Space Travel Fiction

Two novellas set in Aliette de Bodard’s award-winning, critically acclaimed Xuya universe, a timeline where Asia became dominant, and where the space age has Confucian galactic empires of Vietnamese and Chinese inspiration. Contains The Citadel of Weeping Pearls and The Tea Master and the Detective.

In this fast-paced, science fiction / fantasy novel, the reader is presented with mysteries to solve. An alien named Haden, who wields devastating power, threatens life on earth. What sort of creature is Haden? What are his goals? Can he be stopped? Peter Landen, a young teacher, makes first contact with the alien forces. Later in the novel, Captain Edward Morley, the commander of the Emerald Warrior spaceship, leads a mission to Noelm, the planet where the mysterious Haden dwells. Landen, Morley, and their allies find that the situation of Noelm is complicated by a fellow American who has ...

He wants to quit, but his enemies won’t let him.Dyron Dyrge has had enough. With the death of his only friend, he decides to give up on dueling and retires to a garden world, losing himself in a haze of psychedelic-fueled oblivion. But after narrowly avoiding an attempt on his life, he must once again channel his lethal skills and abilities to find out who is hunting him. Meanwhile, Alix has returned to the place of her birth, a frozen planet full of intrigue and danger, in order to reclaim her lost birthright. The road to power will not be an easy one, yet she knows there can be no ...

On the primitive world Cull, a knight errant called Anderson hunts a dragon, not knowing that elsewhere is a resurrected brass killing machine, Mr Crane, assisting in a similar hunt. Learning that this old enemy still lives, agent Cormac pursues while scientist Mika begins discovering the horrifying truth about an ancient alien technology. Each day is a survival struggle for the people of Cull. Ferocious insectile monsters roam their planet as they try to escape to their forefathers' starship, still orbiting far above them.

A year-long period of civilian unrest, which started when Zax revealed his discovery of an unknown spacecraft from Earth, finally erupts into a full-blown revolution. He is thrust into the middle of the rebellion, alongside longtime friends and enemies, where his special talents make the difference between life and death. Zax eventually puts himself into a position where he can rocket back to the top of the leaderboard and restore his career - at a price.

She was taken to a strange, very dangerous but beautiful world. Perhaps a better place ... for her. Teenage Hailey Sharpe loved California, online friends and Manga. Then her family relocates to a place her parents never envisioned. Unknown forces rip them from their comfortable life as they flee Earth to the dark regions of orbiting Skyport, are swept along by mysterious strangers and start an even more incredible journey to the ‘boonies’ of Old, Old Earth. There she meets strange people and discovers a magical, pandora-like universe quite different from anything she could imagine. ...

As an infant, George Burgess was placed aboard a spaceship, alone, and sent on a mission toward the outer edge of the Milky Way. Along the way the young boy was raised by robots and educated remotely by the world’s top professors, all under the strict guidance and supervision of the mysterious Grand Master. As he grows older, the highly intelligent young man becomes more in tune with his surroundings, uncovers irregularities in the system that controls him and begins to question everything he’s been told. He discovers Earth’s Internet and social media, and learns about the distant ...

"The only one enjoying himself in there is the grim reaper." The Crossroad system is a battleground. The Keerah only want to conquer. The Ralnor want control. The Trixone want new eating grounds. All of them want what they think Jon Hunter has. Jon is fighting a war on seven fronts, while trying to stay out of politics and diplomacy at home. As the death toll mounts, Jon is confronted with options, all of which carry an unacceptable body count. And in the midst of it all, old choices suddenly have consequences. In the middle of everything, lies the Reaper's Crossroad. The Hunter Legacy ...

The long awaited sequel to Hero to the End. A new beginning. Tech and Magic must come together to survive! Jon Hunter thinks he's done enough. But since when did he get any say in the matter? 15,000 people, 4 main stations, and 15 large ships, somewhere in the galaxy, unexpectedly looking for a new start. Jon sees himself as their protector, at least until his people build their own new society, without him in charge. Thorn has been waiting for Jon Hunter for 82 years. 3100 years ago, Thorn had to save humanity. One week ago, Jon did save humanity. Just different groups. Both have done the ...

Deadwood, USA. A girl sneaks out just before dark to ride her new bike. Suddenly, the ground disappears beneath her. Waking up at the bottom of a deep pit, she sees an emergency rescue team above her. The people looking down see something far stranger.... That girl grows up to be Dr. Rose Franklin, a brilliant scientist and the leading world expert on what she discovered.

The Chevalier Sanctorum have stood as humanity’s guardians for millennia, knights at the edge of the cosmos battling enemies born from nightmares. But when the relentless Syndroids—a race of synthetic horrors—push the galaxy to its breaking point, the powerful Federation of Humanities remains blind to the war’s true scale, ignoring warnings of annihilation while pursuing their own agendas. Meanwhile, Berto, a disillusioned engineer on Earth, finds himself inexplicably drawn into a conflict he’s woefully unprepared for. When two mysterious women crash into his life, they reveal ...

Love knows no bounds… In this science fiction anthology, love has no limits across space and time. From Artificial Intelligence, aliens, and intergalactic royalty. From headstrong characters fighting the status quo to those struggling to keep afloat in a tumultuous world. One way or another, their love will survive. Featuring stories by Frank Sawielijew, Kevin A. Davis, Wris Kaye, David W. Landrum, E.B. Hunter, Lyle Hopwood, Amanda Barrett, Katie Kent, T.C. Mill, and Barend Nieuwstraten III. Graphic sexual content is included within this anthology.

We, humans, have always assumed that only aliens could pose an extraterrestrial threat to our existence on Earth. We were wrong. Totally wrong.

Commander John Craig is a new kind of science-fiction hero: worldly, daring, incredibly ingenious. Beyond The Black Enigma presents him with one of his most devilish challenges: to pierce and destroy an insidiously growing menace to the future of Earth itself. Even the most jaded science-fiction reader will thrill to Commander Craig's dangerous exploits as he risks his life in strange worlds never before invaded by men from earth! The black Enigma could be anything from a mere vibration to the gaping maw of a hideous space beast. Whatever it was, special agent John Craig of the Alert ...

Thomas Baldwin transfers to Ridele, the capital of Nolix, and the center of the Concord political arena. He must navigate the new role, while his former crew sets off on an important mission without him. Captain Treena Starling deals with her new reality, while finding herself on a journey to the fabled planet Earth. Are humans really descendants from the mysterious world?

From 800 years in the future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity. Those coming through it have been tasked with taking the alien 'Maker' back to its home civilization in the Small Magellanic cloud. Once these refugees are safely through, the gate itself is rapidly shut down - because something alien is pursuing them. From those who get through, agent Cormac learns that the Maker civilization has been destroyed by a pernicious virus known as the Jain technology.

Emmeline Augury and hitchhikers from the past escape the city and are thrown into a perilous world bombarded by asteroids. Before she can fathom her situation, a pack of ravenous predators capture the group and drag them into their lair of darkness. On the other side of the galaxy, ensnared by powerful aliens, Titan and Prometheus face imminent danger. Captain Mykel Lockhart’s absence hangs like a foreboding storm. Stranded and defenseless, Commander Anastasia Waters' situation worsens as the crew begins to vanish one after another. In a chilling turn, the living perished, and the dead ...

Earth Date 2096-08-25 16:52:58 Star Dancer Michael He got a good look at Petra as he flagged her through the air-locks: All fresh air; your basic space bug-Earth bug delousing unit. People had at one time believed that space was sterile. A few serious contaminations early in the century had stopped that. Of course the delousing process rendered you sterile. It was the same, male or female. The price you paid, so you banked your eggs or your sperm and didn't give it any more thought. Space travel, constant radioactive exposure, caused all sorts of birth defects. It only made sense. She was ...

From the moment they land on the planet Androzani Minor, everything goes wrong for the Doctor and his new young companion, Peri. They become involved in the struggle between brutal gun runners, ruthless Federation troops, and the hideously mutilated Sharaz Jek, who lurks in the depths of the caves with his android army. Key to the struggle is spectrox, the most valuable substance in the universe. Suitably processed, spectrox is an elixir of life, but in its raw state it is a deadly poison - a fact which will cost the Doctor another of his Time Lord lives....

Charles speaks. And what a tale he has to tell. Charles’s obsession with immortality is well known, as are his methods for achieving it. But what about the side effects? So far, most of them have been positives, for him: telepathy, mind reading, creating things with his bare hands. Will there be any negatives? Oh yes. And now the entire galaxy is in peril.