Fiction - Science Fiction - Space Exploration

A space shuttle flight crew discovers that the Earth they've returned to is not the home they left behind in the first book of this emotional, mind-bending thriller series from the creator of the hit Netflix show Manifest and the bestselling author of The...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A space shuttle flight crew discovers that the Earth they've returned to is not the home they left behind--the first book of an emotional, mind-bending thriller series from the creator of the hit Netflix show Manifest and the bestselling author of...

A six-man crew crash-lands on Eden, fourth planet from another sun. The men find a strange world that grows ever stranger, and everywhere there are images of death. The crew's attempt to communicate with this civilization leads to violence and to a cruel truth-cruel...

The Mayflower has arrived back in orbit at Earth. But something is wrong. It appears that all human life on Earth is gone. Otherwise, the planet appears normal. What happened to Earth's population, and will it also happen to the crew of the Mayflower?...

The crew of the Artemis has escaped the nightmare of Paradise-1, but at great cost. Parker is gone. Petrova's past continues to haunt her. Worst of all, Erebus--a timeless entity of pure darkness--has been released from its prison. Now it's headed for Earth. Petrova...

The first mission to Europa-Jupiter's enigmatic moon-has landed, and humanity's darkest fears are about to awaken. For years, mankind has speculated that this frozen world harbors a hidden ocean twice the size of all Earth's oceans combined-an ocean potentially teeming with life. Driven by...

From the author of The Singularity, a saga of one girl's resistance and exile in the stars and soil of empire.Seventeen-year-old Milde is from the Outskirts, a place beyond the mountains where the dirt is corpse-rich and mothers and daughters make their living banished...

The planet Quinta is pocked by ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. In stark contrast, the crew of the spaceship Hermes represents a knowledge-seeking Earth. As they approach Quinta,...

"A magical anti-capitalist adventure." --Annalee Newitz Nino Cipri's Finna is a rambunctious, touching story that blends all the horrors the multiverse has to offer with the everyday awfulness of low-wage work. It explores queer relationships and queer feelings, capitalism and accountability, labor and love,...

It's 1959 in socialist Virginia. The Deep South is an independent Black nation called Nova Africa. The second Mars expedition is about to touch down on the red planet. And a pregnant scientist is climbing the Blue Ridge in search of her great-great grandfather,...

Cameron Johnston returns in this innovative space fantasy, where wizards race to be the first on the moon - also known as the land of the gods. A fast paced read perfect for fans of Adrian Tchaikovsky. Ella Pickering is drowning in debt. Once...

Science fiction award-winner, flesh-eating-bacteria survivor, and somewhat questionably convicted felon Peter Watts returns with his first short story collection since 2013. Including an unpublished work, Watts posits unlimited brain-computer interfaces, the possibility of life existing inside stars, the hacking of human behavior, and ecological...

"Relentlessly creepy and fantastically atmospheric...Ghost Station is space horror at its best."--The New York Times A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.A. Barnes, acclaimed author of Dead Silence. An abandoned planet. A...

From New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry comes the dramatic finale to the NecroTek series, packed with action, adventure, space fights, fearsome aliens, love, and drama.The crew and inhabitants of the space station Asphodel have survived being teleported to the far reaches of...

Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel - Kim Stanley Robinson's classic trilogy depicting the colonization of Mars continues in a thrilling and timeless novel that pits the settlers against their greatest foes: themselves. "One of the major sagas of the [latest] generation...

"Brilliant pacing. Vivid characters. Realistic science. Hugh Howey's Half Way Home tackles the tribal instincts currently tearing the world apart, giving fresh insights into the psychology of group-think. It's Lord of the Flies among the stars!" -- Peter Cawdron, author of Retrograde and ReentryFrom...

An "engaging and awe-inspiring"(SF Signal) space opera from the critically-acclaimed author of the Revelation Space series.Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones, which she called shatterlings. She sent them...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - ROXANE GAY'S AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK - FINALIST FOR THE URSULA K. LE GUIN PRIZE"Moving and thought-provoking . . . offering psychological insights in lyrical prose while seriously exploring speculative conceits." -- New...

SF titan Kim Stanley Robinson's breakout novel, now in a Tor Essentials edition with a new introduction by Henry Farrell Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary...

From Korean science fiction author Kim Cho-yeop, a stunning and poignant collection of literary speculative fiction stories that explore the complexities of identity, love, death, and the search for life's meaning, perfect for fans of Exhalation and The Paper Menagerie. In If We Cannot...