Showing results by publisher "Random House Audio" in Hard Science Fiction

Der neue Killerbot-Roman – bald als Serie bei Apple TV+. Wenn die SecurityUnit namens Killerbot nicht gerade Attentäter zur Strecke bringt oder Fernsehserien suchtet, ist sie als Begleitschutz für Forschungsmissionen unterwegs. Diesmal geht allerdings alles schief. Der Konzern Barish-Estranza schickt gleich mehrere Schiffe, um Siedler auf einem neu kolonisierten Planeten zu retten. Killerbot ist mit dabei, aber leider auch mehrere andere SecUnits. Schon bald hat der neurotischste Roboter von allen den Verdacht, dass der Konzern eine geheime Agenda verfolgt – und auch Killerbots eigenes System läuft nicht rund.

An atmospheric tale of corruption and abduction set on Mars, from the author of the award-winning science fiction novel Altered Carbon, now an exciting new series from Netflix. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN Hakan Veil is an ex–corporate enforcer equipped with...

Philip is in love with Alice. As the novel opens, he is beginning to lose her. Not to another man, as he fears, but to, literally, nothing. Alice is a physicist, and a team at the University where both she and Philip work has created a hole, a vacuum, a doorway of nothingness inside the...

Two of science fiction’s most renowned writers join forces for a storytelling sensation. The historic collaboration between Frederik Pohl and his fellow founding father of the genre, Arthur C. Clarke, is both a momentous literary event and a fittingly grand farewell from the late, great...

CONTENTS: Introduction; I Just Make Them Up, See; Someday; The Feeling of Power; Living Space; Satisfaction Guaranteed; The Last Question; Jokester; The Immortal Bard; Spell My Name With an "S"; The Ugly Little...

It’s the 25th century, but the Marines are still looking for a few good men. . . . In their fiercest combat yet, the hard-charging Marines of 34th Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST) have finally won their battle against a fullscale alien invasion of planet Kingdom. But as citizens try to...

Greg Bear’s Nebula Award–winning novel, Darwin’s Radio, painted a chilling portrait of humankind on the threshold of a radical leap in evolution. Now Bear continues his provocative tale of the human race confronted by an uncertain future, where “survival of the fittest” takes on...

Greg Bear’s Nebula Award–winning novel, Darwin’s Radio, painted a chilling portrait of humankind on the threshold of a radical leap in evolution. Now Bear continues his provocative tale of the human race confronted by an uncertain future, where “survival of the fittest” takes on...

A collection of twenty classic short stories by Isaac Asimov, author of the Foundation series, featuring the definitive and only in-print version of “Nightfall” From one of history’s most influential writers of science fiction comes this collection of twenty short works of fiction...

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK A young, ambitious female astronaut’s life is upended by a love affair that threatens the rescue of a lost crew in this brilliantly imagined novel “with echoes of Station Eleven, The Martian, and, yes, Jane Eyre” (Observer). NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF...

Aus den Tiefen des Alls, aus interstellaren Fernen, taucht ein Objekt auf, das zunächst für einen Asteroiden gehalten wird. Doch dann steuert es eine Umlaufbahn um den Saturn an und beginnt, ein regelmäßiges Signal auszusenden. Man tauft es auf den Namen Zeta. Eine auf dem Saturnmond Titan stationierte Forschungsgruppe, eine vom Mars entsandte Expedition und ein Forschungsschiff der Erde machen sich auf den Weg, um die Geheimnisse des Objektes zu erkunden. Noch ahnt niemand, dass Zeta die Menschheit vor ihre größte Herausforderung stellen wird.

Hailed as “a writer of uncommon clarity” by the New Yorker, National Book Award finalist Allegra Goodman has dazzled readers with her acclaimed works of fiction, including such beloved bestsellers as The Family Markowitz and Kaaterskill Falls. Now she returns with a bracing new novel, at...

From the author of the acclaimed and best-selling The Gates of the Alamo, a novel of extraordinary power about what it’s like, and what it means, to journey into space as one of today’s astronauts. At the novel’s center: Lucy Kincheloe, an astronaut married to an astronaut, the loving...

A high-stakes treasure hunt…A twisted trail of murder…A secret one woman may die to discover… Number one New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen last electrified readers with Dead Aim and No One to Trust. Now she offers a new pulse-pounding thriller that takes suspense writing to...

In this “whip-smart and engrossing” (Associated Press) dystopian novel from the bestselling author of the Assassins Anonymous series, a disillusioned employee and a corporate spy team up to expose a massive tech company’s dark underbelly. “Outstanding . . . walks a fine line between...

From the author of the acclaimed and best-selling The Gates of the Alamo, a novel of extraordinary power about what it’s like, and what it means, to journey into space as one of today’s astronauts. At the novel’s center: Lucy Kincheloe, an astronaut married to an astronaut, the loving...

A high-stakes treasure hunt…A twisted trail of murder…A secret one woman may die to discover… Number one New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen last electrified readers with Dead Aim and No One to Trust. Now she offers a new pulse-pounding thriller that takes suspense writing to...

In M. John Harrison’s dangerously illuminating new novel, three quantum outlaws face a universe of their own creation, a universe where you make up the rules as you go along and break them just as fast, where there’s only one thing more mysterious than darkness. In contemporary London...