故事发生在遥远的未来世界，此时，人类对于太空的勘探已经发展到了成熟的阶段，梅尔（内森·菲利安 Nathan Fillion 饰）是太空船“宁静号”的船长，每一日，梅尔都驾驶着他的“家”，穿梭在浩瀚的宇宙之中。 宁静号拥有九名乘客，这九人地位悬殊，个性迥异，每一个人都有着一段不可告人的灰暗往事，而他们脱离陆地登上宁静号，亦有着各自不同的理由。九人唯一的共同点在于，他们都是地上世界中的“刺头”。为了维持生计，宁静号接纳一切能够赚钱的任务，其中甚至有些看起来并不是那么合法，与此同时，梅尔船长亦要带领他的船员们设法逃脱联邦政府的追踪。

Jack McDevitt, the national bestselling author of Time Travelers Never Die, presents a new novel of the fantastic unknown---and the fifth featuring the daring Alex Benedict.

A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.

THE END OF EARTH WILL NOT BE THE END OF US From acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight Triology, Inception), this is the chronicle of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage. At stake are the fate of a planet… Earth… and the future of the human race. INTERSTELLAR and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (s14)

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.