Hard-hitting Science Fiction
Explore gripping hard-hitting science fiction books that challenge minds and push boundaries. Discover top-tier dystopian, cyberpunk, and speculative fiction reads for thought-provoking adventures.
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Spin State
by Chris Moriarty
From a stunning new voice in hard science fiction comes the thrilling story of one woman’s quest to wrest truth from chaos, love from violence, …
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A Fire Upon The Deep
by Vernor Vinge
A Fire Upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war …
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Starfish
by Peter Watts
An international corporation has developed a power facility at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. The only people who can withstand …
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Dune
by Frank Herbert
• DUNE: PART TWO • THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Directed by Denis Villeneuve, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, based on the novel Dune …
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Hyperion
by Dan Simmons
A stunning tour de force filled with transcendent awe and wonder, Hyperion is a masterwork of science fiction that resonates with excitement and invention, the …
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Golden Fleece
by Robert J. Sawyer
Aboard Argo, a colonization ship bound for Eta Cephei IV, people are very close--there's no other choice. So when Aaron Rossman's ex-wife dies in what …
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Vacuum Diagrams
by Stephen Baxter
"And everywhere the Humans went, they found life ..." This dazzling future history, winner of the 2000 Philip K. Dick Award, is the most ambitious …
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The Icarus Hunt
by Timothy Zahn
From Timothy Zahn, Hugo Award winner and New York Times bestselling author of two landmark Star Wars® series, comes an original new tale featuring a …
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Idlewild
by Nick Sagan
Upon waking up with no memory, a young man is plagued with finding out his past, figuring out whom from his past he can trust, …
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Queen City Jazz
by Kathleen Ann Goonan
"A first novelist of enormous talent and energy . . . she grounds her apocalyptic vision in a few short, finely detailed scenes that reveal …
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Calculating God
by Robert J. Sawyer
In the near future, an alien craft lands outside the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. A six-legged, two-armed alien named Hollus relates to paleontologist Tom …
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Maximum Ice
by Kay Kenyon
More than two hundred years after leaving Earth to build a colony among the stars, the Star Road returns home to escape the ravages of …
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Bloom
by Wil McCarthy
Driven across the galaxy by their own technology gone awry, humans seek refuge on scattered moons and asteroid belts. Now that same technology--a great ravenous …
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The Collapsium
by Wil McCarthy
In this stunningly original tale, acclaimed author Wil McCarthy imagines a wondrous future in which the secrets of matter have been unlocked and death itself …
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The Star Fraction
by Ken MacLeod
Moh Kohn is a security mercenary, his smart gun and killer reflexes for hire. Janis Taine is a scientist working on memory-enhancing drugs, fleeing the …
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Permutation City
by Greg Egan
Transformed into an electronic code, a Copy must discover an alternate way out, back into its real body, because the original avenue of escape has …
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Darwin's Radio
by Greg Bear
A 2000 HUGO AWARD NOMINEE Ancient diseases encoded in the DNA of humans wait like sleeping dragons to wake and infect again--or so molecular biologist …
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Second Genesis
by Donald Moffitt
Many centuries ago, the alien race called Nar recreated humans from genetic code broadcast from Earth into space by a beleaguered humanity. Now a group …
