Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Science Fiction - Hard Science Fiction

As the head of the quality assurance team that makes the transmitters, Adam's job is to analyze malfunctioning Trackers. But...

The threat of extinction seemed all but gone after Gideon struck the final blow that sent Zadock tumbling back down into the bowels of Hell. Still, Zadocks defeat only fueled Gideon's lust for power. He blamed himself for the deaths of friends and loved ones, and, he all but vanished for two years, as peace slowly settled over the lands. It was during this time that Gideon found many reason to continue what Zadock had initially begun. His self-blame soon turned to hatred that he in turn intends to unleash upon mankind. His only son, Lars must now confront his...

The Forge of God by Greg Bear

On September 28th, a geologist working in Death valley finds a mysterious new cinder cone in very well-mapped area.

On October 1st, the government of Australia announces the discovery of an enormous granite mountain. Like the cinder cone, it wasn't there six months ago....

Something is happening to Planet Earth, and the truth is too terrifying to consider....

Discover MESKLIN - Gravity: 3g at the equator, 700g at the poles

Hal Clement is a Grand Master of SF, and the one most associated with the subgenre of hard SF. From his classic stories in Astounding in the 1940s through his novels of the 1950s and on to the recent Half Life, he has made a lasting impression on SF readers, and on writers, too. For many of them, Clement's work is the model of how to write hard SF, and this book contains the reasons why. Here are all the tales of bizarre, unforgettable Mesklin: the classic novel Mission of Gravity and its sequel, Star...

From Science fiction grandmaster Frank Herbert, creator of the Dune universe, comes this novel of bioterrorism and gendercide.

What if women were an endangered species?

It begins in Ireland, but soon spreads throughout the entire world: a virulent new disease expressly designed to target only women. As fully half of the human race dies off at a frightening pace and life on Earth faces extinction, panicked people and governments struggle to cope with the global crisis. Infected areas are quarantined or burned to the ground. The few surviving...

Greg Bear's The Forge of God described the destruction of Earth itself by self-replicating robots, Von Neumann machines designed to use the planet's mass to create more robotic creatures and spread throughout the Galaxy. In Anvil of Stars, only a few humans have survived, aided by a mysterious alien race known only as "The Benefactors," who arrived at Earth too late.

Now the small group of human survivors is determined to track down the criminal race who launched the planet killers. Humanity is given a starship by The Benefactors, and driven only by revenge they set out...