Showing results for "Science" in Hard Science Fiction

For many billions of years, humans - having conquered the curse of aging - spread throughout the entire Milky Way. They are able to live all their dreams, but to their great disappointment, no other intelligent species has ever been encountered. Now, humanity itself is on the brink of extinction because the universe is dying a protracted yet inevitable death. 

Long before movies like Minority Report and The Matrix, the world's writers have been recording the future as it might exist - and as it turns out, they were right. This bizarre anthology collects the most stunning predictions and imagined inventions here for the first time. Visions of Tomorrow includes "The Land Iron Clads" by H. G. Wells, who described a military tank in 1903 - long before it was ever a possibility; "The Yesterday House" by Fritz Leiber, who wrote about cloned humans; and more.

The Ultimate Science Fiction Mega Collection contains 16 of the greatest science fiction works ever written.

The universe is a dangerous place in John Scalzi's Old Man's War, the first in The Old Man's War series. At seventy-five years old, John Perry is after a fresh start - so, naturally, he joins the army. Earth's military machine can transform elderly recruits, restoring their lost youth. But in...

Hard-core military science fiction at its very best, John Scalzi's The Last Colony is the third in The Old Man's War series. They must save themselves – or die trying. John Perry was living peacefully on one of humanity's colonies – until he and his wife were offered an opportunity these...

The military SF sequel to his extraordinary Old Man's War, John Scalzi's The Ghost Brigades is the second in The Old Man's War series. Who can you trust, if you can't trust yourself? Three hostile alien races have united against humanity, determined to halt our expansion into space. The...

The last Isaac Asimov science fiction collection which contains all of his previously uncollected stories. Gold is Isaac Asimov's last science fiction collection‚ one containing all of his uncollected SF stories that had never before appeared in book form. Gold is the final and crowning...

The stars are waiting for you. We hope you will come find us there. Life on Fortune is hard. The atmosphere is poisonous, the planet hardly fit for life. But for its inhabitants, it's home. Pilot Cora suffers from a rare and dangerous condition, brought about by her bond with Colibri, the alien...

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.

They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . Alien Clay is a thrilling tale of alien encounter – from the acclaimed Arthur C. Clarke Award-winner Adrian Tchaikovsky. ‘Unputdownable’ – Stephen Baxter, author of Proxima Professor Arton Daghdev has always wanted to study...

A mysterious object threatens to destroy our solar system. The survival of humankind is at risk, but nobody takes the warning of young astrophysicist Maribel Pedreira seriously. At the same time, an exiled crew of outcasts mines for rare minerals on a lone asteroid. When other scientists finally acknowledge Pedreira's alarming discovery, it becomes clear that these outcasts are the only ones who may be able to save our world, knowing that the Hole hurtles inexorably toward the sun.

Der Hub ist die letzte Hoffnung der Menschheit. Angeleitet vom Core, einer fortschrittlichen KI, kämpfen 70.000 Menschen auf einer vom Klimakollaps verheerte Erde um die Zukunft ihrer Spezies. Der technische Spezialist Paul Wagner ist einer von ihnen. Er gehört zu den wenigen, die die Stadt verlassen, um den vorgelagerten Sicherheitsperimeter zu reparieren, ohne den der Hub den Naturgewalten schutzlos ausgeliefert wäre. Doch als er während einer Außenmission plötzlich auf eine Fremde trifft, die aus der vermeintlich lebensfeindlichen Wildnis stammt, ändert sich alles.

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.

I had always imagined science as orderly and predictable, a world of rules and neat equations. Yet here I was, standing in front of a machine that should not exist. It was now apparent that the collective minds of the world may not have the complete picture. Stranded in the 1930s, Ryan desperately wants to return to 1980 and reunite with Lucy, the one person who truly understands him. But now the time machine is destroyed and history is unraveling in ways that don’t make sense. (This book is entirely written by the author. No AI used for the content or cover)

Between 2017 and 2021, the US military admitted to having undeniable evidence that UFOs (now UAVs or UAPs) are here and defy the laws of physics. When Jason Ramsey, a popular science-fiction writer, becomes obsessed with the subject, he undertakes a relentless quest to uncover what is really going on. After recruiting Tessa Barrett, an extraordinarily talented mercenary, Jason devises a risky, desperate plan to get to the bottom of it all. But the truth is far more shocking, convoluted, and dangerous than anyone could have guessed, and he has no idea who he can trust.

Hundreds of years in the future, on a stagnating and almost empty Earth, a space shuttle pilot from the early days of the 21st century is awoken from the cryogenic sleep he entered after a devastating accident. As he comes to terms with this new world, he begins to realise that their history...

In 1907, a cargo ship docked in California carrying, among other things, a small colony of Argentine ants. Nobody noticed. Within a century those ants had formed the largest cooperative supercolony ever recorded: a single network stretching 600 miles of coastline. They systematically eliminated nearly every native ant species in their path. The Supercolony Wars is a novel about that invasion, told entirely from the inside. There are almost no human characters. The voices belong to an ancient oak grove speaking in the slow language of centuries.

A new collection for 2025 of classic science fiction stories from a master of the genre, including the story that inspired Steven Spielberg's blockbuster film, AI: Artificial Intelligence Hello Earth, Are You There includes twenty-seven short stories from Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author...

The 24th century: Humankind has become a spacefaring civilization, colonizing the solar system and beyond. While no alien forms of life have yet been encountered in this expansion into space, colonists suddenly encounter machines of alien origin - huge robots able to reproduce themselves. Called replicators by the colonists, they seem to have but a single goal: to destroy all organic life they come in contact with. Since the colonial governments have no means to fight this menace directly, they instead promise huge rewards to whoever destroys a replicator.

First contact with a mysterious race of aliens reveals an unusual request; a family's pet dog comes to grips with the newly bestowed gift of human-like intelligence; a poet, in danger and alone on a distant world, makes unlikely allies; hundreds of years in the future, a famous hermit lives in the sea above the now-underwater Harvard University; former friends navigate unsteady peace between human refugees and the technologically superior race that saved them; in a future where human life can be infinitely extended through cybertronic rebirth, one woman declines immortality.