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In the 29th century, humanity’s vast Hegemony spans dozens of worlds connected by farcaster portals, while the enigmatic Shrike guards the Time Tombs on the lone planet Hyperion. A diverse pilgrimage of chosen individuals must each recount why they were summoned to witness the tombs’ reverse time cycle.

Arthur C. Clarke expands the 2001 universe in 2010, odyssey two, answering lingering questions about the Star-Child, the monoliths, and HAL, while charting humanity’s next leap into outer space.

Dr. Elwin Ransom, a philologist, is kidnapped to the alien world Malacandra, where he must escape a human sacrifice plot and discover that the planet’s inhabitants are not what the kidnappers believed.

The third volume of C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy, *That Hideous Strength* follows philologist Dr. Elwin Ransom as he confronts a powerful technocratic organization, N.I.C.E., threatening Earth with supernatural forces and moral calamity.

A science fiction sequel to Blue Remembered Earth, On The Steel Breeze follows humanity’s expansion into new worlds, tackling interstellar voyages, alien encounters, and the quest for a utopian future.

Sequel to On the Steel Breeze.

After 57 years, Ellen Ripley is revived from hypersleep and dismissed when she reports a deadly alien encounter. Donned in a new mission, she and a squad of Colonial Marines revisit LV‑426 to confront the threat again.

NASA engineers, led by scientist Paula Benacerraf, launch a one‑way expedition to Titan to seek signs of organic life, facing a decade‑long interplanetary journey that includes a Venus slingshot, a solar storm, and relentless technical challenges.

After its historic first voyage, the damaged USS Enterprise repairs at the alien‑launched Starbase 47, the Vanguard, where Captain Kirk, Spock, and the crew uncover a hidden plot threatening the entire Taurus Reach.

THREE THRILLING STAR TREK NOVELS IN ONE VOLUME! Half a decade after the Dominion War and more than a year after the rise and fall of Praetor Shinzon, the galaxy's greatest scourge, the Borg, returns to wreak havoc upon the Federation – and this time, its goal is nothing less than total annihilation. Elsewhere, deep in the Gamma Quadrant, an ancient mystery is solved. One of Earth's first generation of starships, lost for centuries, has been found dead and empty on a desolate planet. But its discovery so far from home has raised disturbing questions, and the answers harken back to a struggle for survival that once tested a captain and her crew to the limits of their humanity. From that terrifying flashpoint begins an apocalyptic odyssey that will reach across time and space to reveal the past, define the future, and show three captains that some destinies are inescapable. For Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise, defending the future has never been so important, or so personal – and the wrong choice will cost him everything for which he has struggled and suffered. For Captain William T. Riker of the USS Titan, that choice has already been made – haunted by the memories of those he was forced to leave behind, he must jeopardize all that he has left in a desperate bid to save the Federation. And for Captain Ezri Dax of the USS Aventine, whose impetuous youth is balanced by the wisdom of many lifetimes, the choice is a simple one: there is no going back – only forward to whatever future awaits them...

A tense interplanetary expedition turns into a race against a cunning killer as scientists hunt an alien species, but the murderer could be a hostile alien—or a colleague.

Physically disadvantaged Carialle chooses to become a shellperson spaceship, partnering with Keffas to search the galaxy for intelligent life, only to uncover a world of enslaved humans and powerful sorcerers on Ozran.

When a battered ship called the Nautilus arrives aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, its crew claims to be freedom fighters from the future intent on saving the Federation from the corrupt Consilium – but their sudden takeover forces Captain Kirk to discern friend from foe.

Josepha Sherman’s final Spock adventure weaves space warfare, diplomatic intrigue and interplanetary exile into a dramatic finale of the Vulcan trilogy.

A thrilling space adventure set in the Humanx Commonwealth, exploring the consequences of contact with the mysterious Argus V inhabitants.

A young man from Iowa and a Vulcan strategist confront a rogue war machine threatening the galaxy, with Kirk and Spock leading the only crew that can stop it.