Space Exploration

Remember: Lady Luna knows a thousand ways to kill you, but family is what you know. Family is what works. Cariad Corcoran has a new sister who is everything she is not: tall, beautiful, confident. They're unlikely allies and even unlikelier sisters,...

EVIL ON PATROL What comes after boarding school for an evil lord? The military academy, of course! Liam's subordinates arrange the perfect overpowered patrol fleet for his post-academy training period, but the Guide is hungry for revenge against the...

Laika is a homeless stray living on the streets of Moscow when she is picked by the Space Programme to be the first ever animal launched into orbit! But her rocket disappears and everyone thinks Laika is lost forever. Now you'll discover in Owen Davey's...

Luna is an open penal colony and the regime is a harsh one. Not surprisingly, revolution against the hated authority is planned. But the key figures in the revolt are an unlikely crew: Manuel Garcia O'Kelly, an engaging jack of all trades, the beautiful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805173755Author M. W. KnoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Independent Publishing NetworkPublisher Independent Publishing Network

'A raucous, boldly inventive tale' BOOKLIST'Provides a "Black Mirror"-like warning of new technology without the heavy feeling of dread' USA TODAYThe magnificent sequel to Hank Green's #1 New York Times bestselling debut novel, An Absolutely Remarkable...

Let Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, take you on a journey to a whole new world: Pern and discover not only its flora, fauna, population and cultural hierarchy, but the history of an entire...

2010. More than a century of ecological damage, industrial and technological expansion, and unchecked population growth has left the Earth on the brink of devastation. As the world's governments turn inward, one man dares to envision a bolder,...

'An astonishing science fiction phenomenon' WASHINGTON POST'I know nothing comparable to it except The Lord of the Rings' Arthur C Clarke'It is possible that Dune is even more relevant now than when it was first published' NEW YORKERThe Duke of Atreides...

Travel even further through space and time in the stunning sequel to NOUMENON - a tale of exploration, adventure, and science. In 2125, the interstellar convoy NOUMENON set out on a voyage that changed humanity's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250884923Author S a BarnesFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 137mm...

'Hilarious SF satire. Douglas Adams said it was the only thing like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, although written ten years earlier. It's wonderful' Neil GaimanThis madcap cosmic farce relates the adventures of the hapless human Carmody, as he...

Over two hundred years after the first colonists landed on Pax, a new set of explorers arrives from Earth on what they claim is a temporary scientific mission. The Earthlings think the humans are in charge of the settlement, dismiss the Glassmakers as...

Let Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, take you on a journey to a whole new world: Pern. A world of dragons and other worldly forces; a world of mighty power and ominous threat. If you like...

In the most exciting SF collaboration ever, Arthur C. Clarke and his universally acknowledged heir Stephen Baxter pool talent, fantastic ideas, unprecedented cosmic insights as well as page-turning plotting skills and breathlessly good writing to produce...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262538480Author Stanislaw LemFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 20mm

Now in mass market, the twentieth book in the beloved Foreigner saga returns to the trials of diplomat Bren Cameron, as he navigates the tenuous peace he has struck between human refugees and the alien atevi.Bren Cameron, diplomat in residence, usually...

A classic novel from George R.R. Martin, author of the hit HBO TV series A GAME OF THRONESHaviland Tuf is an honest space-trader (one of the few), and he likes cats. So how is it that, despite being up against the worst villains in the universe, he has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665024334Author Nicholas Sansbury SmithFormat HardbackImprint Blackstone PublishingPublisher Blackstone PublishingWeight(grams) 953gDimensions(mm) 213mm...

From the critically acclaimed author of Jennifer Government and Lexicon comes mind-bending speculative psychological suspense about a serial killer pursuing his victim across time and space, and the woman who is determined to stop him, even if it upends...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027341160Author Olaf StapledonFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint e-artnowPublisher e-artnowWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

Somewhere among the galaxies is the stronghold of Boskone - a network of brilliant space-criminals whose hunger for conquest threatens the continued existence of all known civilisation.But where is this stronghold? Boskonian bases are scattered across...

From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the fourth instalment in the visionary novel cycle 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. The handsome, intelligent people of Planet 8 of the Canopean Empire know only an idyllic existence on...

'David Zindell is one of the finest talents to appear since Kim Stanley Robinson and William Gibson - perhaps the finest' Gene Wolfe What happens when a man tasked with developing perfect memory forgets...

A science fiction roleplaying game of bringing law and order to the dark and dangerous corners of the universe. Pressure: Industrial Science Fiction Roleplaying is a rules-light, story-focused game of facing the darkness at the heart of humanity’s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999761403Author K Patrick DonoghueFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Leaping Leopard Enterprises, LLCPublisher Leaping Leopard Enterprises,...

The sword Tyrfing has been broken to prevent it striking at the roots of Yggdrasil, the great tree that binds earth, heaven and hell together ... But now the mighty sword is needed again to save the elves, who are heavily involved in their war against...

** EXCLUSIVE EPILOGUE IN PAPERBACK ONLY**'Curtis oozes charm and humour in this pacey debut, which will be devoured by fans of Fallout and Firefly' TAMSYN MUIR, author of GIDEON THE NINTHA heartfelt queer romance in a high noon standoff with Earth's...

How would you survive on a planet that doesn't spin?An awe-inspiring Planetary Romance from Terry Pratchett's co-author on the Long Earth BooksThe very far future: The Galaxy is a drifting wreck of black holes, neutron stars, chill white dwarfs. The age...

Weaponized is a thrilling far-future adventure by acclaimed science fiction author Neal Asher.A bright new future for humanity - or a dark and inescapable past.Ursula has lived twice the normal human lifespan, courtesy of the latest technology. But now...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802161543Author Samantha HarveyFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684059904Author Collin KellyFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Idea & Design WorksPublisher Idea & Design Works

The world is changing, and humanity must change with it. Rising seas and soaring temperatures have radically transformed the face of Earth. Meanwhile, Earth is being observed from afar by other civilizations . . . and now they are ready to make contact...

A routine rescue mission leaves a team of US soldiers, rescued hostages and a prisoner trapped above Earth in a suborbital craft, in this cinematic action-packed near-future thriller, perfect for fans of Tom Clancy and Jack Carr. "This is the kind of...

WINNER OF THE BSFA AWARD FOR BEST NOVELJack Glass is the murderer. We know this from the start. Yet as this extraordinary novel tells the story of three murders committed by Glass the reader will be surprised to find out that it was Glass who was the...

2026: Something is growing in the Pacific Ocean."The Slick" appears to be a strange, fungus-like organism, but its DNA is unlike anything else on the planet. Rumours start to fly. Was life discovered deep beneath the Martian icecaps on a recent Chinese...

The Stone Gods is one of Jeanette Winterson's most imaginative novels -- an interplanetary love story; a traveller's tale; a hymn to the beauty of the worldOn the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet - pristine and habitable, like our own 65...

The Moon wants to kill you. It might not get there first.Luna is a gripping thriller about five corporate families caught in a bitter battle for supremacy in the harsh environment of the moon. It's very easy to die on the moon, but with its vast mineral...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544839632Author Hugh HoweyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin HarcourtPublisher John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin...

Six months after she left Earth, Dee is struggling to manage her rage toward the people who ordered the nuclear strike that destroyed the world. She's trying to find those responsible, and to understand why the ship is keeping everyone divided into small...