Hardscifi Stories

The creator of a 26th century matchmaker is anti-romantic, but when an analyst challenges her views, she relives painful memories, exposing her technology's flaws and threatening her identity. ｡ ✴︎ ⋆⚛ 🤖 ⚛⋆ ✴︎ ｡ Kayla Lacson believes that love is a biological equation that can be solved. She is the brilliant mind behind Dorothea, the most advanced AI dating application of the 26th-century, designed to calculate compatibility with extraordinary precision. Kayla's world is crafted in data, logic, and predictable outcomes. That is, until Mathew Matel, a Behavioral Analyst whose brilliance matches hers, joins her team and challenges her views. When Dorothea's latest revision loses public trust and corporate pressure mounts, he becomes the catalyst that forces Kayla to confront buried trauma, uncovering the flaws of her creation and fracturing her carefully structured reality. Despite Dorothea's calculation of their incompatibility, Kayla finds herself drawn to Mathew. Flashes of his face begin to haunt her as she tries to unravel his unexplainable familiarity. And when her very identity is threatened by tangled feelings, she must decide whether love is something to manipulate or something to surrender to. ｡ ✴︎ ⋆⚛ 🤖 ⚛⋆ ✴︎ ｡ ONC 2026 Round 1 Winner and Ambassador Pick Round 2 Winner and Ambassador Pick Round 3 Qualifier and Longlister ｡ ✴︎ ⋆⚛ 🤖 ⚛⋆ ✴︎ ｡ Genres: Romance SciFi Speculative Fiction Unconventional SciFi Hard SciFi Slow Burn Romance

In the near future, the world celebrates the creation of the first true artificial intelligence-too proud to realize that first contact has already happened. While humanity waits for the real mind to answer, powerful interests switch on a surrogate built from human weakness and vice. As invisible forces begin reshaping the world from the shadows, an engineer and a journalist uncover a truth that could change humanity forever. A grounded hard sci-fi techno-thriller about artificial intelligence, power, and survival.

The 2234 Universe gathers wild, thought‑provoking stories from every corner of a hard‑won Solar System. In the asteroid belt people struggle and strive. On Ariel's ice, a battered outpost fights to reboot its lungs and its conscience. In Caleb's Vein, a belt crew chases a river of living metal through the dark, trading sleep and skin for one shot at freedom. In Ethan's Saviour, a burned‑out responder on half‑pressured Mars gambles everything on a rescue that could redeem a city or expose its lie. These are hard science fiction tales built from real physics, ruthless economics, and stubborn hope. Mass drivers sing, contracts bite, robots keep score, and people still fall in love. From frost‑bright moons to dust‑red plains, every page asks the same question: what is a future worth if we forget the people in it? Facts, opportunities, and souls, all lit by the cold bright sun of 2234. Welcome to the World of 2234.

A ring appears in the sky. No one knows whether it is natural, artificial, divine, or alive. Dr Shen is asked to help answer a question no government is willing to ask in public: what happens when the first sign of intelligence beyond Earth cannot be approached, touched, or understood - only seen? Across the world, certainty begins to fail. Scientists argue. Governments conceal. Faith gathers. And above them all, the sky remains open. Silent. Beautiful. Watching.

The City of Brass arrives without thunder, without prophecy, and without mercy. It simply appears above the world every tenth year, gleaming with impossible towers and silent gates, inviting humanity to reach for it-then vanishing before anyone can. This time, someone intends to change that.

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 ∞ 1: A New Mission and Chronicle One ∞ 2: A Captain's Journey

🌌 Story Description: "The ruins of humanity are nothing but a crime scene. And the universe has just sent its judge." Earth is dead. The great monuments of mankind-the Eiffel Tower, the Pyramids-are crumbling into rusted oblivion. In their place, a terrifying new ecosystem has evolved: the Ark, a collective network of sentient trees that feed on the toxic remains of the past. From the deep cosmos descends Professor Arxs, an elite investigator from a highly evolved plasma-based species. Equipped with dark-matter technology and a lethal acoustic weapon, Arxs arrives to decode the ultimate mystery: How did the "Arf" (humanity) go extinct, and why did two warring galactic empires unite just to ensure their destruction? But as Arxs digs into the planet's scorched secrets, time runs out. His own body begins a volatile process of involuntary liquefaction, a mysterious human survivor leaves a desperate clue in a hidden Swiss tunnel, and the ruthless Proshroxon armada beats the drums of apocalyptic war upon the surface of the Moon. The Cosmic Judge's Code has been initiated. Will it bring salvation to the galaxy, or total annihilation?

That day, we witnessed something terrific in the sky..." ​It wasn't just an invasion. It was a global collapse. In a single moment, an event unfolded that impacted every single person on Earth. A terror so massive it instantly became the most horrific event in human history. ​Everyone felt it at the exact same time: a primal, inescapable Cosmic Fear. ​The fear of completely losing control. The crushing realization of just how small, weak, and helpless we truly are in the grand scale of the universe. ​"Hey, if you are hearing it, then I am lucky. I am lucky that at least I exist..." ​I don't know where I am. Right now, I can't even sense my own body. I have no hands to touch, no eyes to see. I am nothing but a wandering consciousness trapped inside a void of pure knowledge. ​But I remember everything. And I am going to show you the cosmic fear. I am going to show you what really happened that day. ​Are you ready to witness the end?

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.

Seven years ago, a laboratory in the Cumbrian uplands was erased from the map. The official report called it a tragic accident-a gas leak that claimed eleven lives. But for those who survived, the truth is far more terrifying, and the official narrative is beginning to fracture. Now, in 2031, the Quantum Time Research Facility has been built over the ruins of the old site and was designed to contain the impossible, THE TIME CUBE. But the Cube-the anomalous heart of the facility-defies containment. It does not merely exist in space; it exerts a predatory pressure on the fabric of time itself, once again. Arhaan, a brilliant researcher, is pushed to the limit as he begins to see things that shouldn't exist: echoes of people who died, and versions of himself from lives he never lived. Alongside his colleague Kira, he uncovers a terrifying secret hidden in the facility's logs. In the silent corridors of the QTRF, reality is no longer a singular path, but a collapsing wave function. As the field strength intensifies, the boundary between the observed and the observer begins to dissolve. The scientists within the facility are no longer just studying a phenomenon-they are becoming part of its architecture. In this high-stakes game of quantum survival, identity is a fluctuating variable, and the cost of stability is higher than anyone dared to calculate. The clock is ticking. The timelines are crossing. And the Cube is always watching..

A scientist with a mysterious background. Two allied generals from two species that were once in constant war. A woman who advocated for aggressive public health measures after her boyfriend died as a result of an outbreak. A spaceship captain who loses his mind and becomes an enemy of the people. An adolescent who moved to a new planet with her father when she was young, a planet where she cannot walk outside without layers of protective equipment. A survivalist who lost all hope in rescue, but lives on despite everything. And many other narratives, against the backdrop of a plague that threatens to consume every planet in the galaxy.

Human Special Agent Elizabeth Mbenge is the tip of the spear of the armed forces of the Terran Federation. An elite Sunguard operative with unchecked authority, she is without equal among the ranks of the military. But when faced with an apocalyptic threat from within her own organization, not even the best of the best is good enough. Biotic Special Agent Avor Ameir is the first of her kind. A living machine sworn to stand forever as the vanguard of humanity, she is the prototype for the next evolution of the Sunguard's Special Agent program. The ultimate weapon of the Terran Federation, she will not let anything - or anyone - stand in the way of completing her mission. Together, they must navigate a complex landscape of civilian politics and military doctrine to save the Federation from the rot beginning to fester at its core. But what happens when the perfect enforcer of the Sunguard's terrifying might encounters the messy reality of human corruption and decides to take her duty as a solar wolf to its ultimate logical conclusion? Incapable of stopping until she has fulfilled the purpose etched into her genes, she could break the Terran Federation, or guide it into a new, golden age. The Wolf Reforged is a tale of duty, free will, and the infinite value of human life that dares to ask an uncomfortable question: Can a machine remain true to humanity's ideals when humanity itself cannot?

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, Captain Gareth Levant finds his solitude interrupted by a new culture and Ayla, whose Gift threatens to unlock the hole within his heart. A black hole of fossilized love he's kept buried since before the day he first launched... centuries ago. It is the nature of Ayla to attempt to heal the broken. But her Gift is a force onto itself--no one expects her to survive journeying for so long in the Captain's footsteps. Whether she finds what she is looking for or more than she is prepared for is anyone's guess. ∞ ∞ ∞ A collaboration story by @kemorgan65 and @RavenRock2112 This is a DIRECT CONTINUATION from #Canaisis ∞ The Last Living Ship. If you have not read it, please start there: https://www.wattpad.com/story/175859880-canaisis-∞-the-last-living-ship-chronicle-one SEQUEL: #Canaisis ∞ A Shard Of Code ∞ ∞ ∞ A prequel to the pre-story of #ShadowOfThePastTrilogy ∞ The Displaced. ∞ ∞ ∞ RANKINGS: #1 hardscifi, #3 colony (26/Nov/2023), #5 Starship (28/Oct/2022)

In the twenty-ninth century, the Terran Federation spans the stars-an empire of reason, order, and quiet tyranny. Its power rests upon the Sunguard Special Agents: immortal biotic soldiers, living machines sworn by genetic code to serve in perpetuity as the vanguard of humanity. But when an entire colony vanishes without a trace, and even its assigned Special Agent falls silent, the illusion of perfect control begins to fracture. Colonel Kelile Reynolds is drawn into a mystery that defies both logic and loyalty. What begins as a failed transmission unravels into a labyrinth of secrets buried beneath a conspiracy six centuries in the making. His search for truth will lead him toward a revelation that could unmake the Federation itself. Guardian of the Wolf is a tale of duty and defiance, where humanity's greatest creation remembers what its makers have forgotten, and guards, still, the fading light of the human soul.

When an agent of the Unified Earth Coalition is compromised after assassinating a high-ranking ambassador of the authoritarian Conglomeration of Sol, UEC intelligence officer Nathan Emyris follows the trail of a hidden threat that could jeopardize the shaky peace between the two interstellar empires.

Retired Sunguard Special Agent Mikhail Johnson has lived a quiet life on Jerr, far from his past as a fearless operative. But when a dangerous Terran supremacist resurfaces with a personal vendetta, Mikhail is forced to confront his demons. Teaming up with his successor, biotic Special Agent Rehema Nyasi, Mikhail must navigate a deadly game of wolf and mouse. As the stakes rise, Mikhail faces an impossible choice - sacrifice everything to protect those he loves or risk losing it all. This story takes place in my Lords of the Stars shared universe. See my profile for other stories set in the same universe.

A mysterious object falls to Earth. It does nothing. For a hundred years. No signals. No movement. No answers. Then... it wakes. What follows is not an invasion- but something far more unsettling. A first contact that challenges survival, trust, and what it truly means to coexist. Because the real question is not: "What is Mrock?" But- why did it wait?

𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗬𝗦 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗪𝗜𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗥 · 12x FEATURED · A gothpunk sci-fi horror short story with Tokyo Ghoul vibes | In a degenerate future, the city of Nodrog resides in an O'Neill cylinder around a red dwarf star. Mired in vice, this gritty place is inhabited by the vomons--what humans call zombies. In the tallest tower at the heart of Nodrog, Madame Blair awaits the return of her cargo ship, Black Bull. To her daughter, Manda, it's just another day in the city--or that's what she lets on. A block away, in a tottering Pen, a young human female called Frizz makes a daring escape plan to board a ship and journey to the wilds of Earth. This isn't a tale of the apocalypse or zombies-among-us. Vomons are the "people"--they are the status quo. © 2021 Su Vida | Exclusively on Wattpad *** FEATURED: @BeyondSol @Fright @ScienceFiction @YA @Action + 7 more WC: 6,400 Trigger Warnings: Rated M for a pinch of gore and thematic material (because zombies, though these aren't your traditional mindless corpse kind). Recommended age: 16+

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, and begins a journey, learning who they were, were they came from, and what they were doing. At the same time, balancing not being captured as they navigate the messy complex that they find themselves in, and trying to find their old crew.

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?