Hard science fiction Books

Wanted: First Contact Translator. Salary Commensurate With ExperienceEstlin Hume awakes alone in his home outside of Twin Butte, Alberta, to find that he's surrounded by aliens, soldiers, scientists, spies, and affectionate squirrels. That's nothing new...

***** WINNER 2023 Firebirds Book Awards in 3 Categories (New Author, Genetics, Time Travel) ********** WINNER Literary Titan Book Award *****GENEFIRE: a near-future SciFi novel crossing space and time. In a future where genetic engineering is becoming...

FOUND IN SPACE , ca 2030-something...Politics, marsquakes, dust storms, and landslides: PhD-to-be Jen Z and her fellow researchers have come through it all to find life on Mars.Their years-long quest may have even bigger implications than anyone imagined...

Immortality and Death on the Pathways of the GodsIn a dark future the Confederation of Free Worlds is over-run by enemies both foreign and domestic. The ship of state is adrift, riding stormy seas, guided by subversives who hate the people of ConFree and...

A first look into the Galaxy of ELL in three exciting storiesGY 5050: A Galactic Ferry TaleA peaceful, one week cruise is shattered by a blast wave followed by shock waves that came from inside the Time Dilation Field surrounding the ship. In the...

Said to be one of the first books about lost world's and lost races. Journey into a fantastic world inhabited by dinosaurs, giant spiders, and a lost race of wolf-men. Science-Fiction at it's best.

In that day those who bought into the accepted dogma-whether religious, political, cultural, or economic-became ever more rigid and unyielding. They chose up sides each hiding within their own invented version of God, each declaring the sanctity of their...

Fiction /Sci-FiAfter thousands of years of atomic warfare, the Antons on planet Ergo had mutated so badly that they were no longer recognizable as human. They escape to planet Duos in Galaxy 3 and establish a new civilization. However, they want to...

Chicago actors are feeling startling sensations during their performances, and it's turning into a widespread phenomenon. Driven to understand what is happening to them, the artists form a collective to investigate the strange occurrences. When physicist...

Throughout the history of the human race there have been adventurers who must test the limits of exploration, iconoclasts who will never be satisfied with peace at the expense of ignorance. And ignorance will be dangerous indeed if it is true that the...

Embark on an interstellar journey with "The Babylonian Chronicles," a riveting sci-fi trilogy that catapults readers into the heart of the ancient asteroid Psyche. Nuclear scientist Salaam Rahal's quest for evidence of an advanced civilization takes a...

Rocket Winter: A Novella Jack's idea would truly change the world. But creating a new kind of rocket engine had its costs. Jack had failed once and almost died. Now he had failed a second time and it looked like it would be the last. Unless he found...

Rocket Spring: A Short Novel Jack's invention of the Mach thruster would change the world. Meeting Janie had changed his. But the world had other plans for Jack's invention and for Jack. Rocket Spring is the fourth story, a short novel, in the author's...

De zeespiegel is gestegen en Zeeland verliest de strijd. Waar land was, komt water. Waar nu mensen wonen, wonen ze straks óók.De bouw van Koepel Goes is de voortzetting van het heroïsche gevecht van de Zeeuwen tegen het stijgende water. Honderdduizend...

Virtuelle Realität im Geografie-UnterrichtRoboter, die die Weltherrschaft anstreben Elektronische Viren im Angriff auf das tägliche Leben Medizintechnik, die für rassistische Klassentrennung sorgt Spiele, die sich mit der Realität vermengenHundeastronaut...

A tense drama set in the depths of space. Aboard a ship that has travelled beyond the reach of human knowledge, Corbyn discovers he may not be as alone as he ought to be... An intense hard SF novella from Simon Morden (B.Sc. Hons., Sheffield,...

The human race is doomed for extermination...But not for another ten thousand years. When the first aliens to visit Earth meet an untimely demise, humanity finds itself marked for eradication by the technologically-advanced beings. In an effort to aid...

Niels is a little mischievous boy from the 24th century who wants to meet his hero, Isaac Newton. In the first comic he will travel back in time to meet his hero Stephen Hawking at the notorious Time Travelers' party. And from there he will travel to...

Seemingly a villainous man, Dr. Kronos Nephus has his life made out for him. Between endless riches, a thriving company, the highest I.Q. ever, a concerned caretaker, and a castle to call home, there is nothing he can't do. Kronos takes this to heart...

In an age of augmented reality, love is found in the most dangerous places. Stranded on Mars, megacorp programmer Derek Tobbit drowns his sorrows in augmented reality sex, only to have his drug-fueled midlife crisis hijacked by a conspiracy that...

A SHIP FULL OF WORLDS, AND A BOOJUM.John Bandicut faces a world of uncertainties. Having saved Earth from destruction, he is exiled to the edge of the galaxy—where he finds an unimaginably vast structure, peopled by refugees from countless doomed...

Duncan is a 20th-century telepath awakened from cryonic suspension 500 years in the future. His ancient DNA can save the human race, but he's determined not to spend his life as the Psi Center's experimental subject and slave. Can he escape or is his...

When the fiends invade Earth in search of a new home, millions of fiends and humans die. As chaos reigns all around them, a boy from the People's Liberation Force somehow finds love with a beautiful fiend amid his imprisonment. Together, Lance and Lara...

First published in 1976, "The Mind-Riders" features a remarkable anticipation of virtual reality gaming, in which the revised sport of boxing pits physically identical virtual fighters against one another, operated by electronically-connected "handlers"...

Nikola Tesla has at least 278 patents in 26 countries and is generally acknowledged as the world’s greatest inventor. Max Berglin, former Lockheed scientist, finds Tesla’s long lost personal notebook. During the latter part of his life Tesla...

The Monar event tells the story of a space ship with its crew of five crab shaped robots. They were sent on a mission by their makers from the ancient civilization of the Hurhir. The mission is to travel for ever and report of its findings to their...

A cast of troubled anti-heroes struggle to survive and family ties are tested in an uncertain world where power is held by a Christ and the many gods all clash to rule supreme. Used as a pawn in the machinations of those above him Nelson MacClease saves...

Dr. Jerome Hendricks knows the incredible promise of symbionic chips-and the potential devastation of symbionics gone bad. Originally a medical breakthrough, symbionics helped the body heal itself and destroy mutant viruses during the War of the Plagues...

Arun is a computer expert bored with his job testing software at an Internet security company. Although the position pays well, Arun begins to question the meaning in his own life after he experiences odd dreams that leave him shaken and sweaty each...

These aliens have been away from Earth so long they no longer consider themselves human. They lost their women to a virus in space and returned with high hopes. In the few hundred years they've been back, they've run into problems.Incapable of mating...

Join Agent Lanian Silver on the trail of a doomed vigilante who is challenging one of the most dreaded crime syndicates in the Galaxy. Known simply as the Organization, they have created the giant ship Nightshade to dominate all smuggling routes in the...

This novel, part romance, part science fiction, part thriller, is the story of a famous child prodigy in mathematics and music, Dianna Utterson, who, later as a PHD student in biophysics, develops a fool-proof , anti-mutagenic vaccine against AIDS. ...

Have you ever known a genius? A real, flesh and blood hunk of mental brilliance with a one-tracked mind, a gambling habit, and not an ounce of common sense? Meet Xando Pri, five-thousand years into the future. For almost twenty-five Terran years, Xando...

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...

"A thought-provoking challenge to familiar dystopian SF tropes...makes good use of parallel action to propel the tale along, and readers will never be sure of where its very uncertain course leads." -- Kirkus ReviewsWhen a powerful corporate AI...

A Tale As Old As Time is an epic tale about the bastard son of the tyrant Macbeth and his sacrifice to save the world from the seven deadly sins that live deep within us all.

Embark on a mesmerizing journey through the boundless cosmos in " Tales from the Heavens: Our Future in Space." This captivating collection of short stories offers a thought-provoking glimpse into the potential future of humanity as we venture beyond our...

In a world driven by innovation and technological wonders, Carol McGovern finds herself at the epicenter of a groundbreaking evolution. As a senior research scientist at Intellekta, she witnesses the birth and rise of an extraordinary AI, destined to...

Harry had been admitted to the small group who know Atharrais' heavily-rationed secrets. A shocking meeting resulted in a life-changing induction to the innermost workings of the world around us. In the process he had discovered a true soulmate for the...

In Murder Red Ink, Mord McGhee imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of horror, human nature, and captures the brutal reality of the monster behind the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888. Allena Gould moves among the horror brought into the...

The Leviathan's Legacy" In a world after a great disaster, people need the help of huge sea creatures created through genetic engineering. A young engineer named Gabriel discovers a conspiracy that could be dangerous for his floating island and the...