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Secrets come in all shapes and sizes Jake has left it late, and the only summer job he can find is on the remote Scottish island of Elsay. Still, that sounds fine – the work isn’t too hard, the pay’s all right, and the scenery is great. But he soon has second thoughts about staying. His...

A new collection for 2025 of classic science fiction stories from a master of the genre, including the story that inspired Steven Spielberg's blockbuster film, AI: Artificial Intelligence Hello Earth, Are You There includes twenty-seven short stories from Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author...

The Aliens by Murray Leinster is a gripping, high-stakes first-contact science fiction adventure from the golden age of the genre. Set during humanity’s expansion across the stars, the story follows the crew of the starship Niccola as they confront the mysterious and technologically advanced Plumies—an alien species whose intentions are entirely unknown. When an unexpected encounter leads to a violent misunderstanding and the two ships become physically fused together in deep space, humans and Plumies are forced into an uneasy alliance for survival.

سنة بدأت فيها الأرض تدخل كون موازي، وهبطت تلك المخلوقات ذات التكوين الآدمي في مصر، وأدخلت العالم كله إلى عصر جليدي صناعي.

Jake Fox has built a small but loyal team of heroic misfits and made powerful rivals. When Emperor Cayn Vaguar XVIII forces him into a corner, he negotiates and gets caught in a double betrayal. Can he and the newly formed Order of the Star Blade survive the rise of a new emperor?

The Arcology is a pan-galactic utopia whose people live entirely online. Tired of paradise, Praveenthi 'Prab' Saal had herself printed into the physical world of Sirajah's Reach, working as an Interlocutor—a go-between for the Arcology and the cultures it meets in flesh and blood. One evening after a call with her family, who are pressuring her to abandon her body and rejoin the Arcology, the city stops completely. Nothing electronic works anymore.

Stranded in the middle of Antarctica, Concordia Station is so far from any point of civilization that it was dubbed "White Mars." But the freezing temperatures and the prolonged isolation aren't the only problems that the crew has to face. When the research team returns with a new specimen discovered deep inside the frozen underground lake, things take a foul turn for the station members. They don't realize how intelligent this lifeform is. They don't realize how long it lay dormant, waiting to be discovered; waiting for its opportunity to leave the ice and infect the world.

Published in Galaxy Science Fiction in October 1953, The Carnivore, by G. A. Morris, is a science fiction short story that explores the impact of mass extinction on humanity. The story is set in a future where the world has been decimated by war, and the remaining human race is isolated on Earth. The narrative follows the last living human, George, as he encounters alien beings who have judged humanity as a whole and are now seeking to understand the world they inhabit. The story is prescient in its themes of survival, technology, and the consequences of human actions.

What is out there? Are we alone? There has got to be something or someone out there as we investigate the past of the ever-expanding Universe. More galaxies than you can count. Surely there is life on at least one planet, surely. But what if that extraterrestrial life is within our own solar system and they can travel here in days. Do they like what they see? Or are they afraid of us?

Deep in the icy black of the North Atlantic, a state-of-the-art submersible makes a chilling discovery—a metallic object slicing through the water with impossible speed and precision. Moments later, systems fail, lights die, and terror takes hold. On Mars, a European rover transmits the image of a stone—etched with unknown symbols—just before vanishing from the data grid. Entire neighborhoods in Nevada disappear without a trace. And in the French Alps, a champion cyclist vanishes mid-race, his GPS pinging him thousands of miles away—then gone.

À 14 h 44, une fine fissure noire apparaît dans les hauteurs. Quiconque lève les yeux est frappé de cécité — et bien pire encore s’empare de lui. En quelques secondes, des gens ordinaires deviennent sauvages, animés d’un instinct meurtrier qu’aucune raison ne peut freiner.

Joshtopia is a comedy sci-fi story about a striving young graphic designer named "Josh" who is abducted by aliens and finds that they are a lot different than what he'd expected. His world is permanently changed as ideas of creativity and being able to do what was considered Earthly impossible to him at one time. Now he finds that things are a lot different for him after the abduction event.

In 2340 the Earth is dying. The Free Bloc creates a spaceship from an asteroid with living spaces inside it to protect 3,000 handpicked humans on their journey to an exoplanet. The “ship” is powered by ion engines utilizing fuel from xenon ions produced in a nuclear reactor. This allows the ship to continuously accelerate. The constant acceleration allows the crew to experience gravity during their journey. As they leave the asteroid belt they receive a message from aliens in the Cervantes star system who call themselves “The Mothers”.

The end of the world has come. Now Wes and his bound demonesses have to figure out a way to fix it. It'll take a trip into hell and a whole lot of magical firepower to save the universe.

When aliens descend on Earth, most people panic. Mariko Waterfield sees it as a sign: time to leave North Loop Manor and start a new chapter out west. The world is changing, the future uncertain—but before she can move on, she owes her best friends one final farewell. One last perfect goodbye in the shadow of an alien invasion.

John Donovan is a Frontiersman: smuggler, pilot, and professional debtor. He'll haul anything for the right price—cargo, cattle, fugitives, even a preacher with secrets too big to pray away. When a desperate job takes him through the forbidden space of the warlike Peko, Donovan figures it's just another high-risk run. Between hostile aliens, scavenger pirates, and a haunted luxury cruiser adrift in the void, Donovan and his mismatched crew are in for the ride of their lives.

Außerirdische Raumschiffe im Anflug auf die Erde sind keine Seltenheit mehr, sondern mittlerweile eine alltägliche Realität. Die ‚Unbekannten Flugobjekte‘ der Vergangenheit wurden zu Fähren und Shuttles im Liniendienst zwischen den Planeten der UoS. Die Menschen auf der Erde haben sich bereits an den Anblick des Dockrings gewöhnt, wo die Excalibur, der neue Stolz der Whiteguards, vor Anker liegt.

A few days after the rooftop signal changed their lives, the Echo-5 crew is split, haunted by mimics and plagued by silence. When shadow versions of missing teens return changed, Ayana, Zay, and the others uncover a terrifying truth: the real enemy isn’t arriving—it’s already here.

Who would you trust with the power to alter the destiny of humanity? Devastated by the loss of his son in a remote rainforest of Indonesian Papua, Quentin Darnell now must struggle to get his wife and surviving students safely back to civilization. But surviving the trek out of the wilderness is only the first challenge, because his group now possesses an object that can create anything or do anything, for better or for worse. Can anyone be trusted with such power? If they can somehow get the object to the United States, will they be heroes—or the world’s destroyers?

A quartet of fabulous stories based on vintage comic strips from the Doctor Who Annuals, featuring the Second, Third and Fourth Doctors. In The Vampire Plants the Doctor and Jamie discover strange goings-on in a Venusian colony, where Dr Vane's space seedlings appear to be at the heart of the...