Hard Contact

Sam is telepathic and knows the aliens are coming. The problem is he’s also a zombie and no one trusts him. Sam needs to find allies who can help him find the proof that the aliens exist and are invading the Earth, before its too late to prepare for the invasion. Before Sam can do that, he’s got to escape the base he’s trapped in, but his every move is being watched by Michelle, who will use any excuse to lock him up and toss away the key. Can Sam prove that the alien threat is real in time to warn the world? But if Sam’s going to find the proof he needs, he’s got more to contend ...

The colonization of Mars began with vision and the power of science and money, but it didn't take long for greed to rear its ugly head. As the wonder of Mars turned ugly, the United Nations formed the Joint Academic Research and Development Organization (JARDO) and choose the world-renowned scientist Marvin Dryer to head it up. Dryer uses his influence at Harvard and MIT to assemble a team of the brightest young minds in science. Individually, they are all superstars, but together with a sentient AI cognate known as SAMI, they become a mighty force that wields unimaginable powers.~~~ “...

Before the time of man, according to the ancient legends, the gods walked the earth. The Egyptians had a name for this time. They called it "Zep Tepi" - the first time. That time is where this story began. Five Moons: Zep Tepi picks up the story 10,000 years later.... It all started with an emergency call from a world at the farthest edges of explored space. “You are our only hope,” they tell Dallas Blake and the crew of the Five Moons. A deadly virus will kill them all if the Five Moons doesn’t get the vaccine to them right away.

Their family reunion will be disrupted, however, when a catastrophe strikes the space station. The crew of the Edison suddenly find themselves fighting for their lives - and amongst the chaos, Taniya will discover that she's not the only member of the crew with a secret....

What happens when 12 civilizations from different planets meet for the very first time? Will their common origin unite them into a mighty Intergalactic Empire? Or will they destroy each other? The people of the planet Schyllus in the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy possess the "Intergalactic Map" which plots 12 planets in the Local Group of galaxies colonized by the children of the "Maker" called the "First Ones." Schyllus is one of the planets. Earth is another. There are 10 more. Scientists on Schyllus discover that the Maker has created a device in deep space—the Gryben Anomaly—that allows ...

The adventures of Christiaan, Daniel, and Hannah continue on the planet Hyperios. It’s the third planet among the 12 Planets the three Tellurians have visited. It doesn’t go well. They endure crisis after crisis. When Christiaan mysteriously vanishes while trying to return to Schyllus, Daniel goes in search of him, leaving Hannah all alone on Hyperios — for decades — just as things go from bad to apocalyptic. Daniel eventually finds his dad in a strange solar system in the unknown part of the universe called Eternity, where phantasmal laws prevail. There, they encounter a mysterious...

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.

Matthew, they thought, was just going through a phase of talking to himself. And, like many parents, they waited for him to get over it, but it started to get worse. Mathew's conversations with himself grew more and more intense—it was like listening to one end of a telephone conversation while someone argued, cajoled and reasoned with another person you couldn't hear. Then Matthew started doing things he couldn't do before, like counting in binary-code mathematics. So he told them about Chocky—the person who lived in his head.

The first novel in a brand-new series from rising SF star Jamie Sawyer, The Eternity War: Pariah is an action-packed adventure set in the same universe as his acclaimed Lazarus War novels. The soldiers of the Simulant Operations Programme are mankind's elite warriors. Veterans of a thousand battles across a hundred worlds, they undertake suicidal missions to protect humanity from the insidious Krell Empire and the mysterious machine race known as the Shard.

Mankind explores Venus for signs of life, and an abandoned alien outpost is discovered. Dr. Veronica Hatch is sent to investigate, and she discovers an alien race escaped its dying planet and colonized Venus. When news reaches Earth, humans fear the aliens will invade and conquer the solar system, and they prepare for war.

Peace is shattered. Tragedy and chaos ensues.A year has passed, and the native c'thlooq have begun a savage guerilla war across the swamps and rivers of the entire planet. The colonists of Wetworld are hard-pressed, for the insurgents have somehow acquired advanced human weaponry, and are supported by mysterious allies. Sophie Singh is thrust into a leadership role as enemies from all sides attempt to crush the ruling conglomerate her family has built up over many generations. Meanwhile, Conrad Gorski, an agent from the Vatican, is sent to New Bali to find the missing Moises Borbon, the one...

Ein mysteriöses Signal, ein Start-up, das die Welt verändern will und eine Zukunft, die nicht mehr uns gehört. Als in der Weite der finnischen Wälder ein Fremder mit einem High-Tech-Implantat gefunden wird, wittern der Neurochirurg Bill und sein Freund und Informatiker Steve die große Chance, ihrem Start-up zum Durchbruch zu verhelfen. Doch sie wissen nicht, mit welchen Mächten sie sich einlassen und müssen sich schon bald fragen, über welche Grenzen sie für ihren Erfolg bereit sind zu gehen. Zehn Jahre später hat sich die Welt verändert.

Eva ist verzweifelt. Von der Forschungsmission auf die dunkle Seite des Exoplaneten Proxima Centauri b ist sie als letztes Crewmitglied übriggeblieben. Dann hat sie auch noch aus Versehen einen verhängnisvollen Prozess in Gang gesetzt, der das gesamte System zerstören wird. Während sie lediglich auf ein schnelles Ende hofft, erwacht in unmittelbarer Nähe ein außerirdisches Wesen, das viel zu lange geschlafen hat - und nun den Auftrag bekommt, die zerstörerischen Eindringlinge von der Erde zur Strecke zu bringen.

Der Übergang durch den Versuchsteleporter von Al'Antis ist geglückt. James und sein Team haben den ursprünglichen Teleporter der Ältesten gefunden. Doch was sie auf der anderen Seite erwartet, ist nicht das, womit sie gerechnet haben. Sie finden die Antworten, die sie sich so sehnlich wünschen, aber keine davon macht ihre Zukunft angenehmer oder leichter. Im Gegenteil: Sie sehen sich plötzlich einer letzten, großen Gefahr gegenüber, die ausgerechnet ihrem Heimatplaneten gilt, der unerreichbar schien: die Erde.

On a voyage toward the boundaries of the known universe, nine misfit academics seek out first contact with a shadowy alien race. But another enigma is the Nightflyer itself, a cybernetic wonder with an elusive captain no one has ever seen in the flesh. Soon, however, the crew discovers that their greatest mystery - and most dangerous threat - is an unexpected force aboard the ship wielding a thirst for blood and terror....

The ongoing case of "The Cloud Conspiracy" is taken from the files of special agent Tray Marrow. A super-intelligent UFO crash survivor is held at a quasi-government research company named Genesis 15. He is given the name Lawrence. As an advanced species, he creates an implantable microchip enabling humans to become one with the cloud. A power-hungry loner named Larry Fledges realizes the power that the microchip holds. He steals the chip and self-implants becoming "one with the cloud". The clock is now ticking for special agent Marrow to locate Fledgers before world chaos ensues.

La forma de vida que nuestros exploradores han descubierto en Encélado les ha dejado un mensaje inequívoco: en la luna Ío de Júpiter anida un peligro que amenaza a toda la humanidad. Sin embargo, resulta desconcertante que Ío pueda albergar nada. Su superficie, hecha de lava ardiente, mares de azufre y erupciones es lo más parecido al infierno que hay en todo el universo. Nuestros héroes tendrán que desviarse de su camino de regreso a la Tierra para indagar, sin saber que ya llevan un peligro oculto a bordo.

Get all four volumes of Salvage-5 in one convenient bundle! Retired Colonel Tucker Petersen is suddenly recalled to active duty and put in charge of the Salvage-5 mining/recovery mission. Tucker travels with his crew to discover what went wrong with the CSMO mining dredge at 15 Eunomia. What they find will change their lives forever.

It's May, 1978, and a UFO requests permission to land. A human girl in her early teens and a robot exit the craft, and a strange botanical lifeform is found onboard later that night by a USAF landing party. The vehicle, robot, and the strange plant are impounded and subsequently sent to Area 51. NASA astrobiologist Gabriel Greenley is called in to study this new lifeform that at first appears similar to a botanical species known as oxalis. As a psi-sensitive, Greenley quickly learns the specimen is highly intelligent and potentially dangerous when he attempts to take a leaf sample.

Im Jahr 2117 wird die Welt ausschließlich von matriarchalischen Machtblöcken regiert. Der Architekt Alex Korden gerät in die Gefangenschaft gnadenloser Terroristinnen. Seine Flucht bildet den Auftakt zu höchst gefährlichen Abenteuern. Schließlich gelingt es ihm, das Multigenerationsraumschiff APEIRON zu kapern. Eine multikulturelle Gruppe risikobereiter Frauen und Männer unterstützt ihn dabei und verlässt mit ihm gemeinsam die Erde.