Aliens Science Technology

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 ...

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 ...

Effie didn’t intend to bring death and destruction to Earth. But when Enforcers close in, Special Agent EAFY584 crashes her stolen starship into an uncharted solar system, and the only habitable planet is one its inhabitants call Earth. Good news: she can pass for a human teenager. Bad news: standard Enforcer protocol is to sterilize any world where a fugitive might be hiding. Now Effie has to warn an entire civilization that extinction is coming. There’s just one problem, nobody believes her. She tells the government she’s an alien. She tells them an invasion fleet is on its way. All...

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...

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...

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.The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one chance discovery . . . Idris has neither aged...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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...

Disclosure Day: Interview Two – Faith After Contact What if First Contact doesn’t just challenge science—but the spiritual foundation of humanity? Thirty-three days before Disclosure Day, Dr. Lena Morales is recruited into a classified initiative under Project AEON. Her assignment isn’t technical—it’s theological: engage leaders from Earth’s most prominent religions to assess how global faith traditions might respond to the imminent confirmation of intelligent extraterrestrial life. “Will their doctrines bend, break—or reveal quiet preparation? Through a series of high-...

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 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 ...

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...

This book is an overview of both the history of aliens and UFOs, as well as a review of hidden aerospace and propulsive technologies. Where did these technologies come from? And how have they developed in the intervening years? Also, I try to answer some questions of how likely some of these claims are - because some things having to do with UFOs and aliens are much more documented than others. There are also many alien-related and secret programs that most of you listeners may have never heard of. The most interesting ones are summarized here.

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...

Intergalactic Junkyard A Cosmic Scrap-Yard Adventure Full of Robots, Spaceships, and Galactic Chaos Welcome to the strangest junkyard in the universe. At the edge of the galaxy sits a place where broken spaceships, alien robots, battle tanks, and mysterious machines are dumped and forgotten. Most people think it’s just scrap. They’re wrong. When Uncle Ryan, an inventive tinkerer with big ideas, brings Jacob, Sybil, and Mathew to explore the legendary Intergalactic Junkyard, they discover something incredible hiding among the mountains of metal. Old machines are waking up. Strange alien ...