Science Fiction

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....

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....

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....

This Audible production expertly brings to life Salman Rushdie’s postcolonial masterpiece Midnight’s Children, available for the first time unabridged in audio....

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

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded....

If you’ve done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe....

Animal Farm is George Orwell's great socio-political allegory set in a farmyard....

1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind...

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....

Lives separated by time and space have collided, and an exiled Englishman, a writer trapped far from home, and a girl destined to die too young, have each glimpsed a world that is not their own....

This collection includes A Journey to the Center of the Earth, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days, The Mysterious Island, The Master of the World, and In the Year 2889....

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....

There's a reason We Are Legion (We Are Bob) was named Audible's Best Science Fiction Book of 2016: Its irresistibly irreverent wit! Bob Johansson has just sold his software company for a small fortune and is looking forward to a life of leisure....

In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband. Their blissful reunion is shattered when she touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone ruins and is instantly transported to a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans - in 1743....

Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison - a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world...

Arthur Dent's accidental association with that wholly remarkable book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has not been entirely without incident....

Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of 20th-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future, narrated here by Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins....

An unknown vessel, not of this world, materialises in London. A colossal figure towering over the city, it makes no move. Is this a peaceful first contact or the prelude to an invasion? Find out....

It was a day like any other when suddenly the world changed. The universe reached a threshold humanity didn’t even know existed, and it was time to finally be integrated into the vast multiverse. A place where power is the only thing anyone can truly rely on....

When Chen's parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning, he devotes his life to cracking the secret of this mysterious natural phenomenon....

In this powerful narrative, we’ll find a human outpost lying derelict in space, the scout ship that discovers it, and a planet best left unexplored. From the author of the acclaimed Children of Time, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award....

United Nations Special Operations Command sent an elite expeditionary force out on a simple recon mission. Now their stolen alien starship is falling apart, thousands of light years from home....

Beneath the streets of London there is another London. A subterranean labyrinth of sewers and abandoned tube stations. A somewhere that is Neverwhere....

Weit draußen im Ästlichen Spiralarm steht das Reich Ultramar allein da. Nachdem Roboute Guillaume, der Primarch der Ultramarines, den Angriff der Word Bearers auf Calth und den darauf folgenden Schattenkreuzzug durch die Fünfhundert Welten überstanden hat, ruft er nun alle loyalen Streitkräfte nach Macragge, um eine neue Zukunft für die Menschheit zu schaffen.

Simipath Inc. versorgte die Reichen, Mächtigen und Kriminellen der Galaxis mit den Dienstleistungen von Gestaltwandlern. Doch nun werden diese sogenannten Simipathen einer nach dem anderen entführt - und viele ehemalige Auftraggeber werden nervös: CEO Minarel Tarkin und ihre Mitarbeiter kennen zu viele Geheimnisse. Der Notfallplan: Minarel muss mehr über die Herkunft der Simipathen erfahren, um herauszufinden, woher die Angriffe kommen. Gejagt durch die gesamte Galaxis, sucht sie fieberhaft nach Informationen. Doch die muss sie teuer bezahlen.

Sabine is working on a mixed-species spaceship when it abruptly comes under attack by a strange monster. When she encounters Eirlys, a set, they manage to hide together and survive the assault. They're soon rescued by Naomi, captain of a mercenary ship which was hired to kidnap the two survivors but at the last minute chose to rescue them instead—putting them, Naomi, and her crew in peril from the government who hired them. And if being wanted wasn't enough, the monster is still out there.

The day Tracy Seavers dies, Detective John Peters arrives on the scene of the car accident to find she has miraculously walked away. An impossible conclusion, had the same thing not happened to him five years before. John suspects Tracy is now host to an alien entity with incredible healing power, and sometimes sinister needs. John wants Tracy almost as much as the entity inside him yearns for the new alien hiding within the beautiful brunette. The last time John got involved with another host, though, it ended in disaster. 

The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984 when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda. Great Britain, known as Airstrip One, has become a province of a totalitarian superstate named Oceania that is ruled by the Party who employs the Thought Police to persecute individuality and independent thinking. Big Brother, the leader of the Party, enjoys an intense cult of personality despite the fact that he may not even exist. 

Segundo tomo de esta saga del padre del cyberpunk. Enviaron un sabueso explosivo en busca de Turner por Nueva Delhi, cargado con sus feromonas y el color de su pelo. Las zaibatsu Biolaboratorios Maas y Hosaka se enfrentan por la dominación mundial, mientras mercenarios como Turner o vaqueros del ciberespacio como el Conde Cero no son más que peones de un juego que escapa a su comprensión: útiles, pero prescindibles en última instancia.

Was geschieht, wenn zwei skrupellose Politiker zu Verbündeten werden? Die Welt im Jahr 2025: Donald Trump ist erneut amerikanischer Präsident und schließt mit Wladimir Putin einen geheimen Pakt: Auf einem Gipfel in Kairo tritt Trump Europa an den russischen Präsidenten ab, holt seine außerhalb Amerikas stationierten Truppen heim und verlässt die NATO. Putin lässt dem Amerikaner dafür freie Hand bei seinem Kampf gegen China.

Luhman 16 is a binary system of brown dwarfs – stars that have failed to ignite the nuclear fusion process inside them. Therefore, the sun never rises on the planets orbiting them. The crew of the spaceship "Majestic Draght", consisting of aliens and humans, must plunge deep into the darkness to help castaways fighting for their lives here, of all places. But then something happens that no one could have expected... "The Proxima Logfiles" is a multi-part series based on the "Proxima Trilogy", but can be listened to independently.

The Majestic Draght reaches a planet that could be a younger sibling of Earth’s sun. The Grosnops are looking for a second home, while the small human crew plans an experiment: How quickly does terrestrial life adapt to this alien environment? The experiment seems to fail - but then a crew member is kidnapped by strangers, and the intriguing exploration turns into a dramatic rescue mission. "The Proxima Logfiles" is a multi-part series based on the "Proxima Trilogy", but can be listened to independently.

Anfang des 22. Jahrhunderts scheint für die Menschheit endlich eine Ruhepause anzubrechen. Die Erde und der Mond sind ­zurück im Solsystem, es gibt keine Konflikte mit feindlichen Mächten, und die Menschen arbeiten engagiert an der Zukunft ihres kleinen Sternenreichs. Aber dann wächst Mitte des Jahres 2112 in Terrania, der Hauptstadt der Erde, eine gigantische Stele aus dem Boden. Sie spuckt einen geheimnisvollen Mann aus. Rätselhafte Hypersignale deuten auf eine mögliche neue Bedrohung für die Menschheit hin – Perry Rhodan muss zu den Magellanschen Wolken reisen.

Atlan im Heschiolsystem – als Imperator der Milchstraße. Das Ende des 21. Jahrhunderts Neuer Galaktischer Zeitrechnung ist angebrochen. Mehr als dreieinhalbtausend Jahre von unserer Zeit entfernt lebt die Menschheit in Frieden. Zwischen den Sternen der Milchstraße herrschen keine großen Konflikte mehr. Wie es aussieht, könnte Perry Rhodan, der als erster Mensch von der Erde auf Außerirdische gestoßen ist, sich endlich seinem großen Ziel nähern: der alte Traum von Freundschaft und Frieden zwischen den Völkern der Milchstraße und der umliegenden Galaxien.

Sie gelten nur als Bund - aber sie operieren im Zentrum der Macht. Wieder einmal sind Menschen von der Erde an verschiedenen Punkten des Universums in Ereignisse verwickelt, die offenbar in einem engen Zusammenhang stehen - auch wenn kaum jemand bislang diesen Zusammenhang komplett wahrnehmen kann.

Bin ich eine schlechte Mutter? Frida ist überfordert: Ihr Baby Harriet schreit und schreit und alles, wonach sich die alleinerziehende Mutter sehnt, ist eine halbe Stunde Ruhe und etwas Zeit für sich. Als sie das kleine Mädchen für eine Stunde unbeaufsichtigt zu Hause lässt, ruft ein Nachbar die Polizei. Was dann folgt, ist der Albtraum einer jeden Mutter: Frida verliert das Sorgerecht und wird in eine Besserungsanstalt gesteckt. Im "Institut für gute Mütter" soll sie mithilfe einer KI-Puppe lernen, was es heißt, eine gute Mutter zu sein.

Janna va a Napoli per un misterioso colloquio di lavoro e trovare un modo di pagare le cure mediche del suo compagno Eskin. Una volta lì, scoprirà che il colloquio è solo un pretesto e sarà l'inizio di un processo di consapevolezza che cambierà la sua vita per sempre. iMate è una storia di maternità negata e voluta a tutti i costi, dove le ultime tendenze tecnologiche cercano di rispondere alle ansie di un futuro prossimo molto simile al nostro.

When a mysterious event leaves nearly every human being on the planet frozen and unaware, a desperate few will do whatever it takes to prevent the AI from controlling the fate of humanity. In New York, one of DELIO’s creators joins forces with a washed-up suicidal detective and a young film maker with a dark past, while in London convicted drug dealer Alfie is saved by an abused young woman trafficked into London – together, only they can stop DELIO. But can they do it before it’s too late?