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The world is a game, and humans don't get to play. Humanity has been reduced to non-playable characters in a fantasy realm created for the entertainment of aliens who treat Earth like their own personal playground. Everyone believes it has always been this way. Even Milton Musgrave. That all...

An original full-length novel set in the Halo universe and based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! It has been six years since the end of the Covenant War...and yet on the planet Carrow, a world on the edge of the Joint Occupation Zone, a decisive new battle suddenly erupts...

Fractal Noise is the thrilling prequel to the masterful space opera To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by internationally bestselling author of Eragon, Christopher Paolini. On the planet Talos VII, twenty-three years before the events of To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, an anomaly is detected: a vast...

When NASA’s SWAN space telescope detects a faint ultraviolet anomaly beyond the orbit of Jupiter, astronomers assume it’s a comet—an interstellar visitor drifting harmlessly through space. But as more data pours in from observatories around the world, the excitement turns to confusion then to fear.4I/SWAN isn’t just unusual. It’s breaking all the rules.

After the explosive events surrounding MPF6's destruction on Karkin Four, Wic and his team of daredevil operators join forces with the rebel force known as the Blood Guard. While the Phantoms desire to help relocate human refugees to safer worlds, they're forced to confront a more pressing objective: cut off the head of the beast and keep the Androchidan Empire from enslaving another world. Wic is immediately flung into the heat of battle, driven by retaliation, a need for justice, and the need to send a message to all other deviant species who'd wish to take advantage of the innocent.

Earth has united under the banner of the Republic. Humanity's brightest minds have deciphered the secrets of the alien technology and have begun to reverse engineer it. An elder race takes notice of humanity's strides and intervenes. Humanity is brought into the fold of a galactic alliance and learns they are not alone in their war against the insidious Zodark empire. Humans now fight alongside friendly alien races to end the bondages of slavery. 

Nearly 100,000 years after first contact with the machines that dominate the universe, only a few hundred humans survive. Trapped on Snowglade, a barren world near the center of the galaxy, Killeen and his child, Toby, of the Bishop Tribe, are primitive scavengers, homeless and hunted by the ruling “mechs”. Then suddenly, a strange cosmic entity – neither organic nor cybernetic or living matter – reaches out from a black hole to speak with Killeen.

An epic new trilogy begins—a tie-in for the milestone fiftieth anniversary of Star Trek: The Original Series—that stretches from the earliest voyages of the Starship Enterprise to Captain Kirk’s historic five-year-mission…and from one universe to another! Hidden aboard the U.S.S...

Two expertly crafted crime stories set in a far-future science fiction universe, from two award-winning authors known for their gripping plots and unforgettable characters—a short novel and a long novella that will thrill fans of space adventures, mystery, and intergalactic intrigue in this...

Galaxy Quest meets Roswell in this quirky sci-fi rom-com from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Ann Aguirre. He’s stranded. He’s desperate. He’s not looking for love. Alien Tamzir Jaarn, a.k.a. Seeker, is paying the price for risking an illicit holiday on an interdicted...

The crews of Jean-Luc Picard, Benjamin Sisko, Ezri Dax, and William Riker unite to prevent a cosmic-level apocalypse—only to find that some fates really are inevitable. STARFLEET’S FINEST FACES A CHALLENGE UNLIKE ANY OTHER TOMORROW IS DOOMED Time is coming apart. Countless alternate and...

With The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3, award-winning editor Neil Clarke provides a year-in-review and 27 of the best stories published by both new and established authors in 2017. 

Step into the cosmic struggle of Talisman: Halcyon, where grief is weaponized and trust is a rare commodity. Join Liam, Arion & Soteria as they confront betrayal, ancient crimes, & the fate of the omniverse itself. Liam “Foxy” Mayfield never asked to be the Last Iskander, nor to wield a power that can tear the omniverse apart. But then he, Arion Peridifyca (the haunted hunter of the Iskander legacy) & Onyx Sleater, now the cosmic nexus Soteria, discover their grief has been weaponized by the alien Aeterium Axis, & their uneasy alliance becomes the only hope for countless worlds.

Mars is not kind to human beings. It strips them down to their limits, exposes their fears, and magnifies every flaw. In a remote construction camp, survival depends on trust, restraint, and the fragile belief that men can govern themselves when the stakes are high. When a shocking act of...

A dream house, a desperate trade, and a trap that spans galaxies. Ted and Martha Graham think they’ve found the perfect place to settle before their baby arrives—until their ultramodern new home shudders, the stars shift, and a cold emissary of the Rojac declares their fate. Conscripted into...

It has been three years since the massive alien the world dubbed 'Gulliver' fell, dead, out of the sky next to Little Springs, Nebraska. The city continues to grow, the population now into the hundreds of thousands. But there isn’t enough water for everyone, and a plan to dam a nearby stream...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the greatest distance in the universe could be crossed without traveling through space? Jaxson Rader has discovered a connection that could make it possible. Across two and a half million light-years, a woman named Lyira is reaching back. At...

Port Wesley wird unter Quarantäne gestellt. Falsche Regierungsvertreter haben die Kontrolle übernommen. Seltsame Behälter tauchen nun in den Gärten der Menschen auf. Nur Sheriff Stooner und seine wenigen Leute wagen es noch, sich zu widersetzen. Professor Steinbergs sicher geglaubtes Versteck, die aufgegebene Papierfabrik in der Einöde Maines, ist vom Feind ausfindig gemacht worden.

Die Bellows, ein junges Ärztepaar, wollen in dem neu geschaffenen Ort Perfect Place ihr altes Leben hinter sich lassen. Doch schnell merken sie, dass es dort alles andere als perfekt zugeht. Außer einer Handvoll Bewohner existiert nichts Lebendiges. Nicht einmal ein Insekt. Und der Himmel gaukelt ihnen die Illusion von jagenden Raubvögeln vor.

„Dies ist nicht die Fortsetzung einer abenteuerlichen Geschichte, sondern der schleichende Übergang vom ruhigen Fluss des Lebens ... in eine Ära ständiger Bedrohung, in der wir niemandem mehr vertrauen können. Nicht den engsten Nachbarn, nicht den besten Freunden ... nicht einmal der eigenen Familie." Sheena, die Tochter des Bürgermeisters James Carlin, wurde für einen Mord verurteilt, den in Wirklichkeit eine bösartige Doppelgängerin begangen hat. Die Doppelgänger, deren ursprüngliche Form nichts Menschliches aufweist, übernehmen an immer mehr Orten die Kontrolle.