By Joe Haldeman
Carmen Dula and her husband spent six years vacationing to the far away domestic of the strong race often called "The Others," within the hopes of forging a truce. yet by the point Carmen returns to Earth, fifty years have passed-and the Earthlings have outfitted a flotilla of warships to protect Earth opposed to The Others.
however the Others have extra strength than a person may perhaps imagine-and they'll brook no insolence from the upstart human race.
Read or Download Starbound (Marsbound, Book 2) PDF
Best space opera books
Rüdiger Schäfer's Der Oxydkrieg (Perry Rhodan Neo, Band 103; Die Methans, Band PDF
English intro
Perry Rhodan is the identify of a technological know-how fiction sequence released seeing that 1961 in Germany, in addition to the identify of its major personality. it's a house opera, facing all significant subject matters of technological know-how fiction. Having offered over billion copies in pulp publication structure around the globe, it's the such a lot winning technological know-how fiction publication sequence ever written.
Perry Rhodan Neo is a reboot of the storyline beginning within the 12 months 2036 rather than 1971.
For additional information at the subject material, see the English Wikipedia article on Perry Rhodan and/or the corresponding German Wikipedia article.
Deutsche Einführung
Perry Rhodan ist der Titelheld der gleichnamigen deutschen Science-Fiction-Serie, die seit dem eight. September 1961 ununterbrochen wöchentlich in shape von Heftromanen mit einer Druckauflage von etwa eighty. 000 Heften (Stand: Jahr 2011) erscheint. Insgesamt sind bisher 2700 Hefte mit run a hundred and sixty. 000 Seiten erschienen, deren Geschichten einen Zeitraum von über 3000 Jahren umfassen (Stand: Mai 2013).
Am 30. September 2011 startete parallel zur alten Serie eine Neufassung additionally Perry Rhodan Neo, mit dem Untertitel „Die Zukunft beginnt von vorn“. In dieser landet Perry Rhodan erst im Jahr 2036 auf dem Mond. Die Serie erscheint zweiwöchentlich und ist nach drei Staffeln mit je acht Taschenheften ab Heft 25 in Staffeln mit jeweils zwölf Romanen gegliedert.
Während die Perry-Rhodan-Heftromanserie von den geopolitischen Begebenheiten der realen Welt Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts ausging und die Handlung in einer nahen Zukunft beginnen ließ, geht Perry Rhodan Neo 50 Jahre später von der realen Welt des frühen 21. Jahrhunderts aus und beginnt ebenfalls in einer nahen Zukunft. So fliegt Perry Rhodan nicht im Jahre 1971 zum Mond, sondern erst 2036. Die Handlung nimmt somit aufgrund der geänderten Ausgangslage einen alternativen Verlauf. Die klassischen rationale der Serie werden ebenfalls in eine nahe Zukunft verlagert und entsprechend interpretiert. Es werden neue Figuren eingeführt und bekannte Figuren in einem neuen Licht gezeigt.
Die Serie ist somit nicht kanonisch in Bezug auf das klassische Perryversum. Nach der Aussage Klaus N. Fricks auf dem five. Weltcon 2011 in Mannheim wird es auch keine Überschneidungen oder Referenzen zwischen den Serien wie zu den Atlan-Serien geben. Perry Rhodan und Perry Rhodan Neo bilden jeweils einen „eigenen Kosmos“.
Zyklus: 10. Zyklus: Die Methans
Handlung und weitere Informationen (Achtung: Spoiler! ): Perrypedia: PRN103
Wichtig: Um alle diesem Zyklus zugehörigen Hefte auf einmal herunterzuladen, bitte auf den Collections-Link in der Seitenleiste klicken und dann weiter in der Sammlung den . zip hyperlink klicken.
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle's The Mote in God's Eye (CoDominium; Moties, Book 1) PDF
Again in 1974, the SFBC dubbed The Mote In God's Eye "a smooth masterpiece to rank with Dune and Stranger in a wierd Land… some of the most fascinating, suspenseful and literate technological know-how fiction novels of the previous decade. " And as space-opera spectacle, it has withstood the attempt of time—a real unique, as smart because it is resourceful.
New PDF release: Dragon Harper (The Dragonriders of Pern)
For thousands of readers internationally, the identify Pern is magical, conjuring up grand vistas of planet whose blue skies are patrolled via courageous dragons and their noble riders, a paradise threatened by means of the periodic fall of lethal Thread. yet now not all risks descend from the skies. Now, of their 3rd collaboration, Anne McCaffrey and her son, Todd McCaffrey, spin a story of a mysterious ailment which may reach doing what centuries of Threadfall couldn't: kill each final human on Pern.
The New Essential Guide to Alien Species by Ann Margaret Lewis PDF
Realize who’s who and what’s what within the big name Wars universe with this superbly illustrated guide–now in complete colour for the 1st time. in terms of extraterrestrial life-forms, there’s extra to technological know-how fiction’s most renowned galaxy than simply Jawas, Wookiees, Ewoks, and Hutts. From the skylanes of Coruscant to the worlds of the Outer Rim, an untold variety of species populate these planets some distance, distant.
- Kontakte mit der Ewigkeit (Perry Rhodan Silberbände, Band 72; Das Kosmische Schachspiel, Band 5)
- Doppelganger Gambit
- Valiant (The Lost Fleet, Book 4) (US Edition)
- Les Orphelins de l'hélice
- The Hub: Dangerous Territory
- On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington, Book 1)
Extra resources for Starbound (Marsbound, Book 2)
Example text
Fah. " "At least go below, please, Father? " "I have no desire to be safe while my people fight. " She bared her teeth in a grimace of defeat. It was an expression she'd had little use for in her life-except for her dealings with her father. "It's a free planet," she said wearily. "That it is," her father said. " His image vanished. There was a ripple of flashes as the starboard hydrofoil launched rockets. Surges of water foamed over Aileea's bare legs, left and right, as she zigzagged her craft.
He eyed his daughter critically. " Aileea felt her mouth tighten. She was all too aware of the gap that now yawned between her and the woman who had been a virtual sister to her. Not that she didn't get along with Gita. It was just that they had ... grown apart, and she felt an aching hollowness within. " She glared at him. He regarded her with eyes sharp and black as obsidian. "Come home, Aileea," he said in a quiet voice. "You know the sea as well as any Vare-you're a very part of her. " He showed her a sardonic grin.
Naturally, Mr. Scott had to eyeball each and every "improvement"-quotation marks his-himself And now he had no gimlet-eyed Commodore to send him packing. Kirk felt bound to accompany him as much as he could. Generally Kirk didn't have a great deal of' patience with detail. His tendency to improvise had early been marked by his instructors at Starfleet Academy, and not with unqualified approval. That tendency-and ability-had kept him and most of his crew alive through nearly five years of galactic exploration.
