Hardsf 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?

***1ST PLACE @ScienceFiction February 2020 Contest*** She's a cop with a job to do--bring in Seattle's most notorious hacker with an offer too good to pass up! ----- Thi...

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...

In the distant future, a space probe loops around a neutron star.

The unexplained broadcast from a remote world was hauntingly beautiful...and stopped as abruptly as it had started. The House of Wisdom has traveled light years to find...

***1ST PLACE @ScienceFiction August 2019 Contest, "The Cave"*** Stranded on a harsh world, seeking shelter until help arrives, three castaways wrestle with mys...

In the 22nd century, humanity has retreated into the safety of virtual realities and space colonies. Robert Ratajczyk, revived through cryonics, finds himself lost in th...

Senior Structural Engineer Wanted A successful, market-leading company at the top of their industry is looking for a motivated candidate to head an offshore project inve...

We've known that the moon is dead since Apollo. But what if something lay dormant in the dust, waiting to be found? In 2028, Mark Noble is conducting a survey of a moon...

Cutting-edge medical research offers Perla the possibility of a miracle--but does she want one? --- The phrase "The play of light in the present moment" comes...

Observe the kid, protect the kid. Tiffany took on bodyguard duty, thinking that the job would help her profile potential criminals better, a great aid in her career as a...

In a dystopian world of war in the future, a group of soldiers, including Tinda, face a brutal clash with an enemy that has advanced technological means at its disposal...

Vanguard-3 is field-testing a new hyperdrive that will open up interstellar space to humanity... but when a catastrophic accident sends the ship flying towards Saturn's...

Li Jie Robinson thought it was just another haul through the Belt--but he didn't know how bad his day could get!

Astronomers meeting with bad accidents all around the globe had a secret they wanted you to know... Teams of hired assassins are on the loose, governments go into lockdo...

***EXCERPT*** Infants in the Martian outpost of Basin have been plagued with birth defects for years--until recently. Corporate has dispatched Siwela and her team to fin...

***Appears in @Ooorah Tevun-Krus #75*** Isna Dahal is ready to kick back and toast a job well done on her first break from the project in five years. When she's called i...

[WATTYS 2018 Longlist] For fans of The Atlantis Gene, The Hunger Games, and Red Rising, this high-suspense, action-filled, sci-fi novel continues the story of a teenager...