Space Epic

The Inquestor Series was a classic science fiction series of the 1980s — and has now been reincarnated for the 21st century, with more adventures, more spectacle, and more extras. Tachyon bubbles, people bins and galactic empires — and profound family conflicts — Greek tragedy writ large. Light on the Sound, the book that started it all, begins with one lonely planet and three lost souls, and ends with galactic revolution. For twenty thousand years, the godlike Inquestors have held sway over the one million worlds of the Dispersal of Man. S.P. Somtow’s limitless ...

"From the moment I first encountered the Book of Enoch as a teenager, I was captivated by the mysterious Watchers - celestial beings who descended from the stars and forever altered the course of human history..." When an ambitious mining administrator and his crew discover a world rich in gold, they uncover something far more precious: the power to create new forms of life. But playing god carries devastating consequences. As their experiment evolves beyond imagination, they face an impossible choice between duty and protecting the remarkable civilization they've fostered. Spanning ...

Vic Wilde is in over his head, and he’s about to get in even deeper. Vic Wilde has had, to put it lightly, a wild year. After finding the lost city of El Dorado and joining up with a clandestine organization called the Keepers of the Light, Vic has just found out that Atlantis is real too, and that the evil Order of the Golden Dawn is up to no good in the sunken city. Even worse, his contact with the Keepers—the beautiful Mira Carver, a sultry Brit who’s quick with a pistol—has disappeared. Vic heads to the Philippines with his wide-eyed and well-endowed research assistant to meet ...

Seventh Dwarfstar, a solar mining vessel, is cruising past a dwarf star when they pick up a capsule floating through space. Aboard the capsule, Sierra has just barely escaped the tyranny of Hatcheta, ruler of Nagiha Space Station, alive. She’s welcomed on board Seventh Dwarfstar by its ragtag crew. She keeps her past a secret from the others until betrayal shatters them. Seventh Dwarfstar is a retelling of Snow White in space.

In the scorching summer of 1878, with the Gilded Age in its infancy, three tenacious and brilliant scientists raced to Wyoming and Colorado to observe a rare total solar eclipse. One sought to discover a new planet. Another - an adventuresome female astronomer - fought to prove that science was not anathema to femininity. And a young megalomaniacal inventor, with the tabloid press fast on his heels, sought to test his scientific bona fides and light the world through his revelations.

He was shaping his times as no one before him had dared, mercilessly scouring an entire planet of crime and corruption wherever he found them - and destroying anyone who stood in his way. Absolute dictator of the United States of Jupiter, Hope Hubris was destined to become the most hated and feared man of an era, a tyrant charged with countless heinous acts and sexual cruelties. Yet justice remained his fiercest passion.

The future of war is not decided by masses of soldiers, but by individuals. Interstellar war has been outlawed, and all conflicts are now determined by single combat. The fate of entire planets rests upon the actions of a duelist—specialized gladiators trained and modified with the latest technology to win a death match against their equally formidable rivals. Dyron Dyrge is an upstart who rises in power and prestige with each victory. Yet he shuns the limelight, for his secrets would tear the galaxy apart if they were ever revealed. Alix, an orphaned concubine with mysteries of her own, ...

None of the exiles know it, but they are connected and are about to be unwittingly swept into a heroic adventure spanning many worlds. If these reluctant heroes cannot come together and set aside their differences, a whole star system will be plunged into ruin and mindlessly enslaved to an ancient evil creature bent on destruction.

For more than 200 years, the armies of the Emperor of Mankind fought to reconquer the galaxy - led by the superhuman primarchs, the Space Marine Legions brought countless worlds back under the rule of ancient Terra. Now Horus, once honoured Warmaster and favoured son of the Emperor, has been corrupted by the whispered promises of Chaos. At his command the Imperium is torn apart by a terrible and bloody civil war, the likes of which the galaxy has never seen.

Hunted across the TriadVerse, Blayne's Kingdom had been torn away and his entire life revealed as a lie. All he ever craved was freedom, but when an ally turns traitor, invading his world and stripping away everything, Blayne discovers that freedom demands a steep price. On the run with his best friend, they traverse the three Solar Systems in search of allies to reclaim their planet. Yet, as Blayne unravels secrets and mysteries from his past, will the truth grant him the freedom he yearns for? A truth that might propel him towards an extraordinary destiny against an ancient enemy—...

My name's Noah Kilmartin. I'm from Ruddock, Ohio, and I'm absolutely, 100 percent unqualified to save the universe from the slavering demonic hordes of the super evil queen Lilith. Too bad nobody asked my opinion. All I've got to do is pass five lethal trials that'll prove I'm the universe's last chance at salvation. To do so, I'll have to lean hard on those three years of Okinawan jiu-jutsu classes I took in high school, learn to wield my new magic sword, and, oh yeah - select five women to flesh out my team.

Haven was colonized by humans who fled from Earth centuries earlier to avoid a conflict. They built an advanced, thriving civilization on Haven and began construction of modern cities around the planet. Life was good and a far departure from the former lives they lived on Earth. However, ninety years after the planet was colonized, an extremely aggressive civilization known as the Vrang attacked the planet destroying all the cities and carrying off ninety percent of the population enslaving them. All that remained of the once beautiful cities were blackened ruins towering above what was ...

All Jack Rhodes wanted was a simple, peaceful life for himself and his daughter. Unfortunately, aliens had other plans. When Jack and his daughter are abducted from their acreage, Jack realizes that Earth is not alone. There is a vast, ruthless galactic empire out there that no one on Earth knows about. Forced to fight to the death to preserve his and his daughter’s lives, Jack learns that the peaceful life he has always wanted is the last thing he’s going to get. In this galaxy, the only way to survive is to Kill First. Warning: This book contains pulse-pounding action, cursing, and ...

He was the system's most ruthless agent. Now, he's its only hope for revolution. Konrad Adler is a Reclaimer, the most feared and efficient auditor in the InterStellar Monetary Union (IMU). He is a ghost in the machine, a man who balances the galaxy's ledgers by foreclosing on failed colonies and repossessing starships, all to pay down an impossible debt that has enslaved his own family. His authority isn't a weapon; it's the fine print of a contract, and his conscience has been surgically excised. Empathy is a currency he cannot afford. His final assignment is his ticket to freedom: the ...

For Orenthal James Farmholder, the universe was meant to be a place of quiet wonder. On the sheltered agricultural world of Ceres Prime, his hands knew the intricate rhythms of hydroponic farms, while his mind soared on the smuggled poetry and forgotten science of a lost Earth. He was a boy who could coax life from engineered soil and see a symphony in the flow of water and light. But the galaxy he dreamed of was a beautiful, fragile lie, and the real universe, the one of iron and blood, was coming for him. When the hulking warship Devastator blots out his sun, Oren’s peaceful world is ...

Thirty years after a failed invasion of the goblin home world, power technician Kevin wakes up in a wrecked Imperial Marine dropship with no clue how he got there. Worse, the planet has been devastated by a biological weapon, and the few survivors are bloodthirsty mutants.

The Swarmers are on the move. As star systems fall one by one, the League of Worlds begins to fragment. The Dread Pirate Zheng Yang advances her Golden Armada toward the League's core, bringing either death or salvation. The Prophet Sharo Khalin consolidates a theocracy, while the League of Worlds concentrates everything toward a last-ditch defense. Unknown to all these major players, the Worlds' only hope lies in Lucian Abrantes, his crew, their starship, and of course, the powerful Orbs of Starsea. But even these powerful artifacts might not be enough to survive the dark days ahead.

The story of Jan's and Zofia's epic trek to reach besieged Toruń City completes with a battle to get through the berm gate. Meet General Amiya Constance, who forces Jan to face his inner Ulysses and marks him to lead the Exodus armies offworld, in exile. But he has to get there first, leave Genève on the Exodus fleet commanded by Magda Aklyan. The chances of making it to the farside jump zone, in the umbra of a blue-green gas giant called the Wasp, are slim to none. They must get past the enemy's orbital patrols, boost for the Wasp with larger numbers of enemy warships in hot pursuit, ...

Meet Eric Morgan, the hard-nosed head of security for the Kingdom of Dunadd and House Knight for the King. It's another routine day on the job, all he wants to do is get through it and enjoy aa long-overdue vacation, until... Pirates descend upon the Palace, thrusting Morgan into a battle to defend the Royal Family with the Palace Knights at his command. As the clash unfolds, a chilling realization dawns on him—the pirates aren't after the King and Queen, their target is the young Prince Blayne Maxwell. Now, with time slipping away, can Eric thwart the invasion and safeguard the young ...

Set in the wake of a galaxywide war and the destruction of a human empire, The Dangerous Type follows the awakening of one of the galaxy's most dangerous assassins and her quest for vengeance. Entombed for 20 years, Raena has been found and released. Thallian has been on the lam for the last 15 years. He's a wanted war criminal whose entire family has been hunted down and murdered for their role in the galaxywide genocide of the Templars.