This third collection of quirky short stories goes to strange places just beyond the here and now. Come travelling to these peculiar worlds where mermaids can ride bicycles on their birthdays, and drive-movies still exist but not everyone gets to leave the drive-in when the movie finishes. Visit the school where something very weird and dangerous has happen to the baby duck. Help Amelia discover who's lurking under her Christmas tree in the middle...

John Spark is a tour guide in the caves of Mars. He's a jack-of-all-trades, a climber, a freelance writer, highly resourceful. He has to be, because on Mars there's no 'roadside assist'. Whether it's a vehicle, a suit, or a body, you fix it, or you face death.Luck lands him a plush job with an exploration team. The cashed-up researchers seek clues to the origins of life, 97 light years from Mars. Or so they say. What exactly is a middling university...

What will a smartphone-style Assistant be able to do 250,000 years from now? Engineering postdoc Jacob Carrington is about to wrestle with this question as he figures out his new, unanticipated role on Earth. Jacob's newfound Friend is a loyal yet artificial entity with nearly unlimited power within a few meters of its master. Jacob is just a human with passion and reason, thrust onto a path of transformation from a baby-like 20-something into a post-evolutionary...

After more than five centuries of isolation on Bellatrix, war has come once again. Minu Alma distinguished herself during the Rasa Vendetta, and she has created a combined army of human and Rasa soldiers to defend her world. Though the soldiers are untried, her enemies haven't given up, and she must lead them into battle against one of the premier species of the Concordia in what will be the greatest test of her life. Not only must Minu win, but she...

In the New York Times-bestselling conclusion to the award-winning Rama series, a human colony aboard Rama III approaches the ultimate confrontation. Two thousand humans have been trapped on the enormous spaceship Rama III, bound for the Raman Node orbiting Sirius. As they hurtle through interstellar space, the human population has formed a violent authoritarian society-one that has imprisoned astronaut Nicole Wakefield. After a daring escape with...

THE FINAL BOOK of THE EDEN PROJECT -- THE FALL of ZRADOSHis crew was down to three, but Commander Thirdborn exhaled a shiver of relief. They were still in the game. The Homo sapien sapiens from the diseased planet Earth were still here in the cosmos of the living, still fighting for breath.Read the thrilling final book of The Eden Project as Adam and Gen fight for survival on the savage planet of Zrados.

Life was lived on a grand scale during the Age of the Dinosaurs. There were giant pterosaurs in the air and great beasts on the land and in the sea. There were also oversized insects. What if there were ants as big as your arm? What if their brains were linked together by radio waves to form one vast, thinking colony organism? What if these ants with their networked insect brains were like the cells of a larger organism, each one working toward...

Kathleen parviendra-t-elle à concilier ses aspirations de médiatrice et son intérêt pour les sciences des mutations ? Déchirée entre son travail de médiatrice et d'ambassadrice, et son intérêt pour les sciences des mutations, Kathleen Mârychl est en lutte ouverte contre les représentants officiels de la Confédération des Trois Marches qui s'évertuent à saper ses tractations diplomatiques, mais aussi contre le prince Louan Kearinh dont...

A malevolent creature mysteriously begins lurking in the tranquil waters of a creek that travels through a public park. Soon after, the park's ranger discovers the creature is more intelligent, resilient, and dangerous than expected.

Dangerous assignments come in pairs when Captain Picard and his crew are confronted with two desperate missions on two different worlds in this thrilling Star Trek: The Next Generation novel. On the planet Buran, newly linked to the Federation, a mysterious disease devastates the population-and turns them against the visitors from the USS Enterprise. Meanwhile, on nearby lomides, a renegade Federation observer has disappeared, intent on violating...