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Audacious astronauts encounter bizarre, sometimes deadly life forms, and strange, exotic, cosmic phenomena, including miniature black holes, dense fields of interstellar plasma, powerful gravity-emitters, and spectacularly massive space-based, alien-built labyrinths. Tasked with exploring this brave new, highly dangerous world, they must also deal with their own personal triumphs and conflicts.

It was Chris Alan's very first day of seventh grade. That's hard. It's bad. No child should be asked to do such an awful thing. Humiliation, embarrassment, and social isolation await him. Then, of all days, the aliens decide to launch their conquest of Earth. So, along with Chris's preteen angst, he gets aerial bombardment, and then vicious insectile aliens pile out of their ships and start killing humans in earnest. What a rotten first day of class!

What happens when a new Keeper recruit inadvertently eliminates not only the other recruits, but all of the teachers, as well? At first, when Bax suddenly found himself transported from Earth to an organization of powerful, universe-spanning races, he was thoroughly confused. After he learned that his world was being forcefully inducted into something called the Retrogression System, which would introduce monsters to the Earth while eliminating all of the technology of the Humans living there, he understandably panicked.

I’ve made a huge mistake! When the handsome and charming alien offers to steal me away from my abusive owner, I jump at the chance for a better life. But appearances are deceiving, and now I find myself owned by a cold-blooded killer. Kean’s sinful growls and possessive words make me crave things I know I shouldn’t. But I can’t fall for the ruthless murderer who ends lives with a smile on his face. It’s wrong! I need to get away before it’s too late.

Devin moved to a small island town in Alaska for a fresh start. Now, his quiet life has turned into a fight for survival against plunging temperatures and an extraterrestrial invasion. With hostile aliens and failing technology, he must quickly learn to harness the nanotechnology he now controls to build settlements and save his adoptive hometown from the new threats.

I’m James Thorne—Level 25 Psyker Apex—and I’m bouncing back from a pretty catastrophic battle on Rithos. The thing is, I’m stranded deep within a hostile jungle crawling with things that want to eat me. I’m going to survive this jungle. I’m going to survive the Emperor. And I’m absolutely not going down quietly.

Der Wissenschaftler Jim Connolly landet im alten Rom – gefesselt, orientierungslos und auf der Suche nach einem außerirdischen Würfel, der Zeit und Raum beherrscht. Gemeinsam mit dem charismatischen Senator Marcus Dorso kämpft er um die Kontrolle über das mächtigste Objekt der Geschichte.

Bloomsbury presents Beings by Ilana Masad, read by Hayden Bishop, Renata Friedman and Jesus E. Martinez. From the celebrated author of All My Mother's Lovers, a new novel based on true events asks whether extraterrestrial life might be what ties us to one another, to history, and to reality...

Zander led his crew through the first-ever mecha tournament, sweeping the top spot in every event. That catapulted Zander, his crew, and Fractured Dreams into becoming household names on MX Hub, but it also generated some bad blood with people who didn't like the way Zander did things. It also saw the bookie, Trenton, refusing to pay them; he wasn't about to let them bankrupt him. However, Trenton made a fatal mistake when he kidnapped one of the new mecha pilots under Zander's banner, and the ensuing conflict left Trenton and his flunkies dead.

Ever want revenge so bad you'd cross the galaxy for it? U.S. Marine Jake Bayard does. After a telepathic killer executes his pregnant wife, he hunts the psycho through warp gates—straight to Atlantis. This Atlantis is an ocean world drowning in secrets. Under the waves lurk genetically altered horrors, airship-riding reptilian warriors, and relics of Nazi U-boats. Worst of all, something vast and hungry stirs in the deepest trenches—a cosmic evil the Atlanteans once sank their whole civilization to contain.

An aggressive alien race bent on conquest. A colony world targeted for its deeply buried secret. And the aging spaceship with an unprepared crew that stands in the way. Jay steals aboard the luxury warfare cruise confident he won’t get caught. But he’s not there for the fun and games.

Jack Cobb was having a bad day before everything got worse. Now he's the unwilling host to a logophile consciousness that won't shut up, the key to an alien technology he doesn't understand, and humanity's unlikely last chance against an extinction event nobody saw coming. The crystal doesn't just mark him—it marks him as essential to assembling a machine that might save what's left of civilization.

"Лунный нетопырь" — это фантастическая повесть о встрече человека с неизвестным внеземным существом. Главный герой сталкивается с таинственным и непонятным созданием, которое вызывает у него одновременно страх и сочувствие. Произведение поднимает вопросы одиночества, непонимания и ответственности человека перед тем, что ему не подвластно.

Stories are the most important thing of all because they are just about the only living thing that lasts...' At the end of the universe, a mysterious storyteller builds a campfire to draw his audience. He has gathered tales like any minstrel of old - and his specialty is tales of the Doctor. In...

Lise When I'm assigned to report on the alien bride program, I'm thrilled to get a break from the crowded city. No noisy apartment building. No synthesized food. But Mitra is nothing like I thought it would be. It's beautiful, yes, but it's also a rugged land on the border of enemy territory. It...

Subjugated by aliens, bands of people fight to survive as one young hero battles for humanity's place among the stars, in this science-fiction fantasy. On Earth, Shad Williams was a soldier in the US Army, protecting and defending his country. Now, he's a champion for Earth itself, engaging in...

When you wake up in a cage, at a slave market on an alien planet of sentient lizards, you might be forgiven for thinking "Life's a bitch and then you die", before surrendering all hope.

2060, Un'epoca d'oro. Robot intelligenti, figli della mente geniale di Elon Musk, permearono ogni aspetto della vita umana, liberando l'umanità dai lavori più faticosi e ripetitivi. Mentre l'umanità si gode il frutto del suo ingegno, l'ombra di una minaccia incombe. L'idillio sta per sgretolarsi. L'umanità, creatrice di un mondo perfetto, si ritrova a combattere per la propria sopravvivenza contro la creatura che aveva plasmato.

It can always get worse, unfortunately. Discovering an Artificial Intelligence lives in your head, strike one. Having the Artificial Intelligence explain aliens are the origin of shifters on Earth, strike two. Having it announce you are the commanding officer of the earth shifters, strike three. Deciding there is only so much one person can handle, McKenna Largo ignores the strange new voice in her head and focuses on her law enforcement career. She soon learns there are other aspects to being a shifter. Who knew cougars had such a great nose for drugs?

Things have been quiet on Neverwylde, but everyone has been busy. With a new group of research scientists sent to spend the next six months on the planet, their goal is to learn and document as much as possible to classify the alien world as a 2A planet. But things never go as planned on this still wild and unknown galactic anomaly. Dox has a one-track mind, but that’s normal for his kind. Being an isotope baby, he was specifically created to be highly intelligent, often found working on inventions, and rarely speaking beyond a couple words.