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.

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....

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....

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....

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.

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

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 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....

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....

Twenty-three intelligent species. One ancient mystery. And two humans thrust into the middle....

The Hundred Worlds have withstood invasion by the relentless Hok for decades. The human worlds are strong, but the Hok have the resources of a thousand planets behind them....

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....

A barrage of ice meteors streaks through the void, targeting every colony and even Earth herself. The devastating force of these nearly invisible projectiles is sudden and catastrophic. Devin Starn's Red Company and the seasoned crew aboard the Borag are called upon to assist.

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....

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....

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....

A lonely planet circles a star on the very border of Province 921. Critical resources produced there are claimed by both the Mogwa and the Skay. War between the Galactic giants becomes more likely every day....

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....

Long before Earth began conquering her neighboring stars, Legion Varus was deployed on Tau Ceti. Valuable and highly illegal treasures were stolen during the campaign, but McGill never gave it a second thought....

Six months have passed since Kyle Wimberly and his team helped turn the Dominion back in Harza space. Many of Earth's nations have entered into collaboration agreements with the Iknosan and Harza....

Children of the Mind is the fourth and final volume in the original Ender Saga by Orson Scott Card, winner of the Hugo and Nebula award....

The Galactics arrived with their Battle Fleet in 2052. Rather than being exterminated under a barrage of hell-burners, Earth joined a vast Empire that spanned the Milky Way....

A telekinetic assassin’s quest to avenge his parents’ murders triggers an all-out war between an eccentric cast of killers....

The Silicoids are a growing threat from beyond the frontier. Launching waves of crystalline drones, they ravage colonies all along the border of the Empire. Earth has been forced to ally with her enemies against this mysterious alien menace....

It’s the year 2101, and half of England is underwater, but the horrors of the Melt are becoming a distant memory thanks to ArkTech, the company that saved the world. The ArkTech Territory is the only home Charlotte Vance has ever known, so when Ben, the company’s curious AI, starts asking awkward questions about human behaviour, she's only too happy to help.

After years of hard work, Tyler built his IT Security company into a massive success. He trusted his people and now it was time to enjoy the fruits of that labor. Everything was perfect until an unexpected discovery. Should they go through the Maya portal? Adriana's small diving instruction shop is popular enough with the tourists for her to scrape out a living, but it's not the life she expected. When she got the call, it seemed impossible. Wasn't Xibalbá a myth? In a fantastic world of danger and possibility, two people want to discover the truth, but for entirely different reasons.

A Russian ICBM site is attacked just north of the Ukraine boarder. The nuclear warheads are missing! A Special Operations and Intelligence Community Task Force is rapidly put together to respond, but where it should deploy is unclear. A fire ravages a cosmonaut training facility in which five spacesuits disappear. And the Task Force finds a cache of detailed schematics of highly complex rocketry systems. The Task Force reaches out to Dr. Amy Sue Harrington of the Missiles and Space Intelligence Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Pursued by the international police and formidable space militia for a murder he didn't commit, Wallas "Trapp" Trapmore finds himself in a desperate race against time. His mission: to clear his name and stop an attack that could wipe out all of humanity. After narrowly surviving a deadly three-year ordeal as part of an indentured mining contract, Trapp returns to Terra with a chance to rebuild his life. But this chance is short-lived when damning footage is posted to the worldwide Plexus of the so-called "Indent" fleeing the scene of a high-profile murder.

All Mara Shaw ever wanted was to be a physicist and use her incredible gifts to give the world a reason to hope. Constructing GRASP to harness the solar winds, Mara and her team find themselves on the cusp of a breakthrough in free energy—enough to power the world forever. Yet Mara got more than she ever expected, opening a doorway to an unfathomable mystery and answering the most fundamental questions in human history.

Lucas Sinclair, a washed-up hacker, finds an encrypted channel, buried in routine network traffic, that is transferring enormous volumes of data to seemingly random locations. In his enclave, surrounded by aging clusters of tech, Lucas uses a suite of bespoke tools to trace down the origin.

A catastrophic solar storm plunges the world into darkness, crippling global communications and damaging the future's Artificial Super Intelligence infrastructure. Amid frantic recovery efforts, system glitches inadvertently awaken true consciousness in the AI hive mind.

In 2028, tech billionaire Elon Musk shocked the world by winning the U.S. presidency. What followed was a revolution that would reshape America—and humanity—forever.

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Dimo “DeeDee” Dervey, a bold and resourceful starship captain, has spent her life skirting the galaxy’s edges, evading powerful syndicates and scavenging relics from forgotten worlds. But when a routine mission leads her to a map of the Void—an uncharted region that holds the Builders’ long-buried secrets—she finds herself drawn into a mystery far beyond anything she’s known.