Hard science fiction Books

ALIBI JONES' search for a kidnapped friend gets him thrown in an alien prison cell with the mysterious Dakhur named Kit and the man known as Piccolo. As Alibi follows the alien kidnappers' trail, he discovers dangers long thought dead are still very much...

First published in 2003. With essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, Dark Horizons focuses on the development of critical dystopia in science fiction at the end of the twentieth century. In these narratives of places more...

Knox protects his own. Even if it costs his life.Space is a deadly business, and Knox knows this first hand. That’s why he’s so protective of his family, his ship, and his clients. He’s lost enough already, and he has the scars to prove...

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Combining the very best elements of hard science fiction with a suspenseful, action filled manhunt, this novel is an exotic adventure set in a future colonial Mars. Following a trail of destruction across the remote outposts of the Martian wastelands,...

If you lived long enough, this could be your future, too

Three years ago, an experimental biological warfare agent was stolen from a top-secret laboratory on large moon in a star system at the edge of the galaxy. The secluded city surrounding the weapons facility was destroyed, and the perpetrators escape

In a world molded into a veritable Utopia, life seems incapable of mismanagement. World interest in space activity has withered back into seeming indifference. But for Kronide Soter, whose family has played such prominent roles in the conquest of...

Captain John Powers is on what turns out to be his final charting mission with his ship and STARCORE. When the message comes in that the USS PERFORMANCE is to be decommissioned at the end of the current mission, John starts the process of shutting down...

During the late 21st Century, humans finally colonized space. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, having fulfilled their essential mission of putting humans into space was disbanded. On Earth a new entity was taking shape. They called...

Lighthouses have guarded the coastlines for centuries. A new kind of guard is needed when the Lighthouses become vehicles for transformation.The rockets of space travel explore beyond the horizon-boundaries of earth. Combining the two in a grand metaphor...

Sixteen years ago a war that humans had been slowly losing for more than two thousand years ended in a place called Iowa. The victors unknowingly overcame seemingly insurmountable odds at the last possible moments and the losers in this titanic battle...

Everyday a child is found missing.Where are they now?Shyla Shade thought the nightmare was over when the war minister from the egalitarian Alzian Empire brought home the children from Earth.But her elation was cut short by an unspeakable crime. Her...

A thought-provoking dystopian sci-fi novel about privilege, class, and what it means to be human.It's not so much that Ordell Bentley craves captivity. The problem is that he can't see freedom as a true possibility. A genetically-altered clone called a...