Space Science Fiction Anthology

Captain Warden and Lance Corporal Goodwin are the space marines with the hard job. They have to infiltrate a Deathless base, identify and capture a senior officer and extract him from under the nose of his soldiers, preferably without dying in the process. They’re relying on Ten to watch their backs, but when he is accosted by the denizens of the jungle he’s yomping through, he has to make a tough choice between speed and humanity.

Neil Webb and his best friend, Marie, are enjoying their first day of summer vacation when Neil receives a mysterious message from his father. In the message, Neil finds out his father, Stephen, has been using wormholes to visit alien planets. Stephen was on his way to visit a hyper-intelligent species named the Teva when he and his best friend, world-famous scientist Dr. William Lowell, were caught in an alien war and stranded on an uncharted planet, triggering an emergency message to his son.

The starways' Lone Watcher had expected some odd developments in his singular, nerve-fraught job on the asteroid. But nothing like the weird, twenty-one-day liquid test devised by the invading Steel-Blues. Unlike the usual style of audiobook, this release has a music and effects soundtrack backing the narration, giving it a radio play feel rather than a straightforward reading.

During a routine oil delivery to the capital planet, a massive starship manned by a skeleton crew mysteriously breaks down. Now the youngest, least experienced crew member, his captain, and his conspiracist of a crew mate seek survival and answers while trying to avoid looming threats on the ship.

In "A Little Journey," published in August 1951, we meet an elderly woman in search of enlightenment who buys a ticket on a rocket. Like other more famous Bradbury's stories, "A Little Journey" demonstrates the author's characteristic blending of the sentimental and the transcendent, the homely and the mystical.

Will was once a truck driver. When he was on Earth, his days were spent alone, traveling the highways for months until he went home to see his wife and family. Then Space Trucking became the new thing, and they didn't want pilots. They wanted men like him: the ones who were used to the isolation. Now after six years, Will has had his first break down, but this isn't a semi and there's no such thing as roadside assistance. When you break down in space, all that remains are the Cold Days.

Michelangelo Fazio, autore di tre racconti di fantascienza, capace di coniugare divulgazione scientifica e racconto, introduce il lettore nel mondo delle leggi dello spazio-tempo e della relatività di Einstein. La comicità di Fazio e la sua passione per la scienza trovano collocazione ideale in queste storie brevi ambientate in mondi fantastici.

When a group of prize-winning high school graduates blasted off on a mission to space, their parents beamed with pride. When news of the disaster came in, a nation mourned. But nothing is truly as it seems.

Le storie di Lavie Tidhar si possono leggere sia come racconti di fantascienza sia come estratti – emozionanti ed evocativi – della vita di personaggi ai margini di una società in espansione verso lo spazio. Storie di persone che, con poco o nulla da perdere, s'imbarcano su “carrette spaziali” per un viaggio dall'esito incerto. E poi c'è chi resta, chi spera di partire un giorno dal “Terminale Terra” e chi farebbe qualunque cosa – il killer, la webstar o il clonatore – pur di realizzare il sogno di riuscire ad andarsene per sempre.

Embarking on a space journey can be dangerous, no matter how short the trip is supposed to be. Going to inspect a new planet with unknown life can be exciting and well-paid. Being thrown onto the planet surface without a way to contact home base or protect oneself from the unknown can be deadly. Follow along with two men who were sent on such a journey with disastrous results. Will they manage to survive until home base can send a rescue party, or will they be over taken by the planet and the dangers they encounter?

Ellanora: The Rose of Panoptia is a spin-off of the Urtu 313 series that tells the thrilling story of how the Royal Galactic Consortium put down the Lucifer Rebellion across 37 worlds in an amazing four years! Experience the rise of the Dominion and Guardians and the heroic efforts of humans like Ellanora Rose, along with brave Celestials, and the outstanding Marshals of Melcor who brought them down.

Triangulum Odyssey Chronicles is a short story about four individuals, Stephine, Stella, Nora, and Joesph. They go on an emotional roller-coaster ride dealing with their feelings, about giving up everything they love. Take a trip with them, as they talk about the last 12 to 36 hours, before leaving for the colony ship. Triangulum Odyssey Chronicles is a prequel that takes place days before Triangulum Odyssey: The Journey Begins.

Gus Valentino is still an entry-level delivery driver. But when he gets a big job, delivering live cargo, he thinks it's gonna be his big break. And it's just a tiny little guy! A norblan, for a little girl's birthday present.

H. G. Wells fue un gran escritor prolífico de ficción y no ficción. Su carrera literaria se extendió por más de sesenta años y sus primeras novelas de ciencia ficción le concedieron el título (junto con Julio Verne y Hugo Gernsback) de «Padre de la ciencia ficción».

A golden age pulp series by Nebula Nominee Ross Rocklynne! For the first time since their original appearance in the legendary pulp Planet Stories in the early 1940s, here are the three novelettes that launched the adventures of Sidney Hallmeyer, interstellar agent - one of the era's most trail-blazing series. In essence, Hallmeyer is a scientific secret agent with a license to kill - entire cultures and worlds! If needed or if so ordered, when they stand in the way of Earth's territorial expansion and dream of empire.

Planeta Paraíso es el primer libro escrito por Tomas Alva Andrei. Una antología de relatos de ciencia ficción (solo hay uno que podría ser de terror y que nos ha recordado algunos de los cuentos de Robert Bloch) que aborda, con un estilo novedoso y a la vez familiar, una serie de temas que van desde la ciencia ficción más clásica, hasta otra mucho más moderna y madura, donde la ecología adquiere casi un papel protagonista en el relato que da título al volumen.

Join Captain Bartholomew Quasar and the crew of the Effervescent Magnitude in this hilarious collection of short stories as they confront bands of nefarious space pirates, cantankerous bandits, exotic aliens, devious powers of persuasion, mysterious ghosts from the past, deep space identity crises, a runaway hyper-speed train, an insidious computer virus, and a villain with the fastest thumbs in the quadrant.

"They landed in California, in Sequoia National Park. See Blake over there,” Jasmin looked to where a group where locked in a heated discussion in the large board room. “They are deciding what to do. Houston is involved and NASA, and the military, and everyone, really.” “Hold on! This is my discovery!” Jasmin shouted. Why had they left her sleeping? She had spotted the aliens first. Now they had landed, and she had missed it.

This short story is one of those things that literally took a village to accomplish. From bouncing around ideas to coming up with the characters to listening to me ramble on and on and on about it. In itself, it is a fun little piece that the author fell in love with while trying to flesh out a few of the main characters of his fLUX Runners series.

Operative Jena Morane is the kind of Justice Keeper who can't resist the urge to poke her nose where it doesn't belong. Bored with her current assignment, she flies off to investigate strange readings from a neighboring star system. But something is lurking in deep space, and what she finds there will haunt her until the day she dies.