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Twenty-seven years is a long time unless you are trying to save the world. Nick was enjoying a late fall day, happily skipping his English class, when he was interrupted by a little silver ball. A ball that not only spoke, but claimed to be an alien artificial intelligence sent to warn humanity that a xenophobic alien race was on its way to wipe out every man, woman, and child on the Earth. The catch: They would arrive in 27 years.

Against all odds, four friends have advanced the sciences, influenced world media, and created a world government. But the aliens are coming. Will it be enough? Can Nick, David, Cindy, and Jake save the Earth, or will they be wiped out with the rest of humanity? It will take a colony ship, battlecruisers, a mission to Mars, exosuits, and casinos on the moon. They have all looked toward the future since they were 16 years old.... But the future is now.

The 75th anniversary edition of The Martian Chronicles, a seminal work in Ray Bradbury’s career, whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time’s passage. Now in a new edition from S&S Audio! In The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, America’s preeminent storyteller...

Ever wonder what would happened if someone was able to hack into the center of the world's technology and shut it down? Well, now you will know. The world as everyone knows it has been shut down. The military cannot operate without their equipment, which is all run by computers, cell phones are of no use, neither are laptop computers, or even the new automobiles of the day. Someone has completely wiped out our way of life, so what can be done?

The astounding new novel from the master of science fiction. What would happen if the world were ending? When a catastrophic event renders the Earth a ticking time bomb, it triggers a feverish race against the inevitable. An ambitious plan is devised to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere. But unforeseen dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain....

The Scryer’s Tale, a new HarperVoyager book, full description to follow when available...

In this one book, you will bare witness to men and women as they try and escape a world on a collision course with an evil threat that, in the end, destroys all life as we know it. Worlds are torn apart, and war ranges all over the globe. And the only hope for humankind to survive is the Future, a spacecraft—the first of its kind—designed to house what is left of humanity. But what lurks beyond the stars may be far more dangerous than what is happening on Earth.

Among the glittering constellations, Benjamin stumbles upon a hidden truth, a secret that will shatter humanity's understanding of the universe. But he's not alone. A cast of unforgettable characters – all with their own agendas – awaits him. Can Benjamin unravel this cosmic mystery, survive the dangers of the unknown, and rewrite the future of mankind?

The alien captain rescuing me from the Dominion breeding facility is nothing like the other Tallean males I’ve met. He’s wild, untamed, and hot as sin. The fierce warrior sets my body on fire. He stalks right up to me and tells me I’m his. And bonus—he knows my sister! Eager to celebrate my newfound freedom, I jump on tall, dark, and dangerous for a wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am the first chance I get. He is an alien and can’t knock me up. It’s a win-win all around. What could possibly go wrong?

From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower: After the near-extinction of the human race, one young man with extraordinary gifts will reveal whether the human race can learn from its past and rebuild their future ... or is doomed to self-destruction. In the future, nuclear war has...

A mysterious signal. A start-up that wants to change the world. A future that no longer belongs to us. Contains all three books in The Stolen Future series.

Harry can build a perfect android, but no one likes them unless he can make them more human. Harry's dead wife lends a hand, but Eva, the android, hates him. A first contact goes so smoothly that Ethan falls in love with a blue alien, but soon realizes that some erroneous assumptions have been made... An explorer becomes best friends with an artificial person that he found in his salvaged ship, and the mystery of why such a valuable machine was wiped and left for junk haunts them both. Cobb had an interest in both the vast AI systems that ran everything and how they came to be.

After the near-extinction of humanity, a new kind of alien-human hybrid must come to terms with their identity—before their powers destroy what is left of humankind, in this thought-provoking science fiction novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of The Sower. Since a...

In the far-flung future, an unknown alien species appears, determined to wipe out humanity. The Solar Union, in making a last-ditch effort to save billions of lives on dozens of different planets, retrieves the soldiers they need from those who’ve died over the past six hundred years.

The clock is ticking—for humanity, the planet, and time itself. Jace, a 21st-century engineer, his psychologist wife Sara, and their two children, Grace and Tom, return to the 31st century on a mission to heal the Earth from the devastating effects of climate change. But this time, the stakes are higher, and the journey across time more perilous than ever.

Daniel Hunt finds himself on the run from the very people he had vowed to protect. The corrupted, new Vice-Chancellor wants him dead and will stop at nothing to see the job done. Even if it means contracting assassin syndicates from the Moon and beyond. Now more than ever, Daniel has to rely on those he calls family. With the new alien threat, known only as the Darkening in front of him and the Galactic Government's Battle Bots chasing close behind, he must pull out all the stops.

An unassuming astronomer and her family find themselves and the entire world traumatized after she makes a series of major interstellar discoveries that lead to the worst threat to Earth ever. Everyone tries to carry on with life as best they can, seeking answers in the midst of the news that the Earth has just a few years before the end. Then she makes another discovery even more remarkable that opens the door to our first contact with an advanced civilization that has come to our rescue. The future of Earth will never be the same again. What would you do in her place?

Space ship travel when you've been kidnapped sucks. I don't get a pillow, there's no snacks, and worst of all—the whole ship crashes. Except, it doesn't crash on Earth, or even Mars. Nope, I'm in a whole new galaxy on a foreign planet and some body-builder-looking blue horned aliens with lots of piercings have decided I'm their new play thing. And not in a good way. Until one alien decides he's not going to share, and maybe I have a concussion from the crash, because I'm all about the possessive way he protects me. But there's no way he'll fight his whole clan for me . . . right?

A human expedition to colonize another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure cupping a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths. And which, tantalizingly, is on a direct path heading toward the same system.

The world has changed. A killer is on the loose in the metaworld, and the still fragile resistance is in danger of crumbling. The resistance is desperately battling the influence of the Forum and the implant carriers. As humanity spends more and more time in the artificially created metaworld, Steve Työpaikkaa stumbles upon a horrifying truth that shakes the foundations of the future. Meanwhile, his daughter June embarks on a dangerous journey after the Resistance finds the source of a new signal.