Best Hard Science Fiction - April 2024

The Enceladus Mission: Hard Science Fiction (Ice Moon Book 1)

A space odyssey that’s worth taking. (Kirkus)In the year 2031, a robot probe detects traces of biological activity on Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons. This sensational discovery shows that there is indeed evidence of extraterrestrial life. Fifteen years later, a hurriedly built spacecraft sets out on the long journey to the ringed planet and its moon.The international crew is not just facing a difficult twenty-seven months: if the spacecraft manages to make it to Enceladus without incident it must use a drillship to penetrate the kilometer-thick sheet of ice that entombs the moon. If lif... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07GKPC16B
• ASIN: B07GKPC16B
• Manufacturer: Hard-SF.com

The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories (Volume 1)

An unabridged audio collection spotlighting the “best of the best” hard science fiction stories published in 2016 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster. In “Vortex,” by Gregory Benford, astronauts find a once thriving microbial lifeform that carpets the caves of Mars dying off. A code monkey tracks down the vain creator of a pernicious software virus that people jack cerebrally in “RedKing,” by Craig DeLancey. In “Number Nine Moon,” by Alex Irvine, illicit scavengers on Mars are on a rescue mission to save themselves after one of their team member... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1976168988
• ASIN: 1976168988
• ISBN: 1976168988
• Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Seeker

A breathtaking near-future thriller. From the NY Times bestselling author whose books have been downloaded over a million times.A small alien spacecraft with extraordinary secrets. And a mad scramble to get to it first.When an interstellar probe lands in the heart of the Amazon Jungle, powerful nations around the world will stop at nothing to retrieve it. Because the unoccupied alien craft is sure to contain revolutionary technology. Technology that will allow the country that controls it to dominate the globe.With the probe hidden within the densest rainforest on Earth, traditional military p... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07DHDM8DH
• ASIN: B07DHDM8DH
• Manufacturer: Paragon Press

Mission One

Titan. Sixth moon of Saturn. A gleaming jewel of natural resources, ripe for harvesting by the first private space company to stake a claim.Diamond Aerospace launches a ship with an experimental engine that will get a crew to Titan in five months. Their mission is to lay the groundwork for a permanent orbital research station, one that will be the future base of operations for activity on that distant moon.Shortly after launch, a devastating malfunction forces the crew to make a choice: continue to Titan, or go back home. As the truth about their mission unravels, one thing is clear: someone o... [Read More]

• ASIN: B072LZ5NK3
• ASIN: B072LZ5NK3

Ship Wrecked: Stranded on an alien world

“A surprisingly touching story."  Kim Peters "Another M. W. McGinnis rollercoaster ride that kept me reading late into the night."  K. Persons"Okay ... too cool, I'm on an alien planet ... and I have my pickup truck."  Craig Hathaway A wicked snowstorm had blown in from the north and the roads were a mess. Recently split from his one-time girlfriend, there was now nothing holding Cameron Decker here in the little backwater mountain town of Larksburg Stand. Time to get back to college, back to Stanford. Seeing a guy knee-deep in slush at the side of the road, he pulled to the curb and w... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0788THR27
• ASIN: B0788THR27
• Manufacturer: Avenstar Productions

The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 2

An unabridged collection spotlighting the “best of the best” hard science fiction stories published in 2017 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster. In “Shadows of Eternity,” by Gregory Benford, a student investigates enigmatic SETI recordings from probes sent to nearby stars despite her teachers’ admonishments to stick to the curriculum. An alien robot offers to help save Earth as war and pollution ravage the last of the survivors on the planet in “The Chatter of Monkeys,” by Bond Elam. In “Acadie,” by Dave Hutchinson, the first humans still, eve... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1790744431
• ASIN: 1790744431
• ISBN: 1790744431
• Manufacturer: Independently published

Infinity Born

A breathtaking near-future thriller. From the NY Times bestselling author whose books have been downloaded over a million times.When DARPA's billion-dollar program to create Artificial Superintelligence is sabotaged, US operative Cameron Carr is tasked with finding the culprit. He's been on high-stakes missions before, but this time the stakes are nothing less than the future of humanity. Because the race to evolve a superintelligent computer is on, and power players around the world will stop at nothing to get there first.In the right hands, Artificial Superintelligence could lift humanity to... [Read More]

• ASIN: B072584M83
• ASIN: B072584M83
• Manufacturer: Paragon Press

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Four

Thrilling, smart, and brilliant short science fiction from Simone Heller, Ken Liu, Ian McDonald, and many more.A human detective and their partner, an enhanced chimpanzee, investigate a strange murder on the subway . . . a smart home goes into lockdown, turning a man’s own home into his prison . . . at a robot factory, something has caused the machines to attempt to escape . . . mysterious seeds raining down from deep space could be the first sign of an alien invasion . . . a woman seeks to restore a broken AI, hoping it can help return humanity to better days . . .For decades, science ficti... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1597809888
• ASIN: 1597809888
• ISBN: 1597809888
• Brand: Night Shade
• Manufacturer: Night Shade

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Three

As Earth dies, an architect is commissioned to remote build a monument on Mars from the remains of a failed colony; a man who has transferred his consciousness into a humanoid robot discovers he’s missing thirty percent of his memories, and tries to discover why; bored with life in the underground colony of an alien world, a few risk life inside one of the “whales” floating in the planet’s atmosphere; an apprentice librarian searching through centuries of SETI messages from alien civilizations makes an ominous discovery; a ship in crisis pulls a veteran multibot out from storage with a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1597809365
• ASIN: 1597809365
• ISBN: 1597809365
• Brand: Night Shade
• Manufacturer: Night Shade

The Complete Intrepid Saga - A Hard Science Fiction Space Opera Epic (Aeon 14 Collection Book 1)

Also includes the first book of the second Aeon 14 series: Destiny Lost.Right after she finishes her BLT, disgraced Major Tanis Richards is off to save the day one more time.Tanis is looking forward to a long journey in stasis before arriving at the newly terraformed world of New Eden. New Life. New Start. Getting a berth on the Intrepid is her ticket out of the Sol System.But nothing proves easy for Major Tanis Richards. Nothing is at it seems. What should be a simple trip is fraught with danger and filled with adventure. An array of forces seek to stop the Intrepid—no matter the cost, or l... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01HWU85LQ
• ASIN: B01HWU85LQ
• Manufacturer: The Wooden Pen Press

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven (11) (Best SF & Fantasy of the Year)

The 11th volume in this much lauded series with incisive and genre-defining stories chosen my multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan.The internationally-acclaimed ‘Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year’ series moves into its second decade with the very best science fiction and fantasy from around the world. Hard science fiction, space opera, epic fantasy, dystopia, alternate history, swords and sorcery - you can find it all in the more than two dozen stories carefully chosen for this book by award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan to give readers a captivating and always-ent... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1781085625
• ASIN: 1781085625
• ISBN: 1781085625
• Brand: Solaris
• Manufacturer: Solaris

The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One

A biological plague begins infecting artificial intelligence; a natural-born Earth woman seeking asylum on another planet finds a human society far different from her own; a food blogger’s posts chronicle a nationwide medical outbreak; trapped in a matchmaking game, a couple tries to escape from the only world they know; a janitor risks everything to rescue a “defective” tank-born baby he can raise as his own.For decades, science fiction has compelled us to imagine futures both inspiring and cautionary. Whether it’s a warning message from a survey ship, a harrowing journey to a new worl... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1597808547
• ASIN: 1597808547
• ISBN: 1597808547
• Brand: Night Shade
• Manufacturer: Night Shade

The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction

For the first time in a decade, a compilation of the very best in science fiction, from a world authority on the genre.For decades, the Year's Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after thirty-five annual collections comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies. In The Very Best of the Best, legendary editor Gardner Dozois selects the finest short stories for this landmark collection, including short fiction from authors such as Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Greg Egan, Stephen Baxter, Pat Cadigan, and many m... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07D2BGWRF
• ASIN: B07D2BGWRF
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

Anomaly (First Contact)

Anomaly examines the prospect of an alien intelligence discovering life on Earth. The technological gulf between humanity and the alien species is measured in terms of millions of years. The only way to communicate is using science, but not everyone is so patient. Humanity's first contact with an alien intelligence is far more radical than anyone has ever dared imagine. With a technological gap of millions of years, mankind is barely able to recognize the arrival of an alien space craft outside the gates of the United Nations in New York. Thank you for supporting independent writing.

• ASIN: B005OJF0ZC
• ASIN: B005OJF0ZC
• Manufacturer: Peter Cawdron at Smashwords

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection, the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award-winning authors and masters of the field. With an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compil... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250119243
• ASIN: 1250119243
• ISBN: 9781250119247
• Brand: GRIFFIN
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection

The multiple Locus Award-winning annual collection of the year's best science fiction stories, with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science

• UPC: 415598537

The Year's Best Science Fiction

Presents some of the best science fiction short stories written in

• UPC: 55390665

The Best Science Fiction of the Year : Volume Three

Third volume of a best-of-the-year science fiction short story anthology edited by Hugo Award-winning editor Neil

• UPC: 550829512

The Best of the Best : 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction

A landmark anthology featuring the finest science fiction writings from the past two decades of the annual The Year's Best Science Fiction presents an outstanding array of science fiction masterworks by Ursula K. Le Guin,

• UPC: 3298620
• Rating: 3.889

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection

This anthology marks the 27th edition of the award-winning annual compilationof the year's best science fiction

• UPC: 22149309
• Rating: 4.0

The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2015 Edition - eBook

This seventh volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features over thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Cory Doctorow, James Patrick Kelly, Yoon Ha Lee,

• UPC: 228674886
• Rating: 4.0

Best of British Science Fiction 2016

Editor Donna Scott has selected the very best short fiction by British authors published during 2016. Twenty-four stories, from established names and rising

• UPC: 671306151
• Rating: 4.75

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection - eBook

The twenty-three stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our being, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are

• UPC: 728072562
• Rating: 3.0

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection - eBook

The twenty-first century has so far proven to be exciting and wondrous and filled with challenges we had never dreamed. New possibilities previously unimagined appear almost daily . . . and science fiction stories continue

• UPC: 906416816
• Rating: 1.5

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection - eBook

This new volume of The Year's Best Science Fiction carries on the proud tradition, with stories by Pat Murphy, Bruce McAllister, Bruce Sterling, Kate Wilhelm, Alexander Jablokov, Walter Job Williams, Paul J. McAuley, Neal Barrett,

• UPC: 296887071
• Rating: 3.0

Analog - The Best of Science Fiction Hard Cover (Including Issac Asimov!)

• UPC: 152626983189
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 19 USD

2 Science Fiction Hard Back Books The Timeline Wars & The Year's Best Sci Fi

• UPC: 173852048703
• Category: Other Books
• Price: 15 USD

The Best of Lester deL Rey Intro by Frederik Pohl 1978 Hard Copy

• UPC: 382861528168
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 10 USD