First Civilization

The oldest stories ever written. The gods who came before all other gods. The myths that built every civilization that followed. Five thousand years ago, in the world's first cities, a civilization pressed its beliefs into clay. Those tablets contained the original versions of the stories the modern world thinks it knows — the Great Flood, the creation of humanity, the descent into the underworld, the hero who could not accept death. The Sumerians told these stories first, told them without apology, and told them with a brutal honesty about the nature of gods and humans that every ...

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Orphaned at six and sent to an orphanage, Jericho Rolland discovers an interstellar sim when he’s eight. Soon realizing actual trading like this will be the focus of his life. He applies his massive intellect and drive toward preparing himself for that goal. Knowing he can go to space at twelve, Jericho starts setting things up six months before his birthday. The only resistance he runs into is with the interstellar bank. The bank officials really don’t know who they are tangling with, but they find out much to their regret. At Twelve, when many of his almost always brilliant ancestors ...

The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem! WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL Over 1 million copies sold in North America “A mind-bending epic.”—The New York Times “War of the Worlds for the 21st century.”—The Wall Street Journal “Fascinating.”—TIME ...

*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* America's favorite astrophysicist has written the most entertaining and universally appealing book of his stellar career: a practical guide for dealing with Alien visitors, an exploration of how it might happen, and a cultural history of our fascination with...

In December 1872, a self-taught engraver named George Smith stood in front of the Prime Minister of Great Britain and read a story off a fragment of broken clay. A great flood. A man warned by a god. A boat, the animals, the mountaintop. The audience assumed they were hearing a Babylonian rewrite of Noah. They were hearing the source — older than Genesis, older than Homer, older than any text the Western canon had ever acknowledged. Tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh. This is the book about the king, the poem, and the recovery. The historical Gilgamesh ruled the Sumerian city of Uruk ...

Who wore the first pants? Who painted the first masterpiece? Who first rode the horse? Who invented soap? This madcap adventure across ancient history uses everything from modern genetics to archaeology to uncover the geniuses behind these and other world-changing innovations. Who invented the...

The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem! Over 1 million copies of the Three-Body Problem series sold in North America PRAISE FOR THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM SERIES: “A mind-bending epic.”—The New York Times “War of the Worlds for the 21st century.”—The Wall Street...

Before Atlantis fell, humanity remembered what it was. In the luminous age before history, Lemuria and Atlantis stood as sister civilizations of wonder — crystal cities, flying Vimanas, Harmonic Gates, sacred technology, mythical beasts, and temples that preserved the living memory of the soul. But now the memories are vanishing. Sacred archives are turning blank. Dream temples are going silent. Children are waking without ancestral visions. And beneath the shining towers of Atlantis, a powerful faction is building the Mnemosyne Engine — a machine designed not only to preserve memory, ...

What if the story of creation we’ve always been told is only the beginning—and a forgotten world existed before Adam ever drew breath? "The First Earth Forgotten: How Lost Civilizations, Cosmic Judgment, and the Fall of Angels Shaped the First Man" by Eleanor Whitcombe uncovers the hidden layers of Scripture and ancient memory, revealing a history buried between the lines of Genesis. It is a story of rebellion, ruin, and redemption—one that reframes the Bible not just as a sacred text, but as the chronicle of a cosmic war and the restoration of creation itself. Inside this book, you ...

An out-of-work paleontologist stumbles on evidence that an ancient, non-human civilization that once ruled Earth has returned to reclaim the planet.

Over 2,000 pages of action-packed military sci-fi adventure in one massive boxset! Humanity survived the end of the world. Unfortunately, the galaxy noticed. Major Ethan Irons thought surviving Earth's near-extinction was the worst thing that could happen to him. Then an alien fleet arrived, dragged humanity into a galactic war they didn't start, don't understand, and are spectacularly unqualified to win. Now Ethan finds himself fighting for the survival of the human race while navigating alien empires, ancient grudges, interstellar politics, and enough backstabbing to make Game of Thrones ...

This program is read by Rosalind Chao, who stars as Ye Wenjie in the Netflix adaptation, 3 Body Problem. WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL Over 1 million copies sold in North America “A mind-bending epic.”—The New York Times “War of the Worlds for the 21st century.”—The...

The must-read exploration of the earliest human ghost stories from leading expert Irvine Finkel, author of The Ark Before Noah 'It's enthralling stuff, mixing the scholarly with the accessible and placing storytelling right at the heart of the human experience.' - History Revealed There are few...

A 2026 Audie Awards finalist for Best Science Fiction! The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem! This program is read by Jess Hong, who plays Jin Cheng in 3 Body Problem. Over 1 million copies of the Three-Body Problem series sold in North America. "[Jess] Hong, who stars in the...

He found the end of the world in a core sample. The message said: They're Coming Back. Eli Croft spent thirty years at the NSA reading signals that weren't supposed to exist. Now he's retired, alone on forty acres of Utah scrubland, and the most interesting problem in his life is amateur geology. Then core sample seven comes back wrong. The isotope gradients are too precise. Too consistent. Statistically impossible to be natural. Eli runs the analysis six more times. The anomaly doesn't go away — it gets sharper with better instruments. Someone built something in the rock. Sixty-five ...

Before angels ruled the heavens, before humanity forgot its origin, there existed a knowledge so dangerous it was erased from history. The Black Codex of Enoch is a forbidden reconstruction of the teachings attributed to Enoch—the man who walked between worlds, spoke with the Watchers, and mapped the architecture of human consciousness before the Veil fell. This book explores: • The Architects who predated angels • The Watchers and the corruption of the human blueprint • The Incarcerated Logos and the fracture of divine consciousness • Lost cosmologies erased from canonical ...

Blending history, science, and culture, a stunning and highly engaging evolutionary story exploring how walking on two legs allowed humans to become the planet’s dominant species. Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four legs—a locomotion known as bipedalism. We strive to...

From the creative minds of the scholarly group behind the groundbreaking Jesus Seminar comes this provocative and eye-opening look at the roots of Christianity that offers a thoughtful reconsideration of the first two centuries of the Jesus movement, transforming our understanding of the...

Around 1200 BCE, the most advanced civilizations on Earth were destroyed in a single generation. The Hittite Empire — gone. Mycenaean Greece — gone. The great port of Ugarit — burned and never rebuilt. Trade networks that had connected the Mediterranean for centuries — collapsed. An entire world of palace kingdoms, international diplomacy, and bronze-age prosperity vanished in a cascade of fire, famine, and war. At the center of the destruction: a mysterious coalition of raiders the Egyptians called the Sea Peoples. Who were they? Where did they come from? And did they really bring ...