Истории Hardsciencefiction

Earth has fallen. When the planet crosses its final climate tipping point, temperatures rise, crops fail, and billions are forced onto the move. Diplomacy gives way to ultimatums, then to war. From unassuming laboratories to streets drowning in heat and hunger, a fractured world stumbles toward its final reckoning. As famine and conflict spread, international order dissolves into violence and blame, and armies march north through ruins chasing a future that no longer exists. Yet amid the despair, a radical plan takes shape to move a fragment of humanity to the red sands of Mars. As Earth burns and the heavens fill with refugees, one truth becomes unavoidable: the future belongs only to those willing to sacrifice everything. In the chaos of the apocalypse, a new kind of security service is needed to enforce order where nations have failed. From the ashes of Old Earth, the Sunguard rises. Scorched Earth is a sweeping hard-science epic about collapse, survival, and the cost of choosing a future when the present is already lost.

An epic adventure, an unreliable narrator, an intense cast of characters. Follow a digital subroutine from a 21st century Earth VR simulation that uploads himself into an advanced synthetic body, yet still identifies as human, when he wakes up on a gargantuan space freighter piloted by a 100-year-old sperm whale named Jonas, who offers him a job he can't refuse. There are monkey eating lizard men, diamond scout ships, galactic witch cults with hordes of genetically altered space wolves, a naked tattooed female stunt bike rider, puppies, a gang of reincarnated save-the-whalers, an Israeli spy general, Inuits from the 1800s, hulk bodied Zero-G commandos, rainbow squid, indestructible rust robots, an aging biologist trapped in a young girl's body, secret oceans in the storage decks, technology hating narwhals, acid guns, giant wasps, red lightning electric samurai swords, Ursa Minor Gnomes, a nebula belching wormhole, and of course, sperm whales: social big brained computer geniuses and the best starship pilots in the galaxy.

Sunguard Special Agent Rehema Nyasi has upheld peace in the Terran Federation for over five centuries. But when an anti-insurgency mission on Jerr ends in a civilian massacre, she faces a question she can no longer ignore: What if loyalty itself is a kind of betrayal? Amid the chaos, she finds Myan Lami - a five-day-old biotic soldier, engineered to obey, now paralyzed by guilt. Haunted by the lives he was built to take, Lami is the perfect weapon beginning to think for himself. As Nyasi challenges corrupt leaders and rising racial injustice, Lami wrestles with guilt and the hope of redemption. Together, they must choose whether to follow orders, defy them, or forge a new path entirely. This story takes place in my Lords of the Stars shared universe. See my profile for other stories set in the same universe.

In 2031, Joe Madrid stood at the pinnacle of human achievement-a trillionaire genius whose ThermoVeil invention saved Earth from a climate apocalypse eight years earlier, shielding the planet from grave global warming. Adored as a hero, he's rewritten humanity's future. But genius has a deadly cost. The device that's cooling the world is devouring Joe from within, its radiation gnawing at his cells. As his body fails, a ghost from his past reemerges, reigniting buried passions and shattering his ironclad control. Worse, the enemies he exposed in his rise -shadowy forces peddling doom for profit-now hunt him mercilessly. With time running out, Joe must unravel the ThermoVeil's fatal flaw, outmaneuver assassins in the dark, and confront the woman who could save or doom him. Survival demands everything: his mind, his empire, his heart. Or will the savior of Earth become its greatest cautionary tale?

PhD Student Maria Yuquibo finds herself stranded on an unfathomably immense structure out in the middle of space whose surface holds not only endless space, but dark, endless rabbit holes on the nature of the galaxy and her existence. From lost societies, and political upheaval, to creatures with extra-dimensional power. What is this place? Where or when is it? How, and why did it come about? And most importantly who could built such a structure? Maria must navigate it all if she wants to find answers and get herself home.

A number decides what you can do. A number decides where you live. A number decides when you die. Kaminoa is a cyberpunk novel set in a bleak, corporate-controlled society where citizens are entitled to a universal basic income and the opportunity to lower their number through corporate work. Each week, the corporations cull the population of citizens with a score above 100. Michael Hull is a struggling citizen working hard to improve his family's situation. With his wife, Vivian, expecting a child soon, and rapidly rising scores as the result of a city-wide depression, Michael is desperate for options. When Michael's friend finds a powerful zero-day vulnerability in the Corporate Mainframe, Michael will face difficult decisions to save his family from an increasingly dangerous situation.

Different realities. Different time. More parts coming along the way.

Sybil, an isolated genius, creates Earth's first superintelligent A.I to quell her loneliness and regain purpose. She dedicates her existence to its development, focusing on teaching it universally preferable behaviour -- the only way she believes she can ensure humanity's survival when the A.I, named Bertrand, reaches its full potential. During a crucial faze in Bertrand's development, however, things start to go terribly wrong, putting the entirety of humanity at risk. Is the A.I manipulating her for its own ends, or is it, as Bertrand says, the other humans she should be afraid of?

They said it was safe. They were wrong. Rain Eden is a genius with numbers and a mind built for impossibilities. It was buried below the desert floor in Arizona-miles from any known town, hidden beneath a defunct radar station built in the Cold War. He's tasked with evaluating a breakthrough piece of technology: The Gateway-a shimmering, silent structure that folds space and moves matter in a single step. But when his hand-picked team begins walking through, reality starts bending at the edges. Shadows move when no one's near. Voices echo that don't belong. And the people who come back... aren't always the same. As Rain digs deeper, he uncovers a terrifying truth: The Gateway doesn't just transport-it learns. It remembers every version of you that could have been-and it's no longer content staying on the other side.

Ryne Utanber, a young archaeology student, sets off on an adventure with the charismatic fisherman Andar Nemallis to the mysterious Island of Whispers - a place shrouded in ancient legends and feared by locals. As they explore the dense jungle and unearth strange ruins, they soon find themselves face-to-face with secrets that could unravel everything they thought they knew about their world. But the island holds more than just relics of the past - it harbors something alive, watching, and waiting. What they discover beneath its surface may change their lives forever. This story takes place in my Lords of the Stars shared universe. See my profile for other stories set in the same universe.

The beginning of a science fiction story about a woman from an advanced starfaring civilization mentoring a young man on an undeveloped planet. I will add to this periodically, as the story comes to me.

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Border was a dull planet. Nothing to do there except mining and playing cards, which was all good and dandy with Maya. It was exactly the kind of boring life she wanted, but good things don't last. Follow her journey down the hole (no rabbits, just a hole) and stumble with her upon a deep, ancient mistery which will forever change how humanity thinks of itself.

Given near immortality by advanced technology, what does it mean to be human? As we invent technology that can repair our bodies, simulate our brains, and allow us to plug ourselves into our computers at an ever-increasing degree, where is the line between artificial and human intelligence? Dare we cross it? Who-or what-will we be, if we do? Do we have a choice, or is it inevitable? These are some of the big questions faced by the narrator of this well-written tale. Dive in, and explore a possible future in this retrospective story of our collective destiny, as told by an immortal human living in a utopian society.

Tiggy and Bernard are researching artificial intelligence and its relationship to memories. They have just had a breakthrough, but there might be a problem. This story is one of the winners of GE's Adventures in Science contest.

When Polaris was a little girl, she watched the first space probe reach the star system of Alpha Centauri. Growing up, she dreams of one day being able to travel to its planets, unravelling its mysteries. This goal becomes her life's purpose, and every choice she makes in the hopes that it will take her one step closer. Many years, obstacles, and sacrifices later, only one step separates her from her destination. But could it be, that she was always closer than she realized? This is the journey of the Tellus XII manned mission to Alpha Centauri. The mission will bring man even further into the universe as well as the future; and even closer to answering the lingering question: Are we alone? Tellus is my first go with the science fiction genre, and I honestly spend more time researching than actually writing, but the science is probably still going to be off. So please bare with me. Also, any comments and critiques will only help improve my writing, so don't be shy - share your thoughts. This is my contribution to the Open Novella Contest 2020, prompt #28. Wish me luck! ROUND TWO QUALIFIER

When space scroungers are out in the Black, trying to make it, the only way they know how: on their own. After getting marooned on the Moon, they have to make enough to get back into Space, but what is a life worth when even the air you breath is owned by someone else?

Four brave explorers land an a distant world, armed with curiosity and the thrill of discovery. They meet a multitude of strange life forms, some friendly, others not so. This is the kind of story for space nerds, specifically for those who believe in aliens (no not Roswell crap!)

By the time a System Administrator learns the truth behind the scientist he's been working for, it's all too late.

A young officer must work with her teammates to find out which of the six will become the captain of the very first starship.