Science Fiction Exploration

छोटा प्लास्टरबरोबर जमदग्नी 'फावडा अण्णा'च्या पंटर लोकांना ठोकण्यासाठी निघाला. पण त्यांचीच गेम झाल्यावर सगळी जबाबदारी जमदग्नीवर येऊन पडली. तेव्हा सर्वात आधी जमदग्नीने भीमनाथला हॉस्पिटलमधून सुरक्षितपणे बाहेर काढून घरी न्यायचं ठरवलं. पण 'फावडा अण्णा'ची माणसंही लेचीपेची नव्हती.

'भीमनाथ घरी आल्यामुळे आयुष्य सेटल झालं' असं वाटत असतानाच जमदग्नीची नोकरी गेली. जॉबसाठी जमदग्नी प्रयत्न करत असतानाच भीमनाथवर जीवघेणा हल्ला झाला आणि 'फावडा अण्णा'चं नाव आणि त्याच्यापासून असलेला धोक्याचं मळभ जमदग्नीच्या आयुष्यावर दाटून आलं.

"जमदग्नी, आयुष्यातल्या प्रत्येक बाबतीत रीसीविंग एंडला राहून वैतागला होता. शिवाय त्याच्या लहानपणी 'वडील घरदार सोडून दुसर्‍या बाईबरोबर मंगळावर गेले' ही गोष्ट त्याला नेहमीच अस्वस्थ करायची. पण शेवटी एक दिवस बॉसला थुका लावून मंगळावर जाण्याची 'ऑनसाईट' ऑपॉर्चुनिटी त्याने मिळवलीच.

Five hundred years from its launch, the colony vessel Lovelock is deep into its sub lightspeed journey, carrying four thousand humans in search of a habitable planet. When a series of explosions tear the ship apart, it is forced to land on the nearest possible location: a polar section of the Helix—a vast, spiral construct of worlds, wound about a G-type sun.

Zane's robot is in possession of a famous explorer's memories, and Julia Rossi won't let it go. They hastily depart the comforts of Earth to learn of Edward Boone's fate from two centuries earlier. The Colonies narrowly avoided a second Gral invasion, but there is no time for celebration when danger is looming. At the helm, Calista and Audrey must reestablish a military presence that's unprecedented in strength and honor. Liam Lucas has been given a second chance at life and begins searching for his sister after she vanishes from The Forever World.

Provenance: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artifacts prized by her people. She must free their thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned. Ingray and her charge will return to her home world to find their planet in political turmoil, at the heart of an escalating interstellar conflict. Together, they must make a new plan to salvage Ingray's future, her family, and her world.

Jazz Bashara es una criminal.... O al menos lo parece. La vida en Artemisa, la primera y única ciudad de la Luna, es difícil si no eres un turista adinerado o un multimillonario excéntrico. Así que hacer un poco de contrabando de lo más inofensivo no cuenta, ¿verdad? Sobre todo cuando hay que pagar deudas y tu trabajo como transportista apenas paga el alquiler.

When Kell and his team return to Earth many years after their departure, they find that their world has changed almost beyond recognition. Not only has a second wave of greenhouse flooding caused sea levels to rise, but society has been changed by the consequences of the climate shift. Few people want to face Jordan Kell's news. He must convince Earth's new rulers that the human race is in danger of extinction unless it acts to forestall the death wave coming from the galaxy's heart.

Hundert Jahre nachdem Bob Johansson ausgezogen ist, um auf fremden Planeten eine neue Heimat für die Menschheit zu finden, kann man sagen, dass er seine Mission erfüllt hat: Unzählige Kolonien haben er und seine Kopien in der Galaxis gegründet und die Menschen vor dem Aussterben bewahrt. Dabei haben sie sich allerdings einen mächtigen Feind in Form einer hoch entwickelten Alien-Zivilisation gemacht, die nun die Menschheit bedroht. Um den Kampf gegen die Aliens zu gewinnen, bleibt Bob und seinen Kopien nur eine Chance: Sie müssen in den Deep Space.

Der neue Roman vom Autor des Weltbestsellers "Der Marsianer". Jazz Bashara ist kriminell. Zumindest ein bisschen. Schließlich ist das Leben in Artemis, der ersten und einzigen Stadt auf dem Mond, verdammt teuer und, wenn man kein Millionär ist, verdammt ungemütlich. Also tut Jazz, was getan werden muss: Sie schmuggelt Zigaretten und andere auf dem Mond verbotene Luxusgüter für ihre reiche Kundschaft. Als sich ihr eines Tages die Chance auf einen ebenso lukrativen wie illegalen Auftrag bietet, greift Jazz zu.

In January 2314, Rowena Savalas—a curator of the vast archive of the twenty-first century's primitive internet—stumbles upon a story posted in the summer of 2024. She's quickly drawn into the mystery of the text: Is it autobiography, fantasy, or fraud? What's the significance of the recurring number 381?

The conclave continually pressures the Imperium Empire by ousting peacekeepers and Radag mercenaries from imperial territories. This interdicts resources bound for Krackus worlds from the suborned races and exacerbates Imperium distribution protocols. On Jegstrat, a populous Krackus world, declining grain shipments lead to favoring distribution to large companies. Saboteurs plan to slow production at Imperial Grains, the largest processing plant. The goal is to rebalance grain distribution, but the attack goes terribly awry, causing death and great damage.

The McCormacks have been forced to use their technology to protect their position on Earth, and have extended that to other nations as well. What will be the consequences? They’ve discovered two planets that appear to be suitable for colonization: one for the Paraxeans and one for Earth. But they need to make sure they’re really suitable.

Netto was a Cyborg, a protector, and a contracted mercenary. His specialty was the water: shallows, salt water, and open oceans across the universe. He was also a freak forged from the DNA of a bull shark-blue-gray skin, a body built with power, and a double-set of razor-sharp teeth. His nomadic lifestyle came to a halt when his employer, the Earthian Planetary Exploration Division, offered him his old job back. Rylie was born and raised on the planet Kepler, on an agri-lot that farmed jewels from the sea. But something was happening to her family's lots and people were disappearing.

The Kree Empire is knocked back on its heels when the Phalanx, a cybernetic race that converts hosts using a techno-organic virus, seizes control of Hala, the Kree homeworld. The person who accidentally brought the Phalanx right to the heart of the Kree Empire? Peter Quill, otherwise known as Star-Lord.

Three years after her best friend Peggy went missing, Harper Starling is lost. Lost in her dead-end job, lost in her grief. All she has are regrets and reruns of her favorite science fiction show, Infinite Odyssey. Then Peggy returns and demands to be taken to the Argonaut, the fictional main character of Infinite Odyssey. But the Argonaut is just that … fictional. Until the TV hero himself appears and spirits Harper away from her former best friend. Traveling through time, he explains that Peggy used to travel with him but is now under the thrall of an alien enemy known as the Incarnate.

A l'autre extrémité de la galaxie, Gilbert Gosseyn se réveille à bord d'un astronef inconnu... et dans un nouveau corps, Gosseyn Trois. Pourtant, il conserve les souvenirs de ses deux précédentes incarnations, et peut même communiquer par télépathie avec Gosseyn Deux, qui vit toujours, quelque part. Peu à peu, Gosseyn retrouve la maîtrise de ses extraordinaires pouvoirs mentaux. Il parvient à regagner la Terre et retrouve ses compagnons qui l'ont aidé à combattre Enro le Rouge. Mais n'est-ce pas plutôt son alter ego Gosseyn Deux que ceux-ci ont aidé ?

Captain Felix Duval and the crew of the Temerarious quietly patrol a remote Mentak Coalition colony system where nothing ever happens. But when they answer a distress call from a moon under attack, that peaceful existence is torn apart. They rescue a scientist, Thales, who's developing revolutionary technology to create new wormholes. He just needs a few things to make it fully operational...and now, ordered to aid the scientist, the Temerarious is targeted by two rival black-ops teams intent on reacquiring Thales.

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.

Nick Morrison always wanted to be an astronaut. When a start-up company recruits him to build a lunar launch system at the moon’s south pole, Nick gladly leaves behind his troubled life on Earth—but Nick doesn’t know that the company is in financial and legal trouble. Deprived of support from Earth, the team on the moon must figure out how to survive on their own. Worse yet, there’s another base at the lunar south pole, run by a ruthless contractor who has big plans for the moon...and for Earth.