Genre: Hard Science Fiction

All fiction and excerpts in: Hard Science Fiction


Tomorrow’s Kin


The Virtual Swallows of Hog Island


Points of Origin


Hold-Time Violations


The Deepest Rift

, || In the deepest canyon in the inhabited worlds, giant mantas soar through the air and leave patterned structures behind. A team of sapiologists seek to prove that these delicate filaments are true language, not just bee's dance. But time has run out, and their reckoning is upon them. Will they prove that their research is valid, or will they be scattered to the corners of the galaxy?

Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Trilogy


, || Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, in "King Wen of Zhou and the Long Night," a self-contained story within the novel, scientist Wang Miao is encouraged to play an online VR game by the name of "3Body." He becomes immersed in a planet that is itself a puzzle, a puzzle that, once encountered, may just explain why Earth is such a tempting target for invasion.

Soulminder (Excerpt)

, || For Dr. Adrian Sommers, a split second of driving while distracted leads to tragedy—and obsession. His family destroyed, he devotes his entire being to developing Soulminder, a technology that might have saved his son as he wavered on the edge of death. Sommers's vision is to capture a dying person's life essence and hold it safely in stasis while physicians heal the body from injury or disease. Years of experimentation finally end in success—but those who recognize Soulminder's possibilities almost immediately corrupt its original concept to pursue dangerous new frontiers: body-swapping, obstruction of justice, extortion, and perhaps even immortality.

Echopraxia (Excerpt)

