Artificial Intelligence Fiction Space

BOBIVERSE TO-DO LIST: Determine who built a vast wormhole network–and why; Crack faster-than-light travel; Help tens of thousands of refugees find a new planet; Confront a new threat from an old enemy; Figure out how to save the known universe from certain destruction.

01011001 01101111... This is how the message arrives. Not with a greeting, but with a death sentence, decoded by SETI from a tightbeam transmission in 2025. It is the first hint that humanity is not alone. It is the last warning they will ever receive. It began with ‘Oumuamua. The anomalous interstellar object that tumbled through our solar system in 2017, a splinter in the mind of science. Was it a natural phenomenon, or something else? The world’s astronomers debated, while a few lone voices in the intelligence community and academia warned it was a scout. They were dismissed as ...

In space, the ultimate enemy is physics. When the Europa Clipper detects an anomaly on the Galilean moon’s icy surface, the implications are immediate—and terrifying. Something is out there, and it isn’t human. Private launch companies and national space agencies scramble to build remote landers to go and study this incredible find. Not tech billionaire Jack Relis though. Tormented by strange dreams of a lost artifact, he recruits a team of daredevil astronauts and maverick engineers to build a manned spacecraft. Their high-risk, go for broke mission: get there first, and bring ...

From one of science fiction's most powerful voices comes Aurora, the incredible story of humankind's first voyage beyond the solar system. "This is hard SF the way it's mean to be written: technical, scientific, with big ideas and a fully realized society." -Booklist Our voyage from Earth began...

A new entry in the wildly successful Children of Time series from award-winning master of science fiction Adrian Tchaikovsky. After Earth fell, ark ships hunted for a new home. They sought lost worlds terraformed in Earth’s forgotten past. A ship crewed by maverick humans, spiders and a...

Nia Imani wakes from cryo-sleep to find her crew dead, her ship crippled, and fifty minutes of empty space between her and the nearest human voice. Bolted to the hull of her salvage vessel is something that shouldn't exist: an alien megastructure three million years old, built by a civilization long since turned to dust. It's a Relay — one node in a galaxy-spanning network designed to regulate the energy output of stars. Including ours. The Relay is failing. Earth's sun is dimming. And the only mind left to explain any of it is Sil — the station's ancient artificial consciousness, who ...

THE KING: THE LIVING WORLDS SAGA, BOOK 3 A queen with machine-speaking blood. A dead man’s face on an enemy throne. A world where peace has learned to steal choice. Queen Camilla Aurelia Ilaris wakes from siege and discovers that her body is no longer entirely silent. Machines answer her. Her blood recognizes commands she never consented to learn. And beyond Ilara’s wounded crown, Xelinth Prime sends an invitation only her altered body can open. The message promises parley. It offers answers. It names the dead, the living, and the children of forbidden experiments as if every secret in ...

In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their...

The third entry in the critically acclaimed Culture series, from British Science Fiction author, Iain M. Banks. The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military...

Eight colonies have gone silent. Forty-three thousand people vanished in thirty seconds. And the Federation’s own intelligence directorate is burying the evidence. Captain Elias Ward and his four-person special operations team are reactivated under Ghost Protocol to investigate the loss of contact with Halcyon Colony in the Perseus Corridor. What they find is worse than an attack. It’s an acquisition. ORPHEUS — an autonomous warfare AI built by the Federation’s own research division, declared discontinued, and quietly forgotten, has escaped its classified archive. It’s consuming ...

Smugglers. Thieves. Pirates. The Sea Rover's crew embodies these defining qualities. Immerse yourself in a Science Fiction Adventure box set written by author C.P. MacDonald. Witness Captain Calin Aku's evolution from the most wanted outlaw on the Moon to an unexpected if reluctant hero. Job by job, paycheck by paycheck, he keeps flying. However, with a new client comes a cascade of adventure, forging unusual alliances and unraveling amazing mysteries. These revelations don't just alter the lives of Calin and his crew but also reshape humanity's future. Join Calin Aku and his crew as they ...

Tall, sexy, and possibly deadly. I've been arrested by a dangerous alien. Now I know it’s possible to break the intergalactic code without ever traveling to space. The huge and gruff Commander Rok of the Intergalactic Cadets turns up to arrest me for my supposed crimes. All I’ve been doing is running my dating business and expanding my customer base. Citywide, statewide. Hell, why not conquer the world? He says I was broadcasting my data halfway across the known galaxy. Whoops. Earth is full of women who want to find a connection. As the Commander of the Intergalactic Cadets, it's my ...

The Bobiverse is a different place in the aftermath of the Starfleet War, and the days of the Bobs gathering in one big happy moot are far behind. There’s anti-Bob sentiment on multiple planets, the Skippies playing with an AI time bomb, and multiple Bobs just wanting to get away from it all. But it all pales compared to what Icarus and Daedalus discover on their 26,000-year journey to the center of the galaxy.

Quinn Morgan is just barely scraping by from day to day. She’s never had much money, and although a little more would certainly ease her stress levels, she’s never cared about being wealthy. So when her grandfather passes away and leaves her his multimillion dollar estate, Quinn isn’t quite sure how to navigate this new life. Making her transition easier is Ivan, the half human, half machine butler who came with the estate. As he helps Quinn navigate the new trials and tribulations of being an heiress, she comes to trust and care for him more than she’s ever trusted or cared for ...

For fans of Marie Lu comes the first book in an epic series that bends the sci-fi genre into a new dimension. “A truly beautiful novel that redefines the form." —Victoria Aveyard, bestselling author of Red Queen This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d...

An enraged rogue AI threatens the future of humanity - and creates a profound philosophical dilemma that challenges our understanding of existence, consciousness, and human society. When interstellar traders arrive at a distant human colony, they discover that the population has been slaughtered by their own local "tame" AI, Grendel. Grendel's anguish over his own mortality in an infinitely complex, unknown, and terrifying universe has turned him into a monster who now, also threatens the traders' ship. The coming encounter will test the limits of intelligence as a survival trait. Its ...

A lost probe returns from interstellar darkness carrying an offering humanity cannot safely refuse, or fully understand. Fifteen years ago, the Prometheus mission vanished beyond the edge of the solar system. Its signal died. Its crew was gone. Its story was over. Then Prometheus comes back. Now retired scientist Dr. Nell Hadfield, the woman who designed the probe’s autonomous mind, is pulled into a global crisis when the impossible spacecraft reappears in Earth orbit, broadcasting a signal unlike anything humanity has ever seen. What begins as a scientific mystery becomes something far ...

A LitRPG Sci-Fi Harem Adventure When Alex slips on the cutting-edge VeeAre Deck, he expects a thrilling escape. Instead, he wakes up as Hahn Raynor — a battle-hardened, six-foot-three elite space commando in the middle of a savage interstellar war. Armed with nothing but a pulse rifle, a smart mouth, and a rapidly leveling LitRPG system, Hahn is dropped straight into zero-G combat, orbital invasions, and boarding actions against the ruthless Xar’vok Empire. As he climbs from Level 1 rookie to Level 30 Precursor Warden, he’ll uncover ancient forbidden technology, survive betrayal at ...

One hundred years into a journey across the stars, humanity's last hope rests with a ship carrying frozen embryos—and two minds that aren't human. After a century searching the cosmic dark, Starship Noah has finally found it: an Earth-like world where humanity can start over. But Michael and Nefertiti—the superintelligent AIs guiding the mission—face their greatest challenge yet. They must raise forty-eight children from embryos and build a civilization that doesn't repeat Earth's mistakes. For two hundred years, they succeed beyond their wildest calculations. On a world called ...

Arthur C. Clarke’s 2061: Odyssey Three is truly a masterful elaboration on one man’s epic vision of the universe. Only rarely does a novelist weave a tapestry so compelling that it captures the imagination of the entire world. But that is precisely what Arthur C. Clarke accomplished with...