Science Fiction & Fantasy

When The Sandman, also known as Lord Morpheus - the immortal king of dreams, stories and the imagination - is pulled from his realm and imprisoned on Earth by a nefarious cult, he languishes for decades before finally escaping....

Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive....

One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished....

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it....

The Greek myths are amongst the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce....

India, 3400 BCE. A land in tumult, poverty and chaos. Most people suffer quietly. A few rebel. Some fight for a better world. Some for themselves. Some don’t give a damn. Raavan. Fathered by one of the most illustrious sages of the time....

Ram Rajya. The Perfect Land. But perfection has a price. He paid that price....

Set on a desert planet, Dune is the story of Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious Maud'dib, avenge a plot against his family, and bring to fruition humankind's most ancient dream....

India, 3400 BCE. The ancient kingdom of Mithila is divided by corruption, resentment, and poverty. An abandoned baby is found in a field protected by a vulture from a pack of wolves....

The Triwizard Tournament is to be held at Hogwarts. Only wizards who are over seventeen are allowed to enter - but that doesn't stop Harry dreaming that he will win the competition....

In the world he's woken up to, Jason's life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born....

In the absolutely packed Act II, the dark fantasy resumes and the Sandman expands into the French Revolution, ancient Rome, 19th-century San Francisco, eighth-century Baghdad, and beyond....

Big Brother is watching you.... 1984 is the year in which it happens. The world is divided into three superstates....

Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens....

As familiar to Hogwarts students as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty are to Muggle children, Beedle's stories are a collection of popular fairy tales written for young witches and wizards. So, if you're wondering what's in store...well, your ears are in for a treat....

Read by Stephen Fry himself, Heroes harnesses the magic of ancient legends in an entertaining and modern retelling in Fry's iconic and captivating narration.... 

The second instalment of Tolkien's epic tale, adapted from the original BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Having fled the Shire in their escape from Sauron's Dark Riders, Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring have journeyed to Rivendell and beyond....

More than 3,000 years have passed since the first events recorded in Dune. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides....

The Trisolarian fleet has left their home world and will arrive in four centuries' time. But the Sophons and their extradimensional emissaries are already here....

Jaya: A Retelling of the Mahabharata has the whole epic, which was originally known as Jaya, condensed into a tiny capsule in this book....

The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance....

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness....

When Addie La Rue makes a pact with the devil, she trades her soul for immortality. But there's always a price - the devil takes away her place in the world, cursing her to be forgotten by everyone....

It's the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place....

The second Dune installment explores new developments on the planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and strange, threatening environment....

"Unaufhaltsam und gewaltig wie eine Schneelawine walzte der Nebel über die nachtschwarze Landschaft. Er schien den Wald regelrecht aufzufressen. Der Mond vermochte kaum, die zähe Wolkendecke zu durchdringen, und dennoch reflektierte der Nebel sein Licht. Oder leuchtet er von selbst? Von innen heraus? Dieses beeindruckende Schauspiel, untermalt von feierlichem Glockenklang, ließ Dall schaudern. Dort! War da nicht ein Schatten am Waldrand?" Auf einer Reise kommt Dale vom Weg ab und strandet in dem seltsamen Dörfchen Blackmoor.

Auf der arktischen Inselgruppe Svalbard machen Minenarbeiter eine unheilvolle Entdeckung. In einer Höhle stoßen sie auf mysteriöse Felszeichnungen und ein uraltes Schiff. Als einer der Männer es berührt, läuft er wie im Wahn Amok und tötet mehrere Arbeiter. Ein internationales Forscherteam soll nun ergründen, was es mit dem Artefakt auf sich hat. Doch die Zwischenfälle nehmen kein Ende. Die Archäologin Anika Wahlgren wird hinzugezogen, um das Rätsel zu lösen. Bald wird klar, in dem Schiff steckt weit mehr als gedacht.

Es ist sieben Monate her, dass neunzig Prozent der Weltbevölkerung einer Pandemie erlagen, die "DER TOD" genannt wird. Chaos und Barbarei haben die Rechtsstaatlichkeit ersetzt und nur eine Regel gilt: Töte oder werde getötet. Devin, Tess und Brianna überlebten die Pandemie, doch können sie auch in dieser Welt überleben? Jeder neue Tag birgt Herausforderungen und Gefahren. Ihr Ziel ist es, einen sicheren Ort zu finden, und sie glauben, dass das dort ist, wo sich Tess' Verlobter befindet. Allerdings ist der Weg beschwerlich und es gibt keine Garantie.

Adelbert von Chamissos Kunstmärchen des Peter Schelmihl, der seinen Schatten verkauft, entstand 1813 vor dem Hintergrund der Befreiungskriege gegen Napoleon. Chamisso konnte an diesen als in Preußen lebender gebürtiger Franzose nicht teilnehmen. Auch mehr als 200 Jahre nach seiner Entstehung hat dieses Werk nichts von seiner Anziehungskraft eingebüßt - besonders in dieser Hörfassung, in der Jan Terstiege dem Protagonisten seine Stimme auf beeindruckende Weise leiht.

Jahrhundertelang leben die Drachen in friedlicher Koexistenz an der Seite der Menschen. Doch als der Purpurdrache Kodorask und sein Clan plötzlich beginnen, die Städte der Menschen anzugreifen, kommt es zu einem Krieg zwischen den Drachen, der beinahe ihre gesamte Rasse ins Verderben stürzt. Obwohl sowohl Kodorask als auch sein Clan bei den schrecklichen Kämpfen den Tod finden, leben die wenigen noch existierenden Drachen auch neunhundert Jahre später noch immer in der Furcht.

The Patrol has a strict policy of pushing any star ship infected with unknown plagues straight into the sun, no questions asked. When the crew of the Queen start dropping like flies with no explanation, rival traders start crying, 'Plague Ship!'

In the year 2020, after Zelda—evil queen of the planet Guk—has destroyed NASA's Mars base and Earth is under threat. Zelda intends to use Mars as a stepping stone to conquer the Earth, and enslave the human race. The Terrahawks have been formed to defend the planet. From Hawknest, their secret base in South America, they prepare for the battles to come.

Set in 2065, the World Aquanaut Security Patrol (WASP) guards Earth's oceans from their HQ base, Marineville. Led by Commander Shore, WASP agents battle against evil with the fearless and heroic Troy Tempest as captain of super submarine Stingray at the vanguard of protecting mankind. Together with hydrophone operator George 'Phones' Sheridan and the amphibious and beautiful Marina, Troy battles against underwater enemies the Aquaphibians, their submarine, Terror Fish and the persuasive power of their leader, Titan, the undersea Lord of Titanica.

Come ci si ritrova a sei anni a sapere cantare come una stella di neutroni? O a fare gare di caccia ai satelliti nelle notti estive? Com'è ritrovarsi un astronauta a colazione e un premio Nobel a cena? Come dev'essere, per una bambina, girovagare nei corridoi dell'Accademia dei Lincei fra mummie e lasagne? Tra formaggi che camminano, pericolose trappole Viet Cong, strampalati fisici teorici che girano per casa, dessert esplosivi e altre improbabili avventure: essere figlia di uno scienziato può essere un'esperienza dura e meravigliosa.

Science Fiction mit Tiefgang – ein Hörbuch aus dem beliebten Wayfarer-Universum. Auf der Asteria, einem Siedlerschiff der exodanischen Flotte, ist für jeden gesorgt: Alle haben eine Wohnung, alle haben zu essen, alle haben einen Job – und leisten noch im Tod einen wertvollen Beitrag zur Gemeinschaft. Lichtjahre entfernt von der zerstörten Erde haben sich die Menschen ein wohldurchdachtes, selbstgenügsames Leben im Weltraum eingerichtet.

Actiongeladen, humorvoll und sexy! Als Tiger-Gestaltwandler ist Finn Malone Streitereien gewohnt. Doch er ahnt nicht, was ihn erwartet, als er mit seinen Brüdern einige Honigdachs-Gestaltwandlerinnen aus einem Kampf rettet. Die Honigdachs-Ladys quartieren sich kurzerhand ins Haus der Malones ein, und nur wenig später erkennt Finn sein Zuhause kaum wieder: Die Honigdachse übernehmen die Kontrolle über den Fernseher, verputzen Finns Essen, schlafen auf seinem Sofa... Hieß es nicht immer, Honigdachse seien brutal und rachsüchtig? Von anhänglich und häuslich war nie die Rede.

It's Christmas time once again in Holiday Haven, and Star Clearwater has a choice to make. Her generous fiancé, Everett, won't push her to make it, but she knows it's only a matter of time. In the middle of dealing with her own relationship woes, Star realizes that her mother's new boyfriend may not be what he appears.

Science fiction, literary fiction, horror, urban fantasy, poetry, comedy—this collection of short stories and poetry from the award-winning creator of Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter has a little bit of everything. Have Spacecat, Will Travel spans a decade of novelist John G. Hartness's career, with short stories featuring Bubba the Monster Hunter, The Dead Old Ladies Detective Agency, and a few new characters you may not have met before.

The Sisters Sputnik are a time-traveling trio of storytellers-for-hire who are much in demand throughout the multiverse of 2,052 alternate worlds. Each world was created by the detonation of a nuclear bomb in Earth Standard Time, home of the Sisters’ leader, aging comic book creator Debbie Reynolds Biondi, her 20-something apprentice Unicorn Girl, and their pop culture–loving AI, Cassandra. Tales of Earth Standard Time-That-Was, from World Wars to the space race to Hollywood celebrities, have turned the Sisters into storytelling rock stars.

The Scorched Earth in the title doesn't refer to the Human's homeworld. Rather it describes the path of death and destruction that Adam Cain burns on his way from Earth to the planet Juir as he seeks revenge for the killing of one of his closest friends. But there's more. Sherri and Arieel have been taken prisoner by the Juirean leader, with a date for their execution already set. The aliens may have thought Adam was dangerous before, but they ain't seen nothing yet.