Diese Serie entführt Sie in die dunkle Zukunft, in der die Menschheit inmitten der Trümmer einst mächtiger Zivilisationen überlebt. Begleiten Sie eine wagemutige Crew von Weltraum-Piraten auf der Suche nach vergessenen Technologien und verlorenen Schätzen. Die Geschichten sind voller Gefahren, Heldentum und unerbittlicher Rache, die sich im zerfallenden Sonnensystem abspielen.
Die Galaxis hat riesige Imperien aufsteigen und fallen sehen. Jetzt hat sich die menschliche Zivilisation verstreut, und es gibt überall verborgene Schätze zu finden. Wenn man weiß, wo man suchen muss – wie Captain Rackamore und seine Crew. Der nächste Auftrag jedoch könnte sich für die Raumpiraten nicht nur als höchst lukrativ, sondern auch als äußerst tödlich erweisen …
'A swashbuckling thriller - Pirates of the Caribbean meets Firefly - that nevertheless combines the author's trademark hard SF with effective, coming-of-age characterisation' GUARDIAN 'A blindingly clever imagining of our solar system in the far flung future' SUN Returning to the universe of Revenger, award-winning author Alastair Reynolds delivers another thrilling tale set among the stars. Two sisters ran away from home to join the crew of a spaceship. They took on pirates, faced down monsters and survived massacres . . . and now they're in charge. Captaining a fearsome ship of their own, adventures are theirs for the taking - and there's hoards to loot and treasures to find in the darkest reaches of space. But the rules are also more relaxed out on the fringes, as they're about to discover . . . 'A rollicking adventure yarn with action, abduction, fights, properly scary hazards, very grisly torture and even ghosts of a sort' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'By far the most enjoyable book Reynolds has ever written' SFX
Return to the third book in the Revenger Trilogy, for another thrilling tale of set among the stars . . . Quoins are accepted currency throughout the thousands of worlds of the Congregation. Ancient, and of unknown origin and purpose, people have traded with them, fought for them, and stolen quoin hordes from booby-trapped caches at risk to life and limb throughout the Thirteen Occupations. Only now it's becoming clear they have another purpose . . . as do the bankers who've been collecting them. The Occupations themselves are another puzzle. The rise and fall of civilisation may have been unevenly spaced across history, but there is also a pattern. Could something be sparking the Occupations - or ending them? And if so, what could it be, lurking far beyond the outermost worlds of the Congregation? The Ness sisters are being hunted for crimes they didn't commit by a fleet whose crimes are worse than their own. If they're to survive, and stay one step ahead of their pursuers - if they're to answer the questions which have plagued them - it's going to require every dirty, piratical trick in the book...