Genres & Moods
Hard Science Fiction
Scientifically grounded science fiction that leans on real physics, engineering, and big conceptual puzzles, ideal for readers who enjoy complex, idea heavy stories.
36 covered books
Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionAbsolution Gap
The Inhibitor Trilogy, Book 3
While humanity searches for help against the Inhibitors, a religious movement follows moving cathedrals across the moon Hela and watches the gas giant Haldora for an impossible sign.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionBelladonna Nights and Other Stories
A Collection
This wide-ranging collection moves from the House of Suns and Revelation Space universes to independent tales of planets, machines, memory, horror, hope, and darkly playful speculation.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionBeyond the Aquila Rift
The Best of Alastair Reynolds
This career-spanning collection brings together Reynolds's major novellas and stories, including Revelation Space histories, deep-time journeys, cosmic horror, machine minds, and intimate speculative tragedies.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionBlue Remembered Earth
Poseidon's Children, Book 1
After matriarch Eunice Akinya dies, grandchildren Geoffrey and Sunday follow clues across a prosperous African-led solar system, uncovering a secret their powerful family wants contained.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionCentury Rain
A Novel
Future archaeologist Verity Auger enters a hidden version of 1959 Paris, where jazz musician and private investigator Wendell Floyd is pursuing a murder tied to realities neither fully understands.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionChasm City
A Revelation Space Novel
Security specialist Tanner Mirabel crosses interstellar space to hunt Argent Reivich through Chasm City, a former technological paradise deformed by plague and divided by extreme inequality.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionChildren of Ruin
Children of Time, Book 2
Humans and Portiid spiders investigate a lost terraforming mission where uplifted octopuses and an invasive alien intelligence have created a dangerous new problem of communication.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionChildren of Strife
A Children of Time Novel
Scientist Alis, mantis-shrimp captain Cato, and the AI Kern search a rediscovered terraforming outpost after the rest of their crew vanishes, exposing a refuge shaped by old vanity and new danger.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionChildren of Time
Children of Time, Book 1
Humanity's last ark approaches a terraformed world where uplifted spiders have built a civilization, forcing two evolutionary histories toward contact, conflict, and an uncertain shared future.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionContact
A Novel
By Carl Sagan
Radio astronomer Ellie Arroway helps identify a signal from Vega whose mathematical structure forces scientists, governments, and religious leaders to decide what evidence of another intelligence would demand from humanity.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionDeep Navigation
A Collection
This collection gathers early and previously scattered Reynolds stories, moving from Antarctic isolation and ecological games to alien rescue, deep-time revenge, and Revelation Space side tales.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionDiamond Dogs, Turquoise Days
Two Revelation Space Novellas
Two novellas explore an alien tower that punishes failed solutions with bodily sacrifice and an oceanic intelligence whose stored minds become the center of a dangerous human conflict.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionElysium Fire
Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies, Book 2
When citizens across the Glitter Band begin dying as their neural implants fail, Tom Dreyfus and Panoply must trace the crisis through political unrest, manipulated memories, and a dangerous hidden agenda.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionEversion
A Novel
Ship's doctor Silas Coade repeatedly joins expeditions toward an impossible alien structure, with each attempt unfolding in a different kind of vessel and making reality itself part of the mystery.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionForever Free
The Forever War, Book 2
By Joe Haldeman
William Mandella, Marygay, and other veterans living apart from postwar humanity make a desperate plan to recover control of their future, only to face a mystery larger than the old conflict.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionForever Peace
A Standalone Companion Novel
By Joe Haldeman
Physicist and remote-combat operator Julian Class confronts the human cost of piloting soldierboy machines while a scientific project threatens consequences on a universal scale.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionGalactic North
Stories from the Revelation Space Universe
Eight stories span centuries of the Revelation Space universe, tracing Conjoiners, Demarchists, Ultras, medical horrors, alien artifacts, and the long transformation of humanity.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionHouse of Suns
A Novel
Six million years in the future, clone shatterlings Campion and Purslane arrive late to a reunion and discover that nearly every member of Abigail Gentian's galactic line has been murdered.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionInhibitor Phase
A Revelation Space Novel
A hidden community survives under the threat of the Inhibitors until the arrival of a stranger forces its leader into a mission that may offer humanity one last chance against extinction.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionMachine Vendetta
Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies, Book 3
The suspicious death of Prefect Ingvar Tench draws Tom Dreyfus into a case where Panoply's old enemies, machine intelligence, and the Glitter Band's fragile democracy collide.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionOn the Steel Breeze
Poseidon's Children, Book 2
Three versions of Chiku Akinya pursue different paths as generation ships approach Crucible, an artificial intelligence tightens its influence, and an alien structure waits on humanity's intended home.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionPermafrost
A Novella
In a climate-ravaged 2080, an aging teacher joins a desperate project that reaches into 2028 through the mind of a young woman, risking causality in an attempt to give humanity another future.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionPoseidon's Wake
Poseidon's Children, Book 3
A message from seventy light-years away calls for Ndege Akinya, sending her daughter Goma toward Crucible while human, machine, and elephant intelligences face an ancient invitation.
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Science Fiction · ThrillerProject Hail Mary
A Novel
By Andy Weir
Ryland Grace wakes far from Earth with no memory, then must solve a star-killing mystery, forge an unlikely friendship, and decide what a successful mission really means.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionPushing Ice
A Novel
When Saturn's moon Janus abruptly leaves orbit, the ice-mining ship Rockhopper begins a pursuit that strands its crew inside a first-contact mystery extending into the deep future.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionRedemption Ark
The Inhibitor Trilogy, Book 2
As the Inhibitors begin erasing human settlements, Conjoiner veteran Nevil Clavain defects to stop Skade from controlling weapons that may offer humanity its only chance to resist.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionRevelation Space
The Inhibitor Trilogy, Book 1
Archaeologist Dan Sylveste investigates the extinction of the Amarantin while the damaged starship Nostalgia for Infinity and assassin Ana Khouri converge on him for very different reasons.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionShroud
A Novel
Scientists Juna and Mai are stranded on a lightless, high-gravity world whose alien life perceives reality in ways that make survival and first contact equally difficult.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionSlow Bullets
A Novella
Soldier Scur awakens aboard a damaged prison ship with former enemies, failing records, and no reliable path home, forcing survivors to decide what history their new society can preserve.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionTerminal World
A Novel
Pathologist Quillon flees the vertical city of Spearpoint with an angel's secret, crossing zones where different technologies function and the world itself resists a single explanation.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionThe Forever War
The Forever War, Book 1
By Joe Haldeman
Conscript William Mandella fights an interstellar war against the Taurans, but relativistic travel means that every campaign carries him farther from the Earth and culture he remembers.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionThe Iron Tactician
A Merlin Novella
The wandering spacefarer Merlin discovers a derelict swallowship and becomes entangled in an old strategic conflict where machines, memory, and survival make every apparent victory suspect.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionThe Medusa Chronicles
With Stephen Baxter
Augmented explorer Howard Falcon crosses centuries of expansion, artificial-intelligence conflict, and repeated returns to Jupiter in this continuation of Arthur C. Clarke's A Meeting with Medusa.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionThe Prefect (Aurora Rising)
Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies, Book 1
Prefect Tom Dreyfus investigates the destruction of a Glitter Band habitat and uncovers a threat capable of turning the networked democracy's own systems against its citizens.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionThe Three-Body Problem
Book 1 of the Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy
By Liu Cixin
The Three-Body Problem follows scientists, soldiers, and disillusioned idealists from the Chinese Cultural Revolution to the present as a secret first contact with the unstable Trisolaran star system turns physics itself into a warning that an alien invasion is on the way.
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Science Fiction · Hard Science FictionZima Blue and Other Stories
A Collection
This collection gathers Reynolds's science fiction beyond Revelation Space, including stories of robotic art, failed communication, war, isolation, memory, and survival on immense cosmic scales.
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