Space Opera

The Merry Band of Pirates stopped the enemy from stealing a Sentinel, and destroyed its Elder starship, so why weren’t the Pirates planning a victory party?

When the Sun is threatened by an alien microbe, the fate of humanity rests on the shoulders of an unlikely hero – and an even more unlikely friendship.

Paul Atreides avenges the traitorous plot against his noble family - and brings to fruition humankind's most ancient, unattainable dream.

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

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....

When you are old enough to finally become an Earth Mars citizen, everything should be perfect. Right? Not for Liam Hoffen. He's stuck on a mining asteroid called Colony 40....

This audiobook brings together 13 uproarious short stories and one novella, focused on Ciaphas Cain, Hero of the Imperium. His stories are celebrated as heroic propaganda pieces, but he’s simply trying to stay alive in a hostile galaxy....

The elite crew of the pirate ship UNS Flying Dutchman had a simple mission: determining whether the Thuranin are sending another starship to Earth....

While the crew of the starship Flying Dutchman have been trying to assure that hostile aliens do not have access to Earth, the UN Expeditionary Force has been stranded on the planet they nicknamed "Paradise". The Flying Dutchman is headed back out on another mission....

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....

As the Indomitus Crusade rages on, Inquisitor Rostov discovers vital intelligence that could reveal the plan of the notorious Hand of Abaddon, and hastily gathers together those loyal to his cause.

Colonel Joe Bishop risks all to retrieve the alien starship Flying Dutchman, unaware of the team's uncertain ability to safeguard Earth.

Explore EXODUS, a new sci-fi action-adventure RPG coming soon from Archetype Entertainment featured in this epic novel from legendary author Peter F. Hamilton....

The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered, and fertile....

The Aftermath of a stunning victory—especially an unexpected, complete, and final victory—should be high-fives all around, listening to politicians give boring congratulatory speeches, and a well-deserved rest for the Merry Band of Pirates....

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it....

The mission is simple. Escort an emissary to an intergalactic peace summit. Try not to get in the way. Lt. Magnus and his 79th Recon Team have certainly handled worse, after all. But then an explosion rocks the tower and sends everyone into a panic....

The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Enter Andrew "Ender" Wiggin....

Aran awakens in chains with no memory. He’s conscripted into the Confederate Marines as a Tech Mage, given a spellrifle, then hurled into the war with the draconic Krox and their Void Wyrm masters....

After years of bitter struggle, Trantor had at last completed its work - its Galactic Empire ruled all 200 million planets of the Galaxy...all but one. On a backward planet called Earth were those who nurtured bitter dreams of a mythical, half-remembered past....

Not every visitor to or from Earth has good intentions, and the Peacemakers are faced with an uncomfortable reality. The Earth is about to meet aliens. Some of the aliens are bringing goods to trade. And among those items are weapons.

The second book in the Galactic Empire series, the spectacular precursor to the classic Foundation series, by one of history's most influential writers of science fiction, Isaac Asimov....

The Blood Angels Chapter of Space Marines is under threat. Having obliterated all human life in the Red Scar region of space, the largest tendril of Hivefleet Leviathan ever seen in the Imperium has converged and is making relentlessly for Baal....

The second book in the NYT best-selling Expanse series, Caliban's War shows a solar system on the brink of war, and the only hope of peace rests on James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante's shoulders. We are not alone....

For Van and his crew, danger is no longer just among the stars. On earth, the Fafnir has drawn the attention of the most dangerous predator known to humanity—Bureaucrats. Between human enemies and alien allies, Van finds himself on the edge of a powerful change in his career.

Forty thousand years ago, humanity fled a dying Earth. Traveling in massive arkships, these brave pioneers spread out across the galaxy to find a new home. After traveling thousands of light-years, one fleet of arkships arrived at Centauri, a dense cluster of stars with a vast array of potentially habitable planets. The survivors of Earth signaled to the remaining arkships that humanity had finally found its new home among the stars.

The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for inmates, the journey there is always a one-way trip. One such prisoner is Professor Arton Daghdev, xeno-ecologist and political dissident. Soon after arrival, he discovers that Kiln has a secret. Humanity is not the first intelligent life to set foot there. In the midst of a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem are the ruins of a civilization, but who were the vanished builders and where did they go?

Wayne dreamed of piloting a thirty-foot-tall walking robot that was closer to a battle-tank than anything else. They were called Walkers. They were armed with laser cannons, rockets, missiles, and heavy kinetic weapons more similar to artillery pieces than guns, and everything that went with that. Unfortunately, he had been declined military service. His only avenue left to become a Walker Pilot was to make it happen all on his own. Under his own power. With his own hands. Literally. Working his fingers to the bone, saving all he could, and digging through junkyards and salvage pits,

Humanity is on the brink of annihilation. Only one man can turn the tide. For centuries, we explored the stars and settled new worlds. But a mysterious alien threat emerged, launching devastating attacks and seizing entire star systems. Every fifty years they come, silent and relentless, before disappearing again into the dark. And as they close in on humanity’s home worlds, one more defeat could mean total extinction.

Four original stories featuring the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory: In Hunter's Moon, the travellers visit Leisure Platform 9, where gamblers and villains mix with socialites and celebrities. In Touched By An Angel, the Weeping Angels are using history itself as a weapon - and the Doctor, Amy and Rory must stop them. In Paradox Lost, an ancient android is dredged from the Thames, with a message that can only be delivered to the Doctor. In Borrowed Time, by Naomi Alderman, the three friends go undercover at a bank where time is the commodity on offer for loan.

When the over-driven hyperdrive on their mobile shipyard burned out, the Chhrt'ktk't abandoned it in an inhabited system along their path, hoping it would work as a decoy to buy them more time to escape the Khreetan fleet pursuing them. They didn't anticipate how far the pre-spacefaring species they turned over their broken-down maintenance facility to would subvert their plan.

Lieutenant Bannon and his phalanx of Corvanite warriors have already seen some of the worst that the irregular war between the reptilian otuchans and the human latecomers can offer. Or so they think. First Sergeant Draven, trying to hold his company of Zolarian citizen soldiers together, has been on the desolate planet of Zhogalgan longer than Bannon. He's seen even more. Yet while they are both there as peacekeepers, they are not there to help each other.

Twenty-five years after our universe nearly succumbed to the very Incarnation of Destruction, and three years after Doctor Damien Howard asked Charlotte Omandi to assemble a crew for Earth’s first starship, Bladerunner, a new adventure has begun. William Thorne, first born son to the Sentinel and Soulborn of Order, has been offered a critical mission from the unlikeliest of angelic sources. He is to join Captain Omandi as a member of Bladerunner’s crew, and open a portal to the void that separates our universe from others.

Primera y aclamada entrega de la tetralogía «Los cantos de Hyperion», una saga fundamental de la ciencia ficción moderna que fue galardonada con tres premios Locus y el Hugo de 1990 por el presente título. La publicación de la serie a lo largo de la década de 1990 coronó a Dan Simmons como un referente indiscutible del género, capaz de construir un mundo al estilo de los Cuentos de Canterbury, y al mismo tiempo hacer un claro homenaje a John Keats.

While victorious on the battlefield, can he survive the cutthroat world of galactic nobility? Having won the Davao Campaign, Neo is hailed as House Mordant’s newest Abraxan Knight, and is quickly adopted into the upper class. Will he turn away from his humble beginnings and embrace its sheer decadence, or will he remain true to his own self? Meanwhile, trouble is brewing from within. Schemes and conspiracies abound as rivals launch their own bid for power, and the entire galaxy once again stands on the brink of total war.

"Hola Sébastian, ¿qué te trae de vuelta al parque de casas rodantes de Cedar Key?" “pregunta Tom. "Sospecho que te gustaría el mismo sitio que visitaste la última vez que estuviste aquí". “Sí, Tom, si está disponible. “Claro, Sebastián. Recién ayer tuve el sitio lavado. -- ¿Necesitarás a alguien que te guíe hasta el campamento, o puedes encargarte de ello tú mismo? “ Gracias por el ofrecimiento, Tom. Pero recuerdo dónde está, y puedo aparcar este autocar en un abrir y cerrar de ojos si es necesario." “ "Es bueno estar de vuelta en Cedar Key para descansar y ...

Eine geteilte Galaxis, eine Jedi-Meisterin gefangen im Feindesland – und ein verzweifelter Rettungsplan … Der Beginn der dritten Phase der Hohen Republik. Die Galaxis ist geteilt. Die schrecklichen Nihil haben eine undurchdringliche Barriere errichtet, hinter der sie rauben, plündern und verwüsten. Nicht einmal gemeinsam vermögen es die Jedi und die Streitkräfte der Republik, die Grenze zu durchbrechen. Gleichzeitig ist Jedi-Meisterin Avar Kriss im Gebiet der Nihil gefangen und gibt ihr Bestes, um die Opfer der Nihil zu schützen.

The Stellarhawk and its crew of galactic rangers have been sent to a disputed area of space to investigate the sudden appearance of a gigantic wheel shaped starship that emerged from a wormhole. Their mission is to discover the ship’s origin, who sent it, and why it’s heading towards the center of Galactic Federation space. They are not the only ones drawn to the mysterious starship they call the Wheel. The Melani Empire has sent a squadron of warships to intercept and destroy the Wheel. The galactic rangers soon find themselves unraveling a cosmic mystery that will determine the ...

"Salut Sébastian, qu'est-ce qui te ramène au parc de VR de Cedar Key ?" demande Tom. "Je suppose que vous aimeriez le même site que celui que vous aviez visité la dernière fois que vous êtes venu ici." "Oui, Tom, s'il est disponible." — Bien sûr, Sébastian. Je ne l'ai fait nettoyer qu'hier. -- Aurez-vous besoin de quelqu'un pour vous guider dans le camping, ou pouvez-vous vous en occuper vous-même ? "Merci pour l'offre, Tom. Mais je me souviens où il se trouve, et je peux garer cet autocar au centimètre près s'il faut. J'aimerais aussi pêcher. Où le sébaste mord-il à cette...

“Hi Sébastian, what brings you back to the Cedar Key RV park?” Tom asks. “I suspect you would like the same site you visited last time you were here.” “Yes, Tom, if it is available.” “Sure, Sébastian. I only had the site washed down yesterday. -- Will you need someone to guide you into the campsite, or can you handle it by yourself?” “Thanks for the offer, Tom. But I remember where it is, and I can park this coach on a dime if I must.” – “It is good to be back at Cedar Key for some rest and relaxation. I would also like to get some fishing in. Where are the redfish...

Esta historia comienza en un parque de casas rodantes en las afueras de Cedar Key. Cuando está en medio de la noche, una casa rodante de aspecto inusual se detiene en el parque. Tom, el encargado del parque, le da al buzo de cara azul su tarea de estacionamiento # 94 y le pide que lo siga a su lugar de estacionamiento. #94 está al lado de DocWolf y Writer, que siempre están felices de ver a los recién llegados. Sin embargo, estos recién llegados provienen del espacio exterior, y su RV es una nave espacial camuflada para parecerse a una RV.

Virika Sameroo lives in colonized space under the Æerbot Empire, much like her ancestors before her in the British West Indies. After years of working hard to rise through the ranks of the empire’s merchant marine, she’s finally become first lieutenant on an interstellar cargo vessel. When her captain dies under suspicious circumstances, Virika is arrested for murder and charged with treason despite her lifelong loyalty to the empire. Her conviction and subsequent imprisonment set her on a path of revenge, determined to take down the evil empire that wronged her.

This Story starts in an RV park on the outskirts of Cedar Key. When in the middle of the night, an unusual-looking RV pulls into the park. Tom, the park attendant, gives the blue-faced diver his parking assignment #94 and has him follow him to his parking place. #94 is next to DocWolf and Writer, who are always happy to see new arrivals. However, these new arrivals are from outer space, and their RV is a camouflaged spaceship to look like an RV.

Ottant’anni prima, la Terra venne distrutta da un nemico alieno. Molti fuggirono mentre altri, in milioni, morirono. L’umanità creò dei nuovi esseri umani potenziandoli come Idris, in modo che potessero comunicare tramite la mente con i loro aggressori. Poi questi “architetti” scomparvero improvvisamente, senza una ragione apparente, e Idris e la sua specie divennero obsoleti. Da quando hanno ricondizionato la sua mente durante la guerra, Idris non è né invecchiato né stanco.

Dos mujeres jóvenes, una atractiva morena y la otra igual de hermosa rubia fresa, caminan por la pasarela del aeropuerto de Dallas cuando Sophie le dice a Alessia, la rubia fresa: "¿Dónde esperas estar dentro de diez años?" “No tengo ni idea, Sophie Jones; sin embargo, espero sinceramente no estar atrapado en la luna todo el tiempo. Me apunté a la aventura. No espero estar encerrado en la base lunar durante cuatro años. Quiero ver las estrellas de la galaxia. ¿Qué esperas de este viaje en el que te inscribiste? "Espero ser comandante de mi propia nave algún día. Eso es si ...

Jordan Severson entra inesperadamente en su casa de Elm Street en pleno día, donde nota un extraño olor en el aire. "Hola, cariño, estoy en casa". Al no obtener respuesta, entra en el dormitorio y ve las sábanas, un desastre arrugado en medio del día y el vapor de la ducha que sale de la puerta del baño entreabierta. Al entrar en el baño donde Maggie se está arreglando el cabello, con el secador de pelo haciendo mucho ruido, ve el asiento del inodoro levantado y pregunta: "¿Hay alguien aquí?" "No, Jordi, ¿qué te hace pensar eso? Además, ¿qué te trae a casa a mitad del día? ...

Verwandte Seelen entfesseln geheimnisvolle Magie! Vesper Quill arbeitet für den mächtigen Großkonzern Kent Corp. Als sie erkennt, dass dessen neu entwickelte Raumschiffserie erhebliche Sicherheitsrisiken aufweist, ist ihr Name plötzlich in aller Munde – und steht ganz oben auf der Eliminierungsliste von Kent Corp. Von Feinden umgeben, muss Vesper um ihr Leben kämpfen. Dabei kommt ihr der Elitesoldat Kyrion Caldaren gefährlich nahe, doch statt sie zu töten, beharrt er darauf, dass zwischen ihren Seelen ein magischer Bund besteht – einer, der ihnen beiden zum Verhängnis werden könnte.

Jonathan y su compañero Escritor. Que vive en una casa rodante en un resort de casas rodantes cerca de Cedar Key, Florida. Recibieron una llamada telefónica del almirante McGraf diciéndole que iba a escribir una historia sobre los emplazamientos de ovnis que estaban teniendo. Al día siguiente, una limusina negra se detiene frente a su entrenador para recogerlo y llevarlo a la Base Aérea Mac Dill para abordar un Gulfstream V que lo espera. Este avión lo llevará al noroeste. Para presenciar los OVNIs en acción.

Commander Darius Noble has escaped the overthrow of the Alliance. He carries crucial intel about the drow and Federation's plans for folding space/time to make war anywhere instantaneously across the galaxy. Lacking resources and pursued by bounty hunters, Darius and his companions find themselves adrift in a hostile galaxy. Their paths cross with diverse nonhumans, leading to the formation of an unlikely crew aboard a salvaged starship. As they navigate their personal struggles and limited options, Darius and his crew realize a horrifying truth: The Alliance's fall is just the beginning.

Jim Cartwright, Erbe einer der führenden Söldnerkompanien der "Four Horsemen", hat ein schlechtes Jahr. Er ist bei den VOWS-Prüfungen in der Highschool durchgefallen und hat gerade erfahren, dass seine Mutter das Familienunternehmen in den Bankrott getrieben hat, bevor sie verschwand und ihm seines Kavalier-Geburtsrechts beraubte. Aber die Horsemen vergangener Zeiten waren schlau - sie hinterließen ein Erbe an Ausrüstung, das Jim nutzen kann, um den nächsten Auftrag zu erfüllen und die Firma wieder aufleben zu lassen.