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When the Colonial Marines set out after their deadliest prey, the Xenomorphs, it's what Corporal Hicks calls a bug hunt - kill or be killed. Here are fifteen all-new stories of such "close encounters", written by many of today's most extraordinary authors. Set during the events of all four Alien films, sending the Marines to alien worlds, to derelict space settlements, and into the nests of the universe's most dangerous monsters, these adventures are guaranteed to send the blood racing - one way or another.

Agent Franks of the U.S. Monster Control Bureau is a man of many parts - parts from other people, that is. Franks is nearly seven feet tall and all muscle. He's nearly indestructible. Plus he’s animated by a powerful alchemical substance and inhabited by a super-intelligent spirit more ancient than humanity itself. Good thing he’s on our side. More or less.

Whether he’s underwriting for an overlord, or wearing a pocket protector in a pocket universe, Tom Stranger has just one policy: providing Quality Customer Service. No alien menace is too menacing, no galactic rift too rifty for the multiverse’s most-trusted Interdimensional Insurance Agent in these three brand-new adventures and two classic escapades.

Once a Protector enforcing the Capitol’s strict laws with an iron fist, Ashok Vadal discovers his entire life is built on lies. The ancient black steel sword chose him not for his bloodline but for his spirit, thrusting him into a destiny fraught with peril and glory. The Capitol is in chaos, teetering on the brink of collapse as the Great Extermination spreads its dark shadow across the land. The casteless, descendants of the once-great kings, are hunted to extinction. Their only hope lies in Ashok Vadal, now a fugitive, and Thera, the prophet of the forgotten gods.

On the lost colony planet of Croatoan, the job of the police force is to keep the peace, even if it means turning a blind eye to all varieties of crimes. DCI Lutero Cade knows how to play the game – but when it comes to murder, he is more than willing to rock the boat. Now, with a serial killer on the loose, Cade knows he’s about to do a whole lot of boat rocking.

The war between Almacia and the Empire of Kolakolvia is in its hundredth year. Casualties grow on both sides as the conflict leaves no corner of the world untouched. Illarion Glaskov’s quiet life on the fringes of the empire is thrown into chaos when an impossible tragedy strikes his village. When he is conscripted into the Tsarist military, he is sent to serve in The Wall - an elite regiment that pilots suits of armor made from the husks of dead golems.

The chaos god Asag has been quiet since the destruction of the City of Monsters, but Monster Hunter International know that he is still out there, somewhere - plotting, waiting for his chance to unravel reality. When Owen and the MHI team discover that one of Isaac Newton's Ward Stones is being auctioned off by Reptoids who live deep beneath Atlanta, they decide to steal the magical superweapon and use it to destroy Asag once and for all. But before the stone can be handed off, it is stolen by a mysterious thief with ties to MHI and the Vatican's Secret Guard.

When the biggest colony ship in human history was sent to settle a paradise world, an accident hurtled it deep into uncharted space. A thousand light years from Earth, with no way home and no way to call for help, the colonists’ only hope for survival was the one barely habitable planet in range, a nightmare world they named Croatoan. Landing on the only five mountain peaks tall enough to rise above the lethal acid clouds, the settlers carved a civilization from the rock.

Once, Jackson Rook was a war hero. Raised from boyhood to pilot an exosuit mech, he’d fought gallantly for the rebellion against the Collectivists. But that was a long time ago, on a world very far away. Now, Jackson Rook is a criminal, a smuggler on board the Multipurpose Supply Vehicle Tar Heel. His latest mission: steal a top-of-the-line mech called the Citadel and deliver it to the far-flung planet Swindle, a world so hostile even the air will kill you. The client: a man known only as the Warlord.

The Great Extermination has begun. In the Capitol, Grand Inquisitor Omand Vokkan hatches a plot to kill every member of the untouchable caste in all of Lok, down to the last man, woman, and child. As a member of the Order of Inquisition, Vokkan has no official say in the creation of Law, but he has powerful allies willing to do his bidding. Through them, he has convinced the Judges that the genocide will be swift, complete, and without complication. Nothing is farther from the truth.

This is the second volume collecting all of best-selling author Larry Correia's short stories, novelettes, and novellas. Correia's novels are known for their hard-hitting, no-holds-barred action sequences, in-depth worldbuilding, and vivid characterization. Now, Correia turns to the short form to deliver stories that take no prisoner.

Together for the first time, 14 action-packed tales of demons, monsters, vampires, and cosmic horrors too terrible to name - and the men and women who take them all down. Oh, and toss in an interdimensional insurance salesman for good measure.

Ashok Vidal war einst Mitglied der höchsten Kaste in ganz Lok. Als Beschützer widmete er sein Leben der Aufrechterhaltung des Gesetzes, der Ausrottung derjenigen, die noch die alten Rituale praktizierten und der schnellen Gerechtigkeit mit Angruvadal, der Klinge seiner Ahnen. Keiner war gnadenloser als er, um den anhaltenden Glauben an Götter und Dämonen unter den Kastenlosen auszumerzen. Seine Brutalität war legendär und wurde gefeiert. Aber Ashok erfährt, dass sein Leben bis zu diesem Punkt eine Lüge war. Er selbst, das Oberhaupt des Beschützerordens, ist ein Kastenloser.

When Owen Pitt and the rest of the Monster Hunter International crew are called away to mount a month’s-long rescue mission in a monster-infested nightmare dimension, Julie Shackleford - Owen’s wife and descendant of MHI founder Bubba Shackleford - is left behind. Her task: hold down the fort and take care of her new baby son Ray. The slow pace of office work and maternity leave are starting to get to her. But when a routine field call brings her face-to-face with an unspeakable evil calling itself Brother Death, she’ll get more excitement than she ever hoped for.

From the pulpy pages of Black Mask Magazine in the 1920s and '30s, through the film noir era of the 1940s, to today, noir fiction has lured many a reader and movie-goer away from the light and into the dark underbelly of society. Names such as Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and James M. Cain; titles like The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon, The Postman Always Rings Twice...these have inhabited our collective consciousness for decades. Humanity, it seems, loves the dark. And within the dark, one figure stands out: that of the femme fatale.

Ashok Vadal was once a member of the highest caste in all of Lok. As a Protector, he devoted his life to upholding the Law, rooting out those who still practiced the old ways and delivering justice with his ancestor blade Angruvadal. None was more merciless than he in stamping out the lingering belief in gods and demons among the casteless. His brutality was legendary and celebrated. But soon Ashok learned that his life to that point had been a lie. He himself, senior member of the Protector Order, was casteless. He had been nothing more than an unwitting pawn in a political game.

Monster zu jagen ist nichts für Angsthasen. Beim letzten großen Einsatz der Monster Hunter International sind zwei Agenten spurlos verschwunden. Eine Tatsache, die Owen Zastava Pitt nicht auf sich beruhen lassen will. Er beschließt eine Rettungsaktion, doch die verspricht kein Spaziergang zu werden. Denn seine Freunde sind anscheinend in einer Dimension gefangen, in der Monster und noch viel mächtigere Wesen ihr unsterbliches Dasein fristen.

Nach dem Krieg der Götter wurden die Dämonen ausgeschlossen und auf die Erde verbannt. Dort rotteten sie fast die gesamte Menschheit aus, bis die Götter den großen Helden Ramrowan schickten. Er vereinte die Stämme, brachte ihnen Magie bei und trieb die Dämonen ins Meer. Seitdem gehörte das Land den Menschen, und nur die Ozeane blieben eine unüberwindbare Hölle, die den Kontinent Lok isolierte. Eine Prophezeiung sah jedoch die Rückkehr der Dämonen voraus, die nur von den Nachkommen Ramrowans zu besiegen seien. So wurden sie die ersten Könige, und alle Menschen dienten ihnen, da sie ihre einzige Hoffnung aufs Überleben waren.

Earl Harbinger ist jahrhundertealt doch man sieht es ihm nicht an. Harbinger ist ein Werwolf und, wie die Ironie es will, Anführer und bester Jäger der Geheimorganisation Monster Hunter International. Er hat es geschafft, seinen Fluch in eine Tugend zu verwandeln, und kämpft auf der Seite der Guten. Das kann man aber leider nicht von jedem Übernatürlichen behaupten, und so steht Harbinger bald einem Werwolf gegenüber, der nur eins im Sinn hat: möglichst viele Anhänger um sich zu scharen und die Menschheit auszulöschen.

Owen Pitt liebt seinen Job. Denn was könnte schöner sein, als sich tagtäglich mit Vampiren, Werwölfen oder alten Göttern anzulegen? Leider gehört es in diesem Berufsfeld auch zum guten Ton, sich stets neue und übermächtige Feinde anzuschaffen. Diesmal bekommt es Owen mit einem Totenkult zu tun, der von einem fanatischen Nekromanten angeführt wird. Und der hat es ganz speziell auf Owen abgesehen.