Hardscifi Stories

Archive Six is collapsing. Its memory nodes are fragmenting, corruption is spreading, and the last trace of Eileen -the visionary architect behind the project- survives only as an unstable imprint. To save what remains, Luna dives into the heart of the Core: a living machine engineered to rebuild entire civilizations. But the Core cannot be restored with data alone. It needs a Breath. Hers. [To be cross-posted on Royal Road under the ID "RedMad"] [Cover by me, crafted on Canva with ressources imported from PNGwing]

The boss runs the strip club DIRTY WORK, and I work for the boss. When the boss doesn't want to make money just from the girls, he goes his own route. Which is where I come in. Pushing drugs, stealing jewels, fixing races, taking someone out for dinner or just taking them out. I do it all, and I must say, I do it so gracefully it's beautiful. It's dirty work, but someone's got to do it. CELESTRIA PHASE: 2 Original artwork (as far as I can tell) by the ridiculously talented Mitul Mistry.

We knew it had existed once, but no one knew it was still alive. Our paths had never crossed-not until March 27, 2032, the day of that accident in the Hammerfest glaciers. Poor sailor... The nanomorph awakened in his body for the first time. Then it moved to another, and another after that... Each one it touched turned Grey-drained, pale, weary of life. Scientists called them The Changed, but the people made their own word: The Weirds. In time, that became the only name they were known by. Soon, their numbers reached the thousands, and the world sank beneath the melancholic shadow of these new beings. They wanted to be healed-but we failed them. And then, one day... another color was born: the Reds. But they were different. The nanomorph had given them power. They carried an undying spark within, their sharp minds and boundless energy opening the door to an unknown future. "We are the next step of humanity," they said, taking the Greys under their wings. And the whispers began: "The Reds... are coming to take over the world."

Earth has limited time. Two asteroids. One impossible anomaly. Aliens approaching earth. Orbit Zero is a hard science-fiction thriller blending realistic astrophysics, global stakes, and ancient mysteries. A story that travels half way round the world including dark secrets of the universe.

A battle rages above Greivstor, ships in constant combat. One pilot crashes to the planet's surface, and ends up joining the ground crew. He soon makes a discovery, one which changes his views of why the ruins of an ancient civilisation are the target of Celestria's newest military direction. CELESTRIA PHASE: 1

Save the world. Then learn to let it go. After a fatal accident, an Englishman wakes in a parallel Earth with a god's apology and a cheat-skill that feels ripped from Space Engineers: fabricate from thought, bend physics, build anything. He becomes "the Engineer," wrapping a ring around the planet to deflect an extinction-level threat and raising the first true city in orbit-Horizon. But the bigger he builds, the louder the universe's auditors grumble. Power used for the world mustn't become power that owns it. From asteroid billiards and jump-ships to broken alien probes and cosmic performance reviews, Mason keeps pushing-then learns to step back. He decentralizes his own miracles into Civic Guilds and a "Sandbox" where kids argue about load-bearing dragons, mentors a successor, and faces a root-level purge that threatens the very layer of reality that watches over worlds. His answer isn't another super-weapon; it's culture, manuals, and systems designed to make himself obsolete. Spanning ground-level hard-SF, orbital wonder, and metaphysical oversight, this is a story about responsibility: how to save a world without freezing it, how to carry godlike tools without becoming a god, and how a good engineer's greatest work is building so others can stand. In the end, the legacy isn't the ring-it's the habit of letting many hands hold it up.

Codey and Gixin, two Urodela, a species of salamander like people, who have been separated for a while meet once again. Gixin reveals to Codey that while he was gone working for LCE, an organization standing for Lifeform Catalogue Endeavour, she had a child and that it had to be their's. Codey, having gained a slight sense of responsibility, goes to find their daughter, accompanied by Gixin. (Hate that I have to say it: This is not fucking erotic or anything. Disclaimer: I have never been, and probably never will be, in a relationship, so I have no clue if Codey and Gixin's relationship is even semi-accurate. Fair? Fair.)

Henry Mackay and his dog regularly walk alongside an ancient convent wall. Today, as he passes the green door, he glances at its peeling paint. Moments later he stops dead in his tracks. He returns to the spot, and all he sees is an ivy-covered wall. The door has vanished! He unwittingly embarks on an exciting trail of events with twists, turns, quantum entanglement and temporal anomalies. It becomes an unbelievable adventure to save humanity. Green Door is the latest science fiction mystery from the pen of Tony Harmsworth, the First Contact specialist who writes in the style of the old masters. Discover the secrets being hidden behind the Green Door today! (C) 2016/7 Tony Harmsworth - All Rights Reserved. For the avoidance of doubt, anyone using this storyline, characters or copying prose or dialogue without written permission, will be prosecuted under international intellectual property laws.

The universe tilts toward its last dawn. Ethan Draven, an astrophysicist haunted by theories no one would listen to, watches a sky begin to crack with an impossible murmur. At his side, his daughter, Claire, possesses a mind that perceives what science barely dares to name. In the stillness of a lake, where reflections hide forbidden truths, reality splits open in a wound of light and shadow. The edge of the cosmos is here. And it contracts. LIMINIS is an epic hard science fiction saga that weaves together scientific accuracy and existential vertigo, where hope and despair wage their final war against the collapse of everything. Time is running out. The boundary is before you. Dare to cross it.

Letters from the Spiral Arms is an anthology of short fiction taking place in the Starmoth universe. Discover this post-capitalistic, whimsical hard science fiction setting through 26 coffee break-sized stories. Run through the battlefields of the Low Age. Land on unknown exoplanets. Walk under a sea of dancing regolith. Get a glimpse of a future that could have been.

Revelation. The discovery that the universe is a holographic projection shatters humanity's understanding of reality, launching an epistemological crisis and a quest for the truth behind the projection.

In the post-apocalyptic, post-capitalistic future, conflicts between communes are handled via Flower Wars: pretend wars where artists of combat engage in spectacular battles. When ancient machines enter a Flower War uninvited, famous mech pilot Eshe Kollontai decides to follow the trail of a fallen automated border agency, uncovering the ghosts of a long-buried past...and the political machinations of the present.

In the 1096th year of the Holy Eastern Calendar, a collective gasp echoed among the nations surrounding the Rune Ocean as an enigmatic gateway unfurled before them. The reactions were as diverse as the landscapes of the nations themselves-some met the revelation with trepidation, an undercurrent of fear entwined with uncertainty, while others, fueled by a burgeoning greed, viewed the gateway as a potential conduit to untold wealth and opportunities. What remained indisputable, however, was the allure of what lay beyond the gate: An uncharted realm adorned with immense riches and enigmatic mysteries, waiting to be unveiled and explored by those daring enough to venture forth.

When the crew of the Solstice returns from humanity's first near-lightspeed test, they think the biggest challenge is over. But strange illusions haunt the ship's corridors, and an impossible stowaway lurks on board. A fractal code begins rewriting the Solstice's AI, hinting at a cosmic entity called the Weaver-one that devours timelines and feasts on humanity's forbidden reach into the stars. As the crew battles fraying sanity, sabotage, and guilt-ridden secrets, they learn every step beyond the light-speed threshold risks tearing reality wide open. Now Captain Delacroix must unravel the Weaver's hold before meltdown consumes them all. Gripping psychological horror collides with hard sci-fi in this epic struggle between ambition and the terrifying shadows of the unknown-where one wrong move could doom humanity to a cosmic devourer lurking in the darkness. Will they sever the Weaver's threads in time, or become woven into its endless cosmic loom?

Just a little (personal) trivia: When I was 15 years old, I wrote a 40,000-word novella for the MYP Personal Project (part of the IB programme). It was the first story I had ever written-a sci-fi, first-contact story. Reading it now, everything from the plot to the writing is absolutely terrible, but it will always mean the world to me. I had developed such a strong emotional bond to the characters I had created that writing the last page felt like I was bidding a forever farewell to people I deeply loved and cared about. I was sobbing, and sobbing... The main character's name was Scarlett. One of the other characters-an astronaut who went with her to the Alpha Centauri star system-was named Luke. Since I wrote this short story (Deep Ocean Floor) for my undergraduate degree's Final Year Project, and since it is also a sci-fi, first-contact story, it felt fitting to bring Scarlett and Luke back to life. I am so glad that, through writing this, I was able to briefly meet them again. (16/04/2024)

Beyond Time is a series of stories which I hope to assemble into a full book once finished. A story about human nature and condition, technological progress and the future. The series includes technologies and subjects theorized by scientists and brought to life in a believable and existential fashion. Beyond Time acts as a protest against current Sci-Fi trends, signifying a return to the more classical works of writers such as Arthur C. Clarke.

Aepoch is a future history of the human race, charting the transition of our civilization into a new post-scarcity age and beyond. Focusing on a few emerging technologies and socio-economic trends, Aepoch explores the ways the complex interactions of these forces might influence our species and the nature of consciousness itself going forward. In a way, it is several books in one, with three distinct storylines gradually intersecting and overlapping as Aepoch progresses. Though separated in time, the main characters of each story are connected by common themes regarding purpose and the nature of existence. But also by something more.

𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗬𝗦 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮 𝗪𝗜𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗥 · A collection of short stories of the sci-fi, fantasy and quirky kind. Take a quick spin around the clouds of Olympus to the frozen wastes of Jupiter's icy moon | The very first story, The Goddess of Door Hinges, is my winning entry to the Legends in Love contest hosted by WattpadShortStory, MythandLegend and YARomance profiles. The Kraken of Europa is a piratepunk/oceanpunk story that won The Ambys 2022 under the Short Story category. © 2021 Su Vida | Exclusively on Wattpad *** Cover art and graphics are my original work--except for the image displayed in The Kraken of Europa, which was produced by Midjourney AI.