Physics Hard

In the near future, the Internet is obsolete, replaced by SAPIENT—a revolutionary Artificial Superintelligence network that has reshaped the world. At its core lies Quantum Computing and the Pearl, a device that fuses human consciousness with AI Agents, unlocking boundless potential. Humanity stands at the threshold of a new era, but beneath the surface, a darker reality emerges. "Do you think you’re in control? You’re not. None of us are." When Luca and his team uncover a buried secret that threatens the foundation of this new world, they are thrust into a deadly game of deception. A...

THE COMPLETE SIMULACRA TRILOGY Three Novels. One Infinite Loop. The Ultimate Awakening. The complete saga is available in a single, massive omnibus. Spanning over 700 pages, this is the story of a "backdoor" in the universe, the human who found it, and the realities that shattered and reformed under their changes to the simulacra. BOOK 1: CHEAT Adrian Shaw has a secret. He cheats at reality. On paper, he’s a brilliant but unremarkable AI scientist and hedge fund quant. Off the books, he’s discovered a hidden "backdoor" in the universe that lets him nudge probability and rewrite outcomes...

What if our civilization is more advanced than we know? The New York Times bestselling author of Daemon—“the cyberthriller against which all others will be measured” –Publishers Weekly) —imagines a world in which decades of technological advances have been suppressed in an effort to...

Love Beyond Spacetime – Volume 2 is a collection of hard science fiction stories that blend rigorous scientific thought with the one force physicists forgot to name—love. These tales explore the strange intersections of quantum mechanics, artificial intelligence, cryptography, and consciousness, all grounded in real theories but elevated by emotional resonance. In The Account That Knew Too Much, financial anomalies point to a deeper quantum conspiracy. Absorber Paths – Love is Blinding reimagines Wheeler-Feynman time symmetry as a tale of entangled hearts. In Pi In Other Universes, a ...

Observer, by Robert Lanza and Nancy Kress is a slick modern, hard sf, standalone, medical thriller combining classic Robin Cook with the hard edge of Black Mirror and Altered Carbon. After neurosurgeon Caro Soames-Watkins’ career has gone down in flames, she receives a strange job offer from...

"The worldbuilding is fascinating...and the story is thrilling." --A satisfied Amazon reader A mysterious monolith. A deadly alien jungle. Survival is just the beginning. Belle Machado has one shot to change her life. Fresh out of pilot school and desperate to prove herself, she’s on a high-stakes evaluation flight for the career of her dreams. But when a towering alien monolith blasts her ship from the sky, her ambitions are replaced by a single, primal goal: survive. Stranded on a planet crawling with predators—including a colossal megapede that stalks her every move—Belle must ...

A dying man stumbles into a police station and collapses. In his fist is a mysterious coin with strange markings. He tells the police he's from the future, and when they uncover the coin's hidden message, they're inclined to believe him. Daniel Rice never asked for fame, but his key role in Earth's first contact with an alien civilization thrust him into a social arena where any crackpot might take aim. When the FBI arrives at his door and predictions of the future start coming true, Daniel is dragged into a mission to save the world from nuclear holocaust.

In the apocalypse, the first weapon Adrian will have to upgrade is himself. The end of the world as we know it couldn’t come at a worse time for him. One minute, he’s an operations manager who’s overseeing a construction job in the wilderness. The next, an unknown energy force changes the very nature of life itself, from the smallest organism to the top of the food chain. The Earth’s surviving inhabitants, its environment, and the very laws of physics have all undergone fundamental transformations. Many of those changes aren’t pretty.

Aristotle considers ‘the principles and causes of change, or movement’ behind both animate and inanimate things. It is philosophy, not science, but over centuries affected the views of those involved in the ‘natural sciences’. The text emerged from the Lyceum, the school founded by Aristotle, and is accepted to be a compilation of texts, some of which - but perhaps not all - is by Aristotle. Regardless of authorship, its importance is unquestioned.

Particle physics was always an unlikely path to the stars, but with the discovery that space could be compressed, the entire galaxy had come within reach. The technology was astonishing, yet nothing compared to what humans encountered 4,000 light-years from home. Now, with an invitation from a mysterious gatekeeper, the people of Earth must decide if they're ready to participate in the galactic conversation.

A car accident separates two lovers. Yvonne knows her husband is dead. She signs for the body. But she has the feeling something has gone wrong. Valery lives when she sleeps, half a life in the shadows of hers, just as aware that the universe has taken a left turn. Meanwhile, Yvonne's brother, Isaac Asimov's biggest fan, is trapped between two worlds - and in his own madness. As the future approaches, everyone moves towards one event: the future causing their pasts.

When humanity’s first experimental deep-space starship breaks the laws of physics and reveals a hidden path through hyperspace, a battle-hardened spacer, a genius scientist, and his fierce, determined daughter are flung across the cosmos—past vanished civilizations, cosmic singularities, and beings older than stars. Lost between dimensions and slipping through warped branes, they confront infinite copies of themselves scattered through a maze of universes, the heartbeat of creation, and the fate of all sentient life. Their journey becomes more than exploration—it becomes the spark ...

E=mc2 was born in 1905, the brainchild of Albert Einstein. In this lucid and brilliant book, one of the best popularizers of science illuminates one of science's most complex concepts. Ranging widely from Exit signs in theatres to the future fate of the earth, from smoke detectors to black holes...

For six thousand years, the rogue planet Chronos has sailed a ghost orbit through the void, its path a masterpiece of mathematics so elegant and impossible it defies the known laws of physics. When Captain Ælfthryth Goldwyn and the crew of the USC Indomitable are sent to investigate this cosmic anomaly, they discover a truth far stranger than any hyper-advanced alien race: Chronos is a lifeboat, populated by the last survivors of a long-dead star system. The Mnemon are a species adrift in a shared, timeless sorrow, their entire consciousness a living memory of their ancient journey. But ...

High above the windswept plains of Kazakhstan, three astronauts on board a Russian Soyuz capsule begin their reentry. A strange shimmer in the atmosphere, a blinding flash of light, and the capsule vanishes in a blink as though it never existed. Daniel Rice is a government science investigator. Marie Kendrick is a NASA operations analyst. Together, they must track down the cause of the most bizarre event in the history of human spaceflight. They draw on scientific strengths as they plunge into the strange world of quantum physics.

Mira Verborgen wanted one thing in life: to finish her PhD in physics and maybe finally get noticed by her hot lab partner. What she got instead was a one-way trip to superhero status. During a catastrophic accident at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, Mira’s body is atomically scrambled and reassembled. Giancarlo, the devastatingly brilliant (and inconveniently taken) research partner she’s been crushing on, is stuck in the same quantum nightmare. Together they’re being hunted across Europe by government agents who want to control their new abilities. But the real threat is their ...

Newton met the Auditor, and the Auditor won. In the "Stuttered Districts" of the lunar colonies, the laws of physics are no longer constant—they are a currency. Under the iron grip of the Directorate, gravity can be paused, momentum can be traded, and the physical consequences of an action can be shunted into a temporal escrow. It is a world of perfect, manufactured stillness. But the universe always keeps its books balanced. Elias is a Vector-Bailiff, a man hired to "cash in" the kinetic debts of the wealthy. From a thirty-year-old fall frozen inches above a river to a veteran’s "...

The Wide Present — Hard-SF about dilated “now.” On the dawn shift in Cambridge’s new Cavendish Laboratory, Callum Wright brings an entanglement rig online—and slips into a mind-state that correlates his awareness with moments scattered across his own life. He can witness past and future with laboratory clarity, but not touch them…yet. The setting is real and recent—the Ray Dolby Centre, the Cavendish’s state-of-the-art home, handed over in late 2024 and set for full operation in 2025. This is hard science fiction with its feet on the optical table: time-/energy-entanglement ...

They survived the accident that made them superhuman. Now they’re racing to stop the one that will end the world. Mira Verborgen and Giancarlo Bianchi never asked to become living physics anomalies—able to shapeshift, heal instantly, and defy the laws of matter. But the same catastrophic experiment that gave them their powers also turned them into ticking time bombs. With just weeks before they detonate like nuclear weapons, they’re desperate to find a cure. The only chance? Repeating the experiment in a working particle collider. But their old enemy Dr. Orlov—insane, equally ...

Sometime in the not-too-distant future...unbeknownst to Earth, the galaxy is home to a number of spacefaring societies. This confederation enforces a strict protocol forbidding any contact with civilizations that have not yet achieved both a substantial spacefaring capability and sufficient maturity to control the technology explosion before triggering their own extinction.