Here's a hand-picked roundup of hard science fiction. Every entry below is a sci-fi title worth your time, chosen for lasting impact and reader ratings.
by Jeff VanderMeer, Ann Vandermeer
2016
Quite possibly the GREATEST science-fiction collection of ALL TIME—past, present, and FUTURE! • "Nearly 1,200 pages of stories by the genre’s luminaries, like H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke and Ursula K. Le Guin, as well as lesser-known…
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2026
What if the heroes who save the universe have eight legs and zero interest in being human? Dr. Kira Reyes wakes up on a dying spaceship with second-degree radiation burns and almost no memory. The sun is dimming. A microscopic alien organis…
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2025
Blending speculative technology, mythological horror, and spiritual reckoning, MY DIGITAL SOUL is a harrowing, genre-bending tale of sin, remorse, and the search for forgiveness in a simulated world where the secrets of your soul are laid b…
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The Halen Equation III An Officer of the Union Space Fleet: Six Weeks to Save a Colony That Refuses to Believe the Math Vesper’s survival plan is ready, but reality no longer agrees on where the colony exists. As invisible forces create fal…
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2026
In 2199, a black hole of four point one solar masses will pass inside the orbit of Mars at a hundred and eighteen kilometers a second. Nobody can stop it. Everybody knows the date. What nobody agrees on is what to do in the ten years before…
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2026
Independence isn't given. It's engineered. When a rogue asteroid strikes Mars, it doesn't just reshape the surface-it rewrites the laws of physics. Within days, a breathable atmosphere begins to form, and humanity is invited to …
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2026
Twenty percent of the sky has never been seen. She built the telescope to change that. Anya Okafor's father spent thirty one years studying the Great Attractor, the unseen mass pulling hundreds of thousands of galaxies toward a single p…
Check price on Amazon →by Mark Niemann-Ross
2018
Stupid Machine is a Hard Science Fiction novel set in 2062.Car accidents don't happen. The last one was twenty-some years ago, somewhere around 2040. Which makes Jordan Bishop's fatal crash in a self-driving vehicle unusual. Maybe e…
Check price on Amazon →by Norman Spinrad
1990
Updates Lentz's previous work (which Library journal said was producers, screenwriters, cinematographers, special effects technicians, make-up artists, art directors. III: film index. IV: TV series index. V: alternate title index. Scien…
Check price on Amazon →by Prasad Ajinkya
2026
FOUR KILOMETERS INTO PERPETUAL DARKNESS. MINUS TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY DEGREES. AND AN IMPOSSIBLE DISCOVERY WAITING IN THE COLD. The Martian meets The Expanse in an adrenaline-charged hard science fiction thriller grounded in raw human grit,…
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2026
Twenty kilometres beneath Europa's ice, a probe finds something that should not exist, and the one person who wanted this discovery most is the one who now has to protect it from her own species. Mara has spent eighteen months alone at …
Check price on Amazon →by Brandon Q. Morris
2024
Nick hält zwar den offiziellen Weltrekord für Starts ins All, aber eigentlich reizt ihn sein Astronauten-Job schon lange nicht mehr. Erst, als seine Frau ihn verlässt, ändert er sein Leben. Er geht auf das verlockende Angebot eines russisch…
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