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Uncovering secrets is not always for the best. Expedition Team Alpha of the Intergalactic Exploration Force thought they were exploring the dense and beautiful jungle planet, Shrendder-X9, for solely scientific purposes. Comprised of team lead AJ O'Hara, survivalist Nor Arngaard, chemist and medic Tairn Dwaga, cartographer SP Smithe and xenozoologist Farris Nguyen-Cortez, Team Alpha is prepared for all they could encounter in the alien jungle.

Jo Martin reads a thrilling original Circuit Breaker story featuring the Fugitive Doctor. Masquerading as a resident in a luxurious space hotel, the Doctor is in fact on a dangerous mission to eliminate Kashan Akravar, a rogue weapons dealer who’s attempting to auction blueprints for the...

If you were given the power to save the world, what would you do? What would you save it from? How would you save it? I asked those questions. I was given the power to change the world. This is my story.

An ordinary exploration mission. A stellar system that should never have existed. And a survival whose price no one yet understands. When the exploration vessel Niña is sent beyond charted space, the crew expects a routine mission. Collect data. Observe. Return. But something's wrong. Instruments react incoherently. Trajectories no longer follow known laws. And a diffuse presence seems to haunt the void between stars. The crew quickly realizes they're not simply facing a natural anomaly, but the trace of an ancient technology, immense, and profoundly alien.

Une mission d’exploration ordinaire. Un système stellaire qui n’aurait jamais dû exister. Et une survie dont personne ne comprend encore le prix. Lorsque le vaisseau d’exploration Niña est envoyé au-delà de l’espace cartographié, l’équipage s’attend à une mission de routine. Collecter des données. Observer. Revenir. Mais quelque chose cloche. Les instruments réagissent de manière incohérente. Les trajectoires ne suivent plus les lois connues. Et une présence diffuse semble hanter le vide entre les étoiles.

Humanity has always searched the sky for signs of life, but beneath the science lies something more personal: the hope that, in all the cosmic dark, we are not the only ones listening. When an anomalous pattern begins threading its way through scientific data, it doesn’t announce itself as a message. It hides; inside physics, inside probability, buried in the background noise of the universe. Easy to dismiss. Easy to miss.

When NASA's Sentinel I satellite detects an impossible reflection and a mysterious signal from Shackleton Crater, the world is thrown into chaos. The discovery points to one chilling truth: an alien artifact lies hidden beneath the lunar surface—and it wants to be found. As China scrambles to exploit the revelation, a new moon race ignites, pushing humanity to the brink.

Chuck Palahniuk’s first foray into science fiction, following a young man searching through old sci-fi pulp magazines for clues to find the father who disappeared into space years ago. On Earth, a young man named Grunt is searching for his father, a writer who has seemingly vanished off the...

Rom, 208 v. Chr. – Die Asche der Ewigen Stadt verdunkelt den Himmel. Zwei Jahre nach dem ersten Kontakt scheint der Frieden trügerisch. Während Rom versucht, die Wunden der Punischen Kriege zu heilen, kehren die Fremden zurück – diesmal nicht als einzelne Beobachter, sondern übermächtig. Mit einer Feuerkraft, mit der es selbst Jupiter und Mars nicht aufnehmen können, legen sie die Foren und Tempel in Schutt und Asche. Archimedes, gezeichnet von den vergangenen Kämpfen, erkennt, dass Logik allein nicht mehr ausreicht.

A geology grad student with a spiritual bent and a mystic from the Pleistocene find a modern skeleton in ancient rock and must risk their friendship to save the world from an unexpected danger lurking within the laws of physics. Jen Hewitt, a quiet geology graduate student, doesn't actually believe in time travel. Were it possible, rocks from the age of dinosaurs should already be cluttered with artifacts from future time-tourists. Nevertheless, she proves with fellow geologist Jonathan Renner that a human skeleton encased in Pleistocene rock came from their own time.

Humanity crossed the void. The universe answered back. Aurora Protocol: Book Two - Quantum Dawn pushes the series deeper into the unknown as humanity’s first interstellar ship ventures beyond mapped space and into consequences no equation can fully predict. The Aurora I is a triumph of science...

A lonely ex-lab subject on the run... Half-human, half-Perlian Zerrick has been on the run for years, from his past, and from the scientist who held him prisoner for experimentation all his life. Even worse, he’s been wrongly branded an outlaw by the organization that held him captive. Staying...

A couple meet their doppelgangers on a hiking trail while camping and are soon tested on how well they truly know the other.

Mein Leben ist ein Scherbenhaufen. Ein engelsgleiches Wesen hat mich aus den Klauen meiner bösartigen Familie befreit–doch sie konnte nicht bei mir bleiben. Nur die Hoffnung auf ein geheimnisvolles Schicksal gab sie mir mit: Eine Aufgabe, der ich mich eines Tages stellen muss. Entwurzelt, ziellos und allein gerate ich vom Regen in die Traufe. Wieder nehmen mir brutale Männer die Kontrolle über mein Leben. Zu schwach, um aufzubegehren, bin ich kaum mehr als eine Sklavin. Als Angreifer aus dem All plötzlich über die Stadt herfallen,scheint das Ende der Welt gekommen.

There’s no chance of a quiet life when you’ve aliens in your attic. Felicity Westmacott craves solitude. But something with a hearty appetite is stalking the moor and terrifying the locals. And things going bump in the night puts paid to her equilibrium. As does the mysterious appearance of an elderly gentleman. He claims to be a time traveller. Obviously as nutty as a fruitcake, he wants her to run a creche. For baby aliens.

Unexpectedly elected Senior Councilor, Jeran Chenzira must now build a home for his new people, and prove that they can become honorable members of his society, but how can he counsel a species he barely understands, or earn their trust in only a few months?

Earth has changed while they were in space . . . but so has Anna. After centuries of survival aboard the Selene space station in the shadow of Saturn, a forgotten group of humans has evolved in ways Earth could never imagine. As communication from their home planet has been dormant for...

I thought I saw the scarred, alien warrior's heart-stars light up . . . that means he's my mate, right? Making choices has never been easy. I've been burned before. But when you're surrounded by towering, winged aliens whose hearts literally glow when they've found their 'one', the choice seems...

A NASA scientist communicates with other civilizations. Some from planets in other galaxies. Some from worlds in other universes. Hundreds of them. Some that would be friendly visitors. Some not.

For three hundred years, humanity’s greatest works of art have been on loan at the Greenwood Museum. It was finally time for them to come home...but the alien curators were disinclined to return them. Force was out of the question. Earth’s government was clear: they were not going to press the issue. So, all we had was guile and hubris to fuel our little intergalactic art heist.