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Now a series on Apple TV+ A special, beautifully designed edition of the first book in the New York Times bestselling Silo trilogy! This deluxe hardcover features fully illustrated endpapers, sprayed edges, and a poster on the inside of the jacket with a blueprint of the silo. It also includes an original essay from Hugh Howey taking readers behind-the-scenes on the set of the Silo series. The first book in the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling trilogy, Wool is the story of mankind clawing for survival. The world outside has grown toxic, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. The remnants of humanity live in an underground silo. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they want: They are allowed to go outside. After the previous sheriff leaves the silo in a terrifying ritual, Juliette, a mechanic from the down deep, is suddenly and inexplicably promoted to the head of law enforcement. With newfound power and with little regard for the customs she is supposed to abide, Juliette uncovers hints of a sinister conspiracy. Tugging this thread may uncover the truth . . . or it could kill every last human alive.

BLUE REMEMBERED EARTH is the first volume in a monumental trilogy tracing the Akinya family across more than ten thousand years of future history ... out beyond the solar system, into interstellar space and the dawn of galactic society. One hundred and fifty years from now, in a world where Africa is the dominant technological and economic power, and where crime, war, disease and poverty have been banished to history, Geoffrey Akinya wants only one thing: to be left in peace, so that he can continue his studies into the elephants of the Amboseli basin. But Geoffrey's family, the vast Akinya business empire, has other plans. After the death of Eunice, Geoffrey's grandmother, erstwhile space explorer and entrepreneur, something awkward has come to light on the Moon, and Geoffrey is tasked - well, blackmailed, really - to go up there and make sure the family's name stays suitably unblemished. But little does Geoffrey realise - or anyone else in the family, for that matter - what he's about to unravel. Eunice's ashes have already have been scattered in sight of Kilimanjaro. But the secrets she died with are about to come back out into the open, and they could change everything. Or shatter this near-utopia into shards ...

The new novel from the international bestselling author of the Wool trilogy. The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes. Here in this land of howling wind and infernal sand, four siblings find themselves scattered and lost. Palmer has never been the same since his father walked out twelve years ago. His elder sister, Vic, is trying to run away from the past; his younger brothers, Connor and Rob, are risking their lives to embrace it. His mother, left with nothing but anger, is just trying to forget. Palmer wants to prove his worth, not only to his family, but to himself. And in the barren, dune-covered landscape of his home, there is only one way to earn respect: sand-diving. Plunging deep below the desert floor in search of relics and scraps of the old world. He is about to embark on the most dangerous dive of his young life, aiming to become the first to discover the rumoured city below. Deep within the sand lies the key to bringing his family together - and tearing their world apart.

Wealth . . . or death. Those were the choices Gateway offered. Humans had discovered this artificial spaceport, full of working interstellar ships left behind by the mysterious, vanished Heechee. Their destinations are preprogrammed. They are easy to operate, but impossible to control. Some came back with discoveries which made their intrepid pilots rich; others returned with their remains barely identifiable. It was the ultimate game of Russian roulette, but in this resource-starved future there was no shortage of desperate volunteers.

Unintended Consequences Sometimes things dont work out exactly as planned. The Mesan Alignment has a planone its been working on for centuries. A plan to remake the galaxy and genetically improve the human raceitsway. Until recently, things have gone pretty much as scheduled, but then the Alignment hit a minor bump in the road called the Star Empire of Manticore. So the Alignment engineered a war between the Solarian League, the biggest and most formidable interstellar power in human history. To help push things along, the Alignment launched a devastating sneak attack which destroyed the Royal Manticoran Navys

Growing up, Travis Uriah Long yearned for order and discipline in his life... the two things his neglectful mother couldn't or wouldn't provide. So when Travis enlisted in the Royal Manticoran Navy, he thought he'd finally found the structure he'd always wanted so desperately. But life in the RMN isn't exactly what he expected.

"You know the future that people in the fifties imagined we'd have? Flying cars, food pills and moon bases? Well, it happened. And it's justas great as we hoped it would be. Except, in this world, a series of heartbreaks leaves Tom alone. So he hijacks his father's time machine, and goes back to where it all began - the moment when the world as we know it, and the world as Tom lives it, parted ways, due to a ground-breaking experiment. Only, thanks to Tom's accidental intrusion, the experiment fails and he returns 'home' to find his world erased and replaced with our own 2016 - by comparison, a chaotic mess. In our world, however, Tom discovers vastly improved versions of his family, his career, and - best of all - his soulmate, Penny. So. Should he fix the flow of history, bringing back into existence his old utopian reality, or to try to forge a new life in our messy one?"

In the aftermath of the uprising, the people of Silo 18 are coming to terms with a new order.Some embrace the change, others fear the unknown.None have control of their fate.The Silo is still in danger from those who want it destroyed.And Jules knows she must stop them.The battle for the silo has been won.The war for humanity is just beginning.

Michelle Henke, Queen Elizabeth of Manticore's first cousin, Honor Harrington's best friend, and the commanding officer of Manticore's Tenth Fleet, is just a bit surprised when a messenger arrives from the Mobius System to inform her that the Mobius Liberation Front is prepared to rise in rebellion against the hated regime President Svein Lombroso. She can understand why anyone would want to rebel against someone like Lombroso, but why tell her about it? After all, she has problems of her own, like the minor matter of a life-or-death war against the Solarian League

In a future less than fifty years away, the world is still as we know it. Time continues to tick by. The truth is that it is ticking away.A powerful few know what lies ahead.They are setting us on a path from which we can never return.A path that will lead to destruction; that will take us below ground.The history of the silo is about to be written.Our future is about to begin.

A swashbuckling, rip-roaring adventure: Pirates! Zombies! Blackbeard! Voodoo! Treasure! AND the book that inspired Pirates of the Caribbean IV: On Stranger Tides.

Decades of defending Manticore leaves Honor Harrington affecting a lot of lives--and their actions affect her as she learns when a desperate battle against "pirates" who aren't what they seem begins her brilliant career. A secret that the treecats have kept from their human friends for centuries is about to come out--and change the relationship between the two species forever.

A collection of short science fiction tales that take place in the universe of savvy starship captain Honor Harrington includes contributions by Roland Green, Linda Evans, and Jane Lindskold.

Když vypukla občanská válka, opustil kadet Scott St. Andrew Terránskou alianci, aby se připojil k vzpouře Sedmnácti světů, což ho v očích armády, která ho vycvičila, označilo jako zrádce. Tyranská Aliance si však jeho loajalitu nezasloužila. Problém spočívá v tom, že z téhož podezírá i Sedmnáct světů. A teď, když se rozpadá mimozemská genetická technologie, která ho přeměnila na smrtící stroj, musí si Scott vybrat z několika pochmurných způsobů smrti: od pomstychtivého nepřítele, jehož zradil... nebo od svého vlastního zrádného a rychle stárnoucího těla. Zbývá však dosud naděje. Pokračování knihy Kadeti ze South Pointu.

New York Times bestselling author David Weber invites David Drake and S.M. Stirling, two of today's top writers of military science fiction, to join him in an exploration of Honor Harrington's universe. Here is the first entry in the Worlds of Honor anthology series, stories set in David Weber's New York TImes best-selling Honorverse.Contents: *A Beautiful Friendship [Star Kingdom (Honor Harrington)] (1998) / novella by David Weber *A Grand Tour [Honor Harrington Universe Short Fiction] (1998) / novella by David Drake *A Whiff of Grapeshot [Honor Harrington Universe Short Fiction] (1998) / novelette by S. M. Stirling *The Universe of Honor Harrington [Honor Harrington Universe Nonfiction] (1998) • essay by David Weber .

Druhá kniha série Wing Commander. Lidská Konfederace už víc jak 30 let bojuje s Kilrathskou říší. Ztráty na životech na obou stranách jsou obrovské a bojová linie se jen posouvá nepatrně sem a tam. Kilrathti sice mají početní převahu, ale konfederace má malý náskok v technice a hlavně strategii rychlých vpádů do nitra Kilrathské říše, kde ničí zásobovací lodě a loděnice. Právě díky této strategii začínají mít lidé navrch. Pak přišlo něco co nikdo nečekal: Kilrathská říše chce uzavřít mír. Tito kočkovitým šelmám podobní mimozemšťané žijí válkou a najednou nabízejí mír? Pod tlakem unaveného civilního obyvatelstva a propagandy je mír uzavřen. Konfederace přestává být ve střehu a vojenské jednotky jsou rušeny. Někteří ale tuší. Někteří nevěří a hledají pravdu. Tajná výstavba Kilrathské flotily nových lodí bude brzy dokončena. Začíná zápas o přežití lidstva. Přeložil Jiří Engliš.

Publikace se zaměřuje na otázky spojené s využitím proudových vojenských letounů v operacích 2. světové války. Dvojice autorů (Američan a Angličan) ve své knize detailně charakterizuje technický vývoj vojenských tryskových letounů a jejich praktické využití v různých leteckých bitvách 2. světové války. Jsou zde popsány všechny nejvýznamnější typy letadel, nasazované v bojích armádami Velké Británie, Německa, USA a Japonska. Text doplňují černobílé fotografie, mnohdy vysoké dokumentární hodnoty.

At the end of World War II, Eric Brown had the extraordinary experience of testing no fewer than 55 captured individual German aircraft types. These ranged from such exotic creations as the prone-pilot Berlin B9 and Horten IV, the push-and-pull Dornier DO335 and the remarkable little Heinkel He 162 Volksjager, to the highly innovative combat types that were entering the inventory of the Luftwaffe shortly before the demise of Germany's Third Reich. Brown also interrogated many of the leading German wartime aviation personalities, such as Willy Messerschmitt, Ernst Heinkel, Kurt Tank and Hanna Reitsch. From this background knowledge of German aviation he has selected those he considers the most important, and presents detailed descriptions of their background and characteristics.

Invaze byla rychlá a nemilosrdná. Nic na světě se nemůže měřit s vyspělou technikou meziplanetárních agresorů. Po jejich prvním úderu zůstala obrana na celém světě naprosto k ničemu. Neporazitelný válečný stroj Marťanů slídí po venkově a šíří hrůzy všemi směry. Malá skupinka lidí hledá útočiště v Gelmanově sídle. Rozlehlá budova, postavená výstředním milionářem, je bizarním bludištěm a křiklavou turistickou atrakcí. Pro uprchlíky se nyní stala jedinou nadějí na přežití. Marťanská Četa smrti však lidi uvnitř rozlehlé stavby obklíčila. Do sídla se dostává místní hmyz, zvětšený díky marťanské vědě do gigantických rozměrů, a útočí na všechno, co se hýbe. Nastalá šarvátka přerůstá v děsivý boj, který určí, kdo z Gelmanova sídla odejde živý.

V lidech, kteří žili a bojovali za druhé světové války, vzbuzuje jméno Messerschmitt nepříjemné pocity a obavy. Kdo však byl Willy Messerschmitt? Čtenáři se v této knize mohou poprvé setkat s bohatým příběhem Willyho Messerschmitta, který navrhl, sestrojil a pojmenoval smrtonosné vzdušné stroje. Setkají se s příběhem průkopnického génia, jehož pokrokové myšlení, bohužel ovlivněné špatným vedením z nejvyšších míst, mohlo znamenat zcela jiný konec války nejen v Evropě. Willy Messerschmitt je kniha, která čtenáře uchvátí a představí mu život podivuhodného člověka.

Britští autoři, kteří se sami aktivně zabývají výzkumem paranormálních jevů, v této knize předkládají utříděný přehled dosud nevysvětlených či nepotvrzených fenoménů, jako jsou UFO, kruhy v obilí, pády neobvyklých předmětů z oblohy, samovznícení osob, předsmrtelné prožitky, zjevení tajemných bytostí. Předkládá souhrn faktů, teorii, pro a proti a nechává čtenáře, aby si vytvořil vlastní názor.

Ender and Valentine Wiggin: brother and sister whose lives have shaped history. Valentine is 'Demosthenes', whose subversive, incendiary writings fight the monstrous power of Starways Congress, masters of the Hundred Worlds. And Ender...As a child, Ender commanded a warfleet that wiped out a planet. The triumph of his life could be his fight to stop it happening again. It might be his tragedy that he cannot. Congress has sent a warfleet to Lusitania, home to Ender, his family, two alien species and the deadliest virus ever known. The warfleet carries an order to destroy. To commit xenocide.

V Mexiku důkazy naznačují, že Bohem stvořený vesmír již nebude dlouho existovat – to, co vnímáme, není nic než duch skutečné věci… Zdá se, že v Japonsku malý ruský chlapec ovládá duši dávno mrtvého kosmonauta… Pod vlnami zpívají velryby podivuhodné matematické písně, jež majímožnost spojit tyto dvě události…