English Edition is Out!
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Amazon has released english editions of TIPPING POINT and DAS RAUSCHEN/THE NOISE
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TIPPING POINT
Stranded in orbit around a hostile planet.
With a pilot who has lost all memory.
And a mission on which humanity's survival depends.
By the mid-21st century, humanity has maneuvered itself into a hopeless situation. Despite all countermeasures, Earth's warming continues to accelerate. Venus might have undergone a similar development. Liquid water once existed on its surface as well.
The discovery of previously unknown activity on our sister planet - mysterious X-ray flashes cutting through its atmosphere and cloud cover that appears to be cooling - leads the European Space Agency to grasp at straws. ESA Chief Max Schmidt manages to convince Roscosmos to reactivate a decommissioned Russian probe in Venus orbit. But after only a short time, the aging spacecraft shuts down permanently. Was it violently destroyed? That's what a photograph suggests - one that ground control reconstructed from the last received data - showing something that shouldn't exist there at all.
Working frantically, the ESA prepares a spacecraft for its dangerous journey to Venus. The Hope's mission is a desperate gamble, starved of funding and driven by humanity's last hope. A catastrophic incident strikes during the outbound flight itself. And slowly, doubts about the expedition's true purpose begin to take hold among the astronauts – but then they make a discovery of staggering implications.
With a pilot who has lost all memory.
And a mission on which humanity's survival depends.
By the mid-21st century, humanity has maneuvered itself into a hopeless situation. Despite all countermeasures, Earth's warming continues to accelerate. Venus might have undergone a similar development. Liquid water once existed on its surface as well.
The discovery of previously unknown activity on our sister planet - mysterious X-ray flashes cutting through its atmosphere and cloud cover that appears to be cooling - leads the European Space Agency to grasp at straws. ESA Chief Max Schmidt manages to convince Roscosmos to reactivate a decommissioned Russian probe in Venus orbit. But after only a short time, the aging spacecraft shuts down permanently. Was it violently destroyed? That's what a photograph suggests - one that ground control reconstructed from the last received data - showing something that shouldn't exist there at all.
Working frantically, the ESA prepares a spacecraft for its dangerous journey to Venus. The Hope's mission is a desperate gamble, starved of funding and driven by humanity's last hope. A catastrophic incident strikes during the outbound flight itself. And slowly, doubts about the expedition's true purpose begin to take hold among the astronauts – but then they make a discovery of staggering implications.
THE NOISE
Max Schmidt, chief scientist of the European Space Agency, died in a car accident. But twelve months later, he reappeared at an abandoned station on the far side of the moon. He claimed he couldn't remember the past year. At first, nobody believed him, but a DNA analysis seemed to confirm his identity.
When an unknown object was spotted near the new Sunflower space telescope, Schmidt finally wanted to shed light on the haunting mystery of his origins. He sent the aging shuttle Antarès to recover the discovery - and thereby opened a connection to a distant civilization.
THE NOISE describes a somewhat different kind of travel between the stars - unusual, but compatible with known laws of physics.
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