Space Science Fiction Anthology

SHORT STORY: Humanity has left the cities to live in the "greenbelt," but a young woman's curiosity brings her back to the bot-patrolled streets where human beings used to live... until she gets caught. Tombs Without Bodies is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection. If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future or the cozy cooperative future in Becky Chambers' Monk and Robot series, you will enjoy Halfway to Better.

SHORT STORY: A sister in the far future, when we no longer burn things for fuel, finds a forbidden thing that would make the perfect gift. The Day We Stopped Burning is one of six short solarpunk stories in the Halfway to Better collection. If you enjoyed the optimistic climate solutions in Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future or the cozy cooperative future in Becky Chambers' Monk and Robot series, you will enjoy Halfway to Better.

Set on a distant planet, this is a gripping tale about a colony that believes in "appropriate technology adoption". When a heavily armed clan arrives at the colony, while it's being visited by off-world anthropologists, events spiral out of control, and the colony's beliefs are put to the test. The story is told from the viewpoint of a young woman - who soon learns just how high the price of wisdom can be.

Jerry Waldman is a schmuck, and has always been one - especially when compared to his older brother Kevin. One day, while visiting his grandpa Lou at The Home, he saves an old man's life, forever changing his own destiny, sending him on an adventure that will continue far across the stars. This audiobook is part of the Two Moons of Rehnor Series.

El Hombre de Marte de Guy de Maupassant se publicó originalmente en la revista anual Paris-Noлl de diciembre de 1887, y encontró su inspiración en el descubrimiento de los supuestos "canales de Marte" inspirados en las teorías de Giovanni Schiaparelli o Percival Lowell. Guy de Maupassant construyó esta historia inspirado en estas y otras increíbles apreciaciones de los científicos de su tiempo.

When the captain and senior crew abandon the Renegat, linguist Raina Serpell assumes command. She needs to get the ship and remaining crew home. As the ship comes under attack from the planet below, Raina must first figure out how to operate the ship’s firepower. Harder still, she must battle her own past to become captain in more than just name alone.

Benson is the leader of the secretive military unit Benson's Butchers, and is leading the group behind enemy lines. Having planted the explosives and destroyed the ammunition dump, his team disperses and attempts to get back to the United Nations lines and safety. When a strange blue mist envelopes Benson it's the start of a strange adventure that will change his life for ever.

Despite its guise as a space pirate, the Dread Remora is still a ship of Her Majesty's Royal Navy, so when Captain Nate Demming and his crew discover a brutally savaged ship, they are appalled. When a second ship appears and attacks, Demming assumes these must be the predators and retaliates. The events that unfold lead to new discoveries for the Dread Remora, including some potential allies - and a ferocious new enemy.

The crew of the spaceship Juno expected to find a fertile planet ready for colonization. Instead they discovered a fiery grave and a space station filled with corpses. What had happened here? A natural disaster...or an alien weapon capable of destroying entire worlds? What were they willing to do, and what price were they willing to pay, to prevent another disaster?

Deep Space collects seven short stories from the outer rim: "Live by the Ten, Die by the Gun"; "From Gaia to Proxima Centauri"; "Resurrection of the Hornet"; "Autonomic Zen and the Art of Destruction"; "From Scheol My Soulfire Burns"; "Dance by the Light of the Moon"; "Tomorrow's Dawn".

Neil Webb and his best friend, Marie, are enjoying their first day of summer vacation when Neil receives a mysterious message from his father. In the message, Neil finds out his father, Stephen, has been using wormholes to visit alien planets. Stephen was on his way to visit a hyper-intelligent species named the Teva when he and his best friend, world-famous scientist Dr. William Lowell, were caught in an alien war and stranded on an uncharted planet, triggering an emergency message to his son.

On the wall before him, in the dimness of the room, a great circular screen glowed opaquely, awaiting his touch: a doorway into time and space, a doorway to beauty and deadly peril and everything that made livable for him a life that had, perhaps, gone on too long. The shadows leaped backward into three-dimensional vividness that wavered for a moment and then sharpened into focus upon a desert landscape under a vivid crimson sky.

Three months after leaving Earth, the URSS Alabama had just achieved cruise velocity when the accident occurred: Leslie Gillis woke up. His first lucid thought was, Thank God, I made it. His next thought was, Something's wrong. Everyone was still asleep. Everyone except himself.

A short novella sized compilation of five mixed short stories. The stories are a hodgepodge of humor, military science fiction, space opera, and fantasy.

For the past five years, Ruma Nuway has been plotting, planning to leave Doonya, the human planet. Now's her chance. With the Misguided mercenary by her side, she stands guard over the bound Zrivisi crew and the alien ship at her complete disposal. The hard part is done. All she needs now are the launch codes from the Zrivisi captain before the bomb goes off. When the captain refuses, sending her Misguided companion past the edge, Ruma faces impossible choices.

The Curious Moon is eager and ready to explore the universe to quench its curiosity, so it leaves Earth and travels along the cosmos. During its voyage, it encounters its local neighboring planets, learning about their ways and purpose. The Moon soon learns about the dangers of outer space, but with help of others, it finds its way.

During a routine oil delivery to the capital planet, a massive starship manned by a skeleton crew mysteriously breaks down. Now the youngest, least experienced crew member, his captain, and his conspiracist of a crew mate seek survival and answers while trying to avoid looming threats on the ship.

In "A Little Journey," published in August 1951, we meet an elderly woman in search of enlightenment who buys a ticket on a rocket. Like other more famous Bradbury's stories, "A Little Journey" demonstrates the author's characteristic blending of the sentimental and the transcendent, the homely and the mystical.

An eerie deception unfolded when the crew struggled to escape the impossible. Pex Aerospace, a privately owned company, discovered a natural resource on the dwarf planet Pluto that will change space exploration forever. Five crew members volunteered to embark on a journey to the outer edge of the solar system and discovered something more than what they have signed up for. What's real and what will they discover?

Graduate student Laurie Miller makes an unexpected find while working at an archeological excavation site in the Orange Quadrant. When she learns that the head archeologist has taken credit for her discovery, her revenge comes from a surprising and ancient source.