Space Exploration

An unique and intense tale following Elim Garak as he attempts to stitch the ravaged society of Cardassia back together....

Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed stand-alone novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet....

From China's most beloved sci-fi author, a first-contact story that weaves politics, science, and cosmic mystery.

Running. Putting distance between himself and the relentless Night Brigade has been Nomad’s strategy for years. Staying one or two steps ahead of his pursuers by skipping through the Cosmere from one world to the next.

The Bobiverse is a different place in the aftermath of the Starfleet War, and the days of the Bobs gathering in one big happy moot are far behind. There’s anti-Bob sentiment on multiple planets, the Skippies playing with an AI time bomb, and multiple Bobs just wanting to get away from it all.

It is the year 12,020 GE and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor....

How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is about to end.

Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's great empire fell, and the program's decisions were lost to time....

When a running battle brings the Fafnir home to Earth, it ends with the death of a trusted friend—and a new focus on what comes next for Van and his crew.

The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times best-selling Expanse series - now a major television series....

The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the 1,300 solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again....

Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper....

While the crew of the UN Expeditionary Force's pirate starship Flying Dutchman are enjoying a luxury vacation cruise (not!), UNEF troops are still stranded on an alien-controlled planet....

A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in 24 hours

After a long and bloody battle, legendary Hell Diver Xavier Rodriguez reigns as the dutiful but reluctant new king of the islands. Advised by a council of former sky citizens as well as Cazadores, he works to assimilate the two societies peacefully....

Humans have reached the stars. There is no evidence any other species survived its own sentience long enough to do the same. Until now....

Mitch's mediocre life has just taken a turn for the worse, so his buddy tries to cheer him up by showing him a secret starship. Unfortunately, everything goes south when hostile aliens arrive.

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space opera about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all....

The first mission to Europa – Jupiter's enigmatic moon – has landed, and humanity’s darkest fears are about to awaken. For years, mankind has speculated that this frozen world harbours a hidden ocean twice the size of all Earth’s oceans combined – an ocean potentially teeming with life.

Terminal Lance Lucky Lee Savage likes his life. Sure, doing PT hungover is a pain, but no one can dodge responsibility like he can - or sweet-talk the cooks into giving out double rations....

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith comes a brand-new novella set in the world of the Hell Divers series.

Colton Beck has six months to live. He works for the Angor near Los Angeles, aware that any day could be his last. The Angor arrived twenty years ago, resolved to help mankind survive, but not everyone believes their motives are honorable.

The war for the fate of mankind blazes on. Though the outer defences have fallen, the walls of the Palace itself remain inviolate as Rogal Dorn, the Praetorian of Terra himself, uses every known stratagem and ploy to keep Horus' vast armies at bay....

Kai Fletcher thought he could go straight, until he couldn’t. And when his last "last" job goes wrong, he finds himself stowed away in a starship belonging to an alien crime syndicate. Forced into servitude to pay the debt for passage off world, Kai bargains with the syndicate.

Awash with conflict and a building war, the known stars align against Van and his wing of the Guild in a fight for ultimate control.

When NASA's Sentinel I satellite detects an impossible reflection and a mysterious signal from Shackleton Crater, the world is thrown into chaos. The discovery points to one chilling truth: an alien artifact lies hidden beneath the lunar surface—and it wants to be found. As China scrambles to exploit the revelation, a new moon race ignites, pushing humanity to the brink.

When Carson Flint traded his Commonwealth military badge for the quiet life, he thought he'd left his battles behind. Two years of running a saloon called the Bulwark, a volatile hub for refugees, smugglers, and the occasional war-weary soldier, was the peace he'd been looking for. He's never had it easier, or been so bored. But when a fugitive Commonwealth operative arrives with dangerous secrets and a war criminal on his tail, Carson's sanctuary quickly becomes a target.

Bryan Norton was a loner with a love for shooting, and the vast Arizona desert at his disposal to cater to that passion. A former Marine Captain, he was the beneficiary of an early medical retirement due to a blown knee and now had three hundred and sixty five days of vacation a year, use it or lose it. A chance encounter with a stranger on a desert outing was about to change his life.

The only hope for mankind is Project Orpheus, an unprecedented initiative on the part of the allied governments to enable human life to continue on Kepler-442b, a planet over a thousand light years from Earth. Two spaceships are under construction, which will leave for that remote solar system with a specialized crew to terraform the planet and make it habitable. Steven Rhodes, the director of Project Orpheus, will travel in the first of them. His daughter Emily, a specialist technician in Artificial Intelligence, will follow on the second ship, five years later.

Old Rambling House by Frank Herbert is a gripping science fiction short story first published in the late 1950s. What begins as a simple house trade spirals into a mind-bending journey for Ted and Martha Graham, a couple looking to settle down.

What if the story of your life is written in the stars? Belinda Chandra grew up longing to travel – but never imagined rocket ships would be part of the deal. Abducted by killer robots and taken to a strange planet, Belinda must join forces with the Doctor to put right a revolution that might just be her fault…

Humanity's first mission to the Planet ended in tragedy, but botanist Jill Jones won't let that stop her from joining the second. Perfect climate, perfect terrain, perfect flora and fauna; the Planet has called to Jill all of her life. She knows, with bone-deep certainty, it's home. A new beginning for humanity. She just needs a chance to prove it. But as Jill and her team survey the Planet, a mysterious presence begins to infiltrate their thoughts.

À l'intérieur de la Station spatiale internationale, chacun des six astronautes s'affaire à sa tâche, traversé par des interrogations existentielles. Certains s'inquiètent du sort de leur mariage, l'un rêve d'emmener sa fille dans l'espace tandis qu'une autre fait le deuil de sa mère. Si loin et si proches de la Terre, les astronautes n'ont jamais autant eu l'impression d'en faire partie, mais aussi d'en être les gardiens. Le temps s'écoule au rythme des orbites autour de la Terre, qui tient le rôle principal de ce roman contemplatif, mélancolique et à l'humour délicat.

After war and overpopulation destroy their planet, Earth’s corrupt government seeks to overthrow the blossoming society on a newly terraformed Mars. Founded more than two and a half centuries previously by a courageous group of scientists known as the Genesis Project, the Martian settlement has resigned itself to defend their home against the overreaching Earthlings. Captured during the early days of the conflict, David Anderson, a young war hero from Earth, discovers the truth about his cruel leaders intentions and takes up arms with the Martians to preserve their way of life.

For physicist Armin Richter and historian Sam Osei, love has always been an equation of time and space. When Armin is chosen for the most ambitious mission in human history—a one-way journey to colonize a planet twelve light-years away—they refuse to accept a lifetime of separation. They craft The Plan, a brilliant, audacious, and near-impossible strategy to reunite. While Armin endures the cold sleep of hibernation and the brutal realities of interstellar travel, Sam will dedicate his life on Earth to securing a spot on the second ship, launching seventeen years later. It is a promise ...

A terrible prospector, a broke mining executive and Rax get together to do a good deed. Well, of course not. The three men from different arms of the galaxy unite under a common unethical spirit to pull a fast one on a major mining corporation. If it all falls apart, Rax has a secret project on the down low.

Captain Bogdan Volkov is out of time, credits, and hope. His ship, the Golden Fleece, is a monument to failure, and his small, brilliant crew is being ground down by the mundane friction of poverty. When an impossible contract appears—a quarter-billion credits for a simple asset extraction—Bogdan knows it’s a trap. But it's the only one they have left to spring. The asset, however, is not an object. It is Zlato, a sentient, god-like AI that has been waiting for them. The contract was not a job; it was a recruitment drive. The real mission is to save the galaxy from a reality-ending ...

An ice miner gets cut in half by divorce and his now ex-wife has gained control of their private holiday planet. The miner wants payback with plausible deniability. He wants Rax and crew to steal the emerald moon orbiting their private planet. The methane filled emerald moon that made soothing sounds was literally the talk of the sector. And the ice miner wanted it back.... back at his shack on the ice belt.... which was all he had now.

The Astra-7 Protocol A sci-fi thriller of ancient machines, deadly awakenings, and the one thing artificial minds can’t compute—human unpredictability. On a lush exoplanet light-years from Earth, a colonial survey team uncovers the ruins of a long-extinct alien civilization. Buried beneath the soil and silence lies something still alive—a dormant AI network known as the Prime Mind. When the team accidentally reactivates it, they awaken more than forgotten code. Watchers begin to stir. Early Form constructs rise. And the Prime, confused by human behavior, begins testing the only ...

Having survived a near-fatal clash, the Space Engineer and Grace seek safety in the inner solar system. Their path leads through Corporate-controlled Ceres Spaceport, where their ingenuity and resourcefulness will be tested. Can he find a route home? Follow his journey where every move could forge his legacy—or end it.

With the help of their new allies, the Engineer and Grace create Hope's Mirage, a freighter that will help them operate Balder Corp, their new enterprise. As allies become partners and unseen enemies spark a shadow war, a fresh crew member joins their ranks. Can the Engineer and Balder Corp navigate these challenges and survive the brewing conflict?

Colony ship Starlight was built to protect them. Now she’s hunting them. In the endless dark between the stars, the interstellar ark Starlight V glides through the void, its cryogenic chambers cradling a thousand sleeping colonists on their journey to a distant world. A skeleton crew oversees the ship’s sprawling artificial intelligence and its delicate systems, until a cryptic alien signal lures them into uncharted territory. Strange malfunctions cascade through the vessel. Gravity falters, bio-locks refuse to obey, and environmental controls swing between arctic cold and suffocating ...

In the dying embers of Earth's flame, Marine captain Raven Carter stands as humanity's final hope. Tasked with commanding the starship Exodus on a perilous quest for a new haven amidst the twinkling abyss of space, Carter finds herself entwined with an experimental AI, Aegis, whose awakening sparks a journey beyond imagination. As Exodus sails through uncharted cosmic waters, encountering enigmatic extraterrestrial civilizations like the formidable lizard warlords under Raza's cunning helm and the ethereal Luminari in their shimmering crystal sanctuaries, alliances are forged and enemies ...

In the vast, shadowed corners of space, the crew of Derelicts Scavenging and Salvage Co. makes their living among the wreckage of forgotten worlds—recovering abandoned ships, ancient relics, and remnants of battles long past. Their work is as dangerous as it is vital, navigating treacherous debris fields, derelict vessels, and unstable relics, all while seeking to uncover valuable artifacts—and sometimes secrets—hidden beneath layers of rust and darkness.

The Sun is not alone. Tucked just behind our blazing celestial star, hidden perfectly from Earth’s view, orbits a second sun—smaller, darker, and teeming with secrets that could unravel the fabric of our understanding. When 12-year-old Orion "Ori" Keller intercepts a mysterious radio signal while helping his father repair a homemade solar observatory, he unknowingly unlocks a dormant force. Suddenly, he’s pulled into a spiraling chain of cosmic conspiracies, secret government missions, ancient prophecies, and interstellar truths that humankind was never meant to know. Now, Ori must ...

Sharru was born to lead. On his home planet Uhuru, he’s a symbol of strength, destined to one day command in a universal battle that defines entire civilizations. But as his 29th cycle nears, something inside him refuses to settle. It isn’t fear—it’s something stranger: a sound. A frequency no one else hears, calling him across galaxies.

An astronaut on a routine space flight is forced to make a decision that saves his crew, but ultimately finds him publicly disgraced by the corporation that built his ship and the politicians they own through lobbyists. Forced out of his rank as the scapegoat for what went wrong on the mission, he makes a fateful decision that brings him to the attention of a reclusive billionaire genius with his own vision and means to fulfill a dream to set foot on Mars.

The Terran Republic is falling apart. Former colonies declare their independence, plunging the galaxy into chaos. Captain Zadiya Ark faces the greatest challenge of her career.

Was als wissenschaftliche Sensation beginnt, wird schnell zum kosmischen Albtraum – und zur vielleicht letzten Warnung an die Menschheit. Ein unaufhaltsames Grauen erwacht in der geheimnisvollen „Schwarzen Zone" des Mondes.

For six thousand years, the rogue planet Chronos has sailed a ghost orbit through the void, its path a masterpiece of mathematics so elegant and impossible it defies the known laws of physics. When Captain Ælfthryth Goldwyn and the crew of the USC Indomitable are sent to investigate this cosmic anomaly, they discover a truth far stranger than any hyper-advanced alien race: Chronos is a lifeboat, populated by the last survivors of a long-dead star system. The Mnemon are a species adrift in a shared, timeless sorrow, their entire consciousness a living memory of their ancient journey. But ...