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A sequel to Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s Nebula Award–winning novella “A Meeting with Medusa,” this novel continues the thrilling adventure of astronaut Howard Falcon, humanity’s first explorer of Jupiter from two modern science fiction masters. Howard Falcon almost lost his life in an...

"Such realistic brilliance you can see a whole civilisation in it" - The Times "Simply amazing science fiction that will have me grabbing book two" - Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars "one of the best scifi concepts out there" - Amazon Reviewer, 5 stars Stephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel...

Trapped on an alternate Earth, the combined crews of a crashed Russian spaceship, a British expeditionary force and a group of strays from the future must work together to survive, escape and discover what led them to this point. All are from parallel universes where small changes in history led to different realities, and the tensions between the groups are rising.

Hundreds of years in the future, on a stagnating and almost empty Earth, a space shuttle pilot from the early days of the 21st century is awoken from the cryogenic sleep he entered after a devastating accident. As he comes to terms with this new world, he begins to realise that their history...

It started the night Geena and Henry broke up. What was that strange light in the sky? A new star? A comet? Neither. It was the death of Venus. As if to commemorate the end of NASA’s golden couple, our neighbor planet exploded into a brilliant cloud of dust and debris, showering the Earth with radiation and bizarre particles as big as bacteria - a 10-dimensional superstring nanovirus that literally eats rock, transforming it into liquid, and then into molecule-size black holes that devour the very fabric of space-time.

A sequel to the H.G. Wells classic THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, brilliantly realized by award-winning SF author and Wells expert Stephen Baxter It has been fourteen years since the Martian invasion. Humanity has moved on, always watching the skies but confident that we know how to defeat the alien...

Thousands of years ago, a massive colony ship arrived at the Hearth - the celestial birthplace of millions of planets, ranging from habitable earth-like worlds to unimaginable hellscapes of pressure and heat. Using lightsails to navigate, humanity has spread itself across dozens of these worlds...

When Rab was a baby, his mother made a decision which would change his life. She feared he would be sent to work in the hellish mines of Mercury, to eke out his life until he was worn out, all in the name of maintaining the defense of the Solar System. But when her desperate attempt to flee with her 2 year old failed, she took a desperate step to save him. She cut off his hand. Decades later, Rab has been spared the physical hardships he can no longer endure, and is now based on the Mask, the all-encompassing structure which hides the Solar System from alien eyes. 

Im Jahr 2145 bricht John Hacknett mit seinem Raumschiff Perseus zum Andromedanebel auf. Seine Mission: Er soll die Sternkonstellation genauer in Augenschein nehmen, die in ferner Zukunft mit unserer Milchstraße kollidieren wird, und dann zur Erde zurückkehren, um der Menschheit Bericht zu erstatten. Hacknett reist nicht nur durch den Raum, sondern auch durch die Zeit, denn für die Erde werden fünf Millionen Jahre bis zu seiner Rückkehr vergehen. Wird es dann noch eine Menschheit geben, der er Bericht erstatten kann? Das Jahr 30 in der fernen Zukunft.

Wir schreiben das Jahr 2255. Das Raumschiff Shadow hat die Grenzen unseres Sonnensystems erreicht. Die Crew sucht nach dem "neunten Planeten“, ein Objekt jenseits der Plutobahn, das bisher nur theoretisch angenommen wird. Die zwanzigjährige Salma, das einzige Kind, das auf der Shadow geboren wurde, ist die erste, die es entdeckt und es mit eigenen Augen sieht. Doch was ist dieser "Planet neun“? Das Objekt verhält sich weder wie ein Planet noch wie ein schwarzes Loch. Schnell findet Salma heraus, dass es Signale aussendet. Als gleichzeitig ein Quasar 25.