Marine Human

It is AD 2565. When 17-year-old Marine cadet Arun McEwan forges an unlikely friendship with an alien scribe, he crashes into a world of treachery and conspiracy. How can he possibly survive three more years until graduation when every day brings a new deadly threat? But survive he must because his new alien allies show him glimpses of his destiny - a vision of a better future that only he can forge. A dream called the Human Legion.

SIX HUNTERS. ONE HUMAN TARGET. THEY PICKED THE WRONG GUIDE TO HUNT. Deep in the unforgiving Alaska Range, Blackthroat Lodge caters to clients rich enough to buy almost anything. This week, six of them have come for the one hunt money can't legally buy: A human being. They think two hundred miles of frozen wilderness will hide what happens here. They don't know Cole Rourke. A widowed former Recon Marine and master tracker, Rourke can read three days of a man's life in a single boot print. But when the hunt begins, he's stripped of his gear, wounded, and given a four-hour head start. Now he's...

The New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot series returns, taking Roz on an action-packed under-the-ocean journey to save her beloved island! Life for Roz and the animals on their island is perfect. But when mysterious, dangerous waters surround the island, the animals are forced inland to...

“Eunice Wong’s measured pacing and mellow tones perfectly complement Nayler’s provocative exploration of memory, minds, and consciousness.” - Booklist "The theme of the nature of consciousness is equal parts intriguing, thrilling, and eerie. Best of all, it's always compellingly narrated...

The aliens didn't invade. They made an offer that humanity, desperate and starving, couldn’t refuse. Earth is dying. The crops are gone, the governments are mostly gone, and what's left of civilization is running on rationed hope and bad decisions. Then the Veylorians arrive with food, technology, and a contract. One hundred thousand human soldiers per year, to fight their wars across the galaxy. Mark Calder used to save lives for a living. He was a paramedic in New Orleans—bad coffee, impossible hours, patients who diagnosed themselves on WebMD and were wrong every single time. Now, ...

They killed his brother. Then they captured him. Now they’re going to pay. When the Brinlo slavers invade Earth, the collapse is immediate. Cities burn. Survivors are chained and shipped off-world to be sold across the galaxy. Ex-Marine pilot Derek Hamilton is one of them. Beaten, captured, and bound for alien slave markets, Derek refuses to break. He fights his way free—killing his captors mid-transport—and escapes into deep space. But there’s nowhere left to run. Instead, he joins an elite alien strike force waging war against the slave empire… and climbs into the cockpit of an ...

A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Short Stories/Collections A seminal work in Ray Bradbury’s career, The Illustrated Man is a mesmerizing collection of eighteen interconnected sci-fi short stories that explore the dichotomy of human nature and technology. Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. For...

Part H Is for Hawk, part The Soul of an Octopus, The Book of Eels is both a meditation on the world’s most elusive fish—the eel—and a reflection on the human condition. Remarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little, in fact, that scientists and...

There's Nowhere to Run. Nowhere to Hide. Two miles above the ocean floor, the Aegir Deep is the most advanced oil installation ever constructed. It is also a perfect, inescapable trap. When a violent storm severs all communication with the mainland, a forty-two person commissioning crew finds themselves locked inside a steel labyrinth with a killer. The deaths are brutal, calculated, and impossible for any ordinary human to commit. Mechanical systems supervisor Derek Shaw soon realizes the beast hunting them is not a mindless animal that found its way aboard. It is a highly intelligent apex...

The most joyful emanation produced by a colony of bees is known as the “song of increase”—declaring that the hive is flourishing and the bees are happy in its abundance. Song of Increase takes us inside the world of the honeybee to glean the wisdom of these fascinating creatures with whom...

A legendary serial killer stalks the streets of a fantastical city in The Helm of Midnight, the stunning first novel in a new trilogy from acclaimed author Marina Lostetter. In a daring and deadly heist, thieves have made away with an artifact of terrible power—the death mask of Louis Charbon...

The Cage of Dark Hours is the second novel in the epic fantasy trilogy from acclaimed author Marina Lostetter, where the defeat of a serial killer back from the dead has pulled the mask off the myths and magics of a fantastical city. Krona and her Regulators survived their encounter with Charbon...

The shells were arranged in a golden spiral. Naia ran the numbers. The numbers said impossible. Marine biologist Naia Ohta moved to a tiny Hawaiian island to study octopuses and outrun a failed marriage. What she found at the bottom of an ocean trench was older than the island, larger than anything in her taxonomy, and leaving her gifts on the dock—split geodes, arranged shells, beauty placed with the precision of something that wanted her to know it was watching. He has no name she can pronounce. He has tentacles that move stones the size of trees and a garden in the abyss that no human ...

When a Crow Indian acquaintance of Tomlinson’s asks him to help recover relics stolen from his tribe, Doc Ford is happy to tag along—but neither Doc nor Tomlinson realize what they’ve let themselves in for. Their search takes them to the part of Central Florida known as Bone Valley, famous...

Mankind is undergoing rebirth, the new arrivals closely watched by the Selected: the transgenic beings created by the Moirai. The new communities thrive with the aliens' support and peace and security reign on Eridu, as the planet Earth is known by the Moirai and in the galaxy.

'Inspirational’ Ben Fogle 'Incredible' Bear Grylls ‘Extraordinary’ Bill Bailey 13,000KM. 240 days. A journey no one thought possible. ________ What are you capable of when you stop believing your own limits? When Mitch Hutchcraft set out to swim, cycle, run, and climb from the English...

With humanity on the brink of extinction, can one man make a difference? After a hard fought victory, Captain Faulkner's ship is in urgent need of repair. So he heads for Blackthorn, a solitary space station out on the edge of the known universe. A million people call Blackthorn home but when a vast and untamed threat rises up from the depths of space, the station's destruction seems all but assured. Faulkner has fought his fair share of desperate battles in the past but this is one fight he can't win. In order to save lives he's going to have to learn to make sacrifices. But he'll ...

When 17-year-old Maddy Pruitt vanishes from her sleepy town, word on the street is that she ran away. The daughter of an abusive alcoholic with a quick temper, she had every reason to leave in search of something better, and everyone who knew Maddy knew the type of company she kept wasn't always ideal. But when a second 17-year-old girl from a local, affluent family turns up missing shortly after Maddy's disappearance, the circumstances become suspicious. 

THEY BUILT ELEVEN LODGES TO HUNT PEOPLE. COLE ROURKE DESTROYED ONE. NOW HE’S COMING FOR THE NEXT. Seven weeks after surviving Blackthroat, former Recon Marine Cole Rourke has a ruined shooting hand, a stolen ledger—and ten human-hunting lodges left to destroy. His next target is Ashfall: a fortified compound buried in the volcanic wilderness of Kamchatka, run by a trapper who once survived the club’s deadly game… then became its master. The mission should be simple. STRIKE BETWEEN SEASONS. STEAL THE RECORDS. BURN THE LODGE. DISAPPEAR. But twelve beds wait inside Ashfall. Nine are ...

FOOD FOR ELEVEN. TEN PEOPLE. ONE PLACE THAT DOESN’T EXIST. Cole Rourke has spent months following the records left behind by a network that hunted human beings for sport. Then a flour order leads him into the Atacama Desert. At the end of an eighty-one-kilometre road lies Oficina Providencia—a supposedly abandoned nitrate town where a water truck has made the same delivery every Tuesday for nineteen years. Then the money stops. Cole and Mara reach Providencia with one load of water and no guarantee another will follow. Inside, they find a community that officially does not exist. There ...