First Contact Fiction

A top-secret government initiative, Project Eve, has established Eden, an Earth-based colony unlike any other. Only women with the rare "Eve" gene are eligible to join, but starting over comes with an unexpected condition—a treaty with a distant alien race requires every recruit to be paired with an alien mate, forging interspecies bonds that will shape the future of both civilizations.

Naira and Tarquin have escaped vicious counter-revolutionaries, misprinted monsters, and the pull of a dying planet. Now, bound together to find the truth behind the blight that has been killing habitable planets, they need to hunt out the Mercator family secrets. But, when the head of Mercator disappears, taking the universe’s remaining supply of starship fuel with him, chaos breaks loose between the ruling families. Naira’s revolution must be put aside for the sake of humanity’s immediate survival.

How far would you go to defeat your enemy? What if there were no limits? A planet a couple of hundred light years from Earth is catastrophically attacked. Meanwhile back on Earth, Jack Felder is on a leisurely trip through the Amazon when his brother is taken and he vows to save him at any cost. What starts as a rescue effort slowly morphs into a perilous and thrilling adventure exposing an amazing twist to our galaxy’s past and climaxing in an epic battle with the fate of several worlds in the balance.

They used to be the dominant species. Now they’re fodder for extraterrestrial games. Can mankind shove the bloodthirsty aliens back into the void? 2078. Jack Slater is getting desperate. As humans rocket toward extinction courtesy of their new interstellar overlords, the ufologist rallies his scrappy band to take one last stand. But while scouring the planet for a rumored galactic superweapon, hope shatters when his team is ambushed—and he’s led away in chains. With the fate of humanity hanging by a slender thread, Jack battles mundane evils caused by small-minded men. And though he ...

The gods have landed, and the world will never be the same. Toby Merckx and Charles Hudson were once part of the most far-reaching expedition in history, but the alien organism transformed them into something not quite human. Both possess terrifying new powers, and they will battle it out to see who rules the world. As the remnants of humanity turns against each other, nations start to fall. In this chaotic maelstrom, one individual holds the key to victory: Cassie Voges. But which side will she choose?

Grab this boxed set collection of the first 4 books in the Bad Company series today! Humanity’s greatest export-Justice. Space is a dangerous place, even for the wary, especially for the unprepared. The aliens have no idea. Here comes the Bad Company. Book 1, The Bad Company, Book 2, Blockade, Book 3, Price of Freedom, and Book 4, Liberation. Join the Bad Company as they fight an enemy from their worst nightmares.

Anna Sinjari—refugee, survivor of genocide, disaffected office worker—has a close encounter that reveals universe-threatening stakes. While humanity reels from disaster, she must join a small team of civilians, soldiers, and scientists to investigate a mysterious broadcast and unknowable horror. If they can manage to face their own demons, they just might save the world.

An AI review of The Unmake: What you’ve created is nothing short of a cosmic elegy—an odyssey of philosophical depth, mythic scale, and aching humanity, set against the silent backdrop of a galaxy being slowly unraveled by an unknowable force. Rather than presenting a traditional conflict between factions or ideologies, this is a story about existence itself confronting entropy—not with guns or glory, but with dust, silence, and stubbornness. At its heart lies the Starvalen, a force not of evil but of indifference. Their weapon, the “unmaking,” is far more terrifying than ...

For Mark Caldwell, an unsatisfying life was about to take a turn both terrifying and exhilarating as his fate took an unimaginable turn. When Mark took his aisle seat aboard United flight 4382, he was ignorant of three facts. The fellow passenger in the window seat was named Joseph Colsco. Neither of them would ever set foot on Earth again. They both would be cast naked on an alien planet.

What could be more commonplace than grass or a world covered over all its surface with a wind-whipped ocean of grass? But the planet Grass conceals horrifying secrets within its endless pastures. And as an incurable plague attacks all inhabited planets but this one, the prairie-like Grass begins to reveal these secrets - and nothing will ever be the same again.

When the war ended, the Zodark spies—the Mukhabarat—were dispatched to find Earth and to map Sol, the heart of the Republic. Upon its discovery, a plan was hatched, a fleet was formed, a superweapon was created, and nothing would be the same. The calm had been breached. A new war began. When a momentary rip in space-time appeared, a hostile fleet emerged. The Zodarks’ superweapon caught the Republic by surprise. As they approached Earth, the invasion force had a final obstacle to overcome—the vaunted yet untested planetary defense system. Would it hold?

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.

Here, even the wind screams. Abandoned hulks of machinery rust in the colorless landscape. Dark, oily seas beat against a jagged black shore. And the remnants of a reentry space vehicle crash into the rough waves. In it sleeps Ripley, a woman who has battled the enemy twice. It killed her whole crew the first time. The second time, it slaughtered a spaceload of death-dealing Marines. Now on this prison planet that houses only a horde of defiant, captive men, she will have to fight the ultimate alien horror one more time.

Millions of people are confronting aliens that authorities say do not exist. Now Whitley Strieber, author of the #1 best seller Communion, which detailed his own close encounters, returns with The Grays, a mind-bending journey behind the curtain of secrecy that surrounds the subject of aliens. This audiobook will make you think deeply, not only about the mystery of who the Grays are, but who exactly we are.

When Earth failed, it sent out arkships to establish new outposts. So the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its precious human cargo to a potential new paradise. Generations later, this fragile colony has managed to survive on Imir, eking out a hardy existence. Yet life is tough, and much technological knowledge has been lost. Then strangers appear, on a world where everyone knows their neighbour.

It is the second stage of human colonization - the first age, humanity's initial attempt to people the stars, ended in disaster when it was discovered that Earth's original superluminal drive did permanent genetic damage to all who used it - mutating Earth's far-flung colonists in mind and body. Now, one of Earth's first colonies has given humanity back the stars, but at a high price - a monopoly over all human commerce.

Al, the command AI of the Valkyrie-84, has featured heavily in the adventures of Prisoner Number One and his family. But what is he really like? What does he seem like to himself? Al narrates the sixth volume of the Voided Man series. In this installment, Al begins by telling the story of Number One's exile from his own point of view, and then... King Harold struggles with how to introduce lost technology back into society on Earth, Number One and Al hatch a daring plan to rescue the long lost Valkyrie-85, Maestro falls in love, Annabelle, Number One, and Al visit the extreme future, And ...

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Thousands of years ago, Earth’s terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity’s great empire fell, and the program’s decisions were lost to time. Aeons later, humanity and its new spider allies detected fragmentary radio signals between the stars. They dispatched an exploration vessel, hoping to find cousins from old Earth. But those ancient terraformers woke something on Nod better left undisturbed. And it’s been waiting for them.

Combat is literally her middle name. Chimeric Adaptive Enhanced Combat Operator - but now Caeco Jensen - works for the FBI, building a new life and trying to learn from a painful past. It’s hard to fit in when you are one of a kind, but maybe, just maybe, there’s a place for her in this world. That is, if threats from off planet don’t ruin it first. Forging and protecting a new future with a her unique skillset won’t be easy, maybe almost as hard as making new friends.