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.

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. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the...

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.

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

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

A most-anticipated title from USA Today, Goodreads, BookPage, BookRiot, Seattle Times, and The Nerd Daily! Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment of Martha Wells' bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series. Having someone else support your bad decision...

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....

Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed stand-alone novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet....

All Systems Red is the tense first science fiction adventure novella in Martha Wells' series The Murderbot Diaries. For fans of Westworld, Ex Machina, Ann Leckie's Imperial Raadch series, or Iain M. Banks' Culture novels. All Systems Red tackles questions of the ethics of sentient robotics. The...

Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. “One of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century” —Wall Street Journal Cloning, feel-good drugs, antiaging programs, and total social control through...

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...

Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his...

Martha Wells' New York Times and USA Today best-selling Murderbot series exploded onto the scene in 2017, and the world has not been the same, since. Murderbot returns in its highly anticipated, first full-length stand-alone novel, Network Effect. You know that feeling when you’re at work and...

The follow-up to the hugely popular science fiction action-adventure All Systems Red Artificial Condition continues The Murderbot Diaries, a science fiction series that tackles questions of the ethics of sentient robotics. It appeals to fans of Westworld, Ex Machina, Ann Leckie's Imperial Raadch...

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. "As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure." In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future...

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....

Rogue Protocol is the third entry in Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, The Murderbot Diaries. Starring a human-like android who keeps getting sucked back into adventure after adventure, though it just wants to be left...

“Ingenious and beguiling.” - Time “Crichton keeps us guessing at every turn in his best work since The Andromeda Strain.” - Los Angeles Times “Sphere may be Crichton’s best novel, but even if it ranked only second or third, it would be a must for suspense fans.” - Miami Herald A...

Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel, Red Mars is the first book in Kim Stanley Robinson's best-selling trilogy. Red Mars is praised by scientists for its detailed visions of future technology. It is also hailed by authors and critics for its vivid characters and dramatic conflicts. For...

The Galahad, a faster-than-light spacecraft, carries 50 scientists and engineers on a mission to prepare Kepler 452b, Earth's nearest habitable neighbor at 1400 light years away....

The fourth and final part of the Murderbot Diaries series that began with All Systems Red. Murderbot wasn't programmed to care. So its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right? Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its...

In Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson took science fiction to dazzling new levels. Now, in The Diamond Age, he delivers another stunning tale....

Paleontologists say 99% of all species that have ever lived on Earth are now extinct.

Bloomsbury presents Cage of Souls, read by David Thorpe and written and introduced by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Humanity clings to life on a dying Earth in an epic, far-future science fiction novel from an award-winning author. The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light...

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...

The definitive editions of Philip K. Dick’s short stories, containing some of the most defining works in the Science Fiction genre. This stunning new edition of Philip K. Dick’s work includes the influential "Minority Report" and "Sales Pitch," as well as a litany of mind-expanding other...

"Don't tell me it's haunted around here." "No. Not haunted. Something else." Jack Decker moved his family to rural Vermont for a fresh start. What begins as a pleasant experiment, turns dark when a package is delivered to their general store. An object lies within it, and Jack is drawn to its...

A desperate race to revive an alien buried on an icy moon. A fringe cult tuned into signals from the stars. And two extraordinary women willing to risk everything to forge humanity’s destiny. The second and final entry in the electrifying series from multimillion-copy international bestselling...

Selected for his ability to endure without illusion, he is sent to a planet that does not respond, does not accommodate, and does not care. Mars offers no reward for survival and no meaning for suffering. It allows only one thing: completion. As the mission progresses, the structures that define life on Earth—hope, purpose, identity—begin to fall away. What remains is not heroism or despair, but something quieter and more exact: a life reduced to its final condition.

Some places do not simply hold history. They keep calling. In 1901 BCE, on a hillside north of Jerusalem, Athirat feels the earth lift beneath her feet. The moment lasts only seconds, but it leaves her changed, drawn into a hidden record kept by those who understand that the slope, the ancient tree, and the chamber beneath it are part of something far older than memory. Thousands of years later, Rahul, a data scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center, discovers a 40 Hz electromagnetic signal coming from the same hillside. It is not solar echo, not instrument error, and not geology.

Earth under attack! The nefarious Council has invaded, and Earth cannot stand against their might. But the ruthless Keeper and his minions didn’t count on one thing: Mars. Separated from the rest of humanity for centuries, the Red Planet is home to the galaxy's most effective and feared warriors. And they’ve invited Tyrus Tyne to join their ranks as they prepare with Earth for the joint defense of the Sol system. However, the Council hasn’t given up, and they plan to turn Mars and Earth against each other in a war so fierce it will decimate the navies of both planets.

Drift Protocol books 1 & 2 should be read before this book. Humanity rebuilt civilization on the certainty of the Fold. They were wrong. After the Drift fractures shattered the illusion of stable space, the network beneath reality awakened—revealing ancient harmonic structures hidden beneath human transit corridors for centuries. But now something older is coming. A foreign singularity known as the Axis is spreading through the Fold, collapsing relational space and tearing open the barrier separating reality from the horrors beyond it.

Amy Austin never wanted power. She wanted people to have it. When the young inventor’s revolutionary Walking Leaf reactor makes it possible to deliver affordable, reliable energy to some of the world’s poorest communities, a quiet technological breakthrough becomes a global political earthquake. In the refugee camps of Kenya, where people struggle to survive without the basic necessities of modern life, electricity means more than light. It means clean water, refrigeration for medicine, education, jobs, security, and hope.

The first mission to Mars has landed, only to find out, it has lost all communication with ground control and Earth. Someone or something has destroyed two satellites in low Earth orbit, and the astronauts in the International Space Station have to make an emergency maneuver to try to protect themselves from the rapidly expanding debris fields that could destroy the station and kill everyone onboard. In what is called the Kessler Effect, satellites are being destroyed due to the cascading effect of debris from continuous ongoing debris strikes compounded by the existing space junk.

What if your mind could be copied without you knowing? ... and then what if you found out?

This short story is set in the premise of a planet in a disputed area between the Terran Alliance space and that of the Celurian Empire. The two main characters are Captain Iroga and her pilot, Fresco, who serve together on the two-person Scout ship Hoverfly. During a routine survey mission, they stumble into the midst of a fierce battle. It's up to Iroga and Fresco to do their best to rescue the alliance soldiers who are all penned down by the Celurian counterparts.

The Slipspace Chronicles: Volume 1 (Books 1 –3)A disgraced programmer. A crew of rookies. A universe that’s starting to push back. Rufus never meant to join the Federated Nations. He just ran out of options. A deadend job, a stupid mistake, and a recruitment poster promising a way out — that’s all it took to send him into the stars. Training camp gives him something he never expected: Declan. Viktor. Theo. A group of misfits who become more than friends. They become a pack.

The rich have a problem. On a wealthy enclave island off the coast of Rhode Island, two billionaire families celebrate the wedding of the century: endless champagne, a Baccarat chandelier flown in by helicopter, the right celebrities, a former Secretary of State officiates…Then someone blows it all up.“Hello World”, KillDAO announces at sunset. A decentralized autonomous organization, powered by blockchain, funded by cryptocurrency, governed by algorithm, with one singular purpose: to crowdfund the assassination of the ultra-wealthy. The Top Ten Enemies of Humanity.

Gaia Station is a bit different from most stations. For one thing, it is divided into countries and, where you have countries, you can have a war. Of course, a war on a space station isn’t quite the conflict you would imagine. This particular one got started over a rude remark about somebody’s hat. Given that it started for such a comical reason, it seems entirely reasonable that the crew of the Celeste might be able to help stop it. The fact that they had to enlist the help of scheming hotel keeper, a chef, and a dominatrix seems entirely appropriate under the circumstances.

When AI is on the cusp of growing beyond human control, can one woman affect the outcome? Life is grim in a 2045 where elites compete for power unhindered by the pronouncements of purchased politicians or the mutterings of the machine-replaceable majority. Soul Bound is the tale of one such replaced woman, Nadine, who was reluctantly persuaded to try gaming for the first time; of the vivid world of myth, magic and memorable characters that changed her; and of a new technology that would ultimately turn her journey into one final chance for humanity to break free.