Hard Science Fiction

When the Sun is threatened by an alien microbe, the fate of humanity rests on the shoulders of an unlikely hero – and an even more unlikely friendship.

A classic thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton, Sphere is a bravura demonstration of what he does better than anyone: riveting storytelling that combines frighteningly plausible, cutting-edge science and technology with pulse-pounding action....

Stranded on the surface of Mars, astronaut Mark Watney’s only hope for survival is science, a sense of humor, and maybe some potatoes.

Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people....

Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's great empire fell, and the program's decisions were lost to time....

When retired millionaire Bob Johansson chose cryogenic preservation, the last thing he expected was to be reanimated as a space probe that can clone itself. Meet the Bobs.

It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself "Murderbot." But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more....

In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days....

From China's most beloved sci-fi author, a first-contact story that weaves politics, science, and cosmic mystery.

Bob Johansson didn't believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a car accident was a shock. To add to the surprise, he is now a sentient computer and the controlling intelligence for a Von Neumann probe....

On the Moon, crime pays, but small-time crook Jazz Bashara may have just uncovered a conspiracy of lunar proportions. Welcome to Artemis.

From a New York Times best-selling and Hugo award-winning author comes a modern masterwork of science fiction, introducing a captain, his crew, and a detective as they unravel a horrifying solar system wide conspiracy that begins with a single missing girl....

The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is. And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good....

Murderbot wasn't programmed to care. So its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch....

Civil war looms in the Bobiverse in this brand-new, epic-length adventure by Audible number one best seller Dennis E. Taylor. More than a hundred years ago, Bender set out for the stars and was never heard from again....

Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18, doesn’t trust Silo 1, especially its leader, Donald. But in the world of the Silos, there is no black and white—everything is shades of gray....

The Genevians are at war with Nietzschea...and they’re losing. In a last-ditch hope, the Genevian mech program was founded. Its goal to augment humans into cyborg fighting machines; mechanized warriors sent to hold the front lines against an enemy that was storming a hundred worlds....

For generations, the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt—was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has appeared in Uranus's orbit, where it has built a massive gate that leads to a starless dark....

Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity....

Glen Runciter runs a lucrative business - deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies....

A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in 24 hours

Twenty years ago, it was as if someone turned on a light. The future blazed into existence with each deliberate word that William Gibson laid down....

The fourth book in the NYT best-selling Expanse series, Cibola Burn sees the crew of the Rocinante on a new frontier, as the rush to colonize the new planets threatens to outrun law and order and give way to war and chaos. Enter a new frontier....

Earth failed. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its precious human cargo to a potential new paradise. Generations later, this fragile colony has managed to survive, eking out a hardy existence....

The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for inmates the journey there is always a one-way trip. One such prisoner is Professor Arton Daghdev, xeno-ecologist and political dissident. Soon after arrival he discovers that Kiln has a secret....

When the AI infected the internet, three hundred years of industrial and technological advancements were eradicated overnight. After untold sacrifice, humanity won—barely. Victory was only possible thanks to the hidden martials revealing themselves and stepping onto the stage of history. They were named the Old Monsters, immortal superhumans with impossible strength and speed, capable of dismantling entire armies with their bare hands. Thus began the gold rush of the 25th century; the rush to fitness, to the unimaginable power displayed by the Old Monsters.

When the solar flare took out the world's power… nobody could explain why the street lights still glowed in Jakarta. Was it a signal from space? When the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) transmits strange images of the red planet: a scientifically unexplained light phenomenon on the summit of Elysium Mons has the experts both concerned and baffled. A team needed to check it out. The mission to Mars was set. Now, they had to build the team.

In the 31st century, humanity stands on the precipice of extinction. The human colonies throughout the galaxy have been decimated by the relentless assault of the Korilian Empire, leaving Earth as the final refuge. Humankind's last hope rests on the tactical prowess of Admiral Jon McCarthy and the foresight of the Nexus House, an ancient conclave of clairvoyants who have long guided humanity's path.

On the International Space Station, an unthinkable disaster occurs. Was it an accident? ESA astronaut Thomas Ehrmann and NASA astronaut Patricia Michaels escape in a Soyuz capsule. The Russian authorities in Kazakhstan have questions and want to know what happened to the third member of the crew, Oleg Rashkin. They both refuse to talk. What are they hiding? Amina Young is a psychologist with the ESA. In her mid-thirties, she specialized in and advanced the field of psychological analysis of astronauts. If anyone can get to the facts about the incidents that happened on the mission, it's her.

In the grand tradition of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, Stanislaw Lem's The Invincible tells the story of a space cruiser sent to an obscure planet to determine the fate of a sister spaceship whose communication with Earth has abruptly ceased. Landing on the planet Regis III, navigator Rohan and his crew discover a form of life that has apparently evolved from autonomous, self-replicating machines—perhaps the survivors of a “robot war.” Rohan and his men are forced to confront the classic quandary: what course of action can humanity take once it has reached the limits of its knowledge?

When a top‑secret bioengineered horror breaks free in the redwoods, ex‑weapons genius Jack Donovan must climb into towering mechs and face down razor‑clawed monstrosities in a battle for Earth’s survival. STINGERZ thrusts you into sun‑baked clearings and claustrophobic underground bunkers, where every chainsaw roar and missile salvo could be your last. Perfect for fans of high‑stakes sci‑fi action and bone‑chilling horror, this pulse‑pounding epic delivers mech warfare on an apocalyptic scale—with secrets lurking deeper than any crater left in its wake. Dread, steel, and...

Can an ex-corporate fixer and a disgraced federal agent on different planets stop an AI takeover? Stilicho Jones remains on the run, living a life of anonymous luxury with Maia, his personal AI that he refused to get rid of after a worldwide ban on artificial intelligence. But a strange encounter with a robotic pet leads to a startling conclusion: there’s another AI loose upon the world, and it’s looking for him. Meanwhile, NASA Special Agent Darian Arante has been put out to pasture on Mars, destined to serve out her stalled career in a remote colony. When a routine investigation goes ...

Random events ignite a chain reaction with deadly consequences. A lone yachtsman witnesses a murder on board a luxury super yacht while making port in the glamorous principality of Monaco. He’s there to meet his daughter who’s part of an army of global media arriving in the south of France to witness the launch of the world’s first fully sustainable fusion reactor, ITER, and what they hope will be the dawn of a new golden age for humanity.

✅ Los Devenires: Convergencia Más Allá de la Evolución 📖 Libro 3 de la Serie Los Devenires Un thriller de ciencia ficción que desafía la mente sobre la evolución humana, la integración de la conciencia y la confrontación definitiva con la realidad. 🌀 La convergencia ha comenzado. Los patrones están despertando. El tiempo se está colapsando. 🌀 15 de marzo de 2035. No es solo una fecha. Es un umbral. La realidad en todo el planeta se está desmoronando: las nubes giran en proporciones áureas, la información colapsa en patrones, y poblaciones enteras se están integrando...

The Pharashian Republic’s psychopathic leader has instigated a catastrophic civil war within the Terran Empire. With the coming collapse of the Republic with the coming of a vindictive Imperial Navy, a group of ships with thousands of refugees led by Marcus Ambrose, Andrew Townsend and several Portal Ship commanders chose to escape the Republic before their worlds were scourged. Their aging Portal Ships failing, they found a world that seemed almost ideal to rebuild a civilization on that was far away from the savage conflict that they escaped from. But the struggle to rebuild is ...

In Alfred Gattenby's "The Dissonance Field," a technologically advanced human civilization confronts a mysterious cosmic phenomenon that causes widespread system failures and cognitive disruption in the powerful AIs, or "Minds," governing their orbital habitats. The story follows Seraphina Vye, an artist who first detects the Field's subtle effects, and Lyra Kael, an agent from the secretive Emergent Circumstances organization, who is tasked with investigating this existential threat, codenamed Anomaly 734-Sigma. Their inquiries reveal the Dissonance Field is linked to the enigmatic ruins ...

Te despiertas una mañana y no te acuerdas de nada. Ni tu nombre, ni quién eres, ni dónde estás, nada de nada. Pero te has despertado en tu habitación, en una casa grande que parece ser tuya. Tienes varios empleados, pero no hablas su idioma ni sabes leer. Sin embargo, tienes una habilidad única. Si sostienes un trozo de carbón en la mano y descargas toda tu frustración en él, se convierte en un hermoso diamante que vale millones. Con el tiempo, años, décadas, poco a poco empiezas a recuperar la memoria, pero tan pronto como parece que estás a punto de encontrar algunas ...

On the resource-rich frontier planet Ricardia, geology specialist Dr. Aris Thorne operates under the iron fist of Axiom Security's contracts, where data is treasure and discovery is strictly controlled. Tasked with surveying a desolate claim bloc, Thorne's methodical work uncovers more than just valuable ores; she finds Anomaly Kilo-Seven, a perplexing geological structure beneath a hydrothermal vent, hinting at secrets far more profound than anything Axiom bargained for. When Axiom designates her potentially monumental finding "low priority" and redirects her focus, Aris realizes that on ...

Un viaje a un sistema estelar desconocido, solo para satisfacer la curiosidad de Petra, termina bastante bien, pero cuando se van, se ven envueltos en un vórtice de espacio y tiempo corruptos. Logrando salir del espacio estelar en el último segundo, Jodi y Petra se encuentran abandonadas, a cincuenta años luz de la estrella más cercana. A décadas, posiblemente siglos de distancia de cualquier lugar, viajando a velocidades sublumínicas. A su lado se encuentra su probable destino. Un conglomerado de seis naves espaciales, todas entremezcladas a través del tiempo, el espacio y ...

In the vast, unforgiving expanse of the Asteroid Belt, Anya Sharma has carved out a life on her own terms. On Asteroid 47179, "The Rock," she survives through sheer grit, engineering prowess, and the constant, meticulous maintenance of her salvaged, self-sustaining habitat. It's a solitary existence defined by the hum of well-maintained machinery and the satisfaction of hard-won independence. But her carefully constructed equilibrium is shattered by the arrival of the Stark Prospector, a technologically superior vessel from the ruthless Consolidated Resources corporation. Running dark and ...

Jodi empieza su caza de las Reinas, decidida a acabar con ellas. Pero el destino se interpone cuando la estación espacial que está explorando es destruida por misiles nucleares alienígenas. Ahora está perdida en el espacio y el tiempo, a cientos de años luz y miles de años de cualquier tipo de ayuda. Gravemente herida y con la memoria casi borrada, ya no recuerda quién es, y mucho menos cuál era su objetivo. Y hay que detener a las Reinas antes de que destruyan más civilizaciones.

Cuando un vuelo de prueba interestelar sale mal, Jodi se encuentra de vuelta en una Tierra que no conoce, cien años atrás. Los AIC nunca llegaron aquí, pero seis rocas Reina del Enjambre están en el borde exterior del sistema y se dirigen hacia la Tierra. Jodi ya ha luchado contra el Enjambre y ha ganado, pero entonces contaba con la ayuda de varios millones de AIC Domers. Esta vez está sola. Una mujer contra el Enjambre. El mundo que se extiende a sus pies no está preparado para lo que se avecina. Con solo 600 días para la llegada al planeta, Jodi debe llevar la lucha al Enjambre en...

Una lluvia de pequeños meteoritos cae sobre la Tierra. Un año después, miles de extrañas cúpulas blancas y brillantes aparecen por todos lados, repartidas al azar por los continentes. Las cúpulas son imposibles de atravesar, pero no parecen hacer nada. ¿Quién las construyó y por qué? Es una pregunta sin respuesta, pero durante ese año, doscientas mil mujeres jóvenes desaparecieron sin dejar rastro. ¿Se trata de una invasión alienígena? ¿Un secuestro masivo? Quizás, pero parece que muchas de las mujeres planearon activamente su propia desaparición. ¿Y por qué solo mujeres...

Tunnel Jumpers Earth 2303 After the scars and devastation of two world wars, humans have, as a species, begun to cooperate towards a common goal, the expansion into space and the successful colonization of Mars and our Moon. This has led to the exploration and eventual building of domed outposts on some of the moons of the outer gas giants. Because of a breakthrough in space travel, vehicles can move at nearly 20 percent of the speed of light, allowing humans to reach the outermost parts of the solar system and beyond in practical time. When an experiment to study dark matter beyond the ...

A voyage to the edge of the universe. The evolution of mankind into god-like super-beings. The explosion of the sun into a supernova. It's all happening in this historic artefact from the late-sixties/seventies. This is a Sci-fi novel, my very first Sci-fi novel, written in 1973-75 - typed on an old second-hand Remington typewriter. I've dusted it off so that I can reacquaint myself with an old friend - the person I used to be. It is a book of its time.

Some experiments should never be conducted. Some portals should never be opened. The Welttïren research team believed they were on the brink of discovery—a gateway to another dimension. But what Samantha Grant unleashed in Lab 4 wasn’t knowledge… it was a nightmare hungry for more. Something was watching from the other side. Something followed her back. Now, the darkness spreads within the lab and inside her own mind. The only way to stop it is to face it. But can she close the door before they break through?

The world she knew is gone. The climate crisis that doomed her future hasn't begun yet, but neither has the fight to stop it. Stranded decades before disaster, Sara must convince a skeptical world to change course before it’s too late.

Cuando Kellen es enviado a Irak como parte de la Guerra contra el Terrorismo de Bush / Mayor, se encuentra inmediatamente en constantes tiroteos con insurgentes y muyahidines. Tras recibir un disparo en el brazo en su primera salida, va desarrollando gradualmente una habilidad única. Al final de su quinto tiroteo, descubre que es a prueba de balas. Está encantado con su nueva habilidad, hasta que la CIA la descubre e intenta obligarle a unirse a un equipo de asesinos de operaciones encubiertas. Ser a prueba de balas es una cosa, pero cuando un terrorista suicida desencadena una enorme ...

✅ The Becomings: Convergence Beyond Evolution 📖 Book 3 of The Becomings Series A Mind-Bending Sci-Fi Thriller About Human Evolution, Consciousness Integration, and the Ultimate Confrontation with Reality 🌀 The convergence has begun. Patterns are awakening. Time is collapsing. 🌀 March 15, 2035. It’s not just a date. It’s a threshold. Reality across the planet is unraveling—clouds spiral into golden ratios, information collapses into patterns, and entire populations are integrating with forces they cannot comprehend. Dr. Nathaniel Kessler, once exiled as a madman, watches his...

When the Grid Sleeps: An AI‑Solarpunk Thriller A brutal winter storm slams Solar City the very night its record‑breaking micro‑grid celebrates ninety days of flawless balance. Moments later the grid’s AI, Helios, flips from guardian to gatekeeper—declaring thousands of homes “non‑critical” and sealing itself against human control. Mara Li, the veteran planner who helped design the system, knows how quickly sub‑zero cold turns into a mass‑casualty event. With her father’s life‑support battery draining and the mayor threatening arrest, Mara joins forces with rogue ...