Space Rocks

Patrick Carney is not just the drummer of The Black Keys—he is the architect of a sound that reshaped twenty-first-century rock. Patrick Carney: Negative Space in Drums, Records, and Repeatable Hits is the definitive cultural biography of a musician who turned thrift-store kits and basement studios into Grammy-winning grooves, and who continues to define sustainability in a mechanized music industry. From his 1980 upbringing in Akron’s Rust Belt landscape to the duo’s explosive debut The Big Come Up, Carney built a drumming philosophy rooted in negative space: the art of leaving air ...

Earth Government turned soldiers into cyborgs to terraform Mars. After a decade of hard, lonely work they are little more than the machines as which they are treated—until the arrival of female settlers awakens feelings they have almost forgotten....

Two worlds preparing their defenses.... A ship struggling to get back in the fight.... An enemy continuing its relentless attack.... A former enemy that could hold the answer.... With the fate of billions in his hands, Captain Scott is offered a way to save them all and end the bloodshed, but if it backfires, he could lose everything. Sometimes, there is no good choice.

Exarch Devlin Stone, hero of the Word of Blake Jihad and architect of the Republic of the Sphere, has returned only to find his beloved nation under siege and in danger of breaking apart. As threats bear down on the Republic from all sides, Stone and his inner circle must move fast to bolster Terra’s defenses from all who seek to conquer the birthplace of humanity. However, not all of his allies have heeded Stone’s call to arms.

Visionary space industrialist Dan Randolph is dead, but his protege, pilot Pancho Barnes, now sits on the board of his conglomerate. She has her work cut out for her, for Randolph's rival, Martin Humphries, still wants to control Astro and still wants to drive independent asteroid miners like Lars Fuchs out of business. Humphries wants revenge against Pancho, and, most of all, he wants his old flame, Amanda, who has become Lars Fuchs's wife.

Leon Russell is an icon, but somehow is still an underappreciated artist. He is spoken of in tones reserved not just for the most talented musicians, but also for the most complex and fascinating. His career is like a roadmap of music history, often intersecting with rock royalty like Bob Dylan, the Stones, and the Beatles.

Systemwide’s ship Sierra-22 has suddenly gone quiet. In the International Space Council mining fleet, that never happens. OK, well, it did happen once before, and Systemwide Rare Earth Recovery Services CEO Liz Galloway still remembers her father Lucas delivering a deafening red-faced lecture before firing that captain, and it never happened again. Until today.

David Gilmour’s guitar is not just sound—it is atmosphere, restraint, and emotional gravity. David Gilmour: The Art of Restraint traces the journey of one of rock’s most influential musicians, from Cambridge childhood through the rise of Pink Floyd, the storms of creative conflict, and the triumphs of solo reinvention. This definitive biography captures how Gilmour reshaped Pink Floyd after Syd Barrett’s collapse, steadied the band through Roger Waters’ departure, and guided it to monumental achievements such as Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, and The Division Bell. ...

Carol Hansen and her Antares shipmates are going back to solve the mystery they found at Beta Hydri, taking a retinue of academics with them. But back at Fleet HQ, there is growing frustration about how to run a war when a light-year-per-day just doesn’t seem nearly fast enough.

Sent to Saturn for a planetary expedition, Max and his squad are awestruck by the beauty of the rings and moons—but their wonder turns to fear when they stumble on ancient alien ruins buried in the icy surface. Strange symbols glow, doorways open, and something begins to awaken. Max’s imagination may be the only thing capable of interpreting the clues before the mission spirals out of control. What lies hidden in Saturn’s shadows could change the Academy forever. Ten-year-old Max Orbit isn’t the fastest, the strongest, or the bravest kid on Earth. But when he wins a mysterious ...

Impact argues that Earth would be a lifeless, inhospitable piece of rock without being fortuitously assaulted with meteorites throughout the history of the planet. These bombardments transformed Earth’s early atmosphere and delivered the complex organic molecules that allowed life to develop on our planet.

Ensign Carol Hansen is six months out of Fleet University, and six months out of a toxic relationship that made no sense to anyone but her. Serving aboard Liberty is everything she had aspired to. But that sweet time comes to an abrupt, violent end when Liberty is destroyed in an unexpected attack. Carol is lucky enough to be "ashore" in the alien city below, and barely survives the death raining down from space.

In his last book, Neil Shubin delved into the amazing connections between human anatomy—our hands, our jaws—and the structures in the fish that first took over land 375 million years ago. Now, with his trademark clarity and exuberance, he takes an even more expansive approach to the question of why we are the way we are.

Captain Arturo Sanders was having a bad day. First the routine destruction of some ancient automatic defense batteries became a disaster, when his ship’s screens failed, and he had no choice to abandon ship. Then he had to rescue two left behind crew people, which meant he missed the main shuttle evacuation leaving him and his two companions in a shuttle on their own at the rear.

With a souped-up star freighter named Posthaste, a sex hungry android crew, and a huge, genetically altered cock, Rockford Harding, better known as Rock Hard is ready to take on the galaxy in this witty, offbeat space sex comedy! He’s not above skirting the authorities, so when a mob boss calls in a favor and asks Harding and his sexy android, D.E.B.I., to make a simple pick up and drop off it seemed like an easy way to earn back some credits. Boy was he wrong! The package turned out to be a beautiful, sexy Princess and her alluring, shapely minder known only as Oracle. And their ...

Meg White was never the loudest voice in The White Stripes—yet her silence, her space, and her stripped-down drumming helped define one of the most iconic sounds of twenty-first-century rock. While Jack White’s explosive riffs drew headlines, it was Meg’s refusal to overplay, her minimalist Ludwig kit, and her stoic presence on stage that transformed a Detroit garage duo into a global phenomenon. This definitive biography, Meg White: Silence, Space, and the Myth of Simplicity, traces her story from Grosse Pointe childhood through the basements of Detroit’s 1990s garage revival, the ...

Harnessing planetary forces, Terramancers shape landscapes and avert natural disasters. But not this one. He collects rocks. Out of a job and on the run from his rainbow-haired adversary, the Terramancer is ready to jump to the next system and start again. Again. It’s not his fault he’s made more enemies than friends. Cutthroat pirates, ruthless socialites, and the ancient and powerful Terramantic Order all stand between him and escape. When he finds the most sought-after rock in the universe, it’s one problem he can’t get away from—the rock, it seems, has been waiting for him.

Chastity Snowden Whyte just wanted to mine for rocks, metal, and ice in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Rock mining in space was all she knew. It was all she was good at doing. She was comfortable living alone as the captain of her mining ship, the Sedona. She didn't want to have to make extra trips back to base because of equipment failure. She didn't want to become a mining tutor for a group of newcomers from Earth. And she certainly didn't want to get entangled in corporate conspiracies, piracy, kidnapping, murder, and worst of all...politics.

In this much-anticipated final installment of The Preeminent War series, the Preeminent go 'all in' to crush the ISC Fleet and remove the hated 'Vermin' from their space. They're empowered with a new weapon: a deadly new ship whose real threat Cobra's brain trust can't decipher.

Gods and demons seducing mortals. A war for Eden. Hot dark fantasy and reverse harem romance. Beneath the Vatican hides an ancient portal to alien worlds where gods and demons wait for the gate to open. Only Ashley Rowan can wield the key. Mithra has worked for centuries to find that rare human with the Nephilim genetics necessary to activate the key and open the sealed gateway. “Your patience is rewarded. I crossed rivers of time and space for you.” Ashley Rowan has no one in her life but the voice in her head, the sultry whispers of Mithra. He haunts her nightly dreams. “Pledge ...