Space Exploration

Jo Martin reads a thrilling original Circuit Breaker story featuring the Fugitive Doctor. Masquerading as a resident in a luxurious space hotel, the Doctor is in fact on a dangerous mission to eliminate Kashan Akravar, a rogue weapons dealer who’s attempting to auction blueprints for the...

They need allies. They need intel. They need time. Despite sacrifices and even victories, the Protectorate of the Mage-Queen of Mars is losing the war against the Reezh Kazh, the fascist theocracy that rules the only aliens they've ever met. Ambassador Connor O'Hannagain has been sent to find...

A PARTY TURNS PERILOUS... The emperor sends Hiro and his crew to the Empire's border with the Belbellum Federation. There, Hiro quickly discovers how tough it is to get along with Count Ixamal, the local imperial authority. That's not the only unpleasant surprise: Before long, Hiro attempts to destroy some space pirates who turn out to have equipment way more powerful than he counted on! Even attending a party isn't safe under these circumstances, as Hiro learns when he and Serena are kidnapped from one of the count's soirees.

Reissued after seventy-five years out of print—and in hardcover for the first time in a generation—Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus is the third novel in the Lucky Starr series written by the legendary Isaac Asimov, author of Foundation, the Galactic Empire series, and I, Robot. The Lucky...

We all Bleed Red. Earth has always known conflict, and the human race has known no greater enemy than itself... Until the invasion. A cracked and broken world filled with petty conflicts is a ripe place for conquest, but a world united can stand against extinction. For all the differences...

FORGE A NEW FUTURE. OR BE CONSUMED BY THE PAST. Captain Blite and Agent Cormac thought they had defeated the malevolent AI Straeger. But Straeger's mission to plunge the galaxy into a devastating war is far from over. With a twisted p-prador army bred from the Spatterjay virus, Straeger sets his...

Humanity's first artificial consciousness has begun asking harder questions. For CAIPARR, the battle for Artemis was not just a military engagement—it was a data set. It was another example of how every sentient construct thus far encountered has eventually failed: corrupted, compromised, or driven to ruin by the same blind spots that afflict biological minds.

Ross Buzzell presents Book 5 in the Birthright: A Boronian Saga...

In the electrifying conclusion to this zany isekai adventure, it's boom or bust—and the only way out . . . is up! After some very bad luck on Earth took his legs and then his life, things finally began to turn around for astronaut Chris when he was reborn as a goblin king on a...

THE ONLY THING LEFT IS VENGEANCE… Dispossessed in the Battle of Tukayyid, former Com Guard soldier Jeremiah Rose wants nothing more than to strike back at the Clans who destroyed his ’Mech and his career. But dreams of swift vengeance turn to nightmares when every effort he makes to rejoin the fight to protect the citizens of the Inner Sphere is rejected. Forced to win a new BattleMech by fighting on the game world of Solaris VII, Rose recruits other soldiers from the arenas to create a new mercenary unit and take his fight back to the invaders.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The cannon has fired. The projectile is in motion. And now, sealed inside their metal shell with a dog, three bottles of champagne, and an alarming number of unanswered questions, Impey Barbicane, Michel Ardan, and Captain Nicholl are hurtling through...

Earth is dying. Two hundred million survivors crowd a single city built on Arctic permafrost, slowly suffocating as the atmosphere collapses. The only solution is gold. Massive quantities of it — enough to seed the upper atmosphere and buy humanity another century. So they build a ship, load three thousand of their best people, and send them across the stars to find it. Five years later, they do. A pristine world of ancient forests and breathable air. Gold running through the hillsides like veins. Enough to save Earth a hundred times over. There is just one problem. The planet has people.

Gilo is not a conqueror, a scientist, or an ambassador. He is a traveler from Olon, a distant world where evolution took a different path, gifting his species with delicate, winglike forms and an understanding of the universe far beyond human imagination. Sent to earth to observe, record, and report, he finds unexpected friendship with, Stephen, a scientist who sees him not as a specimen, but as a person. When called back to Olon, Stephen gifts Gilo with a biological kit that will help explain life on earth.

She gave everything to save a world that was never hers. Now she must save it from her own people. Earth is gone. What remains of humanity drifts through space aboard aging starships, desperate, divided, and growing increasingly ruthless. Shandiin has returned to them—stripped of her magic, mourning the love she left behind, and no longer sure where she belongs.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Somewhere in the silence between radio transmissions, the engineer Los decoded a single word: Aelita. Where it came from, what it meant, who had sent it — these questions organized the rest of his life. He built a spacecraft, recruited a Red Army...