Hard science fiction Books

It was a brilliant plan to control the world's population using a device in the television to manipulate the mind of the viewer, but something went wrong, horribly wrong. The device had destroyed their minds, and few could think for themselves. And...

The Jesus incident by Frank Herbert & Bill Ransom: A sentient Ship with godlike powers (and aspirations) delivers the last survivors of humanity to a horrific, poisonous planet, Pandora-rife with deadly Nerve-Runners, Hooded Dashers, airborne jellyfish,...

As a follow-up to Green's Discovery, this sequel, Green's Discovery 2, Creating a Fair & JustSociety, deals with the fact that the time has come for us to complete the work started in Green's Discovery and for our world to establish a fair and just...

Kimberly Trayne is in hiding. Accidentally-but-sort-of-on-purpose flash-freezing the son of a drug kingpin tends to require it. Unfortunately the transition from international computer-hacking badass to night manager at Taco Bell has left her life.....

Loftus meets the seer, Zuni, and is hailed as the awaited savior of the Mantari people. He must first overcome the despotic Tolten; now Kath's husband. Sard brings his entire fleet through the intergalactic passageway to destroy the Mantari. As predicted...

Aged, annoyed, and ready to tear it all down. Ajay Andersen broke cryptography, but there are still plenty of secrets. A work of art is stolen from the Minneapolis Arts Institute, but there's something strange about this modern Russian...

"there's a difference between being a loner and being alone"A 3.5 year mission from which they'll never return, a 2.5 million lightyear journey to another galaxy, a 1.5 member crew comprising a solitary captain and a half-baked AI...Captain Sideris is a...

The planet's ruling elite, the top one percent, finally manages to do the unthinkable: stir the dragon. They awaken the ninety-nine percent from their apathy and despair and sense of helplessness after decades of systematic abuse and subjugation. But the...

Ray Cunningham is one of the longest running, most successful serial killers on the planet. He also heads the FBI department in charge of hunting down America's Most Wanted.Among the young agents he's tutoring, will one be clever enough to catch him? And...

When steering human evolution with designer plagues proves too dangerous out in the open, people are herded into domed cities. There experiments can begin on them in earnest. Sing-Sing is tasked with containing the Singularity effect, making sure that...

Two-thirds of the way through the series starter, the Singularity reaction had already begun. Explosive technological growth beyond human comprehension caught everyone up.Now it's impossible to look out your window from day to day without feeling like a...

They thought this was just another salvage job. They thought wrong.An AI overseer and a human crew arrive on a distant planet to salvage an ancient UN starship. The overseer is unhappy. The crew, well, they're certainly no A-team. Not even a C-team on...

After a massive volcanic eruption puts earth into nuclear winter, the planet is cloaked in clouds and no sun penetrates. Seas cover most of the land areas except high elevations which exist as islands where the remaining humans have learned to make do...

The best-selling Helmsman Saga continues about former-Admiral Wilf Brim. As the Second Great War rages, Emperor Onrad recognizes military missions unique to Brim's abilities that can be done, as well, by a civilian. Soon, Brim finds himself in the thick...

Back to Ground Zero is a science fiction novel about the life and adventures of Antonio Corelli. After a devastating auto accident, he was left in a state of depression. The accident, which took the life of his beloved wife of 50 years, destroyed his...

Simak's stories often repeat a few basic ideas and themes. First and foremost is a setting in rural Wisconsin. A crusty individualistic backwoodsman character literally comes with the territory. But the rural setting is not always as idyllic as here and...

When tyrant fanatics long have commanded both government and institutions of religion, what can ordinary people do? People just trying to live a decent life, sometimes just trying to live at all. People of sincere faith, or of none.King Freedom is a tale...

A running theme in Piper's work is that history repeats itself; past events will have direct and clear analogues in the future.When the book was published, he had been writing and selling science fiction for many years to the leading magazines, and that...

The bestselling Helmsman Saga returns to booksellers' lists with upgrades and changes: a "Revised and Enhanced" edition of Bill Baldwin's classic Science-Fiction adventure, The Trophy. Either Wilf Brim wins it - or sacrifices his beloved Empire to the...

A plastic surgeon of the future is charged with re-creating the face of Adam, the first man. Is he just a pawn in a scheme to defraud a billionaire, or does he seriously intend to fulfill his task. And if he's successful, what does it mean to the...

It is 2065 and Earth continues its downward spiral. It is more polluted, overcrowded and, most of all, more desperate. Then Charley shows up in an alien spaceship and offers an escape: a chance for a new life on a new world, in a colony currently under...

The setting is a society in which aging has been cured, individuals have indefinite lifespans and population control is used to limit the population of the United States to forty million. This is maintained through a combination of infanticide and...

That night the comet was the only thing in the whole sky. All the stars were smothered by the light of its copper-yellow flame, and, although the sun had set two hours ago, the Earth was lit as with the glow of a thunderous dawn.In Mayfield, Ken Maddox...

Where am I? Brad asked himself. He became aware that he was not in the parking garage. He could hear a medley of voices that made no sense to him. He closed his eyes, said nothing, and lay dormant. The intermingling of voices seemed to last forever until...

John Jensen Greenberg is no ordinary child. Frozen in a block of ice for thousands of years, he was found as an infant in a state of suspended animation and brought back to life by two scientists. But John has no idea of his true origin.At the age of...

Whether your opinion of The Requisited Soul was openly energizing to your listener or mountainly spirited, I hope you enjoyed the turns and twists that the main character experienced. Having put into service the air of Deoxyribonucleic Acid reproduction...

Wayne Lehr returns in The Guardians II - Echoes of Thunder!The Trakarshan execution ceremony was set under the warmth of the summer Prethundran sun. Bill and Lehr stood alone, defiantly awaiting their inevitable fate. Larek, the Trakarshan Commander...

Humans have left the Earth, and dogs rule. Kipper is an oppressed tabby cat who dreams of a better place where cats are free to run their own lives. When Kipper discovers a secret that might lead her to such a paradise, along with the secret comes...

Le narrateur, William Guest, revient d’une réunion publique socialiste agitée et s’endort chez lui. À son réveil, il se retrouve dans le futur, en l’an 2102: il découvre une nouvelle...

A super-powered mutant in the 23rd century learns of his heroic mandate from an advanced alien race and begins to take guidance from COAPs – Computer-Oriented Angelic Personifications.  Advanced alien beings have slated Ray Sky (AKA The Camel)...

Exiled to the mines of Mars…Silvariah Frandelle, a clever business woman, falls from wealth and success into exile and poverty, indentured—barely one step above slavery—as an off-world laborer to escape prison. Her last calculated...

 We always wanted planet Earth to perform better, and we sent some higher paradigm shifts inside the third-dimensional world of that planet. We gave them the perfect hint about almost everything. Leonardo said, “Everything is connected to...

Als Captain Navarra hat der Wissenschaftsoffizier seine schlimmste Feindin gerettet und die Menschen vernichtet, die sie gefangen hielten. Nun möchte jemand anderes den skrupellosen Piraten Navarra anheuern, und Javier muss Sykora mitnehmen, damit...

Javier schraubt immer noch an seinen Maschinen herum und kümmert sich um seinen Garten und seine Hühner, obwohl er als Sklave auf dem Schiff einer Horde von Piraten gefangen gehalten wird.Die gerade erst dabei sind zu begreifen, wie wichtig ihr...

From New York Times and USA Today bestseller Dima Zales comes the highly anticipated conclusion to the Human++ trilogyIt’s been four and a half years since my friends and I revolutionized the world with our Brainocyte technology. I have a beautiful...

Guy Burckhardt wakes up screaming, but can't remember the nightmare that caused his fright. Slowly over the next couple of days he comes to realize he's been reliving the same day over and over. And things only get stranger and more frightening from...

Worlds of If was a three time winner of the Hugo Award for best science fiction magazine. Worlds of If discovered many talented writers who would go on to dominate genre fiction. This is the third in our Worlds of If series with even more memorable...

In this new book by the author of Blackcollar and the #1 New York Times–bestselling Heir to the Empire, Timothy Zahn imagines a technology that could alter our perception of life and death foreverFor Dr. Adrian Sommers, a...

"The Tunnel under the World" was first published in 1954 in Galaxy magazine.On the morning of June 15th, Guy Burckhardt woke up screaming out of a dream.It was more real than any dream he had ever had in his life. He could still hear and feel the sharp,...

Within a four foot stainless steel cube, a bodiless brain is awake, thinking, computing, knowing. Brian was created by genetic engineer Dr. Ellie Parsons, and neuroscientist Tom Marshall, at biotechnology company Dipol Inc., in San Diego, CA. Ethical...

Neuroscientist Alice Kurz and her team have developed a technology that could lead to immortality. For Alice, it’s a chance to develop a cure for Alzheimer’s, the disease that destroyed her grandmother. Test subject Eliot Stearns knows...

This time its personal...The threat of extinction seemed all but gone after Gideon struck the final blow that sent Zadock tumbling back down into the bowels of Hell. Still, Zadocks defeat only fueled Gideon's lust for power. He blamed himself for the...

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