Space Exploration

The return of humanity's oldest enemy... An alien prophecy that predicts our species' downfall... And a captain who's the only thing standing in the way of his starship getting mothballed. Wait, what?

From a New York Times best-selling and Hugo award-winning author comes a modern masterwork of science fiction, introducing a captain, his crew, and a detective as they unravel a horrifying solar system wide conspiracy that begins with a single missing girl....

The Bobiverse is a different place in the aftermath of the Starfleet War, and the days of the Bobs gathering in one big happy moot are far behind. There’s anti-Bob sentiment on multiple planets, the Skippies playing with an AI time bomb, and multiple Bobs just wanting to get away from it all.

The final enemy has been revealed, and it's more insidious than Van could ever imagine, spanning space and time with the patience of immortality—and an utter disregard for all forms of life.

Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed stand-alone novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet....

Running. Putting distance between himself and the relentless Night Brigade has been Nomad’s strategy for years. Staying one or two steps ahead of his pursuers by skipping through the Cosmere from one world to the next.

How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is about to end.

What comes after boarding school for an evil lord? The military academy, of course! Liam's subordinates arrange the perfect overpowered patrol fleet for his post-academy training period, but the Guide is hungry for revenge against the young evil lord and takes this as an opportunity to strike!

The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times best-selling Expanse series - now a major television series....

The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the 1,300 solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again....

Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's great empire fell, and the program's decisions were lost to time....

Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper....

It is the year 12,020 GE and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor....

While the crew of the UN Expeditionary Force's pirate starship Flying Dutchman are enjoying a luxury vacation cruise (not!), UNEF troops are still stranded on an alien-controlled planet....

Ethos was mankind’s greatest hope. Until the Link closed.

It's all come down to this. A war for control of all civilization, pitting organic life against an ancient evil that knows no fear, no kindness, and no limits.

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith comes a brand-new novella set in the world of the Hell Divers series.

A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in 24 hours

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space opera about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all....

After a long and bloody battle, legendary Hell Diver Xavier Rodriguez reigns as the dutiful but reluctant new king of the islands. Advised by a council of former sky citizens as well as Cazadores, he works to assimilate the two societies peacefully....

After a series of victories, the Imperial forces are on the back foot once more. The power of Chaos is rising, the Traitors gain ground, and all hope seems lost....

Terminal Lance Lucky Lee Savage likes his life. Sure, doing PT hungover is a pain, but no one can dodge responsibility like he can - or sweet-talk the cooks into giving out double rations....

It seemed the unthinkable had happened. Someone had actually targeted the Ghalian, an order of assassins known and feared across the systems. It was madness. Only a fool would go after the likes of them. But, it seemed, the galaxy had no shortage of fools....

When a running battle brings the Fafnir home to Earth, it ends with the death of a trusted friend—and a new focus on what comes next for Van and his crew.

An artificial intelligence on a star-spanning mission explores the farthest horizons of human potential—and its own purpose—in a mind-bending short story by New York Times bestselling author John Scalzi....

Jeff Dolan always wanted to be an astronaut. After helping a private space company build a ship that can travel to Saturn's largest moon in five months, he gets his chance. Shortly after launch, a devastating malfunction forces Jeff and the crew to make a choice: continue to Titan, or go back home. As the truth about their mission unravels, one thing is clear: someone on Earth knew about the system flaw and covered it up. Yet surviving the journey isn't the crew's only concern. Even if they make it to Titan, they will face another problem: Something is already there.

Rix Banner thought his fighting days ended with World War II. Back home in Cranberry Cove, he just wants to fix cars, drink coffee, and put the past behind him. But when a broken-down starship crash-lands in a Wisconsin cornfield, Rix discovers the universe isn’t done with him yet. The Galactic Empire doesn’t care about Earth’s isolation. They want their ship back—and the fugitive who stole it. Rix isn’t a soldier anymore, but he’s the only one standing between his town and an alien war.

Floating high above 19th Century Earth, the Doctor and Belinda enjoy the legendary Leonids meteor shower of 1833, when the skies teemed with shooting stars. One meteor is bigger and brighter than the others and shows no sign of breaking up in the planetary atmosphere. The travelers follow it to the village of Drummondville and begin the hunt for a fallen star. What strange entity has landed, and how might it affect all life on Earth?

🌌 Stardust Compass: Guardians Across Dimensions — A Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller & Suspense Novel An ancient compass unlocks a journey across dimensions. From a dusty antique shop on Earth to the ultimate gate of ten-dimensional space, the characters are drawn into dazzling civilizations—Zeno, Roshi, Karu—and forced to confront the mind-devouring Thought Eaters, the grotesque horrors of the Bone-Eaters, and the hidden menace that lurks in the dark folds of the universe. 🌀 What kind of novel is this? Genre: Science Fiction + Horror + Thriller + Suspense Experience: A vast world-...

They did not save the Moon with miracles, they saved it with breath, prayer, and work. In the year 2197, an asteroid shatters in Earth’s defense. A mountain-sized core veers toward the Moon, toward Helios Base, a fragile sanctuary of families and dreamers. With hours to live, a small coalition must turn tethers, beacons, and courage into a rescue. Commander Mara Elian refuses to leave her people. Chaplain Selah Okoye keeps the air honest when fear tightens every throat. Jace Bhandari reads the math like a hymn. Rin Ito sings a micro thruster into obedience. Basil Kade blesses hinges with ...

Not the End of History… The Allied victory in May 1945 may have brought a superficial peace, but war time alliances soon broke down and the Cold War saw the Iron Curtain descend across Europe. Poland, Czechoslovakia and Germany were divided between the western powers and the USSR, and fear of the latter would see wartime enemies seeking to form a common front. The conflict between capitalism and communism also reached out to Asia, which had its own long-standing enmities that came to the surface as China began its rise to become a global power and Japan refused to come to terms with the ...

🌌 He gave up the stars for love. The stars dragged him back. Captain Jaxon Orion thought he was done with war, women, and interstellar chaos. He was wrong. When Kaida vanishes, galactic powers clash, and an old General shows up with a smirk and a classified mess, Orion is pulled back into the fight. Soon he’s flying the Quantum Dreamweaver through war zones, crime syndicates, memory-bending tech, and multiverse conspiracies. All while juggling a crew of brilliant, dangerous women who don’t always wait for orders. Or clothes. This trilogy collection includes the explosive final three ...

Vagabond Planet: When a search for cosmic dust particles finds a particle bigger than Mars, the robot sent to explore finds life sheltering under the planet’s surface. When researcher Charlotte Scott made the robot Lydia as a remote explorer, her doctoral adviser didn’t expect the project to find life. The planet Minerva had been slagged and cast away by the supernova explosion of its primary star. But the sub-surface life Lydia found was not only intelligent, it was 60,000 years older than its visitor’s civilization. On the other hand, the underground city was eventually doomed if ...

If something seems too good to be real, you've got to get out of there. That's the rule that Page Found has always followed. She's a petty thief with no memory of her past, scrounging to survive on a backwater outpost—until she's kidnapped by one of her marks. Her kidnappers—the cruel, self-serving Zhak and the tough maverick Maelle—plan to pass Page off as a monk from an ancient, isolated planet to help them capture a treasure-filled ship.

Planet GJ 1061 d ist kein Paradies. Die Majestätische Dracht stoppt trotzdem in dem System, denn der Planet hat eine Besonderheit: Ein mächtiger Riss verläuft vom Südpol fast bis zum Äquator, und dieser Canyon scheint keine geologischen Ursachen zu haben. Marchenko und seine Alien-Freunde glauben, die Frage schnell beantworten zu können, aber sie haben die Rechnung ohne die gemacht, die bereits vor ihnen hier angekommen sind.

When you wake up in a cage, at a slave market on an alien planet of sentient lizards, you might be forgiven for thinking "Life's a bitch and then you die", before surrendering all hope.

Dr. Bruce Thompson is an extraordinary engineer working for a private space company. After years of preparation, he's selected as the sole passenger for a new spacecraft that will study the heavens like none other. After years of travel in another galaxy, communication with home is no longer possible. As years pass, the Company gives up declaring their investment is lost in space and Bruce's wife and son must move on alone.

From the stars came a friend… or something else. When something falls from the sky into a lonely farm paddock, Len Stetson thinks he has found a meteorite. What he discovers instead is a strange capsule, scorched and scarred, holding a creature that looks almost like a dog. Almost. Len is sure the hairless, black-eyed pup is his new best friend. His father, Morris, is not so certain. The capsule carries Russian lettering, and the story of a long-lost Soviet space dog stirs to life. As Len and the creature bond, the farm becomes a battleground of loyalty, fear, and uncanny mystery. Is the ...

Their mission was to build a second home for humanity — but who knows if humanity will survive long enough to reach it? Setting forth on a six-year journey to Gliese 581g-Zarmina’s World-Daniel Medry and a crew of fellow scientists planned to explore a brand-new world potentially ripe for colonisation — but when a man-made virus wipes out most of Earth’s population and leaves the rest infertile, their exploration mission becomes humanity’s only hope for survival.

Puisqu'il faut trouver une autre planète habitable, pourquoi pas la Lune ? À l'abri de son dôme agricole près du cratère Lalande, une fermière regarde les moissons et les générations s'élever et retomber comme les marées terrestres. Son quotidien bascule le jour où on lui confie le soin d'une petite fille à la main verte.