Hard Science Fiction
epub |eng | 2019-04-02 | Author:R E Graham [Graham, R E]

Lord Topaz tugged on her vest and then looked at her comm’s officer. She turned her head back to the camera and tried to look as calm as possible. “This ...
( Category: Metaphysical & Visionary June 12,2019 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-03-19 | 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, dazed, panicked. E ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction June 12,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-30 | Author:M. D. Cooper [Cooper, M. D.]

DISCOVERY STELLAR DATE: 02.23.4084 (Adjusted Years) LOCATION: The Golden Gazelle, Hunting Lodge REGION: Ceres, Terran Hegemony, InnerSol <I guess that will work,> Darla said, as Tanis drank her coffee at ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction June 11,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ken Liu [Liu, Ken]

ZHANG RAN Zhang Ran graduated from Beijing Jiaotong University with a degree in Computer Science. After a stint in the IT industry, he became a reporter and news analyst with ...
( Category: Anthologies June 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-02 | Author:OMAR FINK [FINK, OMAR]

Keel asked, “What does that mean?” The supervisor replied, “Well, for now the habitat construction site is nearby, and the materials are coming mostly from the Moon, and a few ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction June 11,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:E. E. Smith

* The vessels transporting the invading forces were huge, spherical shells equipped with short-range drives—and with nothing else. No accommodations, no facilities, no food, no water, not even any air. ...
( Category: Short Stories June 10,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2010-01-12 | Author:Preuss, Paul & Clarke, Arthur [Preuss, Paul]

XIV Sparta awoke in a high-ceilinged room, gleaming white from centuries of accumulated enamel. Its tall windows were hung with lace and fitted with panes of imperfect glass whose pinhole ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction June 4,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2010-01-12 | Author:Preuss, Paul & Clarke, Arthur C. & Arthur C. Clarke [Preuss, Paul]

* * * The big tractor sped along beside the linear launcher, toward the distant radiotelescopes. “Quite a performance you just put on,” Gress muttered. “Watch you don’t overdo it.” ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction June 4,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Barnes

-11- In a line of work like mine, you can learn to relish the dull times, even the frustrating dull times. The steamer took twenty days getting across the Atlantic ...
( Category: Time Travel June 4,2019 )
epub |eng | 1994-06-03 | Author:Isaac Asimov [Asimov, Isaac]

94 Reference Library I mentioned in the previous section that I use my histories as reference works for my later writings, and that reminds me that I am frequently asked ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction June 4,2019 )
epub |eng | 2005-12-31 | Author:Neal Asher

Janer gazed down at the weapon he was holding. It seemed he would be getting just about all the excitement he could stand. As he holstered it, he noted that ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction June 4,2019 )
epub, pdf, mobi |eng | | Author:Paul Preuss [Preuss, Paul]

With its mighty torch blazing, the cutter decelerated toward the great rings and spokes and cylinders of Port Hesperus, that whole spinning conglomerate of a space station hanging in high ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction June 4,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Paul Preuss [Paul Preuss]

XV The columns of white vapor that blew out of the crevices in the ice gave an illusion of great force, but there was nothing to them, only widely spaced ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction June 4,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2002-10-07 | Author:McIntyre, Vonda N. [McIntyre, Vonda N.]

Chapter 5 Dr. McCoy awoke with the worst hangover he had ever had in his life. He should have taken something for it last night, but he had been too ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction June 4,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2003-02-02 | Author:Gibson, William [Gibson, William]

WHEN they exit immigration, Bigend is waiting, the only smiling face in a scrum of glum chauffeurs holding hand-lettered sheets of cardboard. Bigend’s says “POLLARD & CHU” in coarse-tipped red ...
( Category: Espionage June 4,2019 )