, just by imagining it. Suddenly he’s meeting powerful entities who tell him he is not, in fact, a typical teenage human but an alien...and his parents died not in a car wreck but in an epic battle with an intergalactic villain.

¡Prepárate para una emocionante experiencia con esta nueva historia que trae de regreso el clásico Libro Vaquero! Con una serie Neo-Western cargada de acción y aventuras, serás testigo de un mundo postapocalíptico en el año 2100, donde la humanidad se enfrenta al borde de la extinción tras múltiples pandemias y experimentos médicos que han causado una infertilidad masiva.

Die erste Staffel der Science-Fiction-Reihe "Scoring" von Philip-Laszló Koch ist der Beginn eines dystopischen Thrillers: Eine junge Journalistin recherchiert zwischen künstlicher Intelligenz und menschlicher Fremdbestimmung in einer digitalen Diktatur, in der Systemkritik tödlich sein kann. 15 Jahre ist es her, dass Rosa Melo auf bis dato ungeklärte Weise ums Leben kam. Ihr Sohn Cauan sucht nach Antworten und bekommt durch eine KI endlich die Möglichkeit mehr über den Hintergrund des Todes seiner Mutter zu erfahren: Es ist das Jahr 2041.

Au cœur d'une France envahie par les zombies, Dernière Terre raconte le voyage insolite de quatre jeunes prêts à tout pour rejoindre l'Angleterre. Thomas, David, Laura et la petite Sophie vont côtoyer une série d'univers aussi bien mystique, surnaturel que médiéval. Pour traverser la Manche, notre quatuor de bras cassés va ainsi croiser une galerie de survivants aussi terrifiants qu'excentriques. Chaque étape de l'aventure permet de comprendre les origines de l'infection et le rôle primordial que les quatre personnages vont devoir tenir.

Eine Totgeglaubte kämpft sich durch die lebensfeindliche Wüste des Mars. Mit ihrer Hilfe hofft die NASA-Basis auf dem Roten Planeten, ihr allergrößtes Problem zu lösen. Doch die Hoffnung zerbricht, weil eine unerwartete Bedrohung auftaucht, die alles zu zerstören droht, was sich der Rest der Menschheit bisher auf dem Planeten aufgebaut hat. Sie brauchen ein Wunder - oder einen Geist aus der Vergangenheit, dessen wahre Absichten niemand kennt.

Las ventas de biografías de personajes notorios y famosos son el principal negocio de Ediciones Plutarco. Presidente, premios Nobel, actrices de Hollywood, presentadores de televisión llenan las bibliotecas de millones de lectores. Es por este motivo que Ediciones Plutarco ha decidido innovar en su industria. Ediciones Plutarco encarga las biografías de los que aún no son notorios, pero que en un momento del futuro lo van a ser. El Biógrafo que trabaja para Ediciones Plutarco sigue la vida de su biografiado al minuto. Al segundo.

Der Versuch, die SAMSON von den Aliens zu säubern, ist grausam fehlgeschlagen - und eines der Monster streift nun frei und unkontrolliert durch die MARION. Während die Crew noch rätselt, wie das alles passieren und sich die Schleuse einfach öffnen konnte, steht für Ripley der Grund dafür fest: Es war Ash, der Android! Er muss sich auch Zugang zu den Systemen außerhalb der NARCISSUS verschafft haben. Doch niemand will ihr glauben.

Die Erde ist zerstört. Millionen Überlebende gleiten in einer gigantischen Flotte von Raumschiffen durchs All, auf der Suche nach neuem Lebensraum. Unter ihnen der nerdige Einzelgänger Sam Gablinski. Die Langeweile an Bord des Weltschiffs Humility bekämpft er mit dem Hacken von Werbehologrammen - bis ihm Yassy begegnet. Er bewahrt die fingerfertige Ladendiebin mit einem Hack davor aufzufliegen. Schnell wird ihm klar: vor ihren Diebeskünsten ist so gar nichts sicher, nicht einmal sein Herz.

Thomas et David écoutent depuis une radio les instructions du frère de Thomas. Ce dernier peut les aider à rejoindre l'Angleterre mais leur impose une halte pour rencontrer le docteur Noman. Au menu du jour : une moissonneuse batteuse, des nains et une gamine prête à en démordre. Avec, dans les rôles principaux : Donald Reignoux, Pierre Lacombe, Audrey Pirault & Mathilde Cerf. Et dans les rôles secondaires (par ordre d'apparition) : Aurélien Portehaut, Jean-François Vlérick, Frédéric Courraud, Jacques Chambon, Amaury Jansens, Jean-Luc Couchard, Aliette Dussine.