Space Exploration Fiction

The interstellar Consortium of Planets forsakes the irredeemably violent Earth, condemning the planet to economic and ecological chaos. Given one last chance to halt Earth's annihilation, women freedom fighters discover a way to rid Earth of men's brutality - but it may have come too late. In the stunning conclusion to the Native Trilogy, female linguists must once again come forward and fight for the future of humanity.

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.

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, the endlessly-mysterious moon is explored in this reprint short science fiction anthology from award-winning editor and anthologist Neil Clarke (Clarkesworld, The Best Science Fiction of the Year).

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.

Camille Coduri reads this brand-new novelisation of the Ninth Doctor’s debut TV adventure. "Nice to meet you, Rose. Run for your life!" In a lair somewhere beneath central London, a malevolent alien intelligence is plotting the end of humanity. Shop window dummies that can move - and kill - are taking up key positions, ready to strike. Rose Tyler, an ordinary Londoner, is working her shift in a department store, unaware that this is the most important day of her life....

When the parents of Milo and Lina Graf are abducted by agents of the evil Empire, the children must undertake a perilous journey across the unknown reaches of Wild Space to rescue them - and to discover hope for the future. This set includes The Snare, The Nest, and The Heist. It also includes The Escape, the thrilling prequel to the Adventures in Wild Space series.

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.

Los Rujarras atacaron el Día de Colón. Habíamos navegado con inocencia por el cosmos en nuestra pequeña canica azul, como si fuéramos nativos americanos en 1492. Varias naves aparecieron en el horizonte, representantes de una cultura agresiva y avanzada y, ¡zas!, los viejos días en los que los humanos nos matábamos unos a otros se fueron por el desagüe—en el Día de Colón. Tiene sentido.

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!

A nuclear attack in the Persian Gulf wrongly implicates Jake Bayard. Everyone seems to be hunting for him. Bayard flees to Garm, an ice-age world full of sabertooths, dire wolves, mammoths, and Neanderthals. Unfortunately, Institute Homo habilises are also there: extraterrestrial, crafty, small, and deadly hominids. They've enslaved the Neanderthals to mine for dreaded alibite.

Matthew is a normal 11-year-old boy living with his parents and little sister in Surrey. He's too old and sensible to have an imaginary friend really. Yet when Matthew's parents keep finding him talking and arguing with a strange presence whom Matthew calls Chocky, that's what they believe it must be…at first. But Chocky is oddly sinister, and keeps asking Matthew all sorts of complicated questions about the world and making him behave in unusual and erratic ways. Then Matthew suddenly does something heroic, well beyond his capabilities; the media become interested and the interest in Matthew widens.

Admiral Jonathan Archer hofft, die verschiedenen Bewohner des wohlhabenden Rigel-Systems zum Beitritt in die Föderation bewegen zu können. Das soll der jungen Nation als Starthilfe zum Wachstum dienen und einem wichtigen Sektor Stabilität bringen. Zusammen mit den besten Diplomaten der Föderation reist Archer zum Planetoiden Babel, um über Rigels Aufnahme zu verhandeln... aber ein bevorstehendes Rennen um die Präsidentschaft heizt die ideologischen Spannungen innerhalb der jungen Nation an.

Als sich eine neue Bedrohung in Form einer Macht offenbart, die so fremdartig und feindselig ist, dass Verhandlungen unmöglich scheinen, bittet eine Gruppe von Planeten, die nicht der Föderation angehören, die Sternenflotte, sie zu verteidigen. Und die Anführer der Föderation nutzen die Gelegenheit, einen Ruf als interstellare Macht aufzubauen.

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?

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.

James Decker, captain of the living starship Farrago, has a mission: locate the seven symbiotes scattered across space. This mission will bring him credits beyond his imaginations, but it could also save the universe. He has found three, but there are still four more out there. All the while, the strange, faceless man from the Cloud Sea is never far away. He has his eye on this side of the void, and Captain James Decker might be the only one who can stop him.

A deeply corrupt and embedded ruling class, disenfranchised settlers, and embittered indentured workers–slaves in all but name—have poisoned the planet. They've unleashed the fires of class war and threatening to turn the beautiful planet into hell in the wake of Earthfall. Sinister forces are stirring the pot. Roland—once Crown Prince of Earth, now a Marine Auxiliary—was charged with building an army to stabilise New Doncaster, but it was too late. The rebels struck and the planet fell into civil war.

L'umanità ha colonizzato l'intero sistema solare, spingendosi fino all'orbita di Nettuno grazie alla scoperta di un avveniristico motore a fusione. Jim Holden presta servizio sulla Canterbury, un cargo che trasporta ghiaccio attraverso gli infiniti spazi tra gli anelli di Saturno e la Fascia, l'arcipelago di asteroidi che si estende tra Marte e Giove. Incaricato di ispezionare il relitto di una nave spaziale, la Scopuli, sopravvivrà alla distruzione della Canterbury in seguito a un proditorio attacco nemico.

Nicholas Briggs reads the brand-new novelisation of the spectacular 50th anniversary TV episode. When the entire universe is at stake, three different Doctors will unite to save it. The Tenth Doctor is hunting shape-shifting Zygons in Elizabethan England. The Eleventh is investigating a rift in space-time in the present day. And one other - the man they used to be but never speak of - is fighting the Daleks in the darkest days of the Time War.

Основой сюжета является полёт инженера Мстислава Лося и Алексея Гусева на Марс, где они обнаруживают высокоразвитую цивилизацию. Правители марсиан являются потомками древних атлантов, перелетевших двадцать тысяч лет назад на красную планету.