Hard Science Fiction

When the Sun is threatened by an alien microbe, the fate of humanity rests on the shoulders of an unlikely hero – and an even more unlikely friendship.

Stranded on the surface of Mars, astronaut Mark Watney’s only hope for survival is science, a sense of humor, and maybe some potatoes.

Bob Johansson didn't believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a car accident was a shock. To add to the surprise, he is now a sentient computer and the controlling intelligence for a Von Neumann probe....

The United States government is given a warning by the preeminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate....

On the Moon, crime pays, but small-time crook Jazz Bashara may have just uncovered a conspiracy of lunar proportions. Welcome to Artemis.

Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison - a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world...

In 3001: The Final Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke brings the greatest and most successful science fiction series of all time to its magnificent, stunningly unforeseen conclusion....

A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence....

The Silicoids are a growing threat from beyond the frontier. Launching waves of crystalline drones, they ravage colonies all along the border of the Empire. Earth has been forced to ally with her enemies against this mysterious alien menace....

Twenty-three intelligent species. One ancient mystery. And two humans thrust into the middle....

Civil war looms in the Bobiverse in this brand-new, epic-length adventure by Audible number one best seller Dennis E. Taylor. More than a hundred years ago, Bender set out for the stars and was never heard from again....

Als der Psychologe Kris Kelvin auf einer Forschungsstation auf dem Planeten Solaris eintrifft, findet er eine demoralisierte und psychisch...

Jupiter's moon Io has an extremely hostile environment. There are hot lava streams, seas of boiling sulfur, and frequent volcanic eruptions...

After a long journey to Saturn’s moon Enceladus, spaceship ILSE is on its way back to Earth, carrying crucial cargo. The crew is exhausted...

A classic thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton, Sphere is a bravura demonstration of what he does better than anyone: riveting storytelling that combines frighteningly plausible, cutting-edge science and technology with pulse-pounding action....

From the savannas of Africa at the dawn of mankind to the rings of Saturn as man adventures to the outer rim of our solar system, 2001: A Space Odyssey is a journey unlike any other....

In 2005, the robotic probe "Huygens" lands on Saturn's moon Titan. 40 years later, a radio telescope receives signals from the...

Russian billionaire Nikolai Shostakovitch makes an offer to the former crew of the spaceship ILSE. He will finance a return voyage to the icy...

In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the US Navy - is assigned to Detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt....

A dirty deal was struck. Humanity was allowed to keep 300 rebellious worlds. In return, we declared war on a powerful enemy from beyond the frontier....

When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was), how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward, at least), and why....

In the near future, the nano-drug Nexus can link mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are some who want to eradicate it....

Frederik Pohl was on a streak when this Hugo Award-finalist novel was published in 1980. Now back in print after an absence of nearly a decade, this unique science fiction novel is as fresh and entertaining as ever....

Six months have passed since the release of Nexus 5. The world is a different, more dangerous place....

The explosive conclusion to Nexus and Crux. Global unrest spreads through the US, China, and beyond. Secrets and lies set off shockwaves of anger, rippling from mind to mind....

Lux keeps inventing things or adapting alien tech (ancient tech to the aliens) because the active alien civilizations they discover through portals and probes have gone through cycles of war, decline, and rebirth several times. Lux further develops the portals using discovered alien tech. Earth empties refugee camps the UN was running (1,200,000) and sends them with a military escort for their "safety." The military sends many ships for escort duty with orders to take over the colony and use the refugees as a labor force.

After their adventures in Nepal, Professor Elliot Brand and Nepalese agent Ashra Shah want to enjoy their summer in London together. But when Ashra is called back into action, her new mission leads to an ancient mystery that might be the greatest threat she and Elliot have ever faced.

Die Mission Triangulum scheint gescheitert. Es ist Michael Cordwainer Grand und seinen unsterblichen Gefährten nicht gelungen, eine Möglichkeit zu finden, die Ra'hul zu besiegen. Im Gegenteil: Er befindet sich in Gefangenschaft, die Invasionsflotte des Gegners ist im Anmarsch und die Milchstraße steht vor dem Untergang. Nur ein verwegener Plan könnte vielleicht die Wende bringen, doch durch ihn erweckt man die Aufmerksamkeit machtvoller Entitäten, von deren Existenz man bisher nicht einmal etwas ahnte. Doch es ist nicht klar, auf welcher Seite sie stehen.

Milano 2032: sono passati pochi anni dal lancio sul mercato dei primi cartoni animati per assunzione retinica. Un fantomatico serial killer, che si fa chiamare "il Mescolatore", uccide a ripetizione uomini e cartoni viventi: li smembra, li taglia a pezzi e li riconsegna agli inquirenti in "scatole di montaggio"... Come se non bastasse si moltiplicano i casi del Morbo, una forma di febbre emorragica che passa dai cartoon infetti al sangue umano. E' cominciata la partita più nera dopo Infect@, l'ultimo atto della guerra al crimine nell'Italia del futuro.

The Star is an 1897 apocalyptic short story by H. G. Wells. Here is an impressive story based on the inter-action of planetary bodies and of the sun upon them. A great star is seen approaching the earth. At first it is only an object of interest to the general public, but there is an astronomer on the earth, who is watching each phase and making mathematical calculations, for he knows the intimate relation of gravitation between bodies and the effect on rotating bodies of the same force from an outside source. He fears all sorts of wreckage on our earth.

Цивилизация покоится на плечах изгоев. И когда ей нужен кто-то, чтобы управлять энергостанциями, расположенными на глубине трех километров в Тихом океане, она ищет особых людей для программы рифтеров. Тех, кто приспособлен к опасной окружающей среде, тех, кто настолько привык к травмам и хроническому стрессу, что жизнь на краю подводного вулкана станет для них облегчением. Но среди утесов и впадин хребта Хуан де Фука есть вещи, которые никто не ожидал найти, а достаточное количество давления даже привычную ко всему жертву превратит в человека, сделанного из стали.

Ein fremder Planet und eine dunkle Wahrheit... Die Fortsetzung der fesselnden Science Fiction-Dilogie jetzt auch als Hörbuch! Die menschliche Zivilisation ist vernichtet, ausgelöscht von einer unbekannten Macht. Der Ursprung des Angriffs: Das Sternsystem Epsilon Eridani, Ziel von Erebus und Terror. Nach 374 Jahren im interstellaren Nichts und einem Konflikt, der beinahe zur Katastrophe geführt hätte, erreichen die beiden Raumschiffe ihr Ziel. Sie haben keine Heimat mehr, keine Rückzugsmöglichkeit. Doch beide Crews sind fest entschlossen herauszufinden, wer oder was hinter der Vernichtung der Menschheit steckt.

In this story two men strike up a conversation and one reveals that he is, in fact, dead as the result of titanic war in the future. In this bold premise Wells once more reveals a startling and empathetic story.

The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for inmates the journey there is always a one-way trip. One such prisoner is Professor Arton Daghdev, xeno-ecologist and political dissident. Soon after arrival he discovers that Kiln has a secret. Humanity is not the first intelligent life to set foot there. In the midst a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem are the ruins of a civilization, but who were the vanished builders and where did they go?

The Quantum Wayfarers are under attack. Their gates have been blown wide open, and a rift in the multiversal space-time continuum is now expanding on a lonely research planet within the cosmic boundaries of TriColony Sigma. The Court of Enigmus is subsequently called to arms, equipped only with Zira’s warnings of the ‘other-place’ and all the dangers it contains. He and Qaira are assigned to cross the rift, find out what has caused it, and amend its expansion.

In una futuristica società avanzata, una donna ha dato il via a un progetto di ricerca archeoinformatica che ha sede in Italia, al PRIA, il Palazzo di Ricerca Informatica Antica. Il capo ricercatore, Iperborea, scopre e analizza archivi e reperti digitali per riportare in luce il passato, un po’ come fa un archeologo quando conduce campagne di scavi. Il suo più grande obiettivo è scoprire chi è stato l’artefice del Grande Crollo, un evento epocale del passato che ha prodotto l’annientamento di ogni struttura sociale.

Survival hangs in the balance for Renton Hicks and his fellow colonists at Moon Base Delta. With a tight blockade being imposed by the Xilinex Corporation, their supplies are running dangerously low. Hope emerges in the form of a Martian evacuation ship carrying genetic engineering technology that could potentially secure their future. However, getting their hands on it demands not just outwitting Xilinex but also securing assistance from the last vestiges of the SINO power block.

2041. Auf dem Jupitermond Ganymed verschwindet eine Sonde spurlos, die den Ozean unter seiner Eiskruste studieren sollte. Die NASA macht den Programmierer Bavin Joshi dafür verantwortlich, der für die Software der Sonde zuständig war. Bavin wehrt sich - und muss überrascht feststellen, dass niemand an der Wahrheit interessiert ist. Die ganze Mission scheint von einem dunklen Geheimnis umgeben zu sein, das er vielleicht lieber nicht aufdecken sollte.

Die Milchstraße steht in Flammen und die Ra'hul hetzen immer mehr Völker gegeneinander auf. Es scheint kein Mittel gegen den verderblichen Einfluss ihrer Suggestoren zu geben. Die Liga der Unsterblichen steht auf verlorenem Posten und es gibt zudem den Verdacht, es könnten sich Agenten der Invasoren in ihre Reihen eingeschlichen haben. Alle Hoffnungen ruhen nun auf Michael Cordwainer Grand und seinen Freunden, die mit dem Schiff Rhelina in der Nachbargalaxis versuchen, eine Antwort auf die dringendste Frage zu finden.

It is twenty years after the catastrophic war between the US and China that brought down the old American political order. A new party has emerged in the US, one that’s held power for over a decade. Efforts to tighten its grip have resulted in mounting violent resistance. The American president has control of the media, but he is beginning to lose control of the streets. Many fear he’ll stop at nothing to remain in the White House. Suddenly, he collapses in the middle of an address to the nation. After an initial flurry of misinformation, the administration reluctantly announces his death.