Space Fantasy Adult

This year’s selection of science fiction and fantasy stories, chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and bestselling author of the Divergent series Veronica Roth, showcases a crop of authors that are willing to experiment and tantalize readers with new takes on classic themes and by exchanging the ordinary for the avant-garde. Folktales and lore come alive, the dead rise, the depths of space are traversed, and magic threads itself through singular moments of love and loss, illuminating the circulatory nature of life, death, the in-between, and the hereafter.

Unleash your imagination with The Ultimate Fiction Collection Volume 1, a vast anthology of science fiction, science fantasy, and fantasy from Mikkell K Khan and Kennedy King. This collection includes: Over 50 stories, from short tales to full novels. Mikkell K Khan’s Enixar trilogy: epic fantasy with magic and dragons. Kennedy King’s When the Monsters Come: chilling sci-fi horror. Holiday stories blending festive cheer with fantasy and sci-fi. Kennedy King’s Skyline trilogy: space operas with dragon lore. 10 exclusive, never-before-seen stories, only available in this collection! ...

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Mitch Mythic was a normal kid living a normal life, but after he takes a stick to the crotch during a hockey game, the video of the incident breaks the internet, and his life spins out of control. As he becomes an online laughing stock and his friends abandon him, he is certain he has hit rock bottom. Oh, how wrong he was.

Keelic Travers isn't just the new kid on the block; he's the new kid on the planet. No friends. No life. School bites. And so do some of the critters in the alien forest he explores to get away from it all. Just your normal everyday frontier world about to be destroyed. Except, Keelic isn't your normal everyday kid, and what he discovers out in the alien woods will change the course of human history...if he can get his homework done first.

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.

On Earth, seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander was taught to never peek, but if she hopes to survive life on her new planet, Loge, her eyes must never shut. Because Zeus will do anything to save the Ancients from their dying planet, and he has a plan. Thousands of humans crossed over to Loge after a poisonous neurotoxin released into Earth's atmosphere, nearly killing them. They sought refuge in hopes of finding a new life, but what they became were slaves, built to wage war against their home planet. That is, unless Ari and Jackson can stop them. But on Loge, nothing is as it seems....

In this sweeping coming-of-age saga, disaster threatens the Mars colony’s survival, and a seventeen-year-old pilot might be Mars’s last hope. But when Jessamyn and her brother undertake a raid on ex-ally Earth, her brother is captured and accused of treason by Earth’s powerful Chancellor.

On a mission to recover an escaped alien life-form, young Justice Keeper Anna Lenai pursues the felon into uncharted space - and finds the lost home world of her ancestors. While Anna tries to adapt and survive in a strange, hostile environment, she accidentally uncovers a conspiracy that will shake their world to its foundations.

After a mission gone awry two years ago, Remy Castell has been desperately searching across worlds to find the friend she failed to save—the friend who changed her life by helping her overcome the brainwashing she was subjected to as a genetically engineered corporate agent. Since then, she’s been chasing the only lead she has: fellow genopath Kiran Lore, the same secretive ex-squadmate who left her for dead when she compromised their mission. She nearly caught up to him on Tundar before joining the infamous sled race alongside outcast Sena and her wolf companion Iska.

Haven Lent is a practical person with a big imagination. If asked what she would bring to another world, her first answer would be ponytail holders and a hairbrush (it’s easier to slay a dragon if her hair isn’t in her face). But if asked to have a heart-to-heart with her father...well, let's just say she’d rather face the dragon. Quirky, sweeping, and full of all the things that make for great portal fantasy, Walking Through Spaces is a story that sweeps listeners into another realm where ordinary people have the power to change extraordinary circumstances.

Endless ways to die... only one way to survive. In a world at war with aliens, one girl and three teenage boys will face the ultimate test when they are forced to enter into a deadly competition for the chance to save their lives… This is the beginning of a dark and opulent sci-fi fantasy, perfect for fans of Throne of Glass and Hunger Games. In a dystopian world ruled by alien conquerors, four teenage orphans must survive a brutal tournament to earn a place on the alien spaceship known as the Tower. But as they begin their training, they uncover shocking secrets—about themselves and ...

Dark secrets. Old grudges. Bad odds. After taking the fall for treason, former Colonel Gideon Quinn is dumped into Morton Barrens Penitentiary, where convicts are worked to the bone harvesting the volatile crystal that powers Fortune's colonies. Still reeling from the loss of his command and the soldiers he couldn’t save, Gideon plans to keep his head down and serve his time. But when he crosses paths with Renny Boucher—a fellow inmate with a long memory, a grudge to match, and a dangerous idea of justice—he discovers there may be more to prison life than just misery. It might offer a...

A planet on the brink of annihilation. A technological breakthrough. A battle for survival that will decide the fate of two worlds. From multi-award-winning sci-fi author Clayton Graham, author of the Milijun Series and Looking for Life, Saving Paludis is a thrilling sci-fi adventure packed with futuristic technology, high-octane paranormal action, and alien political intrigue that fans of Arthur C. Clarke will enjoy. 2020 Top Shelf Awards Winner 2018 Readers' Favorite Book Awards - Finalist Book Excellence Awards - Finalist 2023 N.N. Light's Book Heaven Award ★★★★★ "In this story...

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...

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. This is book 2 of the Surviving Destiny series.

Scout Shannon wants nothing more than to leave her home world and its petty squabbling factions behind. Galactic Central with all of its excitement and opportunities awaits her. She makes it as far as her own planet’s orbit before the snares of bureaucracy close around her, trapping her on a space station populated by her people’s oldest foe. Then her rescuer, her only friend in the galaxy, disappears, abducted by a group of strangers the moment he steps off his ship.

Some wishes should never come true. Back home from the Alliance Initiative, Maia is restless. She wants the Initiative to resume, she wishes to visit the energy summit poised to transform Tansi, she is desperate to break free of her stifling existence and join in the making of Tansi's future. When fate rips Maia's life apart in one cruel swoop and forces her to run for cover, Maia realizes her secret is out and her life is on the line. Thrust into her enemy's cross-hairs, there's no place left to hide. How long will Maia survive, if at all? Maia and the Regency Protocol is the third book of...

What if everything you believe is a lie? Maia has spent most of her life trying to run away from her past. When a chance encounter lands Maia in a dubious peace initiative, she has to walk down a road she had hoped never to tread. Little does she know that the real truth about her long-deceased mother is somewhere down this path. But before she gets to that, Maia will discover true friendship, face an unimaginable evil, and fight her deepest fears to save the world she loves. A planet on the brink of extinction. An enemy from the dark side of the universe. Only one girl and her secret stand...

The Secret Supers are bored out of their minds during summer vacation-until they go to Space Camp. They learn all about the space program, try out moon gravity and zero-g simulations, and practice docking with the International Space Station.