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The Doctor is enjoying the sun on a holiday island, until things get hotter than he bargained for. The young American, Perpugilliam Brown, brings to the TARDIS a mysterious object that her archaeologist step-father has found in a sunken wreck. When the Doctor’s robot friend Kamelion reacts to the object unexpectedly, it has bewildering consequences for the TARDIS crew.

In The Dalek Generation, by Nicholas Briggs, the Doctor is determined to find out the truth about Sunlight 349, one of the apparently benevolent Dalek Foundation worlds. In Shroud of Sorrow, by Tommy Donbavand, it’s the day after John F Kennedy’s assassination, and the Doctor and Clara discover that the faces of the dead are everywhere.

Die Besatzung der Proxima macht sich auf den Weg zu weit entfernten Koordinaten, von denen sich Captain Ark mehr Informationen über die Droge erhofft. Unterwegs stößt die Proxima auf ein verlassenes Transportschiff namens Tortuga, das vor 21 Jahren als verschollen gemeldet wurde. An Bord stellt ein Untersuchungsteam fest, dass die gesamte Besatzung auf mysteriöse Weise ums Leben gekommen ist. Chefingenieur Simmons entdeckt, dass die Schiffssysteme der Tortuga eine beschleunigte Alterung aufweisen und einige Komponenten deutlich älter sind als andere.

Carl Zale, a solitary deep-space miner, lives on the edge of civilization, combing distant systems for metals that others dare not seek. But his routine is shattered when he intercepts a pulse from a long-dead star, encoded in primal sequences and geometric patterns. Driven by curiosity, Carl sets out on a 14-year journey to investigate. What he discovers is far more than he could have imagined: an ancient ring encircling the star, built by beings who fused their essence into the very fabric of the cosmos.

Hannah is a fusion scientist working alone at a remote cottage off the coast of Scotland when she sees a figure making his way from the sea. It is a young man from a human settlement on Mars, traveling backwards through time to try to make a crucial intervention in the fate of our dying planet, and he needs Hannah's help. Hannah and the stranger are on the path towards a breakthrough—and then things go terribly wrong.

This is Book 2 of a 5-book series. In this book we are introduced to a human run alien planet and its inhabitants. The fascinating lives of them and their human queen are unpacked. We also meet the humans and aliens from an illegal Vegas type zoo on Galaxy 22. We get to know them and their fascinating lives. Love, loss, friendship, heartbreak and the challenges of leadership are explored in an honest way, all laced with humor and tears.

It is 2030, and a three-person human crew are on a ship travelling to Mars as part of a colonizing mission. Four years earlier, three robots were sent to the planet to build the base for the humans but when the human crew arrive, they discover a third of the base has been destroyed and only two of the three robots remain. When the humans question the robots, the robots offer two overlapping but different stories: the first believes they were attacked by a hostile extraterrestrial "other," the second attests the attack was the result of a violent malfunction on the part of the third robot...

After damaging climate change, humanity is divided, torn into the technophobic nature-worshippers on Earth and the banished children of science on the new worlds. Jaruss awakens, drifting 300 light-years from Earth, trapped, memoryless, and alone. Who is he, where does he come from, and what are these recurring nightmares that trouble his sleep? To find out, he must outwit an efficiency-obsessed AI and join the dangerous crew of the stealth ship, Pangolin.

Book 5 of the Galactic Heritage series is coming soon!

Planet Earth is faced with threats from space. There has been a collision of two star systems, which has caused the release of toxic gamma rays. And, they're fast approaching planet Earth. Captain Rhea and her team members are tasked with traveling through space to a new planet, planet Eco. Here, they will seek help from these advanced species, and find a solution for the impending destruction of earth and its people.

Britain won the Moon Race! Decades before Neal Armstrong took his "giant leap for mankind", two intrepid adventurers from Lympne, England, journeyed there using not a rocket, but an antigravity coating. Mr. Bedford, who narrates the tale, tells of how he fell in with eccentric inventor Mr. Cavor, grew to believe in his research, helped him build a sphere for traveling in space, and then partnered with him in an expedition to the Moon. What they found was fantastic!

Two humans and a robot roam the universe in search of castaways. The Majestic Draght, a spaceship built by aliens and controlled by an AI, transports them from system to system at one-fifth the speed of light. But then the ship suddenly - and seemingly unstoppably - accelerates. Has the AI lost control of the propulsion system? Or is the AI pursuing its own plans? The Draght’s new course targets a planet that would not have been the destination of the human-alien crew for a long time: Earth.

Der Klimawandel hat die Lebensbedingungen auf der Erde dramatisch verändert. Die Menschheit wurde in die Barbarei zurückgeschleudert. Nur ein kleiner Teil der Flora und Fauna hat überlebt und sich der neuen Lage angepasst. Die Nachfahren der früheren Menschen haben alles Wissen über die Existenz ihrer Ahnen verloren und befinden sich in der ersten Phase einer neuen Stammeskultur. Nur das Überleben zählt. Der Tag ist ausgefüllt mit der Jagd nach Nahrung und der Abwehr monströser Insekten, die in gigantischen Pilzwäldern hausen.

Timothy Scott, canadese di mezza età, finisce in prigione per un errore giudiziario, presunto colpevole dell'omicidio della sua compagna Edith. Durante gli anni di carcere, Tim si distingue per la buona condotta e il carattere mite e sensibile ma il peso dell’inevitabile monotonia si fa sentire a tal punto da spingerlo quasi al suicidio. A salvarlo da questo stato di malessere giunge la notizia di un asteroide, il Pathos 433, che nel giro di 24 mesi dovrebbe intercettare la traiettoria della Terra.

He finally escaped the cycle of war and death only to find himself kidnapped, taken to a new universe where nothing makes sense. A world where nothing is familiar and insane robots, killer AI, and otherworldly beings he can hardly comprehend are the norm. He must learn to survive these constant threats to his very survival, all the while learning that these new experiences are changing him, molding him into something new...something extraordinary.

Born talentless, Iro has all but resigned himself to a life of drudgery, watching his sister hop across to the massive space titan for supplies. But when the titan explodes and his sister is killed, Iro finds a new determination to take her place. He’s not about to let weakness prevent him. When the fleet encounters a new titan, filled with powerful monsters, deadly traps, and mysterious cloaked figures, Iro is the first to spontaneously manifest a new talent.

For five centuries, human life has been restricted to Earth, while posthuman descendants called alloys freely explore the galaxy. But when the Earthlike planet of Meru is discovered, two unlikely companions venture forth to test the habitability of this unoccupied new world and the future of human-alloy relations. For Jayanthi, the adopted human child of alloy parents, it’s an opportunity to rectify the ancient reputation of her species as avaricious and destructive, and to give humanity a new place in the universe.

When unforeseen circumstances during an innovative—and unsanctioned—commercial asteroid-mining mission leave two crew members stranded, those who make it back must engineer a rescue, all while navigating a shifting web of global political alliances and renewed Cold War tensions. With Earth governments consumed by the ravages of climate change and unable to take the risks necessary to make rapid progress in space, the crew must build their own next-gen spacecraft capable of mounting a rescue in time for the asteroid's next swing by Earth.

In "A Little Journey," published in August 1951, we meet an elderly woman in search of enlightenment who buys a ticket on a rocket. Like other more famous Bradbury's stories, "A Little Journey" demonstrates the author's characteristic blending of the sentimental and the transcendent, the homely and the mystical.

Un missionario del futuro, padre Francisco Morales de Alcàntera, nato su Marte nel 2205, viene scelto dalla Chiesa per frequentare il seminario e intraprendere la carriera ecclesiastica in un universo colonizzato dagli uomini. Ma padre Francisco è uno spirito ribelle, e un uomo pieno di dubbi, e le sue esperienze su diversi pianeti sono tali da convincere le gerarchie ecclesiastiche a punirlo, inviandolo come missionario su di un remoto pianeta abitato da alieni privi di ogni morale.