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.

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

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

When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it will have to assist in determining who the body is (was), how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward, at least), and why (because apparently that matters to a lot of people - who knew?)....

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....

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....

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....

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....

On the 75th anniversary of its publication, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before....

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....

Amri was a Rabbit, one of a tribe of survivors scratching out an existence in the blasted landscape of a shattered, poisoned world. The Seagull fight, the Pigeon trade and the Cockroach scavenge, but the Rabbit had one rule: If you want to see tomorrow, you run.

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....

Caesar, an undercover operative, enters Carmichael with the briefest of orders from his boss and a countdown on his phone. What will happen when the clock strikes zero?

A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence....

When Murderbot's human associates (not friends, never friends) are captured and another not-friend from its past requires urgent assistance, Murderbot must choose between inertia and drastic action....

Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight....

When a towering alien monolith crashes onto James McGill's family farm, it triggers events that could spark a galaxy-wide war.

Two expanding interstellar powers are about to meet in battle. After the collapse of the Cephalopod Kingdom, Humanity claimed the 300 rebellious worlds it left behind. But light years away on the far side of a disputed region, a rival power has begun to move....

In the 20th century Earth sent probes, transmissions, and welcoming messages to the stars. Unfortunately, someone noticed....

The United States government is given a warning by the preeminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate....

In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the US Navy - is assigned to Detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt....

I’m usually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are. When Murderbot's human associates (not friends, never friends) are captured and another not-friend from its past requires urgent assistance, Murderbot must choose between inertia and drastic action....

Dr. Melody Adams, a physicist at the Gemini North Observatory, was studying Pluto in the telescope data, and it struck her as odd. The numbers didn't make sense. Could there be an extraterrestrial object in our solar system?

When the Earth is invaded by a rival empire, James McGill's legion must defend the Home World....

The Earth lies shaken in the aftermath of a conspiracy. Some of the smartest minds on the planet have striven for and died in an effort to scour the skies of four vast alien satellites....

Amri was a Rabbit, one of a tribe of survivors scratching out an existence in the blasted landscape of a shattered, poisoned world. The Seagull fight, the Pigeon trade and the Cockroach scavenge, but the Rabbit had one rule: If you want to see tomorrow, you run. But they didn't run fast enough when a weapon fell from the sky and consumed their home, and now Amri is alone, in the company of a fallen god named Guy Vesten. A god who promises revenge against the three gods who turned against him, and who killed her tribe.

A human expedition to colonize another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure cupping a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths. And which, tantalizingly, is on a direct path heading toward the same system.

When the Box appeared in his front hallway one day, Ciáran MacCool had no idea where it came from or why it was there. It started by showing him ways that it could help him out. Then it started giving him assignments to perform. At first, they were minor… yet still clearly beneficial. Sometimes they were serious. Sometimes they were very dangerous. At least one almost got him killed. That hadn't been part of the plan, but fortune is a fickle bitch.

The eco-crash killed the oceans and dropped oxygen levels, leaving humans and rats as the only vertebrates in the wild. But people have adapted to eating crickets and breathing from a can, so life and crime continue. Ruthless planner Kalinda is tempted from her spider-hole in the desert to do the biggest bank job in history. If she's caught trying to rob Geld Island, they'll torture her to death on TV. But enough money to buy yourself a biodome in paradise is hard to resist.

Dr. A Pal Chi is a mathematician sworn by oath to reveal none of his findings to anyone whomsoever. His labs at the university of Troy are the only facilities still in operation on his doomed planet. He is working on a complex formula that will change the world if he can figure it out. One of his theories removes 0 from the number-line and allows π to equal 3. His c² theory proves the infamous equation, e≠mc², allowing for safe space travel at the speed of light. So, his team builds a new mother ship capable of carrying two thousand people on an eight-and-a-half-year trip to the stars.

In a few years, it could be the end of human beings on Earth. The warning signs are all around us today, but few of us have realized how our lives will be changing as we come closer and closer to the END! Some believe that God will save us. Others have given up hope.

Einst erschuf das Kollektiv der Syrtauker aus einer fremden Spezies Krieger, die sich auflehnten und die Macht an sich rissen. Als der neue Herrscher Jerrto erfährt, dass sein Volk von der Erde stammt, will er diese seinem Reich einverleiben. Für die jahrhundertelange Reise braucht er allerdings die Antriebstechnik der Syrtauker und lockert die Fesseln, die das Wiederauferstehen des Kollektivs verhindern sollen. Damit setzt er einen uralten Plan in Gang, der sich erst durch die neue Verbindung der Syrtauker entfaltet.

Doug Dawkins lives to debunk conspiracy theories, especially crackpot claims of aliens. So when his dead dad FaceTimes him (giving him crazy money and orders to cover up the truth of extraterrestrial existence), Doug is sure this is a hacker's scam and reports it to the NSA. Then government security servers melt down. NSA agents become convinced Doug and his wife are dangerous spies. But Doug is sure he'd never kill anyone or believe aliens exist. Could he be half right?

Storm Cloud on Deka by E. E. Smith takes listeners into a high-stakes future where science, ethics, and survival collide. This classic golden-age science fiction tale blends thrilling corporate intrigue with the dangers of advanced pharmaceuticals and experimental technologies. Set on the mysterious world of Deka, the story explores the perilous consequences of human ambition and the struggle to confront corruption in a universe where every discovery could be life-saving—or deadly.

His Courier3.1 operation system checked out. His teleportation chambers were state of the art, and he knew they would revolutionize the world as we knew it. But in a cruel twist of timing, something draws near which threatens not only his dream, but humanity as a whole. A 'supermassive' black hole is on a collision course with the Milky Way galaxy, and there is no stopping it. Could it be that Dane was inspired to design his system for such a time as this? What do we do when we face an inescapable threat that seeks to annihilate everything we know?