Hard Science Fiction
epub, mobi | | 2010-01-21 | Author:Anne McCaffrey [Flight, Pegasus In]

"We believe so, even if we don't know specifically why." Carmen regarded him with some surprise. "It's a lovely clear mind. Like a bell--when she's asleep. She's wary and cautious ...
( Category: Sword & Sorcery March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-04-29 | Author:Michael Jan Friedman [Friedman, Michael Jan]

Chapter Fourteen PICARD HAD NEVER SEEN a Lazarus star in person. And he wasn't unusual in that respect, considering the scarcity of such stars within the bounds of Federation territory. ...
( Category: Adventure March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-03-07 | Author:Alastair Reynolds [Reynolds, Alastair]

( Category: Anthologies March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Walter Jon Williams [Williams, Walter Jon]

* The ghost brother’s voice sounds as if it’s drowning in a tank of liquid glass, transformed but ringing with clarity. Little inflection is left, little to indicate personality. Little ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-11-09 | Author:Alastair Reynolds [Reynolds, Alastair]

"What is it you want to know?" "We Slugs are among the few intelligent, starfaring cultures in this part of the Galaxy. During the War against Intelligence we avoided the ...
( Category: Anthologies March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1994-06-14 | Author:Greg Egan [Egan, Greg]

16 (Toy man, picture it) June 2045 Paul felt a hand gripping his forearm. He tried to shake it off, but his arm barely moved, and a terrible aching started ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 | | 2000-03-23 | Author:Poul Anderson [Anderson, Poul]

CHAPTER 27 Year three. Envoy had been a star, hastening through night heaven to vanish in the planetary shadow, emerging to sink toward the eastern horizon. Now it was gone. ...
( Category: First Contact March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1995-06-14 | Author:Greg Egan [Egan, Greg]

17 I was woken by a call just after four, the ringing growing louder and more shrill until it reached into my melatonin dreams and turned the darkness of my ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1994-01-01 | Author:Julian May [May, Julian]

“I presume that was it,” said Asymptotic Essence. “Indubitably,” said Homologous Trend. “One will have to spend some time appreciating the nuances of the event,” sighed Eupathic Impulse. “A nodality ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2003-11-18 | Author:Vernor Vinge [Vinge, Vernor]

TWENTY-TWO She was trapped in some sort of gothic novel. And that was the least of her problems. Allison Parker sat on an outcropping and looked off to the north. ...
( Category: Murder March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-11-04 | Author:Dave Stone [Stone, Dave]

"I'm Danni Consart, this is Mega-City News - plugging fact into your news-hole like we were pretending it was a penis made out of news and we were doing sex! ...
( Category: Adventure March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-07-10 | Author:Greg Egan [Egan, Greg]

4 I was nineteen when I returned to Mitar, to study at the city’s university. Originally, I’d planned to specialise in the ecopoiesis—and to study much closer to home—but in ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-02-01 | Author:Isaac Asimov [Asimov, Isaac]

The man halted, and would have smiled if he ever smiled. Certainly the convolutions of his brain performed the mental equivalent of a smile. The ship he stopped at was ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Matthew Mather [Mather, Matthew]

Day 13 – January 4 “PUT THIS OVER your nose and mouth,” I offered, handing Chuck a bandana. I already had one around my face, and it wasn’t for the ...
( Category: Technothrillers March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1966-10-14 | Author:Larry Niven [Niven, Larry]

THE ETHICS OF MADNESS TAU CETI IS a small cool-yellow GO dwarf with four planets. Strictly speaking, none of the planets is habitable. Two are gas giants. The third inward ...
( Category: Anthologies March 27,2014 )