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If you loved The Passage, World War Z, The Martian or Interstellar: this is a must-read thriller for you. * * * Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel. Read by William Hope, Christopher Ragland, Andy Secombe, Charlie Anson, Eric...

A mysterious vigilante meets Scheherazade in high-tech Ancient Atlantis, set against the backdrop of an impending global apocalypse. On the last day of Atlantis, when it sank beneath the waters, sons and daughters of Atlantis sailed their ships toward the stars. Earth, 10,504 B.C.E. A deadly...

Novelist, playwright and screenwriter James Follett wrote over 25 novels, more than 50 radio dramas and numerous TV scripts, including several episodes of Blake’s 7. He was one of the most borrowed authors in UK libraries, and his works have been translated into over a dozen languages. This anthology includes his finest radio plays and series – including many that have never previously been available before. Framing the collection is the special BBC7 programme Men, Martians and Machines, in which Follett himself introduces us to several of his most popular pieces.

Whole civilisations are threatened in these four classic TV novelisations featuring the First, Fourth, Tenth and Eleventh Doctors. In Galaxy Four, by William Emms, the First Doctor, Steven and Vicki find the Drahvins and the Rills engaged in battle on a desolate planet - one that will explode in...

2069: Earth is dying, and society is on the brink of collapse. We are out of time to save the planet. All that’s left is to watch the world burn, but the apocalypse is about to take an unexpected twist. Alice Rice has discovered the impossible: a potentially habitable world in close proximity to Earth. The media is calling it Planet B.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Only Human by Sylvain Neuvel, read William Hope, Charlie Anson, Laurence Bouvard, Adna Sablylich, Laura Kirman, Aaron Vodovoz, Julie Rogers, Christopher Ragland, Patricia Rodrigues, Jennifer Woodward, Eric Meyers, Madeleine Rose, Lance C Fuller and...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook of Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel, read by Andy Secombe, Adna Sablylich, Laurel Lefkow, William Hope, Charlie Anson, Christopher Ragland, Karina Fernandez, Madeleine Rose, Roy McMillan and Sarah Wells. What's going on? Turn on the television...

Die Mission: Einen toten Planeten retten – ein paar Tausend Jahre zu spät. Matt steht mitten im Leben, als ihm eine tödliche Diagnose nur noch wenige Monate lässt. Doch das Ende ist erst der Anfang: Eine mysteriöse Systeminstanz bietet ihm die Chance, als Held auf der paradiesischen Welt Gaia wiedergeboren zu werden. Die Realität: Ein System-Error. Anstelle eines Paradieses findet Matt eine karge und verlassene Einöde vor.

Matt hat das Spiel überlebt, doch der Kampf ist noch nicht vorbei: Als Matt nach Gaia kam, war sein einziges Ziel das nackte Überleben. Mit eisernem Willen, Einfallsreichtum und der Hilfe seiner Mentorin Lucy hat er es nicht nur geschafft, dem Schlimmsten zu trotzen, sondern auch den Hunderten wiederbelebten Gaianern ein neues Zuhause zu schenken. Doch jetzt wird Matts Hilfe an anderer Stelle gebraucht. Ohne Macht und ohne Wissen wagt Matt die Teleportation nach Ra'Zor. Eine Welt, die von einem gnadenlosen Dämonenfürsten beherrscht wird.

New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster, master of both action and emotion, reveals a world where everything is perfect, but nothing is as it seems … Earth is crowded, polluted, and dismal. Like millions of others, Jonos and Liina scrape by on her poorly paying job and what little...

Five years later, the eldritch mysteries uncovered at Nether Station remain unsolved. Its crew is missing. Earth hasn’t heeded their final warnings. And time is running out … Karla Arkourian wakes from emergency cryosleep on a failing space station at the edge of the solar system. The last...

Book Two in the Asteroid Wars-continuing the saga of the struggle for the wealth of the Solar System Visionary space industrialist Dan Randolph is dead-but his protégé, pilot Pancho Barnes, now sits on the board of his conglomerate. She has her work cut out for her-for Randolph's rival, Martin...

Ben Bova's The Silent War is the breakneck continuation to The Asteroid Wars series that can end only in earth's salvation--or the annihilation of all that humankind has ever accomplished in space. When corporations go to war, standard business practice goes out the window. Astro Corporation is...

Ein toter Planet, ein korruptes System und ein Held wider Willen: Matt Perison wird nach seinem Tod auf dem Gartenplaneten Gaia wiedergeboren. Doch statt an einem idyllischen Ort findet er sich in einer isolierten, trostlosen Einöde wieder. Trotzdem hat er sich daran gewöhnt, an einem Ort zu überleben, an dem sonst nichts lebt. Doch nun droht eine neue Gefahr: Der Mana-Mangel auf dem toten Planeten zersetzt Matts Kräfte und lässt seine mühsam aufgebauten Fähigkeiten versagen.

The first novel of the Asteroid Wars about earth's near future from the "leading light of hard Science Fiction and space advocacy"* Once, Dan Randolph was one of the richest men on Earth. Now the planet is spiralling into environmental disaster, with floods and earthquakes destroying the lives...

Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind's expansion beyond the solar system in The Aftermath. In the wake of the Asteroid Wars that tore across the solar system, Victor Zacharius makes his living running the ore-carrier Syracuse. When the Syracuse stumbles into the...

As a war journalist, Jonah Wall saw enough of humanity’s horrors to last a lifetime. He wrecked his marriage, alienated his two sons, and escaped by working on an oil rig in Alaska, as far from civilization as possible. But when he finds a spacecraft that was buried for millennia under the tundra, he is suddenly and reluctantly thrust into an unbelievable adventure. As the ship is being unveiled to the world, it mysteriously comes to life, taking Jonah, his estranged son, and a disparate group on a terrifying journey.