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An alien consciousness arrives in a human body, and sets events in motion that disrupt the young lives of Venessa and Dan, cousins who never got along and were just beginning to navigate the adult world beyond their traumatized homes. As they investigate the source of their problems, they discover unexpected connections to their family, and to more epic cataclysms in the past and future of both humanity and the planet Earth. This story is narrated by an ensemble of actors portraying different characters and narrative voices.

Embark on an extraordinary journey to Mars, where a team of courageous pioneers uncovers a hidden secret buried deep within the red planet's ancient soil. When a peculiar anomaly disrupts their routine, the settlers stumble upon an enigmatic structure: a relic of a lost civilization. As they venture further, they are immersed in a world of unimaginable grandeur and heartbreaking tragedy, a civilization that once thrived but ultimately succumbed to its own downfall.

Eleven years ago, Army Ranger Jason King lost his job when the aliens came to Earth and outlawed war among nations. Now he makes a fairly decent living as the top real estate broker on the planet Sylox, the capital of the Galactic Union. His clients are primarily Humans coming to the planet to work at the huge Embassy Complex, and they find Earth-like housing—along with a little taste of home—in the sprawling Enclaves of Sylox.

Lorran has wanted nothing more than to find his mate for years. Now fate unexpectedly delivers a luscious human female in the midst of a dangerous mission. His warlord says he lacks focus and discipline. He’s never been more focused in his life, but it's hard to stay on task answering a distress call when ships keep exploding. Even more troubling, his mate refuses to believe that he wants everything with her. He’ll win the female’s heart, save the day and the whole damn galaxy.

Just as Dr. Paul Hill’s quantum communication system starts receiving messages from civilizations across the galaxy, his project is abruptly defunded and shut down. Following the discovery of what appears to be unequivocal evidence to the existence of God, hidden in messages coded in the human genome, those in power believe they now hold all the answers.

Russia, 1946, the Nazis recently defeated. Stalin gathers half a dozen of the top Soviet science fiction authors in a dacha in the countryside somewhere. Convinced that the defeat of America is only a few years away, and equally convinced that the Soviet Union needs a massive external threat to hold it together, to give it purpose and direction, he tells the writers: 'I want you to concoct a story about aliens poised to invade earth... I want it to be massively detailed, and completely believable. If you need props and evidence to back it up, then we can create them."

Trapped in the hospital and cut off from the world, a mysterious voice on the radio is all they have to guide them. They're no longer on a mission to quarantine the remaining inhabitants. Instead, they have to destroy a multiplying menace that could infect the world before the Federal Government enacts a final solution.

Wenn alles, für das man gekämpft und gelitten hat, verloren scheint - lohnt es sich dann noch, an die Zukunft zu glauben? Nach den Ereignissen der ersten beiden Teile fliegt Mark mit seinem neuen Schiff zurück zur Erde, um seine Adoptiveltern zu besuchen - doch ein technischer Defekt schleudert ihn Hunderte von Jahre in die Zukunft. Dort muss er schockiert feststellen, dass nichts so ist, wie er es erhofft und erwartet hat. Die Erde ist entvölkert und unbewohnbar, und auch das Kendorianische Imperium ist zerfallen.

Following her victory against the aliens in Washington, Anya Nowicki has allied herself with the Department of Extraterrestrial Research and Defense: a newly formed organization headed by the shrewd Director MacDougal. Other hosts for the Archive, like Anya, have also joined the DERD, dedicating their time and efforts to honing their supernatural abilities and searching for whatever aliens remain on Earth. The hostile creatures known as gnosiphages have gone into hiding, but they have not remained idle. Hosts have been vanishing overnight, along with many civilians all across the globe.

Scottish psychologist Elspeth McGann thinks her patient Lester Rains—a suave, enigmatic man who claims to be have been alive for 2,000 years and to be part of a team of extraterrestrial "farmers" waiting on Earth for an alien harvest—is a delusional schizophrenic.

Web designer Sam inadvertently stumbles onto a mystery when women—expectant mothers—go missing throughout the neighborhood. Bright lights seen in the sky are the only harbingers and then they are gone without a trace. But then the danger hits too close to home when Sam's next-door neighbor is caught in the mystery. Even Sam has experienced changes connected to all the strange events. As the mystery begins to spread, Sam and his friends begin to see the pattern and the otherworldly danger posed by those responsible. But the question remains: Why is this happening?

Annie Collins emerged from the wreckage of the last invasion of Sorrow Falls with a spaceship in her garden, a loud alien idea in her head, and—because returning to college was out of the question—a lot of free time. What she chose to do with the idea, the spaceship, and all that free time, kickstarted a worldwide technological boom. Now, nine years later, it seems as if not a day passes without the announcement of a new breakthrough in something, be it quantum computing, nuclear energy, neurobiology, or some other esoteric corner of cutting-edge science.

In der Dunkelheit des äußeren Sonnensystems entdecken Forscher einen Kometen auf Kollisionskurs mit Saturn. Doch anders, als NASA-Forscherin Kath McKenzie angenommen hat, stürzt der Himmelskörper nicht in die Wolken des mächtigen Gasriesen, sondern prallt von seiner Atmosphäre ab. Kurz darauf geraten Politik und Militär in helle Aufregung, denn das, was Astronomen weltweit für einen Kometen gehalten hatten, nimmt Kurs auf die Erde.

A pregnancy that is more than what it seems, and a woman determined to find love on an alien world is more adventure than the taciturn warrior has bargained for. Barimere is all for Jacie finding a mate and getting herself out from under his nose. Except for some odd reason he'd like to tear apart any male who looks her way, and beat the living hell out of anyone who tries to hurt her.

En 2130, una nave extraterrestre, Rama, entró en nuestro sistema solar. El primer producto de una civilización extraterrestre que encontró el ser humano reveló muchas maravillas, pero con su partida, la mayoría de sus misterios permanecieron sin resolver.

In this one book, you will bare witness to men and women as they try and escape a world on a collision course with an evil threat that, in the end, destroys all life as we know it. Worlds are torn apart, and war ranges all over the globe. And the only hope for humankind to survive is the Future, a spacecraft—the first of its kind—designed to house what is left of humanity. But what lurks beyond the stars may be far more dangerous than what is happening on Earth.

Harmon Tomeral and the crew of Salvage Title embark on an exploration of an anomalous system discovered by young Bahroot. Unlike the vast majority of gated systems, this one was not on the list of coordinates publicly available on the Galactic Network.

Twenty billion people live on the Earth in a city with no end. Pollution, corruption, high unemployment, and the lack of clean water leave the population scratching out a meager existence. Easton Miller takes a chance on a job in the colonies on a new world. Expecting to find a better life he is faced with knowledge of a horrifying secret buried deep inside of him. A secret that will change the existence of mankind and the very perception of what and who we are.

Ein faszinierendes Space-Epos vom erfolgreichen Hard-SF-Autor Brandon Q. Morris. Talut Forest ist Waldarbeiter auf dem Planeten Terra Nova, wo sich das Leben in den Kronen der zwanzig Kilometer hohen Bäume abspielt. Eines Tages unterläuft Talut bei der Arbeit ein Fehler, der zu seiner Entlassung führt. Ihm bleibt keine Wahl, als sich für ein Himmelfahrtskommando einzuschreiben. Das Ziel der Mission: ein Artefakt auf der unerforschten Oberfläche zu untersuchen, wo tiefe Dunkelheit herrscht.

Lem and the rag-tag gang of galactic adventurers on the starship Teapot are set to become roadies for the galaxy’s hottest band—but an urgent call from Bexley’s family means the rock stars will have to wait. Bexley’s soon-to-be-born sibling has a big secret: wings. On planet Hwin, skeledivergence is outlawed, so the Teapot crew swoop in to help the family escape. But their planet won’t let them go that easily. Hunted across the galaxy by a fanatical and eerily familiar cop, the Teapotters must find a way to outwit their pursuer and secure a future for skeledivergent people everywhere.