Aliens Science Technology

THE TRIAL: THE LIVING WORLDS SAGA, BOOK 2 A queen accused. A witness condemned. A world learning how to speak. Queen Camilla Aurelia Ilaris rules a glittering court built above buried crimes. When Ilara’s deepest archives reveal an old accord that should never have been hidden, the discovery threatens the crown, the noble houses, and the sacred Brotherhood of Dydax. Titus Alaric Mirth came to Ilara as a disciplined envoy of that Brotherhood. But the evidence he carries makes him dangerous to the very institution that raised him. When his Order demands silence and Ilara’s enemies turn ...

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space opera about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all. "Tchaikovsky is the breakout star of contemporary British SF." —Guardian The war is over. Its...

Nia Imani wakes from cryo-sleep to find her crew dead, her ship crippled, and fifty minutes of empty space between her and the nearest human voice. Bolted to the hull of her salvage vessel is something that shouldn't exist: an alien megastructure three million years old, built by a civilization long since turned to dust. It's a Relay — one node in a galaxy-spanning network designed to regulate the energy output of stars. Including ours. The Relay is failing. Earth's sun is dimming. And the only mind left to explain any of it is Sil — the station's ancient artificial consciousness, who ...

The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life -- but it was their mission to...

This bestseller from a Pulitzer Prize finalist gives readers the complete untold story of the top-secret military base for the first time. "Compellingly hard-hitting." —New York Times It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn't exist. Located a mere seventy-five...

The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Earth failed. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its precious human cargo to...

The biggest mystery of our era finally gets the balanced and unbiased investigation it deserves. ANTIGRAVITY PROPULSION: Human or Alien Technologies? is a far-reaching exploration into the UFO phenomenon that covers all possible scenarios and discounts nothing. Written by novelists, filmmakers and independent researchers James Morcan & Lance Morcan, with a foreword by advanced interstellar propulsion systems expert Grant Hayman and an afterword by leading scientist and space industry veteran Dr. Takaaki Musha, one of the great enigmas of all time is examined with equal doses of open-...

Are you bored with bedtime stories about princes and princesses, gnomes, wizards, and dragons? Do you want something more realistic, closer to our time? Do you also need bedtime stories to make sense, teach a moral lesson, and raise interesting topics? Everything you need is here! A Collection of Fantastic Short Bedtime Stories for kids contains 10 five-minute fantasy stories that you can read aloud to your child before going to bed. No princesses here–these stories are about space, other planets, aliens, artificial intelligence, robots, cloning, portals, and modern technologies. There ...

The worst ship in the fleet. The last captain anyone wanted. One dying colony, forty days from running out of air. Eddie Bohannon used to be a legend. Once, he could hear the old star-roads sing. He ran impossible threads, saved lives, broke records, and made the kind of name people toasted in frontier bars. Then came the Magpie. Twenty-six dead. One inquiry. Five years grounded at the bottom of the galaxy, drinking in the dark and trying not to hear the roads anymore. Then Harbor goes quiet. The colony’s thread-routes are souring one by one, ships are shearing apart in the dark, and ...

David Weber's New York Times bestselling Safehold series of military Science Fiction adventure, which began with Off Armageddon Reef, continues with Midst Toil and Tribulation WAR AND FAMINE Once the Church of God Awaiting dominated all the kingdoms of Safehold. Then, after centuries of stasis...

A jungle full of monsters. A soldier with no memory. And the two women he’ll tear this moon apart to keep alive. Leo wakes up in an alien hellhole with no name, no past, and combat reflexes that shouldn’t be possible. He heals from broken bones in hours. He sees in total darkness. He kills things twice his size without thinking. His body knows how. His mind doesn’t. Gunfire in the swamp. Two women. A dozen mutated freaks closing in. Cinder, a chrome-laced corporate operative with mechanical eyes and secrets she won’t share. Eva, a combat medic with abilities just like Leo’s and ...

In the depths of Europa's frozen ocean, an ancient intelligence awakens... The year is 2100, and humanity has expanded throughout the solar system. When a routine scan of Jupiter's moon Europa reveals an artificial structure hidden beneath the ice, a joint military-scientific expedition rushes to investigate. Among them is Dr. Elias Reeves, a brilliant xenolinguist with an unusual neurological condition that's about to become his greatest asset. Beneath Europa's frozen surface, Elias discovers he alone can interface with ATHENA, the ship's ancient artificial intelligence. As their ...

For fans of John Scalzi’s wry humor and Becky Chambers’ warmth, The Prospector is a first contact story where the alien isn’t here to conquer—he’s here to loot the gift shop. In this present-day science fiction novel, Earth confronts an alien invasion. But not from a marauding army. It’s just one guy who got a bad tip. Jacob is a Prospector. He makes a living discovering lost civilizations on long dead-worlds and selling off their cultural relics. And now he’s chasing a hot lead about a world where the population has only recently perished due to climate change. The artifacts ...

“There’s a lot of things they didn’t tell me when I signed on with this outfit.” That’s what Sam Washington discovered after getting hired as Spaceport Director on Space Station Zion. Everyone hated his predecessor — a retired Navy cook who shut down the station drives, started an illegal space patrol, and let her relatives bleed the budget dry — so now everyone hates Sam. Still, since he took the job, Sam considers it his duty to get the place back in shape. But angry admirals want to kick civilians off the station. A profit-crazed board member is trying to crack open a moon ...

When geologist and construction engineer Jack Sutter accidentally breaches a buried extraterrestrial installation beneath the New Mexico desert, he triggers a chain of events that exposes a secret long concealed from the public. His discovery leads him to a covert government facility where alien technology is being studied, replicated, and weaponized. Forced into hiding, Sutter joins forces with a brilliant but troubled engineer who once helped develop the very technology now being used to hunt them. Together they uncover a conspiracy involving alien hybrids, secret military factions, and a...

“Outstanding…Amid a space opera resurgence, Bear’s novel sets the bar high.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A space salvager and her partner make the discovery of a lifetime that just might change the universe in this wild, big-ideas space opera from Hugo Award–winning author...

The Claimed by the Kyrathi Collection brings together four scorching sci-fi alien romances where advanced technology, primal desire, and fated bonds collide. These powerful Kyrathi males claim the human women who ignite their instincts and refuse to let them go. This complete collection includes: Bonded to the Iron Guardian Bonded to the Alloy Sovereign Bonded to the Nano Healer Bonded to the Neural Hunter Each novella in the Claimed by the Kyrathi Collection is a standalone romance featuring fated mates, possessive alien protectors, forced proximity, power imbalances, and the perfect ...

For fans of Dennis E. Taylor, John Scalzi, and Andy Weir—a first contact story where the aliens don’t want our planet. They want our cigarettes. Charles Haley is unemployed, nearly broke, and desperate enough to accept a job offer he can barely hear over construction noise. He misses the part about artificial intelligence and alien species. All he catches is that someone wants him to run an import/export business. The product? Medical devices from beyond the stars that can cure any disease—including his fourteen-year-old daughter Suzy’s fatal bone condition. The price? Marlboros and...

Humanity pushed its way to the stars—and encountered the Gbaba, a ruthless alien race that nearly wiped us out. Earth and her colonies are now smoldering ruins, and the few survivors have fled to distant, Earth-like Safehold, to try to rebuild. But the Gbaba can detect the emissions of an...

Revenger is a rocket-fueled tale of space pirates, buried treasure, and phantom weapons, of unspeakable hazards and single-minded heroism. . . and of vengeance. . . Adrana and Fura Ness are the newest crew members of the legendary Captain Rackamore's ship, using their mysterious powers as Bone...