Showing results by publisher "Podium Audio" in Space Exploration

Whatever Navigator Selena Samuelson expected when her Fractal Class ship, Chimera, arrived at Earth, it certainly wasn't a brutal attack from an unknown enemy that killed more than half her crew and all but destroyed her ship. Deserted by their captain and the only other navigator, Selena makes a terrible gamble and flees for Damascene—a colony that lost contact with Earth hundreds of years ago.

Kril Granger has gathered a good crew and managed to finish a profitable job. But things are a little too hot in their usual regions, so it's time to pick up stakes and head coreward. Along the way, they'll be passing through the dark spaces of the galaxy and turning up threats ranging from overprotective AIs to invasive nano-using overlords. All this while dealing with a mixed, quarrelsome crew that would rather die than give up their secrets. It's a hard life being a scrapper. It's a harder death if they get it wrong...

When a salvage job on an old battlefield goes awry, Kril's left with no crew, no food, a suspiciously absent client, and far too many enemies. Fortunately, it's a big universe, and he's got a fast ship and the best pilot in twenty light-years to watch his back. His journey to keep 'er flying and get a crew back together will take him from rescue operations in collapsing freighters to fighting dinosaurs in the sewage canals of pirate paradises and to points beyond. The odds are stacked against him, but Kril keeps it simple.

The Galactic Legacy Federation thought the Cataclysm was over. The Starless Horrors, which decimated most sentient life, vanished over a century ago. Only, the retreat was a lie, and in a small system deep in the Dead Zone, the war against the eldritch threat has raged on, led by a group of sentient AI.

They had all—the artificial intelligences of Sol and the sailors of the Third Expeditionary Fleet alike—believed the Starless Horrors were mindless monsters: little more than beasts driven by eldritch desires, lashing out from their unknown depths to kill and destroy. But that naïve perception was thoroughly crushed after an encounter with a terrifying entity who called itself the Executor.

After her grandmother is murdered in a home invasion, Tamsin Culver leaves her cushy programming job in San Francisco and returns to her Midwestern hometown to settle the estate. What she doesn't expect is to find out her grandmother's life-changing secret. She's not an Earth native but an exile from another level of the Nigh-Space continuum, an adjacent reality with technology far more advanced than ours. What's more, her grandmother ruled there as an oligarch, meaning Tamsin is the heir to vast wealth only accessible by someone from her bloodline.

Po tym, jak Zbuntowanej Gwieździe ledwo udaje się uciec ze szponów Unii, statek wyrusza w kompletnie nieznane rejony. Wszyscy członkowie załogi są ścigani listami gończymi za ucieczkę. Żaden nie może wrócić do domu. Ale nie wszystko stracone. Dzięki Lex, dziwnej dziewczynce z niezwykłym darem, odkryta zostaje ścieżka ku Ziemi. Według pradawnego mitu, to właśnie ta planeta skrywa w sobie drogocenne skarby, zaginione technologie i niezliczoną liczbę sekretów. Jace i jego nowi przyjaciele mają szansę odkryć to wszystko pod warunkiem, że nie dopuszczą do wpadnięcia Lex w łapska Unii.

Zbuntowana Gwiazda jest pozostawiona własnemu losowi, jej silniki nie działają, a otoczenie jest nieznane. Podczas dryfowania w przestrzeni załoga otrzymuje dziwny przekaz z pobliskiej planety – ktoś ostrzega ich, że mają trzymać się na dystans, w przeciwnym razie będą musieli się zmierzyć z konsekwencjami. Kiedy w przekazie pojawia się wzmianka o tym, że ten świat należy do Ziemi, zaginionej kolebki ludzkości, kapitan Jace Hughes wie, że musi to zbadać.

Jace Hughes jest Renegatem. Oznacza to, że przyjmuje każde zlecenie, jakie wpada mu w ręce, bez względu na sytuację. Dopóki więc jest w stanie utrzymywać swój statek, może żyć tak, jak chce. Wszystko się jednak zmienia, kiedy poznaje Abigail Pryar, mniszkę pragnącą wydostać się bezpiecznie z układu. Wkrótce okazuje się, że z ładunkiem, który zabrała na pokład, coś jest nie tak. Jace wie, że nie powinien zadawać zbyt wielu pytań, jednak kiedy z dużej, metalowej skrzyni zaczynają dobiegać dziwne odgłosy, nie może się powstrzymać, aby nie sprawdzić co się w niej kryje.

After a galaxy-destroying cataclysm, a devastated Earth cut free from its universe and fell into the Spiral, an endless twist of thousands of orphaned planets, stars, and alien civilizations, fueled by both advanced technology and magic. Among the planet's refugees is Miles Asher, a soft-spoken tutor with a checkered, secret past. Miles needs to find his way in this world—and quickly. When he's hired onto the Starlit Kipper as ship's healer, Miles quickly realizes his Harmonizer-class magic isn't up to the challenge . . . yet.

Zane's robot is in possession of a famous explorer's memories, and Julia Rossi won't let it go. They hastily depart the comforts of Earth to learn of Edward Boone's fate from two centuries earlier. The Colonies narrowly avoided a second Gral invasion, but there is no time for celebration when danger is looming. At the helm, Calista and Audrey must reestablish a military presence that's unprecedented in strength and honor. Liam Lucas has been given a second chance at life and begins searching for his sister after she vanishes from The Forever World.

Propulsion scientist Dr. Todd Cunningham was an astronaut headed for outer space until budget cuts killed the mission—and his lifelong dream. Now, he's just an obscure expert in fusion-powered space travel, a professor buried in an ever-increasing pile of work. But when a daring mission is approved to travel to Europa, Jupiter's frozen moon, Cunningham is thrust back into the spotlight by the very man he blames for ending his NASA career, and he finds himself joining the ranks of NASA astronauts on a groundbreaking journey to challenge humanity's understanding of life in the universe.