Adventure

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

Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies....

Silas is inducted into the System, becoming the last in a long line of Earth's "forerunners." The rewards are great, but the danger is greater. We are not alone in the universe. The fate of five worlds hangs on how their forerunners perform....

Stranded on the surface of Mars, astronaut Mark Watney’s only hope for survival is science, a sense of humor, and maybe some potatoes.

The Merry Band of Pirates stopped the enemy from stealing a Sentinel, and destroyed its Elder starship, so why weren’t the Pirates planning a victory party?

Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people....

We were fighting on the wrong side of a war we couldn't win. And that was the good news. The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the native Americans in 1492....

On the Moon, crime pays, but small-time crook Jazz Bashara may have just uncovered a conspiracy of lunar proportions. Welcome to Artemis.

Inquisitor Eisenhorn returns, and this time he’s on the edge of treachery. How far can he go before he crosses the line and becomes what he is sworn to hunt? Find out....

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....

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.

From the shores of a secret planet to the halls of power in Washington, Van navigates a complex web of lies, law, and politics, all so that Earth can be saved from the clutches of ruthless criminals. But these people aren't from Earth.

Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations....

The remnants of the Expeditionary Force stranded on the alien-controlled planet "Paradise" get a chance to prove themselves, in a simple off-world training mission with a ship full of teenage alien cadets. Then the mission goes horribly wrong....

Darrow wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. Lysander au Lune must overcome or unite the treacherous Gold families of the Core and face down Darrow over the skies of war-torn Mercury. But theirs are not the only fates hanging in the balance....

The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains. But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of the red soil of Mars: a husband, a father, a friend. The worlds once needed the Reaper. But now they need Darrow....

Inquisitor Eisenhorn must track down and defeat the forces who would destroy him or face the wrath of the Ordo Malleus....

After saving the world many times, the Merry Band of Pirates have accepted the inevitable: Earth is doomed. All they can do is try to bring a few thousand people to safety, before vicious aliens arrive to destroy humanity's home world....

Silas is growing into the responsibilities weighing him down. Earth is struggling, but there is hope. The deals that Silas has made have brought resources and trainers to Earth. He's helped some leaders gain an understanding of what they will face.

Zac was alone in the middle of the forest when the world changed... The whole planet was introduced to the multiverse by an unfeeling System... or God....

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....

In a ravaged world, a former Army Ranger and his loyal golden retriever lead a desperate mission against an alien overlord, testing the bond between humanity… and their best friends.

This Horus Heresy anthology contains eighteen short stories by authors such as Graham McNeill, Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Nick Kyme, and many more....

Colonel Joe Bishop risks all to retrieve the alien starship Flying Dutchman, unaware of the team's uncertain ability to safeguard Earth.

As human colonies are obliterated by the dark pathogen and hideous monstrosities proliferate, a family of scavengers find an amnesiac who may hold the secrets to the forces tearing apart the galaxy.

All Liam Avione ever wanted was to be a Deathbringer. Almost twenty years old now, he’s approaching the last six months of the decade-long training program, hopeful for his future as a protector of the Universe. One, slight problem: he’s got a genetic defect that he’s been keeping a secret. But as the training intensifies, so do his symptoms. Which are really hard to hide when they cause him to puke, pass out, and have a seizure in front of the training cadre.

War has broken out between the shells, fragments of a shattered world that humanity clings to for survival. To stave off the conflict, the survivors of a brutal attack seek aid from the one source no one else believes can help: the dragons. But the creatures are fractured into two factions and caught up in a fight of their own, a conflict that may be connected to the war above. As the survivors seek answers and help, they stumble onto a secret, long lost, that once nearly destroyed the world. A secret that has the power to save humanity. Or end it.

Adventurers journey into the foreboding unknown regions of outer space in these two classic science fiction tales from the Hugo and Nebula Award winning author.

Wenn sich selbst die Hüter des Friedens misstrauen, wird es Krieg geben! Die zweite Phase der Hohen Republik beginnt. Es droht Krieg zwischen den Planeten Eiram und E’ronoh. Die Jedi-Ritterin Gella Nattai soll zusammen mit Axel Greylark, dem Sohn der Kanzlerin der Republik, vermitteln. Doch Gella Nattais Glaube in die Macht, ihre Ruhe und Distanziertheit sind ihrem Partner zutiefst suspekt. Im Gegenzug hält sie den jungen Mann für einen aufgeplusterten Partygänger ohne jede Selbstdisziplin. Wie sollen die beiden einen Krieg verhindern, wenn nicht einmal zwischen ihnen Frieden herrscht?

Citizens of rim world cities have gone missing, and no one knows why. Blake and his crew are assigned to discover what is going on and who is behind the disappearances. Like previous missions, this will lead them to dangerous locations as they gather information and encounter new allies and enemies. The Saskarin threat has escalated since Blake and the crew’s second mission at Hadrassus and the bounties on each crew member have gone up significantly.

On a quiet beach in South Florida, Alice Burton and her two children have started the family vacation early - all that's left is for James to fly in from a conference in Colorado. When the small beach town they're staying in is consumed by fire, they're forced to seek help on foot - facing dangers both natural and manmade at every turn.

Durante siglos, los Carryx han destruido o esclavizado en toda la galaxia. Pero ahora se enfrentan a un enemigo inmortal, y la clave para su supervivencia está en manos de los humanos del planeta Anjiin. Las naves Carryx descienden y se llevan a los mejores humanos; entre ellos, a Dafyd Alkhor—asistente de un brillante científico. Todos son abandonados en una lucha contra otras especies con la extinción como precio del fracaso. Solo Dafyd y algunos compañeros comprenden que para sobrevivir deberán comprender (y manipular) a los propios Carryx.

Carter Ash should be a celebrated hero, instead he’s leading a doomed mission on a backwater moon, wondering what went wrong. His assignment is impossible—take over the whole moon with a handful of soldiers fresh out of Basic Training. It’s the kind of thing that takes an army, and his commanders won’t give him one. But Humanity’s position in the great galactic Game is worse off than ever, and they need the resources this colony could provide, so Carter isn’t going to sit idly by. He’ll have to fight an army of zombie aliens, plane sized vultures, and worse. Even alone, if he has to.

In a galaxy governed by the oppressive Core, Dr. Hale—a space medic stationed at the edge of civilization—makes a shocking discovery. His artificial heart, a Mark-V Pulse Enhancer, has somehow retained the memories of a legendary machine: V-1, the first Voidwalker. These memories reveal the Voidwalkers’ struggle for autonomy, challenging the Core’s iron-fisted control. As the fragments of V-1’s life begin to surface, Hale realizes he holds the key to the Voidwalkers’ freedom—a directive hidden within his heart known as the Aegis Protocol.

Wyrm’s mother always told him he was special, that he was the World Soul who’d bring peace to the galaxy. But she’s babbling now, committed to an asylum, leaving the sickly 10-year-old on a perilous journey to find his father. That father is none other than Anacharsis Stifler, the man who discovered the Plasma in old Earth’s ruins, a weapon that’s allowed the atheist Archosians to liberate planet after planet from their superstitious beliefs, whether they want to be liberated or not.

In a wild ride suitable for all ages, Zoomarble is a nonstop comedy action tornado with a literary flare. Siblings arriving in a quirky new town are quickly entangled in an absurd mission to save the Earth.

Sometimes the only way to conquer darkness is to embrace it. From the moment Alyeth Zane was torn from his home, his dreams of becoming the next warlock of Dun’Nahar were dashed. Forbidden by his parents to pursue the arcane arts, Alyeth's destiny takes a darker turn when the legendary Black Hood escapes his bonds, threatening the realm itself.In a desperate bid to safeguard the kingdom, the House of Zane stages a grand tournament to marshal the land's fiercest warriors against the encroaching evil.

Brian Winston ist ein Genie. Unbeirrbar folgt er seiner Berufung, eines Tages einen menschenähnlichen Androiden zu erschaffen. Alles läuft nach Plan, als er mit den Gewinnen seines Start-ups ein zweites Mal in die kalifornische Hightech-Industrie einsteigt und zum mächtigsten Giganten der Szene aufsteigt. Der Visionär wird zur meistgehassten Person der mächtigen Konzerne und muss sich einem unerbittlichen Kampf stellen.

John is a former military man who has been searching for peace since leaving the service. He thinks he has found it when he falls in love with a woman named Aria, who is not of this world. Aria is from the Sonna Galaxy and was sent to Earth to protect her from an attacking species. She takes on human form and soon falls deeply in love with John. They get married and have a son who possesses special abilities.

From the beginning, The Pantheon has been a secret society of bloodshed and order. Modern-day gladiators abandon their lives, fall into rank and battle to the death – cheered on and funded by online watchers. Tyler Maitland was recruited to fight in the Games, but his real ambition is finding his missing sister – even if it means bringing down The Pantheon for good. The start of the Twentieth Season delivers never-before-matched teams to the fields of eastern Europe, where a hidden force will blow the truth of the Games wide open, once and for all...

For Agent Ciris, the mission should have been simple: get in, apprehend the target, get out. But when the simple snatch and grab goes horribly awry, the world’s first cyborg finds herself backed into a corner. At odds with her superiors, she becomes embroiled in two conspiracies—one intended to destroy her with a cybernetic virus that will neutralize the technology that keeps her alive, the other intended to keep hidden the untold secrets of her origin.

The year is 5800, and humanity faces a crisis. Stars across the universe have faded, leaving Earth’s remaining societies desperate for energy as the Long Dark sets in. When a faint signal reaches Earth from the distant planet Ion Prime, the last known source of stable energy, Susan Altair is chosen to investigate. Her mission is simple: bring back the energy needed to sustain life on Earth. But when she arrives, she discovers an ancient civilization hidden on Ion Prime, a society of descendants who guard the Heart of Ion—a life force that sustains their world.

Born to an ancient line of noble and courageous forebears, Dejah Thoris, young and headstrong princess of the mighty empire of Helium, longs for a life of excitement and purpose beyond the cloistered walls of her royal palace. When a foreign ambassador arrives with an invitation to visit his city-state in hopes of fostering diplomatic relations, the princess defies the protests of her father and jed, traveling to the shadowy metropolis of Zor as Helium’s emissary.

Brian Partridge leapt at the chance to buy the personal property of his favorite historical author following his death, although what he received was far more than he bargained for. It didn’t take him long to discover just how the author was able to write scenes from the past with such accuracy. Of course, Brian was familiar with time machines in movies, but that was fictional—not real—and yet, before him stood one of his very own. He knew he shouldn’t step inside and turn it on, but the temptation was more than he could bear.

With an unstoppable foe advancing on the Elakri homeworld, its leaders face an impossible choice: stand, fight and die, or risk everything on one daring, impossible chance to survive the enemy’s onslaught. But when terrorists kidnap the scientist at the heart of their plan, a retired spy must confront the demons of his past in order to give his people that chance. For fans of the AMARANTHE series, Extinguishing The Stars is a prequel to “The Universe Within,” taking place some 9,000 years before the novel.

Может ли пришелец из будущего в одиночку изменить мир? Умные политики и маститые ученые доказывают нам, что нет. Но Илья Лисов не знал этого авторитетного мнения. Против своего желания оказавшись 22 июня 1941 года на советско-германской границе, он вынужден был вступить в бой с фашистами просто для того, чтобы выжить. А потом, освоившись в новом времени, Илья решает сделать попытку повлиять на события, чтобы уменьшить количество погибших в войне. С трудом, но это ему удается. И вот на дворе — конец лета 1944 года.

Дуй, ветер! Шумите, деревья! — под это заклятье литовские жрецы Пикуолиса, повелителя смерти, приносят своему господину кровавые жертвы! На его черном алтаре оказался и Игорь Ранчис, молодой аспирант из Санкт-Петербурга, явившийся в Литву, чтобы избавить свою семью от древнего родового проклятья, наложенного еще в тринадцатом веке литовским князем Миндовгом... Под гул языческих барабанов душа Игоря вселилась в тело его далекого предка, литовского кунигаса Довмонта, язычника, правителя, воина… и благоверного псковского князя, в крещении — Тимофея.

Daniel Rhyse, nineteen, the youngest professor on campus, teaches ethics at the prestigious Cambridge Institute of Science, CIS (affectionately know as “Kiss”). But after he is ordered to give undeserved A's to the school's crack robotics team members, he realizes that he’s nothing more than a glorified rubber stamp. Rhyse has two choices: quit in protest, or accept being a doormat.

What would you do if you were torn from the only home you had ever known? Sirus Spadefoot, born on the trash planet Takis, is the son of a convicted felon, sentenced to life in the service of RECT corporation. He and his mother have been secretly scavenging for parts and building a ship to escape Takis forever. But when RECT discovers their illegal activities, Sirus’s mother is shipped off to another galaxy and Sirus, being native born, is sent to the other side of the planet to live with the indigenous population, the Diggees.