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When humanity reaches for the stars, our probes are destroyed. They crash into an incredibly advanced piece of technology: a massive force-field. Unknown beings have placed a barrier around our star and planets, enclosing us within. We’re locked inside a Great Sphere. Was this invisible obstacle built to imprison us - or to protect us? No one knows the truth, but it soon becomes clear the barrier has leaks. Aliens infiltrate and try to sabotage our efforts to escape our cage.

The colonies of the Faustian Chain have gone dark. No star freighters have come from the star cluster for many years. Captain Bill Gorman, a smuggler on the Fringe, is one of the few who know the truth. He’s personally battled the alien invaders who’ve overrun the human colonies of the Chain. He and his crew are faced with a choice: Will they fight the invaders, or will they run?

Kyle Riggs sits uneasily upon Earth’s throne. He’s liberated his homeworld from a tyrant, only to replace him. In The Dead Sun, the ninth book of the Star Force Series, the Great War between life and the machines reaches its final chapter. Both sides have new technology and expanded industrial bases. Star Force and the machines attempt to exterminate one another in a final, glorious conflict. Along the way, Riggs finally learns who his real friends and enemies are. The Dead Sun is a military science fiction novel by best-selling author B. V. Larson. To read the first book in this series, look for Swarm, by B. V. Larson.

The humans have no magic and are hunted for sport, but that is about to change. War is coming.... The Sun Dragon spawned nine lesser dragons which devoured their parent for the power the elder possessed. These young dragons fought for choice bits of the Sun Dragon, but each only managed to eat a portion, thus giving them specific powers. Over time, these foul dragons were hunted down and slain by heroes of old.

Ignis Glace is a war-torn world of fire and ice. Tidally-locked to its tiny red sun, one side of the planet bakes while the other side is forever frozen. Known as Sunside and Nightside, these two wastelands are bordered by a narrow inhabitable region known as Twilight. Humans and mechs battle for control of their world, even while a third player approaches the game: the Skaintz Imperium. Once the aliens strike, no world is ever the same.

The Skaintz Imperium was eradicated from the backwater planet of Garm, but at great cost. The population of the world was decimated within weeks, and Garm will never be the same. At least humanity can breathe easily knowing that the mysterious aliens are all dead.... But are they? Using their natural form of communication, Skaintz radio signals did chirrup and click, however briefly. Transmissions in their ancient language now spread at the speed of light in a growing sphere.

When Quentin Draith wakes up in a private sanatorium, he has no memory of who he is or how he received the injuries riddling his body. All he knows is that he has to get out, away from the drugs being pumped into him and back to the real world to search for answers. His first question: How did his friend Tony’s internal organs fill with sand, killing him in a Las Vegas car crash? After a narrow escape, he tracks down the basic facts: He is an investigator and blogger specializing in the supernatural - which is a good thing, because Quentin’s life is getting stranger by the minute.

On June 30, 1908 an object fell from the sky releasing more energy than a thousand Hiroshima bombs. A Siberian forest was flattened, but the strike left no significant crater. The anomaly came to be known as the Tunguska Event, and scientists have never agreed whether it was the largest meteor strike in recorded history - or something else. Alien Artifacts have been uncovered since the 1908 event, and a new star drive is discovered.

Kolejny tom bestsellerowej serii B.V. Larsona, króla Amazona. Wielka miedzygwiezdna wojna miedzy robotami a istotami zywymi trwa. Sily Gwiezdne ponownie musza powstrzymac maszynowych najezdzców - ale jak? Kyle'owiRiggsowi udalo sie uwolnic Ziemie od makrosów, jednak za ogromna cene. Wielkie maszyny juz mu dluzej nie ufaja. Jak wsciekly pies, musi zostac wyeliminowany, a razem z nim Sily Gwiezdne. Jesli ten plan sie powiedzie, ludzkosc czeka zaglada.

Trzy gwiazdy, trzy światy, trzy cywilizacje... i jedna wielka wojna. W tym układzie potrójnym nie wszystkie planety są sobie równe. Zawsze kiedy Gwiazda Demonów osiąga najbliższy punkt na swojej orbicie, insektoidalna rasa atakuje. Najeżdża wewnętrzne światy z ponurą regularnością, śląc kolejne fale trudnych do wykrycia okrętów. Mają one za zadanie niszczyć wszystko na swojej drodze - kosmitów, ludzi czy cokolwiek innego.

In Shadow Magic, the third book of the Haven Series, Herla of the Wild Hunt makes his move to gather all the Jewels of Power. Hunting down and killing those who wield them, the undead king is as relentless as death itself. He is not the only interested party, however, as several armies march to meet Brand and his allies in a desperate battle for control of the River Haven.

W "Unicestwieniu", siódmej powieści z serii Star Force, nic nie idzie zgodnie z planem. Trzy niedawno założone ludzkie kolonie w układzie Eden radzą sobie coraz lepiej, lecz liczne siły dążą do ich wyeliminowania. Skorupiaki proszą o pomoc, choć są zaprzysięgłymi wrogami Sił Gwiezdnych. Czy okażą się potencjalnymi sojusznikami, czy też podstępnymi zdrajcami? I dlaczego temperatura oceanów na ich światach rośnie?

Kyle Riggs od dawna nie odwiedzał Ziemi. Nie ma pojęcia, co tam się dzieje. Nadchodzące raporty są coraz rzadsze i coraz dziwniejsze. Riggs, odizolowany w systemie Eden ze swoimi marines, zaczyna zdawać sobie sprawę, że przeciwko niemu formuje się sojusz. Dwie ogromne floty wkrótce ruszą, by zniszczyć siły pułkownika. Ostatni obrońcy z Sił Gwiezdnych muszą stawić czoła wrogom. Trzeba zawrzeć przymierze z obcymi biotami. Ale które gatunki są naprawdę godne zaufania?

Owdowialy wykladowca akademicki Kyle Riggs mieszka z dwójka dzieci na kalifornijskiej farmie. Pewnej nocy jego spokojne zycie przerywa przybycie okretu obcych, który porywa i morduje jego dzieci, a nastepnie zabiera na poklad samego Kyle’a. Okazuje sie, ze bohater przechodzi serie testów, po których statek, najwyrazniej obdarzony inteligencja, czyni go swoim dowódca. Jest tez zla wiadomosc - obcy, którzy wyslali jednostke, walcza z kims o wiele grozniejszym, kims, kto wkrótce znajdzie sie w poblizu Ziemi.

Sily Gwiezdne i Kyle Riggs staja przed nowymi wyzwaniami, mierza sie z kolejnymi flotami, odkrywaja sekrety wojny, która tocza od lat. Ludzie zdobywaja system Eden, ale czy uda sie go utrzymac? Sily Gwiezdne sa oslabione po dlugiej walce, wielu Zolnierzy chce wrócic do domu. Wiedzac, Ze maszyny pojawia sie znowu, z kolejna armada, Riggs szuka rozwiazania, które mogloby na stale przywrócic pokój na Ziemi.

Sometimes defending those you love means risking everything and attempting the most dangerous task in the universe: making a planetary assault against a heavily entrenched enemy. It's grim and always ugly. But as long as men refuse to bow their heads to conquerors, they will take the fight to the enemy or die trying. Three masters of military science fiction have come together here to tell harrowing tales of high-tech mayhem.

Kyle Riggs zasiada na tronie Imperium Ziemskiego, ale nie może zaznać spokoju. Wyzwolił swoją ojczystą planetę od tyrana tylko po to, by go zastąpić. W "Martwym słońcu", dziewiątej powieści z serii Star Force, zaczyna się ostatni rozdział wielkiej wojny między żywymi istotami a maszynami. Obie strony rozwinęły nowe technologie i przemysł zbrojeniowy. Siły Gwiezdne i makrosy próbują nawzajem wyeliminować się z gry w walce na śmierć i życie całych gatunków. Zanim zniszczy maszyny, Riggs musi się jednak dowiedzieć także, kto jest zdrajcą w jego własnych szeregach.

Long awaited, Dream Magic has finally been released and ends the Haven Series. Twice the length of any other story this book includes three appendices that explain and discuss the underlying world. Brand is no longer young, but he still wields a mean Axe. Myrrdin and Oberon resolve their differences as father and son at last. A new power, the most terrifying ever seen, arises and threatens all the rest. In the final war of the Jewels, every power of the Nine plays a key role. Brand’s usual allies turn against him, while former enemies become friends.

Known as the Primal Jewels, the Black, the Quicksilver, and the Sunstone have long been lost. This is the story of their return to the lands of Cymru. Many old evils stir. Four score marriages between the Fae and the River Folk result in interesting offspring that have not been seen for centuries. King Arawn of the Dead schemes to raise an army to invade the River Haven. The Kindred face a mysterious plague, Myrrdin is nowhere to be found and Oberon is up to something.

To kolejny kiepski rok Kyle'a Riggsa. Okrety nanitów maja nowa misje - ale to wyrok smierci dla pilotów. Do tego ziemski rzad zamierza skrasc technologie Sil Gwiezdnych. Co gorsza, Ziemia obiecala cos makrosom i maszyny wkrótce upomna sie o to... Wojna wsród gwiazd nie zakonczy sie szybko. I nikt nie ma pojecia, jaki bedzie jej final.