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Einst erschuf das Kollektiv der Syrtauker aus einer fremden Spezies Krieger, die sich auflehnten und die Macht an sich rissen. Als der neue Herrscher Jerrto erfährt, dass sein Volk von der Erde stammt, will er diese seinem Reich einverleiben. Für die jahrhundertelange Reise braucht er allerdings die Antriebstechnik der Syrtauker und lockert die Fesseln, die das Wiederauferstehen des Kollektivs verhindern sollen. Damit setzt er einen uralten Plan in Gang, der sich erst durch die neue Verbindung der Syrtauker entfaltet.

When the Box appeared in his front hallway one day, Ciáran MacCool had no idea where it came from or why it was there. It started by showing him ways that it could help him out. Then it started giving him assignments to perform. At first, they were minor… yet still clearly beneficial. Sometimes they were serious. Sometimes they were very dangerous. At least one almost got him killed. That hadn't been part of the plan, but fortune is a fickle bitch.

A corporation controls the portal that leads from Earth to the land of Lost Eden. They intend to exploit the incredible richness of that world. But there is a small team on the other side, fighting to survive against incredible odds. Nearly everything they meet tries to kill them. The members of that team have different ideas about what should happen with Lost Eden. But there is a seemingly ancient monk named Tokin who holds the secret to everything. With the portal to Earth seemingly closed, will the team be able to find a way home, or will they truly be stranded, marooned—exiled?

Dr. A Pal Chi is a mathematician sworn by oath to reveal none of his findings to anyone whomsoever. His labs at the university of Troy are the only facilities still in operation on his doomed planet. He is working on a complex formula that will change the world if he can figure it out. One of his theories removes 0 from the number-line and allows π to equal 3. His c² theory proves the infamous equation, e≠mc², allowing for safe space travel at the speed of light. So, his team builds a new mother ship capable of carrying two thousand people on an eight-and-a-half-year trip to the stars.

Doug Dawkins lives to debunk conspiracy theories, especially crackpot claims of aliens. So when his dead dad FaceTimes him (giving him crazy money and orders to cover up the truth of extraterrestrial existence), Doug is sure this is a hacker's scam and reports it to the NSA. Then government security servers melt down. NSA agents become convinced Doug and his wife are dangerous spies. But Doug is sure he'd never kill anyone or believe aliens exist. Could he be half right?

The black monolith on the moon is history—but now a near-Earth asteroid suddenly changes in an unknown and actually impossible way. Once again, a race between nations is set in motion. Will it be possible to avoid the mistakes of the first contact with the phenomenon? Or will the researchers who want to use the black monolith for their own purposes prevail—without having the slightest understanding of its true nature?

In a few years, it could be the end of human beings on Earth. The warning signs are all around us today, but few of us have realized how our lives will be changing as we come closer and closer to the END! Some believe that God will save us. Others have given up hope.

Retired Colonel Tucker Petersen is suddenly recalled to active duty and put in charge of the Salvage-5 mining/recovery mission. Tucker travels with his crew to discover what went wrong with the CSMO mining dredge at 15 Eunomia.

A human expedition to colonize another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure cupping a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths. And which, tantalizingly, is on a direct path heading toward the same system.

The eco-crash killed the oceans and dropped oxygen levels, leaving humans and rats as the only vertebrates in the wild. But people have adapted to eating crickets and breathing from a can, so life and crime continue. Ruthless planner Kalinda is tempted from her spider-hole in the desert to do the biggest bank job in history. If she's caught trying to rob Geld Island, they'll torture her to death on TV. But enough money to buy yourself a biodome in paradise is hard to resist.

The UFS Phoenix returns to Homeworld, after more than three years of searching the galaxy for a way to save humanity from the looming AI threat. Many Fleet captains are unhappy with their own command, following the massive casualties of Nia's first strike. Some say that Captain Erik Debogande is the war leader humanity truly needs. Others warn of civil war. But on Homeworld lurks an even older threat, a secret kept by Fleet Command since Homeworld's first conquest by humans. A secret that could tear Fleet, and Erik's powerful family, apart.

The situation on Earth is coming to a head; while the infestation was brutally contained in Siberia, it has spread uncontrollably in Los Angeles. Jenna wants to prevent the spore from causing even worse damage at all costs and tightens the noose around the Initiative—or is she just another pawn in the clutches of the shady organization?

In a space-faring future, janitorial engineer Casey Cassandra spends her days fixing robots on an ambassador’s spaceship. But when one of her robotic cleaning cubes happens to be in the wrong place at the right time, Casey overhears an ominous threat. Someone is plotting to kill the ambassador, and that someone is a traitor within their own fleet. Armed only with a hefty cleaning cube (named Charles) and her eccentric engineering knowledge, Casey must go against all fleet standards. She’ll have to risk her life to warn her boss that he’s in imminent danger—from his own people.

A cosmic harbinger streaks into our solar system, disrupting the very fabric of life on Earth in H.G. Wells’ haunting tale The Star. First dismissed by scientists and the public alike, a mysterious celestial body appears in the night sky and begins a relentless approach. As it grows brighter and nearer, awe gives way to terror. Natural disasters erupt. Seas rise. Cities fall. And humanity faces its own insignificance beneath the cold blaze of this alien sun.

The galaxy of Yokkun's Depth has been settled since time immemorial. There is only one frontier left, and it's a one-way journey: to pierce the skin of existence and delve the countless younger universes beneath. Running through these universes is the fabled Well, a fissure formed in the distant past into which horrors have been flung for millions of years. Amongst their number was an impossibly ancient sorcerer, cast down to the wastelands of a thousand apocalyptic worlds, never to return. Until now.

From beyond her grave, a hero's final transmission could turn the tide of a galactic war. Three years after humanity's Final Stand against the Korilian Empire, the Colonial Defense Forces have largely reclaimed the lost colonies. However, as the tide of war shifts against the Colonies again...

Most of Carmichael's population made it home, but not everyone wants to return. Both parties must start again, and life as they knew it has changed forever. Caesar and Amelia are recruited by Harrison to bridge the gap between Arcadia and Earth, while Anders is hired to rescue John and Lillian from whatever distant planet they now occupy. The journey begins at Wayward, the renamed town that Milton had once tyrannized. Milton may be a distant threat, but Duffy, wounded and outraged, still lurks in the shadows.

Their heroine, Ell Donsaii, has a nerve mutation that’s made her a genius and provided her with astonishing athletic abilities. Her intelligence has let her revolutionize our world with a number of inventions, including instantaneous communications and trans-dimensional portals that deliver fuel, water, food, energy, and people all around the solar system Antigravity is about a new invention that Ell and her husband, Shan, come up with.

The Body Electric tells the story of glorious young love, the cruelty of fate, of a psyche dealing with catastrophic loss in mystifying ways. It shows how lightning, in the form of random encounters, can strike twice, and perhaps reanimate a character who has become more lifelike than truly alive.

In a future where global tensions simmer in a never-ending Cold War, the line between human and machine begins to blur in terrifying ways. Let’s Get Together by science fiction master Isaac Asimov is a taut, cerebral thriller that explores the chilling potential of artificial intelligence and infiltration. When Elias Lynn, Chief of the Bureau of Robotics, and young Security officer Ralph Breckenridge discover that humanoid robots may have already infiltrated the United States, the stakes skyrocket.