Valentina knows how to live in the community spread throughout the old mining caves under the Martian ice cap. A violent place in a forbidding climate, but home for her and her brother. Until she wakes from a coma to find her brother gone. Her father thinks her incapable of following them back to the equatorial cities. He underestimates her – her stubbornness, her courage and her inventiveness. But she underestimates the cold, airless surface of Mars. A journey from the polar ice cap to the M...
A Spark of White Fire (Celestial Trilogy, #1)
by Sangu Mandanna
Named one of the best 25 space opera books by BookRiot! The first book in a scifi retelling of the Mahabrahata. When Esmae wins a contest of skill, she sets off events that trigger an inevitable and unwinnable war that pits her against the family she would give anything to return to. In a universe of capricious gods, dark moons, and kingdoms built on the backs of spaceships, a cursed queen sends her infant daughter away, a jealous uncle steals the throne of Kali from his nephew, and an exiled...
Adam Exiled blends imaginative sci-fi with real-world science and historical non-fiction to create something not only entertainingly fresh, but deep thinking, too. Written for young adult science-fiction fans and up, it presents a new perspective on our universe and the many beings that inhabit it.Book II in the award-winning, bestselling, Adam X series has landed on Earth. Although, it’s landed many millennia earlier than its characters had first expected!Three years ago, the Human Adam 10 and...
The Body in the Catacombs (The Ritchie and Fitz Sci-Fi Murder Mysteries, #3)
by Kate MacLeod
His parents murdered. His home destroyed. If they find him, all hope is lost. Now he must place his trust in an extraordinary woman and a forbidden power. Since his earliest memories, the blue orb has dwelled within Crix Emberook. He was instructed to never call upon its enigmatic power in fear that everything would be lost. It was a close friend that must be ignored. He was always able to endure this struggle until a mysterious, black ship blinked into the skyline and crashed nearby. His quest...
Star Challengers
by Rebecca Moesta, Kevin J. Anderson, and June Scobee Rodgers
Dark Secrets of an Inhuman Race Lie Hidden Beneath the Seas of Venus!Eric John Stark travels the shores of Venus' gaseous red seas seeking the whereabouts of a missing comrade. Pursuing this mystery puts him in the hands of the Lhari, a cruel and power-hungry family that rules over the pirate enclave of Shuruun!Beneath the waves, the Lhari's doomed slaves live and toil among ancient ruins, seeking out the lost super-weapon of the precursors. And Stark must join them or die!If Varra, a vain and p...
One space station.One throne. And the girl who holds the key.Tesla Petrov, daughter of an infamous traitor, no longer lives a life of promise in the Atlas space station's elite flight training program. Stripped of her military rank and banished to the slums, she now scrapes out a brutal existence competing in illegal robot fights for Minko, ruthless leader of the Red Ashes crime syndicate. But when a wrong move costs her a fight—and a fortune—for the crime lord, Tesla knows her days aboard the A...
"He screamed as his entire body dissolved before his eyes, then flowed up the beam of light and into the spaceship." One day James is abducted by aliens, and if that didn't freak him out enough he finds out he has been transported into the midst of a galatic war. He has to escape, but how? There are man eating aliens everywhere, deadly space battles erupting all around him and the key to victory in the war is buried deep within his mind. This isn't like a normal day at school this is going to be...
What's the difference between the monsters you fight against and the monsters you fight for? What do the multiverse and teenage super soldiers have in common? Nothing. And that's Ryn Whittaker's problem. Ryn is a Citadel, specially chosen and trained to guard a Rift - one of fourteen unpredictable tears in the fabric of the universe that serve as doorways to alternate Earths - and she's one of the Allied Rift Coalition's best, until the day eighteen-year-o...