Science Fiction Books - SF classics - Hard SF

Science Fiction Books - SF classics - Hard SF - Space Opera

Science fiction is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology. Science fiction is found in books, art, television, films, games, theatre, and other media. In organizational or marketing contexts, science fiction can be synonymous with the broader definition of speculative fiction, encompassing creative works incorporating imaginative elements not found in contemporary reality; this includes fantasy, horror, and related genres. Science fiction differs from fantasy in that, within the context of the story, its imaginary elements are largely possible within scientifically established or scientifically postulated laws of nature (though some elements in a story might still be pure imaginative speculation). Exploring the consequences of such differences is the traditional purpose of science fiction, making it a "literature of ideas". Science fiction is largely based on writing entertainingly and rationally about alternate possibilities in settings that are contrary to known reality.

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Star Trek The Next Generation: Greater Than the Sum - Christopher L. Bennet - NEW Novel Paperback Get other Star Trek Books click here Synopsis The Starship Rhea has discovered a cluster of carbon planets that seems to be the source of the quantum energies rippling through a section of space. A landing party finds unusual life-forms inhabiting one of the planets. One officer Lieutenant T'Ryssa Chen--a half-Vulcan--makes a tenuous connection with them. But before any progress can be made the Rhea comes under attack from the Einstein--a Starfleet vessel now controlled by the Borg. The landing party can only listen in horror as their comrades are assimilated. The Borg descend to the planet and extra info.....
Space Odyssey Arthur C A NEW Clarke Book

2001 A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke - NEW Book New Paperback Get other Arthur C Clarke Books click here In the background to the story in the book an ancient and unseen alien race uses a mechanism with the appearance of a large crystalline monolith to investigate worlds all across the galaxy and if possible to encourage the development of intelligent life. The book shows one such monolith appearing in ancient Africa three million years B.C. where it inspires a starving group of the hominid ancestors of human beings to conceive of tools. The ape-men use their tools to kill animals and eat meat ending their starvation. They then use the tools to kill a leopard that had been preying on them more here.....
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A Meeting at Corvallis - S.M. Stirling - NEW Book Other S.M. Stirling Books click here Other The Emberverse series or "The Change" click here Paperback - the third Book in "The Change" series Mike (Lord Bear) and Signe Havel of the Bearkillers and Juniper Mackenzie of Clan Mackenzie travel to Corvallis a nuetral city-state to convince them to join with them in resisting the PPA. Meanwhile the Dunedain Rangers have captured a major knight of the PPA leading a band of raiders into their territory and take him to Corvallis for his trial. Sandra Arminger and her private servant/assassin Tiphaine however also travel to Corvallis to speak in defense of the PPA. Sandra sends Tip extra info.....
Book Robert Crossroads Jordan Twilight Time Wheel NEW

Crossroads of Twilight - Robert Jordan - New Book 10 of The Wheel of Time Paperback Get other Robert Jordon Wheel of Time books here Perrin Aybara continues trying to rescue his wife Faile Bashere kidnapped by the Shaido Aiel even resorting to torturing prisoners for information. In addition Perrin is approached with the suggestion of alliance with the Seanchan at least on a temporary basis to defeat the Shaido. Mat Cauthon continues trying to escape Seanchan-controlled territory while courting Tuon the Daughter of the Nine Moons the woman whom he has kidnapped and who it has been prophesied will become his wife. Mat discovers that Tuon as a potential sul'dam can be taught to channel the One more information.....
Brisingr NEW Christopher

Brisingr - Christopher Paolini - New Paperback Get other Christopher Paolini books here Eragon Roran and Saphira rescue Roran's betrothed Katrina who is held prisoner at Helgrind the dwelling place of the Ra'zac. Eragon also finds Sloan Katrina's imprisoned father and a traitor to Carvahall. While Saphira Roran and Katrina return to the Varden Eragon slays the remaining Ra'zac. Using Sloan's true name (discovered by accident) Eragon commands him to travel towards the Elves' domain before returning to the Varden himself. Meanwhile Arya finds Eragon in a town named Eastcroft and together they return to the Varden. At the Varden's camp Eragon reverses the curse he accidentally set upon Elva and more here.....
Chronicles Isobelle Carmody Book NEW Obernewtyn

Obernewtyn - Isobelle Carmody - New Book 1 of the Obernewtyn Chronicles Paperback Get other Isobelle Carmody books here Many years into the future the world has been ravaged by a great nuclear holocaust that later was known as the Great White. Only small and remote areas were spared. Some city-dwellers lived this holocaust and poured from their citites to farms mostly suffering from radiation poisioning. They were slaughtered by farmers so the farmers could protect their families and livestock. This was known as the age of chaos. Soon the farmers realised that they did not escape the holocaust without any negative repercussions. Mutations in man and beast were high. A totalitarian Council wa extra info.....
Graphic Unleashed Star Force NEW

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - NEW Graphic Novel Other Star Wars Books click here Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is the graphic novel version of The Force Unleashed multimedia project. Along with the book it features the storyline of the game. The project bridges the two Star Wars trilogies and introduces a new protagonist Starkiller as Darth Vader's secret apprentice. Blurb Now it can be told: after the birth pangs of the Empire Darth Vader took on a secret apprentice. Sent on deadly missions to track down and destroy the Jedi this apprentice helped shape one of the darkest times in the history of the galaxy. Synopsis Star Wars: The Force Unleashed tells the story of Darth Vader's secret more here.....
Invincible Troy

Star Wars: Invincible - Troy Denning - NEW Book Legacy of the Force - paperback Other Star Wars Books click here No war can last forever. Now in the long and punishing battle between the defiant champions of the New Jedi Order and the juggernaut that is the Galactic Alliance the endgame is finally at hand. With so much lost–and nothing less than the course of the future still at stake–there can be no turning back. No matter the consequences. The rebel cause is losing ground under the twin blows of Admiral Gilad Pellaeon’s assassination and the death of Mara Jade Skywalker. At the same time having gained the support of the Imperial Remnant and its ruthlessly efficient forces more details.....
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God Emperor of Dune - Frank Herbert - New Book Get more books in the Dune Series click here The seemingly immortal God Emperor Leto II has ruled his Empire for more than 3 500 years his lifespan lengthened due to his decision in Children of Dune to merge his human body with sandtrout the haploid phase of the giant sandworms of Arrakis. His continued evolution has slowly transformed him altering his human form into what he calls a 'pre-worm'. His body has come to resemble a small version of the ancient sandworms of Arrakis ribbed elongated and covered in scaly sandtrout; his face remains as do his hands and arms but his legs and feet have atrophied to be of no use. He moves from place to plac extra info.....
Atlantis Angelus

Stargate Atlantis - Angelus - Peter J. Evans - New Book Paperback With their core directive restored the Asurans have begun to attack the Wraith on multiple fronts. Under the command of Colonel Ellis the Apollo is dispatched to observe the battlefront but Ellis's orders not to intervene are quickly breached when an Ancient ship drops out of hyperspace. Inside is Angelus fleeing the destruction of a world he has spent millennia protecting from the Wraith. Charming and likable Angelus quickly connects with each member of the Atlantis team in a unique way and more than that offers them a weapon that could put an end to their war with both the Wraith and the Asurans. But all is not what it seems more information.....
Terry Confessor Book Truth Sword NEW series

Confessor - Terry Goodkind- New Book Book 11 of the Sword of Truth series Get other Sword of Truth series books by Terry Goodkind click here Paperback Richard Rahl leader of the D'Haran Empire has been captured by an Imperial Order commander who lets Richard (under the guise of Ruban Rubnyk) live if he will be the point man for the commander's Ja'La dh Jin team. During Richard’s imprisonment he is warned by a cloaked specter that he is now a player of the Boxes of Orden. Sister Ulicia is also visited by this figure and is told that the time to open the Boxes has been reset to one year from the first day of winter-the day that Nicci put the Boxes into play under Richard's name. The witc more details.....
NEW Joe Forever War Haldeman

Joe Haldeman - The Forever War - NEW Novel Other Joe Haldeman Science Fiction Books click here William Mandella is a university student conscripted for an elite task force in the United Nations Exploratory Force being assembled for a war against the Taurans an alien species discovered when they suddenly attacked human colonists' ships. They are sent out for reconnaissance and revenge. The elite recruits have IQs of 150 and above are highly educated healthy and fit. Training is grueling – first on Earth and later on Charon (not Pluto's moon which was undiscovered at the time but a hypothetical planet beyond Pluto's orbit) which results in a number of casualties – mainly due to acc more information.....
Heart Time

Winter's Heart - Robert Jordan - New Book Book 9 of The Wheel of Time Paperback Get other Robert Jordon Wheel of Time books here Perrin Aybara and his followers pursue the Shaido Aiel who kidnapped his wife Faile Bashere. Elayne Trakand attempts to solidify her grip on the Lion Throne and put down rebellious nobles. Mat Cauthon making his return to the series after his absence in the previous book is trapped in the city of Ebou Dar in Altara which is under Seanchan occupation. He plans his escape but in the end his plans are disrupted by the interference of a Seanchan noblewoman named Tuon who is revealed as the Daughter of the Nine Moons heir to the Seanchan Crystal Throne. Mat having heard click here.....
King

Wolves of the Calla - Stephen King - Dark Tower 5 - New The rest of the Dark Tower series is here Other Stephen King Books are here Wolves of the Calla -After escaping the perilous wreckage of Blaine the insane Mono and eluding the evil clutches of the vindictive sorcerer Randall Flagg Roland and his ka-tet find themselves back on the southeasterly path of the Beam. Here in the borderlands that lie between Mid-World and End-World Roland and his friends are approached by a frightened band of representatives from the nearby town of Calla Bryn Sturgis. In less than a month the Calla will be attacked by the Wolves-those masked riders that gallop out of Thunderclap once a generation to steal the more details.....
Swing John NEW Book Harrison

Nova Swing - M. John Harrison - New Book Paperback It is some time after Ed Chianese's trip into the Kefahuchi Tract. A major industry of the Halo is now tourism. The Tract has begun to expand and change but more problematically parts of it have also begun to fall to earth piecemeal on the Beach planets. We are in a city perhaps on New Venusport or Motel Splendido: next to the city is the event site the zone from out of which pour new inexplicable artefacts organisms and escapes of living algorithm - the wrong physics loose in the universe. They can cause plague and change. An entire department of the local police Site Crime exists to stop them being imported into the city by adventurers ent click here.....
Master Saga NEW Book Raymond

Magician: Master - Raymond E. Feist - NEW Book Book 2 in the Riftwar Saga Get other Riftworld Saga books click here Books in the Riftwar Saga: Book 1 - Magician: Apprentice Book 2 - Magician: Master Book 3 - Siverthorn Book 4 - A Darkness at Sethanon In the twelfth year of the reign of Rodric the Fourth an orphaned kitchen boy named Pug was made an apprentice magician to the magician Kulgan in Crydee. An indifferent student of magic he rose to high station by saving Princess Carline Duke Borric’s daughter from mountain trolls and became squire of the Duke's court. Following the discovery of a foreign ship wrecked after a storm and reports of bizzarrely dressed warriors appearing in the more.....
Book North Reynolds NEW

Galactic North - Alastair Reynolds - New Book Other Alastair Reynolds SF Books click here 8 stories in the Revelation Space Universe: Great Wall of Mars In this short story we meet Nevil Clavain one of the protagonists of the Revelation Space cycle Galiana the founder of the Conjoiner faction and Sandra Voi an important person in the Demarchist faction. The story begins on Deimos where Nevil Clavain a high-ranking officer in the Coalition for Neural Purity is preparing to go down to the surface of Mars. His brother Warren is pushing for war with the Conjoiners. Eventually Clavain and Voi depart and fly down towards the Great Wall of Mars which turns out to be a massive construction that comp click here.....
Wells Machine NEW Time G H

The Time Machine - H.G. Wells - New Get other Classic Science Fiction books here The book's protagonist is a scientist and amateur inventor living in London who is never named; he is identified simply as The Time Traveller. Having demonstrated to friends using a miniature model that time is a fourth dimension and that a suitable apparatus can move back and forth in this fourth dimension he builds a full-scale model capable of carrying himself. He sets off on a journey into the future. His journey takes him to the year A.D. 802 701 where he finds an apparently peaceful and pastoral society. Upon arrival he meets a small human people who name themselves the Eloi. The Eloi live in small communi click here.....
Book Children

Children of Dune - Frank Herbert - New Book Get more books in the Dune Series click here Muad’Dib has become an old man damaged by forced overdoses of spice essence and dependent on an assistant; he is rousing the populace against the priestly apparatus and its ruler — his sister Alia who has since lost the battle with the memory personalities she contains and is possessed by the persona of her grandfather and Atreides enemy Baron Harkonnen. Despite numerous enemies Muad'Dib's children Leto and Ghanima survive concerted attempts to eliminate them. Leto undertakes a transformation by allowing sandtrout to bond to the surface of his body making him immensely strong and fast and beg click here.....
Adventures Looking Book Glass Through

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass - Lewis Carroll - New Book Paperback 286pp Alice is bored of sitting on the riverbank with her sister who is reading a book. Suddenly she sees a white rabbit wearing a coat and carrying a watch run past lamenting running late. She follows it down a rabbit hole and falls very slowly down a tunnel lined with curious objects. She lands in a long hallway lined with locked doors. She finds a little key sitting on a glass table. Behind a curtain on the wall she finds a tiny door that opens with the key and leads into a beautiful garden. The door however is too small for Alice to fit through. Looking back at the table she sees a bottle more information.....

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* A setting in the future, in alternative time lines, or in a historical past that contradicts known facts of history or the archeological record
* A setting in outer space, on other worlds, or involving aliens
* Stories that involve technology or scientific principles that contradict known laws of nature
* Stories that involve discovery or application of new scientific principles, such as time travel or psionics, or new technology, such as nanotechnology, faster-than-light travel or robots, or of new and different political or social systems

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