Hard Science Fiction

One hundred classic stories from the celebrated author of Fahrenheit 451. In this, the first volume of Ray Bradbury's short stories, some of the author's finest works are published together, among them 'Homecoming', 'Veldt', 'A Sound of...

When London is lost beneath the rising tides, unconscious desires rush to the surface in this apocalyptic tale from the author of 'Crash' and 'Empire of the Sun', reissued here with a new introduction from Martin Amis. Fluctuations in solar...

Hard-core military science fiction at its very best, John Scalzi's The Last Colony is the third in The Old Man's War series. They must save themselves - or die trying.John Perry was living peacefully on one of humanity's colonies - until he and his wife...

The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER In 1943 a bomber crashes into the Pacific Ocean. Against all odds, one young lieutenant...

The best collection ever of Arthur C. Clarke's short fiction, including the stories on which 2001: A Space Odyssey and Childhood's End were based. The Sentinel is a magnificent retrospective showcase of Arthur C. Clarke's finest shorter...

Scribble and his gang, the Stash Riders, haunt the streets of an alternate Manchester, chasing the immersive highs that come from Vurt Feathers. Place a feather in your mouth and it takes you to the Vurt: another place, a trip, a shared reality of all...

What could be more innocuous than grass? Or more idyllic than a world covered with a wind-whipped ocean of verdant plains? But the planet Grass conceals horrifying secrets within its endless pastures. And as an incurable plague attacks all inhabited...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789860677003Author Gary GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Brain in a Jar BooksPublisher Brain in a Jar BooksWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250254498Author Cixin LiuImprint Tor BooksPublisher Tor BooksSeries Three-Body ProblemWeight(grams) 1701gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 157mm * 109mm

Immortality can be yours . . . at a pricePermutation city is the tale of a man with a vision - how to create immortality - and how that vision becomes grows beyond his control. Encompassing the lives and struggles of an artificial life junkie desperate...

From the author of 'Crash' and 'Cocaine Nights' comes an unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control. Within the concealing walls of an elegant forty-storey tower block, the affluent tenants are hell-bent on an orgy...

FROM THE RENOWNED CLASSIC SCI-FI WRITER AND AUTHOR OF THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS AND THE CHRYSTALIDS'Ingenious' Evening StandardFrancis Saxover and Diana Brackley, two scientists investigating a rare lichen, discover it has a remarkable property: it retards...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941539330Author Jeremy RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Breakneck MediaPublisher Breakneck MediaWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

The year is 2454. Humanity has engineered a hard-won golden age, forged in the aftermath of a bitter conflict that wiped both religion and nation state from the planet. Now seven factions or 'hives' co-govern the world, their rule fuelled by benign...

'There are few who write science fiction like Ann Leckie can. There are few who ever could' John ScalziThe mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple effect across the stars in this powerful new novel...

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...

Weaponized is a thrilling far-future space opera by acclaimed science fiction author Neal Asher, a standalone adventure set in the expansive Polity universe.A bright new future for humanity - or a dark and inescapable past.Ursula has lived twice the...

During their temporary research post on Apech-a planet ravaged by a time distorting illness-Wilhelmina Ming and four other elite students of the Crysthian empire have witnessed such illogical brutality that they've resorted to psychedelic antidepressants...

Exiled for 2,000 years God must retake the Earth from the clutches of his nemesis using a man caught between life and death as His vessel. God is in exile. The only man who can help is clinically dead. Herb Asher, an audio engineer by trade,...

The second book in The Sun Chronicles trilogy, a galactic-scale, gender-swapped space opera series inspired by the life of Alexander the Great. Shrewd, brutal, relentless and patient, Queen-Marshal Eirene has led the Republic of Chaonia from the brink...

Weaponized is a thrilling far-future adventure by acclaimed science fiction author Neal Asher.A bright new future for humanity - or a dark and inescapable past.Ursula has lived twice the normal human lifespan, courtesy of the latest technology. But now...

Lister gazed out of the porthole and catalogue the series of disasters that had led him to this point in space and time: the bad decisions, the poor career choices, the unreliable friendships that had led him here - on a prison ship bound for the most...

An epic adrenaline-filled space opera, The Human is the final thrilling book in Neal Asher's Rise of the Jain trilogy.Their enemy seems unbeatable. But humanity is indomitable . . .A Jain warship has risen from a prison five million years old, wielding a...

A Financial Times Book of the Year From the author of The Three-Body Problem, a collection of award-winning short stories - a breath-taking selection of diamond-hard science fiction. In Hold Up the Sky, Cixin Liu takes us across time and space,...

The year is 1998, the world is a growing nightmare of desperation, of uncontrollable pollution and increasing social unrest. In Cambridge, two scientists experiment with tachyons - subatomic particles that travel faster than the speed of light and,...

Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. 2080: at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers and physicians gather to gamble humanity's future on one last-ditch experiment. Their goal: to make a tiny...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446611565Author Gregory BenfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint AspectPublisher AspectSeries Galactic CenterWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 174mm *...

'Kim Stanley Robinson is one of science fiction's greats . . . fans of the Mars books will delight in this novel; new readers will be astonished by the depth, breadth and power of Robinson's invention' - SUNDAY TIMES'Polymathic, visionary brilliance' -...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943272297Author Tom DeLongeFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint To the starsPublisher To the stars

The first novel in Kim Stanley Robinson's massively successful and lavishly praised Mars trilogy. 'The ultimate in future history' Daily Mail Mars - the barren, forbidding planet that epitomises mankind's dreams of space conquest. ...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611883435Author Robert LanzaFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint The Story PlantPublisher The Story Plant

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593357460Author Isaac AsimovFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Del Rey BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 138mm *...

"Full of high stakes, thrillers, and fantastic twists and turns, fans of Ready Player One are sure to love this addictive read." -BUZZFEED Welcome to real life 2.0. Are you ready to play? There are no screens. There are no controls. You don't...

Ancillary Sword is the sequel to Ancillary Justice, the debut which is the only novel to ever win the Hugo, the Nebula and the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship. Once a weapon of conquest controlling thousands of minds,...

THE HUNDRED LIGHT YEAR DIARY - Scientists can bounce messages from the future back to the present, but there's no guarantee they'll tell the truth ... LEARNING TO BE ME - Crystalline minds may take the place of human brains, but where does the self...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Nowa Fantastyka Prize for Best Foreign Novel 2019 (Poland). Long-listed for British Science Fiction Award 2018 (UK). Nominated for John W. Campbell Memorial Award...

The military science fiction sequel to his extraordinary Old Man's War, John Scalzi's The Ghost Brigades is the second in The Old Man's War series. Who can you trust, if you can't trust yourself?Three hostile alien races have united against humanity,...

A high-octane sci-fi adventure, Jack Four is a standalone novel set in Neal Asher's acclaimed Polity Universe. Thrilling and fast-paced, it's perfect for fans of Alastair Reynolds and Stephen Baxter.Created to die - determined to live . . .Jack Four -...

It's a brave new Britain under the New Management. The Prime Minister is an eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of...

Line War is the fifth and final novel in Neal Asher's action-packed Agent Cormac series.The human Polity worlds are under attack from Erebus, a renegade AI. And it's now merged with lethal Jain technology, and isn't afraid to use it. When Erebus kills...