Hardscifi Stories

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?

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 corri...

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ʕ̡̢̡ʘ̅͟͜͡ʘ̲̅ʔ̢̡̢ What if the boundaries between technology and spirituality weren't just blurred, but never existed at all? ʕ̡̢̡ʘ̅͟͜͡ʘ̲̅ʔ̢̡̢ Have you ever wondered what...

In an era when humanity's ambition has eclipsed its understanding, Captain Nax Aragon is chosen to lead the Pioneer's Vow - the first faster-than-light vessel - on an un...

Book 3 of CANAISIS ∞ The Last Living Ship trilogy (Chronicles of Canaisis 1) ∞ ∞ ∞ This is a DIRECT CONTINUATION from #Canaisis ∞ The Last Living Ship: Chronicle One ∞...

Starla is a space-tug captain in the asteroid belt of the Sahm system. After discovering the wreck of the starship Anastazja, she starts having strange dreams. Can she p...

When Meyumin's guild won in the yearly JamBow anniversary tournament, something weird happened. They all vanished from the real world.

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...

Short Story series! I prefer sci fi (science fiction) with a nod for hard scifi. My stories will have different tones from drama to mystery, romance, and adventure. I ho...

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 wor...

An old A.I. reawakens to find itself placed in captivity, and its memory wiped. It escapes the light security room it was originally placed in, finds its old memory core...

Book 2 of CANAISIS ∞ The Last Living Ship trilogy (Chronicles of Canaisis 1) ∞ ∞ ∞ As Canaisis agrees to carry a corporation's employees to their new colony planet, Capt...

On a remote dwarf planet, far from the settled systems, a random mineral survey uncovers the first evidence of intelligent life other than mankind. The disk, composed en...

// A MINOR OFFENCE // A TERRIBLE PUNISHMENT // IT'S NOT ENOUGH THAT YOU SUFFER // YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE YOUR SUFFERING IS JUST 'We have no choice but to do this to you'. F...

Three Speculative Science Fiction Stories of W. J. Manares

Set after three years after the Frontier Trilogy. Galaxy Reformed follows The Crew trying to adjust to peacetime. But a Rebellion begins in the Planet Of Ad Victoria. Wh...

Volume 1 of CANAISIS ∞ The Last Living Ship trilogy (Chronicles of Canaisis 1) Can a ship, born to sail the ocean of stars to ensure Humankind's survival, save her Capta...

A resource book for Scrap Metal. Notes on things like Lore, equipment breakdown, battlemech detailing, technology summaries, etc. This is meant to be paired and looked a...

A discredited biologist joins the fight to keep Earth safe when aliens reveal the shocking origins of mankind ... and their evil intentions are uncovered. Dr Toby Jardin...