Space Opera

When the Sun is threatened by an alien microbe, the fate of humanity rests on the shoulders of an unlikely hero – and an even more unlikely friendship.

The best-selling, epic space adventure, Freedom's Fire: the complete series of six audiobooks, in one bundle....

Paul Atreides avenges the traitorous plot against his noble family - and brings to fruition humankind's most ancient, unattainable dream.

The Expeditionary Force saga continues with Gateway from epic sci-fi writer Craig Alanson and narrated by none other than R.C. Bray.

The sci-fi series continues! The second Dune volume journeys through the changes of planet Arrakis's social order and surreal environment.

2559. It has been a year since the rogue artificial intelligence Cortana seized control of the Domain, an otherworldly dimension housing a vast information network.

The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for inmates the journey there is always a one-way trip. One such prisoner is Professor Arton Daghdev, xeno-ecologist and political dissident. Soon after arrival he discovers that Kiln has a secret....

Contains books one, two and three of the action-packed space opera Ascension series....

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 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....

The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered, and fertile....

Bob Johansson didn't believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a car accident was a shock. To add to the surprise, he is now a sentient computer and the controlling intelligence for a Von Neumann probe....

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it....

They mustn't harm a human being, they must obey human orders, and they must protect their own existence...but only so long as that doesn't violate rules one and two....

Titus Briggs is an Earth Defense soldier, a grunt, a decorated war hero—it's all he's ever known. So when a career-ending injury leaves him lying in a hospital bed, missing both legs, he struggles to accept his new reality. He can no longer walk, which means he can no longer fight.

For generations, the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt—was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has appeared in Uranus's orbit, where it has built a massive gate that leads to a starless dark....

More than 3,000 years have passed since the first events recorded in Dune. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides....

Discover the lengths to which Horus will go to claim Terra as his own - and the horrors he is willing to set upon its defenders....

In 1918, on the bloody grounds of war-torn France, a young soldier named Mark Tudor learns the stars are closer than he thinks....

After the Renegade mission by the crew of the starship Flying Dutchman, the UN Expeditionary Force thought Earth was safe for hundreds of years, at least....

As the traitors tighten their grip on Terra, Rogal Dorn must marshal the Imperial hosts to weather the storm. But not all of the defenders will survive the onslaught....

The gods are dead, but they are not gone. Their bodies litter the cosmos, magical fuel for vast interstellar empires, giving birth to mages, and more importantly, to magitech....

United Nations Special Operations Command sent an elite expeditionary force out on a simple recon mission. Now their stolen alien starship is falling apart, thousands of light years from home....

The Aftermath of a stunning victory—especially an unexpected, complete, and final victory—should be high-fives all around, listening to politicians give boring congratulatory speeches, and a well-deserved rest for the Merry Band of Pirates....

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....

A hot, stinking, dumpster fire. And most days I don't know if the legionnaires are putting out the flames, or fanning them into an inferno. A hostile force ambushes Victory Company during a reconnaissance-in-force deep inside enemy territory. Stranded behind enemy lines, a sergeant must lead a band of survivors against merciless insurgents on a deadly alien world somewhere along the galaxy's edge. With no room for error, the Republic's elite fighting force must struggle to survive under siege while waiting on a rescue that might never come.

The universe is a dangerous place, a fact violently brought home to Frank Compton for perhaps the thousandth time when a stranger delivering a message dies right in front of him. An operative for Western Alliance Intelligence until his whistle-blowing activities got him fired, Compton is now being sought out by the Spiders, the robotic alien beings responsible for the upkeep and operation of the Quadrail transportation system, which connects the galaxy's twelve inhabited empires.

Fortuna Minor is overrun by Speed Waaagh!s, its population enslaved to build weaponised effigies of the orks’ foul gods. For the Imperial forces on the planet, every hour is a hopeless fight for survival. But into this nightmare steps Arcadian Leontus – Lord Commander of the Segmentum Solar, peerless tactician and mastermind of countless victories. Even stripped of his armies, Leontus has no intention to merely survive this war. He intends to win it.

When aliens invade Las Vegas, one man is thrust into a battle beyond imagination, fighting the terrifying shock troops of a sprawling galactic empire. To protect a terrified child, he seizes the strange weapon of a fallen hero—an ancient, sentient sword—and is catapulted far into the future with no way back. Now trapped in an alien world, he must master the sword's mysterious power and navigate a deadly game of political intrigue. But time is running out for humanity.

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. In an effort to save his buddy and the starship from the aliens, Mitch does the obvious thing: he accidentally warps hundreds of light-years away. Marooned in a distant star cluster, Mitch is forced to deal with a snarky teenage AI, a rogue auto-pilot, and a beautiful alien soldier who's ready to steal his ship at any moment—so she can fight an oppressive military faction, of course.

Sector General: a massive deep-space hospital station on the Galactic Rim, where human and alien medicine meet. It's 384 levels and thousands of staff members are supposedly able to meet the needs of any conceivable alien patient–though that capacity is always being strained as more (and stranger) alien races turn up to join the galactic community. Sentient viruses, interspecies romances, undreamed-of institutional catering problems–it all lands on Sector General's doorstep.

The Cygnus-Orion Galactic Spur is burning. In some places, literally. The Lanaktallan Unified Council has collapsed and surrendered to the Terran Confederacy of Aligned Systems. The Terran Xenocide Event has left the TCAS military reeling and forced to recruit from the new species. Dreams of Something More is attempting to bring the surrendered species and governments into the fold as painlessly as possible. The Atrekna are attacking tens of thousands of stellar systems at once, using their mastery of space and time to replicate troops and war material. The TCAS military is the only one ...

Every farmer needs a good wife. Hay production is up and it’s selling well across the area. Bessie, Gwen’s mare, is pregnant and Tom will soon have the first colt added to his stable of horses. Most important of all, Tom and Gwen have finally decided to tie the knot, especially after a surprise visit from home. All is looking up for their farm. But trouble is brewing in the guise of Reynard Gliph, who is extending his demesne well beyond League City, even threatening Tom’s home turf. Don’t miss the latest installment in this fast-paced space opera! Featuring fights, intrigue, deep ...

In a distant future where advancements in cybernetics and gene-splicing have resulted in a dozen different variants of humanity, three individuals find themselves entangled in a conspiracy that could doom everyone in the colonized worlds. Paige Angstrom, a fierce and loyal Peacekeeper, yearns to shield her sister Volara from a life of corporate-indentured servitude. Hemlocke Shaw, a gene-spliced engineer, tirelessly searches for his missing eco-activist wife.

The year is 2164. Humanity has slipped the surly bonds of its golden sun, and prospers as it finds a way across the stars. A new era of exploration dawns, its citizens asking the question eagerly: “Is there anyone out there?” Now, the answer comes suddenly and violently, a surprise attack on a peaceful colony. Deadly conflict, long forgotten by the governments of Man, makes itself known once more. New enemies emerge from the void: children of war, heirs to its terror and splendor. But this foe too has questions to answer, faced as it is with a civilization previously unimagined.

Unter den Space Wolves gibt es so viele Sagas wie Krieger, doch keine gleicht der Saga von Lukas dem Listenreichen. Gleichermaßen bewundert und geschmäht stand der Schakalwolf schon immer abseits seiner Brüder und wurde immer wieder aus dem Rudel erbitterter Wolfslord vertrieben. Doch als ein neuer Feind zur Helwinterzeit die eisigen Gefilde von Fenris angreift, steht Lukas einem Gegner gegenüber, der es mit seiner legendären Gerissenheit aufzunehmen vermag – Herzog Sliscus, einem Korsaren aus dem grausamen Volk der Drukhari. Zwischen Wolf und Schlange entbrennt ein grimmiger Kampf.

The Dark Planet Saga is an epic, five-part science-fiction saga following Professor Edmunds on his rollercoaster interstellar journey to "The Dark Planet", a tidally locked world located in the distant regions of our galaxy divided into two polar halves—The Light and The Dark.

Deicide is one-part public service, one-part revenge . . . or at least that's why Lilith does it. An operative of the multiverse-spanning Eifni Organization, she travels to new worlds to clear out the local deities before they can eat everyone's souls. It's a tricky process, requiring advanced sociological science and an arsenal of tools weaponizing meaning itself. But a god once tried to eat her, and she's not one to easily forgive. When Lilith deploys to pre-industrial Theria, she finds their gods aren't willing to go quietly.

The Swath have returned. Is there any hope for humanity? Joan Everett, captain of the USS Monolith, receives a distress call from the planet Corla’s primary defense, Vulta Station. Engaging her ship’s jump drive, they attempt to save the station from an attack by the Swath, an alien race humanity once defeated. As the Monolith retaliates, the ship takes severe damage, putting the crew on the brink of annihilation. Crippled to the point of no return, Captain Everett is forced into a decision that may jeopardize millions of lives. Her only hope is that it's enough to stop the Swath invasion.

Maurice "Moss" Foote is down to his last hundred credits, which he needs to get his old ship back and start over. Again. But then, Moss is so familiar with rock bottom he has his mail forwarded there. Hel was born a slave, or maybe she wasn't. It's confusing, just like the compulsion that keeps her building... something. When she sees an opportunity to escape aboard a ship, she takes it, not realizing the trouble she's in for.

Einst war Hauptkommandant Carter Rose die Geheimwaffe der Union. Als biotechnisch verbesserter Offizier, der das Kommando über das mächtigste Kriegsschiff hatte, das je von Menschen erdacht wurde, führte Rose die Union zum Sieg gegen das posthumane Aternien-Imperium. Dann ließen sie ihn im Stich. Ein Jahrhundert später lebt Rose allein auf einem fernen Waldmond, gefürchtet und verlassen von den Menschen, die er gerettet hat. Er ist verbittert und nachtragend geworden, während sein übermenschlicher Körper sich weigert, zu altern.

" J'ai senti une perturbation dans la Force. "Une phrase inquiétante quelle que soit la situation, mais plus encore lorsqu'elle est prononcée par l'Empereur Palpatine. Sur Batuu, aux confins des Régions Inconnues, une menace aux contours flous prend racine. Le chef de l'Empire charge ses deux meilleurs agents de mener l'enquête : son bras armé, l'impitoyable Seigneur Vador, et le grand amiral Thrawn, stratège de génie. Deux personnalités que tout oppose ; un duo improbable pour une mission des plus cruciales.

A feel-good escape into the world of big-time college turfball, a sport where gladiators like Joe Kaboom are launched over the opposing teams by energy generated by cheerleaders like Ginny Jupiter and Sharon Baryon. Set in a galaxy long ago, but not so far away, where character triumphs, teamwork is key, and heroism is defined by actions, not labels. This traditional-values adventure fiction set against the looming backdrop of a larger galactic conflict, Joe’s story is one of humility, friendship, and personal growth.

When the Aurora’s Hope crew awakens in the shadow of a galactic anomaly known as the Eclipse, they discover a universe on the brink of annihilation. The Silence, a relentless cosmic force, is spreading, consuming stars, and unraveling the very fabric of existence. Led by Captain Hawk, a seasoned commander haunted by sacrifice, and aided by a fractured team of scientists, engineers, and explorers, the crew embarks on a desperate mission to retrieve a lost weapon—the only hope of stopping The Silence.

Strap in for an exhilarating journey through alien warfare and human resilience, where every heartbeat exposes the life-and-death battle between love and treachery. Arch Enemy, first book in the Mother Race trilogy, is a tale of epic proportions, with the survival of our species hanging perilously in the balance.

Die erste Stadt auf dem Mars, gegründet vor dreißig Jahren, soll der Angelpunkt zur Kolonisierung des Weltalls sein. Den Wunsch, dort hinzugelangen, hegen viele, denn in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten hat sich die Erde durch Radikalisierung in Politik, Wirtschaft und Religion stark gewandelt. Die Nachwirkungen der Propaganda sind auch zwanzig Jahre nach Kriegsende überall zu finden. So auch bei Marek Zintok, einem jungen Polizisten und guten Christen, der sich ein Leben auf einer neuen Welt erträumte, in Red City jedoch auf seinem persönlichen Abstellgleis gelandet ist.

Mehr als 3000 Jahre in der Zukunft: Die Menschen haben viele Welten in der Milchstraße besiedelt. Sie leben und arbeiten friedlich mit den Angehörigen anderer Sternenvölker zusammen. Doch dann greifen unbekannte Roboter eine Welt an – es ist der Anfang ihres brutalen Feldzugs. Woher kommen diese Androiden, und warum sind sie so aggressiv? Die Roboter folgen einem uralten, unheilvollen Programm, das Tod und Vernichtung bringt. Sie behaupten, zum Wohl der Menschheit zu handeln. Um die Bedrohung auszuschalten, muss Perry Rhodan gegen alte und neue Feinde kämpfen – und er muss Rätsel aus tiefer Vergangenheit lösen.

Sparks, Greeta, and Shalk are desperate to make planetfall, to reunite with their loved ones and join the battle. But the Ringdell Group’s blockade stands in their way, leaving them stranded in the void. Hidden in an underground hangar on Flanterian, Reyes faces an impossible task: turning an army of untrainable gloyners into a fighting force. But first, she must confront Piltred, a monstrous brute responsible for decimating half the planet.

Captain Takhari and his crew are mysteriously shot down on the desert planet of Janiko, where they uncover a government conspiracy that threatens the future of the galaxy. Navinder Takhari was just five years old when he lost his parents in the destruction of Earth. Now an unsuccessful space detective, he travels the galaxy with his makeshift family — Kuma, Panko, and the quick-witted service droid OSC-1 — aboard the Starship Ambassador.

The theme of this book is to describe the development of a new society and civilization based on individuals understanding and developing their native spiritual and paranormal abilities, and living a longevity lifestyle. The time period is from today to a couple hundred years in the future.