Títulos em Ficção Científica

John Fichner is past his prime. He has one more chance to achieve his dream of playing in the major leagues, so he leaves his farm for open tryouts in Pittsburgh. But his dreams are trampled when the city is hit with a biological attack. The weapon causes a viral outbreak that spreads out of control and turns its victims into mindless, raging killers. Pittsburgh is quickly shut down. Now, John must find his way through a sea of death and get out before it's too late.

It's all fiction, but then the ceiling bends and twists until a blue light shines through. You don't understand, but you know you should run. Your body won't allow you to move. An incredible force holds you in place. Fight or Flight is no longer an option. You are now in a frozen state, a fawn blinded by headlights. Then, you feel lighter and lighter until you realize everything is moving past you as if you were quickly going through a fast growth spurt. But no, that isn't possible. That can't be it. You aren't growing. No, that isn't it at all. You are levitating towards the ceiling.

New members of the galactic council, the Callametan’s, have a problem. An astronaut visiting a strange moon in a far corner of their system has disappeared in mysterious circumstances. Edward Virr and his crew agree to take their sentient starship, Gabriel to this distant arm of the Milky Way and investigate what happened. What they find not only exposes a threat to the Callametan’s continued survival, but uncovers a plot that endangers the entire galactic council–and the destruction of Earth itself.

Ryan Pierce traded military life for a peaceful existence in Napa Valley. Everything was fine until the starships appeared. As aliens overtake the land and obscure the sun, Ryan quickly grasps that no one's coming to rescue them. He can't save the world on his own. Ryan must build a team to confront humanity's greatest threat. Who are the invaders, and what did they come for? As people are snatched from the Earth one space elevator at a time, those answers become apparent. But is Ryan ready to hear them?

Fünf Jahre nach den weltverändernden Ereignissen auf Europa erreicht eine neue Mission den Eismond. Unter kilometerdickem Eis, im Schatten des Jupiters, birgt die fremde Welt Geheimnisse, die das menschliche Verständnis von Leben und Bewusstsein herausfordern. Während eine internationale Crew darum ringt, das mysteriöse Wrack in den Tiefen des Ozeans zu reaktivieren und Kontakt zu dem Außerirdischen aufzunehmen, geraten Wissenschaft und Technik an ihre Grenzen. Auf der Erde kämpft Dr.

First Contact Mystery in the Appalachians: A UFO Experience John Carter went into the mountains of Pennsylvania to hunt. He came back carrying the future of humanity. When a solitary, aging wilderness guide discovers a crashed UFO deep in the Appalachian Mountains, he expects danger—or answers. Instead, he finds Xylar, a wounded alien unlike anything John imagined: calm, thoughtful, and deeply concerned with whether humanity is ready for what comes next.As the military recovers the craft—believing it unmanned—John hides the alien and nurses him back to health.

When Jennisa delivers a spaceship database to a suspicious group, she covertly takes a copy of the group’s files. She gets far more than she bargained for when the young spaceship AI hitches a ride and figures out how to use her Bluetooth implant to communicate with her. To further complicate matters, the AI finds her work absolutely fascinating and wants nothing to do with the suspicious group—and they aren’t happy about that…

“Derren is gone… he went missing a year ago.” Those were the words that brought Emma Raed back home after seven long years. Now, back in the Arizona desert town of Mirror Valley–the place she’d been so desperate to leave behind–she only has one goal: to find her missing brother or bring to light those responsible. Randall Atten was Derren’s boss and an old family friend. He’d stolen Derren from her a long time ago.

Two baby girls seating in the rear of a car are involved in a terrible accident and their mother dies. An alien spacecraft hovering in the storm above witnesses the event and teleports the girls from the burning car. The girls are taken to the alien's home world on the other side of the galaxy. On arrival, they are separated and never told they were saved from a burning vehicle on a planet on the other side of the galaxy.

A solar researcher discovers a massive flare racing toward Earth but leaders silence her warning. When the blast wipes out power and chaos erupts, she must outrun a collapsing world to reach her loved ones before the darkness brings something far worse.

You could call Dax a lot of things: a criminal, a rogue, a con man, a murderer… Even a bastard. He’s one of the thousands of bastard children of the Galaxy’s absolute monarch, after all. But one thing you couldn’t call him is political. Dax never has cared about the Monarchy or any of the various rebel groups. All he cares about is his ship, his next payout, and staying one step ahead of the law, but unfortunately… politics cares about Dax. A lot. So what's the rogue son of an all-powerful emperor supposed to do when the system brands him a criminal and rebel?

A self-proclaimed Tyrant controls the colony ship still orbiting overhead—a fortress that should have been dismantled to build their new world. Armed with surveillance drones and brutal enforcers, he's turned a struggling settlement into his personal kingdom. Anyone who defies him vanishes into the ship above, never to return.

In a normal relationship a man gets married and has the time of his life on a memorable honeymoon in Hawaii. A small dilemma begins for Roger Harrison when normality ceases existing with the discovery of metallic alien metal planted in his body.

A decade after the Cynosure, Zoe Sinclair is still trying to ignore the end of the world. For ten years, everything has been slowly falling apart; people continue to disappear, and no one seems to know where, until they begin to reappear as the terrifying Baptised. Zoe needs to get away — it's something she is good at — but to outrun the tide of impending catastrophe will take every bit of her creativity, imagination, and callous disregard for those she cares about. From Milton Keynes to the devastated city of London, Zoe runs while the creatures of the plague relentlessly pursue her.

After a cataclysmic interstellar war that came very close to exterminating humanity, the Daybreak Republic has risen from the ashes and embarked upon a mission to unite hundreds of human colony worlds under its banner, in hopes of preventing a second and final conflict that will complete the destruction of the human race. But not everyone agrees that the empire's ends justify the means.

In a near future America pulled from today's headlines and coming apart at the seams, Turn Red Tomorrow details a soberingly possible scenario where the nation's financial system is obliterated overnight, plunging the country into chaos. The story follows a typical extended family and their friends, scattered across the country, as they seek to reunite and survive the ever-present horrors of disease, starvation, and violence.

One town. One man. Zero mercy. Firebend is falling apart. Corrupt officials, a brutal cult, and killers in uniform rule the town through fear, fire, and blood. But when they came after Rex Hays, they lit the wrong fuse. After watching his cabin burn and his friends hunted like animals, Rex is done playing defense. A former soldier with nothing left to lose, he’s turning the tables—one ambush, one bullet, one enemy at a time. He’s not just fighting back. He’s tearing their empire down. But taking on a town this rotten doesn’t come without a cost. Every move he makes draws more heat.

Punktown is considered by many critics and readers to be one of the new classics of SF short story collections. In the nightmarish city they call Punktown, on a planet where countless sentient species collide, you can become a creator of clones. You can become a piece of performance art. You might even become a library of sorrows...

When the InVader ships arrived, they seeded the atmosphere with Double V, a lethal virus that killed over ninety-nine percent of the global population within days, leaving fewer than ten million survivors worldwide. Most of those had proven to be immune to the InVader Virus, but there were a few, a very few, who contracted the virus but survived. After two days of delirium, they awoke – able to do magic!

When Lainie Lanahan’s daughters discover a hidden journal from 1994, they uncover a secret their mother never intended to reveal. Confronted with the truth, Lainie is forced to revisit the extraordinary events that changed her life forever. It began at a new age party, when Lainie was chosen to be hypnotized. Instead of relaxation, she is transported back to 1941 Hollywood, where she awakens in the body of Lorraine Larue, a beautiful singer and rising movie star.