Alien Survival

In the aftermath of the pandemic, humanity is on the cusp of extinction as the mutant undead sweep throughout the world. The deadly virus has created a new predator that is far more intelligent and ruthless than anything mankind has ever faced. And the threat from the alphas is increasing as they evolve. Epidemiologist Selene Munroe comes up with a daring solution for gaining a foothold against the deadly virus, but will it be enough to save the human race before it’s too late? On another front, CIA operative Will Reisner and his team need to join forces with an unlikely ally to prevent ...

The dragon can’t remember destroying my world, but he’s sure I’m his mate? No ‘effin way… Fallon The black dragon hunted me down and took me to his nest where I remain trapped… and confused. This alien invader who destroyed most of my world and helped the Asseptians enslave my people is not what he seems. He shifts to a man, one who claims to know nothing about what he and the other invaders have done. He claims I’m his mate, that my blood cleansed his blood of the drug the Asseptians used to control him. And he’s angry… but not at me. For me, for what he’s been forced ...

One minute, I’m lounging on a yacht with my best friends off the coast of Grand Cayman. Sun, salt air, laughter. The next, we’re ripped from the deck and hurled across the stars. Thirteen Earth women, stolen in the night by an alien race teetering on the edge of extinction. I’m Astrid Akselsen. Miami child psychologist. Calm under pressure. Good in a crisis. Tragically single. But nothing prepared me for waking up on a distant planet, claimed as queen by Jakvar, a seven-foot-tall, horned alien king with a voice like thunder and eyes full of ghosts. Their women are gone. Their future ...

This book introduces the ‘Scattered Worlds’ universe, where an alien race, the Lenovians, performed what should have been a normal “weapons test." However, their experiment went disastrously wrong, creating thousands of scattered worlds, as if someone had blended them all and then randomly pieced them back together. Jake Anderson was on his way to a night class at UNH when his car unexpectedly crashed into an impossible wall of snow beside a pool of lava. He now finds himself in a chaotic world, a blend of vastly different environments. Walking just under a thousand yards in any ...

ALIENS: EXILE — THE SEVERING Book Three of the Kessler Chronicles They came for the flowers. They stayed to bury the truth. Anna Kessler thought Vault 51 was the end of it—seal the breach, burn the evidence, move on. But when a government black-ops program reverse-engineers alien technology into a gate, Anna and her family are dragged back into a war that spans galaxies. The gate leads to a relay moon—a derelict facility where xenomorphs were engineered, cataloged, and deployed across dozens of worlds. Earth was never special. Just another seeding site. Another harvest-in-progress. ...

A new entry in the wildly successful Children of Time series from award-winning master of science fiction Adrian Tchaikovsky. After Earth fell, ark ships hunted for a new home. They sought lost worlds terraformed in Earth’s forgotten past. A ship crewed by maverick humans, spiders and a...

With the Paras relocating to numerous nuclear bases around the U.S., Will Reisner and Doctor Selene Munroe are in a race against time to complete the new bioweapon and employ it against the growing legions of mutant creatures bent on exterminating the human race. Little do Reisner and his team of elite operators know that this battle is only the beginning as the emerging leader among the Paras has a broader plan for invasion that will put all of the country's remaining military units in the crosshairs.

I crashed on a prison planet. He was my death sentence. As a communications specialist for the Special Space Forces, I knew the risks. But nothing prepared me for Kroel. A planet designed to contain the galaxy's most lethal criminals, with a toxic atmosphere and monsters straight from a colonist’s nightmare. My ship is a wreck, my suit is failing, and I’m bleeding out. I am, for all tactical purposes, already dead. Then he finds me. Drax is a Xenjian, a warrior species bred for the hunt, stalking this wasteland for reasons his people will not speak of. He’s a terrifying silhouette of ...

Earth already had its apocalypse. Humanity barely survived it. Unfortunately for Major Ethan Irons, that was just the warm-up act. When the scattered remnants of humanity stumble into a much larger problem—namely a galaxy locked in a brutal, centuries-old war—Ethan finds himself promoted from “guy trying to keep a few thousand survivors alive” to “unwilling participant in an interstellar disaster.” Now he’s stuck negotiating with suspicious alien powers, dodging fleets that can vaporize planets for breakfast, and relying heavily on a sarcastic AI who believes Ethan’s ...

My mission was a rescue op. It turned into a death sentence. As a Special Space Forces operative, I was sent to the savage planet of Kroel to locate a missing science team. Instead, I stumbled onto a black-site facility run by rogue Earth agents. When the base went up in flames, my own command left me for dead to protect their secrets. Now, I’m wounded, weaponless, and caught in a jungle that wants to eat me alive. But I’m not the only one hunting the traitors. There's something else in the trees. An unseen shadow picking off the rogue agents one by one. When I come face-to-face with ...

Micah Cole has been in deep space for three years while his parents chase their obsession with finding intelligence to the far corners of the universe, but Micah dreams of the friends he left behind and counts the days until they return home. When a devastating meteor shower nearly destroys their ship, Micah is separated from his family and stranded on Sovereign, a vast planet of raging rivers, towering forests, and deadly creatures. If Micah ever wants to see his family or his home again, he’ll have to learn to how to survive on a hostile alien world, all alone.

Saving the Multiverse Was Never Part of the Flight Plan. Major Jim Harrison was a simple Air Force pilot living a simple life. His biggest challenge wasn’t war, aliens, or the fate of humanity; it was figuring out how to stage the perfect Deadpool-style proposal for his fiancée, Liz. Then everything went spectacularly, catastrophically wrong. An alien invasion. Experimental technology that shouldn’t exist. Time loops that refuse to behave. Parallel universes where humanity already lost. Suddenly, Jim is thrown into a war that stretches across galaxies, timelines, and realities. And ...

Airman Johnson, the Air Force’s new “Golden Boy” brings an unusual idea to his Lieutenant and his Captain. He believes he has uncovered a secret enemy operation that has gone undetected by our country’s security system. When Johnson’s commanding officers agree that he may have stumbled onto a threat to our national security, they take action to neutralize the threat. However, their operation to quietly neutralize the threat turns into what appears to be a giant fiasco. Tim scrambles to get out of work early so he can get home in time for his daughter’s birthday party. Despite ...

#1 bestselling author and master storyteller Donald Morrison's It Burrows follows a routine mission where one of the miners returns with something no one can see—and no one can stop. What begins as a minor wound becomes a relentless infection that spreads through flesh, turning a mining station into a prison of violence, paranoia, and irreversible change. When field engineer Rivers returns from a desolate exoplanet with his partner, Flores, what begins as a minor wound festers into a horrifying infection. The parasite spreads through flesh, twisting the crew of a vast mining station into ...

Colonizing space is risky business... The Joby-Rath is a starship carrying a crew of freelance colonists on a deep space mission to settle one of the savage planets on the ragged edge of the universe, and what begins as just another paycheck becomes a continuous fight as the pioneers come face to face with deadly alien organisms, ruthless outlaws, corporate conspiracy, and a serial killer in their midst. What starts as a mission to establish humanity's newest frontier becomes a desperate battle for survival against impossible odds. Ryan Gray, a detective with a troubled past, Waylon Mars, a...

I went looking for a cure. I found a nine-foot barbarian who decided I was his. Solaris was supposed to be safe—a shining city sealed against the frozen wasteland. Then my mother died begging for treatment the Clergy refused to give. So I ran into the ice to find the truth. Instead, I nearly froze to death… and woke in the arms of a frost-skinned warrior carved from winter itself. Karth is bound to a brutal trial. Until he kills the legendary beast stalking his people, he cannot take a mate. But he can still touch me. Still mark me. Still make sure every warrior knows I belong to him. ...

The first FTL Level Ten starship. A colony under siege. A secret directive. An enemy as territorial as rattlesnakes. In the year 2199, Earth Alliance President Thomase Baruti commissions the EAS Dauntless—the fastest ship ever built—to spearhead exploration of the Constellation Cetus. Captain Noah Fletcher accepts the mission, but before the Dauntless can venture into deep space, it must make a critical stop: Tau Ceti Seven, where the mining colony has gone dark following a violent attack from the planet’s primitive natives. Under orders classified “Top Secret,” Fletcher’s true ...

“John Pirhalla narrates with deft understanding of each character and of how to balance the story's humor and tension.” — Booklist Part alien invasion story, part buddy comedy, and part workplace satire, After The Fall by Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7 (inspiration for the film Mickey...

She just wanted to disappear. He was bred to be a weapon. Neither planned on being trapped together in the dark. Sarah Hodges has one rule for survival: make yourself useful, or get discarded. She just needs one final, highly illegal harvest of rare bioluminescent flora from Sector 4 to pay off her debts and buy her permanent independence. But Sector 4 is the most lethal quarantine zone on the planet, and her infiltration ends with her caught in a snare by the area's apex predator. Tarn is a nightmare of biomechanical engineering. Bred in a corporate black-site and abandoned to the jungle, ...

The last thing Willa needs is another reason to die. Then a man falls from the sky. He has no memory. No supplies. And no explanation for why the Veil Lights shimmer differently whenever he’s near. The Veil Lights have hung silent in the sky for generations. Until the night he appeared. Willa has survived this broken world by trusting no one. Helping him may be the most dangerous mistake she’s ever made. Because the settlement has already decided what should be done with him. Leave him behind—or run. Now Willa and the stranger are on the move, hunted across a dying landscape where ...