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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.

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.

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.

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.

Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society's mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart from within.

The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem! Over 1 million copies of the Three-Body Problem series sold in North America PRAISE FOR THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM SERIES: “A mind-bending epic.”—The New York Times “War of the Worlds for the 21st century.”—The Wall Street...

The United States government is given a warning by the preeminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere.

Bloomsbury presents The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, read by Daniel York Loh. Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon – soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones. 1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red...

Ein revolutionärer neuer Treibstoff namens „SR" wird entwickelt, der die Luft- und Raumfahrt für immer verändern könnte. Die Entdeckung löst ein internationales Wettrennen um die Kontrolle dieser wegweisenden Technologie aus. Industrielle Spione, Regierungsagenten und Wissenschaftler kämpfen um die geheimen Formeln, während die ersten Versuche mit dem neuen Treibstoff sowohl erstaunliche Erfolge als auch unerwartete Gefahren zeigen.

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.

The rich have a problem. On a wealthy enclave island off the coast of Rhode Island, two billionaire families celebrate the wedding of the century: endless champagne, a Baccarat chandelier flown in by helicopter, the right celebrities, a former Secretary of State officiates…Then someone blows it all up.“Hello World”, KillDAO announces at sunset. A decentralized autonomous organization, powered by blockchain, funded by cryptocurrency, governed by algorithm, with one singular purpose: to crowdfund the assassination of the ultra-wealthy. The Top Ten Enemies of Humanity.

The Slipspace Chronicles: Volume 1 (Books 1 –3)A disgraced programmer. A crew of rookies. A universe that’s starting to push back. Rufus never meant to join the Federated Nations. He just ran out of options. A deadend job, a stupid mistake, and a recruitment poster promising a way out — that’s all it took to send him into the stars. Training camp gives him something he never expected: Declan. Viktor. Theo. A group of misfits who become more than friends. They become a pack.

Gaia Station is a bit different from most stations. For one thing, it is divided into countries and, where you have countries, you can have a war. Of course, a war on a space station isn’t quite the conflict you would imagine. This particular one got started over a rude remark about somebody’s hat. Given that it started for such a comical reason, it seems entirely reasonable that the crew of the Celeste might be able to help stop it. The fact that they had to enlist the help of scheming hotel keeper, a chef, and a dominatrix seems entirely appropriate under the circumstances.

Nach der Aktivierung des Rings auf Ross 128 b liegt das Schicksal der Menschheit und der Capri im Dunkeln. Ludwig Raabe und Alexa Andropov entschließen sich, Cassandra zurück zur Erde zu begleiten und sie bei ihrem verzweifelten Versuch zu unterstützen, die angestoßene Ereigniskette aufzuhalten. Doch kurz bevor sie ihre alte Heimat erreichen, erhalten sie unverhoffte Informationen, die sie von ihrem Vorhaben abbringen. Hilfe finden sie ausgerechnet auf dem Planeten, auf dem ihre jahrzehntelange Odyssee durchs All begonnen hat: Proxima Centauri b.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. We Glimpsed A Utopian Future. 2076. A world without roads. Without borders. Without limits. Brian Medlock’s invention of anti-gravity, powered by his unified Theory of Persistence, has ushered in an era of peace, prosperity, and shared purpose. Then...

The survivors of the South Pole massacre will find that getting off the Antarctic continent may cost them their lives . . . Months after the events of Symbiote, sunrise has come to the ice continent. At the coastal McMurdo Station (77 deg S), that means Winfly: an annual series of flights to lay...

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.

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.

Sci-fi's favorite antisocial AI is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is. And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good. Martha Wells' Rogue Protocol is the third in the Murderbot Diaries series, starring a humanlike android who keeps getting sucked back into adventure after adventure, though it just wants to be left alone, away from humanity and small talk.

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.