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On humanity's first extra-solar mission, the exploration vessel Magellan, or as she prefers 'Maggie', discovers an alien artifact. Deciding that finding advanced alien life is too important to ignore, Captain Allison Ridgeway chooses to return to Earth while ordering her crew to reverse engineer technology far beyond anything back home.Meanwhile, at mission control, the governments struggle to maintain the existence of aliens a secret while also combating bureaucracy, the military industrial complex, and everyone else who wants a piece of the science that could skyrocket humanity into a new technological golden age.Little does everyone involved know that the bumbling of a few highly evolved apes in space hasn't gone unnoticed and the people of Earth have put themselves on a collision course with a far wider, and potentially hostile, galaxy.

Humankind has escaped a dying Earth and set out to find a new home among the stars aboard an immense generation spaceship, affectionately named the Ark. Bryan Benson is the Ark’s greatest living sports hero, enjoying retirement working as a detective in Avalon, his home module. The hours are good, the work is easy, and the perks can’t be beat.But when a crew member goes missing, Benson is thrust into the centre of an ever-expanding web of deception, secrets, and violence that overturns everything he knows about living on the Ark and threatens everyone aboard. As the last remnants of humanity hurtle towards their salvation, Benson finds himself in a desperate race to unravel the conspiracy before a madman turns mankind’s home into its tomb.File Under: Science Fiction [ Last Gun in the Universe | We’re Not Alone | Poison and Nukes | Race to the End ]

Humankind has escaped a dying Earth and set out to find a new home among the stars aboard an immense generation ship affectionately name the Ark. Bryan Benson is the Ark’s greatest living sports hero, enjoying retirement working as a detective in Avalon, his home module. The hours are good, the work is easy, and the perks can’t be beat.But when a crew member goes missing, Bryan is thrust into the center of an ever-expanding web of deception, secrets, and violence that overturns everything he knows about living on the Ark and threatens everyone aboard. As the last remnants of humanity hurtle towards their salvation, Bryan finds himself in a desperate race to unravel the conspiracy before a madman turns mankind’s home into its tomb.

New planet. New life. Same old S#*@.Against all odds, the Ark and her thirty-thousand survivors have reached Tau Ceti G to begin the long, arduous task of rebuilding human civilization. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world,Tau Ceti G’s natives, the G’tel, are coming to grips with the sudden appearance of what many believe are their long-lost Gods.But first contact between humans and g’tel goes catastrophically wrong, visiting death on both sides. Rumors swirl that the massacre was no accident. The Ark’s greatest hero, Bryan Benson, takes on the mystery.Partnered with native ‘truth-digger’ Kexx, against both of their better judgment, Benson is thrust into the heart of an alien culture with no idea how to tell who wants to worship him from who wants him dead.Together, Benson and Kexx will have to find enough common ground and trust to uncover a plot that threatens to plunge both of their peoples into an apocalyptic war that neither side can afford to fight.File Under: Science FictionFrom the Paperback edition.

A new generation comes of age eighteen years after humanity arrived on the colony planet Gaia. Now threats from both within and outside their Trident threaten everything they've built. The discovery of an alien installation inside Gaia's moon, terrorist attacks and the kidnap of a maniac's daughter stretch the community to breaking point, but only two men stand a chance of solving all three mysteries before the makeshift planetary government shuts everything down.File Under: Science Fiction [ The Last Colony | That’s No Moon | Save Your Child | The Earth is Dead ]

Firstname Lastname is a no one with nowhere to go. With a name that is the result of an unfortnate clerical error and destined to be one of the only humans on an alien space station. That is until she sneaks aboard a ship and joins up with a crew of repomen (they are definitely not pirates).Now she's traveling the galaxy 'recovering' ships. What could go wrong?

Zwei Welten, zwei Völker, ein drohender Krieg: Die Zukunft der Menschheit hängt in Patrick Tomlinsons neuem Science Fiction-Thriller an zwei ungleichen Ermittlern mit einem gemeinsamen ZielMit den letzten 30.000 Überlebenden der Menschheit erreicht das Generationenraumschiff »The Ark« endlich Tau Ceti. Doch der Planet ist keineswegs unbewohnt, und beim ersten Zusammentreffen mit den einheimischen G''tel kommt es bereits zu einer tödlichen Katastrophe.Detective Bryan Benson soll herausfinden, ob jemand das Massaker absichtlich inszeniert hat, wie es gerüchteweise heißt. Doch dazu muss er mit einem »Wahrheitssucher« der G''tel zusammenarbeiten. Gelingt es Benson und Kexx nicht, ihre Verständigungsschwierigkeiten und kulturellen Unterschiede schnell zu überwinden, droht der Untergang beider Völker.»Tomlinson gelingt in seinem Buch eine extrem spannende Mischung aus Kriminalroman, Science Fiction und Gesellschaftsroman.«phantastiknews.deVon Patrick Tomlinson außerdem erhältlich:The Ark - Die letzte Reise der Menschheit