Space Exploration Fiction

For twenty years, Alex has believed that his gene-edited super-algae will slow and even reverse the effects of climate change. His obsession with his research has jeopardized his marriage, his relationships with his kids, and his own professional future. When the Son sisters, founders of the colossal tech company Sensus, offer him a chance to complete his research, he seizes the opportunity. The catch? His lab will be in outer space on Parallaxis, the first-ever luxury residential space station built for billionaires.

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.

Sergi Lazaroff is a weapons expert and a member of the Russian FSB. Assigned to the Project Gliese 581g exploration team, his job was supposed to be simple - find out what was in space, retrieve the technology, and return home with it. When he wakes up on an alien planet, Sergi knows the last part of his mission will be impossible. Instead, he must use his military skills to survive in a world where he doesn't know the rules.

The interstellar bridges provide a lifeline for billions. To save humanity, the Darkspace Renegades must tear them all down. Unjustly kicked out of the Consortium Security Force, Hallam Knight has been reduced to working as a gunner, defending the precious Randenite fuel tankers from notorious extremists, the Darkspace Renegades. Then, he discovers that everything he thought he knew was a lie. Far from being the enemy, the Darkspace Renegades are humanity’s only hope.... They just don’t know it yet.

Dreieinhalb Jahrtausende sind auf Arrakis vergangen, und die Welt hat sich gewandelt: Der ehemalige Wüstenplanet ist dank technischer Mittel eine grüne Oase geworden. Die einst so stolzen Fremen sind nur noch ein Schatten ihrer selbst, eine Touristenattraktion. Doch es gibt noch ein Stück Vergangenheit auf Arrakis, sorgfältig vor Feuchtigkeit geschützt: die Wüste Sareer. Dort lebt Leto II., der Sohn von Paul Muad’dib. Seit Jahrtausenden vollzieht sein Körper eine Wandlung, geht eine Symbiose mit dem Shai-Hulud ein.

The Tantalus 13 survey expedition went off the rails as soon as Mary Ketch and the crew of the Diamelen learned that the thing beneath their feet wasn’t a planet. An impossibly vast and ancient artificial structure lies below, hidden from the universe under a façade of cratered stone. SCARAB arrived on Tantalus 13 two years ago. An artificially intelligent, self-constructing factory, it was supposed to aid the crew in their mission, to meet their every need.

Sci-fi román, který navždy změnil podobu žánru Předloha kultovního filmu Stanleyho Kubricka Audioknižní operní opus, který posouvá hranice mluveného slova V měsíčním kráteru Tycho je nalezen záhadný objekt: černý monolit, který vysílá pravidelný elektromagnetický signál na jeden ze Saturnových měsíců. Vůbec poprvé je proto hluboko do Sluneční soustavy vypravena lidská posádka. Ještě než dosáhne cíle, objeví se podivné technické obtíže, které postupně narůstají do děsivých rozměrů. Kapitán lodi David Bowman musí čelit selhávajícímu lodnímu systému, jež mění vědeckou misi v boj o život.

Легендарна повість Рея Бредбері відома також під назвами The Creatures That Time Forgot та Frost & Fire. Невелике плем'я людей після катастрофи космічного флоту намагається вижити на далекій планеті. Більшу частину доби людям доводиться ховатися в печерах, оскільки вдень стоїть спопеляюча спека, вночі — вбивчий мороз. Тільки вранці та ввечері можна вийти назовні, за цей час встигають вирости і дозріти рослини. Через жахливу радіацію близької зірки людське життя триває всього лише вісім діб. Всі життєві процеси: мислення, серцебиття, обмін речовин протікають з величезною швидкістю.

Admiral Geary und die Crew der Dauntless haben gerade eine Eskortmission zur Erde abgeschlossen, da verschwinden plötzlich zwei von Gearys Offizieren. Die Suche nach den vermissten Männern führt ihn an den schlimmstmöglichen Ort: einen Mond, der wegen eines tödlichen Virus unter strengster Quarantäne steht. Jedes Schiff, das trotzdem dort landet, muss für immer bleiben oder wird zerstört. Wie soll Geary seine Männer retten? Und darf er es überhaupt?

Damien Montgomery, Hand of the Mage-King of Mars, has dealt with pirates, conspiracies, terrorists, and space battles in the service of his King. A warrior-judge charged to maintain peace across the stars of the Protectorate, he is well overdue for a vacation. Most people's idea of a vacation isn't a murder investigation, but the Hands aren't most people. A quiet task on an isolated research base seems the perfect mission to Damien and his King alike—until the discoveries of that remote archeology site bring fire and death down on Damien and the scientists alike!

Jane is the only person left on the planet, minding the only business left: a gift shop. She wasn’t born on Earth, but her ancestors were; they lived there before the AI in charge of geoengineering failed and the oceans got too hot to sustain the terrestrial food web and before humans took off to colonize other planets. She’s heading to college on Jupiter in the fall of 3020, so her days on the home planet—selling “American Epoch” postcards, “History: The Poster!” and “War: The Soundtrack” to tourists from the suburbs of Europa—are numbered.

Lors de sa première mission sur Encelade, satellite de Saturne, la jeune scientifique Sorany Desvœux découvre par accident une nouvelle matière aux propriétés étonnantes. Très vite, avec l'appui de son mentor, l'éminent professeur Henri Stern, se dessine le projet Arca : il s'agit de bâtir une arche propulsée par ce que l'on nomme désormais l'Artefact d'Encelade. Un échantillon d'humanité est ainsi sélectionné pour effectuer un voyage vers La Griffe du Lion, où l'attend une exoplanète aux caractéristiques prometteuses.

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.

The bounty for bringing down a major crime syndicate may have removed Captain Evridiki “EB” Bardacki’s immediate financial needs, but no freighter captain wants to fly empty between the stars. A cargo mission to run a blockade seems within his crew’s unique mix of talents, and he agrees to supply weapons to one side of a stalemated civil war in the Estutmost star system.

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.

Vagabunda Bogotá podría tratarse como una novela de ciencia ficción o como una historia surrealista o como un libro autobiográfico. En su centro, está la propia vida del autor, pero deformada o, mejor, enriquecida con las posibilidades de fuga que brindan la mejor ficción especulativa y el libre flujo del inconsciente.

Nine hundred Vennans undertake a cultural exchange to Tradepoint, a space station where aliens from different worlds meet to do business. A young and gifted Speaker, Gredin, is translator and diplomat for the happy occasion. But a horrific vision shatters her first night’s sleep on Tradepoint. Venna, their homeworld, has been destroyed. Now, the safety of the only Vennans left in all of time and space, rests on Gredin’s young shoulders. Stunned and grieving, she navigates trade wars and political prejudice, bartering with other races. And the cost of failure is the unthinkable.

In der fernen Zukunft hat sich die Menschheit in der gesamten Galaxis ausgebreitet. Interstellare Megakonzerne haben mithilfe von seelenlosen Kampfrobotern alles unter ihre Kontrolle gebracht. Einer dieser Bots wurde nun ausgemustert und soll ein Team von Wissenschaftlern auf ihren gefährlichen Missionen beschützen. Also ein denkbar schlechter Zeitpunkt für den Bot, um ein eigenes Bewusstsein zu erlangen und über die eigene Rolle im Universum nachzudenken.

Scorpia Kaiser has always stood in Corvus's shadow until the day her older brother abandons their family to participate in a profitless war. However, becoming the heir to her mother's smuggling operation is not an easy transition for the always rebellious, usually reckless, and occasionally drunk pilot of the Fortuna, an aging cargo ship and the only home Scorpia has ever known. But when a deal turns deadly and Corvus returns from the war, Scorpia's plans to take over the family business are interrupted, and the Kaiser siblings are forced to make a choice....

On a giant artificial world surrounding an artificial sun, one man - a lucidor, a keeper of the peace, a policeman - is on the hunt. His target was responsible for an atrocity, but is too valuable to the government to be truly punished. Instead he has been sent to the frontlines of the war, to use his unique talents on the enemy. So the lucidor has ignored orders, deserted from his job, left his home, and thrown his life away, in order to finally claim justice.