Melinda M. Snodgrass Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

Thracius "Tracy" Belmanor navigates a tumultuous life marked by betrayal and disgrace after being court-martialed and ousted from the military. For fourteen years, he has carved out a precarious existence as the captain of a small trading vessel, engaging in black market dealings while evading the watchful eyes of the Solar League's elite. This journey explores themes of resilience, survival, and the moral complexities of a life lived on the fringes of society.

Exploring the concept of Thucydides Trap, the book examines the historical pattern where a rising power threatens to displace an established one, leading to inevitable conflict. It delves into the dynamics of international relations, analyzing past instances of this phenomenon and its implications for contemporary global politics. By highlighting the lessons learned from history, the author argues for strategies to avoid catastrophic wars and foster stability in an increasingly competitive world.

It's been two hundred years since the Solar League has faced an alien threat, but now one is on their doorstep, and it has fallen to the Empress Mercedes de Arango to inspire and lead her people even as the aliens rain down death on League worlds. The need for competent military officers is desperate, so Mercedes reaches out to her secret love and begs Tracy to return to active duty - even though that might risk Tracy learning the truth about the crown prince of the Solar League. In the midst of this war against outside invaders there is also a looming threat of civil war with both Mercedes' youngest sister and her son being pawns in this game of thrones. Once again it is Tracy who rescues both the sister and the son only to discover a devasting secret that will threaten the stability of the throne.

A cop on the trail of a bizarre murder uncovers a hidden conspiracy—and shocking secrets about his late father—in this original graphic novel set in George R. R. Martin’s shared-world universe, Wild Cards. In 1946, an alien virus ravaged the world, its results as random as a hand of cards. From that fateful moment to the present day, those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw an ace and receive superpowers, or draw the joker and are bizarrely mutated. Today, Aces, Jokers, and uninfected humans live in relative peace. Francis “Franny” Black is an uninfected human cop, trying to police a world filled with people with the extraordinary powers that he lacks. Newly—and some would say too suddenly—promoted to detective, he has been working out of Wild Card Central, the precinct in Jokertown where the bulk of the virus victims fell in 1946. Franny’s father was one of the heroes of the precinct, killed in the line of duty, and Franny is finding it hard to fill his dead father’s shoes. That is, until he’s given a particularly insidious case and starts uncovering long-buried secrets that his father might have died to protect. Illustrated in a gorgeous, cinematic style by Michael Komarck and Elizabeth Leggett, this unique graphic novel is a visual feast certain to delight.

An explosive new space opera from the Emmy Award-winning scriptwriter of Star Trek: The Next Generation

George R. R. Martin – der Superheld der Superhelden! Vor genau vierzig Jahren veränderte der Wild-Cards-Virus das Antlitz der Erde, schuf mächtige Asse und mutierte Joker. Grund genug für die größte Party des Jahrhunderts! Doch während sich New York auf die Feierlichkeiten vorbereitet, plant der Astronom seine Rache. Er ist eines der mächtigsten Asse der Welt, und hätten ihn nicht einige Helden aufgehalten, würde er längst die Erde beherrschen. Doch nun ist er zurück – und seine alten Widersacher ahnen noch nicht einmal etwas davon … Die vorliegende Anthologie ist bereits im Heyne Verlag erschienen unter den Titeln „Wild Cards – Wilde Joker“.

Thracius Tracy Belmanor and the Infanta Mercedes have graduated and become officers in the Orden de la Estrella. Tracy's posting leads him to doubt the intentions of the League, when he is required to assimilate a Hidden World. Meanwhile, Mercedes' own posting--and her difficult marriage to Boho Cullen-- divides her loyalties.

Emperor's daughter Mercedes is the first woman ever admitted to the High Ground, the elite training academy of the Solar League's Star Command, and she must graduate if she is to have any hope of taking the throne. Her classmate Tracy has more modest goals--to rise to the rank of captain, and win fame and honor. But a civil war is coming and the political machinations of those who yearn for power threatens the young cadets. In a time of intrigue and alien invasion, they will be tested as they never thought possible.

The final battle approaches, the light of science and reason against an ancient supernatural army poised to destroy the world. Overwhelmed after a series of catastrophic events, Richard Oort is still determined to fight the horrific Old Ones.

Richard Oort, now CEO of Lumina Enterprises, has learned that an interdimensional gate has given the terrifying and grotesquely gluttonous Old Ones access to our universe. Richard tries to get the US government to intervene before a rising tide of irrationality abetted by religious leaders and spiritual hucksters reduces humanity to madness.

Richard Oort is a cop. He's also the last Paladin: product of a genetic fluke that enables him to wield Lucifer's sword. A reluctant hero, fated to defend the world against demonic forces that threaten to plunge us into another Dark Age, he becomes a central figure in the battle between Light and Darkness. But is he strong enough?

Сорок лет минуло с тех пор, как 15 сентября 1946 года над Манхэттеном был распылен чудовищный вирус «дикой карты», навсегда изменивший ход мировой истории. Америка, принявшая на себя основной удар, пострадала больше других, но за сорок лет кое-как научилась жить со своим новым лицом и бороться с могущественными преступниками-мутантами. Таинственный Астроном мертв, его египетские масоны разгромлены, далеко в космосе приручен и направлен прочь от Земли враждебный человечеству Рой… Однако «дикие карты» есть не в одной Америке, и силы хаоса действуют не только в тени манхэттенских небоскребов и на убогих улочках Джокертауна. Кругосветное турне, предпринятое сенатором Хартманном вместе с группой тузов и джокеров, подтверждает это буквально на каждой миле.

Ein Wild Card-Mosaikroman, verfasst von Howard Waldrop, Roger Zelazny und anderen, herausgegeben von George R. R. Martin. Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg verändert ein Virus die Geschichte und führt zu "Asse" mit Superkräften und "Joker" mit deformierten Erscheinungen. Die normalen Menschen müssen lernen, mit diesen Wild Cards zu leben.

Im System Taygeta ist ein Raumschiff spurlos verschunden – verschluckt von einer Raum-Zeit-Anomalie. Dieser Riß im Universum droht das ganze Sonnensystem zu vernichten und damit auch den Planeten Taygeta V. Bewohnt wird dieser Planet von geheimnisvollen seehundähnlichen Lebewesen, die im Augenblick ihres Todes eine Kristallträne verlieren – ein begehrtes Objekt für skrupellose Jäger. Diese Taygetianer gehen nur einer einzigen Beschäftigung nach: Sie singen Tag und Nacht. Spock entdeckt Ähnlichkeiten zwischen diesem mysteriösen Gesang und der Kommunikation der Wale. Um dem Geheimnis der taygetiaischen Gesänge auf die Spur zu kommen, verpflichtet Captain Kirk einen der bekanntesten Musiker der Föderation: Guy Maslin. Gegen seinen Willen begleitet der geniale Komponist die Mannschaft der Enterprise auf ihrer Mission. Doch auch die Klingonen interessieren sich für die Vorgänge im System Taygeta. Die Übermacht ihrer Raumkreuzer ist selbst die Enterprise nicht gewachsen. Als es zum Kampf kommt, sieht Captain Kirk nur noch einen Ausweg: den Sturz in den Raum-Zeit-Riß.