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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

Karl Meier is a private in the German Army. He's been sent to occupied Greece on a secret mission in late 1944 as the Wehrmacht is withdrawing from the country. Karl has been assigned to support Professor Johannes Schmidt in the excavation of the ruins at Delphi, searching for a wunderwaffe—a wonder weapon that could help Germany win the Second World War. Deep within a cave, he finds a golden orb. On touching it, Karl connects with an alien intelligence that has sat dormant on Earth for thousands of years—the Oracle.

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.

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.

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.

A map removes a structure that still exists. A ridge straightens where nature refuses to. A signal begins. When cartographer Elias Mercer investigates a coordinate anomaly in the Scottish Highlands, he expects bad data. What he finds instead is a system. A hidden network buried beneath the surface of the world —one that rewrites geometry, shifts reference points, and responds to observation. Joined by analyst Mira Renn, Elias traces the anomaly to a series of anchor sites connected across continents. Each one is active. Each one is adapting. Each one is learning.

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.

Investigative journalist Chloe Ashford has been tracing a philanthropic foundation's money and influence. Now the pattern is closing. Donations funneled through shell vehicles. Fellowship placements across policy, media, and defense. On Mars, engineer Alexis Dren traces a single wrong digit in a weapons-system update to a coordination network buried inside his own command structure. One hundred kilometers of position error. A clean, deliberate, surgical betrayal.

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.

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)

Experience the dark sci-fi horror thriller of The Bones of Night in this unabridged dramatic narration by the author, K.R. Stevens. Hear the story of the characters directly in this audiobook with cassette tape-inspired audio mastering to immerse you in the crunchy Cassette Futurist aesthetic that The Bones of Night is all about. The Prospector returned much too early. And the entire crew was gone. Their logs should explain why. But with the ship’s computer so damaged, only a few remain salvageable.

Jason ist siebzehn, als er in der Megacity neu anfangen will, einer Welt aus Konzernen, Überwachung und Datenkontrolle. Sein Traum: Hacker werden und sich einen Platz im System sichern. Die Realität: Das System frisst ihn. Statt eines Jobs wird Jason entführt. Kurz darauf erfährt er, dass ein Kopfgeld auf ihn ausgesetzt ist. Plötzlich ist er nicht nur ein Niemand in der Masse, sondern eine Zielscheibe.

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 Astral Trap Series follows quantum physicist Millicent Woodrow as she uncovers a hidden system exploiting astral projection to trap human consciousness between parallel realities. As her investigation deepens, she becomes entangled in secret government programs, interdimensional forces, and a search for her missing father. Each fast-paced novel builds toward a larger conspiracy threatening humanity’s freedom across multiple dimensions.

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.

An ordinary exploration mission. A stellar system that should never have existed. And a survival whose price no one yet understands. When the exploration vessel Niña is sent beyond charted space, the crew expects a routine mission. Collect data. Observe. Return. But something's wrong. Instruments react incoherently. Trajectories no longer follow known laws. And a diffuse presence seems to haunt the void between stars. The crew quickly realizes they're not simply facing a natural anomaly, but the trace of an ancient technology, immense, and profoundly alien.

Une mission d’exploration ordinaire. Un système stellaire qui n’aurait jamais dû exister. Et une survie dont personne ne comprend encore le prix. Lorsque le vaisseau d’exploration Niña est envoyé au-delà de l’espace cartographié, l’équipage s’attend à une mission de routine. Collecter des données. Observer. Revenir. Mais quelque chose cloche. Les instruments réagissent de manière incohérente. Les trajectoires ne suivent plus les lois connues. Et une présence diffuse semble hanter le vide entre les étoiles.

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.