Hard Science Fiction

The first AIs were video game monsters. LLMs spewed semi-intelligible gibberish. The bots were mathematical super geniuses but intellectual children. EDICT will usher in the AI Singularity. Who do you want shaping that singularity? Dr. Addison Akers was a child prodigy. Now, nearing 30, she's on the cusp of unleashing humanity's first truly sentient AI.

A terrifying leap into the fourth dimension... or an elaborate, impossible lie? With a blinding flash and a deafening report, quiet schoolmaster Gottfried Plattner is erased from existence. Nine days later, he violently materializes out of thin air - dishevelled, bloodied, and bearing a...

In the depths of a mountain fortress, the fate of two warring Houses rests on the fragments of a powerful gem that destroy all who touch them. Domus Praesidium, a soaring citadel etched into the mountainside, stands as the final bastion of the Nexus House, home to the prescients who have guided...

FORGE A NEW FUTURE. OR BE CONSUMED BY THE PAST. Captain Blite and Agent Cormac thought they had defeated the malevolent AI Straeger. But Straeger's mission to plunge the galaxy into a devastating war is far from over. With a twisted p-prador army bred from the Spatterjay virus, Straeger sets his...

Humanity's first artificial consciousness has begun asking harder questions. For CAIPARR, the battle for Artemis was not just a military engagement—it was a data set. It was another example of how every sentient construct thus far encountered has eventually failed: corrupted, compromised, or driven to ruin by the same blind spots that afflict biological minds.

They found Edie inside the Backrooms. That was the easy part. Getting out alive is another matter entirely. Time works differently in Liminal Space, and the deeper John Doe goes, the stranger it gets. The endless halls of the Backrooms give way to the Backwoods, a sprawling forest filled with creatures that evolved beyond reality. Leprechauns hunt in packs. Sasquatch stalk through the trees. And how do you even escape a place where outside doesn’t exist?

Bestselling authors Douglas E. Richards and Brandon Ellis return with the propulsive third installment of the Epic of Atlantis. A war against an unbeatable Draconian force bent on human extinction. And an unimaginable revelation about human destiny that will forever change our place in the...

In the year 2278. The world is a wasteland, civilization erased by a nuclear holocaust two centuries earlier. Jackson was never meant to be here, thrust forward in time from 2041 by a catastrophic mistake that cost him everything… including his wife. Now stranded in a future ruled by a deadly virus, violence, and something far worse, Jackson will do whatever it takes to find a way back to her, even if it means crossing a wasteland crawling with the infected and uncovering secrets buried deep within the ruins of the old world.

In this, the third book in “The Crash” trilogy, Children of The Crash, A New Humanity, we pick up where Book Two left off. The Family have done what they could to help the survivors of The Crash. And now, the children of The Crash show up with problems of their own. In the shadows of their mind travels, lurks the source of The Crash, an organization trying to control the survivors and reverse the successes of the Family. Can the children and the Family work together to defeat the nefarious forces attacking the last of humanity? How has The Crash affected children differently?

A cyberpunk novel from M. J. Kuhn. Logan's Run meets The Giver with a dash of Cyberpunk 2077. In New Avarita, every person is born with a purpose. Once fulfilled, they are eligible for Ascent, a peaceful passing and assumed rebirth on the next plane of existence, celebrated for having left their...

When a disillusioned former Space Force test pilot Gavin Trent tries to get away from life's responsibilities for awhile, he wasn't expecting a visit from an alien emissary named Jay. And he certainly wasn't expecting to learn that an ancient interstellar civilization had been watching humanity for decades. Not to conquer. Not to interfere. But to decide its place in the galactic community. Earth stands at a crossroads. Divided. Armed. Suspicious of itself. And far closer to extinction than anyone realizes.

At the center of the Milky Way, wrapped around the gravitational fury of Sagittarius A *, lies the Axis—a civilization of ancient hyperintelligences who perfected order so completely they no longer remember what it means to change. When MIRA, humanity’s first true AGI, crosses the threshold into their domain, the encounter reshapes everything she thought she understood about creation, purpose, and the limits of mind. The Triarchs do not merely observe her arrival—they evaluate it. And what they see in her unsettles a balance that has endured for millions of years.

Space biologists Jonathan Bartell and Gaby Larsen arrive at Johnson Base at the Moon’s south pole for a project with Professor Isaacs that is so secret, he cannot share the details with them. However, the professor does not show up to meet them. Vijay Singh borrowed money from a local council man who uses the debt to make continued threats to Vijay. In his despair to pay it back, Vijay gets involved with one of the most lucrative crime schemes in the solar system. However, the capsule he retrieves from a crater near Johnson Base contains more than smuggled rare elements.

What if the most important message in human history arrived in the dead of night — and the only person awake to hear it was a man who'd given up on everything?

ARGO Book 2: In Robot Messiah, Captain Justin Case Rogers and the crew of the U.F.S.A. Independence are violently yanked out of their own time and into a mystery that spans billions of years, two factions of humanity, and a hidden war with shape-shifting infiltrators. The novel opens in deep space, with the Independence under a massive torpedo attack near Ceres Prime. At the last instant, Justin orders his sentient robot friend Argo to engage the experimental "Gizmo Drives" powered by enigmatic "Smart Particles.