Hard Science Fiction

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it....

Humanity has colonized the planets - interstellar travel is still beyond our reach, but the solar system has become a dense network of colonies....

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded....

Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire....

The Galactic Empire has prospered for 12,000 years....

Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison - a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world...

In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way....

For generations the solar system--Mars, the moon, the asteroid belt--was humanity's great frontier....

The gates have opened the way to a thousand new worlds, and the rush to colonise has begun. Settlers looking for a new life stream out from humanity's home planets....

Earth’s entire fleet and all her legions are conscripted by the Galactics. Centurion McGill of Legion Varus is among countless troops pressed into service as cannon fodder for the Empire....

In this powerful narrative, we’ll find a human outpost lying derelict in space, the scout ship that discovers it, and a planet best left unexplored. From the author of the acclaimed Children of Time, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award....

For someone who didn't intend to wreck the solar system's fragile balance of power, Jim Holden did a pretty good job of it....

Captain Jackson Wolfe never thought he'd see the end of the Phage War in his lifetime. The enemy was too powerful, too numerous, and utterly determined to exterminate humanity....

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....

A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood....

In the aftermath of the destruction, Shaun finds himself trapped by the winter. With little other choice, he joins a group of survivors doing the best they can. His idea of "best" isn’t always shared by the group, though....

In a world reliant on technology, the bright flashes in the sky were just the beginning....

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....

What happens when a robot begins to question its creators? Find out....

The First Foundation survived two centuries of barbarism as the once-mighty Galactic Empire descended into chaos....

The Darshik war machine is flagging, but the war is far from over. Even as an exhausted Federation military tenses up for a counterattack after repelling the last Darshik invasion....

Ursula has lived twice the normal human lifespan, courtesy of the latest technology. But now she’s struggling to find excitement and purpose, so signs up to the Polity’s military....

Jack Four - one of 20 human clones - has been created to be sold. His purchasers are the alien prador, and they only want him for their experimentation program. But there is something different about Jack....

A military space probe, sent to collect extraterrestrial organisms from the atmosphere, is knocked out of orbit and falls to Earth. Twelve miles from the crash site, an inexplicable and deadly phenomenon terrorizes the residents of a desert town in Arizona, leaving only two survivors....

All Systems Red is the tense first science fiction adventure novella in Martha Wells' series The Murderbot Diaries. For fans of Westworld and Ex Machina....

Sometimes it takes a catastrophe for science to leap forward. On May 20th, 2069, the space vessel Phoenix embarks on its journey to Mars—humankind’s next frontier. Led by Commander Joy Liore, the seven international crewmates’ goal is to explore possible colonization on the Red Planet’s surface. They confirm landing. Then they vanish. Five days after all contact with Phoenix is lost, Doctor M. Tzuk, an expert interplanetary psychologist, accepts NASA’s appointment as head of the investigation force.

There is no need to fear, if there’s but one choice to be made. In a dystopic world of genetically modified Descendants, where teleportations are controlled by sophisticated AI, Humans are detained on a prison planet for reasons more sinister than mere punishment. Dora Dana Dasnan, a gifted Visionaire, knows she is the only one who can save them: She needs to teleport them away from the Uni galaxy. The evacuation is going smoothly and Dora manages to teleport thousands of Humans to safety, when an unexpected event throws her onto a completely new path.

A ticking time bomb in the form of a deadly virus moves NALC toward a disaster and Captain Greg Daniels carries the solution onboard his ship. Will he get back in time to save the lunar community? This is it. The conclusion to the five book Deep Space Mining Series. Secrets are revealed, lives are sacrificed, and it all comes down to the decision of one man, Captain Greg Daniels. Now flying as an outlaw, Captain Daniels needs to save the careers of his crew and get himself home to his family. Will he sacrifice himself to save his crew?

Techno and Mateo face an alien presence that has secretly taken over big business and government. The aliens run everything from underground tunnels in which they do the unspeakable to humans. Techno's sister was abducted, and Mateo and his family were taken underground. Mateo defended his sister’s honor only to find himself a prisoner on a dark train, shackled, and with no food or water. His situation worsens when he finds out that he must fight for food while caged...Mateo is ordered to take his clothes off and board another train. Nobody has ever come back.

A millionaire English lord dreams of founding a Utopian community on a remote Pacific island. Among the 40-odd men and women selected for the project are a pestologist named Camilla and the narrator. Within hours of the group's arrival on the sunny isle, their radio has been destroyed. Within days, several members of the group are dead. Dream turns to nightmare as they discover the island is overrun by a species programmed to resist and dominate any invader.

In the aftermath of the destruction, Shaun finds himself trapped by the winter. With little other choice, he joins a group of survivors doing the best they can. His idea of "best" isn’t always shared by the group, though. But before the weather breaks, when he wants to resume his journey, they all face conflict. Miles away, doing the best that she can, Abbie is adapting to life without power; her own situation is far from ideal. After the sound of the falling bombs fade, as the dark world they live in tries to recover, they have to find a way to adapt to their new reality.

The future hangs in the balance. It was just another normal day until someone set his house on fire, killed his closest friend, and then threatened to unmake the world as we know it. Deke Sandborn is back and in a race against time and evil with the fate of humankind still in his and his fellow time travelers’ hands. After traveling to the present from more than 300 years in the future, they must meet and overcome the resistance of an enemy that has followed them here.

When the newly formed WHISP task force is called in to investigate a kidnapping and possible bioterrorism attack, NYPD Detective Sylvia Harbinger finds herself the middle woman between the NYPD and an extremist anti-WHISP organization, exposed to a WHISP virus, and having lengthy conversations with her own recently formed WHISP. Or is she only talking to herself? With Ben and Lincoln backing her in the task force laboratory, she races to find the kidnapping victims and a cure, yet the terrorists always seem to keep one step ahead.

Earth’s entire fleet and all her legions are conscripted by the Galactics. Centurion McGill of Legion Varus is among countless troops pressed into service as cannon fodder for the Empire. Not everyone on Earth is happy with the demands of the Galactics. Earth has built up her military for decades, and now she might lose everything in a foreign war no one understands. As the man who has killed more Mogwa than any other human in history, McGill is approached and given a mission. He has a fateful decision to make.  

A planet in the endless emptiness of space, far from the warmth of any sun. And yet there are people who populate its vast caverns, living, working and loving. Since time immemorial, they have been on course for Andromeda, the neighboring galaxy of the Milky Way. This is the prophecy of the ancients, the one goal that unites them all, their cult. But then the unthinkable happens: the journey stops because the planet enters the orbit of a mysterious object that can't be seen in any telescope.

The UN warship Magellan is twelve light-years from Earth, exploring a cold eye, a tidally locked super-Earth called Bee. At least two advanced intelligent species evolved on the planet, but the crew's attempts at radio communication result in garbled replies. No one is waiting for them in orbit. The crew has to figure out why. Any misunderstandings could lead to war.

UC Berkeley Professor of Microbiology Dr. Mira Wallace searches for ancient life in the most extreme environments on Earth. While sampling an ancient subterranean lake, the US Army summons Mira to investigate a mysterious biological threat in a Southern Utah desert. SONA (Sudden Onset Necrosis Agent) is a new pathogen unlike anything known to science. Resilient and aggressive, it threatens Earth's entire biosphere, making Mira fear that she may have just found deadly evidence of the ancient life she’s been searching for.

What you don’t know can kill you. Captain Greg Daniels is being treated like a pawn in a game he didn’t know he was playing. Being a spectator to events has never been in his nature and he is ready to take action. He must fight for the future of his ship, his crew, and his family. David Rivera sees the big picture and understands that sacrifices must be made in order for the greater good to be realized. His frustration at small minds getting in his way will lead him to push his plans forward, and he pities those that get in his way.

In the halcyon days of the 23rd century, human beings are healthier, more beautiful, and more long-lived than ever before thanks to regeneration therapy from the Global Health Directorate. The assassination of a Directorate scientist starts a war between a genocidal bureaucracy and a group of self-mutilating religious fanatics. 

It is the year 2051, and the International Space Institute has just sent two rival astrobiologists to search for extraterrestrial life on Europa, the mysterious ice moon of Jupiter. What they encounter could not only revolutionize science, it might make one of them the most famous person on Earth. Or does the Universe have other plans?