Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive - and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet.

Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie. But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits.

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.

Two astronomers have detected a strange, pulsing signal from deep space. Within hours, the US government goes into lockdown, restricting airspace and scrubbing scientific data. Was the signal an intercepted communication revealing alarming plans for an enemy’s military strike? Or has humanity at long last found proof of extraterrestrial life?

Earth has fallen. Its nations, enslaved. When humanity’s conquerors crushed the planet’s defenses, all hope seemed lost. But what if someone gave you a starship—fully armed—and the chance to strike back? Kory Drake, a homeless survivor on the streets of an occupied Earth, never imagined becoming a fighter. After a daring rescue of his street sister and a brutal showdown with alien Kergan soldiers, Kory catches the eye of a mysterious alien military adviser. The offer? A powerful starship, Thunder, along with the training to lead a crew and fight back against humanity’s enemies. ...

Hard choices must be made, and even harder battles will be fought.As multiple civil wars engulf what’s left of the Imperium, Neo is a broken soul haunted by loss. Plunging in a downward spiral of depression and addiction, can he find a spark of hope that will stop his fall, or will the abyss grow ever deeper? And in the most chaotic part of the galaxy, a new order arises. Could it be a harbinger of peace, or just another agent of chaos?

When the League moves on a golden planet deep inside Republican territory, war breaks out. Competing forms of galactic government fight to the death. AIs strategize, teleporting star fleets and space-based weapons systems across vast distances in an epic interstellar conflict. Outgunned and desperate for more ships, the Republic turns to privateers, recruiting law-skirting companies from the fabled planet of Lute and offering huge rewards for their service. One man, Captain Christopher Raleigh, flies the Ultima Mule with a crew of brilliant misfits. Together, they set out to teach the ...

A farmer always needs to find a way to get his produce to market... Tom Savage’s farm is coming along nicely. Trees are producing sap. The garden’s doing well. The chickens are surviving. Even the horses are thriving. No star containment units have blown up recently. But the planet of Phaethon has problems galore. The major governmental systems have instituted an embargo, preventing all but humanitarian supplies from going there. And nothing has shown up yet. League City, the capital, is in chaos. Gangs roam the street. One woman, Haley Stonecipher, hopes to make a difference with ...

I don’t know my name. I don’t know why I woke up alone on that beach two years ago. What do I know? That I can fight demons better than even the well-trained Seraph Force. For the last hundred years, demons have been a plague upon our world. And in each attack the only outcome is the death or disappearance of the victims. Untrained humans do not survive clashes with these creatures. And in the last few years, these attacks have only increased. No one knows why. The Seraph Force protects the residents of Sterling Peak. They patrol at night, allowing the citizens to sleep soundly. Across ...

In a future where humanity pushes the limits of survival and technology, Hostile Takeovers follows a cast of characters whose lives are about to collide. NoFeather, an alien observer seeking respite on Mars, carries knowledge that could change everything. The humans find themselves face-to-face with a visitor beyond their understanding. Meanwhile, on Earth, corporate leaders and extraordinary beings pull strings that stretch across the solar system. As alliances form and secrets unravel, the question remains: who truly holds power in a world where survival depends on cooperation—and ...

As Mother Nature wreaks her vengeance, a hidden truth holds the power to save humanity . . . or destroy it. In a world plagued by the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, Cassie Finnegan navigates the chaos as a dedicated member of FEMA's Urban Search and Rescue team. From hurricanes to wildfires, Cassie has witnessed the devastation wrought by nature's fury firsthand. But the last six months have been like nothing she’s ever seen. And that was before the heart-breaking discovery she makes amidst the wreckage of an Oklahoma disaster zone. Hidden beneath layers of ...

Last thing I remembered, I was in my backyard, thoughtfully pruning a bonsai tree. The next thing I remembered was alarms and bells and flashing lights and a voice yelling that death was imminent. And now, I was staring down at a beautiful female clone, gray and featureless, about to wake her up from transport hibernation. On a space ship. In space. Thank goodness I still had my bonsai scissors. Otherwise I’d never have been able to cut open her containment bag and that imminent death thing would have killed her. The voice said that there was more of them and that I’d better hurry if I ...

Living among aliens. Humans are lightyears away. Will a field agent recruit find her self-confidence? Belle Machado is all alone. The young aspiring field agent lives among non-human strangers, receiving training from the best minds of the Quynh Federation. But the diligent woman’s aspirations are threatened when she unwittingly causes civil strife between her host faction and an extremist faction. Cutoff from friends and family by an uncooperative human government, Belle fears ighakan society is unraveling around her. But discovering her self-worth, she fears the chaos will force her to ...

The three spacefaring human governments have formed an alliance. When a fourth group of humans are discovered claiming that they are living under Rrennak oppression, something has to be done. Captain Christopher Ryan and the starship Republic are sent to investigate. What they find is incredible; now they just have to escape the Rrennak Imperium with their proof. The only thing in their favor - the Imperium is dealing with its own problems. Maybe they won't notice the pesky humans. Maybe.

Ottanger is a rebel and mutant on an Earth governed by a ruthless Committee. But after its Inspectorate experiments on him, Ottanger realizes the mutation allows him to reach alternate worlds. The multiverse is revealed in all its glory and terror—and he understands that he can finally flee his timeline. Then Ottanger meets the Fenris, an evolved human, visiting his Earth from the far future. He'd engineered the original world walking mutation, so those altered could escape the Committee's nightmarish regime. And Ottanger sees that that Committee will become unstoppable if not destroyed.

On a frontier planet, land is cheap. So is your life. Tom Savage is intent on homesteading, and Phaethon is the newest planet open for colonization. Here, technology is lacking in many places. And for 200 credits, anyone can claim one square kilometer of prime farmland. But Tom has a secret or two. He is not interested in farming crops, at least not at first. Tom wants to harvest pieces of Phaethon’s sun. To do so will mean first reaching his stake out near the desert, surviving human predators along the way, bringing fugitives to justice, and dealing with the resident sand dragon ...

In a world where the dead outnumber the living, where the ruins of once-great cities are all that remain, humanity’s fight for survival is just beginning. The World Ends tells the story of the survivors who have lived through the nightmare of a global outbreak, and who now must navigate a post-apocalyptic landscape filled with the infected, scarce resources, and the haunting echoes of a civilization lost. From the very first infection to the final battle against the relentless undead, this gripping tale chronicles the courage, sacrifice, and the unbreakable will to survive of ordinary ...

In a satirical science fiction adventure, set in October, 2072, the doctor is pulled into a secret assignment pitting business against science, bureaucracy against action, and public health against partying when a mysterious pathogen escapes his lab in the southern Nevada desert. Join Jack and his animal friends in a reinterpretation of the classic character written during, and possibly informed by, the great stay-at-home orders of 2020.

Two months without power has plunged the nation into chaos. Without technology, humanity is crumbling. Starvation spreads while brutal gangs rise, dominating in a savage fight for control. Between John McGregor and his trapped daughter lies a nation in darkness, and a city that has become a fortress of fear.