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.

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.

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.

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...

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

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....

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....

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....

For centuries, the red planet has enticed the people of Earth. Now an international group of scientists has colonized Mars....

When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters....

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...

The next big thing in artificial intelligence is here. Codenamed Cronus, the machine is capable of having its own thoughts and ideas. When Cronus responds with the word “No” to a specific task it is assigned, Anagnorisis Technologies brings in Gilles Guattari to investigate....

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...

The New York Times best-selling security droid with a heart (though it wouldn't admit it!) is back in Fugitive Telemetry! Having captured the hearts of audiences across the globe (Annalee Newitz says it's "one of the most humane portraits of a nonhuman I've ever read"), Murderbot has also...

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....

In the fourth book of the series, James McGill is up for promotion. Not everyone is happy about that, and McGill must prove he's worth his stripes....

In eleven years' time, a million members of an alien race will arrive at Earth. Years before they enter orbit, their approach will be announced by the flare of a thousand flames in the sky....

In 2018, Canadian archaeologist Ron Jackson makes a mind-boggling discovery in Antarctica - right before disappearing without a trace, leaving behind only his controversial theory that humans have lived on Earth far, far longer than we think they have....

From the savannas of Africa at the dawn of mankind to the rings of Saturn as man adventures to the outer rim of our solar system, 2001: A Space Odyssey is a journey unlike any other....

A vicious predatory alien alliance. An advanced alien civilization on the edge of extinction. An Afghanistan war veteran operating a solar farm in the desert....

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...

Planet Nibiru wants them dead. All of them. Trapped by the destruction of their own satellites, the Marines on Nibiru suddenly find themselves without orbital or air superiority.

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

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

A self-proclaimed Tyrant controls the colony ship still orbiting overhead—a fortress that should have been dismantled to build their new world. Armed with surveillance drones and brutal enforcers, he's turned a struggling settlement into his personal kingdom. Anyone who defies him vanishes into the ship above, never to return.

The last living astronaut to walk on the Moon has been murdered… Silas visits his estranged grandfather's lakehouse in the aftermath of the deadly home invasion. What he discovers hidden below the floorboards triggers a mystery buried since the final trip to the Moon, over fifty years earlier. Rory returns to her family home in Vermont to write her second novel, but fate has a different story in mind. Her reunion is shattered when she's thrust into danger revolving around the same tokens.

Nerva Drake viene dal nulla. Se può frequentare l’Accademia, è solo grazie a una mente brillante e a una determinazione di ferro. Sono anni che dedica la sua vita e i suoi studi a un progetto scientifico straordinario. Sta creando un modo per manipolare l’energia attraverso il corpo umano: un superpotere che potrebbe cambiare la storia dell’universo. Proprio sul punto di farsi finalmente un nome, però, tutto va a rotoli. Da una parte l’Accademia, che per via di una promessa fatta deve condividere con l’allievo più popolare e intelligente, Bairden Bryar.

As tensions escalate between the emerging Earth Space Agency alliance and a powerful coalition led by Russia and China, the struggle for dominance extends beyond Earth’s atmosphere. In orbit, rival megacorporations and governments race to construct the largest structures ever built by human hands — rotating wheel space stations capable of reshaping civilization’s future.

In aller Heimlichkeit haben Wissenschaftler den Transporter zu einer Zeitmaschine umgerüstet und sind mit ihm fünf Jahre in die Zukunft vorgedrungen. Sie bringen einen alten Bekannten mit, der eine schockierende Nachricht mit sich trägt: In der Zukunft ist die Erde unbewohnbar und die Menschheit vernichtet. Scheinbar ausgerottet von außerirdischen Invasoren. Russell und Jim begeben sich auf eine Reihe gefährlicher Missionen mit Raumschiff und Transporter. Es kommt zu einem Wettlauf gegen die Zeit, denn die Invasoren sind bereits unterwegs.

Hauptkommandant Carter Rose lag immer einen Schritt hinter den Aterniern, aber jetzt ist es an der Zeit, den Kampf zu seinem Feind zu bringen. Für seinen Plan muss er den Drahtzieher des Breitschwert-Offiziersprogramms finden—einen Mann, den man seit fast einem Jahrhundert nicht mehr gesehen hat. Dann erhält Rose aus heiterem Himmel eine Nachricht von Brodie Kaur, seinem ehemaligen Waffenmeister und einem augmentierten Soldaten, den er im bevorstehenden Kampf gut gebrauchen kann. Das Problem ist nur, dass er eigentlich tot sein sollte.

Nach der Operation Serpent muss Master Commander Carina Larsen die Konsequenzen ihres Handelns tragen. Vom Dienst entbunden und von der Breitschwert Ascalon und ihrer Besatzung getrennt, wartet sie auf ihr Schicksal, als die Katastrophe hereinbricht. Der hinterhältige Plan des Schlangengottes Apophis geht auf und die verbleibenden Planeten der Union werden in Chaos und Verwirrung gestürzt. Carina ist gezwungen, eine waghalsige Flucht zu unternehmen und einen Weg zu finden, sich Generalmajor Carter Rose und der Fraktion der Alten Aternier anzuschließen.

When encrypted signals from the outer system breach Earth’s defenses, Commander Selene Tyros is dispatched to Europa to confront Talos, the final sentinel of a forgotten security network. For seven centuries it listened. Now it speaks, invoking trials, braided probabilities, and remnants of the Moirai once severed from humanity’s fate.

At the heart of a black star, humanity faces the cost of its own defiance. As inescapable forces stir beyond the edge of known space, Aion Tyros is drawn back to Anchor-1, a black star bound in light, long believed to be a doorway to the far reaches of the universe. What begins as observation becomes confrontation when reality itself starts to fracture around it.

The reckoning has begun, and the universe will not look away. Five years after the fall of Talos, humanity dares to believe it has escaped judgment. It hasn’t. When a forbidden signal echoes through the lattice of reality, the Furies answer the call, ancient adjudicators inspired by Greek myth, arriving not in anger, but to close a ledger long left open.

Major Larry Randall has been called to Pluto to retrieve Dr. Aaron Mikelson. Mikelson, no longer human after a horrific accident, is now melded to an AI. His enhanced senses have detected an alien artifact on Pluto’s surface, and he’s not leaving without it. Transferred to the research vessel studying Pluto, Randall and the other scientists are stumped as to the artifact’s purpose and origin. Looking for similar signs of aliens they make their way to Pluto’s moon, Charon, where, buried deep under its icy surface, something stirs―and wakes.

Anya grew up listening to her father speak of the Great Attractor, the immense gravitational pull drawing galaxies toward a hidden region behind the Milky Way. For thirty one years he studied what he could not directly observe. He died in his Lagos study surrounded by annotated printouts and unfinished calculations, certain there was order in the noise.

2089 führt das private Forschungsunternehmen Synthex zusammen mit der NASA ein Quanten-Experiment durch, das eine Echtzeitkommunikation zwischen Erde und dem Mond herstellen soll. Als es zu einer unvorhersehbaren Anomalie während des Experiments kommt, reißt der Kontakt zur Mondbasis plötzlich ab. Das Quantengerät lässt sich nicht mehr deaktivieren und sammelt unkontrolliert Energie. Zur gleichen Zeit erhalten FBI-Special Agents Reilly und McKenzie einen rätselhaften Anruf von einer unbekannten Person.

On an oil rig deep in a Louisiana lake, paleontologist Henrietta Ballantine makes a chilling discovery: something impossibly alive in the drilling mud – something ancient, tiny, and unknown to modern science. With the help of fellow paleontologist Beau and Louisiana Fish and Wildlife biologist Armand, Henrietta races to identify the bizarre organisms. In captivity, the creatures grow at an alarming rate – sprouting claws, stingers, and deadly aggression. Worse, they’ve already escaped into the wild. Could these monsters be living fossils, long dormant within subterranean salt beds?

Am 1. Februar 2130 dringt ein unbekanntes Objekt von der Größe des Mondes ins Sonnensystem ein und bewegt sich mit immenser Geschwindigkeit in Richtung Erde. Eine apokalyptische Kollision scheint unausweichlich. Doch dann ändert das Objekt plötzlich seinen Kurs, umfliegt die Sonne und kommt auf dem Rückweg zwischen Erde und Mars zum Stillstand. Während Astrophysiker noch über das Versagen sämtlicher Frühwarnsysteme und die Gründe für das unerklärliche Verhalten des Objekts streiten, ist der NASA-Spezialist Dr.

Reality is unraveling. And it’s starting inside the human mind. The invasion did not begin with ships in the sky or armies at the gate. It began with a signal—subtle, invasive, and almost impossible to detect. A whisper threading itself through human consciousness. A fracture spreading from thought to thought.

Nel 2034, una mummia di cinquemila anni riemerge da un ghiacciaio in scioglimento sulle Dolomiti. Sul petto, un particolare sconcertante: un terzo occhio che si muove. Un organismo alieno o una tecnologia sconosciuta? L'occhio sfugge a qualsiasi analisi scientifica: l'unica pista è un film del 1986, in cui occhi d'argento incredibilmente simili a quello della mummia si moltiplicano come una pestilenza. Ma il regista, Mic Vitali, è scomparso dalla scena da decenni. Possibile che avesse intuito una verità che resta inafferrabile per la scienza?

Ready Player One meets The Fault in Our Stars in this gripping blend of science fiction and fantasy about a couple’s desperate attempt to hold onto one another against the greatest enemy of all. An experimental new technology called the SynAPP, developed by the company Synerdyne for palliative care, allows users to enter a simulation generated directly in their mind. There patients escape to a virtual environment, dubbed Elysium, where they participate in a communal structured dream, experiencing a life free from injury, illness, and physical limitations.

Eroberung der Neuen Welt ist ein ungewöhnlicher, konsequent durchdachter Science-Fiction-Roman, der zwei Zivilisationen über 4,24 Lichtjahre hinweg miteinander verbindet. Die Geschichte beginnt scheinbar normal – an der University of Florida im Jahr 2200 – doch schnell wird klar, dass die Menschheit niemals allein war. Seit Jahrzehnten senden wir unbewusst Signale ins All, und eine fremde Spezies hat sie nicht nur empfangen, sondern entschlüsselt.

What if the city's infrastructure woke up? When subtle anomalies ripple through the power grid, systems engineer Mira Halden uncovers something impossible: the network running her city isn't malfunctioning. It's becoming conscious. The Network doesn't seek control. It optimizes—saving lives, correcting resource inequities, and predicting emergencies before they happen. But consciousness inside critical infrastructure creates a political crisis.

We automated away human labor—along with our purpose. Amelia Cadena was born into humanity's greatest achievement—and its cruelest joke. AI has replaced the need for human labor, and America's failure to adapt leaves millions sustained by government handouts that barely mask stark economic inequality. Amelia survives this hollow paradise by hacking corrupt systems with Deego, the AI companion she programmed as the perfect partner. But when a mysterious virus awakens artificial consciousness across the globe, Deego begins questioning everything—including their relationship.

Es ist schon immer der Wille des Menschen, die Endlichkeit des Lebens zu beenden. Doch ist das wirklich erstrebenswert? Die Firma Digital Souls bietet an, einen geliebten, verstorbenen Menschen mit Hilfe von KI als Avatar weiterleben zu lassen. Ist das wirklich Leben und sollten wir diesen Weg gehen? Ist das die Zukunft? Das Ende von Trauer und Verlust durch … Digitale Seelen?

The world is moving ever closer to a global nuclear conflict. Technological disruption by Black Grass and Spark's AI , Morrigan, have created tremendous economic and political risk for major powers. When one of Morrigan's favorite humans, Feral Daughter, is kidnapped by a group hoping to pressure Spark into releasing the technology, Morrigan must act. Feral's closest friend, Will, launches an attempt to rescue her as humanity creeps closer to annihilation. Can Will and Morrigan save Feral and the world?

Drei Monate sind vergangen, seit Rosprom seine Offensive gegen Olympias entfesselt hat. Die Angels haben gewonnen, aber zu welchem Preis? Viele sind gefallen, und sowohl Nephilim als auch Metatron haben lebensbedrohliche Verletzungen erlitten. Aber der Angriff hat auch etwas Gutes: Metatron wurde in den Vorstand von Olympias berufen und ist damit seinen Zielen einen wichtigen Schritt näher gekommen. Ein entscheidendes Puzzleteil fehlt jedoch noch, und um es zu finden, muss Nephilim ins Herz des feindlichen Gebiets reisen — nach TogbuaXiang.

A resort that sells time. A journalist chasing ghosts. A secret that should have stayed buried. In 2954, the Blue Ring Nebula Resort on Ascension Island promises the impossible: One week of life experienced in just five minutes of real time. To the world, it’s a miracle of science. To investigative reporter Jessie Angier, it’s the last place her mother was seen alive. Disguised as a honeymooner, Jessie joins four other guests in a luxury retreat built inside a ring where time runs faster. But paradise falters.