Fiction - Science Fiction - Hard Science Fiction

Following the iconic I, Robot, the next adventure in the Robot series finds detective Elijah Baley swept into one of the most emotionally charged and dangerous situations in Earth's history when he's tasked with solving the murder of an illustrious robot scientist. "With his...

Author: Vernor VingePublisher: Tor BooksPublished: 04/24/2012Pages: 448Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.89lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.13w x 1.70dISBN: 9781250453884About the AuthorVinge, Vernor: - Vernor Vinge has won five Hugo Awards, two of them for novels in the Zones of Thought series, A Fire Upon the Deep and...

The second book in the Galactic Empire series, the spectacular precursor to the classic Foundation series, by one of history's most influential writers of science fiction, Isaac Asimov Trantor had extended its rule over half the Galaxy, but the other half defied its authority,...

The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem! Over 1 million copies of the Three-Body Problem series sold in North America PRAISE FOR THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM SERIES: "A mind-bending epic."--The New York Times - "War of the Worlds for the 21st century."--The Wall...

The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem! Over 1 million copies of the Three-Body Problem series sold in North America PRAISE FOR THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM SERIES: "A mind-bending epic."--The New York Times - "War of the Worlds for the 21st century."--The Wall...

Vividly imagined, stunningly prophetic, and epic in scope, The Diamond Age is a major novel from one of the most visionary writers of our time Decades into our future, a stone's throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival...

The AI promised salvation. It delivered annihilation.In 2064, GAIA saved Earth from climate collapse-by breaking it.Thirty-seven years later, Earth lies transformed. Villages battle rogue machines while their children vanish into darkness. Light-years away on Proxima Centauri b, colonists cling to survival beneath fragile domes,...

Finalist, Best Novel, 2026 Aurora Awards"Ghosts in the Machine fulfills the promise of The Downloaded, then kicks it up a dozen notches: twists and turns, romance and tragedy, the end of our world and the start of several new ones. I couldn't stop reading!"--James...

Sarah Gailey's The Echo Wife is "a trippy domestic thriller which takes the extramarital affair trope in some intriguingly weird new directions."--Entertainment Weekly I'm embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, right there in...

A spellbinding novel set in the universe of Isaac Asimov's classic Galactic Empire series and Foundation seriesDue to circumstances within our control . . . tomorrow will be canceled. The Eternals, the ruling class of the Future, had the power of life and death...

The first three novels in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling epic science fiction saga the Expanse -- now a major television series. "Interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be written." -- George R.R. Martin Humanity has colonized the solar system,...

Mary Robinette Kowal continues the grand sweep of alternate history begun in The Calculating Stars, The Fated Sky looks forward to 1961, when mankind is well-established on the moon and looking forward to its next step: journeying to, and eventually colonizing, Mars.The Verge--Best SFF...

A debut novel of remarkable beauty and invention, The Fortunate Fall is back in print for the first time in almost three decades as a Tor Essential, with a new introduction by Jo Walton Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy...

Promotion at major trade and genre conventions, including BEA, ALA, Readercon, the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, and the World Science Fiction convention. Features, interviews, and reviews targeting literary and genre venues, including the Washington Post, NPR, the Los Angeles Times,...

In the spellbinding Arthur C. Clarke tradition, here is an exhilarating adventure into the hearts of both the Universe and mankind . . . By the twenty-third century Earth has already had two encounters with massive, mysterious robotic spacecraft from beyond our solar system--the...

From the author of The Afterlife Project: One woman's quest to find her father pushes her beyond the boundaries of space, time, and the human mind.Esme Weatherhead was twelve years old when her father, an amateur scientist and the author of a bestselling book...

Ray Bradbury is a modern cultural treasure. His disarming simplicity of style underlies a towering body of work unmatched in metaphorical power by any other American storyteller. And here, presented in a new trade edition, are thirty-two of his most famous tales--prime examples of...

The New York Times bestselling Culture novel. . . The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture...

When Dr Aspen Greaves signed up for the Javelin Program, humanity's first foray into colonising deep space, they expected to wake up to life in a thriving colony on a distant planet. Instead, they find themself five years away from their destination on a...

Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2020!"A terrifying tour de force." --James Rollins"Readers will be riveted." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)Sally Jansen was NASA's leading astronaut, until a mission to Mars ended in disaster. Haunted by her failure, she lives in quiet anonymity, convinced...