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Shiny new ship? - Check. Mismatched crew? - Check. Geeky scientists? - Check. Smart-ass AI? - Check. This time they are ready...ish. Ready to get revenge for all that has been lost. Making it out alive will be tougher than they ever imagined. Will Emily ever forgive herself for the danger she's...

A Washington Post and Publishers Weekly Best SF/Fantasy/Horror Novel of 2025 Alien meets Midsommar in this chilling debut adult novel from award-winning author Andrew Joseph White about identity, survival, and transformation amidst an alien invasion in rural West Virginia. Festering masses of...

Alien meets Midsommar in this chilling debut adult novel from award-winning author Andrew Joseph White about identity, survival, and transformation amidst an alien invasion in rural West Virginia. Festering masses of worms and flies have taken root in dark corners across Appalachia. In exchange...

James Hamill has dealt with your standard issues, from bullying to love problems, but he soon meets Adlinca, an alien scientist in search of data. Thanks to her, James learns abilities he could only have dreamed of, but this new turn to his life may not be all happiness. It just may bring pain, danger, and death. James finds love, loses love, and then goes on a journey across the galaxy, traveling from world to world, meeting many different aliens. With all that is out there, who knows what he'll find? Justice? Peace? Love? Or will it all go wrong again?

Humanity is desperate, scattered amongst the stars at the mercy of the planets that will have us, but mostly we have nothing. No hope, no prospects, nothing. Poverty, crime, disease, we’re the running joke among the highly advanced alien species that surround us. We’re desperate, all of us, but we’re not entirely without worth… without use. Humans are still good for cheap labor and entertainment, oh and breeding. Human women are great for breeding. That’s where the Solar Breeding Agency comes in. For a hefty fee and a dowry paid to our families, an alien in need of a surrogate can buy us.

Nach 195 Jahren kehrt das legendäre Schlachtschiff Oberon in ein völlig verändertes Midway-System zurück. Captain Nicholas Bradley findet eine zersplitterte Menschheit vor: Die einst unter seinem Schutz vereinte Flotte ist in rivalisierende Fraktionen zerfallen, die erbittert um Macht und Ressourcen kämpfen. Als das Omega-Kollektiv zu extremen Maßnahmen greift, stehen alle vor einer Bedrohung, die ihre Konflikte in den Schatten stellt. Die Oberon muss eine Entscheidung treffen, die das Überleben der Menschheit bestimmen wird.

After a fateful expedition to Antarctica, Alexander Hawkes finds himself catapulted across the stars into a galaxy in chaos. The Emperor is assassinated. The Eternum Empire, already fading, has collapsed. But he has a starship now. And friends. Alongside a crew of unlikely allies—Ban Tarro, an honorable Barundi soldier; Diliseth, a genetically-engineered Nacendo handmaiden; and Four, a sentient AI—Alexander witnesses the brutal aftermath of imperial collapse on the planet Twilight. Driven by an innate sense of justice, Alexander proposes a radical solution.

Dr. Kelly Connolly gehört zu einem streng geheimen Team aus Wissenschaftlern, das den wichtigsten Fund in der Geschichte der Menschheit untersucht: den Enigma-Würfel, ein Artefakt von unfassbarer Macht, das sich den Fesseln von Raum und Zeit zu entziehen scheint. Kelly und der Geheimdienstler Justin Boyd werden mit Feinden konfrontiert, die alles daran setzen, den Würfel in die Finger zu bekommen. Als sich die Situation zuspitzt und ein Kampf um Leben und Tod entbrennt, entdeckt Kelly, dass der Würfel viel gefährlicher ist, als sie angenommen hat.

The 75th anniversary edition of The Martian Chronicles, a seminal work in Ray Bradbury’s career, whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time’s passage. Now in a new edition from S&S Audio! In The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, America’s preeminent storyteller...

Kilian Drake, the most renowned swordsman of a generation, has searched the galaxy for fragments of a lost star blade. Now, on a remote world called Earth, he may have found answers.

Life has been found beneath the icy shell of the moon of a gas giant orbiting a red dwarf at a distance of 11 light-years from Earth. When the crew of the original exploration mission crashes on the alien moon, a rescue ship is launched. Arriving decades later, the crew of the Kelvin finds a colony of survivors living in the labyrinth of caves beneath the surface of the moon. When people start dying, they realize they need to unravel the secrets of this alien world and the mystery of the minotaur.

In a world shattered by war, the future rests in the hands of the unlikely and the young. Aquino, a battle-scarred Terrapian warrior, finds himself on Earth, struggling with injuries and the haunting memories of his past. When he is rescued by a group of resourceful children, led by the spirited Hope, Aquino discovers that survival means more than just staying alive—it means forging new bonds and finding new reasons to fight. Hope and her companions have created a makeshift family amidst the ruins, but their fragile existence is threatened by the relentless Terrapian forces.

Journey back to a time when mankind lived on only two planets, when we knew of no other advanced species, when a brave group of engineers, miners, and other hardworking folks took a leap into the unknown. Travel with them on an amazing adventure of survival and discovery, of betrayal and love, of everything that makes us human. Follow the Monclova family through generations as they fight to bring mankind into the future we all know.

Genesis Ascending is a gripping collection of character-driven science fiction short stories that explores the rise, triumph, and tragic fall of a utopian human civilization. At humanity’s technological peak, the global AI network BABEL helps unify society, promising paradise, but when a mysterious extraterrestrial signal arrives, temptation for forbidden knowledge leads to devastating consequences.

The galaxy is in crisis, and Carrie Hatchett is the last person on Earth who should be fixing it. Carrie Hatchett is a low-achieving daydreamer. She’s been a dog walker, an ice cream seller and a birthdaygram girl—the clean kind. After providing a good home for her butt-ugly dog and crazy cat, all she wants is a proper job and to avoid being fired again. So when a strange green mist sucks her beneath her kitchen sink and a clerical error leads to an interesting professional proposal, she foolishly doesn’t refuse.

Science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape) continue the thrilling adventure of a human expedition to another star system that is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure cupping a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths. And which, tantalizingly, is on a direct path heading toward the same system the human ship is to colonize.

When the aliens evolve, so does the threat against humanity in this thrilling sequel to Scorpio that finds Alex Archer in an epic battle of survival against the odds and the alien invaders. Alex Archer is a soldier now, the only civilian survivor from Scorpio to join the NAC Defense Corps. With...

Dr. James Barron narrowly prevented a catastrophic interdimensional invasion in The Rift. But now he must deal with a myriad of threats as great as the one he overcame. Threats including growing rifts in the fabric of reality, anomalous superstorms, and conspiracies that just might span worlds...

A long era of peace and prosperity in the interstellar Commonwealth has suddenly come to an end. Four alien starships of unknown origin have attacked, without provocation, an eight-ship Peacemaker task force, utterly destroying it in six savage minutes. The authorities claim there were no survivors. But Lord Stewart Cavanaugh, a former member of Parliament, has learned through back channels that one man may have survived to be captured by the aliens: his son, Commander Pheylan Cavanaugh.

Niemand durchschaut Gins Pläne, und genau das hat ihn zu einem der erfolgreichsten Killer gemacht, den die Erde je hervorgebracht hat. Jetzt wird Kaiden herausfinden, ob seine Freunde, Lehrer und das Hilfspersonal in der Lage sind, den Killer zu stoppen und zu verhindern, dass dieser ihn hirntot zurücklässt. Manchmal kommt man nicht lebend aus dem Animus heraus.