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Rejected scientist Alexander Hawke is down to his last chance. Brilliant but sheltered, every banker in New York has refused to finance his ideas. Enter the Russian—charming, dangerous, and offering an Antarctic expedition that promises answers to all of his questions. Now, Alexander stands at the edge of a bottomless chasm. With a helpful shove from his foreign benefactor, he plunges into adventure. Landing in darkness, Alexander finds a portal to destiny—weirder than New York, colder than Russia, and filled with the ruins of an empire that once spanned the galaxy.

Three days have passed since the Xenos spaceship departed Earth, and Emissary Lee Ping moved to the virtual world of Planet Asbeth. But even as normalcy returns, a new threat emerges. Alien marauders have intercepted critical supplies required to complete the shield. From bestselling author D. Ward Cornell comes a tale of two worlds bound by a mutual adversary.

In the grand tradition of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, Stanislaw Lem's The Invincible tells the story of a space cruiser sent to an obscure planet to determine the fate of a sister spaceship whose communication with Earth has abruptly ceased. Landing on the planet Regis III, navigator Rohan and his crew discover a form of life that has apparently evolved from autonomous, self-replicating machines—perhaps the survivors of a “robot war.” Rohan and his men are forced to confront the classic quandary: what course of action can humanity take once it has reached the limits of its knowledge?

When the solar flare took out the world's power… nobody could explain why the street lights still glowed in Jakarta. Was it a signal from space? When the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) transmits strange images of the red planet: a scientifically unexplained light phenomenon on the summit of Elysium Mons has the experts both concerned and baffled. A team needed to check it out. The mission to Mars was set. Now, they had to build the team.

Eine gefährliche Reise in ein geheimnisvolles Rätsel beginnt! Realistisch, Spannend, Visionär ... und nicht ohne Humor. Auf der ganzen Welt werden plötzlich nur noch seelenlose Hüllen geboren. Ein Arzt, ein Priester, ein Bestattungsunternehmer und ein reicher Scheich, die das Schicksal zusammengeführt hat, versuchen eine Katastrophe abzuwenden und finden die unfassbare Wahrheit über vier Alien-Fraktionen heraus, die seit 7000 Jahren die Erde heimsuchen.

Jonathan Tuckerman, a Los Angeles man down on his luck and truly alone in life, decides to mark his 70th birthday by drowning himself in the Pacific Ocean. Instead, he inadvertently becomes the world’s “Wonder Man” after a pair of extra-terrestrial visitors from the Pleiades interdimensional star system appear in a giant spacecraft, pluck him from the sea, and present him to the media and the world as their sole “Ambassador to Mankind."

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...

Climb aboard the 'Tripod' as we enter the mind of an alien pilot, exploring his own thoughts, emotions and opinions. Also shares some of his personal experiences from both past and present as he helps to conquer the earth! It also features two different optional endings.

First published in 1934, this visionary tale redefined science fiction with its vivid world-building and truly alien lifeforms. Follow astronaut Dick Jarvis as he crash-lands on Mars and encounters Tweel—a bizarre yet intelligent creature unlike anything humanity has ever known.

3652: Die Erde hat den Kontakt zur Kolonie Red Pearl auf einem fernen Planeten verloren. Seit dort ein galaxisweit gesuchter Verbrecher gesichtet wurde, sind alle Datenübertragungen verstummt. Commander Kalen McKenon wird von Admiralin Nissa Jäger für eine Rettungsmission rekrutiert. Um zur Kolonie zu gelangen, wird ihm ein hochmodernes Raumschiff zur Verfügung gestellt.

The megacity of New Montreal is under constant threat by the Antithesis, aliens who have transformed the landscape to produce swarms of creatures that feed on everything in their path. The city's infrastructure is in disrepair, and the politicians and corporations responsible for its maintenance have been slacking off, leaving angry citizens to fend for themselves.

A 2026 Audie Awards finalist for Best Science Fiction! The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem! This program is read by Jess Hong, who plays Jin Cheng in 3 Body Problem. Over 1 million copies of the Three-Body Problem series sold in North America. "[Jess] Hong, who stars in the...

Deep in Antarctica, two researchers find an enigmatic black sphere suspended in the heart of a huge crater. Neither man is ever seen again. Decades later, reality fractures. A Manhattan skyscraper vanishes into thin air. An airplane crashes in the Sahara Desert—its existence defying logic. Across the globe, breathtaking technology and mysterious artifacts appear, all leading to one chilling truth: a parallel Earth is breaching the boundary between realities.

A Washington Post and Publishers Weekly Best SF/Fantasy/Horror Novel of 2025 Alien meets Midsommar in this chilling debut adult novel from award-winning author Andrew Joseph White about identity, survival, and transformation amidst an alien invasion in rural West Virginia. Festering masses of...

Finally reunited on an advanced, alternate Earth where the mighty Roman Empire never died, James, Hannah, and Wolf now stand at the precipice of an interdimensional war threatening to obliterate everything they've fought to protect. As the fabric of existence continues to unravel, unleashing anomalous storms and creating rifts large enough for unstoppable warships to traverse, the trio must find a way to repel a superior force bent on conquest.

Un wormhole di natura artificiale si apre sulla Terra, e creature di un altro mondo appaiono per la prima volta agli occhi dei terrestri. Sopravvivono poco, e il portale si richiude. Per poi riaprirsi cinque anni dopo, e lasciar passare una nuova delegazione aliena. Che sopravvive un po' più della prima. E così, ogni cinque anni, per altre sei volte, fino a quando un messaggio non arriva a sconvolgere l'intero genere umano: "Otto di nove". Il che forse significa che la nona delegazione, quella che sta per arrivare, sarà l'ultima. Ce la farà a sopravvivere?

Brought to you by Penguin. Hunter, Wrecker, Tech, and Omega gamble on a mission to help rebuild Pabu in this thrilling adventure for The Bad Batch. A good soldier knows that life is all about change – whether it’s on or off the battlefield. Surviving, living, means adaptation. Hunter is well...

Cassandra 22007 continues to hold the world in its grip. After the destruction of large parts of Los Angeles, the remaining inhabitants fight for their survival. Among them are Lee Rifkin, who must not miss the most important rocket launch of his career, and Branson, who is confronted with a truth that will change his life forever.

The Chahwyn created the Spiders to keep their intra-galactic transportation system, the Quadrail, safe and running smoothly, and contracted ex-security agent Frank Compton to protect its integrity. So far, Compton and his half-human, half-Chahwyn partner, Bayta, have had their hands full keeping this essential link between occupied worlds open and preventing the evil collective intelligence called the Modhri from using it to spread their mind-controlling infection. But now a new threat has boarded, one that troubles even the Modhri.

Die Invasion der Union durch die Aternier hat begonnen, aber Hauptkommandant Carter Rose hat noch immer weder ein funktionierendes Kriegsschiff noch eine vollständige Mannschaft. Er braucht beides, wenn er eine Chance haben will, die Pläne des Gottkönigs zu vereiteln. Frustriert über seine Unfähigkeit zu handeln, nimmt Rose die Sache selbst in die Hand und reist zum besetzten Planeten Terra 6, um ein wichtiges Mitglied seiner Crew zu finden, das nun in großer Gefahr ist.