Nasmi Kol was born a slave. Now, she's a champion. But though she won the seventh game of Headspace, Nasmi has little to celebrate, for her new life may be an even greater challenge. Cast out by her family and world, she has no choice but to take refuge in the orb and become part of the game she hates, traveling from planet to planet to put other alien races through the same gruesome trials she faced. As she reluctantly sows chaos on other worlds,...

Two baby girls seating in the rear of a car are involved in a terrible accident and their mother dies. An alien spacecraft hovering in the storm above witnesses the event and teleports the girls from the burning car. The girls are taken to the alien's home world on the other side of the galaxy. On arrival, they are separated and never told they were saved from a burning vehicle on a planet on the other side of the galaxy. Twenty-six...

Sci-fi meets historical fact in this thrilling novel by ancient-language scholar Michael S. Heiser. Haunted by his parents' death and his career failures, Dr. Brian Scott has begun to settle for the life he's been given. Until he's kidnapped by military insiders known as The Group. Disappearances. Visitations. Murder. Brian and a team of world-class scholars are given a confidential mission: To prepare humanity for a new reality. They are here. But...

She was near.Deep in his bones, her essence surrounded him and the memory of her was an ache that eight long years had not dulled. His head spun with the possibilities of what this meant. His breath caught in his throat; he forced himself to exhale. He'd been frantic to find her, but his efforts had been futile. She chose this moment, when he was on assignment in Beverly Hills, to reach out for him.Why now?Why here?'When her son is kidnapped, Selena...

In Scimitar's Glory, the alien Tong won the Battle for Earth and took control of the orbital space around the planet. Humanity is now at their mercy, but not all Space Force warships have been defeated. Wolfe Koenig's light cruiser, Excalibur, is on a mission to acquire technology that just might enable the ragged remnants of the Fleet to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat-if he can find an alien race with that technology, if he can convince them...

Ava, Lennox and Heather make contact with alien Sandy and head for a profound confrontation that could mean a possible brighter future ... or the decimation of the Encedalons and the entire human race. The awe-inspiring, exquisite moving sequel to The Space Between Us, as seen on BBC Two' s Between the Covers. Six months since the earth-shattering events of The Space Between Us, the revelatory hope of the aliens' ...

After the Singularity, everyone and everything is sentient and telepathic. Aliens notice and invade Earth. In Rucker's last novel, Postsingular, the Singularity happened and life on Earth was transformed by the awakening of all matter into consciousness and into telepathic communication. The most intimate moments of your life can be experienced, by anyone who cares to pay attention, or by hundreds of thousands of anyones, if you are one of the Founders...

The first of the Sister World Trilogy, Sister World , The Arrival, tells the tale of the dangers faced by the people of Terah. Existing in an alternate universe, Terah, a mirror image of Earth, has had a very different existence.Since the terrible conclusion of their second world war, the free people of Terah have been forced to remain in hiding, resisting the brutal control of Frauliege. When the alternate universe and the means to travel is discovered,...

Being a teenager is tough. Being part of the first generation of teenagers to share their body and soul with one of the aliens who just barely destroyed the earth: way tougher. This compact but powerful short story from Ben Burgis, a relative newcomer to the speculative fiction world, places everyday teen angst on a landscape of intergalactic and interspecies conflict, to chilling effect.

In a visit to the villages, Livy, Jessie, and Kevin figure out how to turn on the defensive shield and discover new enemies, but don't get any closer to understanding why one village is in so much better condition than the other.