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A dynamic remastering of the original BBC Radio 4 full-cast serial - Fit the First to Fit the Sixth - which spawned a phenomenal hitchhiking legend The original series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, remastered by Dirk Maggs (director of the Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases)...

After three solitary years prospecting on Venus, Bill returns to Earth expecting familiar faces, old friends, and perhaps another chance with Gwen. The people are still there, but something is unmistakably wrong. Nearly everyone wears a small red star on the forehead, ordinary robots have...

Gummitch is no ordinary cat. He thinks deeply, studies his surroundings, remembers the grand ambitions of kittenhood, and has reached the uncomfortable realization that he may never become the extraordinary creature he once expected to be. Trapped indoors by two vicious neighborhood cats and...

Vencedor do Prêmio Hugo de melhor romance, Redshirts é uma ficção científica bem-humorada sobre as famosas missões espaciais de exploração que sempre acabam em tragédia... Menos para os oficiais superiores. O alferes Andrew Dahl acaba de ser designado para a nave almirante da União...

When an alien spacecraft crashes near a university, two average student-athletes, Bill and Greg, survive a freak accidentonly to discover that their bodies now host nanites designed for healing. Instead, the nanites elevate their intelligence, accelerate their recovery abilities, and make them...

When Earthman Arthur Dent learns that first his house and then his planet are about to be bulldozed, it’s the beginning of an interplanetary adventure for him and his friend, Ford Prefect. After fleeing Earth they hitch a lift with hoopy frood Zaphod Beeblebrox, who hurtles from one improbability to another - literally. With Trillian and Marvin the Paranoid Android in tow, the answer to life, the universe and everything is soon revealed: 42. But what was the question?

“Attention, this is a galaxy wide AWOL alert for a group of armed and highly dangerous defector agents...."While Joni and Renna collect evidence of the High Admiral's plans on Station Seven, Expedition Team Alpha steals away and heads back to the deadly jungles of Shrendder-X9. They have two...

Ted Langer has spent twenty years and nearly everything he owns pursuing an idea respectable scientists dismiss as impossible. His wife Marilyn has stood beside him through pawn tickets, unpaid bills, and a restaurant that barely keeps them fed. She would like one simple thing from her brilliant...

A routine voyage through hyperspace becomes anything but routine when three alien beings awaken aboard the Star Rover. They are remnants of a civilization that vanished a million years ago, and their first encounter with humanity does not go well. To the crew, the skags are hideous monsters. To...

Captain Hannah has seen plenty of strange things while hauling cargo between the stars, but the Monahan boys are something else entirely. They can swim through empty space, pass through solid glass, communicate without speaking, and treat impossible feats as casually as skipping school. Hannah...

D. P. From Tomorrow by Mack Reynolds takes the familiar newsroom comedy of wisecracking reporters and drops an impossible visitor into the middle of it. The staff of the Daily Star has an answer for nearly every question anyone can throw at them, so when a stranger claims to have escaped from...

Welcome back to Space Station Halcyon!Joey Mumbai had a hell of a time saving his space station from a code inspector. Who knew that running the place would be ten times worse?A mob boss just dropped a “little job” on Joey’s doorstep: take out a rival’s shuttle bus when it docks at the...

Murderer’s Chain by Wenzell Brown is a wonderfully devious blend of science fiction, crime, and dark humor. Its narrator has a problem: his wealthy mother-in-law Maudie refuses to finance his latest investment scheme. Since his wife will inherit Maudie’s fortune, he begins considering a...

Paul Mitchell has a battleship-sized problem. He might have escaped a cult of zealous alien women, but now the Terran Union wants what's in his head. And what the Terran Union wants, it gets. But this time, they might have to wait in line. One of the ship's ragtag crew hasn't been as forthcoming...

What happens when classic characters outlive their copyright… and someone decides that's unacceptable? Meet the Executor: a man tasked with "protecting culture" by eliminating anything that slips into the public domain. Armed with absolute certainty, questionable logic, and a trench coat...

Welcome to Space Station Halcyon! (Management is not responsible for anything that happens to you) Joey Mumbai's down on his luck and over his head. To pay off his gambling debts, he's forced to run an old space station at the end of the galaxy as a "legitimate business" for the mob. All Joey...

THE ZEITGEISTY TIME TRAVEL DEBUT WITH A TWIST EVER WANTED TO TRAVEL INTO THE PAST? WELL NOW YOU CAN!* *exclusions and exorbitant fees apply. Ash is a failed actress who is done trying to ‘make’ something of her life when she scrolls past an ad for Retro. The algorithm thinks she can afford...

Commissar Ciaphas Cain and the Valhallan 597th are in the thick of it again, putting down an uprising of Chaos cultists on an Imperial mining world. Though their mission is a success, they find evidence that the corruption might have spread to other planets and that the forge world of Ironfound could now be at risk. The munitions Ironfound produces are vital to the Imperial war effort in the subsector; its safety must be assured at all costs. As battle explodes across the planet, Ciaphas Cain and his regiment come up against allies and enemies old and new in their fight for victory.

Upon returning to Valia after his journey to Caelford and the Unclaimed Lands, Corin Cadence is confronted with a familiar foe—his own father. While his strength has vastly increased since his last encounter with Magnus Cadence, Corin knows that he’ll need every trick at his disposal—and maybe a few new ones—if he wants to survive a duel with his father intact. While Corin struggles with his family, his friends must face a second year at Lorian Heights with new classes, familiar but new chancellor, and deadly new enemies both on and off the campus. 

The military SF sequel to his extraordinary Old Man's War, John Scalzi's The Ghost Brigades is the second in The Old Man's War series. Who can you trust, if you can't trust yourself? Three hostile alien races have united against humanity, determined to halt our expansion into space. The...