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Author
Publisher
Babelcube Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The Earth is dead.
The Red Summer created to bring life was actually the cause of the planet's near extinction.
Botanist Hanna Lambert, after losing a very special person in her life, tries to overcome this with her work at a food manufacturing and treatment plant. What she does not imagine is that the death of the geologist Nathan Rice could be a catalyst for new discoveries that put to verify not only his function there in that place but also...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This collection showcases the career-launching short fiction of Timothy Zahn, acclaimed author of Blackcollar, the Quadrail series, and the #1 New York Times bestseller Star Wars: Heir to the Empire The pieces included in Pawn's Gambit range from the adventure science fiction Timothy Zahn is famous for to post-apocalyptic tales and humorous fantasy. In "The Price of Survival," an alien ship arrives in our solar system without hostile intentions-but...
Author
Publisher
JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When the sun flared out of control and boiled Earth's oceans, humanity took refuge in a place that few would have predicted. In the greatest migration in history, the entire human race took up residence among the towering clouds and deep clear-air canyons of Saturn's upper atmosphere. Having survived the traitor star, they returned to the all-too-human tradition of internecine strife. The new city-states of Saturn began to resemble those of ancient...
Author
Publisher
JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The new comet found near Jupiter was an incredible treasure trove of water-ice and rock. Immediately, the water-starved Luna Republic and Sierra Corporation, a leader in asteroid mining, were squabbling over rights to the new resource. But all thoughts of profit and fame were abandoned when a scientific expedition discovered that the comet's trajectory placed it on a collision course with Earth! As scientists struggled to find a way to alter the comet's...
5) Lost Earth
Author
Publisher
JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A Galaxy Reborn
It is the 43rd century and humanity occupies a substantial chunk of the Orion Spur, the small galactic arm in which Sol is located. Homo sapiens Terra has become Homo sapiens Galactica.
Following the invention of faster-than-light travel in 2530, the Great Hegira went from a trickle to a flood as human-occupied space expanded at an exponential clip. Over the centuries, rivalries grew, as did star system navies. When widespread war...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A Ship of the Law travels the infinite enormity of space, carrying eighty-two young people: fighters, strategists, scientists, the children. They work with sophisticated non-human technologies that need new thinking to comprehend them. They are cut off forever from the people they left behind. Denied information, they live within a complex system that is both obedient and beyond their control. They are frightened. And they are making war against entities...
7) Genesis
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This John W. Campbell Award-winning novel is "brilliantly conceived . . Anderson's narrative soars, as unfettered as an exalting dream" ( Publishers Weekly , starred review). Astronaut Christian Brannock achieved immortality when he allowed his consciousness to be uploaded onto a computer. Billions of years later, when AI's called nodes control the galaxy and the survival of Earth is threatened by the expansion of the sun, Brannock is summoned to...
Author
Publisher
JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The crew aboard the Stellar Survey Starship Magellan returns to Earth with bad news from their expedition to the Crab Nebula. Out among the stars, a million systems have fallen under the weight of Broan force-a fate awaiting Earth should the Broa learn of the planet's existence. Having received this knowledge, Earth's politicians argue over their next move, confronted by a problem with no acceptable solution. In the meantime, Mark Rykand and Lisa...
Author
Publisher
JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It is the 24th Century. Humanity is only just beginning to gain a toehold out among the stars. While exploring the New Eden system, the crew aboard Stellar Survey Starship Magellan encounters a pair of alien spacecraft. A skirmish ensues and both sides exit the battle with heavy losses. In picking through the wreckage of one of the alien ships, the human crew stumbles upon a survivor with a fantastic story. The alien hails from a million-star Galactic...
10) Life Probe
Author
Publisher
JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Makers are an advanced, intelligent alien species. For hundreds of millennia, they have been on the hunt for the secret to faster-than-light travel. Their chosen instruments were the far-reaching Life Probes, in hopes of encountering other advanced civilizations out among the stars. After a 10,000 year long journey, one of these machines stumbles upon 22nd-century Earth. Upon arrival, the probe isn't quite sure that this planet contains anything...
11) Gibraltar Stars
Author
Publisher
JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The great debate is over. The human race has rejected the idea of retreating to Earth and that the Broa will continue to overlook them -- at least for a few more generations. Instead, the World Parliament, by a 60-40 vote, has decided to throw the dice and go for a win. Brave words echo in Parliament Hall as members declare a victory inevitable. While plans for war mount on Earth, Mark and Lisa Rykand face grave danger as spies in enemy territory....
12) Nucleation
Author
Publisher
Tachyon Publications / Bookmasters
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
""Recommended for fans of Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon and Martha Wells' Murderbot series." - Booklist In this riveting debut science-fiction technothriller, a top-notch VR pilot encounters a disaster during the highest profile space-faring project of her career. Now she must unearth a critical truth: was her discovery due to a betrayal, a business rival, or a threat to humanity itself? We are live, we are live, we are live. . . Helen Vectorvich...
13) Antares Victory
Author
Publisher
JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After a century of warfare, humanity finally discovered the Achilles heel of the Ryall, their xenophobic reptilian foe. Spica Alpha Virginis is the key star system in enemy space. It is the hub through which all Ryall starships must pass, and if Alta and their allies can just capture and hold it, they will strangle the Ryall war machine and end its threat to humankind forever. It all seemed so simple in the computer simulations: Advance by stealth,...
14) Doppelgangers
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A spiritual sequel to Brave New World , this dystopian novel of psychological horror is a landmark early work of hard science fiction. In the years since the psychological revolution unlocked man's consciousness, civilization has split into two halves. The people of the surface bow at the foot of Alpha, an all-powerful dictator who satisfies their every whim and uses his limitless might to keep his subjects as docile as children. But beneath the earth,...
Author
Publisher
JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
For millennia, the Makers' Life Probes explored the farthest reaches of space in search of the secret behind faster-than-light speed. In the 22nd century, the people of Earth made a pact with this far-flung civilization -- all of the Makers' intelligence in exchange for help in their mission. Three hundred years later, descendants of the original Procyon expedition have returned to Earth in a starship. They find a world that has forgotten the generations-old...
16) Antares Passage
Author
Publisher
JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After more than a century of isolation, the paths between stars are again open and the people of Alta in contact with their sister colony on Sandar. And yet, the opening of the foldlines has not been the pure blessing the Altans had supposed. The reestablishment of interstellar travel has brought with it news of the encroaching Ryall, an alien race whose goal is the extermination of humanity. If they are to avoid defeat at the hands of the alien forces,...
17) The Uplift War
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Hostile aliens take an Earth colony hostage in this New York Times -- bestselling hard science fiction adventure by the author of Startide Rising. Although they were uplifted and given full sapience, the Bururalli clearly weren't ready to run a planet, almost wrecking Garth. As a "salvage world," it was given to despised Earthlings, assigned to reclaim it from the brink. Many senior Galactics -- leaders of the Five Galaxies -- hoped humanity would...
18) Brightness Reef
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Strange visitors throw a planet of refugees into chaos in this science fiction adventure by the author of New York Times bestseller The Uplift War. Book One in the Uplift Storm Trilogy Centuries ago, the Buyur race abandoned Jijo. Now off-limits to settlers, it's warded by guardian machines who will protect the planet until the Institutes of the Five Galaxies declare Jijo ready -- in another million years -- for new civilization. But mere laws and...
19) Startide Rising
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A starship crew of humans and dolphins skirts the brink of interstellar war in this epic adventure by the New York Times -- bestselling author of The Postman. We are not alone. Humanity's explorations have revealed galaxies inhabited by millions of intelligent species interacting under ancient traditions. Foremost among said traditions is uplift , which requires all spacefaring races to welcome newcomers into Galactic culture by breeding and genetically...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the far future, on top of a gigantic tree rooted in the ice ball of a comet, a young man's journey leads to unexpected encounters In this brand-new cosmic adventure by the author of The Genesis Quest and The Jupiter Theft, Torris, son of the Facemaker, knows only his small community at the base of the great Tree on a comet with almost no gravity or atmosphere. Torris's daily struggle for survival includes harvesting frozen air to keep breathing,...
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