Arachnids

The Shiva Option: Starfire, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1550min

Defeat was not an option. The war wasn't going well. The mind-numbingly alien Arachnids were an enemy whose like no civilized race had ever confronted. Like some carnivorous cancer, the "Bugs" had overrun planet after planet...and they regarded any competing sentient species as only one more protein source. They couldn't be reasoned with, or even talked to, because no one had the least idea of how to communicate with a telepathic species with no recognizable language...and whose response to any communication attempt was a missile salvo. No one knew how large their civilization - if it could be called a civilization - actually was or how it was organized, but the huge fleets they threw against their opponents suggested that it was enormous. The Grand Alliance of Humans, Orions, Ophiuchi, and Gorm, united in desperate self-defense, have been driven to the wall. Billions of their civilians have been slaughtered. Their most powerful offensive operation has ended in shattering defeat and the deaths of their most experienced and revered military commanders. The edge in technology with which they began the war is eroding out from under them, and whatever they do, the Bugs just keep coming. But the warriors of the Grand Alliance know what stands behind them, and they will surrender no more civilians to the oncoming juggernaut. They will die first...and they will also reactivate General Directive 18, however horrible it may be. Because when the only possible outcome is victory or racial extermination, only one option is acceptable. The Shiva Option. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marc Vietor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/025612/bk_adbl_025612_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Parallel Minds

Insights into the intelligence throughout the natural and technical environment, in the fabric of our devices and dwellings, in our clothes, and under our skin.Is there a way to understand the materials that surround us not as passive objects, but as other intelligences interacting with our own? In Parallel Minds, expert in materials science and nanotechnology Laura Tripaldi delivers not only detailed insights into the properties and emergent behaviors of matter as revealed by state-of-the-art chemistry, synthetic biology, and nanotech, but also a rich philosophical reflection that crosses the frontier between nature and culture, where the most cutting-edge scientific syntheses resonate with ancient myth. The result is a technomaterial bestiary full of unexpected encounters with strange minds from cobwebs to kevlar and carbon fibre, from centaurs to amoebas to arachnids, from polycephalic slime to resonating plasmons, from viruses to golems. Parallel Minds reveals the intelligence at large throughout the natural and technical environment, in the fabric of our devices and dwellings, in our clothes, and even under our skin. Full of lateral ideas and unexpected images, Tripaldi s book imbues the study and synthesis of materials with a new urgency. For not only do the materials that surround us participate actively in the construction of the world in which we live, but harnessing their ability to interact intelligently with their environment could be the key to the future of our species.

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Parallel Minds (eBook, ePUB)

Insights into the intelligence throughout the natural and technical environment, in the fabric of our devices and dwellings, in our clothes, and under our skin. Is there a way to understand the materials that surround us not as passive objects, but as other intelligences interacting with our own? In Parallel Minds, expert in materials science and nanotechnology Laura Tripaldi delivers not only detailed insights into the properties and emergent behaviors of matter as revealed by state-of-the-art chemistry, synthetic biology, and nanotech, but also a rich philosophical reflection that crosses the frontier between nature and culture, where the most cutting-edge scientific syntheses resonate with ancient myth. The result is a technomaterial bestiary full of unexpected encounters with "strange minds"-from cobwebs to kevlar and carbon fibre, from centaurs to amoebas to arachnids, from polycephalic slime to resonating plasmons, from viruses to golems. Parallel Minds reveals the intelligence at large throughout the natural and technical environment, in the fabric of our devices and dwellings, in our clothes, and even under our skin. Full of lateral ideas and unexpected images, Tripaldi's book imbues the study and synthesis of materials with a new urgency. For not only do the materials that surround us participate actively in the construction of the world in which we live, but harnessing their ability to interact intelligently with their environment could be the key to the future of our species.

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Click and Other Stories: A Short Horror Collection , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 95min

In Click and Other Stories, Alexis Radcliff spins four creepy tales of the unseen, unexplained, and gruesome things that happen on the secret edges of everyday life. Where the light brushes the darkness, the ordinary turns creepy, and reality gets a little accidental bump into the terrifying realm of the possible.... I. "Click" (Unknown, Monster, Darkness, Alone in the Wilderness) Casey Stevens is a forest ranger living in Montana - ordinary except for the fact that he's totally blind. He uses echolocation to get around, clicking with his tongue to "see" his environment and fearlessly exploring forest trails at night by himself. But when he gets a distress call and goes to investigate a strange cave in the middle of a rainstorm, he discovers why any human ought to fear the darkness, no matter who they are. II. "The Spider Wrangler" (Adventure, Arachnids, Criminals, Guns, Occult) When Doctor Albert Farraday is forced to enter an ancient, trap-filled ruin in Central America to retrieve the only thing that can save his daughter from a madman, he finds that more than just dusty spikes await him in the chittering shadows. III. "When You Least Expect It" (Supernatural, Parallel Reality, Powerless, Nameless Horror) Lucy is having an ordinary day in her empty house, but when an unexpected and terrifying guest comes sliding across the ceiling and seems to bend all laws of physics, she discovers that she's well outside the realm of the ordinary, and there's only one way to escape. IV. "Crumbs" (Vengeance, Domestic Abuse, Cannibal) Christine is forever disappointing her demanding husband in ways both large and small, and if she can't bring herself to live up to his standards, he might just leave her for good. How far will she go to keep the man she loves close at hand? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ron Welch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/049881/bk_acx0_049881_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Darkness: Darkest Nightmares, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 371min

JettFor generations, I have been the being who lurks in the dark. The one that feeds on the screams of pain and fear, cold sweats and the nightmares that I cause. I am the monster you warned your children about.No one can escape my clutches, no matter how hard they try; I show them who they truly are deep down.Centuries ago, I was possessed by a creature of whom I had no name for. I was nothing but your average human, a man who was fighting for his king and slaying many monsters in his name. The next thing I knew, I became that monstrosity that I tried to eliminate every day of my life. In the matter of hours, everything had changed drastically. I was used to fighting the dark and suddenly the dark became part of me.There is no reason for what I have become. I embrace it - embrace the hideousness of my appearance because no one is as grotesque as I.I am bitter. I don’t want to be the man who surrounds myself in a cloak of shadows, of serpents and arachnids, of smoke and ghouls. I want to return to the glory days. If only it was that simple.HavenThroughout my entire life I have felt out of place, that is until one day I discovered a place where I didn’t feel like the outcast that others made me out to be. I didn’t feel ugly, sinister, or even dark compared to those who I surrounded myself with.I was a human, or so I thought.I didn’t know that only supernaturals could gain entry into Sanctuary, not until I walked through those doors and began speaking to the others. It’s name is exactly what it is - a Sanctuary for all supernaturals and paranormals regardless of beliefs. It was the one place we could all go to that wouldn’t result in bloodshed, agony, or pain.I have been here for years, becoming friends with the owner of this place and ultimately landing myself a job as a barmaid, and having a warm place to rest my head. Still, I do not know what I am. I have talked to the others and they have to ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Logan McAllister. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/142444/bk_acx0_142444_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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