Space Exploration

With the Stillness and their Wulgor allies growing in power, Van and the Fist of Orion reach a crossroads of epic proportions. Who will lead the charge for justice? Will it be Van and his friends, or will the former GKU demand a seat at the table in a universe where nothing is ever settled, and old grudges don't die—they just linger? Old problems require new solutions, and Van sees the need for soldiers as an opportunity. From the growing ranks of the Shrikes, elite young leaders emerge, ready to answer the call when the Fist of Orion decides that sometimes, the best defense is a good offense.

Jack Schafer followed his greatest enemy through a wormhole—and stranded himself on the wrong side of the galaxy. Lost on a brutal alien world of dinosaurs, rebels, and empires built on stolen god-tech, Jack is cut off from Earth, from his allies, and from the woman he loves. But survival is...

Before the enemy struck at Midway Station, Jim Garrett had never captained an active warship. Unexpectedly thrust into command, he now leads the most powerful task force in the Confederation. As a deadly new mission approaches, Garrett knows every decision he makes could save billions of lives. Or end them in an instant. Deep in enemy space lies a star system like no other. A hive of factories and construction platforms, it exists for a single purpose—to build the fleets sent to break and enslave humanity.

He'd been a Guild Peacemaker, once. But he lost his badge, his family, even his home, to a few bad decisions. Now he works as muscle for one of the planet's more wretched crime lords. Even at rock bottom, Gaelin still believes in honor and protecting the innocent. But in those low circles, being a man of integrity just means absorbing more lumps than he dishes out. A mysterious figure from his past appears out of the shadows. The Peacemaker Guild that once cast him down now needs his help. But help with what?

The wrong guy just got the right AI. In a society where every citizen is given an AI at birth, Cal Bennett is one of the rare few who doesn't have one. These AIs can do all sorts of things, depending on how expensive they are, so the rich have the best and the poor have the worst. Cal never...

Dan Starkey reads this original adventure for the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory. “Hello, I’m the Doctor… Doctor someone… can’t remember who at the moment. Hoping it will come back to me.” On a planet with twin suns, three people wake in the shadow of a crashed spaceship. They don’t...

Reissued after seventy-five years out of print—and in hardcover for the first time in a generation—David Starr, Space Ranger is the first book in the Lucky Starr series written by the legendary Isaac Asimov, author of Foundation, the Galactic Empire series, and I, Robot. Conway could...

After thirty-three years of peace, the millennia-spanning House War reignites with brutal force. The galaxy trembles as the Corvad House, a dynasty once thought vanquished, emerges from the shadows with a vengeance. In a precarious alliance with the Colonial Council, the Corvad goal is the complete obliteration of the Nexus House, the guardians who have steered humanity through its darkest epochs.

Decidido a evitar la extinción de la humanidad, David Fernández se adentra en regiones de nuestra galaxia donde el asombro y el terror se confunden. Allí descubre a aliados impensados, enemigos capaces de destruir civilizaciones enteras, así como un propósito cósmico que desafía todo lo que creemos sobre la vida y su origen.

Some marriages start with a loving "I do." Theirs starts with a lie. When human Kleena is snatched off the streets of Jorvla and thrust into an auction, she expects to find herself at the mercy of her buyer, not rescued by a Naga prince—even if he is a warrior haunted by the ghosts of his own...

Bryan Norton's adventure continues as an attempt on his life prompts the crew of Independence to search the universe for a hidden adversary, one intent on their destruction. An unexpected appearance leaves Bryan at odds with his female companions as a new alien female captures his attention, and...

On the far edge of the Steele Empire, law and order doesn’t come with backup. It comes with a badge, a ship, and a Frontier Ranger willing to fly into trouble. Cole Butler is one of the best. A seasoned Ranger with a reputation for doing the job alone, he’s spent years keeping peace in the dangerous systems beyond the Empire’s reach. But when the Ranger Corps assigns him a new partner, his solitary way of doing the job comes to an abrupt end.

A Most Anticipated Book of 2026 Transfer Orbit CrimeReads The Bookseller A Memory Called Empire meets Children of Time in this Arabfuturist debut set on a generation ship on the brink of revolution as its crew begin to ask why they should toil for a people, and an empire, none of them...

WE THOUGHT THEY WERE HARMLESS. WE WERE WRONG. When journalist Stacy Sterling arrives at Collins Space Station to report on the mysterious abandonment of humanity's farthest outpost in the Asteroid Belt, she learns the real story: the imminent launch of the Solar System's first starship. But this starship was not built by humans. It was built by Inorganics, rogue artificial intelligences who take resources without regard to the cost in lives. Officials claim the Inorganics pose no threat, but Stacy, who lost her father to the machines, knows they're capable of great harm.

Aurora I undergoes a transformation as momentous as any leap to the stars. The battered Gravitomagnetic Field Generator, source of so many sleepless nights and fractured ribs, is stripped from the ship. In its place, Silicate bio-crystal gravity plates are installed, their alien pulse promising...

2227, Système solaire. Alors qu’il effectue une mission à bord de son W-Orca, Adam gravite trop près d’un trou noir et se retrouve propulsé dans le futur. La Terre qu’il découvre n’a plus rien à voir avec celle qu’il a connue. Des humains au bord de l’extinction, un Esprit...

Experience the dark sci-fi horror thriller of The Bones of Night in this unabridged dramatic narration by the author, K.R. Stevens. Hear the story of the characters directly in this audiobook with cassette tape-inspired audio mastering to immerse you in the crunchy Cassette Futurist aesthetic that The Bones of Night is all about. The Prospector returned much too early. And the entire crew was gone. Their logs should explain why. But with the ship’s computer so damaged, only a few remain salvageable.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Indigo Protocol continues the unfolding mystery behind the reality Alex has begun to question.After the events of the first book, fragments of hidden systems begin to surface.Strange signals.Unexplainable memories.A growing awareness that the world...

From Korean science fiction author Kim Cho-yeop, a stunning and poignant collection of literary speculative fiction stories that explore the complexities of identity, love, death, and the search for life’s meaning, perfect for fans of Exhalation and The Paper Menagerie. In If We Cannot Go at...

2198. Mit Hilfe der Eldridge-Portale hat sich die Menschheit den Weltraum erschlossen. Auf der neu errichteten Transferstation Syracuse erwartet die Konstruktionscrew das Eintreffen der Belegschaft. Doch das Schiff, das diese zur Station bringen soll, wird vorher vernichtet. Nur zwei Überlebende schaffen es auf die Syracuse. Ohne es zu wissen, führen sie etwas mit sich. Etwas, das nicht aus dieser Realität stammt.

New species. Old wounds. A fight for supremacy on the galaxy’s wildest planet. When Hesperidia’s satellite defense system suffers a catastrophic failure, the meteor shower it was supposed to repel rains down over the terrified tourists on safari. Three large surface impacts trigger a crisis intervention from the colonial authorities. It results in the removal of the current governor, and auditions for a successor are soon underway. Jan, Alien Safari’s pre-eminent ranger-scientist, finds herself in competition with a formidable new male colleague, who’ll stop at nothing to win the top job.

Im Jahr 2187 wird ein Mann aus der Vergangenheit aus jahrhundertelangem Kälteschlaf geweckt: Es handelt sich dabei um Sidney Ernest Mordgen, Sohn eines einstigen Militärführers der untergegangenen alten Ordnung. In einer klassenlosen Zukunftsgesellschaft stößt er auf Offenheit, aber auch auf tiefes Misstrauen. Zwischen Anpassung, Liebe und Verdacht gerät er in einen Konflikt, der weit über sein persönliches Schicksal hinausweist und schließlich in eine gefährliche Expedition zu einem fernen Planeten mündet.

Uncovering secrets is not always for the best. Expedition Team Alpha of the Intergalactic Exploration Force thought they were exploring the dense and beautiful jungle planet, Shrendder-X9, for solely scientific purposes. Comprised of team lead AJ O'Hara, survivalist Nor Arngaard, chemist and medic Tairn Dwaga, cartographer SP Smithe and xenozoologist Farris Nguyen-Cortez, Team Alpha is prepared for all they could encounter in the alien jungle.

Onboard the USS Redemptor, a morgue ship drifting through the cold vacuum of space, Captain George Erickson and his crew are haunted by regret, isolation, and the ghosts of their pasts. When a mysterious, adaptive bacteria from Callisto begins to infect the crew, paranoia and grief threaten to tear them apart. As android Debrah evolves beyond her programming—carrying echoes of lost love and human anguish—the boundaries between machine and person blur, and the fate of the ship hangs in the balance.

Humanity crossed the void. The universe answered back. Aurora Protocol: Book Two - Quantum Dawn pushes the series deeper into the unknown as humanity’s first interstellar ship ventures beyond mapped space and into consequences no equation can fully predict. The Aurora I is a triumph of science...