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Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive - and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet.

Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.

Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations will soon be able to coexist peacefully as equals, without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But the peace has also made humanity complacent.

Civil war looms in the Bobiverse in this brand-new, epic-length adventure by Audible number one best seller Dennis E. Taylor. More than a hundred years ago, Bender set out for the stars and was never heard from again. There has been no trace of him despite numerous searches by his clone-mates. Now Bob is determined to organize an expedition to learn Bender’s fate - whatever the cost. But nothing is ever simple in the Bobiverse. Bob’s descendants are out to the 24th generation now, and replicative drift has produced individuals who can barely be considered Bobs anymore.

There's a reason We Are Legion was named Audible's Best Science Fiction Book of 2016: Its irresistibly irreverent wit! Bob Johansson has just sold his software company for a small fortune and is looking forward to a life of leisure. The first item on his to-do list: Spending his newfound windfall. On an urge to splurge, he signs up to have his head cryogenically preserved in case of death. Then he gets himself killed crossing the street. Waking up 117 years later, Bob discovers his mind has been uploaded into a sentient space probe with the ability to replicate itself.

You know that feeling when you’re at work and you’ve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot. Come for the pew-pew space battles, stay for the most relatable AI you’ll listen to this century.

Dan Davis, an electronics engineer, had finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot that could do almost anything. Wild success was within reach, but then Dan's life was ruined. In a plot to steal his business, his greedy partner and greedier fiancée tricked him into taking the "long sleep": suspended animation for 30 years.

Bob Johansson didn't believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a car accident was a shock. To add to the surprise, he is now a sentient computer and the controlling intelligence for a Von Neumann probe. Bob and his copies have been spreading out from Earth for 40 years now, looking for habitable planets. But that's the only part of the plan that's still in one piece.

1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a spate of inexplicable suicides. Wang's investigation will lead him to a mysterious online game and immerse him in a virtual world ruled by the intractable and unpredictable interaction of its three suns.

A classic thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton, Sphere is a bravura demonstration of what he does better than anyone: riveting storytelling that combines frighteningly plausible, cutting-edge science and technology with pulse-pounding action and serious chills.

All Systems Red is the tense first science fiction adventure novella in Martha Wells' series The Murderbot Diaries. For fans of Westworld, Ex Machina, Ann Leckie's Imperial Raadch series, or Iain M. Banks' Culture novels. The main character is a deadly security droid that has bucked its restrictive programming and is balanced between contemplative self-discovery and an idle instinct to kill all humans.

Karl Meier is a private in the German Army. He's been sent to occupied Greece on a secret mission in late 1944 as the Wehrmacht is withdrawing from the country. Karl has been assigned to support Professor Johannes Schmidt in the excavation of the ruins at Delphi, searching for a wunderwaffe—a wonder weapon that could help Germany win the Second World War. Deep within a cave, he finds a golden orb. On touching it, Karl connects with an alien intelligence that has sat dormant on Earth for thousands of years—the Oracle.

The Last Sentinel of Europa opens the trilogy with a summons from the outer system. When a forgotten guardian awakens near Jupiter, Commander Selene Tyros is sent to confront it, only to discover that protection has become evaluation, and survival now depends on choices humanity never consented to make. What begins as an investigation becomes a trial, where freedom itself is placed on the scales.

Patterns repeat where randomness should reign. Galaxies vanish without collapse. Forces that once held the universe together now behave as if they are remembering something they were never meant to know. When an impossible signal is detected—one that originates outside known spacetime—humanity is drawn into a confrontation with realities far larger than itself. Observation becomes participation. Survival demands choices that may permanently alter existence across worlds.

In the near future, social behavior is no longer debated, it’s modeled. Elections, markets, activism, and public opinion are shaped not by persuasion, but by vectors: coordinated micro-interventions whose individual effects are invisible, but whose aggregate direction is decisive.

Professor Challenger, der genialste und zugleich arroganteste Wissenschaftler seiner Zeit, hat einen wahnwitzigen Plan: Er will der Welt beweisen, dass die Erde ein fühlendes Lebewesen ist – ein riesiger Seeigel, der durch den Weltraum treibt. Um das zu beweisen, lässt er in Sussex einen acht Meilen tiefen Schacht graben, um den „Panzer" des Planeten zu durchstoßen und den Erdkern direkt zu reizen. Es ist ein Experiment, das die gesamte Menschheit in Gefahr bringen könnte. Werden die Warnungen der Skeptiker wahr?

In a universe gone silent, survival comes down to a single, fragile truth: air is no longer everywhere—it must be gathered, carried, and protected. When a rogue dark star tears Earth from the warmth of the Sun, the planet is plunged into eternal night. The atmosphere freezes and falls like snow, burying cities beneath layers of crystallized air. In this frozen wasteland, a small family clings to life inside a makeshift shelter they call the Nest, where fire, warmth, and carefully collected pails of oxygen mean the difference between life and death.

In a world fractured by the aftermath of The Deletion, the chasm between those connected to MindSet and those without deepens. This fractious balance shatters with the arrival of Atom, an enigmatic alien girl, triggering an event known as The Spill, that strains MindSets capabilities to its limits. Bethany Okoye and Peter Eriksson, ostracized in the wake of the extraterrestrial encounter, find themselves entangled in a complex web of deceit, paranoia and panic.

Earth is dying. As global war and runaway artificial intelligence tear civilization apart, humanity unknowingly places its final hope in Pioneer—a deep-space ark carrying five hundred sleepers toward Alpha Centauri. Commanded by General Marcus Roberson, the mission is simple in theory: survive long enough for humanity to begin again. The universe has other plans. When Pioneer is pulled significantly off course during its jump, Roberson and his executive officer, Danielle Hatch, choose to remain awake, working methodically to determine what went wrong and where they've arrived.