Space Exploration Science Fiction

Accidents can lead to crazy circumstances, great discoveries, dangerous enemies, and maybe some new friends. What are the consequences of a scientist that opens a hole through space time? Or an exploration starship that is crippled as it dives into the gravity well of an unknown star system? It is the year 2293. An engineer, Tom Brown, opens a gateway through time. Another researcher in the Mesozoic, a Troödon dinosaur, opens a similar gateway. A stable link between them forms. That’s when things get interesting in both good and very bad ways.

Uma série de áudio em primeira pessoa que segue a jornada do astronauta Thomas Baker, que acorda em uma nave espacial deserta no espaço profundo. Enfrentando visões aterrorizantes e mistérios sombrios, Thomas luta para sobreviver enquanto questiona sua própria sanidade.

After war and overpopulation destroy their planet, Earth’s corrupt government seeks to overthrow the blossoming society on a newly terraformed Mars. Founded more than two and a half centuries previously by a courageous group of scientists known as the Genesis Project, the Martian settlement has resigned itself to defend their home against the overreaching Earthlings. Captured during the early days of the conflict, David Anderson, a young war hero from Earth, discovers the truth about his cruel leaders intentions and takes up arms with the Martians to preserve their way of life.

Life on the Ship has changed, and for Zax it means a return to the top. The Pilot Academy finally beckons and Zax battles for position against a competitor who brings a fascinating advantage. Meanwhile, his friendship with Kalare remains strained as he refuses to drop his suspicions about the Flight Boss and the officer's knowledge of the mysterious humans. As the Ship travels back towards Earth, the Crew visit a series of previously established colonies and discover startling information about their colonists.

The situation on Earth is coming to a head; while the infestation was brutally contained in Siberia, it has spread uncontrollably in Los Angeles. Jenna wants to prevent the spore from causing even worse damage at all costs and tightens the noose around the Initiative—or is she just another pawn in the clutches of the shady organization?

Michael Prasad knows he shouldn’t go out on the Mars surface alone. It’s dangerous. His parents have forbidden it. And the anxiety he feels almost every time he puts on a spacesuit makes it nearly impossible for him to leave the safety of the colony. But when his best friend, Lilith, suggests they sneak out one night, he can’t resist the chance to prove everyone - including himself - wrong.

Staff Sergeant Akira Sakai leads his squad of battle-hardened marines into action. The mission: kill the threat and rescue the hostages. Little do they know, another enemy awaits them - one more vicious and ruthless than anything they’ve ever encountered. The region is overrun with prehistoric predators, and giant pterodactyls attack the dropship, eliminating any possibility for immediate escape. Raptors, hungry for human flesh, stalk the team and pick them off one by one. To escape, the team must trek through thick forest, sludgy marshlands, and bloodthirsty predators at every turn.

Der abtrünnige Agent Forrester erhält den Auftrag, Aurelius ausfindig zu machen, einen zehntausendjährigen Menschen. Dieser ist einer von insgesamt sechs, die die Anfänge der Menschheitsgeschichte kennen und wissen, wo sich die Erde befindet, auf der alles begann. Nur diese Zehntausendjährigen haben Zugang zum Omni, einem Zusammenschluss von Superzivilisationen, die zwar die Macht in der Milchstraße ausüben, für das Gros der Menschheit und ähnlich "unterentwickelte" Zivilisationen jedoch im Verborgenen bleiben.

Imaginez une étoile avoisinant sept dixièmes de masse solaire... Si vous levez les yeux, il se peut que vous aperceviez son éclat blanc-jaune sur la face antérieure du bras spiral d'Orion, à sept mille parsecs du centre galactique. Le système de Grnc.mld1 compte six planètes : cinq telluriques et une gazeuse. De ces six planètes, Garance est la seule qui évolue dans la zone d'habitabilité.

Brock Rivers never wanted to be a repairman on Mars. Years ago, he failed to protect his family, and now he labors across a frontier planet to keep his children alive and escape CAUSE. But the spacefaring humanist regime is taking over Martian colonies, forcing all to join the secular state. Back in Brock’s homeworld, his people summon him to fulfill old hopes with a new dream. After decades of cultural isolation, they plan to restore missions for the 22nd century, voyaging beyond Earth to share the gospel in space. Brock must find a ship and recruit a team of misfit believers.

Zwei große Science-Fiction-Romane von Ursula K. Le Guin - in vollständiger Neuübersetzung. Ursula K. Le Guins visionäre Hainish-Romane, die davon erzählen, wie die Menschheit ferne Planeten besiedelt, haben die Landkarte der modernen Science Fiction neu entworfen. In "Das Wort für Welt ist Wald", gelesen von Oliver Siebeck, versklaven Kolonisten einen ganzen Planeten, um sich seiner Ressourcen zu bemächtigen - doch die Waldbewohner wissen sich zu wehren. "Die Überlieferung", gelesen von Ann Vielhaben, ist die erschütternde Geschichte einer Gesellschaft, die ihr kulturelles Erbe unterdrückt hat.

The brink of disaster. The Relentless is destroyed, and Captain Husher has fallen into a coma. The Brood harries the battle group from all sides, and the end seems near. Can the allied humans and aliens pull together to escape to the Milky Way and warn humanity of its impending doom? The time of reckoning has come.

Die Taurus-Region. Einst hatte eine mächtige fremde Spezies dieses Gebiet durch Eroberung für sich beansprucht. Obwohl es hier Unmengen zu entdecken und reiche Welten zur Kolonisierung gibt, ist kaum etwas über diese Region bekannt. Die Föderation hat zwei ihrer besten Schiffe dorthin geschickt, um die Geheimnisse zu ergründen.

Im verzweifelten Versuch, den Vorteil gegenüber ihren Rivalen zu wahren, schickt die Föderation zwei Schiffe - den Aufklärer Sagittarius und den Kreuzer Endeavour - in die Taurus-Region, um die Geheimnisse des riesigen Gebiets zu ergründen. Dort entdeckt die Besatzung der Sagittarius die Tomol - eine Spezies, deren Mitglieder mit Erreichen des Erwachsenenalters rituellen Selbstmord begehen.

With the Gral sent home, abandoning their posts around the colonies, humans are once again in charge of their own fate. Zane and Julia are determined to find the mysterious forty-fourth colony. They devise a plan and set into action while Lorna and Henry search the Forever World for evidence of the elusive alien race. Carl is sent into enemy territory with only a shred of hope as his guiding light. For both father and son, choice is synchronous with consequence, but how can you be sure you've made the right one?

Six astronauts dare to do the impossible: a mission to Venus, a planet full of dangers and ancient secrets. But what begins as a scientific exploration turns into a race for survival. Caught between four rival factions and a mysterious resonance capsule that defies the laws of time and space, the crew is faced with an impossible choice: truth or destruction. Friendship, trust and even lives are put to the test as the astronauts find themselves caught up in a maelstrom of riddles, love, a tribunal and paradoxes that challenge every known reality.

Master storyteller Ben Bova continues his multi-volume "Grand Tour" saga chronicling humanity's exploration of near space with Titan, a fast-paced thriller focused on the first manned mission to the Solar System's most intriguing world. Skillfully blending high drama, passionate characters, and daring speculation with the latest discoveries from the current Cassini/Huygens probe of Saturn's moon, Bova has crafted a heart-stopping tale of epic adventure on mankind's next frontier.

A group of astronauts fight to return to their loved ones when their journey goes off-course in this mind-bending sci-fi thriller from the creator of the hit Netflix series Manifest.

A well-deserved vacation turns disastrous when Marius arrives in a strange white room. As reality sinks in, there's a culprit he never expects: aliens. Highly advanced aliens rip him from Earth to level up in the Semo Universe. A place where wormhole portals, spaceships, energy beamers, and enhancement attributes are common. Loaded with debt, a small shuttle, and a sultry AI, he braves the vast universe one mission at a time.

Sheriff Peggy-Ann Muller suddenly found herself hip-deep in strange events - even stranger than usual...and skinheads, too - did she mention the skinheads? Something had stirred in the darkness on the remote, usually idyllic Terran colony of Deanna - something Nazi...and it only seemed to be getting worse! Nobody could say when it started or how, but something had changed. Without being noticed, hate had come to Deanna and made a nest there...and a terrible plot was about to hatch! The quirky residents of the third-rate colony faced a challenge unlike any they had seen before.