Space Fantasy Adult

There is darkness sweeping across the stars. Most know Androma Racella as the Bloody Baroness: a powerful mercenary whose reign of terror stretches across the Mirabel Galaxy. To those aboard her fearsome glass starship, the Marauder, she's just Andi, their captain and protector. When a routine mission goes awry, the all-girl crew's resilience is tested as they find themselves in a most unfamiliar place: at the mercy of a powerful bounty hunter connected to Andi's past and a harrowing betrayal.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Nyxia Unleashed: The Nyxia Triad by Scott Reintgen, read by Sullivan Jones, Alex Romashov and Carol Monda. Emmett Atwater thought Babel's game sounded easy. Get points. Get paid. Go home. But it didn't take long for him to learn that Babel's competition was full of broken promises, none darker or more damaging than the final one. Now Emmett and the rest of the Genesis survivors must rally and forge their own path through a dangerous new world.

Fresh out of the Academy, Cal must learn to fit in on an antiquated, intergalactic space freighter with a much older, multiracial crew. With the rocket's destination and mission kept secret, Cal works closely with his crewmates to keep operations safe and running smoothly. When sabotage is discovered that could end in a catastrophic explosion, the chief engineer risks his life to save the spaceship, and Cal jumps in to help. Can they stop a core meltdown to save the ship and crew? How will Cal perform under pressure, being the "new kid" on this "old bucket of andirons"?

Los doce se han dividido. Seis permanecen en el Sistema Solar y los otros seis van a parar a través de un agujero de gusano a un planeta de la estrella Fomalhaut («Boca de Ballena» en árabe), un lugar extraordinario que esconde los secretos de la civilización creadora de la nave huevo: los tubulares. En su intento por deshacer lo sucedido, los dos grupos viven experiencias que afectarán al futuro de la humanidad.

Creían estar a salvo. Soñaban con poder volver. Habían olvidado los defectos, pero también las virtudes, de la otra mitad del grupo. El reencuentro tumba todos los supuestos que los doce jóvenes traen de sus aventuras previas y los lleva, junto con el robot de la Calypso, a unir fuerzas ante un último desafío. Solo uno de ellos, sin embargo, podrá superarlo. Rompiendo las normas de la narrativa juvenil actual, Cénit cierra la saga Doce Soles con una valiente reflexión sobre el fracaso, la responsabilidad, el amor y la convivencia entre humanos y máquinas.

Physics engineer Marie Sayer feels conflicting loyalties and fear mounting after the starship Foreigner disappears with her best friend Aria on board. Would Space Link and her father let the same thing happen to her? Thrown into both an immediate and existential crisis, Marie journeys to her mother’s home world, Mirus, to address the systemic dangers and hostilities on the threatened planet. Told what to do and who she was her whole life, Marie Sayer becomes the hero she was meant to be.

Este audiolibro contiene cuentos en torno a uno de los cuatro elementos: el agua. A través de su impecable pluma, Liliana Bodoc nos envuelve en todo tipo de historias: una historia sobre el llanto, otra sobre los ríos, incluso los mares y la lluvia están presentes.

War rages within all fringe outposts. The Trini Trade Lanes are no longer safe for pirates. All looks hopeless as the Galactic Space Forces are very powerful. But, the pirate, Sean Finnigan and his motley crew, have a plan. Join forces with Sean, Petra and the cybernetically enhanced chimpanzee, Bob, as they discover more secrets from the mysterious Habitat. There are six more cards to be found. Will they discover them before the GSF destroy every outpost in the quadrant?

“…[AN] EPIC SAGA OF SPACE DIPLOMACY AND DOUBLE DEALINGS.” KIRKUS “A GRIPPING, WELL-BALANCED READ.” MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW “A POTENT STORY OF SURVIVAL.” CALIFORNIA BOOKWATCH For nearly a century, the Balance Protocols have existed to maintain peace between three desperate civilizations: the Amaurau, the Gunera, and the human race. When the Amaurau disrupt a Gunera ceremony commemorating the centennial of the peace treaty, Protocol Officer Nick Severin must try to maintain civility – a task complicated by an assassination attempt on the Guneri emperor’s life. With the balance ...

En un futuro distópico, donde el comportamiento humano finalmente ha llevado la destrucción al planeta, una raza alienígena ha salvado a algunos de los que estaban dispuestos a escapar de una Tierra condenada. Viviendo en su enorme nave nodriza, con todo lo que necesitan, un antiguo juego se reinventa a partir de un deporte nativo americano. El Nuevo Batey se convierte en su entretenimiento y surgen nuevos héroes para jugarlo. Chilly es uno de ellos. Pero, ¿cuánto tiempo podrá soportar la adulación de la multitud?

As battles rage across the solar system, Noah Zarc must work to unite a rag-tag bunch of miners, farmers, and scientists who would rather just live in peace than fight a war which could set humanity back to the dark ages...if not destroy them altogether. With only a time-traveling ship full of animals and a general from the history books (who is more comfortable riding a horse than in a spaceship), the Zarc family has to stand against the full might of a highly trained army of attack-drones, and a fleet of battleships armed with enough firepower to take out an entire planet.

Die Außenseiter sind zurück - irgendwie zumindest... Tyler und seine Squad 312 sind zurück, und dieses Mal sind sie auf der Flucht vor so ziemlich jedem in der Galaxie. Nachdem sie in galaktisches Sperrgebiet eingedrungen sind, ist auf sie ein Kopfgeld ausgesetzt. Ihre Hauptaufgabe besteht aber nicht nur darin, sich selbst zu retten, sondern auch ihre blinde Passagierin Aurora. Diese muss lernen, ihre übernatürlichen Kräfte zu nutzen und ihr Schicksal zu erfüllen. Denn Aurora hat als Einzige den Zugang zu einer Wunderwaffe, die die Zerstörung der Galaxie verhindern kann.

What happens when you ask a bunch of losers, discipline cases and misfits to save the galaxy from an ancient evil? The ancient evil wins, of course.

Know that one of you will not return… These are the ominous words spoken by the Oracle of Atlantis as it sends the intrepid Samantha and her teenage crew on their toughest challenge yet: relive the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh. Devising an ingenious method for working out where to head to follow in the footsteps of the Sumerian antihero, they face a series of challenges, each of which hides a lesson. Do they copy Gilgamesh or learn from his mistakes? For learn they must to collect the seven holy keys that will lead them to a prize as yet unknown. Pushed to the limits of their endurance ...

Far from Earth in another galaxy, three lonely Earthmen follow a star on Christmas Eve. Are they the new wise men? What will they find in the stable? A short story that asks important questions about man's place in the universe.

Ein Mädchen auf einer Mission, ein Junge ohne Plan, eine Galaxie voller Möglichkeiten... In einem klapprigen Raumschiff, weit entfernt von ihrer Heimat, durchbricht die 18-jährige Sola die Grenzkontrolle des Planeten Kreon. Sie muss dort bloß einen winzigen Diebstahl begehen, um mit ihrer Mission weitermachen zu können. Denn Sola ist auf der Suche nach einer absoluten Nichtigkeit, die ihr die Welt bedeutet. Aber dann kommt ihr Lucas von der Hafensicherheit in die Quere, der sich ausgerechnet an diesem Tag in seinem Job beweisen muss. Als kurz darauf auch noch der Hafen von Plünderern angegriffen wird, bricht Chaos aus.

Hwa Young was just ten years old when imperial forces destroyed her rebel moon home. Now, six years later, she is a citizen of the very empire that made her an orphan. Desperate to shake her rebel past, Hwa Young dreams of one day becoming a lancer pilot, an elite group of warriors who fly into battle using the empire's most advanced tech--giant martial robots. Lancers are powerful, and Hwa Young would do anything to be the strong one for once in her life.

Noah Zarc rockets to Venus on a quest to discover the truth about his past. He refuses to believe his father is really the monster everyone says he is. Could there be valid reasons for everything his father’s done, including abandoning Noah at birth? Together with his two friends, a plucky girl from the Ice Age, and a street-wise kid from back alleys of Mars, Noah searches for answers to secrets everyone refuses to talk about—secrets that have remained hidden for over a thousand years. In the process, he becomes embroiled in a mystery that could have devastating consequences.

Noah Zarc has a life most kids only dream of—traveling through time on an immense spaceship, seeing the wonders of the solar system, and experiencing the vast history of Earth...before everything on the planet was destroyed. His family's mission is to repopulate Earth with life retrieved from the past. His mother and father vanish during an operation to Earth’s ancient past, and together with his brother, sister, and an orphaned girl from the Ice Age, Noah sets out on a quest through space and time to rescue his parents and bring them back to the 31st century.

Terra, the human girl raised by aliens, is back on Earth. but not for long. It's been two years since Terra returned to Earth. It had seemed like such a good idea at the time...Get to know her real parents. Attend high school with actual humans. But Terra's world has been anything but ordinary. Across the galaxy, her alien homeland is in grave danger...A death planet. A mysterious prophecy. And a society warped beyond all recognition. Terra's adoptive father and friends desperately need help. If Terra knew this, she'd be on the first spaceship away from Earth. But she doesn't.