Wer träumt nicht manchmal davon, Superkräfte zu haben? Dies war auch Hopes Traum, bevor sie erwachsen wurde. Umso ironischer, dass sie durch den Ashland-Anschlag plötzlich Superkräfte entwickelt, gerade als sie ihr Studium an der Universität von Chicago beginnen will. Nachdem die Sentinels, Chicagos führendes Superhelden-Team, Hope den Decknamen "Astra" verliehen und sie eingeladen haben, sich ihnen anzuschließen, stellt sich die Frage, ob sie den Mut hat, Cape und Maske zu tragen und eine...

Who wants to be a superhero?Hope did, but she grew out of it. Which made her superhuman breakthrough in the Ashland Bombing, just before starting her freshman year at the University of Chicago, more than a little ironic. And now she has some decisions to make. Given the code-name "Astra" and invited to join the Sentinels, Chicago's premier super-team, will she take up the cape and mask and become a career superhero? Or will she get a handle on her new powers (super-strength has som...

Was ist die Belohnung für meisterhaft erledigte Arbeit? – Mehr Arbeit. Nachdem die Sentinels auch die zweite Inkarnation der Superschurken-Organisation Villains Inc. in die Flucht schlagen konnten, laufen die Dinge in der Großmetropole Chicagos relativ entspannt. Astra aka Hope Corrigan kann ein wenig durchatmen, mit ihren Freunden abhängen und wieder Uni-Kurse besuchen (ihre Dozenten hatten bereits angefangen sie für ein Gerücht zu halten). Doch sie erhält immer mehr Training und Verantwo...

Astra hat ihre Superheldinnen-Ausbildung abgeschlossen und ist nun ein waschechtes Mitglied der Chicago Sentinels. Dennoch läuft es mies: Sie leidet unter posttraumatischer Belastungsstörung und ihre Beliebtheit in der Öffentlichkeit ist auf einem Tiefpunkt. Gerade als sie glaubt, die Dinge wieder in den Griff zu bekommen, zeigt eine Serie von Ereignissen, darunter ein Banküberfall und ein entsetzlicher Mord, dass einer der unangenehmeren Teile der vom Teatime-Anarchisten prophezeiten Zuku...

Astra has returned to Chicago and the everyday life of a cape: getting kittens out of trees, training, aiding the city's emergency first-responders, training, doing public relations events, training, and the occasional superhero v. supervillain fight that threatens to level neighborhoods or at least set them on fire.Then Astra takes a hard hit during a fight and very briefly finds herself somewhere else, somewhere she's only been before in dreams and in the company of Kitsune, a sh...

Astra has become one of the most popular Sentinels in Chicago, past scandals notwithstanding, and is now the team leader of the Young Sentinels. But on their first big solo outing, the new junior Sentinels fall into a new scandal—one which could cost them the team. And Astra has a dream visit from Kitsune, the odd shapeshifter-thief who precipitated the battle between the Sentinels and Villains Inc. the year before. The dream warns of a fresh disaster, in a town Astra has never seen before...

The heroes are on vacation. Really. The wedding of Dane and Annabeth (Danabeth) is over, the team has caught their villain-of-the-month, and Hope thinks everyone deserves a break from the cycle of training and public-relations appearances. So except for Ozma and Grendel (who've decided to return to adventures in Oz) they're all enjoying the sand and the sun in Littleton, the safest secret community in the world.But then Shell vanishes—her quantum-neural link with Hope and Shelly se...

Astra was done traveling, or so she thought. Benched for physical rehab and retraining, she's in LA dating movie stars (not as fun as you might think) when the Department of Superhuman Affairs asks for help catching a superhuman serial killer. When what should be a simple job develops . . . complications, she finds herself catapulted into another reality—one with its own history and superheroes! As her teammates scramble to find out where she's gone and what's become of her, Astra embarks ...

It's been just weeks since the state funeral for the Sentinels, Atlas, Ajax, and Nimbus, lost in the Whittier Base Attack. Astra, Hope, is recovered from her own injuries. At least physically. Mentally . . . not so much, but she feels ready to actively wear the cape again. Which is good since, between the revelation of her short-lived relationship with Atlas (nine years her senior) and her virally pungent public comments on the current political debate over breakthrough registration (the N...

Astra has finished her training and is now a full-fledged Sentinel, but things are not going well. She suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and the public revelation of her relationship with Atlas has caused her popularity to nose-dive.To complicate things, the Teatime Anarchist's intervention has changed the course of events—leaving her with lots of knowledge about the way the future was before the Big One, a complete future-history that is now out of date.And just...

The reward for a job well done is another job.After the Sentinels' takedown of the second incarnation of Villains Inc., things are relatively quiet in the great metropolis of Chicago. Astra, a.k.a. Hope Corrigan, is able to breathe a little, to hang out with her friends, and even to attend classes (where her professors are starting to think she is a myth). But Blackstone is loading more training and responsibilities on her, and converging events threaten the compro...

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