Hard Science Fiction
mobi |eng | 2011-11-07 | Author:Gregory Benford

PART FIVE 2018 ONE It came in an instant, neatly dividing her life. A moment before she had been serenely gliding over the crumpled, silvery moonscape. She was distracted, plotting ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction January 28,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-03-21 | Author:Peter F. Hamilton

INCOMING SIGNAL RECEIVED DATE 75572-094-648 SOURCE FALINDI-TY RELAY MASTRIT-PJ REPORTS FLIGHTSHIP SWANTIC-LI SIGNAL RE-ACQUIRED DATE 38647-046-831. LAST SIGNAL RECEIVED DATE 23867-032-749. INCLUDED TRANSMISSION DETAILS SWANTIC-LI REPORTS DATE 29321-072-491. PLASMA BUFFER ...
( Category: Adventure January 28,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-23 | Author:Kim Stanley Robinson

When you expect to live another two hundred years, you behave differently from when you expect to live only twenty. This they proved almost immediately. John spent the winter there ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction January 28,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-12-10 | Author:Alastair Reynolds

Which left Khouri. There was no arguing with her experience; unlike any of the crew, she had demonstrably been born and raised on a planet, and -- vitally -- had ...
( Category: Adventure January 28,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2004-05-31 | Author:Isaac Asimov

15 THE PSYCHOLOGIST There was reason to the fact that the element known as “pure science” was the freest form of life on the Foundation. In a Galaxy where the ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction January 28,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2004-05-31 | Author:Isaac Asimov

7 Theo Aporat was one of the very highest ranking priests of Anacreon. From the standpoint of precedence alone, he deserved his appointment as head priest—attendant upon the flagship Wienis. ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction January 28,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Charles Stross

Chapter 6: Nightfall A synthetic gemstone the size of a Coke can falls through silent darkness. The night is quiet as the grave, colder than midwinter on Pluto. Gossamer sails ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction January 28,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Iain M. Banks

`And who fired first?’ Perrund asked quietly and without moving. Her head was tipped, lowered over the `Secret Keep’ board, studying her next move. They were sitting in the visiting ...
( Category: Adventure January 28,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-12 | Author:Isaac Asimov

11. ESCAPE ALONG THE STRIPS Baley’s grip tightened convulsively on his fork. “Are you sure?” he asked automatically, and as he said it, he realized the uselessness of the question. ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction January 28,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2004-03-16 | Author:Isaac Asimov

Measures on Hyper Base had been taken in a sort of rattling fury—the muscular equivalent of an hysterical shriek. To itemize them in order of both chronology and desperation, they ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction January 28,2015 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gregory Benford

THREE The Far Black The man was a wrinkled dwarf, but he didn’t seem to mind. “You’re from what era?” he asked, leading a band of five officers and Toby ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction January 28,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-06 | Author:William Gibson

The Winter Market It rains a lot, up here; there are winter days when it doesn’t really get light at all, only a bright, indeterinmate gray. But then there are ...
( Category: Short Stories January 28,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-28 | Author:Iain M. Banks

“Thank you,” she said as the door to her quarters hinged open like a valve behind her. The ship drone dipped a little and drifted in, carrying her overnight bag. ...
( Category: Adventure January 28,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Arthur C. Clarke

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( Category: Hard Science Fiction January 28,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-12 | Author:Isaac Asimov

10 A CULTURE IS TRACED Baley could not prevent himself from crying out, “What!” Quemot looked over his shoulder as the moments of silence passed and said finally, “Not Earth’s ...
( Category: Intelligence & Semantics January 28,2015 )