Apocalyptic Plane

The earth has died many times, and it always comes back looking different. In an exhilarating, surprising exploration of our planet, Craig Childs takes listeners on a firsthand journey through apocalypse, touching the truth behind the speculation. Apocalyptic Planet is a combination of science and adventure that reveals the ways in which our world is constantly moving toward its end and how we can change our place within the cycles and episodes that rule it.

Stranded on a dead planet with her mortal enemy, a spy must survive and uncover a conspiracy in the first book of an epic space opera trilogy by an award-winning author of The Protectorate series. "A body-hopping, zombie-popping rock licking good time." —Emily Skrutskie, author of Bonds of...

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR An unsettling masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will impact us all. “The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I’ve ever read.” —Jonathan Lethem, New York Times...

Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards This record-breaking novel following a warship trapped in a human body on a quest for revenge is a must-read for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin and James S. A. Corey. "THRILLING, MOVING AND AWE-INSPIRING." —Guardian On a remote, icy planet...

When Captain Conley vanishes on a "dead" planet, his crew discovers technology that could reshape the future—and a pocket dimension filled with horrors that should have stayed buried. Racing against ancient orbital defenses, they must choose between saving their captain and protecting the galaxy from what he's found.

Seeking atonement for past crimes, Breq takes on a mission as captain of a troublesome new crew of Radchai soldiers, in the sequel to the New York Times bestselling, award-winning Ancillary Justice.? "Powerful." —New York Times Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship. Once a weapon of...

It was a day like any other. People setting out on the commute to work or taking the kids to school or chatting to their friends in the park. Normal. Routine. Nothing to mark it apart. By lunchtime, everything they had ever known, every aspect of their lives, would be changed forever - marked by the most catastrophic series of global disasters to strike the planet in over 6000 years. MANKIND STANDS AT THE GATES OF EXTINCTION The world is being ripped apart by a great geological cataclysm. Cities crumble and entire continents disappear beneath the sea as earthquakes and mega-tsunamis lay ...

The journey of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy continues through time and space in this installment from the New York Times bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series. Arthur has traveled the length, breadth, and depth of known, and unknown, space. He has stumbled forward and backward...

Welcome to a planet-sized landfill where the sky rains the garbage of untold worlds, hermit crabs the size of carts migrate in thundering tides, an entire civilization worships what it cannot read, and the law of the wasteland is based on how many bullets you carry. This is Sundry. Mind the drops. Three individuals are set on a collision course when a damaged vessel makes skyfall, and there is a survivor on board who could upset the delicate balance of power on this blighted world. SONNY SUNDAY, the charismatic tyrant with a silver tongue and chip on his shoulder. A showman, sovereign, and ...

Breq and her crew must stand against an old and powerful enemy and fight for their own destinies in the stunning conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy. A must read for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin and James S. A. Corey. "There are few who write science fiction like Ann Leckie can...

Hope flickers in the ruins of a shattered world. Driven by a desperate search for her vanished friend, Amanda descends upon Sor's unforgiving planet. Unaware of the devastation that has unfolded, she plunges into a harsh landscape far removed from the advanced society she knew. A mysterious cosmic wave has swept across the planet, leaving only remnants of its former glory and its people scattered and struggling to survive. Among them is Woli, a descendant of Sor's original colonists. Unlike those resigned to their fate, Woli clings to dreams of a future beyond this brutal environment. When ...

Wildly praised by readers and critics alike, Robert Charles Wilson's Spin won science fiction's highest honor, the Hugo Award for Best Novel. Now, in Spin's direct sequel, Axis, Wilson takes us to the "world next door"--the planet engineered by the mysterious Hypotheticals to support human life...

When rookie astronomer Irina Kirilenko discovers a planet-size comet in the Kuiper Belt on a collision course for Mars, she first faces stonewalling from the Minor Planet Center, then coercion and stricture from NASA. They press her to embrace an ingenious reinterpretation of her discovery and ban her from talking about it. It slowly dawns on her that the government is fostering a massive conspiracy to keep the public oblivious to the truth—Earth is facing an existential threat.

FIREWALKERS ARE BRAVE. FIREWALKERS ARE RESOURCEFUL. FIREWALKERS ARE EXPENDABLE. The Earth is burning. Nothing can survive at the Anchor; not without water and power. But the ultra-rich, waiting for their ride off the dying Earth? They can buy water. And thanks to their investment, the sun can...

A Dying Earth. A New World. A Fight for Survival. Earth is collapsing—its air poisoned, its lands scorched, its oceans rising. With extinction looming, humanity’s last hope lies light-years away on an uncharted alien planet. Thousands of desperate colonists take the leap into the unknown, risking everything for a second chance. But survival won’t come easy. Captain Brian “Finn” Finnegan leads the expedition, only to find a world as ruthless as the one they left behind. Savage predators, treacherous terrain, and a planet that seems determined to expel its new inhabitants. But ...

News reports speak of mass panic and violence spreading across the globe. Negligent leaders hide behind misinformation. But in an age of paranoia and suspicion, who can say what is true anymore? Struggling to survive against a sweeping epidemic that has engulfed the planet, survivors will have to make hard choices in a world that no longer makes sense.

Four unforgettable characters try not only to survive, but to preserve the very thing that makes life worth saving in the first place in this deeply moving story of resilience and hope from the acclaimed author of A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World. What if one person was your whole world?...

EXPANDED EDITION ~ WITH PHOTOGRAPHS THROUGHOUT Could a single eruption drop Earth's temperature for years and reshape entire civilizations before scientists could even agree on what happened? Every fact is sourced from peer-reviewed academic research and official scientific records. This True Verified Facts book delivers 300+ real, researched answers spanning the science of magma, deep planetary history, and the geology quietly shaping life today — knowledge that educates, entertains, and gives you stories worth sharing at any dinner table. Inside This Book: The invisible river that has ...

An adventurous debut novel that cross cuts between a competitive college swimmer’s harrowing days in the Rocky Mountains after a major airline disaster and her recovery supported by the two men who love her—only one of whom knows what really happened in the wilderness. Nineteen-year-old...

For Mo Collins, surviving the zombie apocalypse isn’t getting any easier. Defeating blunatics, saving survivors, recovering treasure, and securing Guntersville Island has been taking up Mo’s time when he would rather just make time with his girl. But he can’t avoid his scripted destiny; his personal Oracle, Smokes, won’t let him. He can still bitch about it, though.