Hard science fiction Books

Enough with the Basker twins...Dar is ready for Elsie and Everest Basker to leave the clone academy so life can go back to normal. Instead, the Basker twins’ parents are the new directors, and Elsie and Everest are here to stay. If that isn't...

In this fanciful new sci-fi novel, you meet Catherine Newton, a mousy-but-neat English teacher assigned to a small desert mining town in Colorado, one of those conclaves that sprung up after the war of 2020 had decimated all the major cities in the US...

Dr. Monica Gray stumbles onto a virus that accelerates cancer growth. Cancer patients who contract the virus face certain death within weeks. Monica Gray and her medical partner, Adam Two, the surgical AI, race to create a treatment to save their...

Der überwältigende letzte Teil der Trilogie Die letzten Menschen  eines New York Times Bestsellerautoren ist endlich erschienen. Was bedeutet es, menschlich zu sein? Was bedeutet es, echt zu sein?Ich dachte, dass wir der Gefahr...

A galaxy in perilThe story begun in The Reefs of Time continues. The time-tides caused by Karellia’s defenses have brought the malicious Mindaru AI out of the deep past into the present, threatening Bandicut and Li-Jared, who have arrived at...

Twelve-year-old twins, ELsie and Everest, finally feel as if they are starting to fit in at their uncle's boarding school for clones, despite not being clones themselves. Then a man claiming to be a close associate of their parents arrives at the academy...

Heat RisesLeaving Earth with a burst of speed and a trail of dark exhaust, the Saturnian Space Agency performed what had become routine: Eight people were on their way to relieve the entire crew of a low- Earth orbit space research station.Unbeknownst to...

... across half a Galaxy, the Terran Empire maintains its sovereignty with the consent of the governed. It is a peaceful reign, held by compact and not by conquest. Again and again, when rebellion threatens the Terran Peace, the natives of the rebellious...

Daniel Feldman had once been a doctor. He made the mistake of saving a friend's life in violation of the Medical Lobby rules. Now, he's a pariah, shunned by all, forbidden to touch another patient. But things are more loose on Mars. There Doc Feldman is...

Once again it is up to Jamie Retief to save another diplomatic mission. Terra has recently signed a treaty with the planet Petreac. But revolution threatens and the Terrans must save the Nenni cast or their mission will end in abject failure.

He was looking for a privacy his strange personality needed. And-never quite seemed to achieve it. All his efforts were, somehow-great triumphs of the race, and great failures for him!

What will the final evolution be, and will we recognize it when it arrives? A thought provoking story on the ultimate destination of all life.

He was afraid-not of the present or the future, but of the past. He was afraid of the thing tagged Reed Kieran, that stiff blind voiceless thing wheeling its slow orbit around the Moon, companion to dead worlds and silent space.

Jeffrey Meyer had a killing on his mind. It meant nothing to him that his towering Twenty-first Century world was going mad. He shouldered aside the rising tide of narcotics-mania, the gambling fever, the insatiable lust for the irrational. Jeff had his...

Four men set out to prove their mettle by crossing the bright side of Mercury when it is closest to the sun. A feat which no one has ever done and survived. The odds are against them and they will need all of their expertise and courage if they are to...

A Sector General Novel In the far future Humans are part of an intergalactic civilization populated with countless alien races. Humans are prized for their medical expertise and make up almost all of doctors in the galaxy. Dal Timgar is the first...

A team of scientists are sent to Mercury aboard the Albireo to find out why it's developing an atmosphere. A series of events force the scientists out of their ship and onto the surface of Mercury where only their courage and intelligence can keep them...

It was a good job and Max Alben knew whom he had to thank for it-his great-grandfather. "Good old Giovanni Albeni," he muttered as he hurried into the laboratory slightly ahead of the escorting technicians, all of them, despite the excitement of the...

An indestructible alien had found its way aboard the hospital ship. Their orders were simple: destroy it. But how do you destroy an indestructible being? And even if you can figure out how, should you?

Eighteen men and two women in the closed world of a space ship for five months can only spell tension and trouble-but in this case, the atmosphere was literally poisoned.

The way we feel about another person, or about objects, is often bound up in associations that have no direct connection with the person or object at all. Often, what we call a "change of heart" comes about sheerly from a change in the many associations...

Granthan's mission was the most vital of the war. It would mean instant victory-but for whom? Earth didn't trust his information. They were sure that he had been brain washed by the enemy. He had to convince them that he could be trusted before they...

Galaxy Science Fiction hit the scene in1950 edited by H. L. Gold and quickly became the leading science fiction magazine of its time. Galaxy gave a home to writers that didn't fit into Astounding and F&SF, and readers rejoiced. In this first...

Pioneers have always resented their wanderlust, hated their hardships. But the future brings a new grudge-when pioneers stay put and scholars do the exploring!

The dark star passed, bringing with it eternal night and turning history into incredible myth in a single generation! In this story of desperation and courage a family believing themselves to be the last humans alive on Earth must fight daily against a...

It was Eric's birthday, the day he became a man. And that could only mean one thing. It was time for him to steal for mankind. The aliens had subjugated humans with technology so far in advanced of anything that mankind had ever developed that it was...

It is the kind of news item you read at least a dozen times a year, wonder about briefly, and then promptly forget-but the real story is the one that the reporters are unable to cover! A time travel story that will stay with you lang after you turned the...

Conspiracy seems to be as much a part of our times as it was in the times of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. Hence it finds frequent reflection in all branches of fiction, including science fiction. Yet, as in life, something new has been added, the...

His work was healing the sick-but this planet was already dead!Calhoun regarded the communicator with something like exasperation as his taped voice repeated a standard approach-call for the twentieth time. But no answer came, which had become irritating...

Two years ago, twelve-year-old Emma Hartman and her father, Gary, were part of a larger family. But Emma's mother and two siblings died in a tragic accident after a camping trip in the mountains of Colorado. While her dad tries to rescue the three from...

Until recently, Chintz had been a relatively normal guy with a relatively normal cat. For example, neither he, nor his cat, had ever journeyed to a synthetic parallel universe. He had never encountered a teleporting baby or an emotionally mature computer...

It is written that after the Giants came to Tellura from the far stars, they abode a while, and looked upon the surface of the land, and found it wanting, and of evil omen. Therefore did they make men to live always in the air and in the sunlight, and in...

The mammoths of the ancient world have been wonderfully preserved in the ice of Siberia. The cold, only a few miles out in space, will be far more intense than in the polar regions and its power of preserving the dead body would most probably be...

Pedro Iturralde is attracted to complex things. He does not go thru life searching for them. But when confronted by them, his capacity of wonder wakes up, and he dedicates in heart and mind to master it, or at least to try to become proficient on it...

In the near future, xenogenetist Carly Maclaine is the clone of a notorious pioneer in the field, who created an artificial intelligence called Napoleon. Napoleon has been on the run from the Commonwealth's secret police--but now they need Napoleon's...

Survival is uppermost in the minds of the medieval Norse, living on the edge of the world, in the ice and snow of Greenland in the early fifteenth century. Those who survive flee for other lands. Over six hundred years later global warming has resulted...

Kyle Ferine is left with no choice but to continue his mission. Commandeering a second ANZAR machine, Ferine leads his team of hardened soldiers in pursuit of the ANZAR terrorists through the layers of the Multiverse in which they have fled. As the two...

After his father succumbs to cancer, medical researcher Sloan O'Hara is determined to find a cure for the disease. He doesn't expect his wife, Ally, to become his research partner, or to be caught up in a world of greed and politics. As their research...

The Earth burned. That's what the historical records say. Two thousand years later, a long-range mission is sent to Earth from the lone colony of Refugia to discover what happened to humanity's ancestors. As they approach Earth, the crew of the Sarania...

Embark on an awe-inspiring odyssey through the captivating realms of time, where the fusion of past and future intertwine. This gripping science fiction novel explores the science, paradoxes and philosophy of time travel and the opportunities and dangers...