Ancient Space

Captain Elya Nevers and the Furies face a different kind of danger back home as they bid farewell to fallen comrades, wade into the murky realm of Solaran politics, and hunt for knowledge about the Telos relics—while being hunted themselves. Overmind X is still at large. She’s hungry to get her talons on the next artifact of alien power. Will she find it before the Solarans get their own house in order? And what terrifying existential threat to the galaxy does she become if they’re too late?

The Solaran Defense Forces make the difficult decision to evacuate the colony of Robichar in order to avoid a direct confrontation. But when Captain Elya Nevers gets shot down during the evacuation, his squadron and the admiral in charge have to think fast to rescue their pilot before the Kryl overrun the system.

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.

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 ...

They weren’t heroes. They were restaurant workers with a terrible business plan. Miles Mercer and his coworkers have just lost their jobs aboard a passenger ship when somebody comes up with an idea that sounds almost reasonable after enough drinks: buy an old ship, turn it into a traveling restaurant, and take good food to the people stuck eating bad food at stations, refineries, and frontier settlements. The ship they can afford is The Wayward—an ugly, patched-up old hauler with questionable paperwork, ancient machinery, a surprisingly enormous galley, and considerably more history ...

In this groundbreaking new book, Decoding Göbekli Tepe: Biblical Anatolia & the Watchers, the authors reexamine the ancient site of Göbekli Tepe, offering a compelling new perspective that transforms its traditional interpretation as a communal center into a sacred space for ancestor deification. Key book themes: - Deified Ancestors: The ancients' sought immortality by deifying the first ancestors, regenerating the dead into gods and to the cosmos. Göbekli Tepe's central stone pillars represent deified Adam and Eve in this divine process. Adam is tied to the Sumerian bull-god Anu, ...

As they seek the final pieces of a powerful alien technology, the Solaran Fleet and their xeno nemesis vie for control of the galaxy. If these relics fall into the wrong hands, Overmind X and her rogue swarm will have the advantage in the most deadly space battle the Fleet has ever fought. But a surprise visit from a wealthy and enigmatic patron complicates the admiral’s plans, revealing new mysteries about the ancient technology’s true purpose.

“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...

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 ...

With those fateful words, Bladerunner’s captain placed herself and her crew in the hands of providence. They left Londë in the care of its new Sentinel, Tahlexi Evergarden, and once more braved the void between worlds. Within days, the ship and crew found themselves entering yet another strange new universe but one with unexpected similarities to Earth’s own. Shortly after their arrival, William Thorne implores Captain Omandi to deviate from the Compass’ path.

In school, you probably were told that Cro-Magnon Man appeared about 35 thousand years ago and after 25 thousand years humanity finally got to the Stone Age. We stayed there for another 7 thousand years to get to something called the primitive Bronze Age and then in the past 5 thousand years almost every bit of civilized development occurred. Your teachers told you it happened so you didn’t even question it. Unfortunately, most of that was a lie. Researchers, anthropologists, archeologists, historians, scientists, teachers, and even clergy all knew it or should have known. OK! Some were ...

The Kryl invaded in the dead of night. The Nevers family had to flee. Yuzosix, once their home, must be left behind. Along the way, young Elya Nevers develops a strange habit...he begins to collect bot parts. Something about it soothes him. But this strange obsession soon catapults Elya into an inescapable conflict, one that will shape the man he becomes. And plant the seed of his destiny.

Using a wide array of evidence, coming from several different angles, Keel deftly explains why the winged, birdlike "ancient aliens" are bent on controlling the human race and how they do it. Surprisingly, Keel's research into Mothman could play a key role in deciphering the mystery of ancient aliens - whether or not the human race was actually created, genetically, by giant birdmen mating with earth women, and whether or not there was once a worldwide religion that worshiped Mothman-like gods.

This book might be about women's lib or is it polygamy? Women need to play the main role in space travel and especially colonization. This SF series presents many issues to ponder and suggests some inventions needed for space travel. The series starts in todays world and through forced invention gets mankind into space colonization to save the human race. Most of the science presented is in some stage of development now. If you want to travel for months in space and then create a colony on an empty planet, you need more women than men. On a spaceship, or in a scientific laboratory, women ...

An Introduction to Feng Shui For the Home and Office Dive into the world of Feng Shui with An Introduction to Feng Shui for the Home and Office, a comprehensive guide to understanding and applying this ancient Chinese practice in your daily life. Feng Shui, pronounced "fung shway," uniquely combines art and science, rooted in the laws of heaven and earth, to harmonize and balance energies in any space. This practice has stood the test of time, offering ways to enhance fortune and health through thoughtful arrangement and understanding of your environment. This book serves as a perfect ...

“The Theos await you. Only then will we stop the Unwinding.” The threat of invaders is gone, and Earth has been bartered away as a price for peace. Yet, the human world of New Spero is thriving and full of hope. Joining the rank of the Gatekeepers, Dean and Mary set off to explore worlds connected by the mysterious portals. When they stumble upon a strange symbol, they are led to an ancient object, one that sets them on an unstoppable path. The journey takes them through multiple worlds, before they can find what they’re searching for.

In this part 1 of the Martian Chronicles, Earthman Johnathan Moore never imagined that a single mysterious night in the Arizona desert would transport him to a living Mars—a breathtaking world of towering ancient cities, vast dead sea bottoms, fierce warrior races, and wonders beyond human imagination. Thrown into a dangerous and unfamiliar civilization, Johnathan soon meets Princess Dora Fanti, a courageous and captivating woman whose destiny becomes inseparably linked with his own. As their bond deepens, they find themselves at the center of a crisis that threatens not only their future...

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 ...

Humanity has spoken into the dark. Something ancient has answered. The Galactic Accord was meant to hold the fractured galaxy together. Instead, its first true test may be something no government, fleet, or treaty was built to survive. At the edge of mapped space, Dr. Yenna Sorel discovers that the strange emissions from the DEEPWELL central node are not noise. They are structured. Repeating. Deliberate. A signal. When an unauthorized research collective sends a response, the ancient intelligence beneath the galaxy’s hyperspace network turns toward humanity for the first time in three ...

People at Polar Prep are not what they seem, and the only one looking out for Casey is herself. To survive Renata's torments and keep her fragile existence from tumbling down around her ears, Casey has to be braver than she's ever been. Or risk losing herself altogether.