Space Opera

A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible....

When the Sun is threatened by an alien microbe, the fate of humanity rests on the shoulders of an unlikely hero – and an even more unlikely friendship.

The ninth floor. Nine armies, each led by rich and powerful aliens from across the galaxy. Each team has one objective: to capture and hold the castle at the very center of the battlefield. Strategy, alliances, pitched battles, and, of course, betrayal.

Attention. Attention. The gates are down. The hunters are loose. Run, run, run....

A pantheon of forgotten gods. An old grudge between a talk show host, an heiress, and the man they shattered along the way. A rapidly deteriorating AI system. An inconvenient tiara upon the head of a friend....

A floating fortress occupied by warrior gnomes. A castle made of sand. A derelict submarine guarded by malfunctioning machines. A haunted crypt surrounded by lethal traps....

The top 10 list is populated. The sponsorship program is open. The difficulty is ramping up. The first three floors were nothing compared to what Carl and Donut now face....

He broke the chains. Then he broke the world…. A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw. Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered and outgunned, is he still...

When retired millionaire Bob Johansson chose cryogenic preservation, the last thing he expected was to be reanimated as a space probe that can clone itself. Meet the Bobs.

It is the 31st millennium. Under the benevolent leadership of the Immortal Emperor, the Imperium of Man hasstretched out across the galaxy....

Civil war looms in the Bobiverse in this brand-new, epic-length adventure by Audible number one best seller Dennis E. Taylor. More than a hundred years ago, Bender set out for the stars and was never heard from again....

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Léa Seydoux, Stellan Skarsgård, and Charlotte Rampling Set on the desert planet Arrakis...

Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed stand-alone novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet....

The mission to destroy the enemy Gateway was literally a smashing success. Except the Pirates were too late, and now not one but two of the enemy are loose in the galaxy. And they are equipped with starships more powerful than Valkyrie. A direct fight would be hopeless, so the Pirates must rely...

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it....

James S. A. Corey’s Expanse series has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide and has been translated into more than 23 languages, establishing itself as a modern masterwork of science fiction. Now, the Hugo Award–winning author returns with the second volume in their New York Times...

It all comes down to this final confrontation – the Emperor versus the Warmaster. The father versus the son. After 63 novels and a slew of short stories, omnibuses, audio dramas, and more – this is the End and the Death....

The bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! Frank Herbert's second installment explores new developments on the desert planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and its strange threatening environment. Dune Messiah picks up the story of the man known as Maud'dib, heir to...

The myriad battles of the Siege of Terra series are pulling into a taut weave of tension, horror, and certain doom. Just when you thought it was bad, it gets worse....

The final battle aboard the Warmaster’s flagship has begun in earnest, as Sanguinius defies his fate and the Dark Gods in an attempt to end his brother’s life, and the war along with it....

From the Hugo Award–winning and New York Times bestselling author of the Expanse, James S. A. Corey, comes the start of a monumental new space opera series. HOW HUMANITY CAME TO THE PLANET CALLED ANJIIN IS LOST IN THE FOG OF HISTORY, BUT THAT HISTORY IS ABOUT TO END. The Carryx—part empire...

The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller! Before the beginning... The mining ship Red Dwarf is in orbit around Saturnian moon Titan, and the bulk of the crew is heading down for their shore leave plans: A strangely reluctant hen party; a relaxing cheaty golfing break; a terminally-boring cultural...

The war for the fate of mankind blazes on. Though the outer defences have fallen, the walls of the Palace itself remain inviolate as Rogal Dorn, the Praetorian of Terra himself, uses every known stratagem and ploy to keep Horus' vast armies at bay....

As the traitors tighten their grip on Terra, Rogal Dorn must marshal the Imperial hosts to weather the storm. But not all of the defenders will survive the onslaught....

With the noble Emperor Sanguinius ruling from Macragge, Imperium Secundus stands as a lone beacon of hope even as the Warmaster's forces continue to ravage the galaxy....

Trazyn the Infinite and Orikan the Diviner return, continuing their rivalry for better or worse. Fate has given them a gift – an ancient world from the necrons' past has returned, but uncovering its secrets may prove more difficult than they anticipated. When the opening of the Great Rift delivers a mysterious world from the necrons' past back into realspace, Trazyn sees an opportunity – this is his chance to not only mend his quarrel with the embittered Orikan, but to uncover the fate of the last expedition to the Chaos-corrupted planet of Amenthis.

From New York Times bestselling author James Luceno comes a Star Wars adventure that reveals the action and intrigue unfolding directly before Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Mired in greed and corruption, tangled in bureaucracy, the Galactic Republic is crumbling. In the outlying systems, where...

The war that erupted in Star Wars:Episode IIAttack of the Clones is nearing its boiling point, as the dauntless Separatist forces continue their assault on the teetering Republic–and the diabolical triumvirate of Count Dooku, General Grievous, and their Master, Darth Sidious, fine-tune their...

The Galactic Knights Uniformed was never meant to be a paramilitary organization. If anything, it was supposed to be the opposite. Advocates for justice. Unbiased by the major galactic powers. But few things corrupt as quickly as power, especially when its being fueled by the Sorcerers' digital...

The greatest of Sylvas’ nightmares has been conquered, yet even so, he is hollower than ever. How much more will he need to sacrifice to live up to the legacy that the Aion have shackled him with? What could he possibly do to stop the cataclysm that has been set loose? The answer lies in the advancing fleet of the Obsidian Dominion as he and the others race to meet it, hopefully before it tears through what’s left of the core worlds.

Fortune favors the bold, but the stars are unforgiving. When John Carver and his regulatory officers discover a new form of alien star travel, everything changes for the starship settlers of Greenworld II. Governor Victoria Hale has returned with a new ship and a new mandate. Regulatory Officer...

Two rival tech companies compete for the chance to bring AI to Mars in this workplace drama full of corporate espionage, high-stakes science, and, yes, robot dogs. Ever since two DevLok employees left the company to start Watchover, the companies have been bitter enemies. So when a government...

Evan Marshall has come too far to turn back now. The Ascendant has shown him the truth about the Makers, the war, and the ancient power that still echoes across two galaxies. Now there's only one place left to go. The Zero. The empires are closing in, the Null Guard has paid in blood, and every faction in the galaxy wants what's hidden at the heart of it all. Whoever reaches the Zero first won't just win the war. They'll decide whether it ever ends.

Victory was supposed to mean peace. After defeating the Archon and returning from certain death, Jack Schafer should finally be able to rest beside the woman he loves. Instead, he discovers a cruel bargain already in motion. An ancient machine intelligence is consuming Dr. Manheim from the...

The first three Starsea Cycle books bundled together. Science got us to space. Magic got us to the stars. The discovery of the Gates opened the stars to humanity—and awakened the Manifold, a force that gave certain people the power to command nature itself. These mages could ignite infernos, reshape matter, move objects with their minds, and even bend the wills of others. But every mage eventually begins to Fray. After their powers nearly destroyed civilization in the Mage War, the League of Worlds took control.

Captain John “Black Jack” Geary tries a desperate gamble to lead the Alliance Fleet home through enemy-occupied space in this novel in the thrilling Lost Fleet series. Geary is convinced that the Syndics are planning to ambush the fleet and finish it off once and for all. Realizing the...

A new nemesis has risen . . . The Free Fleet is forced to respond . . . The greatest power in the galaxy is under seige . . . The entire Milky Way galaxy is about to change forever . . . The Human Galactic Empire has begun its annexation of the Alliance, and they are using tactics for which the...

A Space Marine goes on the run after an accidental radiation surge gives him extraordinary powers.

A refugee returns to her home planet in search of a missing ship that holds the key to saving humanity. As her planet's star dies, Asala Sikou doesn't have much hope for the future of civilization. She's already survived disaster once and is pretty sure she won't make it a second time. But when...

From bestselling author Jasper T. Scott. They are not from Earth—yet they rule it from the shadows. When Aldric Vale, a lone freelancer for the Interstellar Concord, follows a mysterious signal to an obscure star system, he expects to find a dead outpost—not a thriving world of eight billion...

Bob and the crew found out about some castaways, who seemed to be related to their new friends. What to do but take their friends to rescue their people? Of course, things are never as easy as they seem. Come along and find out what their shepherd has in store...

In nearly two dozen novels about the Humanx Commonwealth, Alan Dean Foster has fascinated readers with his brilliantly imagined interstellar realm—where humans, thranx, AAnn, and other species strive to work together to put the common good above selfish ends. But renewed efforts at cooperation...

With Emperor Mathison in stasis and the empire struggling against the vanhat, humanity’s last hope is a desperate expedition to the galactic core. Their mission: find an ancient race powerful enough to save humanity from extinction. But when Major Zale Stathis’s recon mission to the massive city-ship Bifrost goes catastrophically wrong, his team becomes trapped aboard a vessel controlled by the vanhat.

It's time to start the journey home. Out in the darkness of space, Captain Watkins and his growing fleet must use all the resources at their disposal to find the way back to Earth. New allies, new upgrades, and more firepower than ever before are at Captain Watkins' command, but there is also a new threat growing, one that threatens to conquer all in its path.

Firefly meets Battlestar Galactica in this action-packed boxset! Captain Xander Hawk has a simple talent: turning bad situations into catastrophes. So when a rescue mission collides with an Imperial superweapon and a galaxy-spanning war, he and the crew of the Starblade find themselves hunted by pirates, soldiers, politicians, and several people with very reasonable grudges.

Montgomery Hale is seventeen, broke, and about to commit the biggest fraud of his life. He's spent years fixing machines on a backwater space station, saving every credit for a fleet academy education he'll never afford. When a last-minute vacancy opens on the Union's flagship, he does the only thing a desperate kid with a talent for forging documents would do. He fakes his way aboard.

The Volsung Academy is under siege. Its legendary founder, Arian—Sorcerer-Ascendant of Magekind—has vanished. Rival schools are circling, sensing weakness, eager to seize control and reshape the future of magic in their image. And Volsung's new philosophy, the Path of Balance, is dismissed as exactly the kind of softness that invites predators. When Vivienne Desai is unexpectedly chosen to represent Volsung at the Mage Games on Mars, the stakes couldn't be higher.

Otis Hale signed up for one last job. He knew the mission was one-way: a colony expedition to a world at the edge of human space, where older settlers would build a foothold the young could one day inherit. At first, it looks like exactly what they were promised: harsh terrain, failing systems, and too much work for too few hands. Then the world starts breaking the rules. The colony begins to uncover signs that this planet is more than a bad bet and a death sentence. Hidden structures. Impossible technology. Phenomena no briefing ever mentioned.

With resources flowing out of the Vitri annex of the Green Empire, the damage done in former High Admiral Duon's domain starts to be rebuilt at an accelerated rate, but the small fleet Aatroxiss has to work with isn't ready to tackle the advanced ships of the Hand of Independence in large scale warfare. But when two disobedient Captains create an incident, it threatens to wreck the stable balance between the Yellow Empire and the Green Empire in the minds of the Imperial population, and Aatroxiss will be forced to enter the Separatist War far sooner than planned.

Seven years after the galaxy awoke from a period of collective amnesia known as the Gap, the citizens of Absalom Station have established a new normalcy living at the hub of recently discovered interstellar Drift travel. But all is not well for the founding members of the Starfinder Society, as tensions between the living and undead inhabitants of the station come to a violent head. Now, the undead starships and invading troops from the dead world of Eox besiege the station, threatening everything the station’s inhabitants have built.