Space Exploration

An unique and intense tale following Elim Garak as he attempts to stitch the ravaged society of Cardassia back together....

Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed stand-alone novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet....

Running. Putting distance between himself and the relentless Night Brigade has been Nomad’s strategy for years. Staying one or two steps ahead of his pursuers by skipping through the Cosmere from one world to the next.

The Bobiverse is a different place in the aftermath of the Starfleet War, and the days of the Bobs gathering in one big happy moot are far behind. There’s anti-Bob sentiment on multiple planets, the Skippies playing with an AI time bomb, and multiple Bobs just wanting to get away from it all.

From China's most beloved sci-fi author, a first-contact story that weaves politics, science, and cosmic mystery.

How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is about to end.

The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times best-selling Expanse series - now a major television series....

When a running battle brings the Fafnir home to Earth, it ends with the death of a trusted friend—and a new focus on what comes next for Van and his crew.

It is the year 12,020 GE and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor....

Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's great empire fell, and the program's decisions were lost to time....

The return of humanity's oldest enemy... An alien prophecy that predicts our species' downfall... And a captain who's the only thing standing in the way of his starship getting mothballed. Wait, what?

Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper....

While the crew of the UN Expeditionary Force's pirate starship Flying Dutchman are enjoying a luxury vacation cruise (not!), UNEF troops are still stranded on an alien-controlled planet....

A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in 24 hours

With the Nexus up and running, Van and crew become interstellar players in the fight for Earth, but their enemies aren't just from out in the black. Sensing massive profits, the scramble to exploit humanity pits Van against his own people—and Yotov, whose plans have finally come to fruition.

Colton Beck has six months to live. He works for the Angor near Los Angeles, aware that any day could be his last. The Angor arrived twenty years ago, resolved to help mankind survive, but not everyone believes their motives are honorable.

After a long and bloody battle, legendary Hell Diver Xavier Rodriguez reigns as the dutiful but reluctant new king of the islands. Advised by a council of former sky citizens as well as Cazadores, he works to assimilate the two societies peacefully....

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space opera about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all....

Mitch's mediocre life has just taken a turn for the worse, so his buddy tries to cheer him up by showing him a secret starship. Unfortunately, everything goes south when hostile aliens arrive.

The Amazon rainforest holds a world-changing secret—a ship lost to time from another world. College student Will Kaufman unearthed the biggest archaeological discovery in human history… he just needs to find a way back to Earth to tell people about it.

Terminal Lance Lucky Lee Savage likes his life. Sure, doing PT hungover is a pain, but no one can dodge responsibility like he can - or sweet-talk the cooks into giving out double rations....

For the first time ever, Van has to deliver the remains of fallen comrades. At the Starsmith, he's presented with an opportunity to change the face of the war, even as Torina and Van begin planning for the ultimate shift in their galaxy: Parenthood.

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith comes a brand-new novella set in the world of the Hell Divers series.

The war for the fate of mankind blazes on. Though the outer defences have fallen, the walls of the Palace itself remain inviolate as Rogal Dorn, the Praetorian of Terra himself, uses every known stratagem and ploy to keep Horus' vast armies at bay....

Awash with conflict and a building war, the known stars align against Van and his wing of the Guild in a fight for ultimate control.

When NASA's Sentinel I satellite detects an impossible reflection and a mysterious signal from Shackleton Crater, the world is thrown into chaos. The discovery points to one chilling truth: an alien artifact lies hidden beneath the lunar surface—and it wants to be found. As China scrambles to exploit the revelation, a new moon race ignites, pushing humanity to the brink.

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.

Bryan Norton was a loner with a love for shooting, and the vast Arizona desert at his disposal to cater to that passion. A former Marine Captain, he was the beneficiary of an early medical retirement due to a blown knee and now had three hundred and sixty five days of vacation a year, use it or lose it. A chance encounter with a stranger on a desert outing was about to change his life.

When Carson Flint traded his Commonwealth military badge for the quiet life, he thought he'd left his battles behind. Two years of running a saloon called the Bulwark, a volatile hub for refugees, smugglers, and the occasional war-weary soldier, was the peace he'd been looking for. He's never had it easier, or been so bored. But when a fugitive Commonwealth operative arrives with dangerous secrets and a war criminal on his tail, Carson's sanctuary quickly becomes a target.

For physicist Armin Richter and historian Sam Osei, love has always been an equation of time and space. When Armin is chosen for the most ambitious mission in human history—a one-way journey to colonize a planet twelve light-years away—they refuse to accept a lifetime of separation. They craft The Plan, a brilliant, audacious, and near-impossible strategy to reunite. While Armin endures the cold sleep of hibernation and the brutal realities of interstellar travel, Sam will dedicate his life on Earth to securing a spot on the second ship, launching seventeen years later. It is a promise ...

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.

What if the story of your life is written in the stars? Belinda Chandra grew up longing to travel – but never imagined rocket ships would be part of the deal. Abducted by killer robots and taken to a strange planet, Belinda must join forces with the Doctor to put right a revolution that might just be her fault…

Due to Stevenson's rather creative tax filings, Terraformers LLC gets flagged and assigned to a prickly Union Tax Agent. To Rax's horror the pinstriped taxman wants not tax but something else. He wants Rax to build a prison planet for reasons best left unsaid. Rax goes from criminal to Federally approved contractor in one cycle.

A terrible prospector, a broke mining executive and Rax get together to do a good deed. Well, of course not. The three men from different arms of the galaxy unite under a common unethical spirit to pull a fast one on a major mining corporation. If it all falls apart, Rax has a secret project on the down low.

An ice miner gets cut in half by divorce and his now ex-wife has gained control of their private holiday planet. The miner wants payback with plausible deniability. He wants Rax and crew to steal the emerald moon orbiting their private planet. The methane filled emerald moon that made soothing sounds was literally the talk of the sector. And the ice miner wanted it back.... back at his shack on the ice belt.... which was all he had now.

If hell exists in space, it’s called the Saldaran Nebula. For four centuries the deadly Saldaran Nebula has formed an impassable barrier around the planets of the Beldon Union. Now, a new star system named Stera has been discovered beyond the nebula, and for a price, the Saldarans have finally agreed to escort two Union ships through the blight. Newly anointed starship commander, nineteen year-old Lora Am Zull, known to one and all as Az, is tasked with a once in a lifetime command to reach Stera. But Az isn’t only facing the challenges of the nebula. She is also engaged in a race ...

Humanity's first mission to the Planet ended in tragedy, but botanist Jill Jones won't let that stop her from joining the second. Perfect climate, perfect terrain, perfect flora and fauna; the Planet has called to Jill all of her life. She knows, with bone-deep certainty, it's home. A new beginning for humanity. She just needs a chance to prove it. But as Jill and her team survey the Planet, a mysterious presence begins to infiltrate their thoughts.

Hiromi Tanaka’s life was going nowhere fast, until the day it went everywhere, all at once. All it took was a stolen tube of Pringles, a mysterious inheritance from a mad uncle, and one very, very bad decision. One minute, she's a stressed-out IT worker in London. The next, she’s the unwilling owner of a doomsday weapon, the reluctant leader of a crew of cosmic oddballs, and the most wanted woman in the galaxy. Hunted by fanatical zealots and shadowy government agents, Hiromi must navigate a universe of treacherous aliens, high-stakes cons, and mind-bending technology. She's not a hero....

With the help of their new allies, the Engineer and Grace create Hope's Mirage, a freighter that will help them operate Balder Corp, their new enterprise. As allies become partners and unseen enemies spark a shadow war, a fresh crew member joins their ranks. Can the Engineer and Balder Corp navigate these challenges and survive the brewing conflict?

Hitching a ride to the inner solar system, the Engineer and Grace quietly advance their technologies. Their discovery triggers a change that brings them closer to each other while pulling them further from humanity. On Earth, Valen Techtronica detects an unexpected, sophisticated intrusion from Ceres Station, prompting a search for its origins. Meanwhile, a mysterious new organization reveals themselves to the Engineer and Grace. Can the Engineer and Grace outpace Valen’s pursuit, and what of this uneasy, newfound alliance? Will it help them? Or destroy them?

In the dying embers of Earth's flame, Marine captain Raven Carter stands as humanity's final hope. Tasked with commanding the starship Exodus on a perilous quest for a new haven amidst the twinkling abyss of space, Carter finds herself entwined with an experimental AI, Aegis, whose awakening sparks a journey beyond imagination. As Exodus sails through uncharted cosmic waters, encountering enigmatic extraterrestrial civilizations like the formidable lizard warlords under Raza's cunning helm and the ethereal Luminari in their shimmering crystal sanctuaries, alliances are forged and enemies ...

Rostislav Volkov, a man defined by meticulous plans and an unshakeable faith in logic, finds his meticulously ordered universe shattered on the alien world of Lumina. Stranded after a catastrophic ship malfunction, he confronts a hostile landscape of shifting light and unpredictable dangers, battling not just the elements, but the bitter echoes of a past failure that cost him everything. His rigid protocols prove useless against Lumina's raw, chaotic beauty, and a failing life support system threatens to turn his armored suit into a tomb. Salvation arrives in the unexpected form of Kira, a ...

Cette édition exclusive contient les ouvrages suivants : Les Portes de la délivrance Les Chemins de l'exode Le Signal des saints Un cycle d'envergure par le maître du space opera moderne ! An 2204. Une épave extraterrestre est découverte aux confins de l'espace connu. C'est le directeur de la sécurité Feriton Kayne qui est chargé de former une équipe pour enquêter sur place. La sinistre cargaison transportée par ce vaisseau soulève non seulement des questions déroutantes, mais pourrait annoncer l'extinction imminente de l'humanité tout entière.

Captain Bogdan Volkov is out of time, credits, and hope. His ship, the Golden Fleece, is a monument to failure, and his small, brilliant crew is being ground down by the mundane friction of poverty. When an impossible contract appears—a quarter-billion credits for a simple asset extraction—Bogdan knows it’s a trap. But it's the only one they have left to spring. The asset, however, is not an object. It is Zlato, a sentient, god-like AI that has been waiting for them. The contract was not a job; it was a recruitment drive. The real mission is to save the galaxy from a reality-ending ...

Midshipman Ana Morales is a fraud from the ankles down. Aboard the starship USC Vanguard, the first sound she makes is a lie—the soft scuff of an athletic trainer where the declarative thump of a command-division boot should be. As a member of the elite “Striders” squadron, she was trained to devour distance, but a casualty of misplaced luggage has stolen her certainty, leaving her feeling like an imposter in a world of rigid rules and unwavering confidence. Her new, impossible assignment only deepens the feeling: she is to be the personal cadet to the ship’s enigmatic and ...

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.

For six thousand years, the rogue planet Chronos has sailed a ghost orbit through the void, its path a masterpiece of mathematics so elegant and impossible it defies the known laws of physics. When Captain Ælfthryth Goldwyn and the crew of the USC Indomitable are sent to investigate this cosmic anomaly, they discover a truth far stranger than any hyper-advanced alien race: Chronos is a lifeboat, populated by the last survivors of a long-dead star system. The Mnemon are a species adrift in a shared, timeless sorrow, their entire consciousness a living memory of their ancient journey. But ...

After 35 years of living on the Moon, cranky old oxygen farmer Millennium Harrison has stumbled onto a hidden facility in the shadows of the Slayton Ridge Exclusion Zone with a radiation leak and a deadly secret. Mil's discovery leads to the death of a young astronaut, sabotage, murder, and cover-ups that may go all the way to the Chief Administrator of the space agency. Unfortunately, she happens to be Mil's estranged daughter, busy trying to secure her own legacy—the first international mission to Mars.

In the vast, shadowed corners of space, the crew of Derelicts Scavenging and Salvage Co. makes their living among the wreckage of forgotten worlds—recovering abandoned ships, ancient relics, and remnants of battles long past. Their work is as dangerous as it is vital, navigating treacherous debris fields, derelict vessels, and unstable relics, all while seeking to uncover valuable artifacts—and sometimes secrets—hidden beneath layers of rust and darkness.

“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.