Science fiction: space exploration Books

It is the 23rd century. Humankind has reached the stars, building a tentative empire across a score of worlds. Earth's central government rules weakly as several worlds continue their efforts toward independence.  Shadow organizations hide in the...

SECOND CONTACTAidan Redding's entire goal for her time in this universe: behave. For once. Discovering seafaring aliens trashes that plan.The aliens raise questions. Her co-workers raise more.The answers explain it all. And ruin everything.On a world...

Passage to a New World - A NovellaAs planet Earth dies, young astronaut Jesse Patel is selected to captain the ark ship Celestial Promise on its desperate mission - traverse the galaxy to find a new habitable planet and secure humanity's future. Their...

"there's a difference between being a loner and being alone"A 3.5 year mission from which they'll never return, a 2.5 million lightyear journey to another galaxy, a 1.5 member crew comprising a solitary captain and a half-baked AI...Captain Sideris is a...

After reverse-engineering an alien technology, a scientist is sent out to discover its origin.The responsibility to act is a burden felt by most, but few dare to accept it. Having no other choice, Commander Victor Gray, isolated and without everything he...

"Zona 99" è una raccolta di storie avvincenti e coinvolgenti che sfidano le frontiere della realtà come la conosciamo. Ogni racconto è un viaggio attraverso le infinite possibilità dell'universo, esplorando mondi lontani, confrontandoci con l'ignoto e...

Copernicus Space Station holds a great many secrets.Only one man can reveal their mysteries.But he has his own secrets to protect.Of course it helps Gabe is more than man.A novella consisting of 20,000 words.

Out of the frying pan, into the firefightFor Natasha Orlov, getting captured while staging a rescue mission is the supernova ending to a black hole day. Her ship is gone, her shuttle's on lockdown, and she's trapped with a man who wants her dead.For...

The future is bleak. Authority controls everything from weapons and food to music and pets. What animals aren't extinct are highly regulated and targeted for confiscation.Annie Birchfield is a tough seventeen-year-old fighting for what's hers. After a...

The hunters have reached the stars, with the help of a remarkable mineral called the leap gem. Across the galaxy they travel, collecting scientific wisdom and harnessing the natural resources of the worlds they discover. When they discover a distant...

We are all Idran-Var. We are those who resist.A dark shadow has fallen across the galaxy. The curators-a hive mind made from the memories of countless past civilisations-have finally returned, ready to finish the experiment they started millions of...

Poul Anderson was one of the most popular authors in SF. Born in 1921, he began his career in the Golden Age of SF in the 1950s, and was a regular contributor to Astounding SF magazine (later Analog SF) edited by John W. Campbell. His work encompassed...

The editors of Amazing Stories -- who first published this novel in August, September, and October 1928 -- waxed ecstatic over it. ". . . when such a story as The Skylark of Space comes along," they said "we just feel as if we must shout from the...

"Well, Corporal Westerburg," Doctor Henry Harris said gently, "just why do you think you're a plant?" As he spoke, Harris glanced down again at the card on his desk. It was from the Base Commander himself, made out in Cox's heavy scrawl: Doc, this is the...

"It isn't so bad," says one of the men who are with you inside this ultimate room. "Fifty years from now, the rest of us will all be old, or dead."And then you're waking again, and you think, Fifty years. you think. It's been fifty years. But another...

A smile of friendship is a baring of the teeth. So is a snarl of menace.It can be fatal to mistake the latter for the former. Harm an alien being only under circumstances of self-defense.TRUST NO ALIEN BEING UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.--From Exploration...

SF writer and editor Harry Harrison explores a not-too-distant future where robots -- particularly specialist robots who don't know their place -- have quite a rough time of it. True, the Robot Equality Act had been passed -- but so what? New York was a...

"I've done it," McIlvaine said quietly. "What's that?" asked Alexander testily. "I discovered a new star. It lies just off Arcturus," McIlvaine went on, "and it would appear to be coming closer." "Give it my love," said Richardson with a wry smile. "Have...

Spies! Jet packs! And a water-phobic feline surrounded by otters! IN SPACE!On her way back to Earth, Kipper the tabby cat finds her plans derailed when hostile vessels attack friendly otter ships orbiting Jupiter. The Jolly Barracuda flies to the rescue,...

Xander Martin is a member of the Terran Peacekeepers, the guardians of order on the fringes of the frontier. Beyond the borders of the Terran Republic, lie many worlds and civilizations of Humanity, all with different agendas and ambitions. However,...

In this definitive conclusion to the peacekeeper series, Xander Martin and The Calyster returns from the galactic center, successful in their previous mission. The war with The Zalu Empire continues to rage across the galaxy, and the crew of The Calyster...

Two androids. One captive. A vast ship filled with deadly secrets on the galaxy's edge.Gamma completed his mission: the Nursery and its human future is safe . . . for the moment. Dangerous mechs wander Starship, broken code driving them to destruction...

Deep space, nine lives... Or maybe nine-hundred?When a calico cat with a computer chip in her head - full of lifetimes worth of memories - sets out to uncover the mysteries of her distant past, she finds herself on a space station in a recently war-torn...

When two relative giants-a cat and an otter-attend Yvette's gymnastics competition, they've come to recruit the mouse for their new space program. Yvette can hardly refuse and joins an interspecies team (including cats, dogs, octopi, an otter, a raptor,...

Intrigue, adventure, and octopi await!On the eve of war between Earth and Jupiter, one brave tabby cat embarks on a journey that will rock the foundation of her world as she travels between the depths of the sea and the depths of space. While Kipper...

In "The Gravity Well: A Black Hole Adventure," a team of intrepid astronauts embarks on a groundbreaking journey beyond the stars, driven by curiosity and the unquenchable human spirit of exploration. Led by the seasoned Dr. Alex Hart, the team's mission...

Panic ensues when the people of Ewin start dying. A bacteria, the scientists say, is spreading exponentially, and the survivors desperately seek refuge on the only place possible, a visiting freighter currently in orbit.Talian and Eustace find their way...

With no safe harbors available to them, the crew of Seraph takes a dangerous contract out in the unexplored regions of space. Faced with boredom, unknown alien civilizations, and a group of once murderous drones in need of help, the crew finds...

MOUNT FITZ ROY is the sequel to the number-one Audible Bestseller EARTHCORE.From number-one New York Times best-selling author of the Generations Trilogy comes the second book in the Sun Symbol series, an epic story of lost civilizations, redemption and...

The debut novel from Louise Gregory, a new contemporary love story based around the first human mission to Mars. Ambitious and hardworking, astronaut Jessica Gabriel refuses to let love get in the way of becoming the first person to walk...

Moon Dust in My Hairnet is a fresh, hopeful, and diverse sci-fi romp following an autistic lunar lunch lady as she juggles relationships and threatening corporate overlords, all while adjusting to life on Lunar Trust One.20-year-old Lane was perfectly...

Fifteen years ago, Guard Four stood by and watched her friend, Atalant, be jettisoned into space for questioning their planet's religion.Atalant should have died. Instead, she disappeared.Consumed by guilt, Guard Four trawls space, hopping from spaceport...

The Worlds are saved-but not for long.Lucian Abrantes and the Starsea Fleet have driven back the Alkasen. While the Worlds rebuild and recover from the brutal war, the Ancient One threatens to undo the uneasy peace.On the world of Mako, the Ancient...

When Janni's mindTalent leads her to space, she discovers other human colonies ... and a threat to them all.On the world of Peace, Janni must persuade her clan of the danger, and move the colonists from another, larger planet to her world.On Cityworld,...

OF GODS AND GLOBES, the award-winning anthology, returns with over 20 speculative stories based on the world's astronomical myths. We know that the moon holds sway over the ocean tide and the almost universal testimony of the effect of a full moon...

Her strength is her greatest weakness.Protecting others has always been Aurora Hawke's defining characteristic -- until a fierce battle with her mortal enemy creates devastating results, proving she's more weapon than human. Haunted by apocalyptic...

"Over the epochs she had thought she had seen everything. But nothing, not even those early days when she had to watch over her sister negotiate the furious eons of her fiery youth, compared to what she was now observing." Bang! And the universe is...

Head peace officer Anya Savelova believed her people, living on a hostile planet in the ice-bound city of Novayarkha, were the last of humanity.Until the day she learned they weren't.When a starship from an Earth thought long dead appears in orbit over...

In the cosmic sphere where galaxies and civilizations intertwine, Mossania is a gem wrapped in enigma. This mesmerizing planet, carpeted with bioluminescent moss, is both a sanctuary and an endless puzzle. Mossania has its unique atmosphere, ecosystems,...

He envisaged something ground-breaking to take place, something with a full-scale refinery for carbon at our new Gaz facility. Norway would once again be a lead country. But the Russians did not believe that our landing on the moon merely was about CO2,...

Lost in Space and Loving It!Discover alien moons inhabited solely by space turds! Amagoo Corporation goons - and goonettes! Evolving lab rats wearing tin foil hats! All such goodness combining to make this and every future Space Lab adventure...

On a historic space mission, five female American astronauts soar into the galaxy, only to discover that their intended destination has mysteriously changed to an unknown planet. They land on Planet Eartha, which is very similar to Planet Earth, except...

Capernica - A planet on the far edge of space. People and robots living in harmony for years but now the edges are beginning to fray and time is of the essence.  As the peaceful co-existence begins to disintegrate and outside events hasten the...

Imagine living in a world you might actually like to live in?Zed has returned to Earth after his year on OlarCret. Now aware there are eight telekinetic telepaths on Earth it seems inevitable he will feel the need to establish a relationship with the...

Growing up Bob Tuesday had few expectations of life. Well, how many expectations can a boy have, when your father is a waste of space and your mother is a genetically enhanced super soldier on the run from the authorities? But even in the irradiated...