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The bounty for bringing down a major crime syndicate may have removed Captain Evridiki “EB” Bardacki’s immediate financial needs, but no freighter captain wants to fly empty between the stars. A cargo mission to run a blockade seems within his crew’s unique mix of talents, and he agrees to supply weapons to one side of a stalemated civil war in the Estutmost star system.

Sol has disappeared. Their Earth-born wife Lumi sets out to find them but it is no simple feat: each clue uncovers another enigma. Their disappearance leads back to underground environmental groups and a web of mystery that spans the space between the planets themselves. Told through letters and extracts, the course of Lumi’s journey takes her not only from the affluent colonies of Mars to the devastated remnants of Earth, but into the hidden depths of Sol’s past and the long-forgotten secrets of her own.

Eine Urlaubsreise in das Heimatland ihrer Mutter wird für Vivien Raid zur Katastrophe. Sie gerät in die Hände einer skrupellosen Gruppierung, die das Promet-II-Mitglied auf einen todbringenden Höllentrip schickt. Ein HTO-Team aus Elitekämpfern und Freunden begibt sich auf die Suche, um Viviens Leben zu retten. Doch auf sie wartet eine schockierende Entdeckung.

In the sixth book of the Anaconda series, 10 years have passed since the 23rd-century asteroid mining ship Anaconda mysteriously appeared 400 years in the past. Aided by a library containing a detailed history of Earth’s people and natural resources, along with millions of tons of processed ore and advanced 3-D printing factories, the crew has split into factions bent on creating utopian societies on the planet they call New Earth.

The Terran Federation is finally at peace and ready to begin serious exploration. The TFS Pike is the newest ship in the fleet, purpose-built for deep space missions. Four kilometers long, with a crew of four thousand, she’s well-equipped for the years ahead. If only her crew was as prepared. Ensign Nicole Crozier, the former premier of the Luna Free State, has left politics behind to pursue a career in the Fleet. Everything changes when Nicole discovers a rogue planet. As Nicole and her team explore the interior, the planet and her team vanish.

Tim Axelrod verbringt seine Zeit in Gesellschaft ehemaliger Kollegen des Kosmodroms Plessezk, bevor er den Dienst in Kanada bei der HTO antreten will. Da erreicht ihn ein alarmierender Hilferuf. Die bunt gemischte Truppe startet zusammen mit dem HTO-Rescue-Team einen aussichtslos erscheinenden Kampf gegen Putschisten, Gardisten und eine gnadenlos ablaufende Frist.

A crescent moon set against a jeweled field of stars gracefully slid into view. The thin arc of its crater-filled landscape drew Jack’s mind in. His eyes followed the long, inky shadows cast by jagged crater walls as they cut sharply into the pockmarked ashen terrain. Deeper within the jet-black lunar night-side were the lonely peaks of a smattering of mountain tops, catching a few last rays of sunlight. All Jack felt was a desire to escape; to be down there exploring...perhaps uncovering some new detail in the history of Earth’s nearest neighbor.

Ellie Masters comes out of a coma to find herself the only inhabitant of an eerily empty moon station. She’s not on Earth any more; she’s not even in the right solar system. So when someone reaches out to her, tells her he’s her friend, she’s happy to believe it. The alternative is to be stuck alone with an enemy. Renn Sorvihn has been chasing a rogue Tecran ship for over a month. But when Renn follows the Tecran ship into an uncharted sector, and realizes the Tecran have been working their way to a secret moon base, he suddenly understands things are not as they seem.

2099. Steve Knight, Commander der Mondbasis der NASA, steht vor seiner Ablösung. Das Shuttle, das ihn nach Hause bringen soll, wartet bereits - da verschwindet die Erde vom Himmel. Weder die NASA-Crew noch die Besatzungen der anderen Mondbasen wissen, was passiert ist. Zusammen bilden sie eine vierzigköpfige Schicksalsgemeinschaft - und schnell wird klar, dass die Ressourcen nur für das Überleben von zehn Menschen reichen werden. Sie stehen vor einer schwierigen Wahl: sich gegenseitig umzubringen - oder alle gemeinsam zu sterben.

Es herrscht ein verbitterter Krieg zwischen den verfeindeten Planeten Zolaris und Vulkania. Die beiden Weltraumforscher Professor Max Browny und Dr. Lydia Parker sind gerade dabei, Symbolox, der aus unvergänglicher Ur-Materie besteht und den Zolariern gut gesinnt ist, zu besuchen und zu erforschen, als die Meldung hereinkommt, dass der böse Black Devil von Vulkania einen Flugkörper abgeschossen hat, der genau in ihre Richtung zielt. Symbolox rät den beiden Forschern schnellstmöglich das Feld zu räumen.

Dr. Lydia Parker, unteranderem eine anerkannte Weltraummedizinerin und der dreifache Nobelpreisträger Professor Browny sind die ersten, die das heimische Sonnensystem verlassen. Ihr Ziel ist es Planeten zu suchen, die die Sonne Pollux umkreisen sollen. Sie finden zwei Planeten und treffen auf Roboter, die einst von Menschen erbaut worden waren. Diese Robots, die auf noch nie dagewesene Selbstständigkeit programmiert worden waren, kämpfen gerade um die Macht.

Symbolox, ein aus unvergänglicher Ur-Materie bestehendes Roboter-Wesen hat schon unzählige Lebensformen kommen und gehen sehen. Bis auf die Fragen wann das Universum entstanden ist und bis wohin es reicht, weiß er alles. Er hat auch den Zolariern, die ein friedliches Volk sind, geholfen, als ihr Planet von dem bösen Black Devil von Vulkania beinahe völlig zerstört worden wäre. Mit einer einzigartigen List gelang es ihm, Zolaris und Vulkania zu vertauschen, sodass Black Devil tatsächlich seinen eigenen Planeten angegriffen hat und die gesamte Oberfläche vernichtet hat.

Mit seinen futuristischen Werken war der polnische Schriftsteller Stanisław Lem seiner Zeit voraus. Bereits 1964 beschrieb er mögliche Formen virtueller Realität. In Frieden auf Erden sind die Großmächte übereingekommen, ihre gesamten Waffenarsenale von der Erde auf den Mond zu verlagern. Allerdings weiß niemand auf Erden, was sich auf dem Mond wirklich abspielt, denn die "Doktrin der totalen Unkenntnis" wird strikt eingehalten. Zeit für den Weltraumreisenden Ijon Tichy als Agent der "Lunar Agency" auf dem Mond nach dem Rechten zu sehen.

A deeply corrupt and embedded ruling class, disenfranchised settlers, and embittered indentured workers–slaves in all but name—have poisoned the planet. They've unleashed the fires of class war and threatening to turn the beautiful planet into hell in the wake of Earthfall. Sinister forces are stirring the pot. Roland—once Crown Prince of Earth, now a Marine Auxiliary—was charged with building an army to stabilise New Doncaster, but it was too late. The rebels struck and the planet fell into civil war.

Entre Seul sur Mars et Dark Matter, un thriller de science-fiction inventif et trépidant, bientôt adapté au cinéma par Bong Joon-ho (Parasite) ! Mourir n'est pas une partie de plaisir... mais c'est une manière de gagner sa vie. Mickey7 est un Consommable : un employé jetable d'une expédition humaine envoyée sur Niflheim, un monde de glace, pour le coloniser. Dès qu'une mission paraît trop dangereuse - voire suicidaire -, l'équipage se tourne vers lui. À la mort d'une version, un nouveau corps est régénéré, sa mémoire pratiquement intacte.

Mit einer aufgestockten Besatzung folgt die Promet II einem geheimnisvollen Hyperfunkfeuer, von dem schon die alten Moraner zu berichten wussten. Die Spur führt in einen unbekannten Raumsektor. Dort stoßen die Pioniere von der Erde auf ein uraltes Wesen, das fähig ist, die Zeit anzuhalten.

Eine Hyperfunknachricht von Harry T. Orell droht die Besatzung der Promet II ins Verderben zu stürzen. Irgendetwas verwandelt die Raumfahrer zu willenlosen Marionetten, die sich ihrer eigenen Existenz nicht länger bewusst sind.

What happens to the would-be peacemakers when they find themselves in the middle of something else? Something dangerous, something highly advanced...and something familiar? If humanity is wise, we will prepare for everything we can imagine. But we cannot prepare for what we cannot imagine. It might be benign, it might be malign, or it might be a sign. You just have to know where to look.

Have you ever had a bad day? Sergeant Paul Mitchell had. It was the kind of bad day where nothing went right, everything that could go wrong went wrong, and everyone died. He knew that was always a possibility in the marines, but it really sucked when it happened to you: it wasn't your fault, and you still took the fall for everything. With his career dead and buried, he's forced to make it as a freelancer; a jack of all trades but a master of none. Just when he thought life couldn't get any worse a couple of stupid kids proved him wrong...again.

A chance encounter with Captain Black leads Melody Angel to uncover a plot by the Mysterons to devastate the world’s food supplies by contaminating them with a deadly new bacteria. While Destiny Symphony and Harmony pursue Black, Rhapsody is on the trail of the only man who may be able to destroy this new culture—but the Mysterons are one step ahead of her, and soon a new and even greater danger looms. As a wave of death and destruction begins sweeping across Canada all five Angels are deployed to combat the threat—but will their attempts to stop it only make things worse?

Suspended high above a dying Earth at Space Station Delta, the light ship Altares readies to launch for mankind's first intergalactic mission to the stars. Neighbouring Alpha Centauri is the destination for the crew of five comprised of the Masters and Bowen families, whose aim is to bring back hope to an overcrowded and desperate planet. But almost from the moment they launch, the crew finds itself in mortal jeopardy.

Two years have passed since comet Anduru skimmed the clouds of Saturn on its way to Earth. Kath and Nolan are looking for answers, trying to find ways to protect Earth from the possibility of an invasive alien species overrunning the planet.

Un viaggio nello spazio finisce in modo inaspettato quando il teletrasporto che dovrebbe portare l'astronauta Armelina su Europa II si guasta e la donna scopre di essere stata duplicata.

2069: Earth is dying, and society is on the brink of collapse. We are out of time to save the planet. All that’s left is to watch the world burn, but the apocalypse is about to take an unexpected twist. Alice Rice has discovered the impossible: a potentially habitable world in close proximity to Earth. The media is calling it Planet B.

From the ruins of Stonehenge to the starships of Vallon he sought the secret of a trace of memory. When the man named Legion signed on as a soldier of fortune, he did not expect to end up as the master of a private island, nor to cower in ancient druid pits, nor fight for his life in the great hall of Okk-Hamiloth on a planet galaxies away.

When the Mercenary Guild tried to bend the galaxy's deadliest assassins to their will, the Depik shocked the galaxy by choosing mass suicide to enslavement. Only those Depik not present on their home planet of Khatash survived to retreat to the shadows, to plan, to form alliances, to rebuild and look forward to the day when they could retake their home from the Veetanho invaders and exact revenge.

Simon is the best delivery boy that Mr Edwards’s restaurant has ever had. He’s on time every time, and he’s gotten nothing but good reviews. But he needs more money. His mother’s medical treatment won’t pay for itself, and his father is already working three jobs to try to make ends meet. But it might just be his lucky day: Mr. Edwards has another job for him. It’s more delivery work, but not the usual kind. You might even say that it’s out of this world. Oh well. Beggars can’t be choosers, and the pay is fantastic.

When Ben Murdock receives a text message offering a fully operational starship for sale, he’s certain it has to be a joke. Already trapped in the worst day of his life and desperate for a way out, he decides to play along. Except there is no joke. The starship is real. And Ben’s life is going to change in ways he never dreamed possible. All he has to do is sign the contract. Joined by his streetwise best friend and a bizarre tenant with an unseverable lease, he’ll soon discover that the universe is more volatile, treacherous, and awesome than he ever imagined.

For five centuries, human life has been restricted to Earth, while posthuman descendants called alloys freely explore the galaxy. But when the Earthlike planet of Meru is discovered, two unlikely companions venture forth to test the habitability of this unoccupied new world and the future of human-alloy relations. For Jayanthi, the adopted human child of alloy parents, it’s an opportunity to rectify the ancient reputation of her species as avaricious and destructive, and to give humanity a new place in the universe.

Out of the blue, a young Space Fleet officer's dream becomes reality: He's made captain of a starship. Just in time for the return of humanity's most terrible enemy, after 50 years of peace. To survive against this enemy, Captain Tad Thatcher will have to do more than learn how to become an effective commander, or how to wrangle his wayward crew. He will need to reinvent space combat. From scratch.