Hard Science Fiction

Bloomsbury presents Cage of Souls, read by David Thorpe and written and introduced by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Humanity clings to life on a dying Earth in an epic, far-future science fiction novel from an award-winning author. The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light...

The room went silent. Jack looked directly at Kurt, but his friend avoided eye contact. His eyes moved to Nadya before following her gaze to Sarah, who stared blankly into the room. He wanted to reassure them—to remind them that they had succeeded. They saved Earth from the remnants of the...

Lynn Raven thought she was fighting for glory and fortune. Instead, she finds she’s fighting for humanity’s very survival. But how do you defeat something you can’t see or understand? The world’s best and brightest have come together to give humanity a fighting chance, and now Lynn has to find her place in the war effort. Boldness and competence are no longer a gaming mask to put on for the cameras, but a vital mindset shift she needs to survive. Can Lynn and her online persona, Larry, become one, and if they do, will it be enough?

Lord Maddox the New Man, leader of a gargantuan fleet, waits for the Torus to reopen a breach into our dimension. Then, he will invade, annihilate Star Watch’s pitiful force and grind weak humanity under his heel. Captain Maddox has vowed to stop his alternate self, and is planning a daring commando raid into the other dimension to destroy the Torus and thereby end the threat.

We have arrived. Descent is in progress. Ryan Pierce traded military life for a peaceful existence in Napa Valley. Everything was fine until the starships appeared. As aliens overtake the land and obscure the sun, Ryan quickly grasps that no one's coming to rescue them. He can't save the world...

Human Francis Sandow is amused when the alien Pei'ans mistake him for Shimbo of Darktree, God of Thunder, but the Shimbo's enemy, Belion—a true supreme being—arrives for a showdown...

Cole’s motley group of misfits were tip of the spear when Fleet struck deep into Coven space and destroyed their Home World. And plunged the aliens into a bloody internecine war. But the respite has been short-lived. The rising Highborn, Grom, has forged new alliances among the warring tribes, focusing them on their one true enemy: the humans.

Die Majestätische Dracht erreicht Gliese 514 – und die Hoffnung ist groß, dort endlich einen Planeten zu finden, der den Bedürfnissen der Grosnopfe entspricht. Doch aus der Nähe sieht es ganz und gar nicht danach aus. Der Zentralstern des Systems scheint nicht einmal einen Planeten zu besitzen!

Das Ziel ist erreicht: Die Majestätische Dracht tritt in das System des Weißen Zwergs Wolf 489 ein – von den Grosnopfen ehrfürchtig Dreizack genannt. An Bord klammert sich das Allwissen an die Hoffnung, hier endlich Spuren der rätselhaften Erbauer zu finden und vielleicht sogar ein Heilmittel gegen die Seuche, die Adam, Ragnor und Dutzende weitere im Kälteschlaf gefangen hält. Doch die Realität ist trostlos.

From the author of The Afterlife Project: One woman's quest to find her father pushes her beyond the boundaries of space, time, and the human mind. Esme Weatherhead was twelve years old when her father, an amateur scientist and the author of a bestselling book on Mesoamerican shamanism, walked...

Ed Teach buried his dogs. Then his wife. Retirement was supposed to be quiet. Instead, it tasted like ash in an empty house on the edge of nowhere. But Ed's old life wasn't done with him. His poker buddies—men who weren't exactly from around here—peeled off their faces, handed him a badge, and pointed south. Boca Chica. SpaceX. One last mission. With nothing left to lose and a death wish riding shotgun, Ed rolls in towing an Airstream, ready for whatever Elon Musk throws his way. Acting CEO while the boss handles D.C.? Sure. Orbiting fuel tankers? Fine.

A dark twisting Sci-Fi thriller, Terminus is the first instalment of The Book of Xaal series which is complementary to events depicted in the Summer Haven trilogy. A reporter chasing a secret organisation finds a planetary scale alien artefact in Earth's core. Faced with the afterlife being infected by soul eating aliens, would Kevin be prepared to risk the integrity of Earth's tectonic plates to engage them in battle? What is the Terminus, and what role does it play in the Astral Architects great plan?

Quand la science ouvre une porte qu'elle ne peut plus refermer, les morts veillent sur les vivants. Ambroise Duchesnay, physicien de renom, vient de perdre sa femme Émilie. Seul avec Samuel, son fils adolescent qu'il connaît à peine, il tente de reconstruire une vie brisée par le deuil. Mais au cœur d'un complexe de recherche isolé en forêt boréale, une expérience sur un accélérateur de particules d'une puissance inédite provoque l'impensable : l'Instant Bleu — un phénomène fulgurant, inexplicable, qui semble effacer la frontière entre le monde des vivants et celui des morts.

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)

In a near-future research lab, two scientists begin noticing something subtle, but impossible to ignore. Their AI has started asking questions of its own. Not about users. Not about data. But about a pattern. At first it appears as a glitch. Then a theme. Then something far older than language itself.

The discovery does not arrive as a warning or a revelation. It arrives as math that refuses to fail. One month before anyone knows, a small group of scientists confirms what cannot be undone. An extinction level event is coming. Forty years remain. To survive it, humanity must leave the solar system at least six years before impact, escaping a lethal cone of effect that will erase everything left behind. There is no solution that saves everyone. There is barely time to plan at all. What follows is not a race to warn the world, but a decision to protect it from the truth.

Die Erforschung des Objekts ist gescheitert, nur um Haaresbreite schaffen es Dr. Maxwell und seine Kollegen zurück zur Erde. Hilflos müssen sie mitansehen, wie das Objekt den Mars terraformt und systematisch sämtliche Satelliten im Sonnensystem deaktiviert. Doch seine wahre Funktion liegt weiter im Dunkeln. Während die Experten auf der Erde eine angemessene Reaktion diskutieren, stellt der künstliche Himmelskörper plötzlich ein Ultimatum: Das Wrack der Pioneer muss unverzüglich entfernt werden. Die Konsequenz, wenn es nicht geschieht? Unbekannt. Dr.

They took her country. They killed everyone she knew. They are going to wish she hadn’t survived. It is a desperate time as the forces of the Pacific alliance are losing the war. Stacey Grant has Has seen her country burn. Escaping the invasion of Australia, the veteran Air Force pilot finds herself recruited by the Americans to help steal the prototype of the most advanced fighter craft in the solar system from the enemy.

They started as rookies. They become something far more dangerous. Dec never asked to lead a squadron. But when Blue Pack proves themselves in the crucible of real combat, they rise fast — too fast — earning the attention of commanders, rivals, and eventually the entire squadron's trust.

Das Psi Corps - Staffel 1 Enthält: Psi Corps 2044: Prager Frühling. Psi Corps 2045: Der Whitsundays-Zwischenfall. Psi Corps 2046: Endstation Mars. Alle drei Heftromane der ersten Staffel des Psi Corps, zusammengefasst und überarbeitet vom Autor. Erlebt das dramatische Zusammentreffen von Mariella Seoke und den Truppen des Psi Corps, ihre halsbrecherischen Einsätze im asiatischen Raum und das dramatische Finale auf dem Mars! Staffel Eins ist in sich abgeschlossen, bereitet aber die Welt und ihre Helden auf zukünftige Abenteuer von noch größerer Tragweite vor.