Hard Science Fiction

A most-anticipated title from USA Today, Goodreads, BookPage, BookRiot, Seattle Times, and The Nerd Daily! Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment of Martha Wells' bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series. Having someone else support your bad decision...

The most original AI audiobook of our time Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Amazon & Audible bestselling author, RR Haywood. One of the most downloaded indie authors in the UK with over four million books sold and more than 35 Kindle bestsellers. For nearly two days, every human on Earth...

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?

Silas has a secret he can't explain in this labyrinthian sci-fi novel, in which reality bends—and destiny hangs by a thread. Silas Keene sees things no one else can: distant places, hidden truths, and sometimes, the horrors waiting in the dark. It's a gift he doesn't understand—until he...

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...

A new age of exploration is taking humanity to the stars. It's a chance to build a new life from the ground up, to make your fortune and help the colonies grow. Anyone can become someone out in the stars. When John Carver, a veteran of the Halfway War, arrives on the colony of Greenworld, he finds it completely abandoned, as though its residents simply walked out, leaving all of their belongings behind. All that remains are half-built greenhouses and habitats, poorly maintained farmlands, and basic supplies.

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...

The thrilling second installment in New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas’s Galaxy Raiders series. As war rages on against the formidable Galactic Authority, Admiral Alexandra Morrigan leads a daring expeditionary fleet into the galactic frontier, searching for unlikely allies in the...

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.

Fünf Jahre nach den weltverändernden Ereignissen auf Europa erreicht eine neue Mission den Eismond. Unter kilometerdickem Eis, im Schatten des Jupiters, birgt die fremde Welt Geheimnisse, die das menschliche Verständnis von Leben und Bewusstsein herausfordern. Während eine internationale Crew darum ringt, das mysteriöse Wrack in den Tiefen des Ozeans zu reaktivieren und Kontakt zu dem Außerirdischen aufzunehmen, geraten Wissenschaft und Technik an ihre Grenzen. Auf der Erde kämpft Dr.

Betrayed by shadowy government forces, FBI agents Thor Dejeune and Maya Wilson are forced into hiding. Across the Atlantic, Marcus Brown is abducted and ordered to uncover a secret he never knew existed: What is the artifact—and why is half the world desperate to find it? Racing to follow his trail with the help of a mysterious ally, Thor and Maya close in, while in Washington, D.C., investigative journalist Michelle Nunez and rookie congressman Bob Greenwich dig into billions vanishing into covert government projects.

For a century, Humanity has lived in a fragile “balance” with the all-powerful sentient AI, Heimer, a precarious peace enforced by the iron fist of the Ensemble Accords. But when a routine deep-space probe intercepts an impossible signal, it reveals the ultimate prize, a colossal, artificial construct known only as Stapledon Station. Now, the UN ship Kia-Kaha has made arduous journey across the vast vacuum of space, carrying Humanity’s finest minds and most guarded secrets. Among them is Xenoarchaeologist Clio Cormack, a brilliant but impulsive scientist with a history of pushing boundaries.

John Twelve Hawks, bestselling author of The Traveler, returns with a masterful journey through the near future of Artificial Intelligence, in which a wise, orphaned ten-year-old girl goes on the run with only her trusty "Interactive Toy" to guide her toward New York City, where a dark landscape...

The galaxy is vast. Finding your place in it is harder. Rufus has spent his life feeling unanchored—defined by a father who disappeared and a system that values obedience over individuality. When he leaves home and steps into the SlipSpace lanes, he isn’t searching for glory. He’s searching for belonging. Thrown together with a handful of strangers—each carrying their own secrets, doubts, and ambitions—Rufus begins to form something unexpected: a Pack. Not bound by rank or blood, but by trust earned the hard way.

Nephilim hat die Angelborn-Akademie abgeschlossen und ist nun ein vollwertiger Guardian Angel von Olympias. Sie erhält ihre Spezialisierung als Kampfvorhut und wird ihrem ersten Partner zugewiesen. Schon bald wird sie sich in ihrer ersten Begegnung mit feindlichen Cyborgs bewähren müssen. Und im Verborgenen spinnt Metatron seine eigenen Pläne für sie... Buch 3 der Behind Blue Eyes Origins-Novellenserie konzentriert sich auf Nephilims erste Jahre als Guardian Angel.

After thirty-three years of peace, the millennia-spanning House War reignites with brutal force. The galaxy trembles as the Corvad House, a dynasty once thought vanquished, emerges from the shadows with a vengeance. In a precarious alliance with the Colonial Council, the Corvad goal is the complete obliteration of the Nexus House, the guardians who have steered humanity through its darkest epochs.

The shadows are rising. The alliance is breaking. High Queen Serita must rally her scattered forces as the Crown of Shadows spreads its grip across the stars. In a universe where hope itself is hunted, can the light endure? War spreads like fire across the stars. High Queen Serita Hernandez and her loyal allies are thrust into the deadliest battle yet, where shadows strike from every corner of the galaxy and enemies rise faster than friends can be found. Old loyalties fracture. New powers awaken. And every choice threatens to tip the balance between survival and ruin.

Millicent has spent her whole life chasing answers about her parents’ deaths and the strange anomalies that have stalked her since childhood. Now, the truth finally surfaces—and it’s darker than she ever imagined. A forgotten storage locker reveals her father’s coded notebooks, warnings from another reality, and an obsidian sphere meant for her mother. Suddenly, Millicent’s past becomes the center of a multiversal war, with the Architects closing in and the Eva's calling her through fracturing dimensions.

Als der Physiker Lukas Heuer am LIGO eine merkwürdige Gravitationswellenanomalie entdeckt, hält er sie zuerst für einen Messfehler. Doch Messdaten deuten auf extrem massereiche Objekte hin, die sich der Erde nähern und dabei eine gravitative Schneise durch das Sonnensystem ziehen. Sollte er recht haben, blieben der Menschheit nur wenige Wochen, um den Untergang abzuwenden. Gleichzeitig macht die Archäologin Mira Najafi zur selben Zeit eine ganz andere Entdeckung: Sie findet einen bislang unbekannten Raum in der großen Pyramide von Gizeh, der voller düsterer Prophezeiungen steckt.

Es treibt Antonia Gleichweit – Apothekerin in einem verschlafenen Stadtviertel von Graz – und Martin Moser – Opernsänger mit Talent, aber ohne Engagement – zueinander und auseinander. Es wirbelt das Leben von Erwin Schrempf – Landesbeamter zuständig für die Beobachtung von Sekten, insbesondere Islamgemeinschaften – durcheinander. Und es bringt eine fremde Frau.

Winner of 15 literary awards, the Tachyon Tunnel series has been hailed as "a brilliant fusion of real physics and unforgettable humanity." Book Three raises the bar yet again where the laws of science meet the limits of love, and one man's vision may save the future of two galaxies.

В глухом уголке Германии, среди неприступных скал, высится древний замок, пользующийся дурной славой. Местные жители обходят его стороной, шепотом пересказывая легенды о ведьмах, демонах и оживших мертвецах.

A six-year-old girl is erased from another world and the echo won’t stop calling Millicent back. Timelines are collapsing. Reality is bleeding at the seams. And every answer demands a sacrifice. What began as astral observation becomes something far more dangerous. This is the moment Millicent stops crossing worlds… and starts changing them.

This was never just her story. In Ascension, the veil finally lifts. Governments fall silent. Truth goes public. And humanity faces a choice it has avoided for centuries. Millicent is no longer alone. The worlds are no longer separate. And the war is no longer hidden. This is not an ending wrapped in comfort. It’s a reckoning. A convergence. A final refusal to remain small. Some will call it awakening. Others will call it the end of everything they understand. Both would be right. Together, we rise.

What if everything you believed about your life was a lie, hidden in plain sight? Hidden in Plain Sight by Irv Selman is a sweeping tale that blends the intrigue of NASA mystery thriller audiobooks with the raw emotion of audiobooks on personal loss and betrayal. Following the extraordinary journey of Christopher Copper, a man torn between his human upbringing and cosmic origins, the novel delivers a story that is at once thrilling, heartbreaking, and deeply hopeful.