Human Colonies

Flack can steal anything, except his freedom, but he only needs one advantage to escape: her. Irena I am nothing to the this merciless pirate crew but a scarred, unwanted human. Sent to clean cages, endure insults, and stay invisible. Until the day I meet him; Flack. He watches me like I’m something rare instead of ruined. His voice low and dangerous, his promises even more so. I know better than to trust a pirate… especially one who looks at me like he already owns me. I might not have a choice when the ship steers into danger even this ruthless crew can’t avoid. Flack Captured by ...

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...

Perfect for an entry-level sci-fi reader and the ideal addition to a veteran fan’s collection, John Scalzi's Old Man’s War will take audiences on a heart-stopping adventure into the far corners of the universe. John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave...

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...

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 – ...

Twice abducted. That’s me—always unlucky until I met him. Kara I never thought I'd end up homeless inside a terrifying alien spaceport. Everyone seems out to get me, with danger lurking around every corner—until I meet him. Rex is huge, four-armed, and always silent, thanks to a knot of scars on his throat. He doesn’t need words to draw me out from my hiding spot; his gestures say it all. With him, I’m safe. His touch sets my blood on fire, and his protectiveness may be the only thing standing between me and more enemies than I care to count. Rex I never thought I’d find my mate...

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...

John Scalzi's eagerly anticipated sequel to the extraordinary Old Man's War The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations. They're young, they're fast...

How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history? I ask because it's what I have to do. I'm Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match to save humanity, or to see it fall. Witness to...

The first FTL Level Ten starship. A colony under siege. A secret directive. An enemy as territorial as rattlesnakes. In the year 2199, Earth Alliance President Thomase Baruti commissions the EAS Dauntless—the fastest ship ever built—to spearhead exploration of the Constellation Cetus. Captain Noah Fletcher accepts the mission, but before the Dauntless can venture into deep space, it must make a critical stop: Tau Ceti Seven, where the mining colony has gone dark following a violent attack from the planet’s primitive natives. Under orders classified “Top Secret,” Fletcher’s true ...

The arrangement was supposed to be simple. No feelings. No family. And definitely no permanent claiming. I’m done playing the perfect daughter. When my family’s iron grip threatened to turn my life into a corporate merger, I struck a deal with the only man as desperate as I was: Lieutenant Kael Theron. He’s an uptight, infuriatingly proper Vraxian officer whose career just hit a dead end, and he needs a fiancée to save his reputation. The plan was easy—fake the engagement, buy some breathing room, and walk away clean. Except nothing about Kael is "clean." He’s rigid. Controlled. ...

Fans of Jurassic Park and Interstellar will love Extinction in Time. Mars is dying. Humanity’s last survivors flee their collapsing world aboard the starship Endurance in search of a new home. Instead, they are hurled 2.7 billion years into the future. At first, the planet they discover looks like salvation. Endless oceans. Perfect atmosphere. A world untouched by civilization. Then they discover the truth. Earth belongs to the dinosaurs. And an extinction-level asteroid is already on its way. Now the survivors face an impossible choice: Save themselves... or save a world that was never ...

The moving, inspiring David-and-Goliath true story of freedom and justice involving one tiny nation in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa, and the extraordinary woman, a descendant of slaves, who dared to take on the Crown and the United Kingdom—and win a historic victory In 1973, on the...

What if the first English colony in America never vanished, but lived on in silence, hidden within another world? In The Last Signal: Tracing a Carved Word, a Vanished Colony, and the Mystery That Shaped America, historian and storyteller Rowan Edevane revisits one of history’s most haunting enigmas, the disappearance of the Roanoke Colony, and transforms it into a powerful tale of endurance, humanity, and truth. When Governor John White returned to Roanoke in 1590, he found an empty settlement and a single word carved into a post: CROATOAN. For centuries, that word has echoed through ...

You are going to love this book as it will most certainly eliminate many of the questions you are having about the Old Testament of the Bible. Unlike what you possibly were told, there are actually 12 different Genesis books written during ancient times. Some were source books for Moses writing his version, but all have been accepted in one way or another by Christian groups around the world. By Cross-comparison, instead making up missing potions, we follow the Apostle Paul's command to read "All SCRIPTURES FOR ENLIGHTENMENT". Don't push truth away truth for comfort or desire to have ...

Only the most desperate colonists dare to make a new home on Hellhole. Reeling from a recent asteroid impact, tortured with horrific storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and churning volcanic eruptions, the planet is a dumping ground for undesirables, misfits, and charlatans…but also a...

Mars will be the battleground for the fate of humanity—and the future of an alien civilization—in this gripping science-fiction suspense novel. Against all odds, Lt. Ryan Braeder has kept the colonists on Europa alive, forging the refugees into a community and the ice-covered moon into a...

A mercenary outcast with a perversion no one cared to think about. A holy leader, who knows her people are on the verge of great upheaval - and who wants to know more about this new tribe of demons. A battle-mother, possibly the greatest battle-mother who ever lived - if the rules of her tribe don't force her into a battle even she can't win. A keeper of the secrets of history who would control the tides of fate - if only she could. A paleobiologist with a terrible sense of humor. They are all revolutionaries, but none of them expected anything like what they're about to experience.

Three engineered worlds. Three failing shelters. Three forms of survival that may no longer belong to humanity. In The Last City Under Glass, Noemi Strake repairs the dome that keeps millions alive beneath a poisoned atmosphere. When she sees a weather-changed survivor moving outside the glass — carrying evidence tied to her dead father — she uncovers the truth Aurel Station has buried for decades: the monsters outside may still be citizens, and the city’s leaders may be preparing to sacrifice the poor to preserve the machine. In Moonfall Station, mining supervisor Garran Dorne ...

Rise from the Ashes: Book 1 in the From the Ashes series The old legends spoke of an age when countless worlds were linked by the stars—until a devastating war against a mysterious enemy shattered an interstellar civilisation and plunged every surviving colony into darkness. Most dismissed the stories as myth. They were wrong. When an experimental propulsion engine accidentally opens a path to another star, the crew of the exploration vessel Pathfinder become the first humans to leave their home system in four millennia. Expecting to find barren worlds, they instead discover something ...