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23 Jahre nach seiner ersten Expedition kehrt Louis Wu zurück zur Ringwelt, jenem geheimnisvollen, seit Urzeiten im Raum kreisenden Artefakt. Kurz nach der Ankunft finden er und seine Begleiter heraus, dass die Ringwelt instabil geworden ist - das titanische Konstrukt, bewohnt von Abermilliarden Lebewesen, droht in den Stern zu stürzen, den es umkreist. Beim Versuch, die Katastrophe zu verhindern, trifft Wu nicht nur auf vielzählige Bewohner de...

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Um den sinnentleerten Vergnügungen des 29. Jahrhunderts zu entfliehen, erklärt sich der Sternfahrer Louis Wu bereit, an der Seite dreier Mitstreiter die legendäre Ringwelt zu erforschen, ein gigantisches, seit Urzeiten vergessen im All rotierendes Gebilde. Bei der Landung wird das Raumschiff der Gruppe beschädigt. Auf sich allein gestellt, machen sich die vier ungleichen Expeditionsteilnehmer daran, die Ringwelt zu erkunden ... Doch das künstl...

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Humankind has spent years agonizing over the deadly threat posed by the only aliens they have ever encountered, the Moties. A race divided into distinct biological forms, each serving a different function. Now the Moties are isolated - until the empire is threatened. By the authors of "Footfall".

Loosely based on Larry Niven's 1973 novella "Flash Crowd, " Red Tide continues to examine the social consequences of the impact of having instantaneous teleportation, where humans can instantly travel long distances in milliseconds. This is a theme that has fascinated the author throughout his career and even appears in his seminal work Ringworld, where the central character celebrates his birthday by instantly teleporting himself to different...

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BOOK TWO IN THE CLASSIC HEOROT SERIES FROM GENRE LEGENDS LARRY NIVEN, JERRY POURNELLE, AND STEVEN BARNES.Some twenty years have passed since the passengers and crew of the starship Geographic established a colony on the hostile alien world of Avalon. In that time, a new generation has grown up in the peace and serenity of the island paradise of Camelot, ignorant of the Great Grendel Wars fought between their parents and grandparents and the mo...

BOOK ONE IN THE CLASSIC HEOROT SERIES FROM GENRE LEGENDS LARRY NIVEN, JERRY POURNELLE, AND STEVEN BARNESSTRANGERS IN A STRANGE LAND The two hundred colonists on board the Geographic have spent a century in cold sleep to arrive here: Avalon, a lush, verdant planet light-years from Earth. They hope to establish a permanent colony, and Avalon seems the perfect place. And so they set about planting and building. But their very presence has upset t...

A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy *** ISSUE 10: September 2014 *** Mike Resnick, Editor *** Shahid Mahmud, Publisher *** Stories by: Brian Trent, Robert J. Sawyer, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Larry Niven, Laurie Tom, K.C. Norton, Tobias S. Buckell, Ian Whates, Mercedes Lackey and Eric Flint. *** Serialization: Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp *** Columns by: Barry Malzberg, Gregory Benford *** Book Reviews: Paul Cook. *** Interview: Jo...

Multiple award-winning science fiction master Larry Niven returns in grand form with the story of Planet Destiny, Earth's second attempt at colonizing an inhabitable planet of a distant star. Now, descendants of the those pioneers have many questions about the Road, but no settler who has gone down it has ever returned. For Jemmy Bloocher, a young farm boy, the questions burn too hot--and he sets out to uncover the many mysteries of Destiny's ...

BOOK ONE IN THE CLASSIC HEOROT SERIES FROM GENRE LEGENDS LARRY NIVEN, JERRY POURNELLE, AND STEVEN BARNESSTRANGERS IN A STRANGE LAND The two hundred colonists on board the Geographic have spent a century in cold sleep to arrive here: Avalon, a lush, verdant planet light-years from Earth. They hope to establish a permanent colony, and Avalon seems the perfect place. And so they set about planting and building. But their very presence has upset t...

THE LONG-AWAITED CONCLUSION OF THE HEOROT SERIES FROM GENRE LEGENDS LARRY NIVEN, JERRY POURNELLE, AND STEVEN BARNESAvalon was thriving. The cold sleep colonists from Earth had settled on a verdant, livable world. The fast and cunning predators humans named "grendels" were under control, and the mainland outposts well established. Avalon's new mainland hydroelectric power station was nearly complete, and when on-line would compensate for the nu...

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Galaxy's Edge has been publishing outstanding science fiction and fantasy fiction since its inaugural issue in March 2013. The magazine's authors include seasoned veterans as well as exciting new talent from across the globe.Whether its dragons or spaceships, magic or hard science, there is only one criterion to be published in Galaxy's Edge: it has to be a great story.As with the last edition of the Best of, all the fiction pieces in this vol...

Sono trascorsi vent'anni da quando Louis Wu e i suoi compagni hanno fatto rotta verso il Mondo ad Anello. Un arco di tempo lunghissimo e allo stesso tempo fugace, in cui tutto quello che pensavano di conoscere ha lasciato il posto a una nuova concezione dello spazio e del tempo. Louis Wu è ora prigioniero, insieme a Speaker-agli-Animali, creatura bizzarra e aggressiva, di uno dei leader della razza dei burattinai, un tempo molto potente ma ora...