Novedades

The Black Celeste is a ghost story. A once-legendary spaceship collecting dust in a cosmic graveyard known as the Clutch. Only famed pirate Bitter Amandine knows better, and she’ll do anything to never go near it again. No matter the cost. Faven Sythe is crystborn, a member of the near-human species tasked with charting starpaths from station to station. She’s trained to be a navigator her entire life. But when her mentor disappears, leaving behind a mysterious starpath terminating in the Clutch, she is determined to find the truth. And only Amandine has the answers.

On a planet shrouded in darkness, a stranded crew must fight for survival. But, the darkness may have plans of its own in this wildly original story from Adrian Tchaikovsky, Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke Award–winning author of Children of Time.

Deep in space lies the black hole known as Angelmass, so called because it emits enigmatic particles with the unusual ability to render humans calm, reasonable, and incapable of lying—which would normally be seen as a good thing. But not by everyone. Academic Jereko Kosta is pressed into service by the Pax to spy on the Empyrean, joining the crew of a ship actively hunting the particles. But what he learns turns out to be both scientifically fascinating and morally frightening.

Los Angeles lies in ruins. While the city is sealed off to contain an unknown contamination, the survivors battle strange anomalies under the toxic dust cloud. Among the survivors are Lee and Branson. The astronaut must find a way out in order not to miss his flight to Cassandra, and the captain is faced with a terrible truth that he can no longer deny.

President Maggie Lawson is thrust into an unprecedented crisis when an alien craft crash-lands near her hometown while she gives a local speech. As the Secret Service mobilizes and special forces race to secure the site, Lawson's worst fear comes true—her fifteen-year-old daughter has gone missing. When it becomes clear that her daughter has been abducted by the extraterrestrial visitors for reasons unknown, Lawson calls on Curt Holt, a notorious former Army military intelligence officer known for his ability to interpret and handle unexplained aerial phenomena.

Denver, Earth. The twenty-fifth century. After a devastating alien invasion, the Terran Democratic Empire is occupied by the Ryqril race. The once-heroic resistance warriors known as the blackcollars now serve as strong-arm security for Denver's criminal elements.

The search for extraterrestrial intelligent life has been going on for nearly six decades. So far all we've heard is static. Just recently radio-astronomers detected so-called fast radio bursts. These powerful yet mysterious extra-galactic radio signals are of unknown origin and are so far unexplained. Could it be that finally some race of extraterrestrial being are trying to contact us? This book takes a look at the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life and asks the question: is it wise to contact these possibly hostile beings?

An alien race is forced to leave their planet in search of a new home. The alien explorers do not travel in a ship but, interestingly enough, they travel as a swarm through space. When they arrive on our planet, they divide into two swarms, one pursuing a search in outer space for another suitable planet while the swarm remaining here searches for intelligent life. This of course was eons ago. They eventually find what they believe is a suitable species, with an interesting outcome.

Kidnapped from Earth with my beloved twin sister, Maggie, I'm thrust into the heart of a ruthless alien mining operation. I figure it's over. I'll die soon, and I'll never see my sister again. I'm tossed into a cell with a blue-skinned warrior named Firion. He shows me a symbol on his hand and tells me this means I'm his fated mate. I'm not sure about that, but he's kind and protective, and he tells me we're going to escape. As we work side by side in the mine, our bond deepens, igniting a spark of hope in my heart.

Apollo, a human-alien hybrid with the otherworldly and unwelcomed ability to kill with a touch, is born and imprisoned in Area 51. A moment of skin-to-skin contact with Apollo instantly turns a person to ash—and creates a massive surge of energy that temporarily ignites other superhuman powers within him. Apollo’s government jailers look to study and exploit him, but he escapes as a teenager and, for a time, finds the simple joys of living as a human before his discovery and recapture. When dark days threaten humanity’s future, will Apollo play the reluctant hero? Combining the ...

When Simon and Katherine Hawke stumble upon an alien shuttle that has landed on Earth, it will not only change the course of their lives but also the entire world. Taking the shuttle into orbit, they discover a much larger ship left adrift with no one on board. Commandeering it, they confirm that we're not alone in the universe and must prepare the human race for what is about to come.

When a psychic shriek for help nearly overwhelms the TARDIS, the Doctor and Belinda track the source to a distant planet. There they find a sentient, telepathic bioship named Adama and ragged colonists descended from the original crew. Adama is dying, and their spectral screams are growing strong enough to kill anyone in the vicinity.

Bitter Amandine and her pirate crew have plundered the stars around Votive City for decades, building a fearsome reputation. But after two decades of near-death experiences, they're getting too old for this shit. They're willing to hang up their blasters, retire, and finally get some rest . . . after one last job.

Ava lived her life on a spaceship in the stars. Now, she is a lone human in a world of others on Planet Xai. Despite the love around her, Ava is finding her heart is not as easily soothed. She still has questions about her past, and humanity, that remain unanswered. What does it mean to truly live? For someone who never had a chance to before?

Solomon St. James is an agent with the Universal Galactic Cooperative who, while conducting a covert investigation within the Kaldovan Empire, is framed for a crime he didn't commit. Sentenced to life in prison, Solomon finds that his jailer has a different view of what defines a prison. Dropped naked and unarmed into the most inhospitable region of an uninhabited, uncharted, and unclassified planet, Solomon's days could be numbered. Survival isn't easy among the stacks; a forest of tall, skyscraper-like, pillars of stone where the choice of food or water is separated by long, treacherous ...

¿Imaginas lo angustiante que sería despertar encerrado en un lugar que no es la Tierra? Ese es el testimonio de Robert Anstead, tripulante de la expedición espacial Pioneer 17, que debía llegar a Jupiter en 2027. Este relato intenta explicar lo que vivió al despertar después de que un suceso inesperado lo dejará inconsciente en el trayecto. Se encuentra en un planeta desconocido y donde él es tan solo una especie más, en un entorno difícil de ejemplificar, y donde sus conocimientos científicos sobre el tiempo, el espacio y la vida humana, se ponen a prueba de una manera tan ...

Akakia is looking for the cute lady scientist that might have some answers for her, but even a simple attendance during class proves to be more than she can handle. Meanwhile, Sophia struggles to come to terms with the parasite inside her. This is book 4 of the Akakia series. WARNING: Contains explicit futanari/hermaphrodite content.

A battle of words. A collection of short stories with the theme of language: Meat the Aliens Chucking Moon Rocks on the Back of my Pickup Truck The Kiss of the Sphinx The Last Stargunner Speaking in Bubbles The Root of the Problem Astropithecus

Mike, the uncle of Shay and her siblings, was an important human on Jaded. His future mate, Becka, who was a Majuri healer, was second only to Talai the head healer among the medical crew. They had dated a while, but neither were in a hurry to mate. Mike had been married before and loved his wife dearly. Maybe that was why he was in no particular hurry. Becka sensed his reluctance to finish their bond so she didn't push him. Sometimes she had doubts, but they had become the best of friends and the attraction was there, but they hadn’t had sex. Was it enough? Radvar decided to push them ...

The Humans and Elwists of Boucher’s World have undergone a major transformation that has changed them into... something else. They’ve been out of contact with their home-worlds for two thousand years but recently they’ve learned that an expedition will soon be arriving from Earth. The captain of the lead ship, Timothy Moore, and his crew are not aware that there’s a high-tech society or anyone other than Humans on Boucher’s World. They also don’t believe in psychic abilities. What will happen when they confront a situation for which they don’t even come close to being prepared...