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Thirty-three shorter tales of the Liaden Universe® brought together for the first time in two mega-volumes. Seventeen tales to start with in Volume One! The nationally bestselling Liaden Universe® novels are treasured by space opera aficionados for their wit, world-building, strong characterizations, tender romance, and edge-of-the-chair action.

A collection of short stories from the master of space opera. Peter F Hamilton takes us on a journey from a murder mystery in an alternative Oxford in the 1800s to a brand new story featuring Paula Mayo, deputy director of the Intersolar Commonwealth’s Serious Crimes Directorate. Dealing with intricate themes and topical subjects, this top-10 best-selling author is at the top of his game.

A Second Chance at Eden, by Peter F. Hamilton, the best-selling master of space opera, is a collection containing a novella and six short stories set in the Confederation Universe of the Night's Dawn trilogy. Sonnie's Edge appears within this collection, featured as part of the Love, Death + Robots series on Netflix.

In the wilds of a jungle planet, the Legion fights in brutal combat as Republic marines fly their SLICS from one tragedy to the next. H292, a repurposed warbot, shows the heart of a hero as he wades into the battle not to destroy - but to save.

Neal Asher has firmly established himself as one of the leading British writers of science fiction. Most of his stories are set in a galactic future-scape called The Polity, and with The Gabble - and Other Stories, a collection of marvellously inventive and action-packed short stories, he takes us further into the manifold diversities of that amazing universe.

"Souvenir" was published in Fantastic Universe in October 1954. The robot pilot informs Rogers that they have finally reached Williamson's World. Williamson's World was settled by Frank Williamson in the first attempt to establish a Terran colony outside of the solar system. No future evidence of his colony was found and it was presumed lost and it remained so for three hundred years. Rogers meets a young man after landing who assumes immediately he is from the Galactic Relay Center. He identifies himself as Gene Williamson (the great-great-great-great-grandson of Frank Williamson).

"Tony and the Beetles" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1953. The story is told from the point of view of a young boy, Tony, living on an alien world that humans have conquered. The native species are beetle like creatures called the Pas-udenti, some of whom Tony has befriended. He loses his innocence when they turn against him after news reaches the planet that the war has turned against the humans. A Ten-Year-Old Boy Grows Up Fast When History Catches Up With The Human Race.

The UK is going to rack and ruin. There are strikes, the power facilities don't have enough technicians to continue running them, oppression and a terminal malaise afflicts the country and there seems no respite from the economic catastrophe. Then Bradley Ethan Murray opens a wormhole, a passage through to a new world and, potentially, a new world order. New Suffolk is available for all 'decent people' from the UK to start a new life - free from the troubles of the UK they will leave behind them.

A nuanced story about artificial intelligence and digital immortality, Freenet plunges listeners into the far future, when humans have closed distances in time and space through wormhole tunnels between interplanetary colonies. Consciousness has been digitized and cybersouls uploaded to a near-omniscient data matrix in a world where information is currency and the truth belongs to whoever has the greatest bandwidth.

Far in the future exist two Earth empires, separated by a weapon-projected wall of space and poised for war. And George Marquis Lorrilard, a sometime lieutenant in the United Continents Space Navy (that pitiful handful of space guards) and now a space exploiter supposedly driven by greed, must change the fate of Earth and the stars.

Dark clouds overhead may stir up whimsical twists. Collected for the first time since their initial publications, Darkness with a Chance of Whimsy presents 10 tales from the imagination of R.J. Sullivan. Thrills and chills await you, but you may also get blindsided by the absurd. This volume includes a pair of stories featuring Rebecca Burton, the mysterious investigator of R.J.'s acclaimed paranormal thriller series.

When Simara Ying crash-lands on the desert planet Bali, she finds herself trapped in a cave-dwelling culture with no social network for support. Her rescuer, Zen Valda, is yanked into a new universe of complications he can scarcely grasp and into an infinite network of data he never knew existed. When brash V-net anchorman Roni Hendrik starts investigating how Simara became the subject of an interplanetary manhunt, he finds a dangerous emergence in the network that threatens all human life.

In the Year 2889 by Jules Verne is a diary of the observations of Fritz Napoleon Smith, the editor of an influential futuristic newspaper. It is an action-packed tale of technological advances and science fiction scenarios. Some of the predictions were remarkably accurate.

On a planet where the locals of a certain age go rogue, it's up to the human keepers to track the crazies. The human keepers must follow them deep into the planet through twisting, claustrophobic tunnels in order to restrain or terminate them.

But these seek-and-destroy missions rarely go according to plan...

In the darkest corners of the cosmos, a cursed ship, known as the Ghost Ship, sails through the endless void. Its spectral crew, damned souls seeking vengeance, hunts malevolent beings in a ceaseless cycle of darkness and retribution. Led by the enigmatic Captain Eldrith, they pursue their haunting mission across the cosmos, leaving behind a trail of eerie legends and whispered tales.

Eine Zukunft ohne Bienen? Was tut die Menschheit ohne die hilfreichen Insekten? Und was wird übrig bleiben, wenn sie fort sind? Einer möglichen Antwort wird in diesen zwei Kurzgeschichten auf den Grund gegangen. Zweimal Space Opera, zweimal Zukunftsvisionen. Zwei verschiedene Geschichten aus einem gemeinsamen Kosmos. Alles andere als Alltag - Der Mond bildet nicht nur das neue Heim für Flora und Fauna der verlassenen Erde, sondern auch für eine junge Wissenschaftlerin und ihre größte Entdeckung.

Grand Adventures is pulled from The Urantia Book-inspired Urtu 313 series as a stand-alone short story. Follow Mason and Bella from Rantulia to Earth and beyond! Great fun and a great, quick listen!

Gus Valentino is still an entry-level delivery driver. But when he gets a big job, delivering live cargo, he thinks it's gonna be his big break. And it's just a tiny little guy! A norblan, for a little girl's birthday present.

Jerry Waldman is a schmuck, and has always been one - especially when compared to his older brother Kevin. One day, while visiting his grandpa Lou at The Home, he saves an old man's life, forever changing his own destiny, sending him on an adventure that will continue far across the stars. This audiobook is part of the Two Moons of Rehnor Series.

Embarking on a space journey can be dangerous, no matter how short the trip is supposed to be. Going to inspect a new planet with unknown life can be exciting and well-paid. Being thrown onto the planet surface without a way to contact home base or protect oneself from the unknown can be deadly. Follow along with two men who were sent on such a journey with disastrous results. Will they manage to survive until home base can send a rescue party, or will they be over taken by the planet and the dangers they encounter?