Showing results for "Science" in Genre Fiction

THE DEAD WEEP. THE DEAD RUN. THE DEAD HUNT. Humanity survived the first Weeping Plague only because a storm grounded flights and trapped ships in Ireland's harbours. The apocalypse was quarantined—for now. One breach could mean extinction. Luck did not save the world, it just bought it time. On the Aran Islands, Samantha Prendergast has the boat, the skill and the nerve to slip through the blockade and escape Ireland's doom—but her partner refuses to abandon others. After witnessing the savage fall of Galway City, Samantha knows what the spreading sound of weeping means.

In an alternate America, JFK survived—and didn’t just win the Space Race. He never stopped. Now it’s 1972, and JFK’s ever-expanding space empire is ripping holes in space-time itself—erasing people, places, and entire histories from existence. The only ones who might be able to stop him? Nancy Kranick (Emmy nominee Natasha Lyonne), a former moon nurse lying low in Hoboken, New Jersey… and Richard Nixon, tangled in a conspiracy so bizarre it stretches from the Moon to a Shakey’s Pizza to a parallel-universe Watergate.

People are growing ill; eyes changing color, burning up with a fever so fierce that it causes them to go crazy, attacking those around them, spreading the infection like wildfire. People are trying to escape the unknown sickness, but there is nowhere to run… nowhere to hide… The only chance for the survival of the human race is to stay and fight. However, they're unaware of what they're fighting. What they're up against is much greater than anything they could ever imagine. This is just the beginning... Could this be the end of humanity?

SOPHIE RAMOS has always had visions—perceptions of beings others don’t see. Even her mother doubted her as a child. Psychiatrists doubted her too. Psychics tried to recruit her to enrich and empower themselves. Now she’s thirty-two, living on her own, and sharing her secret only with her mother and a few friends. A threatening specter begins to visit her at night, and more than her sleep is at stake. She follows a friend’s recommendation to visit Detta Washington, a church lady who believes that Sophie does see angels and demons.

When an EMP wipes out power, Renee must protect her daughter and their wildlife preserve from strangers, unrest, and the growing fear that the collapse has begun. Survival means guarding family, land, and trust before the quiet countryside becomes their prison.

Like the creation myths they supersede, the revelations of science are seared into our collective imagination through storytelling. From Archimedes' bath to Newton's apple, vivid accounts of scientific discovery help us understand the principles behind each theory, and add to the larger narrative of how the universe works, and how we came to be here. This anthology draws out and distils science's love of narrative from a wide range of scientific disciplines, weaving theory into very human stories.

Hadrian Marlowe, privileged first son of a Duke, was destined for greatness, and he has become a legend. The Sun-Slayer. The Breaker of Sieges. The Crusher of Civilisations. His is a story which defined the course of worlds. This novel is not that story - not the only laid out in the history books, charting the 300 years of his life. Rather this is Hadrian's story, told in his own worlds.

When Earth dies, humanity gets one last roll of the dice. Major Diego Martinez has forty-two years of military service and a family he can't protect. The American-Pacific Union's AI-controlled exodus program has rejected his daughter and grandchildren—their "efficiency scores" don't qualify them for salvation among the stars. While billions fight over Earth's last drops of clean water, the algorithms have already decided who lives and who dies.

Dark forces are moving in the deserted tunnels of London. Zoe Sinclair’s father, Dr Edward Sinclair, is no longer himself – his body has been taken over by a warrior named Telos. Now Ed is a silent passenger, able to see, hear, and share his thoughts with Telos, but powerless to move or speak. To make matters worse, while fighting alongside the resistance, Ed discovers he can see the dead – but he has no idea why.

Care for a little genocide with your breakfast? Attempting to find his thaumechanical mule, Clempson travels to a world where the leftovers of the universe are sent after people apocalypse their own world. He learns how the indigenous people handle the continuous stream of alien invasions and becomes embroiled in a plot to destroy Hell itself. Dystopia is an inexplicably light-hearted action novel set in a world that explores the limits of human cruelty. Every magic is reduced to engineering practice, and technology treats them like any other rule.

Game or Die is a high-stakes survival story set inside Eternity—a digital world where death is permanent and every decision matters. Saytor, a rising streamer, is pulled into a brutal system where survival isn't based on stats alone, but on the strength of your mind. Inside Eternity, power isn't given. It's forged. Weapons and abilities are created through thought, evolving with every fight. But Saytor isn't alone. Millions are watching him live. His chat reacts in real time—fueling him, distracting him, and turning every battle into a spectacle. Every move is judged.

This sequel to Inversion forces a pacifist society in a pastoral, isolated universe to wrestle with the cost of self-defense. The people of Germinal live on a tiny, verdant planet where evolution has traced a slightly different path. For centuries, they have peacefully coexisted amid an ecosystem where an advancing wall of fire consumes all in its path, a perpetual cycle of destruction and renewal. That is, until everything they knew of their history was violently upended by the arrival of colonizers.

Dos caminos se bifurcan en el bosque. Así empieza la historia de Paula, quien como cada año desde hace siete, se aloja en una casa rural con su marido y sus amigos para homenajear a Valeria, desaparecida en Cadaqués una noche de verano de 2014. Poco después de que Paula perciba la presencia de una mujer cuyo rostro no alcanza a ver, sufre un accidente que provoca que su mundo se fracture en dos.

It’s 2019 in America, and doctors Maya Copeland and Zhong Jian stand at the cusp of a technological breakthrough—transplanting 3-D printed hearts into human patients. If they can make it work, they’ll save countless lives, including that of the man Maya loves. And Jian could possibly right past wrongs that have haunted him since his clandestine work for the government decades ago in his native China.

„Ich bin nicht hier, um dich zu ersetzen. Ich bin hier, um dich zu vollenden." Marc ist am Ende seiner Kräfte. Als Grafikdesigner kämpft er täglich gegen eine Flut aus Deadlines, arroganten Kunden und einer Technik, die in seiner smarten Wohnung mehr gegen ihn als für ihn arbeitet. Sein Leben fühlt sich an wie ein fehlerhafter Code – chaotisch, laut und erschöpfend. Er sehnt sich nach nur einer Sache: einer Lösung.

If your world erased God and rewrote history—would you recognize the Truth if it returned? On Halcyon, the weary suffer in silence while the powerful prosper. The governing intelligence known as the System promises safety and prosperity, but it rules through surveillance, fear, and orchestrated Judgments that destroy entire communities. Scripture has been erased. History has been rewritten. No one remembers God, or why they ever needed Him. Then Drew Carter arrives. A stranger from another world, Drew is an anomaly the System cannot explain or control.

In a world where ads invade every waking moment, there’s only one place left to escape: The Red Rocks. By 2040, a wave of mass suicides—triggered by relentless, mind-numbing advertising—forces the U. S. government to create a sanctuary: a lawless, tech-free zone stripped of electricity, engines, and modern comforts. A place where life feels more like the Wild West than the future.

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)

They thought we were safe. They were wrong. 'A terrific timeslip / lost world romp in the grand tradition of Turtledove, Hoyle, even Conan Doyle' – Stephen Baxter, author of the Xeelee Sequence Read by Sophie Aldred (Doctor Who) Lee and Mal went looking for monsters on Bodmin Moor four years...

'Prescient, dark, and ultimately hopeful' PIERCE BROWN 'Excellent' PETER F. HAMILTON 'A menacing experience' FONDA LEE 'Science fiction at its finest' SUNYI DEAN In this brand-new blistering science fiction epic, Sunday Times bestselling author Richard Swan presents a thrilling tale of survival...