What if our brains were linked? What if the knowledge and thoughts of one individual got available to a whole group? What if we finally understood each other? Wouldn't that mean peace and harmony on Planet Earth? Wouldn’t it mean that were never lonely anymore? Or could it create a power that would turn into the greatest danger to the whole world?
16-year-old Christopher runs away from an organisation called »The Field« that wants to seize world power via wireless connected brains. The Field or the Coherence is the word that the group of Upgraders use to describe the experience of being connected with each other through brain-computer interfaces (BCI in short). The term »Upgrader« is used to describe a person that has a BCI chip implanted. These Upgraders share all thoughts and emotions simultaneously; this creates the impression of not being alone any longer – of total harmony. At the same time, individuality gets lost and interactions with persons that don’t have a computer chip decline. While the hunt is on, flashbacks and dialogues reveal to the reader why Christopher is the biggest enemy to this organisation and why he is the only one who might be able to stop their evil mission.
A first-class thriller by the bestselling author Andreas Eschbach that deals with the issues of internet linking and globalization and that contemplates the question what identity and individuality mean to mankind.
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Andreas Eschbach | The Mars Project – The Distant Glow
ISBN 978-3-401-05770-5 | 304 pages | 14,95 €
The Distant Glow
The Mars Project Volume 1
In the year 2020, NASA plans to send the first manned spaceship off to Mars. Indeed, sometime in the future, humans will be able to settle on the red planet – but will they be the first ones?
When the Mars colony where they were born is to be deserted, four children fight dearly for their future on the red planet.
2086. For some thirty years now, about 300 settlers on the planet Mars – scientists, technologists and their families – have been working on researching the red planet on behalf of planet Earth. When the Mars project becomes the target of political interests, the settlers are to give up their colony and return to Earth. Yet the »Children of Mars«, Ariana, Carl, Ronny and Elinn were born and raised in the colony – they know of Earth only through school. The red planet is their home. Particularly Ellin, who, due to medical reasons would only be able to survive on Earth in a special gravity chamber, is bent on staying. She suspects that the red planet still holds many secrets which could be of immense meaning to mankind. Over and over, she comes across strangely formed minerals which she believes to be traces of a highly developed foreign intelligence. In an adventurous expedition, the children attempt to save the Mars project – and make a breathtaking discovery along the way...
Andreas Eschbach | The Mars Project – The Blue Towers
ISBN 978-3-401-05770-5 | 304 pages | 14,95 €
The Blue Towers
The Mars Project Volume 2
Elinn’s discovery of the mysterious blue towers changes everything. There’s no more talk of abandoning the Mars station, the settlement is to be expanded and scientists as well as journalists are arriving from Earth. The question of who built the blue towers gets everyone all stirred up.
Yet not all Earth inhabitants seem interested in exploring the blue towers. The »Back Home Movement«, a political movement which is gaining more and more popularity, has smuggled a saboteur to Mars who is supposed to bring all research to a stop. Ariana, Ronny, Carl and Elinn get in his way – and Urs Pigrato, the hard to judge son of the Earth governor gets involved in this difficult situation on Mars, as well...
Andreas Eschbach | The Mars Project – The Glass Caves
ISBN 978-3-401-05867-2 | 324 pages | 14,95 €
The Glass Caves
The Mars Project Volume 3
Inhabitants on Mars are in a state of restlessness – because each coming day could now bring pioneering new revelations about extraterrestrial life on the planet with it! While the secret of the blue towers is still being explored at »Lionhead«, a second expedition a thousand kilometers away is to examine the starting point of puzzling cavities in the Mars rock. Meanwhile, the children of Mars are feverishly doing secret research of their own: so far, no one else knows that the »Artifact« has begun communicating with them... And then everything happens all at once: a third tower appears! Unknown matter in the settlement gets out of control! The expedition discovers new puzzling constructions! Carl also disappears without a trace just as his father did years ago - and reappears a short time later in an incredibly unbelievable manner. What he reports goes beyond all things ever imagined!
Andreas Eschbach | The Mars Project – The Stone Shadows
ISBN 978-3-401-06060-6 | 347 pages | 14,95 €
The Stone Shadows
The Mars Project Volume 4
The Mars children stride through the passage that opened up to them in volume 3 and they find themselves on a secretive planet. The story takes a turn that none of them would have thought possible – and the puzzle around the Mars project is getting more and more twisted …
Andreas Eschbach | The Mars Project – The Sleeping Guardians
ISBN 978-3-401-06061-3 | 361 pages | 14,95 €
The Sleeping Guardians
The Mars Project Volume 5
More telling signs: The aliens Carl discovered inside the glass cave did not only leave their traces on Mars but also on the Planet Earth. They are still asleep – but what happens when they wake up? Are they friend or foe? The children from Mars will find out, revolutionizing history along the way.
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Andreas Eschbach | The Rare Gift
ISBN 978-3-401-50159-8 | 247 pages | 6,95 €
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Andreas Eschbach | The Rare Gift |
Including the short story: Gibt es Leben auf dem Mars?
ISBN 978-3-401-50353-0 | 320 pages |
9,99 €
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The Rare Gift
Mirrors burst, cars stop driving, things float through the room as if guided by invisible hands – and nearby stands a boy whose rigid gaze seems to control these eerie occurrences.
Andreas Eschbach takes readers off to the world of the supernatural. The parapsychological power: a special talent – or a dangerous weapon?
Marie actually leads a sheltered life in a townhouse at the edge of town. But then comes the day that changes her whole life. She finds a stranger in her house – a 17-year old boy who is anything but normal. Armand is an outsider. An outsider with special abilities – and he’s on the run! Marie has no other choice – she has to go along with him as his hostage. That becomes clear to her the moment Armand makes the foot of a lamp break out of sheer willpower, adding: »I can do the same thing with your head if I have to.« Armand has telekinetic powers, probably the strongest there ever were. Even the military who wants to use his talents for their own purposes has recognized that. A race against the network of secret services, time and death begins. And it doesn’t take long before Marie discovers that above all telekinetic people are human too.
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Andreas Eschbach | Perfect Copy
ISBN 978-3-401-02384-7 | 247 pages | 7,50 €
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Andreas Eschbach | Perfect Copy
ISBN 978-3-401-50316-5 | 248 pages |
6,99 €
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Perfect Copy
Clone fever has been raging for weeks in Germany: A Cuban scientist has admitted that he and a German doctor cloned a human being 16 years ago. Now the whole world is in search of the clone who has to be about Richard’s age. And Richard’s father, the head doctor of a health spa clink, knew the Cuban at the time in question. Commotion breaks out when a popular daily paper comes out with a picture of Richard and the front page headline reading: »Is he the German clone?«
Yet it’s the strange photo from his mother’s nightstand drawer that lets Richard know something isn’t right with him. An exciting hunt for the past begins which takes Richard and his girlfriend Svenja to the white-tiled laboratories of the Institute for Biotechnology in Berlin. There human embryos are kept in cooled metal containers with liquid nitrogen. And about 200 of them could be from Richard’s twin brother.
Best-selling author Andreas Eschbach has written a breathtaking thriller that will grip readers right down to the last page.
