Melon.This random and powerful thought turns the sun into a massive honeydew melon, destroying the Earth and ruining Dr. Maximilian Tundra's day.In another even more unlikely universe, an alternative Max discovers the mining colony on Callisto has disappeared. Not only has his new home vanished, so has every shred of human civilization in the entire system!These two Maxes (and a few more) must discover the cause of this decoherence and save other universes ...

★★★★★ "Funny, yet deep, this is definitely worth venturing into the multiverse for."Amazing Stories says: "Snarky as Pratchet, insightful as Stephenson, as full of scathing social commentary as Swift or Voltaire, and weirdly reminiscent of LeGuin, Alpha Max is the only multiverse novel you need this month, or maybe ever."Maximilian Tundra is about to have an existential crisis of cosmic proportions.When a physical duplicate of him appears in his liv...

HUGO AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL 2019IN SPACE EVERYONE CAN HEAR YOU SINGA century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented-something to cheer up everyone who was left and bring the shattered worlds together in the spirit of peace, unity, and understanding.Once every cycle, the civi...

Another timeless masterpiece in the Voyager Classics seriesMars – the barren, forbidding planet that epitomises mankind’s dreams of space conquest.From the first pioneers who looked back at Earth and saw a small blue star, to the first colonists – hand-picked scientists with the skills necessary to create life from cold desert – Red Mars is the story of a new genesis. It is also the story of how Man must struggle against his own self-destructive mechanisms to achieve his dr...

* WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD 2013 ** Includes the James S. A. Corey story 'Drive', now filmed as The Expanse, Season 2, Episode 6, 'Paradigm Shift' ** Includes the Pat Cadigan story 'The Girl-Thing Who Went Out For Sushi', winner of the Hugo Award 2013 *PRAISE FOR THE SERIES'Stories that speak to both head and heart' - SFX'Breath-taking,...

Hundreds of thousands of miles away on the dark side of the moon, the Russian lunar base has self-destructed - all personnel are dead, except one. Olga Sobakin, the lone survivor, seeks refuge at the rival American base.Olga tells the Americans her base was attacked by a horrifying and nightmarish creature - the pattern was the same: people vanished, leaving nothing behind but shredded clothing and an unidentifiable waste product. The Americans are skeptical of her story at first, b...

A science fiction adventure of alien contact on the solar system's largest planet from the multi-Hugo Award–winning author.In Ben Bova's novel Jupiter, physicist Grant Archer led an expedition into Jupiter's hostile planetwide ocean, attempting to study the unusual and massive creatures that call the planet their home. Unprepared for the hostile environment and crushing pressures, Grant's team faced certain death as their ship malfunctioned and slowly sank...

'Jack McDevitt is that splendid rarity, a writer who is a storyteller first and a science fiction writer second. In his ability to absolutely rivet the reader, it seems to me that he is the logical heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke' Stephen KingAlex Benedict receives a cryptic message asking for help from celebrated writer Vicki Greene, who then voluntarily has her memory erased. She has no memory of her past life, or even of her plea for assistance. But sh...

'Why read Jack McDevitt? The question should be: Who among us is such a slow pony that s/he isn't reading McDevitt?' Harlan EllisonSunset Tuttle spent his life searching in vain for forms of alien life. Thirty years after his death, a stone tablet inscribed with cryptic, indecipherable symbols is found in the possession of Tuttle's onetime lover, and antiquities dealer Alex Benedict is anxious to discover what secret the tablet holds.It could be proof that ...

“A non-stop, furiously paced story.” — Robert Charles Wilson, award-winning authorA nuanced story about artificial intelligence and digital immortality, Freenet plunges readers into the far future, when humans have closed distances in time and space through wormhole tunnels between interplanetary colonies. Consciousness has been digitized and cybersouls uploaded to a near-omniscient data matrix in a world where information is currency and the truth belongs...

He hunts in shadows. She shines a light he can’t resist.NYT Bestselling Author Michelle M. Pillow is back with a brand new sci-fi alien romance adventure.When three aliens crash into Duskrock, Arizona, empath and wildlife rehabilitator Poppy Jensen senses what no one else can—Lunar, a shadow-born operative from Zorveya’s night side, made to move unseen. He expects fear. She offers a hand. One touch sparks more than either imagined, and suddenly sec...

The Nebula-Award winning novel from the multi-award winning SF master Jack McDevitt. Also a Campbell Award finalist. Third in the acclaimed Alex Benedict series.When Alex Benedict, interstellar dealer of antiquities, examines a seemingly unremarkable artefact, he is convinced it is from the infamous Seeker - a transport ship which fled the religious dictatorship in 27th century America. With the help of his pilot, Chase Kolpath, he follows a deadly trail t...