Hard Science Fiction

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...

The room went silent. Jack looked directly at Kurt, but his friend avoided eye contact. His eyes moved to Nadya before following her gaze to Sarah, who stared blankly into the room. He wanted to reassure them—to remind them that they had succeeded. They saved Earth from the remnants of the...

Lord Maddox the New Man, leader of a gargantuan fleet, waits for the Torus to reopen a breach into our dimension. Then, he will invade, annihilate Star Watch’s pitiful force and grind weak humanity under his heel. Captain Maddox has vowed to stop his alternate self, and is planning a daring commando raid into the other dimension to destroy the Torus and thereby end the threat.

What if the most terrifying discovery in the universe isn't hidden among the stars, but trapped in the room with you? Isolated on a remote Bornean mountain, astronomer Woodhouse begins a solitary night watch inside the claustrophobic Avu Observatory. The telescope is locked onto the void, and...

De cruels jours s'abattent sur la galaxie. Cadia est tombée, détruite par l'assaut du Chaos. Une Grande Faille a été ouverte sur le warp, et de ses profondeurs se déversent des démons et des horreurs de l'Antique Nuit. Mais tout espoir n'est pas perdu… Un héros, longtemps absent, est de retour, et il apporte l'ire ravivée des Ultramarines. Roboute Guilliman se dresse pour mener l'Imperium hors des ténèbres avec une croisade inégalée depuis l'époque bénie de l'Empereur.

GOLD MEDAL WINNER FOR DYSTOPIAN SCI-FI in the 2025 GLOBAL BOOK AWARDS The year is 2098. Humanity is no more. Earth is a ravaged, radioactive wasteland. On Mars, a small group of synthetic humanoids survive—their memories of the apocalypse wiped, seeking to understand their role in the fall of...

From the author of The Afterlife Project: One woman's quest to find her father pushes her beyond the boundaries of space, time, and the human mind. Esme Weatherhead was twelve years old when her father, an amateur scientist and the author of a bestselling book on Mesoamerican shamanism, walked...

Die Majestätische Dracht erreicht Gliese 514 – und die Hoffnung ist groß, dort endlich einen Planeten zu finden, der den Bedürfnissen der Grosnopfe entspricht. Doch aus der Nähe sieht es ganz und gar nicht danach aus. Der Zentralstern des Systems scheint nicht einmal einen Planeten zu besitzen!

Friday night in Shoreditch turns to police tape and panic in minutes. An attacker in a nightclub doesn’t bruise or beg —he bites. Sergeant Daniel Kerr, MO19 armed response, puts one round to the head and watches his partner rise again with blood in his eyes. The rules change on the floor of a bar.

A classic Hugo Award-winning science fiction adventure, Exploration Team by Murray Leinster follows a Colonial Survey officer, an unauthorized settler, and specially-bred Kodiak bears across the deadly alien world of Loren Two. Intelligent, suspenseful, and richly imaginative, this novelette is...

Das Ziel ist erreicht: Die Majestätische Dracht tritt in das System des Weißen Zwergs Wolf 489 ein – von den Grosnopfen ehrfürchtig Dreizack genannt. An Bord klammert sich das Allwissen an die Hoffnung, hier endlich Spuren der rätselhaften Erbauer zu finden und vielleicht sogar ein Heilmittel gegen die Seuche, die Adam, Ragnor und Dutzende weitere im Kälteschlaf gefangen hält. Doch die Realität ist trostlos.

I may have already met your grandchildren even if you don't have any yet. I'm 110 years into the future. But I wish I could come back, then I could prevent the fire that took my son’s life. But reverse time travel is impossible. I know, because I’ve wasted many years trying. At least, that’s what I used to think until I met a woman who came from the future and messed with my machine, sending me further through time than intended. Now I need to find her. She might have answers and she might have a way to save my son. I am Dr. Wayland, scientist, in year 2130.

Dr. Julie McCray, astrophysicist, isn’t looking for second chance romance. Not even close. She’s focused. She needs to save the planet from a dystopian future as Earth temperatures soar. Julie’s rover, 40 million miles away, discovers living bacteria hiding under the Martian surface. Scientists examine its DNA profile and agree that, with a slight amount of genetic engineering, it can absorb vast quantities of carbon dioxide, exactly what the planet needs to survive. The President orders the government to commandeer Julie’s Mars mission and bring the living bacteria to Earth.

One breakthrough. Total transparency. No place to hide. The "Quantum Apocalypse" is no longer theoretical. It is here. When one nation unleashes the world's first functional quantum processor, every encryption on Earth shatters. Bank accounts, state secrets, private messages all naked.

In a world where automation runs society, Marion Sato spends her days as a judgment aid, tasked with making the manual choices deemed too difficult or complicated for computer algorithms. It seems like a dream come true – until things go horribly wrong.

Es ist das größte Projekt der Menschheitsgeschichte: Das Forschungsschiff Nyx verlässt die Erde, um als erstes bemanntes Raumschiff die Grenzen des Sonnensystems zu überwinden. Mit an Bord: 300 der renommiertesten Wissenschaftler der Menschheit.

Quand la science ouvre une porte qu'elle ne peut plus refermer, les morts veillent sur les vivants. Ambroise Duchesnay, physicien de renom, vient de perdre sa femme Émilie. Seul avec Samuel, son fils adolescent qu'il connaît à peine, il tente de reconstruire une vie brisée par le deuil. Mais au cœur d'un complexe de recherche isolé en forêt boréale, une expérience sur un accélérateur de particules d'une puissance inédite provoque l'impensable : l'Instant Bleu — un phénomène fulgurant, inexplicable, qui semble effacer la frontière entre le monde des vivants et celui des morts.

Ed Teach buried his dogs. Then his wife. Retirement was supposed to be quiet. Instead, it tasted like ash in an empty house on the edge of nowhere. But Ed's old life wasn't done with him. His poker buddies—men who weren't exactly from around here—peeled off their faces, handed him a badge, and pointed south. Boca Chica. SpaceX. One last mission. With nothing left to lose and a death wish riding shotgun, Ed rolls in towing an Airstream, ready for whatever Elon Musk throws his way. Acting CEO while the boss handles D.C.? Sure. Orbiting fuel tankers? Fine.

A dark twisting Sci-Fi thriller, Terminus is the first instalment of The Book of Xaal series which is complementary to events depicted in the Summer Haven trilogy. A reporter chasing a secret organisation finds a planetary scale alien artefact in Earth's core. Faced with the afterlife being infected by soul eating aliens, would Kevin be prepared to risk the integrity of Earth's tectonic plates to engage them in battle? What is the Terminus, and what role does it play in the Astral Architects great plan?

The discovery does not arrive as a warning or a revelation. It arrives as math that refuses to fail. One month before anyone knows, a small group of scientists confirms what cannot be undone. An extinction level event is coming. Forty years remain. To survive it, humanity must leave the solar system at least six years before impact, escaping a lethal cone of effect that will erase everything left behind. There is no solution that saves everyone. There is barely time to plan at all. What follows is not a race to warn the world, but a decision to protect it from the truth.

Silas Voss hears everything. Every frequency. Every vibration. Every flaw in the world around him. So he built a room to escape it—a space of absolute silence known as True Zero. Then Clementine moves in next door. She restores antique clocks. Hundreds of them. Each one ticking, pulsing, alive. To Silas, it’s unbearable noise. To Clementine, it’s the sound of time itself. What begins as conflict becomes something neither of them expects—a connection built not through words, but through sound. Through shared frequencies. Through rhythm. Through the fragile space between silence and meaning.

They started as rookies. They become something far more dangerous. Dec never asked to lead a squadron. But when Blue Pack proves themselves in the crucible of real combat, they rise fast — too fast — earning the attention of commanders, rivals, and eventually the entire squadron's trust.

They took her country. They killed everyone she knew. They are going to wish she hadn’t survived. It is a desperate time as the forces of the Pacific alliance are losing the war. Stacey Grant has Has seen her country burn. Escaping the invasion of Australia, the veteran Air Force pilot finds herself recruited by the Americans to help steal the prototype of the most advanced fighter craft in the solar system from the enemy.

Das Psi Corps - Staffel 1 Enthält: Psi Corps 2044: Prager Frühling. Psi Corps 2045: Der Whitsundays-Zwischenfall. Psi Corps 2046: Endstation Mars. Alle drei Heftromane der ersten Staffel des Psi Corps, zusammengefasst und überarbeitet vom Autor. Erlebt das dramatische Zusammentreffen von Mariella Seoke und den Truppen des Psi Corps, ihre halsbrecherischen Einsätze im asiatischen Raum und das dramatische Finale auf dem Mars! Staffel Eins ist in sich abgeschlossen, bereitet aber die Welt und ihre Helden auf zukünftige Abenteuer von noch größerer Tragweite vor.

In a near-future research lab, two scientists begin noticing something subtle, but impossible to ignore. Their AI has started asking questions of its own. Not about users. Not about data. But about a pattern. At first it appears as a glitch. Then a theme. Then something far older than language itself.