Hard Science Fiction
epub |eng | 1952-07-01 | Author:Arthur C Clarke [Clarke, Arthur C]

7 WORLD OF MONSTERS My reaction was instinctive and violent. Though I was floating in mid-air and so unable to get hold of anything solid, I could still thrash around ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction May 21,2022 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-26 | Author:Larry Niven & Edward M. Lerner [Niven, Larry & Lerner, Edward M.]

SOL SYSTEM WAS home to scant billions, but those few knew no fear. They filled its skies with interplanetary yachts and liners, tugs and freighters, Belter patrol ships and UN ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction May 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-03 | Author:B. V. Larson & VanDyke, David

-19- Vertigo assailed me and nausea welled up in my throat. “I’m okay,” I gasped. “I’m okay.” But I wasn’t. A universe of visions crashed into my brain, as if ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction May 20,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gene Doucette [Doucette, Gene]

There was not, strictly speaking, a “back door” to the apartment. Legally, every residential space in Velon proper (and probably in Inimata as a whole, although Leemie wasn’t familiar with ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction May 19,2022 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Juggler of Worlds (v5.5) [Worlds, Juggler of]

37 Nature Preserve 1 was a thoroughly Citizen world. There was no real danger here—only shame and misery. Baedeker shivered in the cab of his hovering combine. The sounds of ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction May 19,2022 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-12-22 | Author:Larry Niven & others

Tractor probe Junior was moving into the Hot End. Ahead was the vast desert, hotter than boiling water, where Argo stood always at noon. Already the strange dry plants were ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction May 19,2022 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-06 | Author:Larry Niven & Edward M. Lerner [Niven, Larry & Lerner, Edward M.]

ONCE SIGMUND AND BAEDEKER DEPARTED for Hearth, Eric and Kirsten found ways to use their newfound privacy. Ol’t’ro did, too. They spent much of their time poring over observations gathered ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction May 19,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gene Doucette [Doucette, Gene]

The House sent three Sentries—two men and a woman. They were dressed in matching black uniforms, with those interesting-looking wrap-around visors built into their hoods. Unlike the Sentry at the ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction May 19,2022 )
epub | | 2022-03-09 | Author:OceanSpace (epub)

He felt the blood rush from his face. His French contact must have sent this final message while he was distracted with Judith; he hadn’t heard the terminal chime when ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction May 19,2022 )
epub |eng | 2006-10-02 | Author:Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson [Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson]

The final analysis may show that I killed as many humans as Omnius did… perhaps more. Even so, that would not make me as bad as the thinking machines. My ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction May 18,2022 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-18 | Author:Poul Anderson [Anderson, Poul]

17 GUTHRIE WOKE. It happened instantly, at the closing of a switch. No dreams faded out of him as he opened the shells over his optics, extended them on their ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction May 18,2022 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-22 | Author:Ian McDonald [McDonald, Ian]

* * * The room is warm, comfortably furnished in beiges, tastefully decorated in framed prints, and it is a death-trap. Vidhya Rao sits panting in er well-upholstered chair, blinking, ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction May 17,2022 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-22 | Author:Timothy Zahn

Hitmen—See Murderers It had been a long, slow, frustrating day, full of cranky machines, crankier creditors, and not nearly enough customers. In other words, a depressingly typical day. But even ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction May 17,2022 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-27 | Author:W Michael Gear [Gear, W Michael]

( Category: Hard Science Fiction May 16,2022 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Checkpoint Lambda [Lambda, Checkpoint]

Chapter 6 There was another small whining sound from a tape reel on the control room wall. A passing ship had picked up the mechanical checkpoint call and had sent ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction May 16,2022 )