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From a New York Times bestselling and Hugo award-winning author comes a modern masterwork of science fiction, introducing a captain, his crew, and a detective as they unravel a horrifying solar system wide conspiracy that begins with a single missing girl. Now a Prime Original series. Humanity...

‘Ted Chiang is one of the most exciting writers in science fiction . . . These parables are filled with hope and humanism.’ – The Daily Telegraph From the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others – the basis for the Academy Award-winning film Arrival – comes a groundbreaking...

As World War III rages, the scientists in Antarctica are thankful for the isolation – until a group of Chinese scientists arrive at the American research base. In their truck is a dead body, the first murder in Antarctica. The potential for a geopolitical firestorm is great, and, with no clear...

One minute, I'm working as a cook, the next, I've been abducted by robocops and sent to a distant planet where I'm attacked by a ferocious beast. Then a seven-foot-tall, blue-skinned alien rescues me with crystal spears slashing. He cuddles me in his arms, and I feel safe for the first time since fleeing my stalker ex. Until he tosses me over his shoulder and takes me back to his clan where he announces I'm his new bride. I'm determined to return home, but there's something about Aizor I can't resist. Am I falling for this musclebound alien with a killer smile?

A geology grad student with a spiritual bent and a mystic from the Pleistocene find a modern skeleton in ancient rock and must risk their friendship to save the world from an unexpected danger lurking within the laws of physics. Jen Hewitt, a quiet geology graduate student, doesn't actually believe in time travel. Were it possible, rocks from the age of dinosaurs should already be cluttered with artifacts from future time-tourists. Nevertheless, she proves with fellow geologist Jonathan Renner that a human skeleton encased in Pleistocene rock came from their own time.

Der Theokratische Bund ist besiegt, die Macht der Kirche des Einen Gottes wurde gebrochen. Nach vielen Jahrtausenden kann die Dharma-Rakshaka aus ihrem Versteck, dem der Milchstraße vorgelagerten Sternenhaufen Omega Centauri, endlich in ihre alte Heimat zurückkehren. Möglich wurde der Sieg nur durch eine brüchige Allianz der zersplitterten Menschheit. Doch der Frieden ist fragil. Als im Zentrum der Galaxis ein gewaltiger Hyperschock gemessen wird, ist klar, dass dies kein Zufall sein kann.

The cronux have spread across the globe, and now a new order begins to form. Some nations have become more vulnerable than others, so opportunity arises to settle old debts. Human nature is a terrible thing... Hell on earth.

A lonely ex-lab subject on the run... Half-human, half-Perlian Zerrick has been on the run for years, from his past, and from the scientist who held him prisoner for experimentation all his life. Even worse, he’s been wrongly branded an outlaw by the organization that held him captive. Staying...

For three hundred years, humanity’s greatest works of art have been on loan at the Greenwood Museum. It was finally time for them to come home...but the alien curators were disinclined to return them. Force was out of the question. Earth’s government was clear: they were not going to press the issue. So, all we had was guile and hubris to fuel our little intergalactic art heist.

We have arrived. Descent is in progress. Ryan Pierce traded military life for a peaceful existence in Napa Valley. Everything was fine until the starships appeared. As aliens overtake the land and obscure the sun, Ryan quickly grasps that no one's coming to rescue them. He can't save the world...

Beware . . . The Cabin of Nowhere . . . On their third anniversary, young couple June and Carson take a weekend camping trip in the secluded Ohio woods to celebrate their love. But when a freak storm moves in, destroying everything in its path, their peaceful getaway quickly turns into a...

‘Our father had imagined the end of the world so often that, for a while, he believed that he summoned it…’ The Minton family is in crisis. After losing his job, Marcus begins stockpiling cans, running evacuation drills and digging a doomsday bunker in the back garden. At the same time...

A NASA scientist communicates with other civilizations. Some from planets in other galaxies. Some from worlds in other universes. Hundreds of them. Some that would be friendly visitors. Some not.

Harry can build a perfect android, but no one likes them unless he can make them more human. Harry's dead wife lends a hand, but Eva, the android, hates him. A first contact goes so smoothly that Ethan falls in love with a blue alien, but soon realizes that some erroneous assumptions have been made... An explorer becomes best friends with an artificial person that he found in his salvaged ship, and the mystery of why such a valuable machine was wiped and left for junk haunts them both. Cobb had an interest in both the vast AI systems that ran everything and how they came to be.

On a day like any other, an alien descends to Earth, unleashing untold death and destruction. Alistair watches the live news footage of the carnage, his eyes glued to the image of impossible power made manifest. The alien’s arrival kicks events into motion that no one could have predicted. Earth is prematurely initiated into a universe-spanning empire of cut-throat cultivators, beasts, and entities of ungodly power–all guided by a mysterious AI System.

Com tripés biomecânicos gigantes, querem conquistar a Terra e manter os humanos como escravos. Nenhuma tecnologia terrestre parece ser capaz de conter a expansão do terror pelo planeta. É o começo da guerra mais importante da história. Como a humanidade poderá resistir à investida de um potencial bélico tão superior?

Quando um exército de invasores marcianos chega à Inglaterra, o pânico e o terror tomam conta da população. Enquanto os alienígenas atravessam o país em enormes máquinas de três pernas, incinerando tudo em seu caminho com um raio de calor e espalhando gases tóxicos nocivos, os moradores da Terra devem chegar a um acordo com a perspectiva do fim da civilização humana e o início da era marciana.

After a devastating world war and a hundred-year rebuilding period, the people of the world have united to give mankind a new vision for the future and had built the starship named the Ascension to open a colony on Europa. Crisis arises when a wormhole takes the Ascension to the other side of the galaxy. The crew manages to find a new planet to land the Ascension on and call their new home Quail. Unknown to the newcomers, they are being watched by a race called the Ceptoids. The Ceptoids are a race of six-foot-tall centipede beings that watch these new aliens invade their world.

Pyre’s humans suffer multiple cultural shocks. They discovered the Messinants dome, an ancient construction that houses a quantum-coupled gate. More shocking, they find that sentient alien races utilize a network of these domes to journey between their far distant worlds in pursuit of alliance matters. If humans wish to join this elite collection of sentients, they must contribute significantly in trade, tech, or something of equal value. Unfortunately, Pyreans are a nascent society, and they possess none of the economic attributes to recommend them to the alliance.

The crew of the Pioneer must come to grips with Captain Malick's past to move forward. After swearing their fidelity to Malick, they venture into three new quadrants in search of answers to the strange mysteries of Sworld. Will Malick and his crew survive Sworld's perils? Or will they succumb to its harsh environments and deadly inhabitants? Will the intelligent creatures they find accept them for who they are? Or will blood be shed?