Hard Science Fiction

Gideon Coxall was a good soldier but bad at everything else, until a roadside explosive device leaves him with one deaf ear and a British Army half-pension. So when he hears about the Valhalla Project, it's like a dream come true. They're recruiting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316449052Author Tade ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint OrbitPublisher OrbitWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm * 30mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316462716Author ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint OrbitPublisher OrbitWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 152mm * 41mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of The Hugo Award 1961.Book InformationISBN 9780553273816Author Walter MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345423498Author Arthur C. ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm)...

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, the Sollan Empire...

"Wonderful, mind-expanding stuff, and well written too."-The GuardianAxiomatic is a wonderful collection of eighteen short stories by Hugo Award-winning author Greg Egan. The stories in this collection have appeared in such science fiction magazines as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of The Hugo Award 1994.Book InformationISBN 9780593358849Author Kim Stanley RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Del Rey BooksPublisher Random House USA...

The year is 2032. Mark Chadwick is a brilliant psychiatrist who is on the verge of a major scientific breakthrough. By combining functional imaging of the brain with computer technology, he can not only predict intentions but also decode human thought...

When confiscated genestock is stolen out of secure government quarantine, DI Sharon Varsi finds herself on the biggest case of her career: chasing down a clever thief, a mysterious hacker, and the threat of new, black market gemtech. Zavcka Klist,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345347954Author Arthur C. ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm)...

THE ANSWER LIES OUT THERE The year is 2072. At the lunar farside radio observatory, an old-school radio broadcast is detected, similar to those broadcast on Earth in the 1940s, but in an unknown language, coming from an impossible source, and...

"The best novel William Gibson has ever written about the world we're entering daily. Neuromancer made Gibson famous; Idoru cements that fame."-The Washington Post Book World21st century Tokyo, after the millennial quake. Neon rain. Light everywhere...

From an Aurora Award-winning author, a new sci-fi novel follows three intrepid humans caught up in a conflict that stretches across time and space.Biologist Julie E. Czerneda's new standalone science fiction novel, To Each This World follows a desperate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345539861Author Pierce BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Del Rey BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

A collection of career-launching short fiction by #1 New York Times-bestselling author Timothy Zahn, including the Hugo Award-winning novella Cascade Point. Timothy Zahn shows an unparalleled mastership of science fiction in the fifteen tales gathered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063299467Author Ian DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631420276Author Dima ZalesFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Mozaika LLCPublisher Mozaika LLCWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 16mm

Ten selected short stories from the master of pulp, Murray Leinster - pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, who's prolific career spanned the first six decades of the 20th Century. The Golden Age Masterwork of Sidewise in Time includes the Hugo...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174944Author Robert SheckleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262538459Author Stanislaw LemFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 18mm

'Cathartic and transcendent' New York TimesAcclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating Planetfall universe with a standalone dark tale of a woman stationed on Mars who slowly starts to doubt her own memories and sanity.After months of travel,...

First published in 2003. With essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, Dark Horizons focuses on the development of critical dystopia in science fiction at the end of the twentieth century. In these narratives of places more...

Welcome to The Worlds of Cixin Liu, a series of graphic novels created by 35 artists - including writers, illustrators and colourists - from 13 countries, to salute the unique imagination of China's science fiction grandmaster. Xianyang, capital of...

Winner of the 2020 Locus, World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Ignyte, and Brave New Words Awards."There's nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns," proclaimed Octavia E. Butler.New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color showcases...

Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy.But his greatest test will be when he returns home. Relativity means that for every few months' tour of duty centuries have passed on...

Autistic scientist Yasira Shien has developed a radical new energy drive on board The Pride of Jai that could change the future of humanity. But when she activates it, reality warps, destroying the space station and everyone left inside. The Gods...

A Twenty-First Century Hamlet.Hayden Lichfield’s life is ripped apart when he finds his father murdered in their lab, and the camera logs erased. The killer can only have been after one thing: the Sisyphus Formula the two of them developed together,...

This special 10th anniversary edition of the record-breaking masterpiece that won the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke Awards follows a warship trapped in a human body on a quest for revenge. This edition will feature a striking new cover, stained edges...

Trapped in 1877, a historian writes an account of an alternate history of America in which the South won the Civil War.Living in this alternate timeline, he was determined to change events at Gettysburg. When he's offered the chance to return to that...

She cannot run. She cannot walk. She cannot even blink. As her batteries run down for the final time, all she can do is speak. Will you listen? From a pilgrim girl's diary, to a traumatised child talking to a software program; from Alan Turing's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735109503Author R Peter KeithFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Uphill Downhill Press, LLCPublisher Uphill Downhill Press, LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786753666Author Robert ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 636Imprint Argo-Navis USPublisher Argo-Navis USWeight(grams) 457g

It was beginning to look as though no one could prevent the annihilation of the civilized Universe. For a weird intelligence was directing the destruction of all civilization from the icy depths of outer space. Kim Kinnison of the Galactic Patrol was one...

'Science fiction's freshest new writer...MacLeod is a fiercely intelligent, prodigiously well-read author who manages to fill his books with big issues without weighing them down.' - SALON'Engaged, ingenious, and wittily partisan, Ken MacLeod is a...

From their beginnings foraging at the feet of the dinosaurs, through the apocalypse of an asteroid strike, through countless years of the day to day life and death dramas of survival of the fittest, to the rise and fall of mankind and the final...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978539672Author Sophia StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint All Eyes on Me IncorporatedPublisher All Eyes on Me IncorporatedWeight(grams)...

"Resilient is one of those incredibly rare things - a sequel that actually improves on its predecessor. Stroud presents us with a complex, multifaceted science-fiction experience that offers a deeply compelling narrative, interlaced with rich and complex...

Welcome to The Worlds of Cixin Liu, a series of graphic novels created by 35 artists - including writers, illustrators and colourists - from 13 countries, to salute the unique imagination of China's science fiction grandmaster. Members of the Earth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250216335Author K. M. SzparaFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Tor.ComPublisher Tor.Com