Every Sky a Grave by Jay Posey (2020)

*HER WORD IS HER WEAPON.* Mankind has spread out and conquered the galaxy by mastering the fundamental language of the universe. With the right training, the right application of words, truth itself can be rearranged. Language is literally power. Peace reigns now. Order reigns. For if a planet deviates too far from what the authorities plan, an agent is sent out to correct that. To quietly and with great skill, end that world. One such agent is Elyth – a true believer. But on a clandestine mission to stop an uprising before it can truly begin, Elyth comes to realise she hasn’t been told the whole truth herself. There’s so much she doesn’t know. How can there be people whose truth is different to that of the authorities? Elyth’s faith in the powers that be is shaken just when she needs it most. While on her mission, a dark and unknown presence makes itself known at the edges of the galaxy – and it cannot be controlled, for nobody knows its name…

Persephone Station by Stina Leicht (2021)

Persephone Station, a seemingly backwater planet that has largely been ignored by the United Republic of Worlds becomes the focus for the Serrao-Orlov Corporation as the planet has a few secrets the corporation tenaciously wants to exploit. Rosie—owner of Monk’s Bar, in the corporate town of West Brynner—caters to wannabe criminals and rich Earther tourists, of a sort, at the front bar. However, exactly two types of people drank at Monk’s back bar: members of a rather exclusive criminal class and those who sought to employ them. Angel—ex-marine and head of a semi-organized band of beneficent criminals, wayward assassins, and washed up mercenaries with a penchant for doing the honorable thing—is asked to perform a job for Rosie. What this job reveals will affect Persephone and put Angel and her squad up against an army. Despite the odds, they are rearing for a fight with the Serrao-Orlov Corporation. For Angel, she knows that once honor is lost, there is no regaining it. That doesn’t mean she can’t damned well try.

Galataria's Echoes by Gail Brown (2021)

Galataria teeters on the brink of destruction. At least, the human population does. The rest of the world has been rescued. At what cost? Earth stumbles along the path to the Devolution War Galataria fought generations ago. Dreams begin to cross the dimensional boundary between Galataria and Earth. Dreams of people and places that don't match the lived experiences of the receivers. For Kalara and Leonard on Galataria, the dreams appear like nightmares, a haunt of a past best forgotten. For Shalin and Jendal, the dreams of Galataria are peaceful and serene. A beauty in life they have never seen. Stress builds in both worlds. Although the connection falters, it soon becomes the only way to save Galataria. Ties bind them together, between worlds. Bringing a bit of both worlds across the bridge into the other. Both worlds are threatened with ideas, and a life most don't recognize, and many fear.

Concurrent Earths by Gail Brown (2021)

Explore worlds, not quite as you know them. Alternative Earths, or human-like beings on other planets. Other times, history has changed. A forgotten past. An unreached future. A dream of places that may, or may not, be. Various short stories that stir the soul, and grasp at long forgotten details, which beg to be heard again. Concurrent Earths contains 40 short stories of Earth, or almost Earth, that may, or may not, exist. These stories reach to us across the stars. They share a thought, a dream, or a hope. Stories that touch the heart and soul. Whether a single individual, a community, or a society, each story delves into specific situations, and how they might benefit society. Or, how they might go wrong. Very wrong.

Guide to the Collection by David Petersen (2021)

Part 4 of the 5-part Exoplanetary Archaeology series

Guide to the Collection by David Petersen (2021)

Part 2 of the 5-part Exoplanetary Archaeology series.

Guide to the Collection by David Petersen (2021)

Part 1 of the 5-part Exoplanetary Archaeology series.

Primordial by Jeff Lemire (2022)

Mind-bending sci-fi and Cold War thriller collide in this 6-issue series by the bestselling, Eisner-winning creative team behind GIDEON FALLS! In 1957, the USSR made history by launching a dog named Laika into Earth’s orbit. Two years later, the USA responded with two monkeys, Able and Baker. These animals never returned. But unbeknownst to everyone, they did not die in orbit…they were taken. And now they are coming home. Collects PRIMORDIAL #1-6

Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes (2022)

Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed―made obsolete―when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate. What they find is shocking: the *Aurora*, a famous luxury spaceliner that vanished on its maiden tour of the solar system more than twenty years ago. A salvage claim like this could set Claire and her crew up for life. But a quick search of the ship reveals something isn’t right. Whispers in the dark. Flickers of movement. Messages scrawled in blood. Claire must fight to hold on to her sanity and find out what really happened on the *Aurora* before she and her crew meet the same ghastly fate.

Infinite Adventures 2 by Tobias Frei (2022)

Teil 1: Befreiung der Erde: Der ehemalige FBI-Agent Floating Island hat sich nach einer Periode demokratisch legitimierter Weltherrschaft zum Diktator auf Lebenszeit ernannt. Die Nationen der Erde zittern unter Sklaverei und Willkür. Die vier menschlichen Protagonisten Alexandra, Free, Orakel und yury wurden von einem Gericht des außerirdischen Imperiums von NGC 6193 rechtskräftig zur Behebung des Schadens verurteilt. Sie brechen in das Pentagon ein und jagen den Diktator bis nach Kanada. In einem geheimen Bunker unter der Toronto City Hall kommt es zum Showdown. Teil 2: Das Gnörk-Kartell: Auf den Planeten der außerirdischen Wirtschaftsvereinigung treibt das Gnörk-Kartell sein Unwesen. Anonymen Hinweisen zufolge umkreist das Generationenschiff El Dörädö, interstellar gesuchter Hauptsitz der Verbrecher, einen planetenlosen Stern namens Cäribbeän. Dieser ist fünfzig Lichtjahre von den Außengrenzen der Vereinigung entfernt. Um das Generationenschiff gewaltlos an einer Flucht zu hindern, wird ein Raumschiff mit großer Masse benötigt. Während die Protagonisten hierfür einen waghalsigen Vorstoß zum Hauptplaneten eines Piratenimperiums durchführen, wählt ein alter Bekannter einen anderen Weg. Dögöbörz Nüggät, Edelmetallhändler von Örz, verschafft sich mit einem schweren Plutoniumlaser Zutritt zur El Dörädö und will das Triebwerk mit einer Gravitationsgranate sprengen. Ein Wettlauf der Kopfgeldjäger beginnt.

Infinite Adventures 3 by Tobias Frei (2022)

Teil 1: Krieg im Carinanebel: Im Carinanebel lauert eine düstere Bedrohung, die den Fortbestand intelligenten organischen Lebens in der Südgalaxis infrage stellt. Orakel, der stets hungrige Navigator des Überlichtraumschiffs 4-6692, begibt sich auf eine Verfolgungsjagd in das Herz des Nebels. Bei seinem Versuch, den interstellar zur Fahndung ausgeschriebenen Edelmetallhändler Dögöbörz Nüggät zu stellen, löst er schwere diplomatische Verwerfungen aus und stürzt das Imperium von NGC 6193 in eine Existenzkrise. Teil 2: Die Zeitreise: Maia. Ein ganzjährig glühender Felsplanet im Orbit des hellblauen Quecksilber-Mangan-Sterns wird zum Austragungsort eines erbitterten Machtkampfs. Tief in der Hölle schlummert ein antikes Relikt, nach dem zwei Personen aus sehr unterschiedlichen Motiven streben. Die Protagonisten yury, Orakel, Alexandra und Free werden durch eine defekte Zeitmaschine zu einer Odyssee durch Raum und Zeit gezwungen, um einen versiegelten Briefumschlag in der Vergangenheit abzuliefern und eine Raumschiffentführung zu vereiteln. Dabei lösen sie endlich das Rätsel um die Herkunft der Äöüzz und bringen in Erfahrung, was wirklich im Helixnebel geschehen ist.

The Javelin Program by Derin Edala (2024)

When Dr Aspen Greaves signed up for the Javelin Program, humanity's first foray into colonising deep space, they expected to wake up to life in a thriving colony on a distant planet. Instead, they find themself five years away from their destination on a broken spaceship full of complex mysteries, dead astronauts, and a very unhelpful AI. Aspen wasn't trained for any of this. But if they can't keep themselves alive, get the ship in working order, and find out what went wrong by unravelling a chain of mysteries leading all the way back to distant Earth, then neither Aspen nor the five thousand sleeping passengers in their care will ever see a planet again.

The Antarctica Conspiracy by Derin Edala (2024)

It hasn't been easy, but under the careful hand of its makeshift crew, the starship Courageous limps towards its destination. With every passing day, the promise of ground under their feet and a new, safe home looms closer. But Aspen and the crew have only begun to untangle the knotted web of conspiracies and experiments that doomed their predecessors, and what awaits them at their destination is something that nobody expects. You can run pretty far, in space. But sometimes, what you're running from is a whole lot less important than what you're inadvertently running to.

Space Oddity by Catherynne M. Valente (2024)

I Wish I Was an Alien by Vivian French (2005)

Rhyming text describes a boy who would like to be an extraterrestrial being, as well as an extraterrestrial being who would like to be a boy on earth.

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh (2022)

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the all-powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the Majoda their victory over humanity. They are what’s left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. But when Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to the nursery to bear sons until she dies trying, she knows she must take humanity’s revenge into her own hands. Alongside her brother’s brilliant but seditious friend and a lonely, captive alien, she escapes from everything she’s ever known into a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could have imagined. A thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is award-winning author Emily Tesh’s highly anticipated debut novel.

Babylon’s ashes by James S. A. Corey (2016)

The Expanse Saga continues in the 6th installment. The Free Navy – a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships – has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets. The colony ships heading for the thousand new worlds on the far side of the alien ring gates are easy prey, and no single navy remains strong enough to protect them. James Holden and his crew know the strengths and weaknesses of this new force better than anyone. Outnumbered and outgunned, the embattled remnants of the old political powers call on the Rocinante for a desperate mission to reach Medina Station at the heart of the gate network.

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (2021)

"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport, Idaho, today, and on a spaceship bound for a distant exoplanet decades from now, an ancient text provides solace and the most profound human connection to characters in peril. They all learn the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to the paradise of Cloud Cuckoo Land, a better world. Twelve-year-old Anna lives in a convent where women toil all day embroidering the robes of priests. She learns to read from an old Greek tutor she encounters on her errands in the city. In an abandoned priory, she finds a stash of old books. One is Aethon's story, which she reads to her sister as the walls of Constantinople are bombarded by armies of Saracens. Anna escapes, carrying only a small sack with bread, salt fish-and the book. Outside the city walls, Anna meets Omeir, a village boy who was conscripted, along with his beloved pair of oxen, to fight in the Sultan's conquest. His oxen have died; he has deserted. In Lakeport, Idaho, in 2020, Seymour, a young activist bent on saving the earth, sits in the public library with two homemade bombs in pressure cookers-another siege. Upstairs, eighty-five-year old Zeno, a former prisoner-of-war, and an amateur translator, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon's adventures. On an interstellar ark called The Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault with sacks of Nourish powder and access to all the information in the world-or so she is told. She knows Aethon's story through her father, who has sequestered her to protect her. Konstance, encased on a spaceship decades from now, has never lived on our beloved Earth. Alone in a vault with sacks of Nourish powder and access to "all the information in the world," she knows Aethon's storythrough her father. Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Konstance, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, the young Zeno, the children in the library are dreamers and misfits on the cusp of adulthood in a world the grown-ups have broken. They through their own resilience and resourcefulness, and through story. Dedicated to "the librarians then, now, and in the years to come," Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land is about the power of story and the astonishing survival of the physical book when for thousands of years they were so rare and so feared, dying, as one character says, "in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants." It is a hauntingly beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship-of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart"--

Sunward by William Alexander (2025)

The Obake Code by Makana Yamamoto (2026)

After the heist of a lifetime, Malia has it all: a loft apartment aboard the massive Kepler Station, expensive clothes, and a dev credit in her favorite video game. She’s also bored as hell. Three years after retiring her mantle as the Obake, the most infamous hacker in the quadrant—and arguably the galaxy—Malia hasn’t taken well to civilian life. So what’s the harm in rigging a few cybernetic prizefights and making a little cash on the side? When Malia’s scheme is uncovered, she runs afoul of Jeongah Song—the dangerous leader of a local gang with a reputation for brutality. Malia is ready for retribution. But what she gets instead is an offer she can’t refuse: take down the local politician leading a “clean up the streets” campaign displacing residents and hindering Jeongah’s operations on the space station… or die. Without another way out, Malia takes the deal. Luckily, she has some friends she can call on in times of need: a master thief, a street racing wheelman, and a femme fatale grifter. But as Malia digs deeper into the politician’s shady dealings, she finds herself embroiled in a conspiracy that might be too big for her to handle. One that has roots in her own rise as the Obake—a cybernetically enhanced superhacker created by a power-mad genius… a superhacker whose mods are rapidly degrading. Faced with threats on all sides, Malia may finally be in over her head...or stuck—forever—inside her own mind.