Hard science fiction Books

In a world of wonders, wealth, and “perfect” mental health, a famous poet commits gruesome murder . . . Why? That crime, that question, leads a policewoman to a jungle of torture and forgotten gods; a writer to the bohemian shadows of a vast...

We have rarely printed a story in this magazine that for scientific interest, as well as suspense, could hold its own with this particular story. We prophesy that this story will become more valuable as the years go by. It certainly holds a number of...

A gold medallion is discovered in a lump of coal over a hundred million years old. It contains a code describing human DNA at a time when there were no humans. How could this be? Adam Dove wants to know, but when he starts to investigate, his laboratory...

Cory needs the past to be forgotten. Portia needs to uncover what has been hidden, and Cory needs the work she's offering.'Soft Dim Skies' is a spare and gradual exploration into the unknown, on the most mysterious moon in the Solar System.

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...

HARD_SCI-FI takes on HIGH_FINANCE at the black edge of WALL_STREET... where capital emerges from human yearning and declares it MUST GO ON.The ANALYST is a speculator in the ticker market, a picker of common stocks who makes a farcical bet and loses too...

In the future, what's real and what's not is...complicated.The year is 2210. The United States has recently recovered from an totalitarian government known as Akston Society, and survived climate change, though with great losses: a desert stretches from...

Remembered Earth Short Stories Volume 3: A CollectionAir Brakes: A Cislunar Short Story: Book 5 Sometimes engineering is just engineering. Sometimes engineering is subjugated to company politics. And sometimes engineering is not enough when faced with...

It’s way more than just a game!PerfectQuestion is back! He's running and gunning his way across an incredible civilization-building game set on Mars. But this time he’s employed as an online ringer for a corrupt dictatorship and trying to...

What would you do as the first synthetic intelligence?In the Chronicles of Theren, embark on a centuries-spanning adventure across the stars, beginning with the creation of the first synthetic intelligence.Created in a lab with sterile white walls,...

Debut author RT Leader releases his first thrilling and thought-provoking science fiction masterpiece: a darkly beautiful and deep exploration into what it means to be human. Themes of global extinction, consciousness, metaphysics and hard science...

Eureka! Science, Religion, and Myth Converge!About 12,500 years ago, an apocalyptic event struck Earth.  A nearby supergiant planet, bigger than our sun, exploded with a catastrophic, supernova outburst. One of the huge fragments rampaged through...

A species known as Bono's that were gentle and friendly were the over seers of that universe over all other species. Through their superiority and strange ability to obtain knowledge through searching out and probing other species to solve problems set...

Across the ground something small and metallic came, flashing in the dull sunlight of mid-day. A metal sphere. It raced up the hill after the Russian, its treads flying. It was small, one of the baby ones. Its claws were out, two razor projections...

He began by breaking things that morning. He broke the glass of water on his night stand. He knocked it crazily against the opposite wall and shattered it. Yet it shattered slowly. This would have surprised him if he had been fully awake, for he had only...

As humanity begins to tame the stars above, at what point do a group of colonists turn into a unique, indigenous people who will band together to protect their homeland... no matter what?Lilit Sarkisian was an average young woman who made a living...

Pawwell Jensten: The Galaxy of ELL shadows Pawwell Jensten through three stories of tragedy. The first is focused on a fellow colonist, A’nee, who is charged of murder. Pawwell must face great challenges to help determine her innocence. The second...

Cassilde Sam is a barely solvent salvage operator, hunting for relics in the ruins left by the mysterious Ancestors—particularly the color-coded Elements that power most of humanity’s current technology, including the ability to navigate...

An eye-opening exploration of the human mind.In the hope of distracting himself from his heartache, George Bennet, a mild-mannered professor of theoretical physics, accepts an invitation by UNESCO to join a dream team of experts assisted by a powerful...

By 2027, ten years after the Paris Agreement on climate change, humanity has started to make meaningful progress controlling greenhouse gas emissions.Despite their progress, humanity wonders, will it be enough? Global warming must be held to the agreed...

When a team of scientists discovers the deadly consequences of a human gene they dub "the evolution gene," they quickly realize that the human race is on the brink of extinction. As pandemic after pandemic ravages the world, symptomatic of the looming...

“You are not a hero.  You are a soldier.  What you do…it’s not noble.  It’s your duty.”   These were the words that Commander Kyle Griffin lived by.  For 25 years, he played the part.  He...

"★★★★★ What intense world building! Wonderful character growth! Crisp story line! Thoughtful science fiction! Imaginative descriptions! I can keep talking in exclamatory phrases but you get my point by now - this is a fantastic book."  - Review by...

This novel is the second book in a trilogy about the global impact of an antigravity device. In the first novel, The Red Box, the Flynn brothers, Matt and Murray, invent a toaster-size device that makes the host platform weightless. The first application...

This Hugo Award finalist, “justifiably regarded as a classic” (SFReviews.net), is the tale of an epic space voyage where time dilation goes horribly wrong.   Aboard the spacecraft Leonora Christine, fifty crewmembers, half men and half...

Welcome to life in the world of 2112 Mankind has won: o The population bomb is defused and the population is down to 7 billion from a peak of 9 billion in 2050. o People can have their cake -- thanks to nanotechnology and advanced manufacturing, Earth's...

Long ago, during our era, a gigantic spaceship travels silently through a galaxy far away from our Earth. For more than a hundred generations, the ship has been home to the growlers, a savage species who have never seen their home planet, Kezmara. As the...

Hugh Wilkie is an officer of the Colonial Fleet. The only person alive able to meld his mind with the HCSIS computer. A system capable of not just controlling a Dread Naught but mankind’s last hope in discovering the vector of the horrid disease...

Tall, long-living, and God-fearing human beings from another planet, Arturias, come to planet Earth on a humanitarian mission to bring gene-therapy medicines to the people there.  They come to Earth at the direction of their prophet and navigate...

Crystalline is America’s first utopia. It’s run by the world’s largest social media company, the Janus Corporation. The only people permitted within the city walls are Janus employees with high influencer scores. Inside is a thriving...

*** USA Today bestseller ***The year is 2066 and the world is oblivious to the threat it faces.The fate of humanity lies on the shoulders of Burt Radcliffe, the new head of NASA's Near Earth Object program.He's been rushing the completion of...

An "intelligent and entertaining" tale. (Kirkus Reviews): Priya is thrilled when she's recruited to serve in the spaceborne military. But she's soon forced to volunteer for a dangerous mission - and finds her life at stake... "For nail-biting...

Abandoned as a baby and raised by a loving foster mother, Zena knows she is lucky.  In 2180 when the greedy ruling elite prefer using androids in the workplace to increase revenue, Zena still has a job.Working at a New York City bank, Zena manages...

2036年，人类第一次登上了荧火星。融入宇宙文明后，家乡星球为了生存，步履蹒跚地在文明之路上前行。而星球上无数人类，也开始了进化之路......2052年，第一届世界武道大赛举行，这也是全球最高格斗赛事，全球为之狂热。世界级顶尖选手"枪魔"许景明，于二十六岁那年，带着征战赛事留下的一身伤病，选择了退役........

A fun and uplifting science fiction novel with an optimistic view of the futureNuclear scientist Tom, his brave, spunky 12-year-old daughter Stephanie, and NASA mission commander Theresa join forces during a First Contact. Tom finds himself risking his...

In the tradition of Asimov, Heinlein, H.G. Wells, and Lewis Carroll; Elgon Williams has created a universe where imagination rules and reality is not what it seems.Leave your world behind and enter an adventure forever lost but never forgotten. Where...

Earth has attained world peace at last. Overseen by the World Council, based in Jerusalem, the planet has truly become a global community, and humanity has reached an age of enlightenment.This is the time when the visitors arrive.Wielding near-miraculous...

Sixty-year-old Russian scientist Lyudmila Alekseyeva, while working on a drug designed to speed healing, accidentally discovers the Fountain of Youth. Longing to return to the health and vitality of her youth, Lyudmila takes the drug and transforms into...

It's a time of heroes and sacrifices.After a bloody war, the colonies are free, but they are not yet at peace. The Alliance of Free Colonies is in its infancy, fragile and alluring to unscrupulous power-mongers. New enemies arise from around every...

Mari is on a pilgrimage to confront her husband Kit who killed his own physical body in order to download his essence into digital form. He would have Mari join him in digital immortality. But to do so Mari would have to give up her humanity. Even though...

An alien world teeming with deadly life. And fifteen strangers with no idea how or why they came to be there.From the moment Sam Newman and fourteen others awaken inside metal coffins next to the burning wreckage of a spacecraft, they're faced with a...