An unstoppable extinction level event (ELE) approaches the Earth.This impending disaster emanates from within our own solar system, yet to be formally identified by astronomers, is the vast planet named Ark. The 3400 year orbital path of this colossal Earth-like celestial body maintains catastrophic potential which is capable of destroying human life as we know it. For a privileged few, preparations have been under way for many years to save their own lives, the rest of us will perish. In ...

A soldier experiences the toll of interstellar war against a deadly alien foe in this Hugo and Nebula Award–winning science fiction masterpiece.In this novel, a landmark of science fiction that began as an MFA thesis for the Iowa Writers' Workshop and went on to become an award-winning classic—inspiring a play, a graphic novel, and most recently an in-development film—man has taken to the stars, and soldiers fighting the wars of the future return to Earth forever a...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER'Imaginative, sense-of-wonder at its best . . . thrilling stuff from the masters' Independent on Sunday'A thrilling and ceaselessly entertaining ride' SFX2040-2045: In the years after a cataclysmic eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee to myriad Long Earth worlds.Sally, Joshua, and Lobsan...

This book is not really part of the Daisy Weal series, but it does take place in, what can only be described as, the Daisy Weal universe.Two hundred years had passed, and the flagship of the Star Fleet, HMSS 'The Daisy Weal' was heading towards Cren to deliver an archaeological and survey team.An accident happened. A beam of energy from an unknown source penetrated the ship killing all passengers and crew instantly.The ship took evasive action and escaping on emergency...

Beloved American hero and astronaut Buzz Aldrin reflects on the wisdom, guiding principles, and irreverent anecdotes he's gathered—both in outer space and on earth—through his event-filled life, in this inspiring guide-to-life for the next generation.Everywhere he goes, crowds gather to meet Buzz Aldrin. He is a world-class hero, a larger-than-life figurehead, best known of a generation of astronauts whose achievements surged in just a few years from first man in space to first men ...

When you're commanding a spaceship over a mile long and armed to the teeth you don't exactly expect to be told to get the hell out …

In 1978, Sally Ride, a PhD candidate at Standford University, responded to a newspaper ad to join the US astronaut program. She was accepted and became the first American woman astronaut to fly in space! Among her other accomplishments, she played tennis like a professional, was an astrophysicist who helped develop a robotic arm for space shuttles, and later, through Sally Ride Science, worked to make science cool and accessible for girls. Sally Ride, who died on July 23, 2012, will contin...

Star Warriors - Spaceboy Mars is a Sci-Fi adventure book that explores space in 3050AD, a boys rescue from a far away Solar System. Who is the boy and where has he come from?Read the full instalment of the novel in these gripping ebooks:Book 1 - Spaceboy MarsBook 2 - Space RecallBook 3 - Space RefugeesBook 4 - New WorldBook 5 - The Uprising

We probably never think about it, but we humans are a potential food source.When we reach out to the universe with our quaint motherhood statements of peace and love, we are being very naive.One day someone will come here, because we are a source of food.One day, in the future, they did come, this is the story of that event.

NEW REVISED EDITION TO CELEBRATE THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST MOON LANDINGWho were the Honeysuckle Creek mob? And how did they assist the first moon landing?When man took the first step on the moon it was a bunch of Australian technicians who tracked the spacecraft and sent the first television pictures to the world. No, not at Parkes - the movie 'The Dish' got it wrong. They were from Honeysuckle Creek in the ACT.This is their story, told by B...

The passenger liner the Star Queen, suffered mysterious damage to its jump engines and emerged from hyperspace, close to the sun, at half light speed on a collision course with Earth. Distress signals were sent out as the ship scorched into the Earth's atmosphere to explode devastatingly just before impact.600 years later, and 600 light years away, the distress call is intercepted by a warship of Her Majesty's Star Fleet. The distress call is a radio signal, presumably because of an...

In the aftermath of a battle a ship drifts helplessly in space. Is the strange new warship they were fighting still out there? Will it come back for them? Commander Johnson faces a desperate race to get her destroyer back into action and save her crew."This is an incredible work ... suspense, mystery and intrigue.""Loved every word of it."'Independence' is a short story (6000 words) in the Two Democracies universe. The series continues with the novel 'Libert...