For decades, Earth has been absorbing the displaced life-force of a dead world. The energy has to go somewhere — into wildlife, into biomass, into a biosphere quietly buckling under weight that was never meant for it.Structural analyst Jack Langub is the only one who has mapped where it ends. Forced off the grid and hunted by the government he tried to warn, he is taken to a classified bunker and given four months to stop a collapse that has already begun.The answer isn't a...

On a planet shrouded in darkness, a stranded crew must fight for survival. But, the darkness may have plans of its own in this wildly original story from Adrian Tchaikovsky, Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke Award–winning author of Children of Time.They looked into the darkness and the darkness looked back . . .New planets are fair game to asset strippers and interplanetary opportunists – and a commercial mission to a distant star system discovers a moon t...

A NASA crew sets out on a one-way mission to Saturn's largest moon in this adventure from the bestselling multiple British Science Fiction Award winner.Possible signs of organic life have been found on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. A group of visionaries led by NASAs Paula Benacerraf plan a daring one-way mission that will cost them everything. Taking nearly a decade, the billion-mile voyage includes a "slingshot" transit of Venus, a catastrophic solar storm, and a ...

'A stellar collection' - AMAZING STORIES'This is exciting stuff' - LOCUS'Mission accomplished' - ROCKET STACK RANKHOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM...Life is fragile. The difference between success and failure can come down to nothing - the thread of a screw, the flick of a switch - and when it goes wrong, you fix it... or someone dies.Mission Critical take...

Return to the eon-spanning and universe-crossing conflict between humanity and the unknowable alien Xeelee in this collection of stories, available in ebook for the first time!Baxter's future history, known as the Xeelee sequence, is an exemplar of the form: it comprises his first four novels - Raft, Timelike Infinity, Flux and Ring - and these marvellous linked stories, as well as those in the new collection XEELEE: ENDURANCE.Contains 21 short stories, all set in the XEELE...

It came here decades ago—and it's devouring our planet: "Literally earth-shattering action . . . Baxter provides the sense of wonder of classic science fiction." — Denver PostIt starts when Venus explodes into a brilliant cloud of dust and debris, showering Earth with radiation and bizarre particles that wipe out all the crops and half the life in the oceans, and fry the ozone layer. Days later, a few specks of moon rock kicked up from the last Apollo missi...

Signs of life have been found on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.A group of visionaries led by NASA’s Paula Benacerraf plan a daring one-way mission that will cost them everything. Taking nearly a decade, the billion-mile voyage includes a ‘slingshot’ transit of Venus, a catastrophic solar storm, and a constant struggle to keep the ship and crew functioning.But it is on the icy surface of Titan itself that the true adventure begins. In the orange methane slush the astronauts w...

* NOMINATED FOR THE LOCUS AWARD 2017 *PRAISE FOR THE SERIES'Stories that speak to both head and heart' - SFX'Breath-taking, staggering, sublime' - REACTOR'These volumes stand with the very best original anthology series ever in the field' - LOCUSBUILDING TOWARDS TOMORROWSense of wonder is the lifeblood of science ficti...

A humorous and practical guide to the history and science of understanding the weather including how to build your own barometer!For as long as man has walked upon this earth, he has been forced to survive under the cruel tyranny of weather. Let's face it: there is no escape. Now, in Man vs. Weather, humorist Dennis DiClaudio offers up the knowledge to beat weather at its own game. Rooting through conventional wisdom, discovered gadgetry, and the advances ...

From Andrew Bannister, author of Creation Machine and Iron Gods, comes the final thrilling, heart-in-mouth science fiction novel of the Spin.A hundred millennia has passed since the events of Iron Gods. The Spin is dying, and its few inhabitants live unknowingly in the relative paradise of one of hundreds of Virtual Realities—'vrealities'—or they scrape a living out of remains of the real world.As the vrealities drain the last resou...

Across the gulf of space lies a humming, perfectly balanced habitat—and a presence that has learned far more than we planned. Physics of Solitude is a sleek, unsettling sci-fi thriller about autonomy, control, and the thin line between stewardship and sovereignty. Come for the hard science and Martian mood; stay for the psychological chess and the slow, delicious realization that you are not in charge. Welcome to the habitat. House rules apply.

EarthCentre: The End of the UniverseIntroduction...a journey, back and forth in Time, a funfairgroundride through the EarthCentre theme park, of the future, and passing, and present-time, of the reader...to the End of the Universe.A journey through myth and human character building, the creation, EarthCentre: The End of the Universe.Through world mythology astrology and cosmology and earth sciences to the modern times and beyond.From Universal Giants to Super...