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Maya Hoshimoto was once the best art thief in the galaxy. For ten years, she returned stolen artifacts to alien civilizations—until a disastrous job forced her into hiding. Now she just wants to enjoy a quiet life as a graduate student of anthropology, but she’s haunted by persistent and disturbing visions of the future. Then an old friend comes to her with a job she can’t refuse: find a powerful object that could save an alien species from extinction. Except no one has seen it in living memory, and they aren’t the only ones hunting for it.

This anthology of short stories takes the listener to Connecticut, Boston, Guam, Savannah, Houston, San Francisco, Oregon, and overseas. Valiant tank crews, creative techs, brave officers, plucky drone operators, bold medics, cunning pararescue troops, determined ASHUR and Trident pilots, and daring militia units wage war along every coastline in the US.

The Aftermath is the beginning of a new era for the remaining inhabitants of Earth, who survived two global pandemics. The president of the US is informed by a Pleiadian emissary that the present way of life on planet Earth is a threat to the other more advanced civilizations. Hence, the recent visitations and observations.

Der Feind kommt immer näher, ein Sternsystem nach dem anderen fällt ihm zum Opfer. Mit jeder Sekunde wird die Lage dramatischer. Unatari - das Sternsystem von Kronprinz Georg - wird von den Aliens bedroht. Höchste Zeit, dass Ruslan zurückkommt, um alles, was ihm am Herzen liegt, vor der drohenden Vernichtung zu bewahren und "Perimeterverteidigung" zu retten - das Spiel, das sein Lebensinhalt geworden ist.

David Banks reads this action-packed novelisation featuring the Sixth Doctor and Peri. What links a diamond raid in 20th Century London, a secret base in the heart of the city's sewer system, a cold and desolate planet light years from Earth, and a daring plan to alter the entire course of...

Follow a young Tayamni woman from her origins at ancient Kemet to Tupelo, Mississippi, at 1962. Betrayed by her own people, she is nevertheless tasked with salvaging the Tayamni mission at Earth. She must travel 6,000 years into the future to rescue a young boy, who will be instrumental in helping humanity to evolve.

The Age of Rifts began thirteen years ago when the first black sphere appeared on Earth, teleporting everyone within its radius to an alien realm where they fell prey to otherworldly creatures. Those who survived and returned home found white crystal shards grafted onto their chests. Imbued with energy, these Riftshards grant people supernatural abilities. Known as Rifters, they have become Earth's first line of defense against this unpredictable invasion, able to enter the spheres and fight the monsters and evolving with greater powers after every battle.

The Most High Federation of Planets did not spring into being overnight. It grew one civilization at a time. Here are a few of their stories.

One by one, I've seen my friends fall in love with the alien warriors on this planet. More than any other single girl on this planet, I want what they have—a mate. After a childhood in foster care and an adulthood littered with crappy boyfriends, I just want to find my place, my home, love. I want it more than anything, and I'm ready for it. What I'm not ready for? An enemy Gahn from beyond the mountains attacking our settlement in the dead of night. And even more than that? This bleeding Gahn with piercing silver eyes and brutal blades claims that I'm his mate.

Sisento, the co-leader of the planet Angonia, has had enough of humanity and plans to punish the inhabitants of Earth for their of their off-path behaviors of constant war and lethal pollution of a planet billions of years in the making. Consumed by a notion to speed up humanity’s already rapidly approaching extinction, Sisento intends for the humans to truly feel the consequences of their actions by causing worldwide chaos, pain, and widespread panic. And he plans to do so by destroying Earth’s only moon.

The galaxy is still reeling from the recent incursion of the Destroyers, an all-too-real enemy that more than lives up to their name. With another strike looming on the horizon, humanity leads the charge to uncover the secrets of subspace—a technology in widespread use across the galaxy but truly understood by no one. The race is on for the scientific breakthrough that will save the Milky Way.

A composer's music signals inadvertently reach an undiscovered alien civilization, sparking access to universal knowledge. The Frequency, an electrifying tale that seamlessly blends music, discovery, and the infinite wonders of the universe.

The continuing story of Cathy Rodriguez—a senior observer in the Interplanetary Geographic Service. Cathy is recalled from her observer duties, as she is asked to establish first contact with a new life form. Meanwhile, the conspiracy to prevent humans changing their non-Intervention policy continues to try and kill her. Together with Marta De Jaste, a senior investigator, and Tony Briggs her former jailer and security officer, they travel to the chosen planet.

Hazard King finally managed to win peace with the Swarm, and he stabilized the Marxist Federation and helped create a more democratic new government on Lenin. The Black Dragon virus, though, continues to kill thousands there, and Imperial Scientists have finally admitted that antidotes are beyond their ability. Worse, it is only a matter of time before the virus makes it off planet, an event that is sure to kill billions and bring down the empire. But there is hope. If they can find the original virus, the creation of a vaccine may be possible.

Dr. Tahira Piriyeva has the world's attention as she expounds the true danger of the riebeckite threat. When an old friend unexpectedly offers her the chance to be the first to examine a new sample retrieved from the moon, she puts her speaking tour on hold and hastens to investigate. But the journey is not what it seems, the sample is not what she expects, and the even more horrifying truth about the riebeckites' origins begins to reveal itself.

A young man in search of love and an MBA comes face to face with everything from 2 and a 1/2 dimensional nanobots to a thrill-seeking doppelgänger.

Rex Walker, Anthropologe am Bostoner College, wäre gern wie sein Vater, der vor langer Zeit spurlos verschwand: ein wagemutiger Abenteuer auf der Suche nach geheimnisvollen Relikten. Doch davon ist sein Leben als Professor weit entfernt - bis er einen versteckten Hinweis auf den Verbleib seines Vaters entdeckt. Mit Hilfe seines Freundes Marcus lässt er sich von einem Milliardär engagieren, der ihm von einer sagenumwobenen "Brücke" berichtet, die angeblich außerirdischen Ursprungs ist. Gleichzeitig wird publik, dass sich ein interstellares Objekt dem Zwergplaneten Pluto nähert.

The alien "gods" enslaved humanity, but a rebellion is being born. Jaisa longs to join the resistance, yet serves as a concubine to her “husband”, a brilliant but deranged scientist. His latest lab creation is Eo, a woman he designed from a cocktail of genes and memory infusions. Eo’s sole purpose: to hunt down the rebels as the flaming sword of the gods.

Jaisa’s running out of time. Her husband has created a serum that will solve all the aliens’ problems and destroy the rebellion for good...by removing everyone’s memories of the world before. Without recalling the old world or her secret rebellions, Jaisa will no longer be pretending—she’ll become the perfect little doll, and forget what it means to be human at all.

There are a million ways to end up in the Alien Bride Lottery, but it takes only one. Every unmarried female human over the age of 21 gets entered once a year. You can also accept extra entries for legal infractions—instead of paying a parking fine, for example, you can request an extra entry. Lots of women do that. I mean, why not? The chances are astronomical that your name will get chosen to be one of the hundred or so women who get shipped off to space every year.