Hard Science Fiction

NOW A PRIME ORIGINAL TV SERIESPersepolis Rising is the seventh novel in the New York Times bestselling and Hugo-award winning Expanse series.In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way...

In A Conventional Boy, the fate of the world will depend on a roll of the dice... twenty-sided dice, that is. In 1984, Derek Reilly was just another teenage nerd growing up in middle England. But his love of D&D caused him to fall afoul of the Laundry, a...

NOW A PRIME ORIGINAL TV SERIESNemesis Games is the fifth book in the New York Times bestselling and Hugo-award winning Expanse series. A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land-rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553293371Author Isaac AsimovFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999328658Author Gerald M KilbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Gerald M. KilbyPublisher Gerald M. KilbyWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999328641Author Gerald M KilbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Gerald M. KilbyPublisher Gerald M. KilbyWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

From Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time and winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Lords of Uncreation is the final high-octane instalment in the Final Architecture space opera trilogy.He's found a way to end their war, but will humanity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780765321770Author Frederik PohlFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Orb BooksPublisher Orb BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780765386632Author Cixin LiuFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Tor BooksPublisher Tor BooksWeight(grams) 699gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 46mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250205339Author Larry NivenFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 178mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997679311Author M a RothmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Primordial PressPublisher Primordial PressWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

'A GENUINE TREAT FOR SF FANS: AN EPIC MULTIVERSE TALE THAT MOVES LIKE A THRILLER' Kirkus on Infinity Gate'AN IMMENSE ACHIEVEMENT: AN IMPECCABLY CRAFTED BOOK' New York TimesFollowing the critically acclaimed Infinity Gate comes the second and final novel...

Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space - from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and...

'My most anticipated book of the year' - Peter F. Hamilton, Britain's no.1 science fiction writerChildren of Ruin follows Adrian Tchaikovsky's extraordinary Children of Time, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award. It is set in the same universe, with new...

From the author of the thrilling science-fiction epic Children of Time, which won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award. Eyes of the Void is the second high-octane instalment in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Final Architecture space opera trilogy.'One of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789860677041Author Gary GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Brain in a Jar BooksPublisher Brain in a Jar BooksWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Now in paperback, the second novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fantasy, as Hadrian Marlowe continues down a path that can only end in fire.Hadrian Marlowe is lost. For half a century, he has searched...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780765377081Author Cixin LiuFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Tor BooksPublisher Tor BooksWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 155mm * 43mm

Now in paperback, the fifth novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fantasy, as Hadrian Marlowe continues down a path that can only end in fire.The galaxy is burning.With the Cielcin united under one banner,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250306067Author Cixin LiuFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Tor BooksPublisher Tor BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 25mm

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING NOVELA BARRACK OBAMA READING PICKA lone astronaut.An impossible mission.An ally he never imagined.'The most enjoyable hard SF I have read in years' GUARDIAN'Weir's finest work to date. . . This is the one book I read last...

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov's iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire, the story of Hari Seldon's two...

From the award-winning master of sci-fi Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory is the unmissable follow-up space opera to the highly acclaimed Children of Time and Children of Ruin.They dreamed of a new homeThey woke to a nightmareOn Imir, Captain Holt...

Winner of the 30th anniversary Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel.Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed novel Children of Time, is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.Who will inherit this new Earth? The last...

Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon - soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones. Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451450647Author Isaac AsimovFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Ace BooksPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 171mm * 108mm *...

'A science fiction genius . . . Ted Chiang is a superstar.' - The GuardianWith Stories of Your Life and Others, his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight...

All Systems Red by Martha Wells begins The Murderbot Diaries, a new science fiction action and adventure series that tackles questions of the ethics of sentient robotics. It appeals to fans of Westworld, Ex Machina, Ann Leckie's Imperial Raadch series,...

From the author of the thrilling science-fiction epic Children of Time, winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award. Shards of Earth is the first high-octane, far-future space adventure in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Final Architecture trilogy.'One of the...

NOW A PRIME ORIGINAL TV SERIESCaliban's War is the second book in the New York Times bestselling and Hugo-award winning Expanse series.For someone who didn't intend to wreck the solar system's fragile balance of power, Jim Holden did a pretty good job of...

Ever had a bad day? Try having one on the moon...'Fascinating' Tim Peake, Sunday Times bestselling author of Ask an Astronaut______________________WELCOME TO ARTEMIS. The first city on the moon.Population 2,000. Mostly tourists.Some criminals.Jazz...

The third book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series. NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES FROM NETFLIX For generations, the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt - was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artefact working through its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553383157Author M. John HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 533gDimensions(mm)...

Earth has become a Utopia, guided by a strange unseen people from outer space whose staggering powers have eradicated war, cruelty, poverty and racial inequality. When the 'Overlords' finally reveal themselves, their horrific form makes little impression...

Wealth ... or death. Those were the choices Gateway offered. Humans had discovered this artificial spaceport, full of working interstellar ships left behind by the mysterious, vanished Heechee. Their destinations are preprogrammed. They are easy to...

NOW A PRIME ORIGINAL SERIES Leviathan Wakes is the first book in the New York Times bestselling and Hugo-award winning Expanse series - over 7 million copies sold worldwide.'Interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be' George R. R. MartinHumanity ...

The universe is a dangerous place in John Scalzi's Old Man's War, the first in The Old Man's War series.At seventy-five years old, John Perry is after a fresh start - so, naturally, he joins the army. Earth's military machine can transform elderly...

Isaac Asimov's Robot series - from the iconic collection I, Robot to four classic novels - contains some of the most influential works in the history of science fiction. Establishing and testing the Three Laws of Robotics, they continue to...

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov's iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire, the story of Hari Seldon's two...

From the author of 'Crash' and 'Cocaine Nights' comes an unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control. Within the concealing walls of an elegant forty-storey tower block, the affluent tenants are hell-bent on an orgy...