Future Space

In the underground world of crime, Jet Rusco clashes with gangsters and space thugs. He’s a man who lives on the edge, turned to hustling to survive. A heist gone bad centering on alien tech leads him on a dodgy adventure, forces him to find allies. Who can he trust? Rough-boy Marty, headstrong Deidra, the tech-savvy TK, the kickbutt Wren? Wracked with self doubts and with bounty hunters on his tail, Rusco finds his choices bringing him face to face with a mystical despot who if left unchecked, will subjugate the human-populated free colonies. The question is, can Rusco outwit his enemies...

The author of the #1 bestselling Twilight series delivers a gripping story of love and betrayal in a future where the fate of humanity is at stake. Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their...

A "pacy, smartly reported" (Financial Times) account of the historic quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space led by two rival billionaires The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes into the epic resurrection of...

The Terran Confederacy of Aligned Systems has come to the defense of the Unified Civilized Species Council, moving an astounding weight of metal and troops into UCC space. With the Unified Military Council unable to withstand the Precursor Autonomous War Machines more and more local species and local system leaders are calling for assistance from the Terran Confederacy. In the Telkan System, successfully defended against the Precursor Autonomous War Machines only a year before, a new threat is unveiled as the Unified Council reveals the instruments that carry out their million year long ...

More than half a century after humans first walked on the Moon, exciting new space adventures are in the works. Thanks to major advances in rocketry, robotics, and other space technologies, humanity is on the verge of returning to the Moon, exploring Mars, building permanent orbiting space stations, expanding space tourism, and pushing the boundaries of exploration throughout the solar system and beyond. The Future of Space Exploration explores these exciting developments in 12 half-hour episodes, hosted by aerospace engineer and executive Dr. Ariel Ekblaw.

(Books 1–8 in this eleven-book collection are also included in the Starships in the Abyss: Complete Eight-Book Box Set, presented there with different packaging and artwork. If you already own that collection, please note that only Books 9, 10, and 11 in this edition are additional titles.) 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 ...

OUT OF TIME – LAUNCH POINT (Book 1) A colony ship launches toward humanity’s hope… and arrives four centuries too late. In 2258 the Aurora leaves Saturn’s shipyards carrying hundreds of scientists, colonists, and the frozen genetic archive of an entire civilization. Their destination: Kepler-452 b, an Earth-class world 1 400 light-years away. Thanks to antimatter drives and a bleeding-edge Alcubierre warp bubble, the one-way trip will take the crew just twelve subjective months… while millennia race by back home. Captain Aveline Morrow leads a hand-picked team: John Ferris – ...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography and leading geopolitics expert comes an “insightful, hopeful, and endlessly fascinating” (Daily Express) book on today’s new space race and the geopolitics of space—including the increasingly tense power struggle...

In the heart of the Australian desert, aging geneticist Joaquim Moreau discovers an extraordinary molecule. Instant healing. Cellular rejuvenation. The disappearance of once-incurable diseases. The miracle cure of the century. And the key to unimaginable wealth. But the molecule hides two secrets. The first: an absolute dependency. Those who take it stop wanting, working, hoping. Its victims sink into a peace so perfect it becomes lethal. The Indigenous peoples of Australia knew this substance and had forbidden it for millennia. The second is even more unsettling: in rare carriers of a ...

Hannah Arendt’s insightful observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute an impassioned contribution to political philosophy. In Between Past and Future Arendt describes the perplexing crises modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of...

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 ...

When a catastrophic disaster cripples the International Space Station, the balance of power shatters overnight. The United States and China race to seize control of orbit—because whoever dominates space controls the future of humanity. But the disaster wasn’t an accident. As governments mobilize and private space companies push dangerous new technology to the brink, a smoldering conspiracy for world domination ignites a war no one can stop.

Smugglers. Thieves. Pirates. The Sea Rover's crew embodies these defining qualities. Immerse yourself in a Science Fiction Adventure box set written by author C.P. MacDonald. Witness Captain Calin Aku's evolution from the most wanted outlaw on the Moon to an unexpected if reluctant hero. Job by job, paycheck by paycheck, he keeps flying. However, with a new client comes a cascade of adventure, forging unusual alliances and unraveling amazing mysteries. These revelations don't just alter the lives of Calin and his crew but also reshape humanity's future. Join Calin Aku and his crew as they ...

In 2004, Navy pilots encountered something impossible off the coast of San Diego. The Tic Tac incident became the most documented UAP case in history, and the most ignored. Twenty years later, oceanographer Dr. Morgan Hale discovers why. Morgan sees patterns others miss. Seven miles beneath the Pacific, her acoustic sensors detect a repeating signal anchored to the Mariana Trench. Seventy-two hour cycles. Harmonic intervals. Coordinated across every ocean floor on Earth. When she isolates the pattern, the timeline becomes clear: contact is coming. And it's not random. It's scheduled. With ...

(This collection contains books that are also included in the Renegades of the Void Complete Series Box Set, presented here with different packaging and artwork. Please check the included titles before purchasing to avoid buying books you already own.) 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 ...

The first three books in this all-action sci-fi adventure series all in one volume! In the far future, two major factions are locked in a galactic cold war. As tensions mount between the technocratic Union and the genome-harnessing Concordance, both sides anxiously watch for a chance to conquer the other. The Nepenthe is a pirate vessel, loyal to neither. Led by the enigmatic Captain Dangard, her rough and ready crew includes the cat-like alien Commander Creull, Zeno the immortal synthetic, the dashing Garrett Strand, and Duncan Hauk, a promising young recruit.

Upon his death in 1988, Robert A. Heinlein left a legacy of novels and short stories that almost single-handedly defined modern science fiction. But one of Heinlein's masterpieces was never finished. In 1955, he began work on Variable Star, a powerful and passionate tale of two young lovers...

The signal answers 3.9 milliseconds before anyone calls it. A dead channel on a diplomatic ship. A garden array that was never built to receive. A silence between prime numbers that turns out not to be silence. Nine crews, nine worlds, one narrow band of the spectrum. Every instrument returns the same reading, and the same impossible line: no direction. Every observer is acknowledged. Nine Edenroot Press authors each take the transmission somewhere different, into first contact, quiet horror, a cover-up nobody will sign, and the kind of hope that costs something to hold. Between the stories...

A hidden alien species poised to ignite galactic war. And an explosive discovery by two soldiers that could shatter an Empire. Some secrets are buried for a reason. Warfront Avaroa is the first book in an epic military science-fiction series for fans of The Forever War and Terms of Enlistment. From New York Times bestselling author Douglas E. Richards and U.S. Army armored forces veteran J.T. Merrick. In a galaxy-spanning Empire that has brought miraculous technologies to humanity, the distant jungle world of Avaroa remains a festering wound—a decades-long insurgency that refuses to die. ...

Hero or killer? In a startling future that's coming closer every year, Chet Kinsman is an astronaut ace who has done everything one can in space—including commit the first murder. It's a secret he can never escape, not even on the moon, where he's head of the first US lunar colony. A series of...