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Publisher
Our Media Limited
Edition
May 01 2025
Language
English
Description
With accessible features illustrated with the world’s best photography, BBC Focus Magazine explains the theory behind scientific phenomena and really brings science to life. In every issue you’ll find news of the latest major scientific developments, a lively Q&A section plus exclusive and astonishing photographic reports that range from the breathtaking to the downright odd.
Series
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Edition
May 01 2025
Language
English
Description
The latest news in science, exploration, and culture will open your eyes to the world’s many wonders. Get a National Geographic digital magazine subscription today and experience the same high-quality articles and breathtaking photography contained in the print edit.
Publisher
New Scientist Ltd
Edition
May 10 2025
Language
English
Description
New Scientist covers the latest developments in science and technology that will impact your world. New Scientist employs and commissions the best writers in their fields from all over the world. Our editorial team provide cutting-edge news, award-winning features and reports, written in concise and clear language that puts discoveries and advances in the context of everyday life today and in the future.
4) Foundation
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Long after earth was forgotten, a galaxy took shape, an Empire governed from the city-planet of Trantor. The system worked, and grew, for generations. Everyone believed it would work forever, except Hari Seldon.
Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The media reports on the latest scientific discoveries and breakthroughs can seem like a foreign language, from black holes, to dark matter and exoplanets to leap seconds. Finally get to grips with these difficult concepts by reading Ben Gilliland's unique take on them.
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
It is the end for the Gzilt. They've made the decision to follow the well-trodden path to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new rich and complex existence. Amidst preparations though High Command is destroyed. Lieutenant Commander Vyr Cossont appears to have been involved and she is now wanted: dead, not alive.
Author
Series
Final architecture trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
After 80 years of fragile peace, the galaxy's greatest alien enemy is back. Waging a brutal one-sided war, the Architects consume entire planets under their unfathomable directive. In the past, Originator artefacts - vestiges of a long-vanished civilization - could save a world from annihilation. Yet the Architects have discovered a way to circumvent these protective relics. Suddenly, no planet is safe. Facing impending extinction, the Human Colonies...
10) Bedlam
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Heaven is a prison. Hell is a playground. Would it be your ultimate fantasy to enter the world of a video game? A realm where you don't have to go to work or worry about your health; where you can look like a hero or a goddess; where you can fly space-ships, slay dragons, yet all of it feels completely real. A realm where there are no consequences and no responsibilities. Or would it be your worst nightmare? Stuck in an endless state of war and chaos...
Author
Series
Children of time volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
When Earth failed, it sent out arkships to establish new outposts. So the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its precious human cargo to a potential new paradise. Generations later, this fragile colony has managed to survive on Imir. Yet life is tough, and much technological knowledge has been lost. Then strangers appear, on a world where everyone knows their neighbour. They possess unparalleled knowledge and thrilling new technology...
12) The time-thief
Author
Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
It's mid-summer's day and thirteen-year-old Elle and her Leapling classmates are visiting the Museum of the Past, the Present and the Future. But on the day of the school trip, disaster strikes, and the most unique and valuable piece in the museum, the Infinity-Glass, is stolen! Who is the culprit?
13) Orion lost
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The transport ship Orion is four months out of Earth when catastrophe strikes - leaving the ship and everyone on board stranded in deep space. Suddenly it's up to thirteen-year-old Beth and her friends to navigate through treacherous and uncharted territory to reach safety. But a heavily-damaged ship, space pirates, a mysterious alien species, and an artificial intelligence that Beth doesn't know if she can trust means that getting home has never...
Author
Series
Hyperion volume 1, 2
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
'Hyperion' and 'The Fall of Hyperion' are credited with single-handedly reinventing and reinvigorating SF in the 1990s. Forming a broad-canvassed, imaginative and exciting epic, the combine an intelligent, literary approach with cutting edge science, compelling characterization and suspense.
15) Earth swarm
Author
Series
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Hal Strider's father worked for a technology company that's developing drones for the military. But when he vanishes in mysterious circumstances, the drones' programming breaks down, and they start to target the ordinary people of London. Hal and his sister, Jess, have to escape London, find their dad, and stop the drones.
16) Furious heaven
Author
Series
The sun chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra book
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The Republic of Chaonia fleets under the joint command of Princess Sun and her formidable mother, Queen-Marshal Eirene, have defeated and driven out an invading fleet of the Phene Empire, although not without heavy losses. But the Empire remains strong and undeterred. While Chaonia scrambles to rebuild its military, the Empire's rulers are determined to squash Chaonia once and for all by any means necessary. On the eve of Eirene's bold attack on the...
17) Eversion
Author
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
A small group of intrepid explorers are in search of a remote and mysterious artefact. It's a well-funded expedition, well organised, which is lucky as they're sailing north of Bergen on the schooner Demeter, searching for a narrow inlet which will lead them to their goal - a vast uncharted lake. Then disaster strikes. If any of them are to survive, Doctor Silas Coade will have to take the exploration - and the lives of the crew - into his own hands....
18) Axiom's end
Author
Series
Noumena volume 1
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
Revelations the US government might have engaged in first contact have created turmoil. Cora Sabino's whistleblower father is behind it, but Cora wants nothing to do with him - until she learns that an extraterrestrial presence has truly been on Earth for decades. To save her own life, she offers her services as an interpreter to a monster.
19) Space oddity
Author
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
1st edition.
Language
English
Description
You might think this story is an intergalactic adventure filled with laser blasters, black holes, killer robots and some very weird-looking aliens. And you'd be right. But it's mostly about a boy called Jake, his dad, and an awkward truth that starts in a supermarket.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company....
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