Space Exploration

With the Stillness and their Wulgor allies growing in power, Van and the Fist of Orion reach a crossroads of epic proportions. Who will lead the charge for justice? Will it be Van and his friends, or will the former GKU demand a seat at the table in a universe where nothing is ever settled, and old grudges don't die—they just linger? Old problems require new solutions, and Van sees the need for soldiers as an opportunity. From the growing ranks of the Shrikes, elite young leaders emerge, ready to answer the call when the Fist of Orion decides that sometimes, the best defense is a good offense.

Before the enemy struck at Midway Station, Jim Garrett had never captained an active warship. Unexpectedly thrust into command, he now leads the most powerful task force in the Confederation. As a deadly new mission approaches, Garrett knows every decision he makes could save billions of lives. Or end them in an instant. Deep in enemy space lies a star system like no other. A hive of factories and construction platforms, it exists for a single purpose—to build the fleets sent to break and enslave humanity.

Alexander Hawkes built the Galactic Knights Uniformed to be different. Not mercenaries. Not enforcers. Peacekeepers. But ideals don't pay the bills. Now the Charter Directorate speaks a new language—one of revenue targets and moral flexibility. While Alexander patrols shopping malls, the galaxy's ugliest truths fester in the shadows. The Nacendo are being herded onto transports like cattle. Planets are harvested for profit. And entire ecosystems are poisoned for mineral rights.

Jack Schafer followed his greatest enemy through a wormhole—and stranded himself on the wrong side of the galaxy. Lost on a brutal alien world of dinosaurs, rebels, and empires built on stolen god-tech, Jack is cut off from Earth, from his allies, and from the woman he loves. But survival is...

He'd been a Guild Peacemaker, once. But he lost his badge, his family, even his home, to a few bad decisions. Now he works as muscle for one of the planet's more wretched crime lords. Even at rock bottom, Gaelin still believes in honor and protecting the innocent. But in those low circles, being a man of integrity just means absorbing more lumps than he dishes out. A mysterious figure from his past appears out of the shadows. The Peacemaker Guild that once cast him down now needs his help. But help with what?

Reissued after seventy-five years out of print—and in hardcover for the first time in a generation—David Starr, Space Ranger is the first book in the Lucky Starr series written by the legendary Isaac Asimov, author of Foundation, the Galactic Empire series, and I, Robot. Conway could...

"The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall" (1835) is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The story is regarded as one of the early examples of the modern science fiction genre. The story traces the journey of a voyage to the Moon. The story opens with the delivery to a crowd gathered in Rotterdam of a manuscript detailing the journey to the moon by Hans Pfaall. The manuscript sets out in detail how Hans Pfaall, a mender of bellows, contrived to reach the Moon by benefit of a revolutionary new balloon and a device which compresses the vacuum of space into breathable air.

Maureen O’Brien narrates the BBC TV soundtrack of this two-part adventure starring William Hartnell as the Doctor. “There's always Koquillion. He could keep me here forever...” Landing on the planet Dido in the 25th Century, the Doctor, Ian (William Russell) and Barbara (Jacqueline Hill)...

Dan Starkey reads this original adventure for the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory. “Hello, I’m the Doctor… Doctor someone… can’t remember who at the moment. Hoping it will come back to me.” On a planet with twin suns, three people wake in the shadow of a crashed spaceship. They don’t...

If you like your space adventures with a side of sarcasm and a cargo hold full of questionable life choices, Ray Guns and Late Fees delivers. Ride shotgun with a pair of blue-collar spacers as they sail through the stars, patching together jobs with duct tape and stubborn optimism. Out here, pirates aren’t legends, they’re coworkers you haven’t shot at yet. Every deal comes with fine print written in plasma fire, every port hides someone looking to cheat you, and every “simple haul” has a nasty habit of turning into a running gunfight before the coffee gets cold.

"Success breeds success," or so Admiral Tracy Jackson recalled the Earthers saying. His fleet took control of two Elite worlds, Da-fer and Jot-ma, the first of ten Elite worlds. However, Admiral Jackson recognized that his thought about success was merely a saying, and they weren’t always true. Volunteers from other races descended on the Elite worlds by the hundreds of thousands. Many were drawn to help the hamlet subs by the conclave’s generosity. They left difficult home world circumstances to earn conclave credits with personal services provided free.

Some marriages start with a loving "I do." Theirs starts with a lie. When human Kleena is snatched off the streets of Jorvla and thrust into an auction, she expects to find herself at the mercy of her buyer, not rescued by a Naga prince—even if he is a warrior haunted by the ghosts of his own...

Die Majestätische Dracht erreicht Gliese 514 – und die Hoffnung ist groß, dort endlich einen Planeten zu finden, der den Bedürfnissen der Grosnopfe entspricht. Doch aus der Nähe sieht es ganz und gar nicht danach aus. Der Zentralstern des Systems scheint nicht einmal einen Planeten zu besitzen!

A Most Anticipated Book of 2026 Transfer Orbit CrimeReads The Bookseller A Memory Called Empire meets Children of Time in this Arabfuturist debut set on a generation ship on the brink of revolution as its crew begin to ask why they should toil for a people, and an empire, none of them...

On the far edge of the Steele Empire, law and order doesn’t come with backup. It comes with a badge, a ship, and a Frontier Ranger willing to fly into trouble. Cole Butler is one of the best. A seasoned Ranger with a reputation for doing the job alone, he’s spent years keeping peace in the dangerous systems beyond the Empire’s reach. But when the Ranger Corps assigns him a new partner, his solitary way of doing the job comes to an abrupt end.

New species. Old wounds. A fight for supremacy on the galaxy’s wildest planet. When Hesperidia’s satellite defense system suffers a catastrophic failure, the meteor shower it was supposed to repel rains down over the terrified tourists on safari. Three large surface impacts trigger a crisis intervention from the colonial authorities. It results in the removal of the current governor, and auditions for a successor are soon underway. Jan, Alien Safari’s pre-eminent ranger-scientist, finds herself in competition with a formidable new male colleague, who’ll stop at nothing to win the top job.

Aurora I undergoes a transformation as momentous as any leap to the stars. The battered Gravitomagnetic Field Generator, source of so many sleepless nights and fractured ribs, is stripped from the ship. In its place, Silicate bio-crystal gravity plates are installed, their alien pulse promising...

In the cold void of the Belt, one man and his AI dogs stand against the stars—and an empire that wants to "harmonize" humanity out of existence. When unknown ships destroy a lone miner's rig and send a dying warning to Mike Stone, the quiet shepherd of drill-bots knows the solar system just changed forever. The Thrang have arrived—rigid, insectoid conquerors who impose perfect order on chaotic worlds. Earth falls fast. Mars follows. The Belt? It's next.

Not all progress demands expansion. Some requires restraint. In the year 2135, engineer Emily Porter journeys to the Moon expecting discovery. What she finds instead is something far older—and far more consequential—than exploration. Beneath the Sea of Tranquility lies a chamber unlike any structure humanity has ever encountered. It does not broadcast. It does not command. It does not ask for recognition. And yet, evidence suggests it has been quietly regulating the flow of cosmic radiation between Earth and the Moon for centuries—perhaps longer.

Uncovering secrets is not always for the best. Expedition Team Alpha of the Intergalactic Exploration Force thought they were exploring the dense and beautiful jungle planet, Shrendder-X9, for solely scientific purposes. Comprised of team lead AJ O'Hara, survivalist Nor Arngaard, chemist and medic Tairn Dwaga, cartographer SP Smithe and xenozoologist Farris Nguyen-Cortez, Team Alpha is prepared for all they could encounter in the alien jungle.

Im Jahr 2187 wird ein Mann aus der Vergangenheit aus jahrhundertelangem Kälteschlaf geweckt: Es handelt sich dabei um Sidney Ernest Mordgen, Sohn eines einstigen Militärführers der untergegangenen alten Ordnung. In einer klassenlosen Zukunftsgesellschaft stößt er auf Offenheit, aber auch auf tiefes Misstrauen. Zwischen Anpassung, Liebe und Verdacht gerät er in einen Konflikt, der weit über sein persönliches Schicksal hinausweist und schließlich in eine gefährliche Expedition zu einem fernen Planeten mündet.

Onboard the USS Redemptor, a morgue ship drifting through the cold vacuum of space, Captain George Erickson and his crew are haunted by regret, isolation, and the ghosts of their pasts. When a mysterious, adaptive bacteria from Callisto begins to infect the crew, paranoia and grief threaten to tear them apart. As android Debrah evolves beyond her programming—carrying echoes of lost love and human anguish—the boundaries between machine and person blur, and the fate of the ship hangs in the balance.

2227, Système solaire. Alors qu’il effectue une mission à bord de son W-Orca, Adam gravite trop près d’un trou noir et se retrouve propulsé dans le futur. La Terre qu’il découvre n’a plus rien à voir avec celle qu’il a connue. Des humains au bord de l’extinction, un Esprit...

Experience the dark sci-fi horror thriller of The Bones of Night in this unabridged dramatic narration by the author, K.R. Stevens. Hear the story of the characters directly in this audiobook with cassette tape-inspired audio mastering to immerse you in the crunchy Cassette Futurist aesthetic that The Bones of Night is all about. The Prospector returned much too early. And the entire crew was gone. Their logs should explain why. But with the ship’s computer so damaged, only a few remain salvageable.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Indigo Protocol continues the unfolding mystery behind the reality Alex has begun to question.After the events of the first book, fragments of hidden systems begin to surface.Strange signals.Unexplainable memories.A growing awareness that the world...