Explorations First Contact

A gravitational anomaly beyond Neptune. No radiation. No propulsion signature. No reason to exist. When deep-space instruments detect an object that defies every law of physics, Commander Elena Markovic and theoretical physicist Dr. Kaito Suresh are dispatched aboard the vessel Aegis to intercept it before it reaches Earth orbit. What they find is not an invasion force. It’s something far stranger. The object doesn’t travel through space. It rewrites space, altering the fundamental constants of physics around itself, converting vacuum energy as a mode of transportation. As the Aegis ...

The road between the stars was not built for us. But we found it. At a multinational deep-space observatory orbiting Jupiter, theoretical physicist Dr. Alina Rao detects an anomaly in the spacetime curvature at the planet’s L2 Lagrange point. It is precise. It is periodic. And it is not natural. What begins as a measurement becomes a revelation: a quantum phase corridor, engineered, ancient, and stretching thousands of light-years into the galaxy. When a probe is sent to investigate and returns molecularly transformed, carrying atoms forged in another star, Rao and her team must confront ...

Twenty kilometres beneath Europa’s ice, a probe finds something that should not exist, and the one person who wanted this discovery most is the one who now has to protect it from her own species. Mara has spent eighteen months alone at Calypso, a four-module habitat drilled into the ice of Jupiter’s moon, watching a probe named Orpheus creep downward at three metres a day toward an ocean no instrument has ever touched. Then, on an ordinary afternoon, the pressure readings drop to zero. Orpheus has broken through, into water that has been sealed in darkness for longer than complex life ...

A lost probe returns from interstellar darkness carrying an offering humanity cannot safely refuse, or fully understand. Fifteen years ago, the Prometheus mission vanished beyond the edge of the solar system. Its signal died. Its crew was gone. Its story was over. Then Prometheus comes back. Now retired scientist Dr. Nell Hadfield, the woman who designed the probe’s autonomous mind, is pulled into a global crisis when the impossible spacecraft reappears in Earth orbit, broadcasting a signal unlike anything humanity has ever seen. What begins as a scientific mystery becomes something far ...

The war for Earth is just the opening act. The Xortaag armada has never lost a war. Now their ships blot out Earth’s sky, and our last line of defense is four people who should absolutely not be in charge of saving the world: A movie-quoting pilot with a death wish. A stuntwoman who treats danger like a hobby. A silent assassin with a body count, not a personality. And a paranoid cosmic spymaster who trusts no one. Their fight starts in Earth’s orbit… then tears through wormholes, broken timelines, and clashing alternate universes. Every choice echoes across multiple Earths in the ...

After a mysterious explosion robs Scott Miller of almost everything he holds dear, one incredible discovery changes everything: A crashed spaceship. Deep in the Santa Monica Mountains, the down-on-his-luck wildlife ranger senses a path to redemption. For his sci-fi-obsessed son Matty, their discovery is a wondrous miracle. For Scott, it’s a smoking gun for the far-reaching conspiracy that destroyed his life. But the greatest surprise of all lies within the wreckage: A frightened alien, lost and alone, whose next moves may determine the very fate of humanity…

"It started out with a bang and just got better." -Goodreads reviewer Over 1,000 pages of nonstop action! If there's one thing Adam Eckhart knows, it's that humans are trouble. After all, he is one. As captain of the Marathon, a cobbled-together ship crewed by aliens and androids scraping by on odd jobs at the outskirts of settled space, Adam has plenty to worry about without adding his own species to the mix. But when a pair of mortally wounded humans cross his path during a heist gone wrong, he finds himself compelled to save them. Big mistake. Because if there's one more thing Adam knows...

Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed stand-alone novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Who will inherit this new Earth? The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age - a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden.

One ship. A crew of misfits. An empire that wants them vaporized. What could go wrong? Five Books. Over 2000 pages of pulse-pounding action, heart-wrenching drama, and enough snark to fuel a starship. Captain Xander Hawk sacrificed everything to rescue a doomed transport—his career, his freedom, and any chance of seeing his wife and daughter again. His reward? Life imprisonment in the galaxy's worst hellhole, where the only thing worse than the inmates is the food. But when a ragtag crew of misfits, con artists, and battle-scarred warriors break him out, Hawk discovers his sacrifice was ...

ONE SHIP. ONE DISCOVERY. NO GOING BACK. Overseeing a mining operation in the middle of nowhere on a warship with more bark than bite, Captain Frank Olsen has a problem. A chance discovery has suddenly thrown his dig into the galactic spotlight and every power in the region, both friend and foe, is descending on Olsen's location. It's soon clear that what they've found isn't just a curiosity. It's something far more sinister. As Olsen struggles to hold the line, a new alien race appears and the balance of power in the galaxy begins to shift. With time running out and help light-years away, ...

The mission was supposed to be simple. Cross the void. Build the colony. Make history. Eighteen months into humanity’s first interstellar voyage, a routine engine burn reveals an anomaly that shouldn’t exist. A gravitational disturbance with no natural explanation. A structure in the void between stars, metallic, massive, and older than human civilisation. Commander Isaac Rowe has four percent fuel margin and three hundred and twelve lives depending on his decisions. Astrophysicist Elara Mendez has data that defies every model she’s built. Engineer Pavel Ionescu has a drive being ...

A galaxy-conquering alien armada… …has just knocked on Earth’s door, and it did not come bearing cookies. An unstoppable fleet is busy steamrolling its way across the cosmos, one planet at a time, and humanity is next on the menu. Standing between them and total universal doom is the least likely Avengers lineup ever assembled: a rule-breaking starfighter ace, a stuntwoman who treats gravity like a polite suggestion, a super-assassin with more ways to kill you than you have bones, and a wisecracking alien prankster who thinks reality is his personal toy box. Their job? Protecting not ...

Newly discovered technology is brought back to Earth after a salvage mission. Many promises are made with this new tech, but the embedded tech goes terribly wrong. Now mankind faces a hostile alien takeover.

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...

What truths lie in the black void between the stars? It’s late September 2019 when a young astronomer working at the Haleakala Space Observatory in Maui, Hawaii, accidentally spots a black dot in the night sky and is calculated to be closely trailing Earth by only seventy-five million miles…on the same ecliptic plane. NASA launches an unmanned probe to Earth’s nearest neighbor, given the name ILK-87b. The images coming back from the black planet both shock and amaze those inside the halls of NASA. Curiosity, fear, and dread overcome insiders as infrastructure is detected on the black ...

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...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A “thrilling and superbly crafted” (The Wall Street Journal) account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day. One of...

AN INVASION. A CONSPIRACY. ONE SHOT AT REDEMPTION. Three never-before-published books bundled together! The Lost Galaxy series follows the adventures of a lone lawman, his aging and possibly insane spaceship, and a trio of mercenaries, new recruits, and hardened criminals who are all swept together behind an alien invasion that could wipe out humanity. As Provincial Sergeant Jack Bowman and his ragtag group race to save themselves and warn humanity of the invasion force, they learn that there is more at stake than anyone—human or alien—could have guessed. A conspiracy could bring down ...

Over 1,600+ pages of pulse-pounding action, heart-wrenching drama, and enough snark to fuel a starship. They said saving twelve million lives would make him a hero. They were wrong. Captain Xander Hawk sacrificed everything to rescue a doomed transport—his career, his freedom, and any chance of seeing his wife and daughter again. His reward? Life imprisonment in the galaxy's worst hellhole, where the only thing worse than the inmates is the food. But when a ragtag crew of misfits, con artists, and battle-scarred warriors break him out, Hawk discovers his sacrifice was just the beginning. ...

Welcome to the Saloon Sector, Deputy! Thelma Bach graduated top of her class after four years at the Galactic Justice academy. But she’s a Rock Sector citizen. She was a fool to believe the core worlders would ever allow her to beat them at their own game. She’s been assigned to serve her seven years as a deputy in the Saloon Sector. The message for the Federation’s out-world citizens is clear: you’ll never be our equal, so don’t even try. The core worlders chose the wrong person to push around. Assigned to the despised frontier, Thelma will get her revenge even if she has to ...