Adventure

The Merry Band of Pirates stopped the enemy from stealing a Sentinel, and destroyed its Elder starship, so why weren’t the Pirates planning a victory party?

When the Sun is threatened by an alien microbe, the fate of humanity rests on the shoulders of an unlikely hero – and an even more unlikely friendship.

We were fighting on the wrong side of a war we couldn't win. And that was the good news. The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the native Americans in 1492....

Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies....

Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people....

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true....

Ten years after the events of Morning Star, Darrow and the Rising are battling the remaining Gold loyalist forces....

Stranded on the surface of Mars, astronaut Mark Watney’s only hope for survival is science, a sense of humor, and maybe some potatoes.

Darrow wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. Lysander au Lune must overcome or unite the treacherous Gold families of the Core and face down Darrow over the skies of war-torn Mercury. But theirs are not the only fates hanging in the balance....

This audiobook brings together 13 uproarious short stories and one novella, focused on Ciaphas Cain, Hero of the Imperium. His stories are celebrated as heroic propaganda pieces, but he’s simply trying to stay alive in a hostile galaxy....

The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains. But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of the red soil of Mars: a husband, a father, a friend. The worlds once needed the Reaper. But now they need Darrow....

Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place....

Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back.

While the crew of the starship Flying Dutchman have been trying to assure that hostile aliens do not have access to Earth, the UN Expeditionary Force has been stranded on the planet they nicknamed "Paradise". The Flying Dutchman is headed back out on another mission....

Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations....

In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days....

Colonel Joe Bishop risks all to retrieve the alien starship Flying Dutchman, unaware of the team's uncertain ability to safeguard Earth.

Two aspirants are recruited into the Grey Knights, and must hone their psychic talents if they are to join the hallowed and mysterious ranks of the Space Marine daemon hunters....

From a New York Times best-selling and Hugo award-winning author comes a modern masterwork of science fiction, introducing a captain, his crew, and a detective as they unravel a horrifying solar system wide conspiracy that begins with a single missing girl....

World War Z: The Complete Edition is a new recording of Max Brooks’ best-selling novel, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War....

The Aftermath of a stunning victory—especially an unexpected, complete, and final victory—should be high-fives all around, listening to politicians give boring congratulatory speeches, and a well-deserved rest for the Merry Band of Pirates....

Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations.

The thrilling sequel to the beloved worldwide best seller Ready Player One, the near-future adventure that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg film....

The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for inmates the journey there is always a one-way trip. One such prisoner is Professor Arton Daghdev, xeno-ecologist and political dissident. Soon after arrival he discovers that Kiln has a secret....

On the Moon, crime pays, but small-time crook Jazz Bashara may have just uncovered a conspiracy of lunar proportions. Welcome to Artemis.

Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to Washington, DC. But there are rules: He cannot look inside the box. He cannot ask questions. He cannot tell anyone. They must leave immediately. He must leave all trackable devices behind. As these eccentric misfits hit the road, rumors spread on social media that the box is part of a carefully orchestrated terror attack intended to plunge the USA into civil war.

In the year 2115, when the Earth is no longer inhabitable, the remainder of humanity lives in Babel, a giant space station. Two pilots, Quentin and Kai, must find the planet Paradise, where only the most promising citizens are allowed to live. On their journey, Quentin and Kai encounter Quentin’s estranged father, who left Babel for Paradise when Quentin was a child, and they discover just how different Paradise is from what they imagined—and how they must change it for the better.

The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for inmates, the journey there is always a one-way trip. One such prisoner is Professor Arton Daghdev, xeno-ecologist and political dissident. Soon after arrival, he discovers that Kiln has a secret. Humanity is not the first intelligent life to set foot there. In the midst of a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem are the ruins of a civilization, but who were the vanished builders and where did they go?

Wayne dreamed of piloting a thirty-foot-tall walking robot that was closer to a battle-tank than anything else. They were called Walkers. They were armed with laser cannons, rockets, missiles, and heavy kinetic weapons more similar to artillery pieces than guns, and everything that went with that. Unfortunately, he had been declined military service. His only avenue left to become a Walker Pilot was to make it happen all on his own. Under his own power. With his own hands. Literally. Working his fingers to the bone, saving all he could, and digging through junkyards and salvage pits,

Humanity is on the brink of annihilation. Only one man can turn the tide. For centuries, we explored the stars and settled new worlds. But a mysterious alien threat emerged, launching devastating attacks and seizing entire star systems. Every fifty years they come, silent and relentless, before disappearing again into the dark. And as they close in on humanity’s home worlds, one more defeat could mean total extinction.

Graham Gooding is a leader at a tech start-up when his brilliant coworker—and work crush—Nessie Locke asks for help testing a new algorithm. Graham jumps at the chance to impress her, and to improve his floundering personal life. He soon discovers that the algo is more powerful than Nessie—or anyone—realizes. It was built to detect lies on the internet, but when Graham makes a small edit to Nessie’s online profile, hoping to see if the program will catch the lie, Nessie changes in real life. The algo can alter the real world. Now, so can Graham.

"The Garbage Can of Destiny" - Book 2 of The Dustpan Chronicles Eddie Sweep thought his days of time-travel heroics were behind him. He was wrong. Just when Eddie believes he can return to his quiet life as a dustpan maker in Rusthaven, a dimension-hopping garbage can named Garber crashes into his world, bringing with it a host of multiversal threats. With his trusty time-traveling dustpan Dustin at his side, Eddie, Dustin, and Garber team up to face a challenge that could unravel the very fabric of reality. Baron Octavius Blackthorn, the cleaning supply mogul with delusions of multiversal ...

After years of searching, Nathan Briggs is finally on the verge of making an incredible discovery. Unfortunately, the aliens have other plans. When Nathan stops a brutal attack on an unsuspecting victim, he gets more than he bargained for and sets into motion events that will change his life forever. They told him he should've run away, and maybe they were right. Nathan is about to embark on an adventure of a lifetime.

When the over-driven hyperdrive on their mobile shipyard burned out, the Chhrt'ktk't abandoned it in an inhabited system along their path, hoping it would work as a decoy to buy them more time to escape the Khreetan fleet pursuing them. They didn't anticipate how far the pre-spacefaring species they turned over their broken-down maintenance facility to would subvert their plan.

The Stellarhawk and its crew of galactic rangers have been sent to a disputed area of space to investigate the sudden appearance of a gigantic wheel shaped starship that emerged from a wormhole. Their mission is to discover the ship’s origin, who sent it, and why it’s heading towards the center of Galactic Federation space. They are not the only ones drawn to the mysterious starship they call the Wheel. The Melani Empire has sent a squadron of warships to intercept and destroy the Wheel. The galactic rangers soon find themselves unraveling a cosmic mystery that will determine the ...

The Invasion Arrives An enemy armada is on the way to Earth, intent on erasing humanity. Returning home with bad news is hard, especially when 458 years have passed since their departure. Time dilation from traveling beyond the speed of light has extended their lives, but the world they left behind and hope to save has forgotten them. The Pioneer crew must convince the government to build an armada of ships so a portion of the population can escape the robot incursion. Their celebrity status helps, yet they can only spirit away a tiny portion of society. The rest must burrow deep into ...

Astra Newtown is torn between the life she always had on Earth and the new world and family she now has on Planet Zenray. These next five missions will show her just what being half-alien means. “The Caretakers is a thrilling and heartwarming tale of heroism, friendship, and the power of hope in the face of adversity, and I would not hesitate to recommend it.” Cadet Astra Newtown and her partner, Billy, are ready to take on more challenging assignments for the Interstellar Research Group. The IRG is an elite group of aliens from across the galaxy who have worked together for over two ...

Four original stories featuring the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory: In Hunter's Moon, the travellers visit Leisure Platform 9, where gamblers and villains mix with socialites and celebrities. In Touched By An Angel, the Weeping Angels are using history itself as a weapon - and the Doctor, Amy and Rory must stop them. In Paradox Lost, an ancient android is dredged from the Thames, with a message that can only be delivered to the Doctor. In Borrowed Time, by Naomi Alderman, the three friends go undercover at a bank where time is the commodity on offer for loan.

Jewel ran away from an arranged marriage and the Cartel Worlds with just her wits to help her. She returns as one of the wealthiest and most sought-after people in the galaxy. But with great wealth comes even greater danger. Jewel and her new husband must navigate social norms and political mazes that make avoiding hit squads look easy. And the friends of her childhood aren’t quite the people she remembers. They’re all anxious to renew their relationships with her, but which of them are truly trustworthy? Jewel once forced the narrow-minded Armenites to realize that she was indeed an ...

Have you ever noticed things you can't explain with logic or current science? Have you ever encountered situations that are borderline paranormal? Have you ever considered that all those Isekai and LitRPG books you have read could have an element of truth? I was dreaming one time, and it came true. After that, everything changed. The system really did come to Earth, and the orcs invaded. However, I wouldn't let evil forces win. This is the story of how I lost my old life but was granted tremendous power.

Max Slater is a man on a mission. A life of salvaging tech and fighting horrors in deep space has given him nerves of steel, but now he finds himself coming up against the toughest job of his life. On a frozen, not-quite-dead planet, a desperate salvage operation has gone wrong. Max has been hired to investigate. What's left of civilization badly needs that salvage. But when his own rescue operation goes just as wrong, he finds himself fighting for his life.

L'universo è un'immensa foresta abitata da feroci predatori. Nascondersi significa sopravvivere, rivelarsi significa diventare prede. È quello che ha fatto la Terra, e ora i predatori stanno arrivando. Impiegheranno 400 anni, attraverso gli spazi siderali, e la Terra tenta di organizzare una disperata resistenza.

In a secret lab in the Pacific Northwest, genetic engineers piece together raptor dinosaur and Blue Ring Pacific Octopus DNA, hoping to create a potent bioweapon. However, when the OctoRaptor gets loose, the scientists and townspeople are forced to fight for their lives.

Six months after the Pulse, a catastrophic event that plunged the world into chaos, former carpenter Jason roams the desolate ruins of what was once his suburban haven. Haunted by the loss of his wife and daughter, he clings to a rumor of a safe haven. His solitary existence is shattered when he crosses paths with Jessica, a resilient doctor, and two orphaned boys, Sam and Ben. Together, they navigate the treacherous landscape, their journey punctuated by encounters with desperate scavengers and the chilling remnants of a shattered society. Can the navigate this new world or will their ...

Third in the PEACE COMPANY novel series by Roland J. Green. For fans of Starship Troopers, Battlestar Galactica and Warhammer. It’s the 24th century. God isn’t dead yet. And Hell is just another word for war... Religious fanaticism threatens final destruction for the planet Zauberberg. The Church battles the Anti-Clericals for internal control of Triple Federation territory. Overhead, the unholy light of the Thorshammer meteor shower begins to shine—disrupting global communications. And in the north country, the Game Master has trained a band of guerrilla zealots to take bloody ...

Your name is Endel ‘Endgame’ Ebbinghaus. It is Saturday, 3 September, 2101. You’re head of security for Mister Long, boss of the Macau Syndicate, a drug cartel. Your memories are being wiped and rewritten. You keep this log because you’re hard-pressed to remember what day it is. But today is a special day, mate. This is your last day on the job.” ‘Endgame’ is a violent man, the perfect enforcer. But Endel is also a father and husband—haunted by the memories of his estranged family, and the life they once had.

This 3-in-1 audiobook box set includes books one through three of A Student Wants to Live, a post-apocalyptic LitRPG series featuring Andrew First, a college student turned clan leader: The Onset, The Architects, and Sangis.

Humanity’s first contact with an alien race occurred in 2177. Oddly, it took the form of a rebroadcast of an Earth radio show from 1924 that was transmitted from a star 200 light-years away. Cody Cogan, an engineer working at the Austin Space Center, dismisses the transmission as a prank. However, his opinion changes a year later when the radio show is abruptly replaced with alien plans for a faster-than-light spaceship. Political leaders believe the new data is an invitation to visit their stellar neighbors. Cody is selected as part of the crew that will bring government representatives ...

In a world where heroes soar and villains lurk, these are the stories of those who defy expectations, who rise from the ashes of adversity and carve their own paths in a world that tries to hold them back.Follow a wingless boy who dares to challenge the sky, building a rocket from scraps, snatching his dreams from the mouth of despair. Hard lessons are learned when a convenience store clerk learns that there are shades of gray when debating what makes a villain and how heroes are born. A young woman seeks vengeance in a world of magic and betrayal, only to discover the true meaning of ...

Virika Sameroo lives in colonized space under the Æerbot Empire, much like her ancestors before her in the British West Indies. After years of working hard to rise through the ranks of the empire’s merchant marine, she’s finally become first lieutenant on an interstellar cargo vessel. When her captain dies under suspicious circumstances, Virika is arrested for murder and charged with treason despite her lifelong loyalty to the empire. Her conviction and subsequent imprisonment set her on a path of revenge, determined to take down the evil empire that wronged her.