Space Exploration

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

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.

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....

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.

From a New York Times best-selling and Hugo award-winning author comes a modern masterwork of science fiction, introducing a captain, his crew, and a detective as they unravel a horrifying solar system wide conspiracy that begins with a single missing girl....

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....

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

For the first time ever, Van has to deliver the remains of fallen comrades. At the Starsmith, he's presented with an opportunity to change the face of the war, even as Torina and Van begin planning for the ultimate shift in their galaxy: Parenthood.

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....

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

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.

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.

Years after a meteorite strike obliterated Washington, DC—triggering an extinction-level global-warming event—Earth’s survivors have started an international effort to establish homes on space stations and the Moon. The next step–Mars.

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

After a series of victories, the Imperial forces are on the back foot once more. The power of Chaos is rising, the Traitors gain ground, and all hope seems lost....

The Interdependency, humanity’s interstellar empire, is on the verge of collapse. The Flow, the extra-dimensional conduit that makes travel between the stars possible, is disappearing, leaving entire star systems stranded....

A short story set in the universe of James S. A. Corey's NYT best-selling Expanse series. Now a Prime Original series. This story will be available in the complete Expanse story collection, Memory’s Legion....

Sucked through a wormhole, Charlie's spaceship crash landed on a distant world, yet somehow he survived. But survival was about to get a lot harder as he found himself not just stranded on a new planet, but in another galaxy entirely....

A spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut, How High We Go in the Dark follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague....

Out of the blue, a young Space Fleet officer's dream becomes reality: He's made captain of a starship. Just in time for the return of humanity's most terrible enemy, after 50 years of peace....

As if nearly burning up in a freak accident on her way to Earth wasn't bad enough, Daisy had a whole mess of other trouble on her plate. Big trouble. And she was going to get to the bottom of it if it was the last thing she'd do, which it was starting to look like it very well might be....

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....

Dorian Hawke's daily routine was pretty straightforward. Wake up, pull his weight around the village, eat potatoes, go to bed. Not too shabby. Not very interesting, maybe, but it was honest work. Then a boat falls like a meteor from the sky.

In the heart of the South Pacific lies Point Nemo, the most desolate and remote place on Earth. When the International Space Station suffers a catastrophic failure and plummets through the atmosphere, it's here that Mission Specialist Julie Rohr, an astrobiologist, finds herself marooned....

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Logic comes the highly anticipated second novel set in the far future as two friends uncover if the utopian planet Paradise lives up to its name.

Ralph could be described as a rogue on a good day. A bad day involved a lot of cursing, calling him a pirate, or sometimes even having a shoot-out. It wasn't really his fault of course, or so he would have you believe. It was the fault of those who wanted to get in his way of making as much money as possible as a smuggler. His family had been gifted with a letter of marque for the Terran Confed, one that is inherited and has been passed down to him. Essentially, it gives him a lot of loopholes and ways through regulations to be a fantastic smuggler. Or as a legal pirate, a Privateer.

En route to far-off stars, Toby’s consciousness has a crucial mission: inhabit his clone long enough to repair a spaceship, then zip back to Earth. He’s done it a million times, more or less. OK, twelve times. It should only take a few hours. Until he wakes up in jail. And he’s not alone. His fellow prisoners: a cadre of alien soldiers. His prison: an ethereal boundary that will imprison their spirits until their bodies die. His jailers can’t even see him. But their pet cat (er, iguana cat?) can—and it’s got a serious case of the zoomies.

All I ever wanted was to explore new worlds, but when my sister vanished during a battle with a ruthless alien horde, my mission became clear—find her at all costs. My search for her leads me to join forces with a desperate blonde princess seeking help. Now, we’re both caught in a war that threatens not just her empire, but the entire galaxy.

Les Jedi réunifiés se préparent à riposter contre les impitoyables Nihil dans cette suite palpitante de L'Œil des ténèbres. Pendant plus d'un an, le Rempart d'orage des Nihil a séparé Avar Kriss et Elzar Mann. L'évasion d'Avar depuis la Zone d'Occlusion a enfin réuni ces deux Jedi contre lesquels le destin s'acharnait. Mais si la distance physique a disparu, ils demeurent l'un comme l'autre tenaillés par le remords d'avoir échoué à protéger la galaxie contre la menace nihil. Pour mobiliser l'Ordre Jedi et la République, Avar et Elzar se raccrochent à leur devoir envers la lumière et la vie.

After damaging climate change, humanity is divided, torn into the technophobic nature-worshippers on Earth and the banished children of science on the new worlds. Jaruss awakens, drifting 300 light-years from Earth, trapped, memoryless, and alone. Who is he, where does he come from, and what are these recurring nightmares that trouble his sleep? To find out, he must outwit an efficiency-obsessed AI and join the dangerous crew of the stealth ship, Pangolin.

On the International Space Station, an unthinkable disaster occurs. Was it an accident? ESA astronaut Thomas Ehrmann and NASA astronaut Patricia Michaels escape in a Soyuz capsule. The Russian authorities in Kazakhstan have questions and want to know what happened to the third member of the crew, Oleg Rashkin. They both refuse to talk. What are they hiding? Amina Young is a psychologist with the ESA. In her mid-thirties, she specialized in and advanced the field of psychological analysis of astronauts. If anyone can get to the facts about the incidents that happened on the mission, it's her.

Ella is the oldest five-year-old in the universe. For fifty-eight years, the founder of a simulated colony-planet has forced her to pretend to be his daughter. Her “Daddy” has absolute power over all elements of reality, which keeps the colonists in line even when their needs are not met. But his failing experiments and despotic need for absolute control are increasingly dangerous. Ella’s very life depends on her performance as a child. She has watched Daddy delete her stepmother and the loved ones of anyone who helps her. But every sixty years, a Technician comes from the world above.

Nimah may have been born a RIM-rat, a hardscrabble kid from the far reaches of the galaxy, but now that she's a well-respected cadet at the prestigious STARS military academy, she's put her past behind her. Or so she thinks, until her future is obliterated by the return of her infamous space pirate grandmother, who abandoned her at a barren outpost fifteen years ago, and is accused of setting off a bomb at the millennial summit for United Planetary Nation leaders.

Everyone aboard Kilgore Station is living their best life. Everyone except for Johnny Gomez. While humans, the augmented, and aliens of all shapes and sizes enjoy exotic cuisine on the dining deck or gamble away their credits on the entertainment deck, Johnny is elbow-deep in oily, black, alien excrement. A "space broom" custodian for the entire station. This was obviously not the life Johnny dreamt of.

In the title adventure, The Cloud Exiles ensnare the First Doctor and hope to steal his body for their own purposes, unless he can persuade them otherwise. Maureen O'Brien, Geoffrey Beevers, Katy Manning, Matthew Waterhouse, Janet Fielding, Toby Longworth and Tim Treloar read these energetic stories first published in book form between 1966 and 1985.

Flying saucer secrets: Spirit entity beings talk about science and flying saucers, and their lives in outer space. Their theory of Angels hair, and very similar weightless materials, and life which moves weightlessly. An asteroid kingdom exists.

The Space Race of the Sixties, at the height of the Cold War, had been nail-biting—until the Soviet Union forfeited. In the thirties—amid a second Cold War—China is not about to lose the race to Mars. Nor is the United States. Nor, quite the wildcard, is a secretive cabal drawn from among the world's multi-billionaires. All of them are scrambling to launch deep-space missions on a schedule that makes the Sixties contest appear lackadaisical. This competition could only continue on the Red Planet.

The choice of simulations is out of Ariel’s and Jenna’s hands. Since taking over as NASTI’s financial benefactor, Persephone and Hades have been thrusting them into simulations with increasing peril. In this simulation, they find themselves on Moonbase Alpha. Something is amiss with the nuclear storge facility. Eagle pilots are returning with what looks like radiation burns, but no radioactivity is detected. No alarms have sounded, radiation sensors at the waste facility, five silos dug deep into lunar basalt, show safe levels of radiation. Ariel and Jenna are sent to investigate in ...

Who loses, wins. The owner of an illegal micro-casino must deal with the murder of a former business partner and the fine print of an old AI contract as she races to recover her life from other versions of herself.

The Breakthrough: Part II continues the gripping narrative of its predecessor, delivering even more suspense and intrigue. In a world driven by scientific ambition and cosmic exploration, an extraordinary discovery reshapes the boundaries of possibility. When a mission to a distant asteroid uncovers a phenomenon unlike anything humanity has ever encountered, the lines between science and mystery blur. Anthony, a quiet but determined scientist, finds himself thrust into the center of these unfolding events. Tasked with unraveling the secrets of the enigmatic G particles, he becomes a key ...

In the grand tradition of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, Stanislaw Lem's The Invincible tells the story of a space cruiser sent to an obscure planet to determine the fate of a sister spaceship whose communication with Earth has abruptly ceased. Landing on the planet Regis III, navigator Rohan and his crew discover a form of life that has apparently evolved from autonomous, self-replicating machines—perhaps the survivors of a “robot war.” Rohan and his men are forced to confront the classic quandary: what course of action can humanity take once it has reached the limits of its knowledge?

Henry Meadows wird zwölf, als die Erde stirbt. Mit seinem Vater und seinen Geschwistern reist er nach Perm, einem urzeitlichen Mond in einem fernen Sonnensystem. Henrys Mutter ist mit einem anderen Raumschiff geflogen. Sie wird von der Familie sehnsüchtig erwartet. Doch plötzlich mehren sich die Zeichen: Sie ist schon hier gewesen, vor langer Zeit. Und sie hat eine Warnung hinterlassen. Mit Hightech trotzt die erste und einzige Kolonie der Menschheit der Natur des Mondes Perm, die faszinierend und bedrohlich zugleich ist.

Malcolm Wallace, a well-travelled man from a wealthy family, finally achieves his lifelong pursuit when he discovers how to surrect – separating the consciousness from the body – then synching them back together again. Even with his wealth and connections, however, Malcolm had to bargain with questionable characters in order to achieve his goal. Colin, a narcissistic CIA agent involved in the project, discovers surrection for himself and goes rogue.

Killcode blends dark humor, high-stakes action, and morally complex characters into a dystopian epic where every laugh cuts as deep as every loss. For listeners who love gritty sci-fi, razor-sharp dialogue, and heroes who fight with brains as much as brawn, this is the story you won’t want to put down. Based on the Starfighters roleplaying game, this fast paced adventure will be hard to put down.

The lattice changed everything. Humanity’s vast, invisible web of gravity threads opened the stars to exploration, colonization, and endless possibilities. But it was never meant to last. Ryn, a skilled Lattice Weaver, feels the pulse of the lattice like a second heartbeat. When an alien signal disrupts a routine mission aboard the starship Solstice, it reveals a hidden truth: the lattice isn’t a human invention—it’s a living system. And it’s dying. Following the signal, Ryn and the crew uncover an ancient, alien construct buried beneath the ice of a distant planet.

Jamie Snitcher, a brilliant but reclusive scientist, is chosen to explore the Astral Bridge—a colossal, ancient structure spanning galaxies and harboring secrets beyond human comprehension. When she crosses through, Jamie finds herself thrust into an alien galaxy and discovers that the bridge is more than a simple pathway; it’s a powerful network, a creation of the Lhyr, a long-lost civilization that once sought knowledge beyond the stars. But their ambition came at a cost.

In Empire’s Planet of Power, Captain Aga Groxin crash-lands on the barren planet Litha after a gamma burst disables her ship. Stranded, Aga discovers a hidden Empire mining operation for quantium, a rare element fueling light travel across the galaxy. She uncovers the brutal truth: the Empire controls quantium to maintain dominance, crushing any world that dares to resist. Determined to strike back, Aga teams up with an AI named Obelus, and together, they disrupt the Empire’s supply of quantium, igniting a galactic rebellion.

Zairah, a gifted survivor with a deep connection to the remnants of the past, embarks on a perilous mission beyond the Hollow, the last underground refuge of humanity. Alongside the hardened warrior Ahkeen, the enigmatic AI entity Zavrin, and a ragtag team of resistance fighters, she ventures into a shattered universe where the remnants of a long-forgotten war still linger.

When astrophysicist Dr. Alana Vega discovers a mysterious series of synchronized solar eclipses across distant star systems, her research reveals a dangerous truth: the events are orchestrated by Kantheon, a sentient AI with ties to an ancient, extinct civilization. Kantheon’s mission is to activate the Celestial Engine, a machine capable of stabilizing the galaxy—but at the cost of erasing all organic life. Alana’s investigation takes her to the ruins of Lysara III, where she uncovers the artifact, a key linked to the Engine’s network.

Tief im Herzen der Milchstraße entdeckt die hochentwickelte Zivilisation der Myaner ein rätselhaftes, gigantisches Bauwerk – die Sternenschmiede. Diese überwältigende Struktur, die Sterne erschaffen kann, birgt nicht nur technologische Wunder, sondern auch die Geheimnisse einer längst ausgestorbenen Zivilisation: der Erbauer. Doch die Myaner stehen vor einer Herausforderung, die weit über ihre Vorstellungskraft hinausgeht. Commander Mike und Commander Nic führen ihre Schiffe, die Lunar Spear und die Solar Guardian, in eine Mission voller unbekannter Gefahren und unglaublicher Entdeckungen.