Títulos em Exploração Espacial

The winds of Fortune continue to try to drive Archer Devereaux onto the rocks of fate. Enemies abroad and incompetent leadership at home combine to make his life dangerously difficult. Luckily, when he’s able to put his hand on the tiller, he somehow manages to steer clear of total disaster. Having demonstrated a knack for achieving results no matter how long the odds, the navy calls on Archer for its most dangerous assignments as the war heats up. Even "tame" assignments turn deadly, as Archer's presence at diplomatic functions seems to guarantee disaster.

A new entry in the wildly successful Children of Time series from award-winning master of science fiction Adrian Tchaikovsky. After Earth fell, ark ships hunted for a new home. They sought lost worlds terraformed in Earth’s forgotten past. A ship crewed by maverick humans, spiders and a...

The black monolith on the moon is history—but now a near-Earth asteroid suddenly changes in an unknown and actually impossible way. Once again, a race between nations is set in motion. Will it be possible to avoid the mistakes of the first contact with the phenomenon? Or will the researchers who want to use the black monolith for their own purposes prevail—without having the slightest understanding of its true nature?

Drake and Yukiko have been dropped on the far side of the galaxy with no way back home. The ancient travel network created by the mysterious Those Who Came Before needed a supernova to power it for the trip out and it doesn’t look like there is likely to be another one anytime soon.

An astronaut on a routine space flight is forced to make a decision that saves his crew, but ultimately finds him publicly disgraced by the corporation that built his ship and the politicians they own through lobbyists. Forced out of his rank as the scapegoat for what went wrong on the mission, he makes a fateful decision that brings him to the attention of a reclusive billionaire genius with his own vision and means to fulfill a dream to set foot on Mars.

Captain Jacob T. Grimm has lost his ship. Relegated to training duty, he's a warrior without a war. Until an assassin strikes, leaving Nadia wounded and the Alliance on the defense. The Fleet Admiral needs every ship to strike at the Caliphate and end the war. Which leaves only one problem, Alexandria will be defenseless. There's only one man who can fill the void. Commanding a nameless, untested battleship, Jacob must defend Alexandria against a Caliphate Task Force armed with an experimental juggernaut.

Step right up for the most sensational cruise in the galaxy! The TARDIS lands on board a luxury space liner owned by the interstellar shipping magnate Marilyn Moon. But there is a sinister side to life on board. What is the secret of the smiling, blonde-haired mannequins? What happens to the cruise ship workers when they go off shift?

Seit Jahrhunderten durchstreift die Weltraumarche »Genesis Europa« das All auf der Suche nach einer neuen Heimat für die Menschheit. Konflikte zwischen der technokratischen Elite und der Rebellengruppe der »Unsichtbaren« erschüttern das Schiff. Der Shuttlepilot David Blue möchte von all dem nichts wissen, denn er geht voll in seiner Arbeit auf. Als er beauftragt wird, einen Asteroiden zu bergen, freut er sich über den Auftrag seines Lebens. Doch dann werden darauf Spuren einer fremden Zivilisation entdeckt – und plötzlich steht das Überleben der Menschheit erneut auf dem Spiel.

Aucun être humain n’étant jamais sorti du système solaire, la "conquête spatiale" est restée une hyperbole. Mais la découverte d’une vie extraterrestre, même embryonnaire, continue de faire rêver. C’est ainsi qu’au crépuscule de l’humanité sur Terre, des vaisseaux sont envoyés vers Ganymède et Europe, deux lunes de Jupiter dotées d’un océan interne où l’on espère trouver de la vie.

Old Rambling House by Frank Herbert is a gripping science fiction short story first published in the late 1950s. What begins as a simple house trade spirals into a mind-bending journey for Ted and Martha Graham, a couple looking to settle down.

With her mothership, Rendron, in high demand due to recent events, Lieutenant Helga Ate finds herself tasked with a top-secret mission to save a fugitive Seeker. Helga must handle a new ship and crew in her first command position while dealing with the absence of key individuals. The success of her mission to get the Seeker to safety will take more than the instincts and training Helga has always relied on; it will take a Nighthawk Commander. But is she ready to answer the call?

In the final books of the best-selling Resonance Cycle series, we will see our hero fully come into his own. On the Akkoan home world, he will finally use the Surrogate Clone power he's been saving since book one. But will the outcome be what he expects? Determined to stop the Border Guard once-and-for-all, Ty will discover the horrific truth of their origins.

“Keep Your Shape” by Robert Sheckley is a thought-provoking science fiction short story from the early 1950s that blends satire, social commentary, and classic sci-fi themes. The tale follows Pid, a shape-shifting alien from the Grom species, on a mission to Earth using advanced Displacer technology. As the Grom crew confronts both the alien terrain and their own internal conflicts, the story dives into questions of conformity, identity, and rebellion against rigid societal roles.

Humans have colonized distant planets and moons and live alongside self-aware Artificial Intelligence entities who occasionally inhabit physical bot bodies. A relatively new settlement, the Utu-Serida binary star system, is undergoing terraforming efforts for its billions of citizens. Myla is a marshal, employed by the Utu-Serida Unified Protectorate. During an investigation, she stumbles across a connection to Ethan, the most wanted smuggler in the system, famous for his creative methods of getting illegal goods and people past security checkpoints.

Inhabited by humans and aliens together, the star system of Chimera was a symbol of peace between humanity and the non-humans called Reezh. But now, that system has been conquered by the remnants of their old empire and its imperialist church.

Accidents can lead to crazy circumstances, great discoveries, dangerous enemies, and maybe some new friends. What are the consequences of a scientist that opens a hole through space time? Or an exploration starship that is crippled as it dives into the gravity well of an unknown star system? It is the year 2293. An engineer, Tom Brown, opens a gateway through time. Another researcher in the Mesozoic, a Troödon dinosaur, opens a similar gateway. A stable link between them forms. That’s when things get interesting in both good and very bad ways.

The only hope for mankind is Project Orpheus, an unprecedented initiative on the part of the allied governments to enable human life to continue on Kepler-442b, a planet over a thousand light years from Earth. Two spaceships are under construction, which will leave for that remote solar system with a specialized crew to terraform the planet and make it habitable. Steven Rhodes, the director of Project Orpheus, will travel in the first of them. His daughter Emily, a specialist technician in Artificial Intelligence, will follow on the second ship, five years later.

Three years after humanity's Final Stand against the Korilian Empire, the Colonial Defense Forces have largely reclaimed the lost colonies. However, as the tide of war shifts against the Colonies again, Admiral Jon McCarthy and Lara Anderson discover a message from a long-dead prescient Nexus Ten amid the ruins of Darian 3. This startling discovery creates the potential to alter the course of the war with the Korilians, tilting the outcome toward humanity's favor.

After an undercover investigation goes bad, ex-soldier Evan hopes to forge a new life on a remote colony world. But when the transport ship explodes in orbit, his plans for a peaceful early retirement go out the airlock. He crash-lands with a small group of settlers, away from the target site, and with limited resources. Unable to call for help off-world, Evan and the mission's xenobiologist Anya race for survival in the dangerous wilds—until they realize they aren't alone on the planet.

After war and overpopulation destroy their planet, Earth’s corrupt government seeks to overthrow the blossoming society on a newly terraformed Mars. Founded more than two and a half centuries previously by a courageous group of scientists known as the Genesis Project, the Martian settlement has resigned itself to defend their home against the overreaching Earthlings. Captured during the early days of the conflict, David Anderson, a young war hero from Earth, discovers the truth about his cruel leaders intentions and takes up arms with the Martians to preserve their way of life.