Space Fantasy Adult

In a city where stars are bottled, sold, and suspended above the skyline like luxury chandeliers, Lyra Selene dreams of the real sky. When a deep-space signal delivers a voice she thought she’d never hear again—her father’s—Lyra is pulled into a dangerous web of secrets the Syndicate will kill to protect. Her father was a whistleblower, and the stars he once studied… may be alive. With a stolen scanner, a fragment of stardust, and a message encoded in fading light, Lyra embarks on a journey through abandoned observatories, black-market space bazaars, and mythic ruins orbiting dying suns.

Sometimes my life doesn't feel real to me. It's so different - infinitely better - than anything I had on Earth. I'm not running or hiding or afraid anymore. I'm not dealing with the trauma of my past. I'm not alone because I have Lorne. Every time I look into his eyes, everything else fades away - the war, the fight ahead, the fact that we have so much work to do if we want to win. I see him and I forget that SpaceTech is moving against us, but it's not just me I'm trying to save anymore. It's the Aunare.

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.

Nearly 100,000 years after first contact with the machines that dominate the universe, only a few hundred humans survive. Trapped on Snowglade, a barren world near the center of the galaxy, Killeen and his child, Toby, of the Bishop Tribe, are primitive scavengers, homeless and hunted by the ruling “mechs”. Then suddenly, a strange cosmic entity – neither organic nor cybernetic or living matter – reaches out from a black hole to speak with Killeen.

Three years ago, Tyrus Domitrian shocked the galaxy by killing the woman he swore to love forever. The woman for whom he upended the Empire. Now, the once-idealistic heir apparent has become the cruel Emperor Tyrus, wielding his authority with an iron fist, capable of destroying planets with a single word, controlling all technology with a simple thought. He has bent the Grandiloquy to their knees, and none have the power to stand against him. But there is a muttering among the Excess. They say that Nemesis is not truly gone.

Desperate to return home to Earth and claim the reward Babel promised, Emmett and the Genesis team join forces with the Imago. Babel's initial attack left their home city in ruins, but that was just part of the Imago's plan. They knew one thing Babel didn't. This world is coming to an end. Eden's two moons are on a collision course no one can prevent. After building eight secret launch stations, the Imago hoped to lure Babel down to their doomed planet as they left it behind. A perfect plan until the Genesis team's escape route was destroyed.

Some days I wake up and can't believe that I'm on Sel'Ani. I can't believe that I'm here and that I've fallen in love with the man from my dreams. I can't believe that I said yes to marrying him and becoming the High Queen of the Aunare. I want to stay in bed with him all day where we're safe from everything else that's happening, but saying yes and being in love with Lorne didn't make all our problems disappear. The Aunare don't understand what SpaceTech is capable of.

Follow princesses warring in space, haunting ghost stories in Argentina, mermaids off the coast of the Caribbean, swamps that whisper secrets, and many more realms explored and unexplored; this stunning collection of seventeen short stories breaks borders and realms to prove that stories are truly universal. Reclaim the Stars features both bestselling and acclaimed authors as well as two new voices in the genres.

Olive Joshi is an imaginative sixteen-year-old with OCD. She checks and double-checks that the stove burners are off, avoids driving for fear of causing an accident, and constantly worries about hurting the people she loves. Olive finds refuge from her anxiety in writing stories about Coseema, a magical princess on the distant planet Lyria. Coseema is fearless, confident, powerful, and perfect—everything Olive thinks she’ll never be.

A looming supernova. A long-lost starship. A hero turned evil. Olive Joshi never meant to fall through a portal into her own abandoned novel, much less kill her protagonist and resurrect her as a villain. Now she’s on the run in a universe quickly spiraling out of her control. After narrowly escaping Coseema with her life, Olive and her friends head for a distant planet in search of the legendary starship the Wave-Rider, which may be the only hope for the doomed people of Lyria.

Seventeen-year-old Aimee Roh has Sensory Time Warp Syndrome, a rare condition that causes her to time travel to a moment in her life when she smells something linked to that memory. Her dad is convinced she’ll simply grow out of it if she tries hard enough, but Aimee’s fear of vanishing at random has kept her from living a normal life. When Aimee disappears for nine hours into a memory of her estranged mom—a moment Aimee has never remembered before—she becomes distraught.

It’s 2067, and the Graves family has transformed Mars from a rocky wilderness into a chaotic blend of settlements that are part national pride, part corporate conquest. Enter Hunter Graves. After his Dad dies on Earth, Hunter decides to make an unannounced visit to his only other living relatives--his mom and sister who live on Mars. Unfortunately, he arrives at the check-in station moments before a toxin is detected...and he can’t find an escape pod.

With Coseema off planet, Olive has bought herself some time—but the clock is ticking. After a risky rescue mission, she and her friends make their way to the center of the rebellion against Emperor Burnash, who is desperate to capture Olive and claim her power for his own. Without her journal, Olive must rely on her newfound courage to elude Burnash and help her friends. But that courage is put to the test as she and Coseema clash in a final showdown—one that will decide the fate of a star system.

Terra, the human girl raised by aliens, is back on Earth. but not for long. It's been two years since Terra returned to Earth. It had seemed like such a good idea at the time...Get to know her real parents. Attend high school with actual humans. But Terra's world has been anything but ordinary. Across the galaxy, her alien homeland is in grave danger...A death planet. A mysterious prophecy. And a society warped beyond all recognition. Terra's adoptive father and friends desperately need help. If Terra knew this, she'd be on the first spaceship away from Earth. But she doesn't.

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.

Milton Frederick never had the chance to live out his life as a professional gamer on Earth, mainly because he was abducted by aliens. Unfortunately, he wasn’t returned home after the typical probing associated with such things to tell an unbelievable story to his friends. Instead, he was summarily killed and his consciousness was inserted into a Station Core, a giant, metal, egg-shaped object that could use technology to create traps, Combat Units, and other defenses to protect not just himself, but those he cared about.

La vida de Spensa como miembro de la Fuerza de Defensa Desafiante dista mucho de ser normal y corriente. Demostró ser una de las mejores pilotos de caza estelar en el enclave humano de Detritus y salvó a su pueblo del exterminio a manos de los krells, la enigmática especie alienígena que los tenía prisioneros desde hace décadas. Por si fuera poco, viajó a años-luz de distancia de su hogar como espía infiltrada en la Supremacía, a un lugar donde descubrió que había toda una galaxia más allá de su pequeño y desolado planeta natal.

Rachael Townsend is the first artist ever to leave Earth and journey out into the galaxy—but after an encounter with an alien artifact, she can't make art at all. Elza Monteiro is determined to be the first human to venture inside the Palace of Scented Tears and compete for the chance to become a princess—except that inside the palace, she finds the last person she ever wanted to see again.

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.

Treinta años en el futuro. La Tierra es cada vez menos habitable, por lo que un grupo de colonos (entre ellos Will, sus dos hermanas adolescentes y sus padres) emprende un viaje intergaláctico, en busca de un nuevo hogar. Durante la travesía, la nave es atacada y la familia Robinson se queda varada en un planeta alienígena, en el cual deberá lidiar con un entorno hostil y muchas dificultades técnicas, para poder reemprender la marcha y alcanzar al resto de la colonia.