Space Exploration

Reformed, repackaged, and re-engineered, the Stillness reveal that they never went away. They merely waited. Watching. Planning. And those plans will collide with the rising stars of an empire based on justice and action. Out in the deep black, Abel Tudor and his crew will fight to prove that command isn't given, it's earned—and their parents chose well, giving them the helm to a warship that could change history with one fateful journey.

A multi-voice reading of this thrilling novelisation of the 2006 BBC TV adventure. The Doctor and Rose travel to Krop Tor – an impossible planet orbiting a black hole, defying the laws of physics. With the TARDIS lost to them, trapped with a crew of human explorers and their alien servants -...

Camille Coduri reads this brand new novelisation of the 2005 BBC TV adventure. The Doctor brings Rose home a year after she left…to find London in chaos. A spaceship has crashed into the Thames and an alien body lies in the wreckage. The Doctor uncovers a chilling conspiracy at the heart of...

Seventeen-year-old Craig Blackmore is a first generation child of Golf Alpha One-One-Seven, AKA Greenacres, the heavy gravity and magic starved world that humanity chose as its first colony. Eighteen years after the Vorsook war ended, young Craig is newly orphaned, a fugitive from trouble, and bound for Earth to take a legacy spot at College Arcane. With a scant hope of leaving his troubles behind him, Craig begins life on the home world at the same school his mother once attended. The same school that produced the most powerful witch ever—Declan O'Carroll—the Steward.

Maureen O’Brien reads this gripping novelisation of the 2010 BBC TV adventure. An improbably call for help from River Song draws the Doctor and Amy to the wreck of the starship Byzantium on the world of Alfava Metraxis. The wreck contains a deadly cargo – a Weeping Angel, determined to...

The mystery deepens when Ozzy and his growing crew aboard the Phoenix III arrive to find Earth has fallen from its former glory—and is now under the control of a secretive group known as the Axiom Guard. With help from a grizzled Recon Marine, Ozzy must fend off this mysterious order of scientists and Concord enforcers that will stop at nothing to get their hands on the Mythbreaker.

Jack Schafer saved Earth by accident. Saving his newly adopted home, Dravos, won't be any easier. Dravos has fallen into a new star system, sunlight blazing down on a civilization that's never known day or night. Its people are terrified. Its nobles are plotting. Its king wants answers Jack doesn't have. And the Archon Draven—the centuries-old tyrant Jack thought he'd disposed of—is recovering in the mountains, preparing for his next move. With rebellion spreading and old enemies becoming uneasy allies, Jack, Lisa, and Erik must hold a fragile kingdom together long enough to strike back.

In this twisty and action-packed adventure from the BSFA award-winning author of Descendant Machine and Future’s Edge, a crew of bounty hunters find themselves ensnared in a conspiracy on the very fringes of the devastated solar system. Perfect for fans of James S. A. Corey and Adrian Tchaikovsky.

A mysterious disease has broken out in Tina's onetime home colony—and the dilapidated orphanage where Tina herself grew up has been ransacked for medicine, food, and water. Hiro and his crew might be able to ward off the infection with formfitting protective suits, but can they offer any help to the residents of the colony? It seems possible that clues found in the orphanage may actually allow Dr. Shouko to develop a treatment for the infection. But what else Hiro and his crew can achieve may come down to Hiro's personal meeting with colony governor Hartmut...

Cleo Xavier is a renowned astronaut and explorer—not an addict. At least, that’s what she tells herself. She’s always been able to navigate the isolation and loneliness that come with space exploration, which makes her a perfect candidate to join four other astronauts on a mission to Orbis Alius, the farthest planet in the solar system, to test its terraforming viability.

The hammer’s cocked and there’s tension on the trigger… when the hammer falls, will its spark ignite a brilliant future for humanity… or set off World War III? Tensions between the new Earth Space Agency and the Global Space Agency are ready to snap. The world’s superpowers are on military alert, and a new, global world war seems impossible to avoid. Above the clouds, StarQuest, Extreme Habitats, Inc and Kruger International hurry to build their space station.

Evan and Anya have brokered an unlikely alliance among thieves. With their sights set on a hidden Syndicate base brimming with alien secrets, holding the team together long enough to claim the prize will be their greatest test yet. Leading a crew of outcasts, Evan and Anya stage a high-stakes raid to seize tech that could turn the tide against Chancellor Rostov's iron grip. However, when Conroy—long presumed dead—announces to the core worlds that he's alive and declares Rostov a usurper, the Commonwealth erupts in chaos. As dissidents rally, the crew faces a regime desperate to crush them.

Becky Chambers meets Miss Marple in the second entry of this cozy sci-fi mystery series, helmed by a formidable no-nonsense auntie of a detective. Welcome to the HMS Fairweather, Her Majesty's most luxurious interstellar passenger liner! Room and board are included, new bodies are graciously...

Major Larry Randall has been called to Pluto to retrieve Dr. Aaron Mikelson. Mikelson, no longer human after a horrific accident, is now melded to an AI. His enhanced senses have detected an alien artifact on Pluto’s surface, and he’s not leaving without it. Transferred to the research vessel studying Pluto, Randall and the other scientists are stumped as to the artifact’s purpose and origin. Looking for similar signs of aliens they make their way to Pluto’s moon, Charon, where, buried deep under its icy surface, something stirs―and wakes.

Des années se sont écoulées depuis qu'un contingent d'êtres humains s'est installé à bord de Rama, cet étrange vaisseau-monde d'origine inconnue qui traversait le système solaire. Et voilà que leur folie meurtrière les pousse à exterminer tous leurs paisibles voisins extraterrestres ! Parce qu'elle s'est opposée à ce génocide, Nicole Desjardins a été convaincue de haute trahison et attend son exécution. Rama désormais est livré à l'hégémonie de Nakamura le tyran... Mais sous la surface de ce monde s'ouvrent des tunnels que fréquentent d'étranges créatures biologiques et artificielles...

Mars Trek chronicles the first human mission to Mars in the year 2076, a joint endeavour between the United States and Russia. The American team travels aboard a rotating spacecraft that simulates gravity, while the Russian team opts for a zero-gravity vessel. Although a work of science fiction, Mars Trek offers broad appeal to general listeners, much like Andy Weir's The Martian. It combines visionary technology and scientifically grounded detail with a compelling portrayal of the human side of space exploration.

Alexander's victory over a ruthless pirate lord has made him a marked man. His name now echoes across the frontier, a hero to some, a threat to others, and a prize the self-proclaimed Pirate Emperor Harlow cannot ignore. To defend his home on Eden's End, Alexander seeks allies among the Asgardian Union, a powerful faction born of betrayal and survival. The STO calls them pirates, but Alexander soon learns the truth is far more complicated. While he struggles to earn their trust, Harlow turns his fury toward him. This time, the war will not stop at one world.

After a fall from grace, intelligence officer Malculm Bysotič avoids further punishment when he is assigned to a bold and controversial new initiative: the forced eviction of all foreign travelers from the localities of Burel Hird. Hailed as a stabilizing effort, the program instead demands ever-more-frequent acts of bureaucratic cruelty. As the margins between just and unjust action continue to blur, Malculm is forced to question the motives and goals of the society he serves.

Chris thought he had it all. But then his dreams of space travel ended in the worst way possible, and he was reincarnated as the goblin king of Rava. Now he leads a loyal-but-pathetic gang of blue-furred boneheads. And with his smarts, a tech tree gifted by the enigmatic System, and his army of extremely eager if accident-prone followers, he's managed to drag them all out of the muck and into an industrial age of combustion machines.

Food, politics, love, adventure and drama in the sequel to the fun, thought-provoking Interstellar MegaChef! It has been three months since Saraswati Kaveri and Serenity Ko won Interstellar MegaChef with their groundbreaking new food simulation, Feast. But victory is only the beginning. Saras is...

On her first assignment as a Rememberer, Vega travels to Small Home, the newest planet the Race adopted. The planet’s inhabitants, the Caelings, are a friendly native species with an agrarian culture. Vega has heard reports of a native who performs miracles, and she wants to record him and other Caelings for her people because she knows that someday the Caelings will be gone. She takes her younger brother to assist her and travels into the backcountry to find this miracle worker.

Rachel Adams beobachtet das All mit Hilfe des Chandra-Röntgensatelliten. Als ihr Kollege Shawn Whitfield sie bittet, ein kosmisches Phänomen zu untersuchen, sagt sie zu – nicht ahnend, dass das Routine-Projekt ihr Leben dramatisch verändern wird. Denn schnell stellt sich heraus, dass Shawn keinen simplen Asteroiden gefunden hat – das Objekt scheint keinen natürlichen Ursprung zu haben. Rachels Neugier ist geweckt, und selbst, als man ihr das Projekt als nationale Verschlusssache wegnimmt, ist sie nicht zu bremsen. Und dann bewegt sich das Objekt auch noch auf die Erde zu!

When Major Thomas J. Stone accepted his assignment as Second in Command of Cyclops, the newly commissioned Space Force orbiting Space Station, he could not have envisioned, even in his wildest dreams, that Cyclops would become the main obstacle in a high-stakes life-or-death international struggle. Now, with a growing conspiracy across international borders and some very bad actors trying to sabotage their mission, Stone could only count on his crew, ingenuity, and the most lethal high-tech weaponry ever designed to save the world and preserve freedom for all.

Humanity’s dream of colonizing Mars quickly becomes a fight for survival. Mission director Lt Col. John Hathaway sends astronauts Aadya "Kate" Khatun and Hamza "Arti" Artsruni to explore and establish a foothold on the Red Planet. One astronaut is killed, during what appears to be an alien attack; the other makes a solo, dangerous return to a hero’s welcome on Earth.

Anya grew up listening to her father speak of the Great Attractor, the immense gravitational pull drawing galaxies toward a hidden region behind the Milky Way. For thirty one years he studied what he could not directly observe. He died in his Lagos study surrounded by annotated printouts and unfinished calculations, certain there was order in the noise.