Hard Science Fiction

'Thrilling, terrifying and fascinating'Tim Peake, British ESA astronautThey looked into darkness. The darkness looked back . . .An utterly gripping story of first contact on a hostile planet from Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Arthur C. Clarke...

'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...

Stephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel and the beginning of his stunning Xeelee Sequence finally enters the SF Masterwork series!A spaceship from Earth accidentally crossed through a hole in space-time to a universe where the force of gravity is...

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...

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...

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...

No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall. When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was), how they...

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...

For almost a hundred years, Hadrian Marlowe has served the Empire in its war against the Cielcin, a vicious alien race bent on humanity's destruction. Rumors of a new king amongst the Cielcin have reached the Imperial throne. This one is not like the...

Murderbot wasn't programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right? Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Alex Award - YALSA 2014 and Hugo Award 2016 and Indies Choice Book Award 2015 and John W. Campbell Award 2016 and RUSA Reading List Genre Award 2014. Short-listed for...

Martha Wells' New York Times and USA Today bestselling Murderbot series exploded onto the scene in 2017, and the world has not been the same, since. Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel, Network Effect. ...

'ASTONISHING AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING' Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of TimeFrom the million-copy bestselling Claire North - one of the most original and dazzling voices in speculative fiction - comes an intergalactic tale of conspiracy, war and...

Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict...

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 ...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345539847Author Pierce BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Del Rey BooksPublisher Random House USA IncSeries Red Rising SeriesWeight(grams)...

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...

A meteor decimates the U.S. government and paves the way for a climate cataclysm that will eventually render the earth inhospitable to humanity. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated timeline in the earth's efforts to colonize space, as...

Humanity clings to life on a dying Earth in an epic, far-future science fiction novel from an award-winning author. The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human...

Continuing the grand sweep of alternate history laid out 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 colonising, Mars. Of...

'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...

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...

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...

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...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE LOCUS AWARD 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BSFA (BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION) AWARD 2018 'Excellent' Book Smugglers 'A fitting addition to the Ancillary world' NPR 'Gripping . . ...

A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood.The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets. The...

NOW A PRIME ORIGINAL TV SERIESCibola Burn is the fourth book in the New York Times bestselling and Hugo-award winning Expanse series.The gates have opened the way to a thousand new worlds and the rush to colonise has begun. Settlers looking for a new...

For the first time in hardcover, Martha Wells' award-winning, New York Times bestselling All Systems Red Winner: 2018 Hugo Award for Best Novella Winner: 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novella Winner: 2018 Alex Award One of the Verge's Best Books of...

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...

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...

A moving, compulsive science fiction novel from one of the best writers in the fieldWhen the human settlers arrived on Hobbs Land, the native intelligent species, the Owlbrit, were already almost extinct. Before the last one died, a few years later, the...

Rod McBan 151st farms 'stroon', the immortality drug, and is the last scion of one of the oldest and most honourable families on Norstrilia, only source of stroon. But he's also a telepathic cripple and faces the ever-present risk of being culled under...

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 SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250307996Author John ScalziFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Tor.comPublisher Tor.comSeries Lock inWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 130mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593135228Author Andy WeirFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

The multi-award-winning SF masterpiece from one of the greatest SF writers of all timeRama is a vast alien spacecraft that enters the Solar System. A perfect cylinder some fifty kilometres long, spinning rapidly, racing through space, Rama is a...

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...

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...

The last Isaac Asimov science fiction collection which contains all of his previously uncollected stories. Gold is Isaac Asimov's last science fiction collection' one containing all of his uncollected SF stories that had never before appeared...