New Space

He was the lone survivor. How many solar orbits will it take for him to make peace with the universe? Foxfire burns with four centuries' worth of guilt. Hoping his annual pilgrimage will finally relieve his pain, the mouthy Wood Elf battles treacherous tundra to get to the site where he crash-landed after his mother’s selfless sacrifice. But the moment he asks his psion companion to unblock memories locked away for half a millennium, the self-deprecating bard finds himself unceremoniously dumped back on Earth. Swept through time to his snarky slacker adolescence, Foxfire is trying not to ...

Fleeing from the rising tide on a distant planet, the Doctor and his friends are attacked by a swarm of what appear to be tiny insects. Wracked by hallucinations, Jamie is transported back to his home in the Highlands whilst Victoria sees her late father. The travellers meet the survivors of Elysian Fields, a travelling hospital that offers patients a choice between the Blade of Longing and the Angel of Forgetting. When next the spaceship lands, the TARDIS crew are offered the chance of a lifetime.

Mars is a lawless planet, its frontier teetering on the edge of anarchy. Jack Taylor is thrust into the crucible when descendants of the First Colony, led by the self-proclaimed New God of Mars, unleash a melee of violence upon the land unlike anything ever seen on the Red Planet. Together with a retired Ranger known as The Gray, Taylor journeys into the badlands to rescue the woman he loves and to right the wrongs no matter the price to be paid.

Human exploration of Mars is the most ambitious and exciting scientific goal of the 21st century, and few people on earth know as much about this fascinating planet as Dr Larry Crumpler. As one of the long-term planning leads for the Mars Exploration Rover Project, he helped control the daily communications between NASA and the rovers roaming the planet to gather scientific data. In this magnificent compendium, Dr. Crumpler recounts the history of the red planet, from the earliest days when ancient astronomers turned their eyes to the heavens to the breakthrough discoveries.

Terry is a linguist studying an ancient language on a distant planet. In her daily search for anything to break up the monotony, she accidentally breaks her ankle and hits her head. When she comes to, she is being cared for by the local beings that they had all assumed were low intelligence animals. But she meets their doctor, sees their village and comes to befriend them. Her scientific mind and curious nature sets her on a new path: learning to communicate and live in harmony with the local beings.

The recent events on Orionis have turned Ava Amherst’s fragile world upside down. Now homeless, she needs to hear the truth from the man she believed she loved. Ava confronts Wesley with her suspicions and learns that her new friends are not what they appear to be, causing her to feel devastation and uncertainty regarding her future. Ava also learns that the universe is not what she was led to believe when Wesley and his crew take her to their beloved planet of Kyanos. She is given a rare chance to begin a new life again, however her opportunity is cut short when his enemy, Kaden, attacks...

It had been ten years since Roy came to New Terra. At the conclusion of the great interstellar war against the Serpent People, Roy went from being an ace fighter pilot to a simple farmer, married to his beloved wife Katreena and father to their three beautiful children. He had discovered a happiness that he had long given up on having again in his lifetime. However, their lives were overshadowed by a dark prophesy.

After a battle in the Jemma galaxy. Bon-too an alien symbiotic life form, flees from there fighter ship in an experimental escape pod. Bon-too’s host Gemel was mortally wounded and Bon-too engaged the experimental hyperdrive to escape the enemy attack. This sends them hurling through space recklessly. Bon-too loses Gemel and must have a replacement host soon or he will perish. Bon-too drops out of hyper speed only to find himself in uncharted space. He finds Earth and cloaks his tiny ship to search for a suitable host. He jumps Major Pardue while he was passed out drunk without his ...

For a year, Abri and five other women have found themselves trapped on a lonely planet, after their shuttle crashes on its way to Ulsy. They have fled Earth and the fiery rubble it has become. The crash has left Abri deaf and hurting with her aloneness. When sound becomes nothing, her other senses heighten, especially when they encounter two huge, handsome aliens.

The Real Stars are an eternally reliable, constant and comforting feature of the night sky. Standing proud amid the spectacular ever-changing Aurora displays that play against the hazy, nebulous background of the Pseudo Stars, they represent the best of the past, present and future. As Project Director of the first manned mission to study a Real Star, Garston Yegob is aiming for a permanent seat on the Science Council. His life is turned on it's head when the mission doesn't go as planned and he becomes a fugitive on a journey of discovery involving trust, betrayal, love, violence, ...

Jeanine is on the run from someone very powerful. She doesn’t know who wants her dead, or why. She only knows they have already killed her family, and if they catch her, she’s next. Drake’s family was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now, he drifts from spaceport to spaceport, searching for cargo and running from the grief he can never escape. When Jeanine barrels into Drake’s life, he must push aside his grief and run with her. But time is not their ally. When they cannot run from their enemies, Jeanine's and Drake's only hope is to run toward those enemies. Their only hope is...

In the year 1984, many Americans began to fear that the "surveillance state" predicted by George Orwell might be coming to pass. As a result, legendary writer and ufologist Gray Barker decided to revisit - and hopefully encapsulate - the strange case of Albert K. Bender, who was famously "hushed up" by three Men in Black in 1953 - despite heading up the largest and most successful civilian UFO organization in the world.

Astronomy for Beginners gives you a fantastic insight into our solar system, how it works, are we in future danger and whether we could live on any other planets. Astronomy is a huge subject that covers a multitude of astronomy related areas, in this book we touch on all the amazing-ness of our solar system.

The final prophesy for the Commander says that he must face a trail to stand before the oncoming darkness. Neither Roy nor Katreena knew what that would be, just that it would one day happen. It would be the moment that would change everything, for it is the last of the prophet Queen’s predictions.

On Mars, terraforming breakthroughs leave citizens dreaming of a transformed planet. However, when a contaminated ice asteroid puts water supplies in peril, the dream quickly shatters. Professor Zambrotta "Zammi" Kaspar is tasked to investigate a fatal crash on a remote ice asteroid, but he never expects to discover his missing sister there as an indentured worker for the Mining Guild. As the siblings reconnect and dig deeper into the mystery of the contaminated water, they both discover a personal legacy of secrets and loss over competing visions for the future of humanity.

What if the richest person in the world looked out across the human landscape and came to the conclusion that the “chaos” is approaching, that social collapse at the hands of murderous extremists is on its way and may well fatally undermine civilisation? With such vast resources at their disposal what would they do? Would they begin a process to save humanity from itself … even if humanity didn’t want to be saved? On the trail of missing nuclear warheads, an investigative journalist, Richard Austin, is convinced that the politician and industrialist – Trevallyan - has the warheads...

Matthew found Marie, now can he get her to safety? After what seemed like an eternity, Matthew's finally saved Marie. In the time since she saw him last he's been through Hell. Not only that, but he's killed a lot more people than he ever thought he would. He's ready for some reprieve. On the other hand, Marie's been held against her will and has been forced to patch up the same Fulcrum soldiers who kidnapped her. Now two parties stand between them and their sought-after safety. The Fulcrum want to hunt them down and take revenge. The invading alien Beets are just willing to take whatever ...

The Saga of the Skolian Empire is Catherine Asaro's trademark series. It chronicles the lives of the members of the ruling family of the Empire in the distant interstellar future, weaving a fine blend of action, romance, and hard science fiction.

Ready to turn your windowsill into a jungle, your living room into a fragrant herb garden, or your bathroom into a serene plant spa? Whether you’ve accidentally murdered a cactus or you’re the proud parent of 37 leafy roommates, this book is your new green-thumbed best friend. This isn’t your average boring plant manual. This is a fun, approachable, comprehensive, and totally un-intimidating journey into the world of indoor gardening—designed for total beginners, seasoned hobbyists, and even those who swear they have a "black thumb." What You’ll Discover Inside: 🌿 Start Here, ...

When Galileo looked to the sky with his perspicillum, or spyglass, roughly 400 years ago, he could not have fathomed the amount of change his astonishing findings a seemingly flat moon magically transformed into a dynamic, crater-filled orb and a large, black sky suddenly held millions of galaxies would have on civilizations.