Linda Nagata
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A powerful science fiction story about an architect on Earth commissioned to create (via long distance) a masterwork with materials from the last abandoned Martian colony, a monument that will last thousands of years longer than Earth, which is dying.
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2) Silver
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Inverted Frontier volume 2
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English
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"Urban is no longer master of the fearsome starship Dragon. Driven out by the hostile, godlike entity, Lezuri, he has taken refuge aboard the most distant vessel in his outrider fleet. Though Lezuri remains formidable, he is a broken god, commanding only a fragment of the knowledge that once was his. He is desperate to return home to the ring-shaped artificial world he created at the height of his power, where he can recover the memory of forgotten...
3) Funkstille
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Diejenigen, die ihm am nächsten stehen, halten ihn für tot. Und der ehemalige Army Lieutenant James Shelley hat nicht vor, etwas daran zu ändern. Dennoch wird er von einer Organisation für verdeckte Operationen rekrutiert, die sich ganz dem Red, einer hochentwickelten künstlichen Intelligenz, verschrieben hat und mit dessen Hilfe die Welt vor Bedrohungen schützen will. Shelley ist davon überzeugt, dass er die notwendige Vorsicht gelernt hat,...
4) Morgengrauen
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In einem ländlichen Gebiet der afrikanischen Sahelzone befehligt Lieutenant James Shelley eine hochtechnisierte Einheit von Soldaten. Jede Nacht jagen sie während grauenvoller Patrouillen Aufständische und befolgen dabei drei simple Ziele: Beschützt Zivilisten, tötet den Feind und bleibt am Leben. Denn in einem von der Verteidigungsindustrie inszenierten, profitorientierten Krieg gibt es keinen Grund, aus dem man sterben sollte. Shelley nutzt...
5) Prüfungen
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Lieutenant James Shelley und seine Einheit von Soldaten der US-Army befanden sich auf einem Kreuzzug für die Gerechtigkeit, als sie die unautorisierte Mission Erstes Licht ausführten. Sie kehrten nach Amerika zurück, um sich vor einem Kriegsgericht zu verantworten - entschlossen, die Korruption in der Befehlskette aufzudecken, die sie zu ihren Taten gezwungen hat. Aber in einem Land, das noch immer vom nuklearen Terrorismus des Koma-Tags gezeichnet...
6) Edges
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English
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From the Edge of Apocalypse:
Deception Well is a world on the edge, home to an isolated remnant surviving at the farthest reach of human expansion. All across the frontier, other worlds have succumbed to the relentless attacks of robotic alien warships, while hundreds of light years away, the core of human civilization-those star systems closest to Earth, known as the Hallowed Vasties-have all fallen to ruins. Powerful telescopes can see only dust...
7) Needle
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"Tanjiri is not for you. You are not ready to encounter what exists there."
So Lezuri spoke in warning, long ago. Urban still possesses the strange gift-the impossible puzzle-Lezuri gave him that day. A needle, ultra-thin and twelve centimeters long, with a silvery surface that slices light into rainbow glints. All Lezuri's knowledge lies locked within that needle. Urban has only to discover the trick of opening it, to gain that knowledge for himself-but...
8) Blade
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Mythic Island Press LLC
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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The starship Dragon, accompanied by its fleet of outriders, is faring ever deeper into that region known as the Hallowed Vasties. Here, at the shattered heart of ancient human civilization, once-living worlds were ripped apart by the dimensional intrusions of a Blade. Yet despite the apocalyptic-scale destruction, the fleet's telescopes have picked out signs of life among the ruins and the ship's company is eager to go on—but should they?
...Author
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Mythic Island Press LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Army veteran True Brighton left the service when the development of robotic helicopters made her training as a pilot obsolete. Now she works at Requisite Operations, a private military company established by friend and former Special Ops soldier Lincoln Han. ReqOp has embraced the new technologies. Robotics, big data, and artificial intelligence are all tools used to augment the skills of veteran warfighters-for-hire. But the tragedy of war is still...
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Red trilogy (Linda Nagata) volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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Lieutenant James Shelley commands a high-tech squad of soldiers in a rural district within the African Sahel. They hunt insurgents each night on a harrowing patrol, guided by three simple goals: protect civilians, kill the enemy, and stay alive. In a for-profit war manufactured by the defense industry there can be no cause worth dying for. To keep his soldiers safe, Shelley uses every high-tech asset available to him, but his best weapon is a flawless...
14) The trials
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Red trilogy (Linda Nagata) volume 2
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"Lieutenant James Shelley and his squad of US Army soldiers were on a quest for justice when they carried out the unauthorized mission known as First Light. They returned home to America to face a court-martial, determined to expose the corruption in the chain of command that compelled their actions. But in a country still reeling from the nuclear terrorism of Coma Day, the courtroom is just one battlefield of many." --
15) Going dark
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Red trilogy (Linda Nagata) volume 3
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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As a soldier of the Red who pursues covert missions designed to nudge history away from existential threats, James Shelley is taken into orbit where he must make a difficult choice when he falls into conflict with those he loves, his former lover, Delphi and his companion-in-arms, Jayne Vasquez.
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Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Uncharted worlds, distant galaxies, and unknown threats lurking in the vastness of the cosmos ... travel to the farthest regions of space in this collection of original short stories. Written by many of today's finest authors, readers will find canonical tales of the Honorverse, the Lost Fleet, Dune, Vatta's War, Ender Wiggin, the Legion of the Damned, the Imperium, and more. Also included are past masterpieces by authors whose works defined the genre....
