Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Shannara novels. Word & Void trilogy volume 1
Word and the Void volume 1
Shannara novels. Word and Void trilogy volume 1
Word and the Void volume 1
Shannara novels. Word and Void trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Description
In a sleepy steel-mill town, the ultimate battle between Good and Evil is about to begin. The brewing conflict draws John Ross, a Knight of the Word, to town. Nightmares tell him that an ancient horror is coming. Caught between them is Nest Freemark, a 14-year-old-girl with the gift. Now the future of humanity depends upon a man haunted by his dreams and a gifted young girl--two who will discover what survives when hope and innocence are shattered...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
With 14 national bestsellers to his credit, Terry Brooks has become an icon among fantasy fiction lovers. This stunning sequel to Running With The Demon lures listeners even further into the dark place where the battle for our souls rages on. By night, John Ross, A Knight of the Word, dreams of a nightmarish world governed by merciless demons, and by day he stalks these agents of evil in order to prevent the dreams from materializing. Having failed...
Author
Series
Void trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the center of the galaxy is the Dreaming Void, an artificial black hole that may hold paradise within its walls. When a human named Inigo begins dreaming of what lies within the Void, the word spreads, triggering a religious pilgrimage into the Void and possibly a catastrophic expansion that threatens the peace of the Commonwealth Universe.
Author
Series
Void trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Intersolar Commonwealth is in turmoil and at the center of the controversy is Edeard, the Waterwalker, whose crusade against corruption, injustice, and violence in the face of temptation and betrayal will test his extraordinary powers.
Author
Series
Void trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Araminta becomes the target of a galaxywide search by a government agent seeking to prevent the pilgrimage of a cult into the heart of the Void, while Edeard, the Waterwalker, finds himself faced with powerful new enemies.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Captain Lana Fiveworlds might be flying with the same motley crew of misfits, but her problems are all-new.
Lana believes that a demanding and difficult client on board her beloved starship - the Gravity Rose - is the sum of her woes. But that was until she has to emergency ditch inside a star system which holds a full range of deadly secrets.
There are the murderous intentions of the local government with its slave-owning aristocracy to contend...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Commander William Jern and his wife, Gayle, are given an opportunity to move into one of the spacious Colonial homes on the Village Green, they jump at the chance. Only the Jerns' new dream home quickly becomes an icy nightmare, as death stalks them relentlessly. It comes unheralded out of the night, and like all of us, they are woefully unprepared. Yet, regardless of his state of readiness, William Jern must face terrors beyond imagination in...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
It should have all been so easy for Captain Lana Fiveworlds, owner of Fiveworlds Shipping and master of the free trader starship 'Gravity Rose'.
A simple supply run to a mining operation in deep space on a world called Abracadabra. Alright, so the mining operation was illegal and the world unclaimed… that's why the job paid so damn well. But now she's stuck on a hothouse jungle planet, sweltering under the light of a dying red sun with not only...
10) Sliding Void
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Sliding Void (Book 1 of the Sliding Void science fiction series)DESCRIPTIONCaptain Lana Fiveworlds has a hell of a lot of problems. She's sliding void in an ageing seven-hundred-year-old space ship, scrabbling around the edges of civilised space trying to find a cargo lucrative enough to pay her bills without proving so risky that it'll kill her. She's got an alien religious freak for a navigator, an untrustworthy android for a first mate, a disgraced...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Are things finally looking up for Captain Lana Fiveworlds?
She's managed to reach what passes for civilisation in the wild border systems of the Edge - Transference Station - the largest trading hub in the free worlds. With her ramshackle starship, the Gravity Rose, safely docked, she's now desperately searching for a cargo to stave off bankruptcy.
Lana's crew needs paying - including the amorous barbarian prince she rescued from a failed colony...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
VOID ALL THE WAY DOWN(The Sliding Void Omnibus) This is the Sliding Void Omnibus edition, comprising three novellas: Sliding Void, Transference Station, and Red Sun Bleeding. DESCRIPTION Captain Lana Fiveworlds has a hell of a lot of problems. She's sliding void in an ageing seven-hundred-year-old space ship, scrabbling around the edges of civilised space trying to find a cargo lucrative enough to pay her bills without proving so risky that it'll...
Author
Series
Language
Deutsch
Description
Im Jahr 3580 lebt die Menschheit in über tausend Sonnensystemen. Eine mächtige Raumflotte beschützt sie vor jeder feindlichen Spezies. Selbst der Tod ist besiegt. Doch im Herzen der Galaxie liegt eine schwarze Welt. Und auf das, was von dort kommt, hat die Menschheit keine Antwort ... Der Auftakt der erfolgreichen Commonwealth-Serie von Peter F. Hamilton.
14) Burned
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A Martian, a pilot, a navigator, and a colony brat battle to stop an alien invasion.
Hostile aliens called Shadows are invading Earth, and ex-starship security officer Jas Harrington and her friends have been fighting them. But Earth's Global Government refuses to acknowledge the alien threat-it's been infiltrated and Shadows stalk its corridors.
Only the Transgalatic Council can help humanity now, but to convince it of Earth's peril and enlist its...
15) Dawn
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A dark secret. A deadly shadow. A false dawn.
Under orders from Earth's Global Government, Jas Harrington and the crew of the Galathea arrive at the colony world of Dawn, where the hostile aliens that infest their ship can be rooted out. Jas soon learns that the aliens are called Shadows, and that there's been a conspiracy of silence surrounding the threat they pose to the galaxy. She also finds there's more to Dawn than meets the eye. She discovers...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Deadly alien stowaways...
A determined starship's crew...
The battle for Earth is on.
Jas Harrington made it back to Earth after battling hostile aliens at the far reaches of the galaxy. What she doesn't know is, the aliens have hitched a ride.
When the crew disembarks, Jas parts company with the pilot, killing their budding romance. Oh well, never mind.
Then comes the game changer. Jas realizes Earth is being invaded, and no one's doing anything...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kickass sci fi heroine versus deadly aliens.
Hostile aliens called Shadows threaten to destroy all humanity. Appearing as perfect copies of their victims, the aliens are nearly impossible to detect and difficult to kill. It's down to one woman to stop them.
Generation
Chief Security Officer and Martian, Jas Harrington, is in a race against time, fighting to prevent the Shadows from taking over her starship and spreading their deadly infection to Earth.
Stranded
The...
18) Generation
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Kickass sci-fi heroine versus deadly aliens.
Growing up as a Martian on Earth has left Jas Harrington solitary, quick-tempered, and with zero tolerance for fools. All plus points when working as chief security officer aboard prospecting starships.
Jas' latest berth is aboard the Galathea, which trawls the reaches of the galaxy seeking precious minerals and rare resources. She thinks it's a routine trip. She's wrong.
An inspection of a far-flung planet...
19) Mars Born
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Mars holds secrets beyond the realms of the known universe.
Ex-starship security chief Jas Harrington has been battling hostile aliens called Shadows, who are invading Earth. After finally alerting the Transgalactic Council of Earth's plight, she has escaped aboard the starship Bricoleur.
In the brief respite from battle, she and her companions must decide the best way to continue the fight.
They travel to Jas' birthplace, Mars, where she uncovers...
20) Shadow Battle
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Humanity is at war with invading aliens, and the battle's about to go galactic.
Security chief Jas Harrington has exposed the secret invasion of Earth by hostile aliens called Shadows. She hopes the Transgalactic Council can come to Earth's aid, and she and her companions await the Council's arrival at Ganymede Outpost.
The galactic adventurers have with them the enigmatic organisms they rescued from a military weapons research station on Mars. When...