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It’s the end of term, and the students are in the grip of revision fever…until a real fever takes over. The only possible cure lies in a distant nebula, but with the whole school under quarantine, who will be brave enough to go and get it?

No ship ever lands on Callisto... that is, until a shuttle crash-lands. There is only one survivor--Llyrica, Edgar's ex-wife, the one person in all the solar system Edgar hates most--the only woman Edgar has ever loved. No woman can survive on Callisto. There is a plague on the moon that kills all females. When the colony was originally settled, all the women and girls became sick. 80% of them died before the colony could be evacuated. And then there is the danger from the prisoners themselves.

Five months after the release of the West Nile Virus designed to eliminate the alphas, the human race seems like they may have turned the tide and regained a foothold on survival. Only strange developments along the East Coast's dead zone may prove otherwise as the super-alpha has formulated a plan that will bring devastation on a massive scale. With new special operations teams and international alliances, Will Reisner and his crew take the fight to the enemy once more in this explosive follow-up to The Alpha Solution.

Building a new nation is not a simple task, and it's made even harder with every nation on the planet wanting the Solarian Union's advanced technology, no matter the cost. But when terrorists unleash a devastating, genetically engineered plague into the world, that advanced technology is the only thing standing between humanity and the annihilation of our species. Michael and those following him have done what they set out to do—they have colonized space. But they cannot cut all the ties to their ancestral home, and the sufferings of its peoples.

Four highly disturbing Science Fiction stories from a bestselling author: The Poisoners of Moloo: is about a planet where the main business is the manufacture of fine poisons for disposing of people, poisons like the Time Linked Poison where a woman grows a day older each minute or the Melting Poison where the victim melts from the feet up! Lembert is the Police Chief of the planet Soho who finds his wife Dustin is having an affair and decides to get rid of her. The Last Lifeboat: is set on the Queen Elizabeth II where the passengers are virtually the sole survivors of a nuclear holocaust. ...

The Shadow War: Warriors of the Apocalypse continues the story that began with Aaron: Subject Number Seven and was followed by Wade: Subject Number Four. No one would ever make the mistake of thinking the Kings were an ordinary family but few would understand just how extraordinary they truly were. The mysterious organization, referred to as the Cabal, that had inadvertently brought them together was also working in secret to bring down America and the rest of the world. But the Cabal wasn’t the only entity able to wage a shadow war. Using their genetic gifts and combat skills the Kings ...

In a universe where 98% of humanity has perished due to a devastating alien-engineered plague, ex-soldier Dexter Wolfe turns scavenger, navigating the ruins of a once-great empire. On a desolate planet, Dex uncovers evidence of a chilling conspiracy: the affluent elite of Earth's core worlds anticipated the plague and sacrificed billions to secure their own survival. Teaming up with an enigmatic alien investigator, Dex embarks on a perilous quest for justice, confronting treacherous terrains, rogue machines, and shadowy adversaries. As he delves deeper, he must decide whether unveiling the ...

From of the author of The Silk Code, winner of the 1999 Locus Award for Best First Novel, comes another intriguing blend of science fiction and hard-boiled police-procedural mystery.

Humanity’s first contact with an alien race occurred in 2177. Oddly, it took the form of a rebroadcast of an Earth radio show from 1924 that was transmitted from a star 200 light-years away. Cody Cogan, an engineer working at the Austin Space Center, dismisses the transmission as a prank. However, his opinion changes a year later when the radio show is abruptly replaced with alien plans for a faster-than-light spaceship. Political leaders believe the new data is an invitation to visit their stellar neighbors. Cody is selected as part of the crew that will bring government representatives ...

Baxter's RealBot, Shirley Dimples, was a perfect match for Baxter. Shirley laughed at Baxter's stupid jokes, smiled at his frumpy style, and supported every indecisive decision he made (or didn't make). As designed, she was a perfectly perfect match for Baxter's perfectly imperfect personality. And Baxter found her to be perfectly bland. Good thing software has bugs. "Baxter's Bot And Other Selected Short Stories" is Joshua Wright's first collection of short stories. Also included in this collection are: - The Glimming - #MLD ...and more... From The Author: Hi Readers, Josh here. I've been ...

The ship (Solar Queen) has recently obtained a valuable trading contract on the planet Sargol and is building a relationship with one of the races on the planet, the cat-like Salariki. The process goes slowly till the Salariki discover that the Solar Queen is carrying catnip and other plants from Terra that are unknown on Sargol. The traders exchange what little of the plants they have for the rare and valuable Koros stones and collect a native red-colored wood to exchange at home.

The first medical ship in any Oison fleet and it was his. It was both exciting beyond words and terrifying with all its responsibility. Razar decided and he knew a medical ship was needed. He got this one ready and stocked just in time. Their ship would not be broken into within The Empire. They would be going just beyond and assisting an unknown race that asked for help. That race called themselves the Omgoddy. They were like the Mazlans and humans which would help in finding a cure for what they were calling a plague. How they had known about the Mazlans without being known themselves, no...

(Based on a true event 2029-2036) Hurtling through space was an enormous tumbling rock known as MN4 which our astronomers affectionately named after an ancient Egyptian god of destruction. Asteroid Apophis was the talk of the year that every scientific community on Earth was aware of, though its flyby in April 2029 was to be nothing more than a spectacular celestial event; but as warring nations were locked in global conflict, our civilization was unprepared for the devastation that followed in its wake. Several years after governments fell and society dissolved a ragged pack of survivors ...

The Patrol has a strict policy of pushing any star ship infected with unknown plagues straight into the sun, no questions asked. When the crew of the Queen start dropping like flies with no explanation, rival traders start crying, 'Plague Ship!'

We expected Mars to be an escape, not a trap. A crimson, blasted, frigid trap. Maybe humans were lucky to leave Earth as cowards...or maybe they should have died trying to save it from the aliens. Because what's now arrived on this red rock may be worse than death. Aliens destroyed humanity and seized Earth. Now they have sent a terrible, unstoppable disease to the last human outposts on Mars. The doomsday clock is ticking and only criminal archaeologist Ozzy Mack can decipher the clues buried in the ancient Martian ruins...clues to the cure and the salvation of humankind.

Losing her parents and sister within months of each other, then watching her husband walk out on her had been enough drama to last Katiana Helmick a lifetime. However, more comes her way when she finds a magical medallion and is transported to Zafora; a world with alien customs, diseases, and dangers. The people of this strange world believe that being in possession of the magic medallion makes Katiana a Liberator, and they look to her to save their bloodlines from peril. Like it or not until she finds a way to do this, all while evading those out to stop her, she has no chance of returning...

A rain of small meteors inundates the earth. A year later, strange glistening white domes appear, scattered randomly across the continents. Who built them and why? A question with no answers, but during that year, two hundred thousand young women have vanished into thin air. Alien invasion? But the domes do nothing. Mass abduction? Perhaps, but many of the women seemed to have actively planned their own disappearance. There are no answers, that is, until a shimmering white wall appears above the domes. Not even nuclear weapons can harm the domes and now answers are more critical than ever ...

For this episode, we’re sharing our very first audiobook excerpt. It’s from the new audiobook version of Amish Zombies from Space, book 2 of Kerry Nietz’s sci-fi series Peril in Plain Space. Nietz started this series when he took a “joke” title for a book, and turned it into a fun-yet-serious exploration: Amish Vampires in Space. It went pretty viral, based on that title alone. At one point even late-night host Jimmy Fallon held up a copy of the book on national TV. Those Amish in space not only fought vampires, but then had to undergo a zombie plague. And now, lately, they face ...