Alien Survival

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Cal was lost amongst the swirling ashes of what remained of his world. He was wrung out. Guilt-ridden. And looking for a way to finally end his existence while remaining on the right side of morality. His emotional turmoil would eventually lead him to where he needed to be. On the Silk Road. The route was a sentiment. Those who found themselves traveling along it lost all hope. There was no returning from the path. The slavers known as Silkers prided themselves on this. To them, people were nothing more than cattle—to be driven, and their uses to be consumed. And they hunted. Relentlessly...

A journey home… New challenges to face… An ultimate decision to be made… Kara Howard faces her greatest fear when she returns to Earth. She is now the purple faced alien who is designated to represent her new world. All her work to reunite families will soon meet its final test. No longer able to breathe her home planet’s air, her future must be made galaxies away. Her life is further complicated when the mission is jeopardized by betrayal. Once again, Kara must choose sides in the ambiguous allegiances between families. She walks a tightrope of her own making between the two men in...

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 ...

My ship crashed. My crew is gone. I am alone on a planet that wants to kill me. As a scientist, I'm trained to observe, to analyze, to survive. I was prepared for alien predators. I wasn't prepared for him. He's a prince of this savage world, with navy skin, amber eyes, and a body built for war. The first time I saw him, he transformed into a twelve-foot monster of muscle and fangs to protect me. Then he shifted back and looked at me with a hunger far more terrifying than any beast's. The moment our eyes met, something branded my soul-and my skin. A mark appeared on my chest, identical to ...

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.

Something ancient has been unearthed on Mars… and it’s hungry. In 2052, a squad of Marines from the Earth Military Federation is dispatched to investigate a terraforming colony that has gone mysteriously silent. What they discover is a nightmare: the entire outpost has been brutally slaughtered after unearthing a massive alien structure buried beneath the Martian surface. As the unit delves deeper into the station, they uncover horrifying evidence of what caused the massacre—and realize too late that the true threat is still alive. Now, trapped in the dark corridors of the colony, the...

The end of the world is just the beginning. When a catastrophic quake tears through Manhattan, toppling skyscrapers, flooding tunnels, and shattering the Eastern Seaboard, federal prosecutor Nick Dykstra claws his way through the chaos and rubble to reach his daughter Lauren, a brilliant but rebellious high school student caught in the heart of the disaster. The 9.1 earthquake that levels New York City is no natural disaster. Beneath the wreckage, something ancient has awakened. Buried for eons, a vast network of alien systems – older than recorded time and woven into the earth’s crust ...

On a planet shrouded in darkness, a stranded crew must fight for survival. But, the darkness may have plans of its own in this wildly original story from Adrian Tchaikovsky, Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke Award–winning author of Children of Time. They looked into the darkness and the darkness...

** new version *** An ancient evil stirs in the darkness. Marine biologist Kate Morrison came to Dead Reef to study coral formations. She found something studying her instead. The local fishermen have stories about the blood tides—when the water runs red and boats don't come back. Kate thought they were just superstitions until the attacks began. Something massive is rising from the deepest trenches around the reef, something that's been evolving in isolation for over a century. It's not just hunting. It's learning. Each attack brings the creature closer to understanding human behavior, ...

She’s dying. He’s the only one who can save her. But the cure? It’s in his body—and it comes with a bond that can’t be undone. Celia Rayne wasn’t supposed to breathe Moltherra’s poisonous air. Now her veins burn and her body trembles… until a Valkari healer lays her bare and offers her salvation the only way he knows how. Through touch. Through heat. Through mating. Tharek is calm, logical, and sworn to heal without attachment—but once her scent hits his blood, reason burns away. His hands become fire. His restraint becomes hunger. And once he marks her with his ash, ...

A deadly virus originating in China grips the Eastern hemisphere. Chaos reigns as the infection spreads throughout the world with alarming speed. The world's experts rush to cure it, but are they too late? CIA agent Will Reisner and his team head to the South China Sea on a mission - find a lost ship loaded with bio-weapons. But as they search, a terrible virus plagues the local population, leaving them worm-ridden and insane. Worse, the sick refuse to be contained and spread the disease by infecting the healthy. Will joins epidemiologist Selene Munroe in her desperate attempt to keep the ...

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 ...

From Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky comes a far-future epic that confirms his place as a modern master of science fiction, in which a political prisoner must unlock the secrets of a strange and dangerous planet. The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate...

A private investigator is hired to look into a mysterious, high-profile death aboard the starship Halcyon in this fresh new science fiction masterpiece from the "mastersinger of space opera" (The Times) and the creator of the beloved Revelation Space universe. Strap in for a gripping murder...

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 ...