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How can a colony on Mars survive when the greatest danger on the planet is humanity itself. All contact is lost with the first human colony on Mars during a long, intense sandstorm. Satellite imagery of the aftermath shows extensive damage to the facility, and the fifty-four colonists who called it home are presumed dead. Three years later, a new mission sets down on the planet surface to investigate what remains of the derelict site.

Zero, Nyx, and the other Pathfinder colonists have adjusted to life on Kaguya. But Earth has built much faster starships-the Dreamcatcher arrives 10 years early, and the Stargazer arrives so early it actually got there before the Pathfinder did! Now the Stargazer is a lost shipwreck, and the race is on to find it, and who should show up looking for it but Nyx's dangerous family: Big Mama, Jim, and Kratt. Nyx and Zero will face kidnappers, pirates, shipwrecks, warlords, dragons, and maybe a new ally or two on their way to save the day once again.

Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces warrior Jane Sagan, he farms several acres, adjudicates local disputes, and enjoys watching his adopted daughter grow up. That is, until his and Jane's past reaches out to bring them back into the game — as leaders of a new human colony, to be peopled by settlers from all the major human worlds, for a deep political purpose that will put Perry and Sagan back in the thick of interstellar politics, betrayal, and war.

The Ark—humanity’s valiant effort to reach beyond our solar system to establish the first interstellar colony at a distant star. For 300 thousand colonists, the colony brings the promise of a fresh start and for some, a second chance. Connor never meant to escape wrongful imprisonment, nor being put into stasis aboard the Ark. He might be the wrong man for the colony, but he’s the right man to see that it survives what’s coming.

Terror stalks a new world colony. After nearly two hundred years’ travel, humanity’s first deep space colony expedition has arrived at its new home. Ethan, the descendant of six generations who lived and died aboard ship, treads on soil and feels the wind and rain for the first time. But the new planet is not the paradise the scientists predicted. Alien predators lurk beyond the camp’s perimeter, and stowaway saboteurs are determined no one will survive. Tensions in the new colony rise, and Ethan must fight to preserve the last hope of humankind.

Orphaned on a struggling colony world, Finn was barely scraping out a living when he stumbled upon a life-changing discovery—an intact alien spaceship. Ill-prepared, but forced to flee the local crime syndicate, he stakes his future on surviving the starways with the extraordinary living ship and a mysterious spidery creature. But freedom among the starways is far from easy in a sector that is expanding faster than it can be regulated. Finn’s perils only get worse when his past begins to catch up with him. Some journeys require bold decisions, some need stout friendship, but truly ...

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...

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...

An electric blend of sci-if and horror, Paradise-1 begins a terrifying new trilogy of exploration and survival in deep space from Arthur C. Clarke Award-nominated author David Wellington. "A superior space thriller that never flags....Readers will be on the edge of their seats." —Publishers...

This program includes original sound design. From science fiction visionary Annalee Newitz comes The Terraformers, a sweeping, uplifting, and illuminating exploration of the future. Destry's life is dedicated to terraforming Sask-E. As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, she cares for the...

This author has over 4,500 four- and five-star ratings on Amazon What does a wealthy businessman do when he becomes bored with his life of luxury and ease? Imagine secretly buying his passage onto the first interstellar sleeper ship. After a hundred years traveling on the ship, he will wake on a virgin planet with unspoiled seas, vast continents, clean air, and new challenges to face. It all sounds perfect. maybe too perfect. A chance to start over again, prove his mettle. It may be a good plan... but nothing ever works out that easy. A daughter with a mind of her own, the Earth-First ...

Cassandra Thompson is the first Earth reporter with access to the classified Martian research colony of Darwin. While reporting on Darwin's transition to a free colony she quickly discovers the citizens are barely clinging to survival. Neighborhoods are split by race and class, robots make human labor obsolete, and anarchists and nationalists wrestle for control. Caught up in Darwin's power struggle, Cassandra must find a way to stop a civil war, outsmart local thugs, and avert a robot takeover, all before filing her next report.

An ex-cop who cannot die. A moon full of settlers who cannot thrive. Mahina's terraformers built a high-tech urban paradise. Then Earth flooded the colony with desperate refugees, cop Sass Collier among them. The settlers who arrived with Sass died decades ago. Outside the citadel, their descendants die weak and young. Sass fought a rebellion against the city once. She won concessions to give the settlers a chance at health. She paid with 20 years in prison.

Desperation has become a way of life for people on an overpopulated Earth. In a world that places a high value on wealth and a cheap price on human life, you take what is left: even if it is a shanty underground, crawling with bugs and covered in rot. In this dystopian space opera, Xan aches to break away from the chains that destiny has shackled upon him, not just for himself, but also to redeem his family from poverty and give them the life they deserve. As various advertisements fight for his attention, only one stands out to him: a new life on Mars. The golden land of promise and ...

In 1587, one hundred and seventeen English men, women, and children established a settlement on Roanoke Island, among them the first English child born in the Americas, Virginia Dare. Three years later they were gone, having vanished from their small village, leaving behind no sign of a struggle. The only clue to their fate was a single, cryptic word carved into a wooden post: CROATOAN. This work provides a complete and unflinching history of England's first attempts to forge an empire in the New World, set against the backdrop of the nation's epic rivalry with Spain. It meticulously ...

Agetha has survived many more battles than she anticipated when she first landed on her new home planet. She's older and wiser, has gained family and lost loved ones. And yet her reward for four decades of service is to be pushed to the colony's outer edges with the other aging Generationals. But that was only the beginning of her adventure.

The 'Crusades' series comes to a conclusion in this extra-large fourth book! "It is time to do what's necessary." Across Human space, national governments squabble over resources, borders, and the millions of refugees from an evacuated Earth. In Palani space, the members of the Pentarch Council continue their centuries-old political games of scheming, deceit, and assassination. Lifelong soldier Mahasa Zura Varta tries to stand apart from it all, governing her outlying sector while the infighting and animosity comes to a boil all around her. Meanwhile, Zura's adoptive daughter Yaella returns...

MAD JACK: SPACE MARINE He’s been rebuilt, betrayed, shot, stabbed, and set on fire—and that was just last week. Mad Jack is the Accord’s worst-kept secret: a combat-tested operative with a bad habit of surviving missions that should’ve ended in body bags. When the galaxy’s first alien emissaries arrive claiming peace, Jack’s the only one who smells a setup—and the only one crazy enough to stop it. What follows is a trail of sabotage, clones, psychic warfare, and something called a Seedmother (trust us, you don’t want to know). And when a rift capable of swallowing entire ...

Three women. One soldier. An alien world trying to kill us before we can decide if we trust each other. I was a soldier until I was convicted of a crime I didn’t commit and exiled to a distant planet to help colonize it. When our ship went down, I thought surviving the crash would be the hard part. I was wrong. The planet’s crawling with predators. We’re running out of food and water. And every night, the cold creeps in a little more. The only people I can rely on are three women who are smart, stubborn, and far too distracting for their own good. Staying alive means staying focused. ...

In the year 3152, humanity is at war with three species who suppress our existence. While one is more ruthless than the others, our species is viewed as an unstable threat to the galactic balance. Resources are finite, battle is ubiquitous, and the enemies of Earth are unrelenting. The average human is born to fight for the species’ survival, deprived of a normal life so that one day a future generation may know peace. The expansions of Alpha Centauri are under siege while the Wolf System is down to just a few outposts. Not all is lost, though.