Science Adventure

Zachary Quinto - best known for his role as the Nimoy-approved Spock in the recent Star Trek reboot and the menacing, power-stealing serial killer, Sylar, in Heroes - brings his well-earned sci-fi credentials and simmering intensity to this audio-exclusive novella from master storyteller John Scalzi. One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone - 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know.

A company of Army Rangers is sent on an interstellar colony ship to secure a foothold on a dangerous, alien planet through violence of action. Leaving behind a warring Earth flung headfirst into a conflict of mutual assured destruction, the Rangers and the accompanying crew of first colonists are guided on a 40-year journey by an unprecedented artificial intelligence. But when they emerge from the frigid embrace of cryosleep, they awake to a nightmare, finding themselves greeted by the same ruthless enemy that brought about the ruin of Earth.

Jack finds himself in a new world, with no memory of how he arrived. Alone in a forest. Naked. Sounds pretty bad, right? But wait, it turns out you can get Classes in this world. With Skills and Levels. Sure, there's apparently a danger in getting too many Classes, and everybody considers it to be a big no-no, but what's a Jack to do? Collect them all, of course.

One day, I'm a nobody. The next, I'm the rightful heir to a dying kingdom. The secret of my royal bloodline is out, and it has turned my world into a war zone. With enemy armies invading from the north and east, Meloria is collapsing, and the usurper King Voss is tightening his grip on the throne. But the war isn't my only challenge.

After Silas proves his mastery over the Vices by putting down a rebellion, his next step is to go after the Virtues. To reach them, Silas will need to uncover a new entrance into the Deepspire where they dwell... only to face unpredictable magic, a maze designed to outlast him, and entire armies of dragons who answer to his ultimate enemy. But the deeper he goes into the Spire, the more he realizes how little he knows about it.

They all wrote him off. They’ll never make that mistake again. Rhyker is an oddity among his people. A prince without a purpose. A draconian without horns or scales. Worthless, they say, until the day his power is unleashed. Doing the unthinkable, Rhyker absorbs a dragon’s Aspect and wields its elemental power for himself. Power that grows stronger every day. Power that can change the world, and even allow him to be the first mortal to pass through the Eternal Walls.

To close an unstable portal, we need powerful magic. Under my guidance, Summerfield is holding its own against the constant influx of monsters. Attacks have become so routine that our biggest challenge is just finding time to relax. Yet just when we think we have a handle on things, the portal starts growing.

Howdy, friend. I'm Rusty, and so is my big-rig's engine. When the old girl finally gave up the ghost in the middle of nowhere, I wasn't expecting to get a tow from an alien mothership. But the next thing I knew, me and my buddy Mike were halfway across the galaxy in an oversized hubcap full of the weirdest space creatures you ever did see. Turns out aliens are mighty friendly folks, but they can't fix their tech to save their lives.

The time has come for Atreyu Academy's annual field trip, which is taking place at Mars Beach Resort Dome—a resort that mimics some of the most beautiful beaches on Earth. Alex is going there with Alice, Ariel, Jasmine, and Michelle as a chaperone. What sounds like a simple task is made more complicated by Ariel and Michelle's constant bickering devolving into violent fights.

I was the Rift Magus—master of space and time, protector of worlds. For decades, I defended my realm with unmatched power. But when an unspeakable creature threatened everything I held dear, I was forced to create a rift to nowhere—a trap designed to seal it away for all time. It worked, but the creature was not without power itself. It warped my magic, twisting the rift I made to take me back home, and I woke instead in the frail body of a young noble, Lucian Alastair Eldraine.

The gods are dead, but they are not gone. Their bodies litter the cosmos, magical fuel for vast interstellar empires, giving birth to mages, and more importantly, to magitech.

When Benjamin Nickels discovers he's the proud new owner of a derelict hobby farm, inherited from a crazy uncle he's never met, he's too excited to question his good fortune. He tells off his boss, quits his job, and heads out of town to Lucky Nickel Acres.

Pete is a simple man who enjoys a good drink amongst good friends. Not too much to ask, right? Now, he's trapped in a fantasy world far from home, stuck underground and inside the body of a smelly dwarf with fantastic facial hair. The worst part? The swill that the dwarves are falling all over themselves to drink. It's flat, it's watery, and it has the alcohol content of a rancid coconut. Can Pete save the dwarves from their own sour fate, or will he be forever doomed to plink his pickaxe away in hopes that he hits the motherlode?

A strange new material has been discovered out beyond the frontier, and now every governmental system in the galaxy is after it. Bo Duckworth might have had a hand in all of this . . . One way or the other, Aramis Station and his neck of the woods are about to get a whole lot more crowded. Because everybody has seen what those little dark molecules can do. And now everybody wants to find some more. Don’t miss the latest in this fast-paced, rip-roaring space opera! Featuring retired Marines, interstellar intrigue, lovable robots, and high-tech hijinks! Download Phaethon Corp.’s Book 10 ...

Alex is broke. He's pretty much always been broke. A misspent youth led to mistakes that led to convictions and plea deals. No career, no education, no hope. Now he has a chance to make things right for him and his family when the newest immersive MMO comes with the ability to convert money earned in the game into real currency. Well, it's cryptocurrency, but that's real-ish, right?

Stuck under a mountain of debt, Ike can only dream of the world of hunters. Ranks, power, and the System are out of his reach, until the day he awakens a Unique skill. Ike must break out of the slums and overturn the hierarchy of the System to fulfil his dream of becoming the ultimate hunter. Harvesting the skills of monsters, he turns against the world's logic.

Seventh-grader Nate Noonan leads a double life as an ordinary school kid and a fearless ninja in the ancient order of The Ender Ninjas. Teaming up with his clumsy best friend Katie, and her pet chicken Noodle, they face the dangers that threaten their city. As Nate and friends prepare for war, they seek new unpredictable allies. But what happens when they unleash an old foe? Don’t miss Diary of Nate the Minecraft Ninja 19: Let's Play A Game!

The Earth met its end, bathed in holy fire. Rifts spill monsters into our world. Chaos reigns. Now, the Kingdom of Cindrus is the last bastion of humanity. The last vestiges of a broken people clinging to life deep underground. But not all hope is lost. Erec has been blessed by the Goddess. From a line of disgraced nobility, he seeks to reclaim his family's honor and join the prestigious academy, the institution that trains the next generation of Knights.

Rowan Hale has his inn, his fire, and Valentina watching the boundary. He was content. No more wars. No more orders. Just hot meals, a growing class, and peace that finally feels earned. Then a guild investigator arrives looking for a stolen artifact that could end sixty years of political arrangement in a single legal motion. She came to investigate. She found something worse.

Kai of the Sorcerer's Tower was one of the last Mages left, barely surviving in a world contaminated with dead mana and ruled by creatures of the dark. To save his world and fulfill his master's last wish, he puts himself through a forbidden ritual, risking his soul being ripped into pieces to make his way into the past, to a golden era with abundant mana. But things go wrong. He overshoots and finds himself in an ancient time thousands of years earlier, within the body of a young lord named Arzan.