Space Fantasy Adult

Sixteen-year-old Zachariah Aurelian dreams of joining the prestigious Earth Alliance Fleet Academy, where only the most elite cadets earn a place among the stars. Armed with his unyielding determination and his clever AI companion, Giles, Zach is prepared to tackle the Academy's grueling entrance exams. But the path to Fleet Command is anything but smooth. Simulated space battles push his skills to the breaking point.

Be careful what you wish for… When their home planet Eden is destroyed, a group of kids have to grow up very quickly. Led by the charismatic Samantha, a thirteen-year-old with a thirst for adventure, they leave everything they have ever known behind to escape on the newly built spaceship, the Lifeboat, not knowing if they will ever see their families again. Lost in space, they wonder what they will find on their journey. Are there any inhabitable planets? If so, will they be hospitable? Is it possible that there are other colonies? If they do meet people, will they be friendly? Will they ...

Secrets always find their way out. Thirteen-year-old Maia thinks she has seen it all. She has survived a soul-extraction attempt, been threatened with death, and faced off with saboteurs trying to bring down her nation. She lets nothing get to her anymore—not even the memories of her dead mother's terrifying communique. All Maia wants is for the Alliance Initiative to resume. She longs to visit the under-ocean civilization of the Jjord, ride the underwater transport lines, and to learn about the Jjordic energy farms that could save her ruined planet. Most of all, she wants to goof off ...

Coleman and Ayascho are sent back to the Wilderness by the Sutro Seer on an urgent mission. During this time, Coleman has much to think about as his love for Maaryah is growing. Will she tire of her long wait, or will she be there for him when and if he returns? Sinister forces are lurking within King Teg-ar-mos’s court. Can these seditionists be ferreted out before it’s too late, or will they succeed in displacing the good king? Coleman must secure the United Kingdom from the pillaging of the villainous brigands. As the campaign continues, he must use all of his Ranger savvy and skill ...

Everything Elle Hartmut and her friends thought they knew about the alien menace - and the nature of their universe - is wrong. With mounting evidence that the aliens behind the Darkness reside on a hyperdimensional plane above space-time, Elle and the Dark Sentinels will need a new approach to win. However, preventing the impending alien invasion will test their team in ways they never imagined. The ancient artifacts wielded by the Dark Sentinels may hold the key to victory.

Fact #257 - Allie Sai should have been named "Unlucky". It made complete sense that the girl terrified of flying and aliens would be drafted for colonization of an alien planet. Right? Right? In her mind, she had one choice. Desertion. But again...unlucky. She should've known better. A failed escape attempt leaves her chained to an airship chair with nothing but her bag, a vial of her family's super moonshine, and her anxiety for company.

She felt like her future had gotten out of control. It was far too soon for her to captain a ship and yet that was exactly what she was about to be doing. This wouldn't be an easy mission either because they were going to the edge of their known galaxy. Razar wanted her to find out what was happening in the Narubu system. There was activity and Razar feared it would soon affect them.

Rael Armstrong is an apprentice to a hunter of the Order. Hunters have one mission in life: to vanquish evil beings from other planes of reality. Normally, it’s very exciting work, but Rael’s current mission feels a little on the dull side. She’s been tasked with watching a suspect, and that’s it—just watching. It is a dull task until an unlikely visitor shows up to talk with her suspect. It couldn’t hurt to do a little less watching and a lot more following of this visitor to see what he’s up to, right? Well, it wouldn’t hurt unless this visitor was something really ...

Phaet Theta has lived her whole life in a colony on the moon. She's barely spoken since her father died in an accident nine years ago. She cultivates the plants in Greenhouse 22, lets her best friend talk for her, and stays off the government's radar. Then her mother is arrested. The only way to save her younger siblings from the degrading shelter is to enlist in the militia, the faceless army that polices the lunar bases and protects them from attacks by desperate Earth dwellers.

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.

In a distant future, advancements in cybernetics and gene-splicing have resulted in a dozen different variants of humanity. Now, amidst deadly power outages and involved terrorist plots, a band of renegades find themselves entangled in a conspiracy that could doom everyone in the colonized worlds. Bounty hunter Emrald Re and reckless teenager Volara, fugitives themselves, must now locate not only a missing wastelander, but also Volara’s older sister Paige, who has put herself in great personal peril.

There is more after death. When Maya dies as a young child, she trains in Heaven with her guardian angel. She wants to earn her wings and become an Archein: a warrior angel. Her greatest wish is to discover the location of Zephon where exiled traitors find refuge. Such a feat would put her on the same playing field as her boyfriend and could make her irreplaceable to the Archangels. Not everything is as it seems. Maya’s boyfriend commits a First-Tier crime and an Archangel zeroes in on her with foul intentions. Two deaths force her guardian angel’s hand and he sends her through a one-...

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.

In the second book of the Carve the Mark duology, globally bestselling Divergent author Veronica Roth reveals how Cyra and Akos fulfill their fates. The Fates Divide is a richly imagined tale of hope and resilience told in four stunning perspectives. The lives of Cyra Noavek and Akos Kereseth are ruled by their fates, spoken by the oracles at their births. The fates, once determined, are inescapable.

Melias and crew have a weapon that they believe can help defeat the Lightbringers. The only problem is they don't know what it does or how to use it. Can they protect the weapon and learn how to use it or will the Lightbringers bring the darkness of death to them and the galaxy?

Thomas may look like your normal 14-year-old boy—one who attends a Galactic High School, competes with other boys for the attention of girls, and plays sports such as the extremely popular and very dangerous cyclone surfing. But that's not him at all. You see, Thomas is a Sentinel. Sentinels are born to protect the galaxy in case the demonic race known as the Nefarious ever escape their prison in Hell. When his Sanctuary comes under attack by an organization known as The Marked, Thomas, his mother, and his trainer have to journey the galaxy in order to awaken his full power.

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.

When Leader Paryah learns that a young boy from Adula can read minds, Hrain finds himself on the run and fighting for his life. Follow young Hrain as he discovers the awesome power of the Gift of Ramas and leaves a mark on the Empire that will not soon be forgotten.

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....

This ninth volume of Favorite Science Fiction Stories is a little unusual, in that it includes a few stories that are not really that short, bordering on novellas. Titles include: "The Concrete Mixer" by Ray Bradbury, "Farewell to the Master" by Harry Bates, "Bedside Manner" by William Morrison, "The Inferiors" by Mari Wolf, "The Aggravation of Elmer" by Robert Arthur, "Conquest over Time" by Michael Shara, "The Virgin of Valkarion" by Poul Anderson, "No Charge for Alterations" by H. L. Gold.