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The universe is a dangerous place in John Scalzi's Old Man's War, the first in The Old Man's War series. At seventy-five years old, John Perry is after a fresh start - so, naturally, he joins the army. Earth's military machine can transform elderly recruits, restoring their lost youth. But in...

They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . Alien Clay is a thrilling tale of alien encounter – from the acclaimed Arthur C. Clarke Award-winner Adrian Tchaikovsky. ‘Unputdownable’ – Stephen Baxter, author of Proxima Professor Arton Daghdev has always wanted to study...

An archaeologist travels to a distant planet to spend time amongst a mysterious community, a people who live in temperature-controlled domes, worship a deity called Dog, and repeat an elliptical phrase from which they draw their name: mulai, the tree comes. The descendants of a long-forgotten space mission, the Mulai have abandoned the social norms that once bound them to Earth.

Raumkreuzer Horus – Science Fiction trifft Mystery. Zwei Missionen. Zwei Geschichten in einem Band. Auf Arazna 4 herrscht Totenstille: Die Kolonie ist menschenleer. Die Crew der HORUS soll das Rätsel lösen, stößt im Reaktor aber auf eine fremde Substanz. Aus der Mission wird ein gnadenloser Kampf ums Überleben. Ein Notsignal führt die HORUS in eine finstere Dunkelwolke zu einem sonnenlosen Planeten. Im Canyon entdecken sie das 20 Jahre alte Wrack der DISCOVERY-2, doch es wirkt Jahrhunderte alt.

Aliens ripped a hole above Earth, arriving with a massive space station. I sorta figured we'd be enslaved to fight in their wars or exterminated for our resources. Nope. The hip-high Iglax were merchants with ugly squished faces and thick blue fur. While they weren't much to look at, they sure did have some wonderous technology.

The stars are waiting for you. We hope you will come find us there. Told in alternating timelines, As You Wake, Break the Shell is a heartfelt and hopeful story from the award-winning writer of The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, exploring what it means to be human and what it means to come...

In 2014, the ESA spacecraft Rosetta lands a small probe named Philae on 67P, a Jupiter-family comet. The lander goes radio-silent two years later. Suddenly, in 2026, scientists receive new transmissions from the comet. Motivated by findings that are initially sensational but soon turn frightening, NASA dispatches a crewed spacecraft to the comet. But as the ship approaches the mysterious celestial body, the connection to the astronauts soon breaks. Now it seems nothing can be done anymore to stop the looming dark danger that threatens Earth....

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.

What could possibly be in Longbourn Crater that was worth their while?When damage to his ship forces Captain Darcy to land in an unexpected location on an alien world, he's not prepared for what he finds. He expected aliens, certainly, but he didn't expect a contingent of humans related to Earth's most notorious traitor, or for those humans to be his crew’s only chance to repair their ship and complete their mission. Brilliant and beautiful, the human women they meet seem poised to do more harm than good.

Jake Bayard led tormented Neanderthals in a successful slave revolt on the planet Garm. But when the Corporation owners fled, they took all the women with them. The Neanderthals are blaming Bayard for their lack of mates, and every day that passes is making the lonely brutes angrier. Bayard needs a solution fast, or his former friends are going to string him up. He decides to risk a raid onto Saddoth where millions of Ophidians eat and keep herds of meat Neanderthals. He can only take nine with his traveling power—nine to free nubile females for the Neanderthals of Garm.

A colony survives among the icy rings of a planet, hiding from alien robots determined to destroy them … at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers, and physicians gather to gamble humanity’s future on one last-ditch experiment … a man who can’t feel pain has been bioengineered to be a killing machine, but he refuses to give in to his fate … a man is contacted by three future versions of himself, each trying to save their world from destruction. 

Titan is practically a planet in its own right, with a diameter similar to that of Mercury, methane rainstorms, organic soot, and ethane seas. The views from Titan’s Mayda outpost are spectacular, but all is not well at the moon’s remote science base. On the shore of a methane sea beneath glowering skies, atmospherics researcher Abigail Marco finds herself in the middle of murder, piracy, and colleagues who seem to be seeing sea monsters and dead people from the past.

Saints and preachers, librarians and horse thieves, lawmakers and lawbreakers, and a crash-surviving spaceborn vagrant searching for her lover on a scarred Earth. Earth, the distant future: climate change has reduced our verdant home into a hard-scrabble wasteland. Saints and sinners, lawmakers...

Reclaimed by Shadows. Driven by Fate. In the wake of a devastating battle, Admiral Frost and his crew’s journey is far from over. Rescued by one of Eboni’s children, Everest, and her advanced conscious intelligence (CI) Atayu, Troy faces new perils and complex alliances. The mysterious Atayu is not only connected to his past but also to his future. As Troy uncovers more about Eboni’s enigmatic origins and her seven children, he realizes the stakes are higher than he ever imagined. Every decision he makes could either unify a powerful force or doom his crew to oblivion.

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, the endlessly-mysterious moon is explored in this reprint short science fiction anthology from award-winning editor and anthologist Neil Clarke (Clarkesworld, The Best Science Fiction of the Year).

Anya grew up listening to her father speak of the Great Attractor, the immense gravitational pull drawing galaxies toward a hidden region behind the Milky Way. For thirty one years he studied what he could not directly observe. He died in his Lagos study surrounded by annotated printouts and unfinished calculations, certain there was order in the noise.

FNH Audio present the first in a series of science fiction short story collections. In this collection: On board a starship a ghost of the past fights horrifying monsters. An explorer find a mining crew dead in their beds, but the next day they're up and walking. Humanity is under the thumb of aliens. The Earthers discover a strange fact of ancient history, their ancestors walked on two legs! The Martians are using a white mist to sedate and ambush all the colonists. And more.

In the aftermath of an asteroid impact, Earth’s power grid is damaged nearly beyond recovery. The survival of our world may well depend on energy sources collected from an abandoned undersea settlement beneath the icy surface of Enceladus. Earth-raised Colonel Carter Rhodes, in charge of Earth’s recovery efforts, calls upon Gwen Baré, a Venusian engineer, to regain control of the deserted moon outpost and collect fuel for Earth’s collapsing power grids.

Captain Mead sold his banking gig for space raising his children between Earth and Pluto for over a decade. With all but one of them moved on, and with business on the upswing, it's time to hire. When an overqualified young man lands on his ramp eager for work, he ignores the shady history on his resume, especially since his past has its own flaws. After a boring decade of living as a trading merchant, the Sol System heats up in more ways than one.

Embark on a thrilling interstellar journey with The Interlace, a gripping novel that seamlessly weaves together the complex lives of Captain Jaspal and fellow astronauts Marg, Ashi, and Brian. Their journey to asteroid Vesta is led at Mission control by the enigmatic Dr Betty. It unfolds against a backdrop of Vesta's ground breaking potential of mining and medicinal compound extraction. A close call during training in Antarctica sets the stage for a riveting tale of suspense and redemption. As the crew delves into the mysteries of Vesta, betrayal simmers within their ranks.