First Science

The Vemus don't just conquer worlds. They corrupt them from within. When intelligence reveals evidence of a Vemus Star Probe on the alien world of Edolus, Major Ethan Gates leads a covert strike team to capture it. They must act fast. If the Vemus harness the probe, they can create a new Alpha—an elite commander capable of crushing the Kevoryn's decade-long resistance in one catastrophic blow.

How do sound and light travel? What are the different forms of energy? How do we see different colors? In this series, young listeners find the answers to these questions as they learn about basic physical science concepts. This volume includes Density, Gravity, and Moon.

How do sound and light travel? What are the different forms of energy? How do we see different colors? In this series, young listeners find the answers to these questions as they learn about basic physical science concepts. This volume includes Electricity, Energy, Light, and Magnetism.

How do sound and light travel? What are the different forms of energy? How do we see different colors? In this series, young listeners find the answers to these questions as they learn about basic physical science concepts. This volume includes Matter, Sound, and Temperature.

Two millennia after a global catastrophe reshaped Ettia, humanity is slowly clawing its way back from the ashes. And they are not alone. In a new world with bestial gods, magical creatures, mystical plants, ancient relics, and humans blessed with godblood, Echoes of Destruction follows a former slave in search of redemption, an ex-warrior hellbent on revenge, and an ancient being uncertain of his true purpose in this new world. An old terror with a new face threatens a new apocalypse. Will this be the last era of humanity, or will these few forge a path forward that inevitably saves it?

Aliens ripped a hole above Earth, arriving with a massive space station. I sorta figured we'd be enslaved to fight in their wars or exterminated for our resources. Nope. The hip-high Iglax were merchants with ugly squished faces and thick blue fur. While they weren't much to look at, they sure did have some wonderous technology. Humanity bent over backwards to appease our new merchant overlords. The boorish aliens wanted cheap labor for precious metals, and honestly, I didn't blame anyone for their hunger to be among the stars.

Deep in the icy black of the North Atlantic, a state-of-the-art submersible makes a chilling discovery—a metallic object slicing through the water with impossible speed and precision. Moments later, systems fail, lights die, and terror takes hold. On Mars, a European rover transmits the image of a stone—etched with unknown symbols—just before vanishing from the data grid. Entire neighborhoods in Nevada disappear without a trace. And in the French Alps, a champion cyclist vanishes mid-race, his GPS pinging him thousands of miles away—then gone.

This book is about the heart of religious experience, namely Enlightenment (which is finding the truth concerning oneself), and about science (which is finding the truth concerning other things), and about the relationship between them. It claims that Enlightenment is more truly scientific than science itself; and that, without Enlightenment, science is only half the story and therefore full of contradictions, of insoluble problems both theoretical and practical.

Mikal despised the idea of working with an Imperial, for reasons both personal and political, but only the invaders’ magic could repair the artifact weapon that was the last link to a family he’d left behind. Rian was a magician by trade, trying to escape the obligations of his noble birth, and the life his family planned out for him. Living incognito at the border of Imperial territory, he found his solitude interrupted by a mysterious visitor with an impossible commission.

Bloomsbury presents The Redemption of Time by Baoshu, read by Bruno Roubicek Published with the blessing of Cixin Liu, The Redemption of Time extends the astonishing universe conjured by the Three-Body Trilogy. Death is no release for Yun Tianming – merely the first step on a journey that will...

For one avid first-person shooter (FPS) gamer, the boundary between fact and fiction has not only been found, but completely crossed! A worldwide legend in FPS fan circles, Schwarz is obsessed with Virtual Reality Multiple Battlefield, and suddenly finds himself completely immersed in the game—literally! One small clip off the map leaves the Schwarz facing an unfamiliar realm filled with roaming monsters and obstacles that can't be conquered with any known cheat code. Can he stumble his way into survival in this fantasy world filled with swords and magic?

Newly discovered technology is brought back to Earth after a salvage mission. Many promises are made with this new tech, but the embedded tech goes terribly wrong. Now mankind faces a hostile alien takeover.

When ninety-percent of the Universe's population suddenly turned into monsters, Leo has no time to grieve. He must push forward and find what is left of his family. If that means sacrificing what remains of his humanity and embracing his new reality where a mysterious System is his only true ally, then so be it. After all, in a world where almost everything wants to kill him, he has to decide if he can do what it takes. Adapt or Die. Kill or be killed.

Xenia doesn’t have a choice. Omegas never do. With her Alpha gone and his brother intent to claim her, Xenia is forced to endure her heat under clinical supervision—safe, controlled, and anonymous. She expects that to be the end of it, but a month later an impossible word stares up at her. Armed with her mysterious Alpha’s name, she goes in search of him… only to find his three unmated fathers and the news that their son is dead. Heartbroken as her grief compounds two-fold, she tries to flee, but a treacherous snowstorm forces her into their home and as the time passes, into their hearts.

Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson is the first book of G. I. Gurdjieff's monumental trilogy All and Everything. Conceived as both a cosmological epic and a profound work of inner instruction, the book presents its teachings through an unusual narrative framework that deliberately challenges the reader's habitual modes of perception and understanding. The story is framed as a series of conversations between Beelzebub — a high-ranking cosmic being exiled from the Solar System — and his beloved grandson Hassein.

Randomly selected by some mysterious higher power, Vin went from dirt-poor vagabond to humanity's hope for survival in the blink of an eye. Now a member of the first wave of humans sent to colonize a planet that defies all logic, Vin is expected to leave his wanderlust behind him and focus on the greater good. But when that same unknown power gives him the option to choose a class, Vin just can’t help himself from becoming an Explorer.

Before there were kingdoms, before there were laws, before good and evil had names, there was Cain—the first child of humanity and the first to be judged.

First Dawn of Ash: The Impact The countdown has begun. Humanity has one year before a meteor the size of a mountain collides with Earth. In South Florida, Joe Alvarez, a nuclear reactor engineer at Turkey point nuclear plant and lifelong doomsday prepper, finally sees his worst fears confirmed. With his girl Valery at his side, he begins marshaling food, weapons, and escape plans that may be their only hope of survival. As denial gives way to panic, and panic to chaos, each must decide: trust the leaders who promise salvation, or risk everything on their own fragile plans.

The War of the Worlds is the classic alien-invasion novel: Martian cylinders fall down upon a complacent Victorian England, unleashing towering tripods, heat rays and poisonous black smoke. An unnamed writer is among the humans trying to flee, and it is through his eyes that we see the shattering of ordinary life by beings with advanced intelligence and weaponry. The novel's terror is timeless. Its depiction of technological shock, mass panic and sudden ruin feels both fantastical and unnervingly possible. It exposes the arrogance of empire and the horror of facing a power we don't understand.

After the fall of the First Witness Hold, Clint Colt and his battered company ride into a west that is no longer merely haunted, but waking. The old witness roads, broken bell lines, and buried lantern routes are stirring under the land, and every step toward Harrow Fen Watch drags the Ash Wardens deeper into a war over who gets to name, hear, and carry truth first.