Adult Space Opera

Bethany Anne and those in the Etheric Empire have conquered the Aliens who would conquer Earth. However, there are a few that do not appreciate the new rules. Dealing with insurrectionists down on the planet, or with a large military rebellion coming from another system, Bethany Anne and team are ready and willing to give everyone a piece of their mind. Because there is one common attitude that runs in all of those who fight for the Etheric Empire. They will never surrender.

Nightmares are plaguing me. I wake up smelling sulfur, feeling my skin burning, knowing that I’m burning to death on the surface of Abaddon, but I’m not. I’m on Sel’Ani, my father’s home planet. I’m alive and using my true name and finally free to be myself. And yet, I’m completely falling apart. Every time I wake up screaming, Lorne is there. I don’t understand how he knows when I need him, but he does, and even if I can’t say the words aloud, I’m so thankful that he’s there. Because I wouldn’t survive this without him.

She woke up on a spaceship with magical powers and incredible abilities. Now, she must save the universe from falling into darkness. Elle thought her summer would be ordinary—until she wakes up on a spaceship with newfound magic and incredible physical abilities. Suddenly, the fate of the universe rests in her hands. A mysterious Darkness is spreading, consuming planets, including Elle's home. With her new powers, Elle joins a daring team on an interstellar quest to find ancient relics that could stop the Darkness.

Eavan is er heilig van overtuigd dat haar voorouder het hele verhaal, dat ze in een dagboek heeft opgeschreven, niet uit haar duim heeft gezogen. Samen met haar vriend Chris gaat ze op zoek naar de planeet waarvan zij vermoedt dat Wendy daar ooit terecht is gekomen met de vreemde jongen. Maar ze is niet voorbereid op wat ze daar werkelijk aantreft.

Jael and his crew are on the run, searching for an ancient machine that could save the galaxy, but the syndicate-controlled moon has other plans. After uncovering an artifact that grants him extraordinary powers, Jael thought he had gained the upper hand in the lawless fringes of space. But news of his newfound abilities has spread throughout the galaxy, and a bounty is placed on his head for crimes he didn’t commit. New enemies emerge to claim the reward and old foes remain relentless in their pursuit of the artifact.

A Newbery Honor Book and a Book Sense 76 Selection, Enchantress from the Stars is a science-fiction classic. Three alien races meet on the small green world of Andrecia. The Imperial Exploration Corps wants to claim the planet for its own, but the Anthropological Service stands in the way. And when young Elana makes contact with native Georyn, a love story exploring the very depths of human emotion unfolds.

Galactic Central, a collection of floating cities in a vast, manmade, planetless cloud. Scout Shannon longed to see it since she first heard of it. This place long represented her shining future. But in her less shiny present, she reaches it by smuggling herself aboard a cargo ship and hides in the lower sewer-like levels of the most opulent of the floating cities. Teams of girl assassins still hunt her. Worse, her friends are in danger and don’t even know.

Felicitas kann es gar nicht glauben. Sie ist Erster Offizier auf dem Raumträger Elysion. 2169 in Dienst gestellt und mit dem experimentellen Antimaterie-Tachyonen-Antrieb ausgerüstet, bricht der Stolz der Terranischen Space Force nach Proxima Centauri auf. Und sie ist mit dabei, an Bord dieses riesigen Trägers, seinen Piloten, Soldaten, Jägern und Begleitschiffen. Nervös betrachtet sie sich im Spiegel und fährt mit dem Finger über die kleine Schwinge, das Symbol des Ersten Offiziers eines terranischen Raumträgers.

Just days before Jake Saunders plans on proposing to the love of his life, Jake is called upon once again to save his home, Earth. The Earthen Legion troops and its allies think they’re battling only pirates, but a new, more powerful foe from another galaxy flanks their forces and invades, in search of a weapon the planet didn’t even know it had.

The imagination of humanity has a tendency toward the extremes. It's at the extremes that the excitement is found. Fortunately, reality has a tendency toward the mean. The reality for the humanity of the 2080s is about what you'd expect. Life on Earth is rough, but not especially rough compared to eras past. The second space race has come and gone, leaving the masses to figure out the rules of yet another new status quo.

Der sechzehnjährige Zachariah Aurelian träumt davon, der prestigeträchtigen Earth Alliance Fleet Academy beizutreten, wo nur die besten Kadetten einen Platz unter den Sternen verdienen. Mit seiner unbeugsamen Entschlossenheit und seinem cleveren KI-Begleiter Giles ist Zach bereit, die harten Aufnahmeprüfungen der Akademie zu bestehen. Doch der Weg zum Flottenkommando ist alles andere als einfach. Simulierte Weltraumschlachten bringen seine Fähigkeiten an ihre Grenzen. Politische Spannungen zwischen der Erde und den unabhängigen Kolonien drohen einen neuen Krieg auszulösen.

Fast vollständig wurden die Jedi-Ritter vernichtet, doch eine Rebellengruppe widersetzt sich den Befehlen Darth Vaders: Der junge Luke Skywalker erfährt von Jedi-Meister Obi-Wan Kenobi seine Bestimmung - und nimmt gemeinsam mit dem Schmuggler Han Solo und Prinzessin Leia Organa den Kampf gegen die Dunkle Seite der Macht auf... Gelesen von Wolfgang Pampel, der Synchronstimme von "Han Solo" (Harrison Ford).

Scout Shannon wants nothing more than to leave her home world and its petty squabbling factions behind. Galactic Central with all of its excitement and opportunities awaits her. She makes it as far as her own planet’s orbit before the snares of bureaucracy close around her, trapping her on a space station populated by her people’s oldest foe. Then her rescuer, her only friend in the galaxy, disappears, abducted by a group of strangers the moment he steps off his ship.

Esmae once wanted nothing more than to help her golden brother win the crown of Kali, but that dream died with her best friend. Alexi broke her heart, and she vowed to destroy him for it. And with her sentient warship Titania beside her, how can she possibly fail? As gods, beasts, and kingdoms choose sides, Alexi seeks out a weapon more devastating than even Titania. Past lives threaten the present. Old enemies claim their due. And Esmae cannot outrun the ghosts and the questions that haunt her.

In AD 2076, Earth has been conquered and humanity brutally enslaved under the cruel tyranny of the Kalkar invaders whose evil was spawned from Va-nah, the Moon’s hollow interior. But when a desperate plea comes from the planet Barsoom, Julian Seventh - descendant of the great hero who nearly defeated the Kalkars - is hurled upon a lonely quest into the heart of Va-nah. There he must team up with a U-ga princess and a fierce alien quadruped to launch a daring rescue to save a lost Barsoomian ambassadorial mission.

Creían estar a salvo. Soñaban con poder volver. Habían olvidado los defectos, pero también las virtudes, de la otra mitad del grupo. El reencuentro tumba todos los supuestos que los doce jóvenes traen de sus aventuras previas y los lleva, junto con el robot de la Calypso, a unir fuerzas ante un último desafío. Solo uno de ellos, sin embargo, podrá superarlo. Rompiendo las normas de la narrativa juvenil actual, Cénit cierra la saga Doce Soles con una valiente reflexión sobre el fracaso, la responsabilidad, el amor y la convivencia entre humanos y máquinas.

Having escaped yet another closing trap, Scout Shannon finds herself on a snowbound mountaintop far from civilization. With assassins eager to kill her, laying low on an alien world is the smartest play. But wherever Scout goes, trouble follows. And a hamlet in the mountains gets far more remote when girl assassins destroy the only means back to civilization.

When Micah Belanger saw the word “disputed” pop up after her beloved Belethea Race Royale team won the biggest race in ’verse, all of VSoc heard her shriek. Add in four attempted murders, and she’s on a (virtual) warpath to set the record straight—as any true fangirl would. Lowell Coppen, of The Royaler Review, is also concerned with the murderous rumors behind the latest BRR, especially with warnings of a system-wide war rippling through VSoc.

Mitch Mythic was a normal kid living a normal life, but after he takes a stick to the crotch during a hockey game, the video of the incident breaks the internet, and his life spins out of control. As he becomes an online laughing stock and his friends abandon him, he is certain he has hit rock bottom. Oh, how wrong he was.

Welcome to Fina. A planet of bandits, soldiers, and revelers. For a time Atticus knew nobody was aware he was hiding on Fina until Captain Reno Bahm showed up at a bar. When news spreads of a devastating enemy arising in the galaxy again, everyone turns to the people of Fina. An unlikely group of sojourners embark on a journey that will change their lives and the galaxy.