Hard Science Fiction
epub |eng | 1992-03-01 | Author:C. J. Cherryh [Cherryh, C. J.]

* * * CHAPTER 11 « ^ » DEKKER waked, eyes open on dark, g holding him steady. But it wasn’t the hospital, it didn’t smell like the hospital. It ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction August 3,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-18 | Author:Neptune's Treasure

It took a week to deploy the emitters and detectors to Brittney’s satisfaction, in orbits ranging from barely above the nitrogen cloud-wisps to a couple thousand klicks out. When we ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction August 3,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-09-14 | Author:Charles E. Gannon [Gannon, Charles E.]

Chapter Thirty-Two SOUTHERN EXTENTS OF THE THIRD SILVER TOWER BD +02 4076 TWO (“DISPARITY”) The battered TOCIO shuttle started down through the bank of clouds that threatened to obscure the ...
( Category: Adventure August 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 1957-08-14 | Author:Lester Del Rey [Del Rey, Lester]

Chapter 9 Judgment Doc woke to see sunlight shining through a heavily barred window that must be in the official Southport jail. He waited a few minutes for his head ...
( Category: Adventure August 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-05 | Author:Andy Remic [Remic, Andy]

Chapter 11 The City of Bone Keenan was a little boy again. He lived in a small house on a small street in a small town. The house had two ...
( Category: War August 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-07-27 | Author:Ferrett Steinmetz

* * * Tactically speaking, this isn’t a bad situation. Silvia’s cross-legged on the ground, hyperventilating. But as far as I can tell, there’s only one gun pointed at me. ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction August 1,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2010-01-13 | Author:Paul Preuss & Arthur C. Clarke

* * * 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: Adventure July 31,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-18 | Author:Phillip P Peterson [Peterson, Phillip P]

Chapter 31 The waves hit the beach with a soft, vacillating swoosh. The sunset in the west draped the scene in a golden, almost unearthly light. But Ed couldn’t take ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction July 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-28 | Author:Phillip P Peterson [Peterson, Phillip P]

Chapter 22 “That must be it,” Ed said. A large flat building rose in front of them, connected to the wall by a bridge. It had a glass facade and ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction July 27,2020 )
epub | | 2003-10-01 | Author:Murry Leinster [Leinster, Murry ]

COMBAT Team The nearer moon went by overhead. It was jagged and irregular in shape, probably a captured asteroid. Huyghens had seen it often enough, so he did not go ...
( Category: Adventure July 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-25 | Author:Kevin Dockery & Douglas Niles [Dockery, Kevin & Niles, Douglas]

Ensign Sanders and his men were in position at the clearing barely ten minutes after leaving the ambush site. Following Marannis through the jungle had been like trying to play ...
( Category: Kidnapping July 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-02 | Author:Anderson, Kevin J [Anderson, Kevin J]

A few escapees fled to nearby systems, spreading word of Rusa'h's swift and bloody victory on Alturas. Some even made a desperate flight all the way to Ildira, where their ...
( Category: Military July 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-25 | Author:Kevin Dockery & Douglas Niles [Dockery, Kevin & Niles, Douglas]

Two hours later, the lieutenant was waiting for his recon teams to report back to the makeshift command post he had established at the crest of the ridge. Marannis and ...
( Category: Military July 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-02 | Author:Anderson, Kevin J [Anderson, Kevin J]

After an uncomfortably long moment, Basil snapped, "Does anyone have ideas? Data? Something to share?" "Mr. Chairman, you can't mean to suggest that we are withholding information from you," Admiral ...
( Category: Adventure July 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-02 | Author:Anderson, Kevin J [Anderson, Kevin J]

60 JESS TAMBLYN Get in your ships and follow me," Jess said to the eleven Roamer volunteers. He climbed back aboard his water-and-pearl vessel, stepping through the permeable film and ...
( Category: Adventure July 24,2020 )