Hypatia Cade-a headstrong, smart, and spunky 7-year-old girl-falls ill after contracting an alien virus that renders her a quadriplegic. Robbed of her mobility, Tia's only hope to be free of the prison of her body is to train to be one of the legendary star travelers, a brainship-a cyborg human being and interstellar spacecraft. Following her training, she must find the right partner to be her brawn, the human element every brainship requires. When...

In the spaceship, Argo, humans flee machine creatures determined to exterminate them. The escape route takes them dangerously close to a black hole where they discover the remains of an ancient human civilization and a way of defeating the mechs. By the author of Great Sky River.

A leading voice in military SF, best-selling author John Ringo teams with real-life rocket scientist Travis S. Taylor for an explosive entry from their Looking Glass series. Recovering from their first mission, the crew of the Vorpal Blade-humankind's first interstellar craft-is called into emergency action when an alliance gate colony is attacked. Who was the lethal alien enemy? What exactly happened at the colony? And dare the Vorpal Blade's battle-weary...

A massive alien starship carries its human passengers to the end of their generations-long odyssey and toward an epic confrontation with the mysterious Ramans.

"An engineer-in-training on a generation ship that escaped an inhospitable Earth sees a young woman floating out in space without a helmet and must decide to ignore it and secure his family's place among the elite or uncover the truth"--

Accidentally triggering the Inhibitors, alien killing machines designed to seek out and destroy all intelligent life, all humankind in the twenty-sixth century faces certain annihiliation.

"The human race has extended itself into the far reaches of our solar system and, in doing so, has developed into something remarkable and diverse and perhaps transcendent. The inner system of the Met with its worlds connected by a vast living network of cables is supported by the repression and enslavement of humanity's progeny, nanotechnological artificial intelligences ... beings whom the tryant Ames has declared non-human."--Jacket.

The continuing Star Trek adventures of Jean-Luc Picard, captain of the Federation starship, USS Enterprise. On this mission, he is ordered to rescue Ambassador Spock of the Federation, taken hostage while negotiating peace between the Romulans and Vulcans.

"Meet Doctor Jens. She hasn't had a decent cup of coffee in fifteen years. Her workday begins when she jumps out of perfectly good space ships and continues with developing treatments for sick alien species she's never seen before. She loves her life. Even without the coffee. But Dr. Jens is about to discover an astonishing mystery: two ships, one ancient and one new, locked in a deadly embrace. The crew is suffering from an unknown ailment and the...

While on a test flight in a new craft, spaceship designer Nimisha Rondymense is sucked into a wormhole. She emerges light years away in another part of space and meets other victims of the hole. They are people from various civilizations and together they set about building a new civilization of their own. By the author of Freedom's Challenge.