Space Exploration Science Fiction

From beyond the galaxy. From beyond human understanding. They came with one mission. To kill us all. Some call them aliens. Others call them gods. Their tentacles grip worlds. Their malice destroys civilizations. They've crushed a million planets. Now they crave Earth. Marco and Addy, veterans of the Alien Wars, are retired. They fought for many years. They saved Earth many times. Now they're raising their children in a peaceful forest. They've earned this peace. But Earth needs them. More than ever. Because a war is coming. A war unlike any before. A war that can devour our very galaxy.

Der Phagenkrieg war ein verheerender Konflikt für die Terranische Konföderation. Trotz der Zerstörung ihres schrecklichen, unerbittlichen Feindes ist die Menschheit immer noch schwer angeschlagen. Politische Allianzen zerfallen, und ihre mächtige Flotte liegt in Trümmern. Selbst nach einem so vollständigen Sieg gibt es nichts zu feiern. Bald erfahren die Menschen, dass es andere stellare Nachbarn gibt – und diese haben den Konflikt mit großem Interesse beobachtet.

Blast off on a whimsical journey where the ordinary meets the extraordinary! In the first volume of this imaginative new trilogy, join Microboo-a brave, curious little black cat with emerald eyes-and her quirky circle of animal and human friends in Wake Forest, North Carolina. Life at the “Kitty Kat Resort and Café” is never dull, but when a colossal golden alien spaceship piloted by an ancient android rabbit named Chief Twylo arrives, adventure truly begins.

Hella is a planet where everything is oversized. The trees are mile-high, the dinosaur herds are huge, and the weather is extreme - so extreme, the colonists have to migrate twice a year to escape the blistering heat of summer and the atmosphere-freezing cold of winter. Kyle is a neuro-atypical young man, emotionally challenged, but with an implant that gives him real-time access to the colony's computer network. When an overburdened starship arrives, he becomes the link between the established colonists and the refugees from a ravaged Earth.

Sechs geklonten Wissenschaftlern ist es gelungen, an Bord eines Raumschiffs eine künstliche Intelligenz zu erzeugen. Diese KI, ausgestattet mit gottgleichen Fähigkeiten, hat das Schiff und die Kolonisten darin sicher zum Planeten Pandora gebracht. Doch Pandora ist alles andere als ein Paradies: die Atmosphäre ist giftig, die Lebewesen tödlich – und inmitten all dieser Gefahren scheint die Schiffs-KI den Verstand verloren zu haben und wendet sich jetzt gegen die Siedler.

Three sapient species from two star systems warring among themselves and against each other—Humans terraforming Mars to accommodate extended lifespans—Two competing FTL modes—An interstellar federation based in Sol's Oort Cloud. Together, these form the matrix of a galaxy-spanning saga.

It doesn’t matter that Ray Garcia-Strickland’s father was one of the first men on Mars. The now overdeveloped planet has lost its hip factor, its luxurious hotels - like the one Ray’s father manages - overrun with gravity-dependent tourists from Earth. Ray is over the Red Planet. Soon he gets his own chance at interplanetary adventure when an unknown object hits Earth and causes a massive tsunami. Ray heads back to Florida to help family and friends who’ve survived the devastation - and soon learns the so-called natural disaster could have unnatural consequences.

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.

Im Jahr 2265 befindet sich in der Taurus-Ausdehnung, einem unbekannten Terrain nahe der tholianischen Grenze, die Raumbasis 47 - auch Vanguard genannt. Commodore Reyes soll die fremde Weltraumregion kolonisieren. Aber die Ausdehnung birgt ein altes Geheimnis. Die Spannungen zwischen dem Tholianischen und dem Klingonischen Reich nehmen zu: Schiffe der Großmächte werden von einem ominösen Feind angegriffen, sodass beide Fraktionen eine Verschwörung des anderen vermuten.

Uralte Geheimnisse liegen auf dem vierten Planeten des Jinoteur-Systems, drei Rivalen kämpfen um ihre Kontrolle: Die Föderation und das Klingonische Imperium wollen sie für ihre Zwecke einsetzen, die Tholianische Versammlung sie vernichten. Aber die Bedrohung auf der entfernten Welt ist gefährlicher als die Völker zunächst annehmen.

Heartfelt reunions with friends... Desperate plans to gain advantage... Opportunities that cannot be ignored... Discovery of family once thought lost... The time has come for Captain Scott to fight for that which was taken...the very freedom of the world he was sworn to protect.

Commander Jonah Reyes, lunar hydrologist and a man rebuilding his faith, oversees the Shackleton Array, a ring of photothermal towers guarding Tycho Station’s wells. When the Helios Combine moves to claim the Moon’s water and a solar storm bears down, Tycho is thrust into a perilous choice. A shadow team seeds sabotage, a yield optimizer AI begins to reroute lifeblood from breath to profit, and a stowaway child emerges from a sealed crate with nothing but courage and a name.

"Tanjiri is not for you. You are not ready to encounter what exists there." So Lezuri spoke in warning, long ago. Urban still possesses the strange gift—the impossible puzzle—Lezuri gave him that day. A needle, ultra-thin and twelve centimeters long, with a silvery surface that slices light into rainbow glints. All Lezuri's knowledge lies locked within that needle. Urban has only to discover the trick of opening it, to gain that knowledge for himself—but the needle remains an enigma.

The war will come - it is inevitable. After centuries of struggle, the ISF Intrepid has finally brought its colonists to New Canaan, a star system better than any they imagined. They made landfall and began to build their new home, far from the troubles of Sol and the Inner Stars. Yet no one in the Orion Arm has forgotten that the colonists possess the most valuable technology known to humankind, least of all Tanis Richards - as she secretly prepares to defend New Canaan against any and all aggressors.

A spaceship crash survivor, Addie Rye is lucky to be alive. But being stuck on a primitive planet isn’t exactly the epitome of luck. With no way home, Addie has no choice but learn how to use stone tools and catch her dinner before cooking it, all while attempting to befriend a tribe of wild nomads who inhabit this planet.

Jendua is an extraterrestrial who arrives on Earth in search of a companion, Zendor, who came voluntarily to the planet many centuries ago. Over time and after several lifetimes, Zendor has lost his memory of his stellar origin. Jendua has the remote support of the mission commander and his spirit guide to find and awaken him, but none of them will be able to prevent him from having difficulties on his mission.

Rural Route to Mars tells the story of Robert “Robesy” Agnar, a restless teenager trapped between the dusty farmlands of Nebraska and the stars he dreams of reaching. Battling family tensions, academic struggles—especially with math—and the crushing weight of lost friendship, Robesy’s world is one of dirt roads and fading small-town hopes. But one late summer day, everything changes. A mysterious stranger, a strange symbol, and a relic from the past pull Robesy into a reality far beyond the boundaries of his quiet life.

Captain Nathan Scott must decide whether to stand and fight to the end, or live to fight another day - even if it means the end of his world.

The Kree Empire is knocked back on its heels when the Phalanx, a cybernetic race that converts hosts using a techno-organic virus, seizes control of Hala, the Kree homeworld. The person who accidentally brought the Phalanx right to the heart of the Kree Empire? Peter Quill, otherwise known as Star-Lord.

Two years after the end of the Psi War, Caleb Mitchell is Emperor in all but name, leading his armies on a crusade to cleanse the colony worlds and Earth itself of the last of the psionic madmen known as the Changed. But the citizens of the Commonwealth weren't the only ones devastated by the war; the criminal cartels in the Pirate Worlds are in chaos, their trade cut off, their resources running out. A young warlord named Amos Dobrev rises up to unite the cartels into a union they call the Syndicate.