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Read by Sophie Aldred (Doctor Who). ‘Thrilling, terrifying and fascinating’ Tim Peake, British ESA astronaut They looked into darkness. The darkness looked back . . . An utterly gripping story of survival and first contact on a hostile planet from Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Arthur C...

Commander Lisa Chao works in the US Navy's Strategic Planning Center in Pearl Harbor. When tensions rise with China over Taiwan, she has to unravel exactly what's happening in the Pacific and why. What she uncovers leads America to war—but not with China. Bullets and bombs are no match for an extraterrestrial warship that can fly between stars, but perhaps the answer to the coming war lies not in the present but in the past. Could Sun Tzu's The Art of War provide humanity with a fighting chance against a technologically superior alien enemy?

A week ago, the supernova Aeon detonated in the skies over Antarctica. Mass migrations of humanity and animal life began northward. Secondary bursts of ionizing radiation knocked out worldwide power grids. Global temperatures spiked. Oceans rose as seawater expanded and glaciers melted. Massive storms and acid rain scour the planet. The southern continent is literally melting under the feet of Dr. Xin Rhou as she is trapped at the South Pole, and she is perhaps the only person in the world with a full accounting of the data recorded when Aeon exploded.

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.

Comet Anduru skimmed the clouds of Saturn. Rather than being drawn into the gas giant, it skipped back out into space. With the comet heading for Jupiter, speculation is mounting it’s an alien spacecraft making its way to Earth. Lieutenant Colonel Nolan Landis and Dr. Kath McKenzie are caught between an angry public and an anxious President as they grapple with the scientific, social, and political implications of first contact.

Otherworldly yet grounded, ominous yet tender, The Asterist is a captivating first contact story that will appeal to fans of Andy Weir and John Scalzi. Dull days drift by at the dead end of the galaxy for misanthrope Bill Jeffries fulfilling his mundane duties as an Asteroid Station Commander...

Hidden powers. Mind numbing geometry. But is it reality or illusion? One year after the world's first space elevator ascent, a new megastructure is taking shape high above the equator. But for all its wonders, there's trouble brewing on this colossal ring of carbon. The people who roam its high...

An ordinary exploration mission. A stellar system that should never have existed. And a survival whose price no one yet understands. When the exploration vessel Niña is sent beyond charted space, the crew expects a routine mission. Collect data. Observe. Return. But something's wrong. Instruments react incoherently. Trajectories no longer follow known laws. And a diffuse presence seems to haunt the void between stars. The crew quickly realizes they're not simply facing a natural anomaly, but the trace of an ancient technology, immense, and profoundly alien.

Une mission d’exploration ordinaire. Un système stellaire qui n’aurait jamais dû exister. Et une survie dont personne ne comprend encore le prix. Lorsque le vaisseau d’exploration Niña est envoyé au-delà de l’espace cartographié, l’équipage s’attend à une mission de routine. Collecter des données. Observer. Revenir. Mais quelque chose cloche. Les instruments réagissent de manière incohérente. Les trajectoires ne suivent plus les lois connues. Et une présence diffuse semble hanter le vide entre les étoiles.

One family’s secret is written in stone. One man’s mission is to erase it. At eighty-one years old, Elias Thorne is done running. For decades, his family name has been tied to a buried prehistoric force hidden beneath a quiet New England valley—a sentient crystalline Lattice that feeds on human memory and genetic resonance. When a powerful global syndicate known as The Client arrives to weaponize the mountain’s mysterious energy, Elias is forced to return to the place he’s spent a lifetime trying to escape. But nothing is as he remembers. The abandoned mill now glimmers with violet glass.

USER INTERFACE Ein Roger und Isabel Technothriller von Donald Elton Krankenhäuser waren früher Orte der Heilung. Heute sind sie Systeme der Kontrolle. In User Interface liefert Arzt und Autor Donald Elton einen messerscharfen Thriller aus der Welt, die er am besten kennt: das moderne Gesundheitswesen, in dem künstliche Intelligenz, Gewinninteressen und Macht kollidieren. Dr. Roger Jackson, ein angesehener Kardiologe, hat seine Laufbahn damit verbracht, Patienten vor Bürokratie zu stellen.

ALLIANCEWhen stillness becomes a decision, movement has consequences. The Protostar was never meant to matter. A damaged ship. A fractured crew. A routine escape that should have ended quietly. Instead, it becomes the fault line in a universe built on procedure, containment, and rules that only work when no one asks what they’re protecting. Casey Malkovitch never wanted to be important. Billy Cainally just wanted to fly. Together, they discover that the systems meant to prevent catastrophe are often the ones that decide who is allowed to survive it.

Paradox: Lost in Time is a time travel adventure from 3-time Hugo-nominee John L. Flynn. Thomas Knyvett, a secret agent, is assigned to hunt down a renegade historian and members of his team, and terminate them with extreme prejudice before they change history by altering a single event in the past. He doesn’t know when and where they are, and must employ all of his training and experience as an agent to complete his mission. A major complication is a traitor at mission control who may stop him from succeeding.

Rama sat in his beach chair on Santa Monica beach after graduating from CalTech in 2019 with his MS degree in Biochemical Engineering and determined that the planet was descending into dystopia; it was time to leave. With his groundbreaking air, water, and soil molecular reconfiguration technology, he created a secret society to construct a pilot colony using only the in-situ resources of the site. The 150-person team built an above ground, under ground and underwater facility at the base of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, to prepare them for life on another planet. But, conflicts began brewing!

The shadows are rising. The alliance is breaking. High Queen Serita must rally her scattered forces as the Crown of Shadows spreads its grip across the stars. In a universe where hope itself is hunted, can the light endure? War spreads like fire across the stars. High Queen Serita Hernandez and her loyal allies are thrust into the deadliest battle yet, where shadows strike from every corner of the galaxy and enemies rise faster than friends can be found. Old loyalties fracture. New powers awaken. And every choice threatens to tip the balance between survival and ruin.

Der Hub ist die letzte Hoffnung der Menschheit. Angeleitet vom Core, einer fortschrittlichen KI, kämpfen 70.000 Menschen auf einer vom Klimakollaps verheerte Erde um die Zukunft ihrer Spezies. Der technische Spezialist Paul Wagner ist einer von ihnen. Er gehört zu den wenigen, die die Stadt verlassen, um den vorgelagerten Sicherheitsperimeter zu reparieren, ohne den der Hub den Naturgewalten schutzlos ausgeliefert wäre. Doch als er während einer Außenmission plötzlich auf eine Fremde trifft, die aus der vermeintlich lebensfeindlichen Wildnis stammt, ändert sich alles.

Grad-school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when, while measuring quantum relationships between gravity and light, his calibrator disappears - and reappears, one second later. In fact, every time Matt hits the reset button, the machine goes missing twelve...

Millicent has spent her whole life chasing answers about her parents’ deaths and the strange anomalies that have stalked her since childhood. Now, the truth finally surfaces—and it’s darker than she ever imagined. A forgotten storage locker reveals her father’s coded notebooks, warnings from another reality, and an obsidian sphere meant for her mother. Suddenly, Millicent’s past becomes the center of a multiversal war, with the Architects closing in and the Eva's calling her through fracturing dimensions.

A six-year-old girl is erased from another world and the echo won’t stop calling Millicent back. Timelines are collapsing. Reality is bleeding at the seams. And every answer demands a sacrifice. What began as astral observation becomes something far more dangerous. This is the moment Millicent stops crossing worlds… and starts changing them.

What if everything you believed about your life was a lie, hidden in plain sight? Hidden in Plain Sight by Irv Selman is a sweeping tale that blends the intrigue of NASA mystery thriller audiobooks with the raw emotion of audiobooks on personal loss and betrayal. Following the extraordinary journey of Christopher Copper, a man torn between his human upbringing and cosmic origins, the novel delivers a story that is at once thrilling, heartbreaking, and deeply hopeful.