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Six short stories and a novella from a master of science fiction, Peter F. Hamilton. This collection includes Sonnie's Edge, as seen in the award-winning Netflix anthology series Love, Death & Robots. Read by Steven Crossley, narrator of C.J. Sansom's Shardlake series. Set in the same universe...

Predator ships stream into human space in unprecedented numbers. The Colonial Marines, controlled by Weyland-Yutani, respond to the incursion, thus entering the Rage War. This terrifying assault by the Yautja cannot go unchallenged, yet the cost of combat is high. Predators are master combatants, and each encounter yields a high body count. Then, when Lt. Johnny Mains and his marines - the VoidLarks - enter the fray, they discover an enemy deadlier than any could imagine.

Colton Beck has a new lease on life. Their alliance is confident they can find their enemy in the Alruna system, and it’s all hands on deck. After the revelation of his origins from the mysterious woman on Dicore, Colton is at odds with where his loyalties stand. The truth behind Indie Hart’s dedication to the Angor is revealed, making Colton doubt her motives as well as the Angor’s. When Earth is threatened, it’ll take a lot more than one man to save the planet. All pieces come together for a cataclysmic resolution, but who can Colton truly trust?

The Rage launch the ultimate assault on the Human Sphere. Their greatest weapons are the most fearsome creatures in the galaxy - the Xenomorphs. Having fled centuries before, the Rage return to take revenge and claim the planet for their own. Now, through a deal struck with the unlikeliest of allies, the human race may rely on the Predators to ensure mankind's ultimate freedom. Yet even the combined might of the two races may not be enough.

The second original novel in an Alien vs Predator: Rage War series, continuing from Predator: Incursion as Colonial Marines units are being wiped out - and not by the Predators. This is an attack by organized armies of Aliens.

One bolt of lightning changed everything. Now Max must risk everything—his mind, his heart, and the fate of the multiverse—to bring his family back. When Max’s younger brother vanishes during a violent thunderstorm, swallowed by an interdimensional rift, Max is left haunted by guilt—and obsessed with getting him back. Years later, he builds the Draw Bridge, a device that opens portals between worlds. But just when hope returns, tragedy strikes again: Tabitha, the love of his life, is kidnapped by an alternate version of himself.

On a rim world, Captain Antonio Santana is reunited with diplomat Christine Vanderveen to protect the severely wounded Ramanthian Queen, who has fled there to avoid assassination. And they'll risk everything to save the Confederacy, billions of lives - and their future together.

With Prima’s help - or, perhaps, despite it - he has gotten to Insea, the capital of the Elven lands. Aided by Tina, who is desperate to help Justin recover from the accident she created, Justin decides to fight in the Tournament of Insea. The one problem? His chief rivals are a set of twins who believe they’re reincarnated gods - and they’ll stop at nothing to make sure they take power. Can Justin win? Will he awaken from his coma?

A movie star, a villain and a find in Siberia that changes everything, for all of us. The United States has intercepted indecipherable signals from Sweden and Russia. A team from the from the U.S. Air Force are sent to Stockholm and events unfold at an epic pace. The big question that echoes...

Two years after a Coronal Mass Ejection struck Earth, killing billions and destroying all vestiges of modern technological life, Dr. Riley Poole struggles to keep her family and career together as she continues the desperate search for her missing daughter, Julia. When Riley gets news that Julia is alive in an internment camp on hostile soil, she abandons her post with a field medical unit and races to Julia’s rescue. When old enemies resurface, she runs into more trouble than she can handle, but with the aid of old companions and new, she regains hope of rescuing Julia.

Exodus from the dying Earth began with the flight of the worm-mole ship, Alpha Horizon, to a fortuitously discovered planet, Ostara. En route mass hallucinations are rampant, and sights once familiar become nightmarishly strange. When they reach Ostara, emotions and identities begin to fray, for in what was supposed to be an uninhabited wilderness the new settlers discover a race of native people who look remarkably human.

Death isn't always permanent, and second chances don't come free. The system gives Dare no answers, only orders. The other eels are equally as unforthcoming, and Dare must resort to dangerous methods to uncover hidden information, taking chances that risk death if the system in their head disapproves. By poking at the holes in the Second Chance (SC) system, Dare discovers just how blurry its morality truly is. For anyone to escape, it’ll take working together.

Saving the Earth is just the beginning in this comedic free-for-all. “Darkness travels at the speed of light” so the gang needs to get ready, stop getting distracted, stay on budget, and what were those other things? Right, stop getting distracted.

Amiran, only son of the Hatana, spent a year buried alive on Cassia—his punishment for stepping out of line in an empire ruled by fear. But when the chains are removed and he’s summoned back to serve in the imperial fleet, he discovers that freedom isn’t freedom at all. The uniform may be clean, but the cruelty runs just as deep. Torn between who he was and who he must become, Amiran faces impossible choices: obey the ruthless general who tried to break him—or risk everything to hold on to what little humanity he has left.

“I know Artificial Intelligence has fewer calories, but it just doesn’t taste as good.” The Zoomarble Madcap Space Adventure Series concludes with Book 3, Scrapes the Nadir. Ride along on missions through odd new worlds packed with action, bad people, massive weaponry, monkey creatures, quantum security, medieval food trucks, robots, wizards, robot wizards, fat fascists, cranky waiters, and dragocorns. Get immersed in deep concepts that are science adjacent, further blurring the lines between technology and magic. Join the gang as they try their best not to get distracted.

The Zoomarble Madcap Space Adventure Series continues with Book 2: Meaner Monkeys. New quirky characters, additional limbs, senseless violence, and enemies of the scariest kind.

In a wild ride suitable for all ages, Zoomarble is a nonstop comedy action tornado with a literary flare. Siblings arriving in a quirky new town are quickly entangled in an absurd mission to save the Earth.

Following Tracer and Zero-G comes Impact, the explosive conclusion to the Outer Earth trilogy - a heart-pounding thriller set in space where the hero moves like lightning and the consequences for failure are deadly. A signal has been picked up from Earth. The planet was supposed to be uninhabitable. But it seems there are survivors down there - with supplies, shelter and running water. Perhaps there could be a future for humanity on Earth after all.

'Never lets up, from the nerve-jangling beginning to the explosive end' James Douglas on Tracer Outer Earth is a giant space station, orbiting the dead remains of our planet. It is humanity's last refuge. Riley Hale may be the newest member of the station's law enforcement team, but she feels...

The hit hopepunk sci-fi thriller starring Anya Chalotra and Chance Perdomo 'Pulse-pounding, breathtaking... like an HBO mini-series for the ear' LA Weekly When the cryptic Parallax puzzle appears online, it quickly becomes the world's most talked-about conundrum. A complex, multi-level cipher...