Hard Science Fiction

Four students discover a manuscript, The Book of Skulls, which reveals the existence of a sect, now living in the Arizona desert, whose members can offer immortality to those who can complete its initiation rite.To their surprise, they discover that the...

Michael Poole finds himself in a very strange landscape . . . This is the centre of the Galaxy. And in a history without war with the humans, the Xeelee have had time to built an immense structure here. The Xeelee Belt has a radius ten thousand times...

NOMINATED FOR THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 2018'A towering novel' - Guardian'Relevant and essential' - Bloomberg BusinessweekAs the sea level rose, every street became a canal, every skyscraper an island. For the residents of one apartment building in...

Britain, the not-too-distant future. Idir is sitting the British Citizenship Test. He wants his family to belong. Twenty-five questions to determine their fate. Twenty-five chances to impress. When the test takes an unexpected and tragic turn, Idir...

'IF YOU LIKE SCIENCE FICTION YOU WILL LOVE THIS. . . A ROLLICKING GOOD READ' Scotsman on Beyond the Hallowed Sky'MACLEOD'S BEST BOOK TO DATE' SFX on Beyond the Hallowed SkyTHE FERMI ARE AWAKE. With the invention of faster-than-light travel there is...

From science fiction visionary Annalee Newitz comes The Terraformers, a sweeping, uplifting, and illuminating exploration of the future.Destry's life is dedicated to terraforming Sask-E. As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, she cares for the planet...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345539861Author Pierce BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Del Rey BooksPublisher Random House USA IncSeries Red Rising SeriesWeight(grams)...

Cass has stumbled on something that might be an entirely different type of physics, and she's travelled three hundred and fifty light-years to Mimosa Station, a remote experimental facility, to test her theory. The novo-vacuum she creates is predicted to...

The Soldier is the first novel in the no-holds barred Rise of the Jain series, by bestselling science fiction author Neal Asher.Her mission is vital. Her failure is unthinkable.A corner of space swarms with alien technology, a danger to all sentient life...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143111603Author William GibsonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncSeries Penguin GalaxyWeight(grams)...

A stunning novel of alien invasion from a master of the genreThe disappearance of one of Jupiter's moons, the appearance of "little green men" in Australia and the American Southwest, and the sudden presence of unidentifiable objects on a collision...

How would you survive on a planet that doesn't spin?An awe-inspiring Planetary Romance from Terry Pratchett's co-author on the Long Earth BooksThe very far future: The Galaxy is a drifting wreck of black holes, neutron stars, chill white dwarfs. The age...

Encompassing time-travel, powerful mystery and the future history of humanity to its last handful of survivors, Across Realtime spans millions of years and is an utterly engrossing SF classic.* 1993's most visibleSF author - winner of the Hugo Award for...

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,...

Over two hundred years after the first colonists landed on Pax, a new set of explorers arrives from Earth on what they claim is a temporary scientific mission. The Earthlings think the humans are in charge of the settlement, dismiss the Glassmakers as...

The final instalment in Ada Palmer's award-winning, critically acclaimed Terra Ignota series. For years, the leaders of the Hive clandestinely committed terrible deeds in order to maintain an outward semblance of utopian stability. But the facade...

From the New York Times bestselling author of SEVENEVES 'One of the great novels of our time' Wall Street Journal'Wonderful' Guardian'Staggering' New York Times'Captivating' Washington Post'Cutting-edge'...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926456454Author James D PrescottFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Prescott PublishingPublisher Prescott PublishingSeries Dark NovaWeight(grams)...

From Terry Pratchett's co-author on the Long Earth books comes the ultimate disaster novel - the world is drowning and there is nowhere left on earth to go.Next year. Sea levels begin to rise. The change is far more rapid than any climate change...

A satirical fable, a political allegory and an ecological warning from the author of The Three-Body Problem. On an otherwise ordinary day in the late Cretaceous, the seeds of Earth's first and greatest civilization were sown in the grisly aftermath...

The Consciousness Company is a funny, philosophical and prophetic story about companies without limits, and technology that can rewire minds. On the way to a New York stock market listing, the company's founders join forces with a sceptical investor, a...

Luna is an open penal colony and the regime is a harsh one. Not surprisingly, revolution against the hated authority is planned. But the key figures in the revolt are an unlikely crew: Manuel Garcia O'Kelly, an engaging jack of all trades, the beautiful...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680683370Author Dennis E TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Ethan Ellenberg Literary AgencyPublisher Ethan Ellenberg Literary AgencySeries Quantum...

A preliminary to Dick's masterwork, Valis, in which Phil appears as an explicitly named autobiographical character for the first time. Soon to be a major new film. As America gasps in the stranglehold of a skull-crushing totalitarian regime, a...

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 9780143136293Author Yevgeny ZamyatinFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncSeries Penguin VitaeWeight(grams)...

Orbus continues the adventure of Captain Orbus in Neal Asher's high-octane, science fiction Spatterjay series.Old Captain Orbus commandeered a ship to flee Spatterjay, desperate to escape the violent planet. Orbus's alien enemy, the Prador Vrell, is also...

Trapped on a mysterious spaceship, the only way to escape is to survive. A thrilling novel from the Hugo and Nebula award-winning Greg Bear.A starship hurtles through the emptiness of space. Its destination - unknown. Its purpose? A mystery. Its history?...

Polity Agent is the fourth novel in Neal Asher's popular Agent Cormac series.Refugees arrive in the Polity from eight hundred years in Agent Cormac's future. And once they are through, the gate they use is dumped into the sun, as something dangerous and...

The award-winning account of a man changed beyond all recognition so that he can be part of a bold experiment to live on Mars Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus Programme, but it was deliberate biological engineering which turned...

While on a boating holiday, Scott Carey is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray. A few weeks later, following a series of medical examinations, he can no longer deny the extraordinary truth. Not only is he losing weight, he is also shorter than he was...

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...

At first, Ender believed that they would bring him back to Earth as soon as things quieted down. But things were quiet now, had been quiet for a year, and it was plain to him now that they would not bring him back at all, that he was much more useful as...

In an alien universe where space and time play by different rules, interstellar voyages last longer for the travellers than for those they left behind. After six generations in flight, the inhabitants of the mountain-sized spacecraft the Peerless have...

From their beginnings foraging at the feet of the dinosaurs, through the apocalypse of an asteroid strike, through countless years of the day to day life and death dramas of survival of the fittest, to the rise and fall of mankind and the final...

August 15th, 2047. Happy Hundredth Birthday, India ... On the eve of Mother India's hundredth birthday, ten people are doing ten very different things. In the next few weeks, all these people will be swept together to decide the fate of the nation. From...

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...

EMPTY SPACE is a space adventure. We begin with the following dream:An alien research tool the size of a brown dwarf star hangs in the middle of nowhere, as a result of an attempt to place it equidistant from everything else in every possible universe...

The prophetic debut novel from the visionary author fo LITTLE BROTHER, now published for the first time in the UK. Jules is a young man barely a century old. He's lived long enough to see the cure for death and the end of scarcity, to learn...

Half a million years in the future, on a dead, war-ravaged world at the centre of the Galaxy, there is a mile-high statue of Michael Poole.Poole, born on Earth in the fourth millennium, was one of mankind's most influential heroes. He was not a warrior,...