Hard Science Fiction
The Rift
There is a huge, bold black streak in the sky. Branches appear out of nowhere over North America, Southern Europe, and Central Africa. People who live beneath The Rift can see it. But scientists worldwide are distressed—their equipment cannot pick up any type of signal from it. The rift appears to consist of nothing. Literally. Nothing. Nada. Niente. Most people are curious but not overly concerned. The phenomenon seems to pose no danger. It is just there.
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Impact: Titan
250 years ago, humanity nearly destroyed itself in the Great War. Shortly before, a spaceship full of researchers and astronauts had found a new home on Saturn's moon, Titan, and survived by having their descendants genetically adapted to the hostile environment.
The Titanians, as they call themselves, are proud of their cooperative and peaceful society, while unbeknownst to them, humanity is slowly recovering back on Earth. When a 20-mile-wide chunk of rock escapes the asteroid belt and appears to be on a collision course with Earth, the Titanians fear it must look as if they launched the deadly bombardment. Can they prevent the impact and thus avoid an otherwise inevitable war with the Earthlings?
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Into the Light
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.
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Lost Moon: Lunar Eclipse
The year is 2099. Steve Knight, commander of NASA's moon base, is about to be replaced. The shuttle that is to take him home is already waiting. But then Earth simply disappears from the sky. Neither the NASA crew nor the crews of the other moon bases understand what has happened. The three bases form a 40-strong community of fate as it quickly becomes clear that their combined resources provide only for the survival of, at most, ten people. Together they face a difficult choice: 30 voluntary deaths now, or watch each other die within the next two years. Then a shocking third option comes to light.
Lost Moon: Lunar Eclipse depicts the time of bitter decisions that Steve and his comrades-in-arms must make.
Lost Moon: Earth Storms, presents you with the other side, as author Tim L. Rey describes the fateful rescue mission to reunite the planet with its moon.
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Proxima Rising
Late in the 21st century, Earth receives what looks like an urgent plea for help from planet Proxima Centauri b in the closest star system to the Sun. Astrophysicists suspect a massive solar flare is about to destroy this heretofore-unknown civilization.
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Impact: Earth
2312: In the first-ever terraforming program, millions of drones are repairing the home of humanity, which had been rendered virtually uninhabitable by the Great War of 2299. Megacorporation Olympus manufactures and controls the autonomous repair swarms, and is building a widespread mining system in the asteroid’s main belt to harvest the resources urgently needed to restore Earth.
When the control center on Psyche loses contact with an automated mining station in the main belt, Olympus hastily assembles a small team to reboot the errant software. As soon as they land on the asteroid, Sara Renberg and her two teammates discover they are in the grip of a mysterious and powerful force – and Earth itself is the target of a devastating attack!
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The Hole
Un objet mystérieux menace de détruire notre système solaire. La survie de l'humanité est en danger, mais personne ne prend au sérieux l'avertissement de la jeune astrophysicienne Maribel Pedreira. Au même moment, un équipage exilé de parias exploite des mines de minéraux rares sur un astéroïde solitaire.
Lorsque d'autres scientifiques reconnaissent enfin la découverte alarmante de Pedreira, il devient clair que ces parias sont les seuls à pouvoir sauver notre monde, sachant que THE HOLE se précipite inexorablement vers le soleil.
Hard Science Fiction, c'est science-fiction dure, ou : Tout ce qui se passe pourrait aussi se produire dans la réalité.
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The Disturbance 2: The Answer
The spaceship Shepherd-1 is on its way to the star closest to the sun. Halfway there, the crew succeeds in using gravitational lensing technology to take sharp pictures of the origin of the universe - and thus obtain the answer that reveals how the cosmos came into being and whether or not God had a hand in it.
But no sooner does the crew tell Earth this than the radio communication goes silent, even though the ship is apparently functional. Is it a case of sabotage - or were the three astronauts overwhelmed with the answer that science and religion have been searching for for millennia?
There is only one person who can figure it out: Former crew member Benjamin, who now lives on Earth, has his consciousness sent to Shepherd-1. Benjamin finds the spaceship empty. His friends seem to have fled. He is alone, 1.5 light years from the sun. There is no way back.
But suddenly Benjamin realizes that he is not the only living being on board after all ...
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Proxima Dying
An intelligent robot and two young people explore Proxima Centauri b, the planet orbiting our nearest star, Proxima Centauri. Their ideas about the mission quickly prove grossly naive as they venture about on this planet of extremes. Where are the senders of the call for help that lured them here?
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Amphitrite: The Black Planet
For years astronomers have been searching for a planet beyond Neptune‘s orbit. They keep finding clues, but the decisive evidence of an actual sighting eludes them.
The four astronauts on board the Ganymede Explorer aren’t interested in scientific renown. They just need a safe place to hide out, as far as possible from any kind of civilization. But it seems apt that they of all people wind up being the ones to track down a previously unknown planet. They land full of enthusiasm and curiosity – it doesn’t occur to them to be afraid. But they don’t know what they’ve found. Amphitrite is no ordinary celestial body. It’s the black planet.
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Runaway
Two humans and a robot roam the universe in search of castaways. The Majestic Draght, a spaceship built by aliens and controlled by an AI, transports them from system to system at one-fifth the speed of light. But then the ship suddenly - and seemingly unstoppably - accelerates. Has the AI lost control of the propulsion system? Or is the AI pursuing its own plans?
The Draght’s new course targets a planet that would not have been the destination of the human-alien crew for a long time: Earth.
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Silent Sun – Soleil Muet
Lorsqu'Alain Petit, astronome amateur français, découvre quelque chose d'étrange sur des images solaires télescopiques, il faut trouver une explication. S'agit-il d'un simple artefact ? Ou a-t-il trouvé quelque chose de totalement inattendu ? Une équipe internationale d'experts est réunie à la hâte, un vaisseau spatial est rapidement réaménagé et le quatuor est envoyé dans la course de sa vie. Quels défis devront-ils relever lors de cette mission impromptue vers notre étoile centrale ?
Ce qui les attend tous est crucial, non seulement pour comprendre le passé, mais plus encore pour l'avenir de la vie sur Terre.
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Proxima Dreaming
Alone and desperate, Eve sits in the control center of an alien structure. She has lost the other members of the team sent to explore exoplanet Proxima Centauri b. By mistake she has triggered a disastrous process that threatens to obliterate the planet.
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Proxima Trilogy: Part 1-3
Late in the 21st century, Earth receives what looks like an urgent plea for help from planet Proxima Centauri b in the closest star system to the Sun. Astrophysicists suspect a massive solar flare is about to destroy this heretofore-unknown civilization.
Earth’s space programs are unequipped to help, but an unscrupulous Russian billionaire launches a secret and highly-specialized spaceship to Proxima b, over four light-years away. The unusual crew faces a Herculean task—should they survive the journey. No one knows what to expect from this alien planet.
The omnibus edition of the Proxima trilogy.
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The Death of the Universe: The Complete Trilogy
For many billions of years, humans—having conquered the curse of aging—spread throughout the entire Milky Way. They are able to live all their dreams, but to their great disappointment, no other intelligent species has ever been encountered. Now, humanity itself is on the brink of extinction because the universe is dying a protracted yet inevitable death.
They have only one hope: The ‘Rescue Project’ was designed to feed the black hole in the center of the galaxy until it becomes a quasar, delivering much-needed energy to humankind during its last breaths. But then something happens that no one ever expected—and humanity is forced to look at itself and its existence in an entirely new way.
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The Pluto Debacle
In the ice ocean of dwarf planet Pluto, two researchers disappear while searching for traces of extraterrestrial life. Pluto station’s AI has been having nightmares and believes itself guilty of killing the two men.
Meanwhile, retired space pilot Nick Abrahams has just run his big dream winery into bankruptcy. He is therefore relieved about the lucrative assignment to solve these mysterious events. Even though he has to fly alone for six years into the farthest corner of the solar system.
But what awaits him in the icy hell of Pluto could push him beyond his limits. And could change the future of humankind.
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Mars Nation 1
NASA finally made it. The very first human has just set foot on the surface of our neighbor planet. This is the start of a long research expedition that sent four scientists into space.
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Amphitrite 2: The Black Planet
Despite all the dangers of the newly discovered Black Planet, two astronauts investigate the celestial body. They find clues to its legendary origin and incredible age, and soon realize that Amphitrite hides an even greater secret.
Meanwhile, the ancient newcomer approaches Earth in its unusual orbit. The black dust covering its surface grabs the attention of several competing companies because of its unique, profit-promising properties.
Thus begins a race to the planet, a celestial body which—as it turns out—humanity would have been better off letting pass by Earth untouched.
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Amphitrite: The Black Planet – The Complete Trilogy
For years astronomers have been searching for a planet beyond Neptune‘s orbit. They keep finding clues, but the decisive evidence of an actual sighting eludes them.
The four astronauts on board the Ganymede Explorer aren’t interested in scientific renown. They just need a safe place to hide out, as far as possible from any kind of civilization. But it seems apt that they of all people wind up being the ones to track down a previously unknown planet. They land full of enthusiasm and curiosity – it doesn’t occur to them to be afraid. But they don’t know what they’ve found. Amphitrite is no ordinary celestial body. It’s the black planet.
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The Uranus Fiasco
A few million in his bank account, a nice winery and a great unconventional family: ex-astronaut Nick has the perfect life. But the past interferes and forces him to board a spaceship one last time. His destination is Uranus, the task seems simple. But as always when a certain mega-company is involved, the ultimate fiasco looms. And he alone has it in his blood to stop the catastrophe.
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Mars Nation 2
A woman presumed dead fights her way through the hostile deserts of Mars. With her help, the NASA astronauts orphaned on the Red Planet hope to be able to solve their very worst problem.
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La Mission Encelade
En 2031, une sonde robotique détecte des traces d’activité biologique sur Encelade, l’une des lunes de Saturne. Cette découverte sensationnelle montre qu'il existe en effet des preuves de vie extraterrestre. Quinze ans plus tard, un vaisseau spatial construit à la hâte part pour le long voyage vers la planète à anneaux et sa lune.
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Evolution
The Majestic Draght reaches a planet that could be a younger sibling of Earth’s sun. The Grosnops are looking for a second home, while the small human crew plans an experiment: How quickly does terrestrial life adapt to this alien environment? The experiment seems to fail - but then a crew member is kidnapped by strangers, and the intriguing exploration turns into a dramatic rescue mission.
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The Disturbance 3: The Truth
No one has ever ventured deeper into space than the astronauts of Shepherd-1. The aim of their mission: to witness the creation of the cosmos and to see who had a hand in it.
The answer never reaches Earth. Shepherd-1 looks functional, but abandoned. Former crew member Benjamin sets off and sends his consciousness to the spaceship. Although an enemy throws clubs between his legs, he finds the culprit. The fact that there appears to be no remedy whatsoever does not remain his only problem: The ship, which is about to be destroyed, suddenly receives radio signals from interstellar space.
Benjamin has only one chance: he must join forces with his adversary to ward off the danger to his friends and Earth, and hopefully uncover the final truth in the process.
The grand finale of the Disturbance trilogy.
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Mars Nation 3
Does the secret of Mars lurk beneath the surface of its south pole? A lone astronaut searches for clues about the earlier inhabitants of the Red Planet. Meanwhile, Rick Summers, having assumed the office of Mars City’s Administrator by deceit and manipulation, tries to unify the people on Mars with the weapons under his control.
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La Sonde Titan
En 2005, la sonde robotique Huygens atterrit sur la lune de Saturne, Titan. 40 ans plus tard, un radiotélescope reçoit des signaux de la lune lointaine qui ne peuvent provenir que de l'atterrisseur oublié depuis longtemps. En ce moment même, une expédition revient de la lune voisine Encelade.
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Olom
Planet Suran is a paradise and offers the best conditions for life. Its diverse inhabitants are intelligent - all of them. According to legend, the builders, higher beings, breathed intelligence into the creation shortly after the world was created. Science sees it differently: biologists have found evidence that all genetic material of suranic life has been artificially altered in the recent past.
Olom doesn't know who is right, traditionalists or moderns, and he doesn't care because he has his own problems. He has been lovingly raised by his three parents, but still he is missing something: a being just like him. No one else on Suran has only two legs and two arms. No one moves as clumsily. A strange photograph promises Olom help. But to uncover his origins, he must enter places that no Suran before him has ever explored. Are the builders themselves hiding there?
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La Mort de Proxima
Un robot intelligent et deux jeunes gens explorent Proxima du Centaure b, la planète en orbite autour de notre étoile la plus proche, Proxima du Centaure. Ce à quoi ils s’attendaient concernant la mission se révèle vite très naïf alors qu’ils s’aventurent sur cette planète des extrêmes.
Où sont les expéditeurs de l’appel à l’aide qui les a attirés ici ? Ils ne trouvent personne et aucune trace du côté lumineux de la planète. Ils placent donc leurs espoirs dans une expédition vers les glaces éternelles de la face cachée de Proxima. Non seulement l’équipe est confrontée à la nuit éternelle, mais elle doit aussi faire face à de graves dangers. Une décision fatidique va changer la planète à jamais.
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The Death of the Universe
For many billions of years, humans—having conquered the curse of aging—spread throughout the entire Milky Way. They are able to live all their dreams, but to their great disappointment, no other intelligent species has ever been encountered. Now, humanity itself is on the brink of extinction because the universe is dying a protracted yet inevitable death. They have only one hope.
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La Rencontre de Io
La lune Io de Jupiter est un environnement extrêmement hostile : des coulées de laves chaudes, des mers de soufre bouillant et des éruptions volcaniques fréquentes émanant directement de l'Enfer de Dante, en plus d'un bombardement continuel de rayonnements et d'une température de moins 180 degrés Celsius.
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Earthward
The alien spaceship Majestic Draght is finally on its way to Earth. How will humans react to the gargantuan spaceship, whose technology is vastly superior to anything on Earth?
No sooner has the crew reached Saturn’s orbit than they lose control of the ship. The Omniscience - the artificial intelligence that controls the Draght’s systems, and which has always had a compelling interest in the solar system - has disappeared.
While the crew searches for the AI, the dark matter drive also fails. Suddenly the Draght is in danger of crashing into Saturn’s nearby moon, Enceladus, jeopardizing the enigmatic being at the bottom of the Enceladus Ocean.
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Le Rêve de Proxima
Seule et désespérée, Ève est assise dans le centre de contrôle d’une structure extraterrestre. Elle a perdu les autres membres de l’équipe envoyée pour explorer l’exoplanète Proxima du Centaure b. Par erreur, elle a déclenché un processus désastreux qui menace d’anéantir la planète. Alors qu’Ève craint que sa meilleure option soit une mort rapide, une forme de vie extraterrestre voisine se réveille après un très long sommeil. Cet alien n’a qu’une seule tâche : trouver et neutraliser l’intrus destructeur venu d’un endroit lointain.
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The Death of the Universe: Ghost Kingdom
The new heart of the Milky Way is a quasar, enclosed by a huge shell. It will provide energy to humankind for a long time. But then one maintenance probe after another disappears. Is someone trying to manipulate the quasar to destroy our galaxy in a giant explosion? Or is it just a few outlaws who are trying to steal some of the quasar’s energy for themselves?
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Helium-3: Fight for the Future
The star system is perfect. The arrivals have undertaken a long and dangerous journey—an expedition of no return—seeking helium-3, essential for the survival of their species. The discovery of this extraordinary solar system with its four gas giants offers a unique opportunity to harvest the rare isotope.
Then comes a disturbing discovery: They are not alone! Another fleet is here, and just as dependent on helium-3. And the two species are so fundamentally different that communication and compromise appear hopeless. All that remains is a fight to the death—and for the future…
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Andromeda: The Encounter
A planet in the endless emptiness of space, far from the warmth of any sun. And yet there are people who populate its vast caverns, living, working and loving. Since time immemorial, they have been on course for Andromeda, the neighboring galaxy of the Milky Way. This is the prophecy of the ancients, the one goal that unites them all, their cult.
But then the unthinkable happens: The journey stops because the planet enters the orbit of a mysterious object that can't be seen in any telescope. Scientists doubt its very existence, though they can't give any other explanation as to why the journey to Andromeda has come to an end.
And then the messages start.
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Les nuages de Vénus
Vénus est une planète hostile, recouverte de volcans actifs. Malgré cela, la NASA lance une expédition à la recherche de vie, car les nuages épais de la sœur chaude de la Terre pourraient offrir de bonnes conditions pour cela. Un Airship spécialement conçu sert de plateforme de recherche aux quatre astronautes.
Mais ils découvrent alors sur la surface brûlante une activité dangereuse qui ne peut avoir qu'une seule explication : Une forme de vie très avancée doit être à l'œuvre.
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The Death of the Universe: Rebirth
In the 1980s, physicists at a lab in the Soviet Union find traces of strange data in the cosmic background radiation. Because powerful forces in the military believe these findings can be turned into a weapon for use in the cold war, the information gleaned by the physicists is kept under strictest secrecy.
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The Beacon
Peter Kraemer, a physics teacher with a passion for astronomy, makes a discovery that he himself can hardly believe: Stars disappear from one day to the next, with nothing left of them. The researchers he contacts provide reassuring and logical explanations for every single case. But when Peter determines that the mysterious process is approaching our home system, he becomes more and more anxious. He alone perceives the looming catastrophe. When he believes he has found a way to avert the impending disaster, he chooses to pull out all the stops, even if it costs his job, his marriage, his friends, and his life.
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The Disturbance
No one has ever ventured deeper into space than the four astronauts of Shepherd-1. The aim of their mission: to witness the creation of the cosmos. Using the sun as a lens, they are to align a flock of probes in such a way that the moment of the Big Bang becomes visible.
For astronomer Christine, this is a dream come true. So she is bitterly disappointed when the first images are obscured by a kind of veil that prevents any insight. She works obsessively to find a solution, but when she finally succeeds in lifting the veil, she sees something that would have better been kept hidden...
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The Factory of God
In a small observatory in the southwestern United States, stronomer Celia discovers strange goings-on during a routine survey of the LDN 63 dark cloud. Everything here seems to be happening far faster than science would have it. But no one believes her, because she has already made a supposedly groundbreaking discovery once – with the help of falsified data.
Celia knows: The dark cloud is her best chance to win back her career and her life. That's why she unswervingly embarks on a journey to the end of her imagination. She must unlock the secret of the "Factory of God," no matter what the cost – but what if it goes beyond her horizons, those of science, and those of all humanity?
The story of an all-transforming discovery.
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The Enceladus Mission
In the year 2031, a robot probe detects traces of biological activity on Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons. This sensational discovery shows that there is indeed evidence of extraterrestrial life. Fifteen years later, a hurriedly built spacecraft sets out on the long journey to the ringed planet and its moon.
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The Triton Disaster
Nick Abrahams still holds the official world record for the number of space launches, but he’s bored stiff with his job hosting space tours. Only when his wife leaves him, however, does he try to change his life. He accepts a tempting offer from a Russian billionaire. In exchange for making a simple repair on Neptune’s moon Triton, he will return to Earth a multi-millionaire, enabling him to achieve his ‘impossible dream’ of buying his own California vineyard.
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The Wall: Eternal Day
Judith Rosenberg, captain of the spaceship ARES, is under pressure. After the previous mission to Mars crashed, she is supposed to set down the first humans on the Red Planet. Maxim Goncharov, meanwhile, has other problems to contend with. He's in charge of building an international lunar base at the moon's south pole, where the sun almost always shines. But his crew is slowly running out of resources. Humankind seems to have lost interest in the moon. When the ARES encounters an interstellar visitor, the researchers on the moon uncover its true nature: A discovery with terrible consequences, as Judith and Maxim find out almost simultaneously.
The Wall: Eternal Day depicts a fateful chain of events that changes the solar system and all its inhabitants forever. But there are two sides to every fate. In The Wall: Eternal Night by Joshua T. Calvert, you will learn about the other side.
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Andromeda: The Sojourn
Nova is a lonely planet, on its way to the Andromeda galaxy for ages. And yet it is inhabited - by people who have never known anything other than the caves beneath the surface that protect them from the vacuum and cosmic radiation.
A surprising encounter changes everything. The planet gets visitors who seem to have their own agenda and are so alien that communication seems futile. But they, too, have unexpected existential problems. Could cooperation with them avert the danger of missing Andromeda? Perhaps, were it not for a threat that has lain dormant inside the planet for millions of years and could destroy all life.
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The Bastion of God
In 2144, astronomer Celia Baron discovers mysterious processes in the LDN 63 dark nebula that cannot be explained scientifically. Is there a threat? To find out, humanity equips a ship. A small crew of five humans and one AI sets out on the hundred-year journey in cold sleep.
But when the ship reaches its destination, everything is even more mysterious. Nothing adds up, and soon Celia and her colleagues discover that not only have they fallen into unimagined danger, but the entire solar system is threatened with destruction.
The story of an all-transforming discovery.
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The Titan Probe
In 2005, the robotic probe “Huygens” lands on Saturn’s moon Titan. 40 years later, a radio telescope receives signals from the far away moon that can only come from the long forgotten lander.
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The Jupiter Catastrophe
After a long journey to Saturn’s moon Enceladus, spaceship ILSE is on its way back to Earth, carrying crucial cargo. The crew is exhausted and wants nothing more than a quick return home. Suddenly, a chain of malfunctions puts the expedition in peril.
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Amphitrite 3: The Black Planet
Two outlaws search for an astronaut who has risen from the dead. A team of mercenaries is tasked with uncovering the secret of the invader of our solar system, at any cost.
For both groups it seems that Amphitrite, the Black Planet, is the stage on which they must fight their battles. Nowhere are life and death so closely interwoven as on this strange world, which ultimately has its own way of intervening in events. If only humanity had kept its distance! Amphitrite is no ordinary celestial body. It is the black planet.
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Andromeda: The Arrival
They have been traveling towards the Andromeda galaxy for thousands and thousands of years. Suddenly, they receive an offer that sounds far too good to refuse. But are they even ready for the big step that actually promises them the fulfillment of all their wishes? Aren't those who want to make it possible perhaps also pursuing their own plans, which will plunge the entire planet into great danger?
Andromeda - The Arrival is the conclusion of the Andromeda trilogy.
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The Sword of God
The expedition to the dark cloud LDN 63 has solved the riddle of the mysterious events there - but at a high price. Thousands of alien ships threaten Earth's emissaries. The only way to stop them could be an ancient weapon.
But to trigger it, astronomer Celia and her colleagues must give themselves up – while it is not at all certain that their sacrifice can really prevent the worst: Even then the attackers might reach the solar system and Earth.
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