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...

What if your final heartbeat was not the end of life, but the beginning of an infinite, terrifying awakening? In H.G. Wells’s deeply unsettling psychological horror "Under the Knife", a routine medical procedure devolves into a cosmic nightmare. As the suffocating stench of chloroform...

What if your eyes were ripped from your body and cast eight thousand miles away? During a violent London thunderstorm, a freak laboratory accident tears a rupture in reality. A blinding flash of lightning strikes a powerful electro-magnet, and in that split second, Sidney Davidson’s sight is...

Earth has survived. But the stars aren't our own. The Formless have been thwarted for now, but a message may have escaped a mining scout ship before it was destroyed. Solus, a mediator with an allegiance to Ryan Piece, was exiled by the Kannin, and Earth is abandoned by their saviors. With the...

One drop. Millions of lives. And a countdown to absolute chaos. When a brilliant scientist reveals a sample of "bottled cholera" to a mysterious, pale-faced visitor, he unknowingly hands over the ultimate weapon of terror. The guest is a radical anarchist - and in a heartbeat, the lethal...

De cruels jours s'abattent sur la galaxie. Cadia est tombée, détruite par l'assaut du Chaos. Une Grande Faille a été ouverte sur le warp, et de ses profondeurs se déversent des démons et des horreurs de l'Antique Nuit. Mais tout espoir n'est pas perdu… Un héros, longtemps absent, est de retour, et il apporte l'ire ravivée des Ultramarines. Roboute Guilliman se dresse pour mener l'Imperium hors des ténèbres avec une croisade inégalée depuis l'époque bénie de l'Empereur.

What if the most terrifying discovery in the universe isn't hidden among the stars, but trapped in the room with you? Isolated on a remote Bornean mountain, astronomer Woodhouse begins a solitary night watch inside the claustrophobic Avu Observatory. The telescope is locked onto the void, and...

A high-concept, high-stakes thriller that will leave you questioning the nature of reality, and what it really means to be awake, perfect for fans of Dan Brown and James Rollins. Three impossible objects with the mass of neutron stars are hurtling toward Earth. Will they shatter reality as we...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Sealed inside a steel sphere no wider than a coffin, the explorer Elstead is lowered five miles down into the lightless deep – further than any living man has ever gone – to see what the ocean floor conceals. His colleagues on the surface expect...

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...

GOLD MEDAL WINNER FOR DYSTOPIAN SCI-FI in the 2025 GLOBAL BOOK AWARDS The year is 2098. Humanity is no more. Earth is a ravaged, radioactive wasteland. On Mars, a small group of synthetic humanoids survive—their memories of the apocalypse wiped, seeking to understand their role in the fall of...

His first step... could be his last. Colt is a maverick astronaut who accepts a daring mission to be the first person on Venus. After every other mission to Venus has failed, what could possibly go wrong? Pretty much everything, as it turns out.

This the follow on book for, 'The History of Art Materials.' It is the art material predictions of the artist A.W.J. Pilgrim.

In 1907, a cargo ship docked in California carrying, among other things, a small colony of Argentine ants. Nobody noticed. Within a century those ants had formed the largest cooperative supercolony ever recorded: a single network stretching 600 miles of coastline. They systematically eliminated nearly every native ant species in their path. The Supercolony Wars is a novel about that invasion, told entirely from the inside. There are almost no human characters. The voices belong to an ancient oak grove speaking in the slow language of centuries.

One breakthrough. Total transparency. No place to hide. The "Quantum Apocalypse" is no longer theoretical. It is here. When one nation unleashes the world's first functional quantum processor, every encryption on Earth shatters. Bank accounts, state secrets, private messages all naked.

Friday night in Shoreditch turns to police tape and panic in minutes. An attacker in a nightclub doesn’t bruise or beg —he bites. Sergeant Daniel Kerr, MO19 armed response, puts one round to the head and watches his partner rise again with blood in his eyes. The rules change on the floor of a bar.

A classic Hugo Award-winning science fiction adventure, Exploration Team by Murray Leinster follows a Colonial Survey officer, an unauthorized settler, and specially-bred Kodiak bears across the deadly alien world of Loren Two. Intelligent, suspenseful, and richly imaginative, this novelette is...

History was never meant to be changed. The Custodians exist for one purpose: observe the past and protect the integrity of the timeline. Aboard the temporal vessel Eidolon Path, Dr. Lysandra Quill studies historical events across centuries —watching humanity’s past unfold exactly as recorded. Until she notices something impossible. Tiny discrepancies. A conversation lasting a few seconds longer. A decision made in a slightly different place. A pattern hidden in the data. And a symbol that appears every time history shifts.

Welche Triumphe und Tragödien haben die LER und ihre Traditionen geprägt? Was hat sie dazu angetrieben, ein Faktor zu werden, mit dem man rechnen muss, eine herausragende Söldnereinheit mit einer der längsten Historien und reichhaltigsten Traditionen der gesamten Inneren Sphäre? Werden Sie Zeuge der Entstehung dieser Einheit in der Zeit des Sternenbundes und verfolgen Sie ihre Entwicklung in den Nachfolgekriegen und der Clan-Invasion bis hin zu ihrem Niedergang während der dunklen Zeit und Wiederauferstehung in der ungewissen Zukunft der ilClan-Ära.

Dr. Julie McCray, astrophysicist, isn’t looking for second chance romance. Not even close. She’s focused. She needs to save the planet from a dystopian future as Earth temperatures soar. Julie’s rover, 40 million miles away, discovers living bacteria hiding under the Martian surface. Scientists examine its DNA profile and agree that, with a slight amount of genetic engineering, it can absorb vast quantities of carbon dioxide, exactly what the planet needs to survive. The President orders the government to commandeer Julie’s Mars mission and bring the living bacteria to Earth.

In a world where automation runs society, Marion Sato spends her days as a judgment aid, tasked with making the manual choices deemed too difficult or complicated for computer algorithms. It seems like a dream come true – until things go horribly wrong.

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?

Es ist das größte Projekt der Menschheitsgeschichte: Das Forschungsschiff Nyx verlässt die Erde, um als erstes bemanntes Raumschiff die Grenzen des Sonnensystems zu überwinden. Mit an Bord: 300 der renommiertesten Wissenschaftler der Menschheit.

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.