Exploration Fiction

It’s 1871 and prospectors are flooding California to mine for gold. When two strange men show up with bags of gemstones, everyone is ready to start mining for diamonds. What happens when no one can find the secretive field of gems? Is it all just a hoax? How will geology help miners find diamonds?

4ème et dernier volet de cette épopée fantastique et romanesque où l'on retrouve aussi de l'exotisme, de l'aventure, de l'humour. Plusieurs mois après le crash de leur vaisseau sur Eris, un monde encore non répertorié, les survivants humains ont su s'intégrer parfaitement parmi le peuple Erian. Certains ont même pu trouver l'amour. Alors que tout semble aller pour le mieux, un vaisseau spatial apparait dans le ciel d'Eris. Cette nouvelle donnée va-t-elle chambouler cette organisation encore fragile ? Les humains échoués là vont-ils faire le choix de repartir ?

Ryo is one of the Thranx, a race of social arthropods. From his larval years to now, his life has been normal, though his love of learning and insatiable curiosity set him apart. He has settled into his work as an agriculture specialist and is premated to a lovely female. Yet Ryo still feels something is missing from his life, and when he heroically defends his colony from the Thranx's reptilian nemesis, Ryo gets a taste of excitement that's hard to forget.

Glory barely survived its last battle twenty years ago. Captain Drake resigned rather than face court martial. But the enemy is back, and humanity needs everything that can fly. Maybe it’s not the ship at all but the crew. They hold the key. Drake rallies old and young alike to comply with orders so secret even he wasn’t allowed to see them until after the ship left the junkyard. Would it leave? That was another question. The core hadn’t been fired in twenty years.

At the helm of a commandeered freighter, Captain Steph Michaels has infiltrated the Free Star systems. Leading a captive crew, and posing as a privateer, he's on a mission to seize a precious resource from an enemy outpost. Backed by his Archangel Squadron, it's a smash-and-grab operation he can pull off in his sleep. Until it isn't.

This story follows a young Spanish Jew, Maximo ha-Levi Constanego, in the land of Mesoamerica. He left his homeland of Spain as the Islamic caliphate gasped its last collective breath of occupation. The Reconquista, the reconquering of Spain, was well underway. Even as newfound freedom blossomed for some, it was not so for the Jews. Maximo was spirited out of the country by his anxious mother, on a ship captained by his Catholic uncle, Rodrigo Constanego.

For over 40 years, Glen Cook has been among the most well-known, influential, and widely respected authors in science fiction and fantasy. Through classic series such as The Black Company, Garrett P.I., the Dread Empire, Starfishers, Darkwar, and more, his gritty, down-to-earth style left an indelible impression on his listeners around the world, forever shifting the genre landscape and carving out his place as a pioneering icon.

Marko’s life changes in an instant when he spies an armada of Ottoman ships on the horizon. After a battle separates him from his family, he finds help and guidance with a small group of monks. But when they stumble upon an abandoned church and a mysterious icon, Marko must conquer his own fears in order to make peace with God and to reunite with his family.

Из Зоны Питер поступают довольно странные известия: аномальные земли обрели диковинного обитателя, какого представить трудно и многоопытным ученым, и не верящим ни в черта, ни в бога бандитам, и всякое повидавшим в жизни наемникам. Да что они! Новичком заинтересовались сами Хранители! И лишь обычный техник с Полигона недолго удивлялся существованию этого во всех смыслах необычного создания. Еще бы, при первом же знакомстве оно бродяге жизнь спасло, а затем увело в самое страшное место этих и без того жутких земель — Мраколесье!

Hop in your rocket ship for a trip to the stars! In this fantasy rhyming poem about flying through space, listeners will visit Mars, the purple kitties of the planet Fuzz, and an asteroid inhabited by dinosaurs—all in plenty of time to return home for lunch!

Nora Devi is a xeno-archaeologist with a complicated past. She has buried more secrets than she’s dug up. Widowed in the recently ended twelve year war between Capitoline and Palantine, she now makes a living as an independent tagger in border space. Captain Liam Kimani could be credited with ending the latest royal war. Instead, he’s blamed for it. Dirty commoners aren’t meant to lay their hands on royalty. He has no regrets.

With Finn continuing to combat both inner and outer demons, Zuri, the strong-willed female gunner, and Smith, his deceased but digitally copied Corporal, rise to the challenge as the squad take on the might of the Haven Masters, who crave their old but powerful technology. And, in a last-ditch attempt to recover the lost pathway home, the squad embark on a harrowing mission where they face a devastating decision that will change their lives forever.

Cynbelline Khaw is a woman of many names. She’s Generosity, a cultist who never quite fit in. She’s Bella, the daughter who failed to save her cousin’s life. And then there’s Cyn, the notorious bounty hunter who spaced a ship of slavers. She’s exhausted, lonely, and on her very last legs—but then a new client offers her a job she can’t refuse: a bounty on the kidnapper who killed her cousin. All Cyn has to do is partner with the crew of the Calamity, a scouting vessel she encountered when she was living under a previous alias.

Kurz nach der epischen Schlacht des Raumschiffs Enterprise gegen Shinzon nahmen viele langjährige Besatzungsmitglieder von Captain Jean-Luc Picard neue Posten und neue Herausforderungen an. Unter den vielen Veränderungen war auch William Rikers Beförderung zum Captain und sein neues Kommando, Rikers Hochzeit mit Counselor Deanna Troi und Dr. Beverly Crushers neue Karriere beim Medizinischen Korps der Sternenflotte. Doch die Geschichte, wie es dazu kam, wurde nie erzählt … BIS JETZT.

يقترب مونتي وهنري خطوة كبيرة من الإجابة على جميع الأسئلة الغامضة التي واجهتهما، لكن الجواب صدمهما بشكل غير متوقع، ووضع حدًّا لجميع الاعتقادات السابقة.

يهرب هنري ومونتي من قبضة جريب في موسكو، تطاردهما الشرطة بلا توقف، يجب أن يعثرا على دليل يدعم حقيقة رحلتهما عبر الثقب إلى كوكب آخر، وأن هناك قوة خارجية تهدد الأرض، ربما تصلح الصور على هاتف مونتي كدليل ... لكن أين هاتف مونتي؟

يرفض جريب تصديق وجود تهديد من الفضاء، ويحتجز مونتي في قاعدة عسكرية سرية، بل ويساوره الشك أيضًا في أنها وراء كل الأحداث الغامضة، كيف سيجد هنري مونتي وينقذها من هذا الموقف الصعب؟ وكيف يقنع جريب بوجود المسبار عند جبل ستادجان؟ وفي وسط كل هذا يختفي 37 من الركاب في مستشفى كارولينسكا عند منتصف الليل.

The colony ship Ragtime docks in the Lagos system, having traveled light-years to bring one thousand sleeping souls to a new home among the stars. But when first mate Michelle Campion rouses, she discovers some of the sleepers will never wake. Answering Campion’s distress call, investigator Rasheed Fin is tasked with finding out who is responsible for these deaths.

If life were fair, ace pilot Jose Carriles should have ended up a desk jockey like his former friend Corin Timony, back on the lunar colony of New Destiny. Instead, he’s the pilot of the Mosaic—a massive ship taking the Interstellar Union’s first-ever mission to outside our solar system. Timony should have been the best spy at the Bazaar, the lunar colony’s international intelligence arm. Instead, she’s been demoted to admin duties like monitoring long-range communications. She has no one to blame but herself—and maybe Carriles.

When a scientific expedition is launched to study a mysterious alien race, the only ship available is the Nightflyer, a fully autonomous vessel manned by a single human. But Captain Royd Eris remains locked away, interacting with his passengers only as a disembodied voice - or a projected hologram no more substantial than a ghost. Yet that’s not the only reason the ship seems haunted. The team’s telepath, Thale Lasamer, senses another presence aboard the Nightflyer - something dangerous, volatile, and alien.