After leaving Earth, now devastated by an alien attack, and exploring the galaxy, Clover Martinez and her fellow teen survivors return home to find crystal formations in the soil that are threatening to destroy the planet, and a colony of survivors who are not who they seem.

Youth is a science fiction novelette by Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the May 1952 issue of Space Science Fiction and was reprinted in the 1955 collection The Martian Way and Other Stories. Youth is one of the rare Asimov stories with alien characters. Slim is a boy whose astronomer father is visiting the country estate of an important industrialist. The industrialist's son, Red, has found two strange animals, and he enlists Slim in a plan to...

"She believed in the mission with all her heart. But that was sixty million years ago. How do you stage a mutiny when you're only awake one day in a million? How do you conspire when your tiny handful of potential allies changes with each shift? How do you engage an enemy that never sleeps, that sees through your eyes and hears through your ears and relentlessly, honestly, only wants what's best for you? Sunday Ahzmundin is about to find out"--

The enemy spacefleet arrowed toward the armored mountain--nerve center of the Galactic Patrol. The Patrol battle cruisers swerved to meet them, and a miles-long cone of pure energy ravened out at the invaders, destroying whatever it touched. But the moment before the force beam struck, thousands of tiny objects dropped from the enemy fleet and, faster than light, flashed straight at their target--each one an atom bomb powerful enough to destroy Patrol...

On Earth, an unknown virus causes the end of days. After a full 70 years of effort, humanity unites and establishes the Human Federation State to build a huge human city, the only human city on Earth. Re-establishing a firm foothold on Earth, together with getting the top technology of the last civilization, human beings developed space teleportation technology. But because there were not enough humans to regain dominance of the Earth, more powerful...

The Status Civilization is a science fiction novel by Robert Sheckley, first published in 1960. The story is set in a future society where crime and punishment are quite different from our contemporary understanding. The novel follows the journey of Will Barrent, a man who wakes up with no memory and is informed that he is a criminal who has been convicted of a terrible crime. As Barrent tries to understand his predicament and piece together his past,...

Light is currency, light is big business on Gliese 581g. Severum Rivenshear makes a living hunting those who steal it in the form of fireflies, just to have enough light to live by. He works in the icy, perpetually dark hemisphere of Evig Natt where the sun is nothing more than an absent deity. The rest of the world pursues every pleasure beneath a sun that never sleeps. A feminist organization called O.A.K. attempts to increase planetary rotation...

First time in a Box Set all three books in "The Brajj Trilogy" PLUS the prequel short story "Captain Lewis' Broken Dreams". "Highly recommended, especially if you are a fan of Dr. Who or Stargate." Readers Favorite" Dreams of the Queen is one of the most unique "other world" books I've read." Pavarti Tyler, bestselling author of Chalk"I was addicted from start to finish." Bibliophile Ramblings A WORMHOLE TO ANOTHER WORLD. A TEAM OF SCIENTISTS...

The back-story for H2LiftShips, following our intrepid sentients in the void, the Luna Casino, and the Asteroids, with a little old school schooling and celebrations. This is where we fill in the answers to some of your questions: -How did an asteroid citizen, born and bred, learn to drive a sports-car on Earth? -What happens to you after being abandoned on a divorce asteroid? -Why is Jack so afraid of prison? What traumatized that poor little puppy? -Are...

En la exploración de los orígenes del universo, ciencia y filosofía se entrelazan en un reino de mitologías y teorías cósmicas. El Génesis y el Big Bang convergen al describir un estado preluminoso, donde la oscuridad precede a la luz, explorando misterios que trascienden cada átomo de nuestra existencia. Estas narrativas, tanto creacionistas como científicas, revelan un vacío de potencialidad antes de la manifestación. La dualidad cósmica...