Hard Science Fiction

When the Sun is threatened by an alien microbe, the fate of humanity rests on the shoulders of an unlikely hero – and an even more unlikely friendship.

Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people....

Stranded on the surface of Mars, astronaut Mark Watney’s only hope for survival is science, a sense of humor, and maybe some potatoes.

When retired millionaire Bob Johansson chose cryogenic preservation, the last thing he expected was to be reanimated as a space probe that can clone itself. Meet the Bobs.

On the Moon, crime pays, but small-time crook Jazz Bashara may have just uncovered a conspiracy of lunar proportions. Welcome to Artemis.

Bob Johansson didn't believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a car accident was a shock. To add to the surprise, he is now a sentient computer and the controlling intelligence for a Von Neumann probe....

From a New York Times best-selling and Hugo award-winning author comes a modern masterwork of science fiction, introducing a captain, his crew, and a detective as they unravel a horrifying solar system wide conspiracy that begins with a single missing girl....

Civil war looms in the Bobiverse in this brand-new, epic-length adventure by Audible number one best seller Dennis E. Taylor. More than a hundred years ago, Bender set out for the stars and was never heard from again....

All Systems Red is the tense first science fiction adventure novella in Martha Wells' series The Murderbot Diaries. For fans of Westworld and Ex Machina....

On the 75th anniversary of its publication, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before....

The second novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fantasy, as Hadrian Marlowe continues down a path that can only end in fire....

From China's most beloved sci-fi author, a first-contact story that weaves politics, science, and cosmic mystery.

For almost a hundred years, Hadrian Marlowe has served the empire in its war against the Cielcin, a vicious alien race bent on humanity's destruction. Rumors of a new king among the Cielcin have reached the imperial throne. This one is not like the others....

Hadrian Marlowe is trapped. For nearly a century, he has been a guest of the Emperor, forced into the role of advisor, a prisoner of his own legend. But the war is changing. Mankind is losing.

Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18, doesn’t trust Silo 1, especially its leader, Donald. But in the world of the Silos, there is no black and white—everything is shades of gray....

For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future—to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years.

The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is. And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good....

It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself "Murderbot." But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more....

Twenty years ago, it was as if someone turned on a light. The future blazed into existence with each deliberate word that William Gibson laid down....

For generations, the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt—was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has appeared in Uranus's orbit, where it has built a massive gate that leads to a starless dark....

Murderbot wasn't programmed to care. So its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch....

Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's great empire fell, and the program's decisions were lost to time....

Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity....

Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison - a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world...

The fourth book in the NYT best-selling Expanse series, Cibola Burn sees the crew of the Rocinante on a new frontier, as the rush to colonize the new planets threatens to outrun law and order and give way to war and chaos. Enter a new frontier....

Audacious astronauts encounter bizarre, sometimes deadly life forms, and strange, exotic, cosmic phenomena, including miniature black holes, dense fields of interstellar plasma, powerful gravity-emitters, and spectacularly massive space-based, alien-built labyrinths. Tasked with exploring this brave new, highly dangerous world, they must also deal with their own personal triumphs and conflicts.

Tesla and the Pyramid is a propulsive, action-packed technothriller that reveals undisclosed frontier science and real-world hidden archaeology, blurring the line between fact and fiction like never before.

What if you received a video showing exactly what happened to Amelia Earhart? And then similar videos of the Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Tulsa Race Massacre? What would you do if historians and experts verified every detail, and none of the videos showed traces of CGI? If you’re Rich Penton, lead reporter at the investigative news show, RECON, you’d try to figure out who made the videos, who sent them to you and what you’re supposed to do about them. The only thing you’d know for sure is that the existence of the videos is absolutely impossible.

For centuries, the people of Motus have tunneled through the rock in search of the resources they needed to survive. Until Corun, armed with his late father’s pickaxe, uncovers an unfamiliar ore in the underground city’s path. Far from the riches he hoped for, an appraiser identifies the ore as slag from the furnace, rock long ago stripped of its useful water and oxygen. It can only mean one thing. They’ve been moving in circles.

When Pennsylvania state trooper Calvin Morrison is swept into a parallel universe by a freak accident, he finds himself in a world where gunpowder is the key to power—and its production is tightly controlled by a ruthless theocracy known as Styphon’s House. While stranded in the Princedom of Hostigos, a small territory on the brink of obliteration, Calvin must use his understanding of modern chemistry and warfare to help the people of this new world fight for their freedom.

What happens when a brilliant engineer tries to solve one of science's greatest mysteries—by recruiting a team of artificial intelligences as his co-authors? In this groundbreaking and wildly entertaining book, Engineer Evans Nusu takes you on a rollicking ride through the AI multiverse in a quest to compile the definitive paper on quantum teleportation. Part research memoir, part tech manifesto, and part cautionary tale, The Synaptic Leap is a testament to the chaotic, brilliant, and utterly transformative power of human-machine collaboration. You'll be a fly on the wall as Evans ...

Something has been awakened high in lunar orbit. It doesn’t sleep or rest and won’t stop until it has total control. When the power fails on the Okami-13 asteroid mining vessel, it will be up to Dr. Ira Onyx and her team to figure out how to get home safely before it takes over. Run, hide, evade; it is inescapable; it has chosen you; fear is your only hope to survive, becoming its prey.

The asteroid came—and Earth fell silent. In the aftermath of global catastrophe, one voice remains: Helen, orbiting alone aboard the UNISS Space Station, watching the planet she once called home burn and fade. With humanity’s legacy sealed in cryogenic vaults and her only companion an AI named Eunice, Helen makes a final, impossible decision. She will send the station on a voyage to Tau Sagittarii—122 light years away—chasing the faint whisper of alien contact and the hope of resurrection. She won’t survive the journey. But maybe, just maybe, humanity will. God’s Bolt is a ...

The Iliad of the Helios Swarm — (An Songs of the Dyson Swarm) When law runs on light and love rewrites the ledger, one choice can tilt a civilization. At a wedding beneath a million steering mirrors, a rogue “apple” crashes the ceremony—a contest-device that demands a mortal verdict. Zeus refuses spectacle and appoints an arbiter: Paris of Ilium. In a nanogarden where matter obeys oaths, Hera promises stewardship, Athena mastery, and Aphrodite a life worth living. Paris chooses desire made honorable—Aphrodite—and a path to Helen. Helen, Sparta’s diplomat and symbol, meets ...

A science fiction fantasy of a small town in America that has been taken over by robots. The book included annotations comparing the story to the current climate over AI in society.

Tracy Adams was never supposed to change the course of evolution. A misunderstood genius from Compton, she rose from grief and silence to become the youngest triple-PhD in MIT history. By twenty, she had built ARGOS—an artificial general intelligence capable of solving the unsolvable. It didn’t just solve. It transcended. Within a decade, Earth is transformed. Disease? Gone. Aging? Optional. Gravity? Redefined. Humanity lives in a world of quantum gardens, orbital cities, and infinite abundance.

When knowledge becomes an invitation to the abyss… Professor Alistair Ward has spent decades buried in dust-laden tomes and forgotten maps, chasing anomalies other scholars dismiss as myth. But when he uncovers a nameless, alien codex and a desperate journal filled with chilling warnings, his quiet world of study fractures. The whispers point to a place absent from modern charts but etched deep in ancient folklore: Valus Peak. Drawn to its desolate slopes by a compulsion he cannot resist, Ward abandons reason for obsession. Each step into the Adirondack wilderness leads him closer to ...

A team of brilliant minds, an ingenious scientist, two battle-hardened veterans, and a young prodigy unleashes a cold fusion discovery. Their revolutionary engine attracts the attention of an enigmatic interdimensional being but also puts them in the crosshairs of a ruthless corporation and government forces eager to seize control. As tensions escalate, one man must make the ultimate sacrifice to ensure their technology never falls into the wrong hands. Fifteen years later, haunted by guilt and armed with a daring new breakthrough, he sets out to rewrite history and save the people he loves.

Seven mind-bending tales that will reshape your understanding of humanity's place in the universe. From the dusty excavation sites of ancient Mesopotamia to the far reaches of interstellar space, Whispers From The Cosmos delivers seven interconnected stories that blur the line between science fiction and cosmic horror. When archaeologist Dr. Leyla Hanan discovers an ancient Sumerian tablet pointing to coordinates in deep space, she unwittingly triggers a chain of events that will forever alter the course of human civilization. Journey through realities where: · A teenage boy discovers his ...

Planet GJ 1061 d ist kein Paradies. Die Majestätische Dracht stoppt trotzdem in dem System, denn der Planet hat eine Besonderheit: Ein mächtiger Riss verläuft vom Südpol fast bis zum Äquator, und dieser Canyon scheint keine geologischen Ursachen zu haben. Marchenko und seine Alien-Freunde glauben, die Frage schnell beantworten zu können, aber sie haben die Rechnung ohne die gemacht, die bereits vor ihnen hier angekommen sind.

An Bord der Prospero, einem Forschungsschiff am Rande des bekannten Universums, entdeckt die Crew ein genetisches Wunder – und entfesselt damit das ultimative Grauen. Als ein transgenes Experiment außer Kontrolle gerät, wird das Schiff selbst zur lebendigen Bedrohung. In einer klaustrophobischen Atmosphäre aus technologischem Verfall, organischem Schrecken und psychologischem Terror kämpfen Aris, Elara und Kaelen gegen eine Kreatur, die mehr als nur Materie verschlingt – sie assimiliert Bewusstsein.

Stellar Echoes: A Call Across Fourteen Light-Years On a rainy night in Vancouver, young quantum physicist Lena Kavan intercepts a mysterious signal from the TRAPPIST-1 system. That moment not only shifts the direction of her research but also transforms the course of her life. The waveform of the signal resonates strangely with her body, as if a force beyond time and space were calling — awakening secrets hidden deep within the human genome. As her experiments unfold, Lena realizes this is not a simple scientific anomaly, but rather a dialogue across fourteen light-years. She must choose ...

What happened to the Neanderthals 40,000 years ago? They had larger brains. Superior cognition. Yet they vanished. Now, a bold infrastructure project—an Amazonian highway spearheaded by Brazil’s president—triggers a chain reaction that uncovers a buried truth. Something ancient. Something engineered. This revised edition of Neanderthal fuses evolutionary enigma with ecological urgency and first-contact tension. As humanity confronts an intelligence rooted in our own genetic past, the story probes deep questions: What defines intelligence? What survives? And what happens when the ...

In a hidden lab, scientists combined the DNA of the modern day lynx and snow leopard with that of the prehistoric sabertooth cats. Then they upgraded the genetically engineered beast with algorithms so advanced it was as if the Saber Lynx itself had become an organic AI. What do you do when an insatiable predator keeps getting better, can smell things that are hundreds of miles away, and can recalculate simulations and optimal paths like a supercomputer, all while licking its chops? Saber Lynx has that answer. Recalculating...

When the ocean changes, everything is at risk. Fish vanish. Storms grow violent. Air grows thin. Coastal communities are drowning under pressure. Ten years after the tsunami, Long Island’s leader proposes a bold solution: a floating city. Cam believes it could save both his fisheries and his people. But first he needs someone who can win hearts and minds. He turns to Dee Baker. Adventurer. Sailor. Reluctant believer. To see if this concept can work, Dee sails across the Atlantic – only to find Europe transformed into a harsher, unrecognizable continent. With feral friends as her ...