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Im 22. Jahrhundert hat die Menschheit Raumstationen in der Unendlichkeit errichtet und erforscht das Sonnensystem - bemüht, im Weltall das zerbrechliche Gleichgewicht aufrechtzuerhalten, das auf der Erde zwischen den zwei Machtblöcken existiert: der "Union" und den "Republiken". Mark Brandis ist Testpilot für die neutrale Venus-Erde Gesellschaft für Astronautik (VEGA). Als Commander fliegt er die neuen Schiffe Hermes, Invictus und Explorator.

C'è una buona ragione se nel 2016 "Noi Siamo Infinito (Noi Siamo Bob)" è stato nominato miglior titolo di fantascienza di Audible, ed è per la sua irresistibile sagacia e i toni irriverenti. Bob Johansson ha appena guadagnato una piccola fortuna dalla vendita della sua azienda di software e non vede l'ora di godersi la sua nuova vita all'insegna dell'agio. E il primo punto della sua lista di cose da fare è proprio iniziare a sperperare quel bendidio. Trascinato dal desiderio di spendere e spandere, acconsente a far conservare criogenicamente la sua testa in caso di morte.

The last thing Steven remembers was waiting in a prison cell for the results of an appeals trial. His crime: speaking out against unfair treatment of workers. His opinion of his sentence: it's political. Next thing he wakes up on a commercial ship run by the Merlin Company, where he meets Luciane, Rollo and Jack, fellow prisoners of an inconveniently political nature, and the four will be sent down to a planet where a research team has vanished. Everything needed to survive and return is on the abandoned base, and all the company wants is to know what happened to twelve scientists.

After ten years trapped across the expanse of space, Captain Demora Kim and the crew aboard the Horizon are finally home. Only it’s not the home they know. The Cluster, formerly a peaceful cooperative between planets, is on the verge of collapse due to a civil war. A way to end the conflict may lie in the limitless energy that trapped the Horizon crew halfway across the galaxy and the engine they crafted to bring them home. But that means going back to the pocket of space they’ve only just escaped.

Commander Finch believes he has finally, and safely, returned his crew home. But a jump through the Androski wormhole takes the Omni and her crew to 1993. Fifty years before their original mission. Now Finch and the crew must navigate a past that is still behind in technology until they can safely jump again. They must do so without interfering with the past . . . and without getting caught. Time is running out and the Androski will soon close. They face not only a leap of time but faith in where they end up. The past could be just as deadly as the future.

If something seems too good to be real, you've got to get out of there. That's the rule that Page Found has always followed. She's a petty thief with no memory of her past, scrounging to survive on a backwater outpost—until she's kidnapped by one of her marks. Her kidnappers—the cruel, self-serving Zhak and the tough maverick Maelle—plan to pass Page off as a monk from an ancient, isolated planet to help them capture a treasure-filled ship.

A novelisation of the 1976 audio adventure in which the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane face an aquatic menace in the Thames Estuary.

When The Sinker was a child, her home was destroyed by The Construct, a floating machine that consumes all in its path. For half a lifetime, The Sinker has wandered the void on a quest for knowledge, for understanding and for peace. With the help of Crooked Arm – the heir to a shattered throne, who happens to possess the most powerful anomaly of all – the two of them set out on a mission to end the tyranny of The Construct forever.

Twain has made his move and the invasion has begun. As the Disciples invade many planets in several systems, Hank hopes that the united species will be able to hold out long enough for his counter-attack. The crew go on one last desperate quest to find Twain's location and discover a new way to fight back. But even if they survive, they will need all their friends and allies to bring the fight to Twain. Will Hank and the crew last long enough to stop Twain or will the Enemy AI finally take control of the universe once and for all?

The Earth Cruiser Agamemnon is destroyed in combat, and the search for answers begins. The veteran crew of Borag gets the assignment, and the race is on. Sgt. Starn of Red Company must visit the disaster site, perform a search and rescue mission, and return to Mars alive. What kind of technology could destroy an Earth warship so easily? Why is a single life-pod found floating, transponder pinging away—with no one aboard? Most important of all, what is the prowling alien super-ship going to do next?

A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary’s mission to Winter, an unknown alien world whose inhabitants can choose—and change—their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so, he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters.

Eight hundred years from now, Earth is a paradise. Humanity has faced its greatest challenges...and won. Every wish is fulfilled. Every need is met. But is that enough? Jenorden wants more, wandering the galaxy with his friends as he seeks the answer. He knows his life is missing something. But what? And when aliens from another galaxy appear, offering to answer any question and reveal any secret, are their motives sinister...…or sincere?

They say you can’t go home again… …especially if you’re the governing mind for an interstellar military starship. It's official: Sergeant Henry Morgan has now spent more time as a starship than he spent dead. His mission is more than a century old, but in some ways, he feels like it's just begun. A desperate distress call from Earth has brought him back to his old cosmic stomping grounds, for your standard save-humanity-from-extinction-by-alien-constructs operation.

אוגוסטין, אסטרונום מבריק, שקוע כל כולו בכוכבים. עשרות שנים הוא מתגורר בתחנות מבודדות לחקר החלל ומחפש עדויות לראשית היקום. כאשר מתרחש אסון עולמי, נקראים כל המדענים...

When two space travelers encounter a planet of proud warriors with a bizarre concept of honor, diplomacy takes an unexpected turn. Sheckley's signature wit and social commentary shine in this clever exploration of alien values and human folly.

Youth by Isaac Asimov is a clever and heartwarming science fiction short story that captures the boundless imagination of childhood against the backdrop of an alien encounter.

Nineteen-year-old Kitra Yilmaz dreams of traveling the galaxy like her mother. But soaring in her glider is the closest she can get to touching the stars—until she stakes her inheritance on a salvage Navy spaceship. On its shakedown cruise, Kitra's ship plunges into hyperspace, stranding her crew light years away. Tensions rise between Kitra and her shipmates: the handsome programmer, Fareedh; Marta, biologist and Kitra's ex-girlfriend; Peter, the panicking engineer, and the odd alien navigator, Pinky. Now, running low on air and food, it'll take all of them working together to get back home.

Die Sonde New Horizons verschwindet auf der Höhe des Zwergplaneten Pluto am Rande des Sonnensystems spurlos. 2037 die Sonde New Horizons II erreicht den Pluto und geht ebenfalls auf mysteriöse Weise verloren. Zuvor sendet sie bestürzende Bilder von Resten einer außerirdischen Zivilisation auf dem Zwergplaneten zur Erde. Die bemannte Mission New Horizons III startet zum Pluto. Sie soll das Schicksal der Sonden aufklären und nach Spuren der Außerirdischen suchen. Doch die Astronauten stoßen auf ein uraltes kosmisches Grauen.

Jake Halloran never asked to become part of the Multiverse’s struggle. After falling into a sinkhole that turned out to be a cosmic portal, Jake finds himself thrust into a series of brutal trials designed to test his survival skills. But when he chooses the Path of Shadows—an ancient, living force of untamed power—he becomes more than just a survivor. Marked by the shadows, Jake now wields a power feared by the Gatekeepers, the guardians of the Multiverse’s fragile balance. The Gatekeepers, who once tested him, now hunt him, seeing his new abilities as a threat to the very order they protect.

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.