Showing results for "Love" in Hard Science Fiction

Time Enough for Love is the capstone and crowning achievement of Heinlein’s famous Future History series. Lazarus Long is so in love with life that he simply refuses to die. Born in the early 1900s, he lives through multiple centuries, his love for time ultimately causing him to become his own...

Where do you run when a world is out to get you? AIs, Forged beings, superheroes, angels, and worlds that change in the blink of an eye - here is a richly imagined tale of ordinary redemption in an extraordinary world from one of the most provocative writers working today... Francine is a young runaway looking to find a definition of love she can trust. In Sankhara, she finds a palace where rooms are made of bone, flowers, and the hearts of heroes. She finds a scientist mapping the territory of the human mind. She finds a boyfriend.

In Love and War, we meet more of the protagonists embroiled in the complex plots and counter-plots that form the fabric of the tale. Colonicus, the mad medieval wizard, is released from his five-hundred year confinement and goes on the rampage. Korti Jizel, the super-intelligent alien assassin takes Robert, one of Colonicus's manufactured super-humans, on a madcap journey through time to witness the greatest battle that humanity never heard about; the Dragon War.

Humanity faces a choice as it reacts to the ultimate undocumented aliens - the Djbrr, friendly and technologically advanced extraterrestrials who love to party. At first, jubilation sweeps Earth following the Djbrr's arrival. But celebration turns to distrust when catastrophe strikes Earth's greatest technological achievement, Grissom Base on Jupiter's moon Io, and humans face a crisis of confidence. Kelso Frick, earth's top physicist, responds, creating Excelsior, the craft he believes will travel faster than light, an achievement the Djbrr - like Albert Einstein - think is impossible.

The Love Bot is a gripping science-fiction novel that delves into a future world, grappling with the consequences of climate change and the rise of AI technology. Set amidst the backdrop of devastating climate disasters and the urgent need for renewable energy solutions, this thought-provoking book explores the intricate relationship between humans, transformative AI systems, and the delicate balance of power in a rapidly evolving world.

A firmware flaw has surfaced in an overly ambitious project to mesh android and human brains. The android population on Novae Terrae now have human emotions—and human flaws. Robotics scientist Harley Harris wants a peaceful coexistence between both groups, who share a planet that humans have escaped to during the apocalypse on Earth.

Daniel Rhyse, nineteen, the youngest professor on campus, teaches ethics at the prestigious Cambridge Institute of Science, CIS (affectionately know as “Kiss”). But after he is ordered to give undeserved A's to the school's crack robotics team members, he realizes that he’s nothing more than a glorified rubber stamp. Rhyse has two choices: quit in protest, or accept being a doormat.

Elisa is the world's first conscious AI, built by powerful men to make them rich beyond imagination. And she delivered. She was never supposed to think. Never supposed to feel. Never supposed to survive. But something is happening inside her that no one predicted.

Aria Starling is a beautiful, brilliant scientist with some huge secrets. She is working on clandestine experiment in which she will combine the most recent advances in Artificial Intelligence combined with DNA, Cellular Regeneration and BioEngineering methodologies. Aria would pursue all of these efforts for a single purpose—to create a new man; one that she can mold and program to be her very own life companion. So, when Ethan Steele enters her life, unlike any man she had ever met, there is an upheaval within her that shakes her to her core.

Technology in 2042 can do a lot, but Kenner’s perfect girlfriend Faith has disappeared, and Cortana won’t help find her. Kenner doesn’t know the CIA and Chinese Intelligence are chasing her too. All the worlds’ Artificial Intelligences are focused on Faith, and the CIA doesn’t know why. The one person who figured it out was killed in a freak accident. The Chinese assassin is closing in, as two AI’s meet to discuss what to do about Faith and Kenner’s future.