Space Fantasy Adult

With a diverse selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Rebecca Roanhorse, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 explores the ever-expanding and changing world of contemporary science fiction and fantasy.

Alien Angel Major Malfunction Guardian Angel has accepted a mission to find a missing ship with five Fremi on board. They journey across the galaxy in search of the missing crew. Hermes becomes trapped in a nebula which damages the light drive. Guardian Angel is marooned on a planet with no way out. Guardian Angel saves the Fremi and escapes the nebula only to find they have been gone two and a half years. When he returns to earth, Guardian Angel finds the galaxy has been invaded by the Mo-noc. His next mission is to save the planet from the galactic tyranny of the Mo-noc lizards.

After so many successful missions of Major and Bon-too on Earth and by alien hostiles. These fights brought them the highest civilian honors by the US government. They have taken charge to stand against the evil progressions until the day they land on a very different but adventurous task. The CIA has given them a mission in Afghanistan which had an unpleasant ending. Major had difficulties dealing with the killing of terrorist and did some soul searching. Bon-too urged Major not to retire and encouraged him to get back in the game. Bon-too knows that Major is a hero inside and cannot sit ...

Seersana University is worlds-renowned for its xenopsychology program, producing the Alliance's finest therapists, psychiatric nurses and alien researchers. When Jahir, one of the rare and reclusive Eldritch espers, arrives on campus, he's unprepared for the challenges of a vast and multicultural society... but fortunately, second-year student Vasiht'h is willing to take him under his wing. Will the two win past their troubles and doubts and see the potential for a once-in-a-lifetime partnership? Book 1 of the Dreamhealers Duology.

Hope is all Xendara has as her adversaries seek to shatter the timeline. With her home destroyed, Xendara, and her friends flee. Life on the run isn’t easy for them, their enemies are everywhere, and they only want one thing — her powers. In the furthest reaches of the galaxy, they find an unlikely ally with powers greater than their own. With her help, Xendara and Darijus increase their powers. But her adversaries unleash a formidable dark being from the future that seeks to reshape time. Together, they must stop this new threat while protecting their families. But with a traitor ...

THE ENEMY BY MY SIDE. THE ENEMY IN MY HEART. Ari will never be the Heir again. Her younger sister, Dressa, was supposed to hold her place, but now Dressa’s stolen her future rulership. Banished to a resort world to recover from her illness, Ari’s determined to reclaim her shapeshifting abilities and race back to the capital. But a young gardener with a mysterious past is taking too much interest in Ari’s new persona, and a possessive duke is bent on capturing her attention for himself. Are they both after her heart, or something far more sinister? Dressa won her freedom, won her bride...

On the way home from a gym, Mary starts noticing a large man stalking her. Whenever she tells people about it, they mysteriously forget about it the next day. When her friend tries to help her catch this stalker, he gets kidnapped instead and a few minutes later, everyone forgets about him except her and two others. Mary and her friends found themselves involved in big political games and now they should take some responsibility and make things go right. This is book 4 of the "Surviving Destiny"

On the way home from a gym, Mary starts noticing a large man stalking her. Whenever she tells people about it, they mysteriously forget about it the next day. When her friend tries to help her catch this stalker, he gets kidnapped instead and a few minutes later, everyone forgets about him except her and two others. Mary and her friends found themselves involved in big political games and now they should take some responsibility and make things go right. Friends facing now unpleasant news about themselves, but that can’t stop them. This is Book5 of the "Surviving Destiny" series.

Seventeen-year-old Aimee Roh has Sensory Time Warp Syndrome, a rare condition that causes her to time travel to a moment in her life when she smells something linked to that memory. Her dad is convinced she’ll simply grow out of it if she tries hard enough, but Aimee’s fear of vanishing at random has kept her from living a normal life. When Aimee disappears for nine hours into a memory of her estranged mom—a moment Aimee has never remembered before—she becomes distraught.

Nightmares are plaguing me. I wake up smelling sulfur, feeling my skin burning, knowing that I’m burning to death on the surface of Abaddon, but I’m not. I’m on Sel’Ani, my father’s home planet. I’m alive and using my true name and finally free to be myself. And yet, I’m completely falling apart. Every time I wake up screaming, Lorne is there. I don’t understand how he knows when I need him, but he does, and even if I can’t say the words aloud, I’m so thankful that he’s there. Because I wouldn’t survive this without him.

Olive Joshi is an imaginative sixteen-year-old with OCD. She checks and double-checks that the stove burners are off, avoids driving for fear of causing an accident, and constantly worries about hurting the people she loves. Olive finds refuge from her anxiety in writing stories about Coseema, a magical princess on the distant planet Lyria. Coseema is fearless, confident, powerful, and perfect—everything Olive thinks she’ll never be.

Everyone has dreams that if money were no object they would do: become a great painter, sculpturer, musician, chef, electrical engineer, screenwriter . . . see the world OR see A WORLD . . . And so did Stephen Young. From the time he saw the first man step foot on the moon he had a dream . . . be the first to step foot on Mars. So like his dad, he became a Marine Corps fighter pilot. From there, he became a NASA shuttle pilot. But way leading onto way, he became an entrepreneur, a corporate raider, a king among corporate raiders. Buying and selling companies he amassed billions. Beyond ...

Read a rollicking page-turning sci-fi action tale seven hundred years after Old Earth reaches for the stars. Violence still exists. An intriguing and unique story. The characters are well-drawn and the plot flows quickly. Sgt. Ma is an eight-foot genetically enhanced female soldier who dreams of moving from her Planet's Militia to the All World's United Armed Services. (UAS) She thinks she will look great in the uniforms. Her enlistment is initially refused as she is larger and stronger than her Earth Counterparts where she is described as "bigger than a Buick". With resentment guiding her,...

It's been more than 40 years since NASA sent the first men to the moon, and to grab some much-needed funding and attention, they decide to launch an historic international lottery in which three lucky teenagers can win a week-long trip to moon base DARLAH 2 - a place that no one but top government officials even knew existed until now. The three winners, Antoine, Midori, and Mia, come from all over the world, and they have only one thing in common: They aren't especially interested in space travel.

A desperate leader. An old and fearsome enemy unleashed. A new galactic war approaches. Riccard Brams, the ruler of the Dominion, seeks lasting peace with the Commonwealth but is under attack by enemies unknown. The powerful Edo, who possess mystical powers from the ‘High’ beings of the Astral plane, agree to help Brams. They are plunged into a conflict that threatens not just the Dominion, but the entire galaxy. Raichel Ison, along with a hand-picked team of Edo, travel to the Dominion. Little do they know that Brams is using them as bait to lure out his enemy. Other enemies lurk in ...

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As Corporal Goshawk is adjusting to his new normal, Fate throws him a curve ball. The Marines are stuck on the alien planet as they search for missing Marines and clues to the goals of the SEALS. While they push to not leave any Marines behind, new challenges are presented as more Marines bonded with Leneshal are identified and join Goshawk’s team. To accommodate, Corporal Goshawk is promoted, but many members of his team don’t agree with his promotion or leadership. With the help of his core team, Goshawk has to learn to deal with hardened warfighters while unravelling the mysteries of...

The complete series contains all four books from The Starfire Wars: Starfire, Dark Matter, Parallax, and Zenith. On the last day of Cassie’s starship journey to her new home, her father is killed in a mysterious explosion. Somehow, she manages to escape death - helped by a vanishing stranger with otherworldly blue-green eyes. But his presence lingers in her dreams. Officials swear the explosion was a horrible accident, but she’s convinced they are hiding something.

Cram 10 hormonal teens into a spaceship and blast off: that's the premise for the ill-conceived reality show Waste of Space. The kids who are cast know everything about drama - and nothing about the fact that the production is fake. Hidden in a desert warehouse, their spaceship replica is equipped with state-of-the-art special effects dreamed up by the scientists partnering with the shady cable network airing the show.

Treinta años en el futuro. La Tierra es cada vez menos habitable, por lo que un grupo de colonos (entre ellos Will, sus dos hermanas adolescentes y sus padres) emprende un viaje intergaláctico, en busca de un nuevo hogar. Durante la travesía, la nave es atacada y la familia Robinson se queda varada en un planeta alienígena, en el cual deberá lidiar con un entorno hostil y muchas dificultades técnicas, para poder reemprender la marcha y alcanzar al resto de la colonia.