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Mur has kept a secret under his floorboards for fifty years. He was twelve when his best friend's mother handed him a strange box and made him promise to hide it. That evening the family drove away, their house burned down, and Cleo never came back. Mur grew up, went gray, and became the...

Eco-terrorists unleash the worst attack the world has ever seen. Over 25,000 autonomous combat drones are released in Manhattan. Hundreds of thousands are dead, and the entire island is evacuated and quarantined in just a few days' time. Ten years later, Manhattan is still empty of humans, with the exception of the salvage specialists of the most watched reality show in history: Zone War. Produced live and unedited, the show follows five teams of armored vehicle specialists who brave the active drones to recover lost riches and collect bounties on dead ones. 

Kyle Russ signed up for Mars. He got the galaxy instead. Chosen for humanitys first attempt to colonize another world, he expects adventure, danger, and a new life. Then twenty-seven ships leave Earth, and the Explorer Program reveals its true purpose: investigate a mysterious extraterrestrial...

The first of these novels, A Princess of Mars, was Burroughs' first book, and he wrote the next two novels in quick succession. Together they tell the story of John Carter of Mars - how he came to Mars, met the love of his life, and quickly found himself occupied full-time defending her and saving his adopted planet from interplanetary evildoers.

Barsoom Series Collection: 7 John Carter Stories is an audiobook collection of seven novels/stories of John Carter by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It will transport you to a fascinating new world unlike any other. Join John Carter as he finds himself on another planet beyond his deepest imagination - Mars, with almost a complete lack of resources.

A lone warrior falls from the sky, onto a post-apocalyptic world where chaos rules. Unable to return, he joins Gunwayne, the captain of a mysterious airship known as the Drake. In exchange for his services, he is offered the opportunity to return to his former home among the clouds. But, throughout his adventures with the crew, the psychic soldier begins to wonder if his fall from grace was actually a blessing in disguise. 

Since being dishonorably discharged from the Star Corps, pilot John MacAlister has struggled to make ends meet with less-than-legal cargo runs across the cosmos. He’s desperate to get his life back, but every time John thinks he’s found that “one last job,” some new disaster lands him back at square one.

The Ultimate Science Fiction Mega Collection contains 16 of the greatest science fiction works ever written.

Time travel, the power sought after and craved by everyone, yet held by none. Until now. Not only is time travel very real to Jericho, he’s used it in the usual ways one would expect—getting rich, predicting world-changing events and, more importantly, traveling to whenever he chooses just for kicks.

John MacAlister finally has a respectable life. Naturally, he's about to ruin it. Steady work. A budding relationship. A reason to stay put. None of it's enough to kill the itch. When an encrypted message arrives from Bernie Jennison—the scientist who built Alvis and vanished years ago—John can't help seeing it as a sign that his days as a space adventurer aren't over. Bernie is alive. He's in trouble. And Castor—the rogue AI everyone believed destroyed —was never gone. The Star Corps won't intervene. John sees a mission too important to ignore.

John Wainwright is a freak, a human mutation with an extraordinary intelligence which is both awesome and frightening to behold. Ordinary humans are mere playthings to him. And Odd John has a plan - to create a new order on Earth, a new supernormal species. But the world is not ready for such a change...

Breck was a heavy metal rock star and to some, perhaps, even a rock god. Playing bass since he was 10, he learned to sing and write music under the tutelage of some of the industry's best. His band was one of the loudest and heaviest out there, and they had moved from one hit record to the next with ease. Married to a supermodel and being at the top of the rock star pyramid, life for Breck was everything he'd ever wanted it to be.

Soldier and adventurer John Carter tells the story of how he returns to the planet Mars to be reunited with his love, the Martian princess Dejah Thoris. With his great friend Tars Tarkas, mighty Jeddak of Thark, Carter sets out in search of his princess. But Dejah Thoris has vanished. And Carter becomes trapped in the legendary Eden of Mars, from which none has ever escaped alive.

In a propulsive sci-fi thriller for fans of Andy Weir and Gravity, six astronauts on a one-way journey to Mars stumble across the impossible right beside their ship. Is it a wormhole, mass hallucination...or something far more sinister? Psychiatrist Daniel Richland never had what it took to be...

16-year-old Kaito Nakamura stumbles upon a horrifying truth: he may not be fully human. As his body begins changing, so do those around him—people unknowingly consuming genetically altered food, becoming something...different.

On board of one of Earth's largest space elevators, where Earth and the cosmos converge, former cop turned gritty detective, Tony Graves, finds himself thrust into a world far beyond the gritty streets he once patrolled. When the space elevator he is on becomes the target of a ruthless terrorist organization, Tony is called upon to unearth the truth and prevent an imminent catastrophe. Haunted by his own demons and a past that won't let go, Tony dives headfirst into a labyrinth of intrigue and danger.

If you happened to have an illegal telescope, or proxied your galaxynet address well enough to pirate your way to satellite images of Mars, you might glimpse a damaged but operational Mars Orbiter 1 alive with "rebels". You could also see clusters of superheated propellant burning beyond Earth space, as the EFF (Earth First Faction) sends armed planetary shuttles on an attack route to relieve the rebels of their existence. If so, you’d be witnessing Mars Wars.

The best swordsman of two worlds, John Carter, is about to head off on two more legendary adventures! Once again the Warlord of Mars finds himself and his beloved Dejah Thoris face to face with new perils on Barsoom. He will explore the Ancient City of Korvas, fight hoards of rats, giants, and skeleton men; and ride on the backs of thoats as bravely as ever!

John Carter is back for another adventure in this classic interplanetary tale of Barsoom from Edgar Rice Burroughs. In an attempt to put an end to a wave of murders carried out by the notorious Assassins Guild, John goes to the Martian city of Zodanga. When he arrives however, he discovers much more than he ever could have imagined.

Thomas Pendleton loves his wife, Ann, and six-year-old son, Seth, more than anything, but his job often makes him an absent husband and father. One day, after Thomas leaves on a business trip, his wife and son are killed in a car accident. When a cosmic storm enters Earth's atmosphere, scientists are baffled by its composition and origins, but not nearly as much as they are by the storm's side effect: Anyone who has died and chosen not to cross over is suddenly visible.