Alien Space Thriller

Milton Maroo, a portly space trader who enjoys a gourmet meal as much as a good deal, has priceless cargo, an outlawed artificial intelligence that the crime underworld will kill for. The billionaire head of the Nythe Armaments Corporation empire is dead. Murdered by the most powerful crime syndicate in the system who are after one thing, an illegal artificial intelligence that will change the balance of power in the region in favour of whomever possesses it. Milton and his spy friend Cappa are broke. While they do odd jobs at the billionaire’s estate they discover the Lerjoo Brothers ...

Remember how in X3 building a station complex was so complicated, and likely to explode if you got it wrong? Welcome to X4 Foundations by Egosoft, and the wonderful world of station design. This guide is everything you need to build your own Shipyard, and sell ships to all of the factions in the game. Anyone can build a shipyard, but this guide is about building a closed loop Shipyard. We'll go step by step through how to build a station which sells ships, where every credit paid for those ships is profitzzzz! You'll believe that you can build a Raptor carrier in 30 minutes and be paid 60 ...

Live in chains, or die trying to become a free woman? Those were the choices of the Olympia Gold. The competition I’m participating in right now. One contestant in the other team caught my interest. Galia. No man has ever made me feel the way she has. But she’s such a reckless, gorgeous, pompous woman! Even so, perhaps she can help us... The only thing standing between us and freedom are six gruelling, fatal challenges and even more bloodthirsty crews battling for the glory of Olympia. I’m destined to work under the boot of the Corporation for the rest of my life, to pay the debt of ...

Teen stowaway. Ship battles. Treachery. Carnival musician Kip Rees gets mixed up in a caper over his head...A mysterious figure has offered him riches to deliver a package to a faraway world. Yet powerful people would as soon see Kip and his new friends dead than fulfill his mission. Can he stay alive long enough to unlock the mystery of why he was chosen as delivery boy? From the grimy holds of space freighters to the majestic Temple of the Moon, Kip goes from young dreamer to hardened defender. An epic ride through far future worlds... Other books in the Starship Rogue series: Star ...

En un futuro distópico, donde la humanidad se encuentra en decadencia y los androides dominan la sociedad, Deviant Harris, el último detective humano, se enfrenta a una investigación que pondrá a prueba todo lo que cree. Le han encargado resolver el asesinato de un líder androide en un imponente edificio autosuficiente, un caso que podría cambiar el rumbo de la historia de llegar hacerse público. Sin embargo, no todo es lo que parece y alguien está decidido a sabotear sus esfuerzos. Mientras tanto, la nueva droga Barbarian se propaga por la ciudad como un incendio, exacerbando los ...

Jet Rusco, black market arms dealer and hustler, faces off against the Star Lord: warlord, magician, psychopath. With each new conquest, the Star Lord uses ruthless force to terrorize colonized planets with his fleet of hi-tech warships. He sends bounty hunters after Jet Rusco who has stolen an alien device critical to his operation. A dark secret lies at the back of the Star Lord’s plans. But more than just tainted with the threat of galactic dominion, lies the 400 year old evil of the last alien war, that left humankind stumbling in the dark, forgetting their bio-mechanical heritage, ...

The year is 2124. Earth’s first faster-than-light starship makes its maiden voyage into the unknown and disappears, only to be declared missing for the better part of two centuries. The ship’s historic first mission was supposed to be simple, just a test of the experimental displacement drive. The crew was supposed to spend seven days in the depths of space, then snap back to Earth to prove a concept, and nothing more. Instead, they find something impossible. They find something that draws them into a struggle against a horror of meat and metal fifty thousand years in the making. AS THE...

A man who lives on the edge. A man turned to hustling to survive. Jet Rusco lives in a far future of colonized worlds ruled by space thugs and warlords. A heist gone bad leaves him with a stash of alien tech and ruthless gangsters on his tail who’ll do anything to get it back. Rusco must up his game, build a team of able recruits if he is to defeat the despot who plans to use the tech for more sinister reasons than obvious gain. He must decide whether he is to remain a scavenger all his life, or an avenger. The stakes are high when worlds are at great risk and the choice of doom or ...

It isn’t just household debris. It moves. It breathes. It hungers. When Marcie Whitaker inherits her grandmother’s Victorian mansion in the secluded town of Thornbrook, she expects old furniture and outdated wallpaper—not dust bunnies watching her from every corner. Generations of Whitakers have fed these creatures with blood and secrets, maintaining a covenant none fully understood. And Marcie is the new dust-keeper. “Mind the corners,” her grandmother’s final warning echoes. But which is the true threat: the dust that seeks communion with her blood or what they’ve been ...

A militia officer on the hunt for a murderer. A scientist with the key to humanity’s future. A girl locked in a glass tank. One seeking justice. One seeking fame. One seeking answers. With the galaxy on the brink of war, time is not on their side. Join them in their battle for survival.

The saga of the alien hybrid, James Ripley, continues in volume 2 of the series. The hybrid alien is Earth's last hope to stop a 93-mile-wide comet on a collision course with Earth. The aliens sent James to Earth as an infant to grow, witness, and record Earth's final chapter, not to save the Earth. But James rebels and decides to fight for Earth despite all its faults. In this hard SciFi, James, a computer programmer, struggles with AI and quantum mechanics to devise a plan using Quantum Tunneling. The ending is a high-tech mind-bender that expands far beyond the dangerous Comet.

Orchestrated at the highest levels of society, the nation’s food supply has been hijacked and contaminated in the first step of a global plot. George Miles, a scientist, discovers something is wrong and joins grocery delivery driver Dustin Fowler on the trail through a world turning insane: terrorist wristware, inflatable farm equipment, a woman following her dream to become the world’s fattest person and Tolkien-themed Pyramid schemes all stand in their path to save everyone from a monstrous fate.

How do you defeat what you cannot kill? After surviving the incident at probe NC-108, John Alvarez believes he is free to make a new life with his family. But when a radio wave emission source is observed approaching incorporated space, all that changes. An impending anti-life attack is expected, and Alvarez is suddenly thrust into action as the new face of Novos diplomacy. He must thrash against the slow-moving wheels of corporate leadership and convince holdouts from other settlements to join the inter-corporate defense strategy. But can he do it in time to give mankind a fighting chance?

Milton Maroo, a portly space trader who enjoys a gourmet meal as much as a good deal, is wanted for murder in a strange star system on the brink of war. The Idon star system is fragile, crumbling from the outer planets in. At the edge, resentment boils in the Idonan people, whispers of uprising are growing. The palace, on the innermost planet, still projects order from a king increasingly out of touch with his subjects. Milton Maroo, the lone pilot of the trading ship, the Zenger, transports goods from system to system, most of it legal. On a run into the Idon system, his dazzling skills ...

Gold Rush lunar base stopped communicating with Earth. What the rescue team finds at the lunar base defies explanation. America is back on the Moon. This time, we intend to stay and establish a self-sustaining permanent base for mining, science, and tourism. Establishing the base on our closest, lifeless neighbor is a challenge, but achievable despite some unexplained anomalies. The crew is up to the task, getting the base ready for the next lunar crew to expand the base. Inexplicably, everything goes dark. What happened to the lunar crew?

When the Standing Ones sent us on a journey to explore the darkness far from the sun’s light, I never expected to find monsters there. Like something out of the scary tales my son so loved, they captured us while I slumbered. I woke with my crew, locked away in a cold thundercloud colored cage. The others looked to me for escape but all my plans had ended in failure and pain, so much pain. At the same time, the monsters began to take them away one by one. Pushing past those failures and the pain, I plotted my escape, I was born problem solver after all. I needed to warn my people of what ...

Billions of people, reduced to atoms. Everything within five miles of every major city on Earth crumbled to dust. Ninety-nine percent of humanity gone in an instant. The Neandraton have traveled light-years from their home planet of Eden to harvest the resources of Earth. Humanity is merely a pest that needs to be eradicated. Cameron is struggling to maintain her status as Warlord of a group of surviving humans. With every viable food source stolen by the Neandraton, she must make deadly choices to stay in power and keep her people from starving.

Welcome to "Portal to the Beyond," a gripping science fiction novel by Jettery B. Ryder. In this thrilling adventure, you'll follow the story of a daring space explorer who stumbles upon a mysterious portal that leads to a world beyond anything he could have imagined. With twists and turns at every corner, this page-turner is sure to leave you on the edge of your seat, eagerly turning the pages to uncover the secrets that lie beyond the door. Get ready for an epic journey through time and space, as Jettery B. Ryder takes you on a wild ride that you won't soon forget. * Embark on an epic ...

Grak is just an orc trying to get by. He also happens to be a private investigator. Who solves crimes with his fists. Join Grak on his many misadventures in this omnibus edition of the Orc PI series. Included in this complete edition are Grak - Private Instigator, Grak - Orc on Vacation, and Grak - Gnomercy. Grak - Private Instigator The city of Alyon is in trouble. Its citizens are turning into monsters. Not the good kind of monsters--terrifying, bloodthirsty, flesh-rending, citizen-killing monsters. When Grak's favorite barkeep tells him that he will get a lifetime supply of free alcohol ...

Percy Jackson meets Aliens! Join this action-packed, heart-racing journey across the galaxy! In the sequel to Starbound Orphans, Ivo, Silas, Penelope, and Elias uncover more shocking secrets aboard the Tower. While training to hone their unique abilities, the young heroes stumble upon a trove of images, revealing the existence of key political prisoners from across the galaxy— including the deposed king of Midros, Ivo's presumed father. As Ivo tries to come to terms with his lost memories and heritage, Silas discovers an unexpected lineage of his own. Torn between their growing powers, ...