Hard Science Fiction

The colony on Haven-7 has gone rogue. The colonists have split into two factions: the Techborn and the Dusters. The Techborn have always ruled the planet. They control the remnants of the crashed starship that brought humanity to this new world. The Dusters… they eat Techborn dust. Now, the Techborn strength is waning. Their weapons are getting old, and radiation leaks from the aging reactors have created mutations. Some of these, like their brutish troops known as Tuskers, have proven useful—but others are abominations.

Chronicler Tsai Yini monitors the tachyon communication system, which transmits data faster than the speed of light. When classified results from an astrobiologist's research are leaked to her, she cannot believe what she reads. The report reveals that intelligent life forms exist on a tropical planet in the Gliese system. Their civilization is still in its infancy but revolves around an artifact of unknown origin that seems to influence their body chemistry.

Alex went for a walk in the woods and ended up changing the world. Chased by a bear, or maybe a squirrel, he finds a spaceship that lets him control an AI and nanomachines. Join his adventure as he changes the world and the galaxy as he builds the Nano Empire.

"Transience" by Arthur C. Clarke, narrated as an audiobook by Mike Vendetti explores the fleeting nature of human existence and civilization through the experiences of a child named Bran, who plays on a beach that has seen countless changes over millennia. The narrative spans from the dawn of human consciousness to a future where humanity must leave Earth due to an impending cosmic threat.

The name's Lomax-Alex Lomax. I'm the one and only private eye working the mean streets of New Klondike, the Martian frontier town that sprang up forty years ago after Simon Weingarten and Denny O'Reilly discovered fossils on the Red Planet. Back on Earth, where anything can be synthesized, the remains of alien life are the most valuable of all collectibles, so shiploads of desperate treasure hunters stampeded here in the Great Martian Fossil Rush.

The Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft, narrated by Shawn Rigby, is a chilling tale of cosmic horror that explores the incomprehensible and terrifying forces beyond human understanding. When a meteorite crashes into a remote farm in rural New England, it brings with it a strange, otherworldly "colour" that defies description. This unearthly phenomenon begins to warp the land and the people who live there, slowly consuming everything in its path with an inexplicable, malevolent force.

Lucas Sinclair, a washed-up hacker, finds an encrypted channel, buried in routine network traffic, that is transferring enormous volumes of data to seemingly random locations. In his enclave, surrounded by aging clusters of tech, Lucas uses a suite of bespoke tools to trace down the origin.

Nie wieder ins All. Das hat sich Mandy Neumann, die letzte Kosmonautin der DDR, geschworen, nachdem sie kurz nach dem 80. Geburtstag ihrer Republik der Todesfalle entkommen ist, in die sich die Raumstation "Völkerfreundschaft" verwandelt hatte. Aber die Gefahr, auf die Volkspolizei-Leutnant Tobias Wagner in einem Sperrgebiet in der Lausitz gestoßen ist, hat sich ausgebreitet – und sie droht, nicht nur die DDR zu zerstören, sondern die ganze Welt. Wissenschaftler aus Osten wie Westen verzweifeln, denn es scheint keinerlei Abhilfe zu geben.

The Dwellers of the Rock. They could create matter with the power of their minds. Any element, any molecule, any form; they could call it into being with a thought. Even living flesh. They could travel to the edge of their universe, without ships to carry them, and send their minds to visit other worlds without moving a step. All knowledge and learning was theirs for the taking. They never tired, never hungered. They had peace and purpose and, eventually, fulfilment. And they knew where they would go when, at last, they died.

Ende des 21. Jahrhunderts gelingt in einer geheimen Forschungseinrichtung das Unmögliche: Mittels einer revolutionären Technologie, dem ‚Loop‘, werden Reisen durch das Multiversum ermöglicht. Die Menschheit steht am Anbeginn eines neuen Zeitalters; grenzenlose Ressourcen erscheinen zum Greifen nah. Dr. Ryan Heller leitet eines der Kommandos, die geschickt werden, um diese unbekannten Welten zu kartographieren.