Space Travel Fiction

Read by Peter Kenny, award-winning narrator of the Culture series by Iain M. Banks. Following Mindstar Rising and A Quantum Murder, The Nano Flower is the final book in Peter F. Hamilton's Greg Mandel trilogy – a riveting science-fictional detective story. For fifteen years she has been the...

Read by Peter Kenny, award-winning narrator of the Culture series by Iain M. Banks. In a ravaged near-future England, a private detective with psychic powers might be the last hope standing between mankind and total collapse. Mindstar Rising is the first cyberpunk thriller in Peter F. Hamilton's...

First published as an illustrated book in the 1960s and now a collector’s item, Doctor Who and the Invasion from Space sees the Doctor land in the futuristic world of The One. Along with the Mortimer family, whom he rescued from the Great Fire of London, he finds himself recruited to lead a galactic invasion from Andromeda - with the TARDIS instrumental in the plan! In Ten Fathom Pirates, a story from The Doctor Who Annual 1967, the Doctor encounters underwater raiders on a distant planet.

Charles speaks. And what a tale he has to tell. Charles’s obsession with immortality is well known, as are his methods for achieving it. But what about the side effects? So far, most of them have been positives, for him: telepathy, mind reading, creating things with his bare hands. Will there be any negatives? Oh yes. And now the entire galaxy is in peril.

Every morning, Mariella Adams wakes with a strange electrical energy buzzing beneath her skin. Terrified she has inherited her late mother’s mental illness, she tells no one, but when she discovers her mother’s lost journals with an entry dated after her death, she’s desperate for answers. Mariella’s confusion grows when she’s approached by Rose and Parker, who claim to be time travellers from the future. Communicating with the past – and Mariella – is forbidden, but she holds the key to restoring Parker’s ability to time travel before they’re caught in this forbidden timeline.

Mars is supposed to be dead. Bizarre quakes are rumbling over the long-dormant tectonic plates of the planet, disrupting its trillion-dollar mining operations and driving scientists past the edges of theory and reason. However, when rocks shake off their ancient dust and begin to roll seemingly of their own volition carving canals as they converge to form a towering structure amid the ruddy terrain, Lt. Jain and her JSC team realize that their routine geological survey of a Martian cave system is anything but. The only clues they have stem from the emissions of a mysterious blue radiation, and a 300-year-old journal that is writing itself.

Beginning In the Andromeda galaxy, "The Huntsman" centers around Captain Minardi and his wife, Commander Belle, aboard the the Huntman, a warship with a famous history. The story takes a dramatic turn when Belle is inadvertently infected by a highly evolved crystalline entity, linking her consciousness via Quantum entanglement with its now highly evolved crystalline source ten billion years in the future.

In Victorious, an armada with two hundred thousand ships travels back a millennium in time to obliterate all sentient beings in the galaxy by hurling asteroids at their planets. This is nothing like what Jim, Kurt, and Tarq have faced before—this is nothing like anyone in the universe has ever faced before.

Dinosaurs. Majestic giants. They’ve captured our imagination for generations. On planet Mintari, they live again. Mintari is far from Earth. Wild. Pristine. A world where triceratops herd across grasslands, pterosaurs soar over golden mountains, and T-rexes prowl the misty forests. But these magnificent beasts might soon disappear. And only one man can save them. They call him Jurassic Joe; a semi-mythical figure, a ranger who lives in the wilderness of Mintari. He is the defender of dinosaurs and the bane of poachers. A folk hero...but is he real?

In Ansible, 25th-century Islamic explorers transfer their minds across space and time to make first contact...and get marooned in alien bodies on alien worlds. Along the way, they encounter the most dangerous predator humanity has ever faced. Now a Syrian refugee, a 13th-century librarian, and a hijabi shape-shifter from the far future must travel across space and time to defend humanity from this intergalactic and devouring evil.

Erdmond, Großes Archiv: Die Chronistin Tsai Yini ist dafür zuständig, die Tachyonen-Kommunikation zu überwachen, mit der auch Reisen in Überlichtgeschwindigkeit möglich sind. Als ihr die Forschungsdaten eines Astrobiologen zugespielt werden, kann sie kaum glauben, was sie liest. Aus dem Bericht geht hervor, dass auf einem Tropenplaneten im Gliese-System intelligente Lebensformen existieren. Ihre Kultur steckt noch in den Anfängen, kreist aber offenbar um ein Artefakt ungeklärten Ursprungs, das ihre Körperchemie zu beeinflussen scheint.

Noah Zarc rockets to Venus on a quest to discover the truth about his past. He refuses to believe his father is really the monster everyone says he is. Could there be valid reasons for everything his father’s done, including abandoning Noah at birth? Together with his two friends, a plucky girl from the Ice Age, and a street-wise kid from back alleys of Mars, Noah searches for answers to secrets everyone refuses to talk about—secrets that have remained hidden for over a thousand years. In the process, he becomes embroiled in a mystery that could have devastating consequences.

As battles rage across the solar system, Noah Zarc must work to unite a rag-tag bunch of miners, farmers, and scientists who would rather just live in peace than fight a war which could set humanity back to the dark ages...if not destroy them altogether. With only a time-traveling ship full of animals and a general from the history books (who is more comfortable riding a horse than in a spaceship), the Zarc family has to stand against the full might of a highly trained army of attack-drones, and a fleet of battleships armed with enough firepower to take out an entire planet.

Space exploration gone different. Although HAM was the first US astronaut, at one point in history it seemed inevitable that the first deep-space pilots would be humans. Of course, we know that things didn't work out that way. This is the story as it actually unfolded, including the real story of Tolan Baboon's flight and his best dirty jokes. A humorous alternate history of the space program.

In the not too distant future, on a decaying space-station from a high Venus orbit, a cantankerous and disgraced scientist awaits the delivery of a mysterious shipment. He hopes to use it to invent a new propulsion system and, in doing so, salvage his reputation. However, the station’s decommissioning crew, led by Chief O’Connor, are skeptical about his plans. They believe them to be nothing but drunken delusions, a theory which seems more than plausible given the bold and outlandish claims he has been making of late.

Al-Khidr’s destiny has brought him back to the planet Lyra, which was as beautiful and majestic as it was before, but this time there was something odd about it. Apart from delivering the Lyrians the precious cure for the Mutmut disease, Al-Khidr must now find out what has happened in his absence, before it’s too late. Not being able to find his friends, he starts looking for clues with a racing heart. On the other hand, Hatathor is set to finally get his revenge and is hunting Al-Khidr relentlessly. Will Hatathor catch Al-Khidr?

Der letzte Mensch auf seiner gefährlichsten Mission: Das neue Science-Fiction-Hörbuch von Bestseller-Autor Andreas Brandhorst. Als letzter, unsterblicher Mensch in der Milchstraße steht Aron in den Diensten der Moy, einer alten Superzivilisation, die seit unvordenklichen Zeiten über den Kosmos wacht. Sein Auftrag: der Schutz des Kulturguts unterentwickelter Lebensformen vor den Blendern, die überall Zwietracht säen. Die neue Mission führt ihn auf den Planeten Mulkain, wo einige Abgesandte der Moy verschwunden sind.

Twenty-one years have passed since the end of the wars against the Insectoids and the rogue AI Machineships. A new generation of Shilohs has joined the Space Force, much to the joy of the AIs that still revere the memory of The Cag, Victor Shiloh. And, once again, humanity is in mortal danger. The temporal backlash from multiple time jumps that the Friendlies had warned against is making itself felt with a vengeance. Can humans and their loyal AI allies find a way to undo their meddling with time? Changing the past without resorting to time travel will be but half the battle.

Alan is a citizen of Earth, with a corporate job, a girlfriend, and an expensive apartment located in one of the tall glass towers of New York, Manhattan. When he breaks into a big corporation's servers and steals 1,250,000 Galactic Credits, he's judged and confined to live in a penal colony, 4,300 light-years away from Earth, for the rest of his life. It was the year 4210, and the Colony was a tiny part of the capital of Kalara IV, Alandra. At first, the Colony is a strange thing to Alan, but he starts going to a local board game club where he makes new friends to fill up his time.

Risen from the past, these beautiful animals inspire all who see them. Titanic sauropods roam the land, devouring forests. Ceratopsians herd across the plains like living tanks. Pterosaurs fill the skies, some as large as planes. Ruling them all, the mighty T. rex reigns as king. Powerful as they are, the dinosaurs are facing another extinction. An army of poachers sweeps across Mintari. Killing. Burning. Even the greatest dinosaurs cannot survive their modern weapons. Against this army stands Joe Triplehorn. A Mintari Ranger. A man broken and forged in the wilderness.