Hardsciencefiction Stories

Christiana is currently facing an incredibly hard decision, the most agonizing choice of her young life. Because of laws preventing males from receiving any formal educa...

A story in the near future. based on ongoing events.

Christiana is facing a truly agonizing choice. Her Sister Haruhi has been the victim of a horrific accident and it has left her with a terrible decision. Let Haruhi-nee...

Amidst a world teetering on the brink of collapse, Dr. Jackson, a brilliant geneticist, convenes a clandestine assembly of minds. The purpose? To deliberate a chilling p...

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

Taking place just a few weeks after the events of What the Stars May Bring, this novella follows the continuing adventures of Commander Cooper. Interested? Well then com...

A collection of the essays of Kathryn Cramer. More will be added as I go along. I expect to include "Science Fiction and the Adventures of the Spherical Cow,"...

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 pl...

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

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

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...

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...

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 a...

If you're the first and only human on the asteroid Anandapadmanaban, a small, isolated asteroid in the belt between Mars and Jupiter, what will you do?

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 peri...

In the dark solar system, as Mars aids Earth in rebelling against Jupiter, a polymath was smuggled to collect data from Jupiter. The sun was captured to harness all of i...

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...

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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...