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Living busily on Planet Earth, we rarely remember that we actually inhabit only a miniscule part of the universe. In The Planets and the Solar System, Jen Green paints the wider picture, and takes us on a journey across billions of kilometers in our galaxy, from our Sun to near and distant planets. Some, like Mercury, have a molten core surrounded with crust and spins quickly; Jupiter, on the other hand, is a big ball of gas.

This collection of three novellas chronicles the dramatic events from the founding of the first Martian colony in the middle of the 21st century to the first election of the Martian Republic in the 22nd century. Together the three novellas are a sweeping, cautionary tale of a grand social and economic experiment on Mars.

Lara J. Clarke is used to getting her own way. Motherless at 10 and raised by her oft-absent eco-warrior/philanthropist grandfather, she lives the high life afforded by her seemingly bottomless trust fund. But then Grandfather Archibald sheds his mortal coil in a very public manner, and Lara’s privileged life is set adrift.

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction described this as a “hard-edged” tale of the 24th-century conquest of Earth by an alien empire the humans had judged too stupid to pull off such a coup. Only a handful of humans escaped the effects of a mutated narcoleptic drug that put humanity into protracted hibernation. The battle to liberate Earth is fought by those few with the aid of a vengeful ghost called “Gremper” by the aliens. The action is fast and furious, while the genius general of the invading fleet goes slowly insane at the disruption of his well-laid plans.

The name's Lomax-Alex Lomax. I'm the one and only private eye working the mean streets of New Klondike, the Martian frontier town that sprang up forty years ago after Simon Weingarten and Denny O'Reilly discovered fossils on the Red Planet. Back on Earth, where anything can be synthesized, the remains of alien life are the most valuable of all collectibles, so shiploads of desperate treasure hunters stampeded here in the Great Martian Fossil Rush.

A year after young engineering student Rip Cantrell discovered the first flying saucer buried deep in the sands of the Sahara, another saucer is brought up from the bottom of the Atlantic. The recovery is funded by a pharmaceutical executive who believes that the saucer holds the key to an anti-aging drug formula that space travelers would need to voyage between galaxies. But one of his technicians, Adam Solo, an alien marooned on Earth for a thousand years, steals the saucer, hoping to summon a starship to rescue him.

Planet of Dread is a gripping classic of mid-century science fiction that plunges listeners into a brutal fight for survival on an alien world. Written in the early 1960s, this novel follows Moran, a man betrayed and abandoned aboard the spaceship Nadine, then cast onto a cloud-shrouded planet teeming with gigantic insect life and hostile, unfamiliar ecosystems. As Moran struggles to adapt, the story explores isolation, moral ambiguity, and humanity’s relentless drive to survive when stripped of all safety and certainty.

They seeded the new world with everything to get life started. A few thousand years later a lone starship’s engines fail, marooning the crew and passengers. The planet is a nightmare of giant mushroom forests and insects grown to monstrous killer proportions.

A clone has been the victim of a savage killing. The investigation may uncover a threat to humanity's very existence. Great North Road is a standalone adventure from science fiction star Peter F. Hamilton, the author of The Night's Dawn trilogy. For fans of Philip K. Dick and Kim Stanley...

In small-town Doyle, California, UFO abductions are a budding tourist attraction. So when Susan Witsend brings a UFO festival to town, she’s ready for some well-deserved time in the sun. What she gets instead is the corpse of a UFO conspiracy theorist, brained with a bottle of local wine. Susan may be the owner of a UFO-themed B&B, but she doesn’t wish on stars to get what she wants. She’s a woman with a planner. Plan A) Milk the UFO festival for all it’s worth. Plan B) Stop lusting after her best friend turned security consultant, Arsen Holiday.

Not an easy listen. Intellectual. Literary. If you're looking for something vapid, move on. This is a humorous story of insanity in the high-energy high-fashion world of the future. Marla Gershe is going nuts and she's taking the Textile Planet with her.

The crew of the space shuttle Aldrin has returned from a year in space, only to discover that the lush planet they left behind has been decimated by a viral pandemic. After learning about the possible existence of a band of survivors in the Midwest, the astronauts set off on a cross-country trek, only to find themselves beset by countless hordes of the walking dead. In Little Rock, a young teacher and an old woman struggle to build a fortified community within the chain-linked confines of an abandoned high school.

Paul works hard to provide for his family and to be a loving father and husband. When he finally gets the house of his dreams - a mansion on a lovely expanse of land - he doesn't question oddities, like how the former owners left unexpectedly (leaving their possessions and old food behind) or a black bird that haunts the barn and repeatedly attacks his son, Angelo, whenever he ventures outside. The whole family is on edge from all the peculiar happenings centered around the house, until one day Angelo goes missing without a trace.

Join Sally and Rodney on an out-of-this-world adventure as they team up with the enigmatic alien, G0ld3n$SunSat (Gordy Gordon), who crash-landed on Sally's igloo roof in a desperate bid to save his lost love Carmen (C133klmnop). Armed with a crucial energy cell and a pet rock with homing chip, Gordy must navigate Earth's treacherous terrain to reunite with Carmen before it's too late. Sally must convince her skeptical village of mystery solvers of the unbelievable truth before the clock runs out or go it alone.

In the future, NASA's first yearlong mission to Mars mysteriously loses contact with Earth. When the desperate crew of the Space Shuttle Aldrin arrives home, there are no marching bands, fanfares, or joyous reunions to greet them, only a lonely trek across a barren world.

Vom Planeten Osikka sind angeblich alle Siedler und Siedlerinnen verschwunden. Wo die 26.000 Menschen geblieben sind, ist ein Rätsel. In den verwaisten Gebäuden lauert etwas, das jenseits aller Logik zu sein scheint.

So einen Fall hatte Sherlock Holmes noch nie: Vom Planeten Osikka sind angeblich alle Siedler und Siedlerinnen verschwunden. Wo die 26.000 Menschen geblieben sind, ist ein Rätsel. In den verwaisten Gebäuden lauert etwas, das jenseits aller Logik zu sein scheint.

Finan is gone, Jacinta has disappeared, and Lara is holding on by a thread. She will do whatever it takes to recover the other half of her heart, even if it means trusting those most unworthy of her trust. As terrible new threats burst onto the scene, Lara must rely on her Thalia Island family to bring Finan home in one piece—and save the utopia her grandfather fought so hard to create. With the curtain pulled back on incendiary secrets concealed for decades, reckoning comes from all sides: who is telling the truth, and who pays the price for the sins of our forebears?

Although the Dea Vitae cult has been evicted from Thalia Island, Lara J. Clarke and her grandfather’s eco-utopia are still in peril. Rupert’s ongoing lymphoma treatment deposits Lara at Thalia’s helm—with no idea how to navigate the rough waters. Finan is back from the mainland after two tense weeks of silence, but the sting of his unscheduled departure lingers. Lara and Finan must work with investigators, and a few unsavory players, to dismantle the sinister machinations of Dea Vitae before it destroys their blossoming romance—and the sanctity of Thalia Island herself.

Ramponiert vom letzten Einsatz rettet sich die Ultimo-1 mit schwindender Kraft in den Orbit eines noch unerforschten Planeten, von dem es heißt, er wäre vor 40 Jahren von einem Schiff der Galaktischen Union angesteuert worden.Tatsächlich finden der Erste Offizier, Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson dort in einem Wüstengebiet einige Wrackteile und Überlebende der Mission. Doch diese sind nicht, was sie scheinen.