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In AD 2600, the human race is finally beginning to realize its full potential. Hundreds of colonized planets scattered across the galaxy host a multitude of prosperous and wildly diverse cultures. Genetic engineering has pushed evolution far beyond nature's boundaries, defeating disease and producing extraordinary spaceborn creatures. Huge fleets of sentient trader starships thrive on the wealth created by the industrialization of entire star systems, and throughout inhabited space the Confederation Navy keeps the peace.

Level up. Build your crew. Save the Galaxy. Byron Jones was just another lonely gamer until saving a mysterious old man earned him a once-in-a-lifetime invite to VENUS ONLINE, the most immersive sci-fi VRMMORPG ever created. Inside the game, Byron becomes commander of a starship with a crew of beautiful alien women, each with their own skills, secrets, and charms. But paradise becomes a nightmare when he realizes he can’t log out and the galaxy is ruled by Lady Necralia, a cruel warlord who thrives on the suffering of trapped players. To survive, Byron must grind levels, upgrade his ship,...

From bestselling author M. R. Carey comes a brilliant genre-defying story of humanity's expansion across millions of dimensions—and the AI technology that might see it all come to an end. Perfect for readers of The Space Between Worlds and Adrian Tchaikovsky. INFINITY IS ONLY THE BEGINNING...

From the author of the bestselling The Girl With All the Gifts comes the thrilling conclusion to the spectacular Pandominion duology, an exhilarating science fiction story perfect for fans of The Space Between Worlds, The Long Earth and Children of Time. Two mighty empires are at war - and both...

They refuse to die like they are told. The Republic is dead. Its fleets shattered, its people slaughtered, and its warriors left to die in the void. But not all of them. Sergeant Doug "Blackcat" Ericson is one of the last Ronin—elite special operations armsmen of the fallen Republic—now hunted as terrorists by the same corporate overlords who orchestrated its destruction. For Ericson and his scattered brothers and sisters, survival isn’t enough. The Economic Exchange and its ruthless enforcers, Rentak Corporation, will pay in blood. Tasked with infiltrating Bast Station’s Rentak ...

From Brian Moylan, the writer of Vulture’s legendary Real Housewives recaps, a table-flipping, finger-pointing, halter-topping VIP journey through reality TV’s greatest saga… In the spring of 2006, a new kind of show premiered on Bravo: The Real Housewives of Orange County. Its stars were...

The first in the Night's Dawn trilogy, The Reality Dysfunction is a sweeping, intergalactic adventure from the master of space opera, Peter F. Hamilton. For fans of Iain M. Banks and Alastair Reynolds. An extinct race named this phenomenon 'the Reality Dysfunction'. It is a nightmare that has...

We put an end to the war with the Dark Faction, but still humanity's problems are far from over. More than half of the game's promised tong of safety has elapsed, and yet humankind is no closer to forming a unified front. We've just begun building one of the 12 planetary shield generators necessary to give Earth complete protection, but we don't have enough construction materials, players, or time. Should we ask the parallel magocratic world for help? After all, an invasion from outer space would hurt them just as bad. The mages, though, have plenty of problems of their own.  

War rages on. All seems lost to this immense devastation. Across the galaxy, humanity's last hope may lie in wait. The Naked God is the epic, thrilling conclusion to the Night's Dawn trilogy, from Peter F. Hamilton. The Confederation is verging on collapse, unable to prevent the enemy from...

The hunter becomes the hunted in Gridlinked, the first sci-fi thriller in Neal Asher's compelling Agent Cormac series. When a portal to other planets explodes on Samarkand, thousands are killed and a terraforming project is obliterated. Earth Central Security suspects sabotage – and assigns a...

The galaxy's most peaceful colony hides a god that eats minds. Imperial Special Agent Ayla Rin has been sent to Laundar IV, a quiet outer rim world where ninety percent of the population has plugged themselves into a virtual paradise called the ethernet. The colony reports record happiness. The governor reports record stability. The Imperium reports nothing wrong. But citizens are dying in their pods. Imperial loyalty is collapsing. And something inside the network is whispering of a god named Overmind. Posing as a wandering tourist, Ayla descends into a city of empty streets and golden-...

A LitRPG Sci-Fi Harem Adventure When Alex slips on the cutting-edge VeeAre Deck, he expects a thrilling escape. Instead, he wakes up as Hahn Raynor — a battle-hardened, six-foot-three elite space commando in the middle of a savage interstellar war. Armed with nothing but a pulse rifle, a smart mouth, and a rapidly leveling LitRPG system, Hahn is dropped straight into zero-G combat, orbital invasions, and boarding actions against the ruthless Xar’vok Empire. As he climbs from Level 1 rookie to Level 30 Precursor Warden, he’ll uncover ancient forbidden technology, survive betrayal at ...

They survived the journey. They built a home. Now something else has found them. The colonists of Earth 2.0 have done what once seemed impossible. They survived. Years have passed since Finn Finnegan and the crew of the Resolute arrived on the distant world. Settlements have grown, families have taken root, and former strangers have begun forging a civilization alongside the other inhabitants of their remarkable new home. For the first time, Earth 2.0 is beginning to feel like exactly that. Home. Then another ship arrives. Its passengers bring warnings of an enemy the colonists have never ...

Beyond reality lies a different world where survival hangs by a thread. Be brave and enter that illusive, unknowable place. Travel with me through the worlds of androids hiding from their owners -- cave-dwelling albinos afraid of the world -- security robots with itchy trigger fingers -- aliens in disguise and on the run -- asteroid miners alone and injured -- and ghostly women who may or may not be real. You'll be glad you took the trip. Six stories, six unique and totally different trips to the other side of reality: DELIVERING DEATH THE GUY IN THE CABIN NEXT TO MINE THE NEW KIDS ON THE ...

Dark powers have been unleashed across the galaxy. Will the Alchemist be humanity's saviour – or its doom? Following on from The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist is the second epic novel in the Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton. A seemingly unstoppable force has entered...

Some people dream of monsters. Some dream of final exams. Buckley Rogerson dreams of a starship. A lifelong sci-fi fan and self-confessed dreamer, Buckley is used to vivid dreams. But when a mysterious black cat named Whiskers chooses him at the local shelter, his nights change forever. Suddenly his dreams have continuity. A rank. A captain named Wendy with bright green eyes. And a starship, the Horizon, that smells, sounds, and feels completely real. Is it the ultimate lucid dream for a Star Trek obsessed engineer... or is Whiskers taking him somewhere he was always meant to be?

Welcome to the heights, depths, and absolute absurdities of the fractal universe. The Fractus Project is the gripping and hilarious fourth collection in the New-Classic Science Fiction series. Gathering over twenty masterfully crafted short stories, this anthology flawlessly bridges the gap between laugh-out-loud cosmic blunders and the breath-catching, bone-tingling trials of deep-space survival. From snappy tales of interspecies chaos to mind-bending adventures across parallel realities, Trevor Watts delivers a rich, highly original universe bursting with sharp British wit, believable ...

A propulsive page-turning thriller following the hit reality TV show Garden State Goddesses where secrets are uncovered, intense rivalries surface, and a startling murder propels a producer on a riveting quest for the truth. On this season of Garden State Goddesses: Getting canceled means...

The universe can be made complete. The price is every future it has not chosen. A closing cosmos offers one final solution: preserve the worlds that fit, erase the possibilities that do not. Adira can still feel failing boundaries, but every crossing damages the body that made her indispensable. Caelis has claimed a life beyond Adira’s protection. Across divided communities, survivors attempt a more dangerous design: finite homes linked to open creation, maintained by many hands and controlled by none. Its materials will wear; its reach will never include everyone. To make it real, Adira ...

Prador Moon is one of Neal Asher’s most explosive excursions into the Polity universe. It’s also an action-packed prequel to the dramatic events in Neal Asher's Spatterjay novels. It takes one encounter to turn peace into war . . . The worlds of the Polity stretch from Earth Central into the...