We always thought the biggest threat to humanity would come from the outside. We were wrong. As the human race picks up the pieces of destruction left behind, a new world order emerges. New alliances are formed. Old divisions are strengthened. And, with a power struggle fuelled by the threat of mutually assured destruction, nothing is certain. At a time when the world's nations should have been coming together, they have never been more divided. With the human race teetering on the brink of total war, Rose, Vincent and Eva must choose sides. But doing the right thing might mean making the ultimate sacrifice.

Deadwood, South Daktota. Den lilla flickan Rose cyklar i kvarteren nära sitt hem när marken plötsligt försvinner under henne. Hon vaknar upp på botten av en djup grop. Väggarna runt henne glöder av mystiska inristningar. Räddningspersonalen som kikar ner i hålet möts av en chockerande syn: en liten flicka i en gigantisk hand av metall.Sjutton år senare är mysteriet med det bisarra metallföremålet ännu inte löst. Forskarnas teorier och militärens undersökningar har inte kunnat förklara det märkliga. Men vissa slutar aldrig att söka efter svar.Rose är nu en välutbildad fysiker och leder ett topphemligt team som försöker lösa gåtan med handen. De övervakas och intervjuas under arbetet av en anonym förhörsledare. Men samtidigt som forskningsteamet successivt närmar sig sanningen hopar sig frågorna: Ska handen användas för fredliga syften eller är det ett massförstörelsevapen?Finns det fler delar och vilka var egentligen här före oss?

Award-winning author Sylvain Neuvel explores an immigration dystopia in The Test Britain, the not-too-distant future. Idir is sitting the British Citizenship Test. He wants his family to belong. Twenty-five questions to determine their fate. Twenty-five chances to impress. When the test takes an unexpected and tragic turn, Idir is handed the power of life and death. How do you value a life when all you have is multiple choice?

Praise for Sleeping Giants 'This year's The Martian...if you want a captivating story with some serious sci-fi elements and dark undertones, this is it! So good and so eerie' Buzzfeed 'This stellar debut novel...masterfully blends together elements of sci-fi, political thriller and apocalyptic fiction ...so much more than the sum of its parts-a page-turner of the highest order!' Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) 'First-time novelist Sylvain Neuvel does a bold, splashy cannonball off the high dive with Sleeping Giants. It bursts at the seams with big ideas and the questions they spawn-How much human life is worth sacrificing in the pursuit of scientific progress? Can humanity be trusted with weapons of ultimate destruction? And the biggest: Are we alone? But all that really matters is that this book is a sheer blast from start to finish. I haven't had this much fun reading in ages' Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter and the bestselling 'Wayward Pines trilogy' 'As high-concept as it is, Sleeping Giants is a thriller through and through...One of the most promising series kickoffs in recent memory' NPR 'Reminiscent of The Martian and World War Z, Sleeping Giants is a luminous conspiracy yarn that shoots for (and lands among) the stars' Pierce Brown, New York Times bestselling author of Red Rising.

Som barn är Rose med om en omskakande upplevelse när marken under henne plötsligt rämnar under en cykeltur. När hon vaknar till sans ligger hon djupt nere i ett hål, omsluten av en gigantisk hand av metall. Som vuxen blir Rose forskare, besatt av att försöka lösa mysteriet med handen. När ytterligare metallföremål hittas och robotar invaderar jorden, inser man att mänskligheten står inför ett mardrömslikt scenario. Bara Rose och hennes forskningsteam kan stoppa katastrofen genom att knäcka gåtan med robotarnas avancerade teknologi. Människan besitter här det kraftfullaste vapnet: kunskap. Men kommer det att räcka? Och kommer de att hinna?

Vi trodde hela tiden att det största hotet mot mänskligheten skulle komma utifrån. Vi hade fel. Människan är sin egen största fiende.Forskaren Rose Franklin har ägnat hela sitt liv åt att förstå den mystiska händelse då hon som barn föll ner i ett slukhål och vaknade upp i en stor hand av metall. Hon har upplevt hur robotar invaderat jorden och dödat miljontals människor. Hon har blivit bortförd av robotar och tillbringat tio år i en annan värld. När hon återvänder till jorden har en ny världsordning vuxit fram med nya allianser och maktblock som bekämpar varandra.Medan mänskligheten står på randen till ett fullskaligt krig måste Rose välja sida. Men att göra det rätta, kan vara det sista hon gör.Sylvain Neuvel debuterade med Sovande jättar, den första boken av tre i den hyllade serien Themisfilerna, som följdes av Gudarna vaknar och nu avslutas med Bara människa.

Dr Rose Franklyn discovered the giant metal hand by accident. Now she must find out where it came from, who made it and what it is for. Unfortunately, her task is complicated by: The military, who are paranoid and desperate for answers. Foreign agents urgently trying to get their hands on what she knows. The obstacles the hand's mysterious makers put in her path. But most puzzling of all is the identity of the curious, nameless interrogator piecing together a story that might just take us to the stars...

When an alien vessel materialises in London, does it mean peace or war? Waking Gods is the gripping sequel to the ground-breaking thriller Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel. What's going on? Turn on the television. What channel? Any channel. An unknown vessel, not of this world, materializes in London. A colossal figure towering over the city, it makes no move. Is this a peaceful first contact or the prelude to an invasion? Every child has nightmares. But the only thing scarier than little Eva Reyes' dreams - apocalyptic visions of death and destruction - is the habit they have of coming true... Scientist Dr Rose Franklin has no memory of the last few years. The strangers she works with say she died, and was brought back to life. The question is not just how ... but why? Kara Resnik and Vincent Couture fell in love during war, and have found peace since. They are the thin line of defence against what is coming. But they do not know they have been living a lie. And a man who claims to have the answers has his own agenda. There are things he cannot say - and others he won't. All pieces of an epic puzzle. One we have been trying to solve since the dawn of time...

Imagine everything you thought you knew about human progress was wrong. What would you do? Mia is not sure what she is, but she isn't human. Smarter, stronger than her peers, all she knows are the rules: there can never be three for too long; always run, never fight. When she finds herself in Germany, 1945, she must turn the Nazi's most trusted scientist with an offer: abandon the crumbling Nazi party, escape Germany with your life, come to work for the Americans building rockets. But someone is watching her work. An enemy who's smarter, stronger, decidedly not human and prepared to do anything to retrieve something ancient that was long lost. If only she had any idea what it was...

Over 100 generations, Mia's family has shaped Earth's history to push humanity to the stars, making brutal, wrenching choices along the way. And now Mia finds herself about to help launch the first people into space. She can't take them to the stars, not quite yet. But with her adversary almost upon her, and with the future of the planet at stake it's becoming clearer that obeying the First Rule is no longer an option. For the first time since her line's first generation, Mia will have to choose to stand her ground, knowing that the overwhelming odds mean that she risks not only her bloodline, but also the future of the human race.

Germany, 1945. Mia, a nineteen-year-old girl, is sent by the OSS to find Wernher von Braun. Her mission: stop the Russians getting hold of Germany's - and the world's - foremost rocket scientist. Von Braun is suspicious. And so he should be. For Mia is no ordinary girl. She only looks human. And helping the Allies win the Second World War is only one part of her plan. Because there's an even darker conflict taking place on Earth. A secret struggle thousands of years old that has engulfed and taken generations of Mia's people. Can the firing of rockets finally bring about its end? Will Mia, as the last of her kind, bring the stars down to Earth? And if she succeeds, what will happen to us?

Stig Hansson, mest känd under pseudonymen Jules Sylvain, var Sveriges Schlagerkung nr 1 med över 800 melodier registrerade hos STIM. Hans musik omfattar filmmusik, operetter, revykupletter, lätt klassiska stycken samt många av våra mest populära allsångslåtar. Men han var inte bara kompositör, utan också något av en levnadskonstnär. En överklasspojke från Östermalm, som hela livet tog parti för den svage. Sylvains karriär omfattar fem decennier. Han samarbetade med Ernst Rolf, Karl Gerhard, Zarah Leander och många andra av den tidens stora, och han var musikchef på SF där han skrev hundratals filmmelodier. Sylvain föddes i Stockholm, men hade världen som sitt arbetsfält. Han bodde kortare och längre perioder i bland annat Wien, Berlin, Fiji, Australien, Gran Canaria, Mallorca och Toscana – och under kriget var han jordgubbsodlare i Stockholms skärgård! Denna bok, som är framtagen till 50-årsminnet av Sylvains död, beskriver hans liv och musik i stora drag. Den gör ingalunda anspråk på att vara heltäckande, men målet är att den ska ge en bra bild av människan bakom pseudonymen: barndomen, karriären, vännerna, planerna, inspirationen...

"This is not only one of the best debut books this year, but Reynard is one of the best new authors this year. 5 stars." - Donna of Offbeat Vagabond "It's not very often that I am left so affected by a book, but this one took me on a roller coaster ride of emotions ... This novel is thought provoking, entertaining and beautiful. 5 stars." - Nix of Scorching Book Reviews "This is one of the most romantic and sensual stories I have read ...the words he writes will sing to you. 5 stars." - JJ of JJ iReads "I was seduced, entranced, and completely satisfied ...The narrator, and its characters were equally charming and sinful. 5 stars." - Tigris Eden's Garden of Books. Enigmatic and sexy, Professor Gabriel Emerson is a well respected Dante specialist by day, but by night he devotes himself to an uninhibited life of pleasure. He uses his notorious good looks and sophisticated charm to gratify his every whim, but is secretly tortured by his dark past and consumed by the profound belief that he is beyond all hope of redemption. When the sweet and innocent Julia Mitchell enrolls as his graduate student, his attraction and mysterious connection to her not only jeopardizes his career, but sends him on a journey in which his past and his present collide. An intriguing and sinful exploration of seduction, forbidden love and redemption, "Gabriel's Inferno" is a captivating and wildly passionate tale of one man's escape from his own personal hell as he tries to earn the impossible...forgiveness and love.

Rymdstationen Orbital är den galaktiska konfederationens maktcentrum med 300 miljoner invånare och samtidigt en portal mot en annan rumtid. Orbital är också hemmabas för agenterna för IDB, den Interplanetariska diplomatiska byrån. En organisation med uppgift att upprätthålla freden mellan Konfederationens många hundra världar. Som första människa utses Caleb Swany till agent för IDB. En kontroversiell utnämning då en majoritet av Konfederationens medlemmar fortfarande ser jordlingarna som en underutvecklad och aggressiv art. Inför sitt första uppdrag paras han ihop med sandjarren Mezoke Izzua, representant för en värld som Jorden fram tills nyligen varit i krig med. De omaka agenternas första medlingsuppdrag för dem till en gruvkoloni på månen Senestam där en grupp jordlingar har hamnat i konflikt med ursprungsbefolkningen. Orbital är en framgångsrik och kritikerrosad fransk sf-serie, som har många gemensamma nämnare med Linda och Valentin.