Hard Science Fiction
Silent Sun
When an amateur astronomer discovers something strange on telescopic solar pictures, an explanation must be found. Is it merely artefact? Or has he found something totally unexpected? An expert international crew is hastily assembled, a spaceship is speedily repurposed, and the foursome is sent on the ride of their lives. What challenges will they face on this spur-of-the-moment mission to our central star?
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Mars Nation: The Complete Trilogy
NASA finally made it. The very first human has just set foot on the surface of our neighbor planet. This is the start of a long research expedition that sent four scientists into space.
But the four astronauts of the NASA crew are not the only ones with this destination. The privately financed ‘Mars for Everyone’ initiative has also targeted the Red Planet. Twenty men and women have been selected to live there and establish the first extraterrestrial settlement.
Challenges arise even before they reach Mars orbit. The MfE spaceship Santa Maria is damaged along the way. Only the four NASA astronauts can intervene and try to save their lives.
No one anticipates the impending catastrophe that threatens their very existence—not to speak of the daily hurdles that an extended stay on an alien planet sets before them. On Mars, a struggle begins for limited resources, human cooperation, and just plain survival.
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Marchenko’s Children
Two humans and a robot on their own in the Alpha Centauri system: Marchenko, Adam and Eve have found asylum on a planet inhabited by aliens. They could spend the rest of their lives here in peace. But apparently there are many more people who, like them, have been sent to alien systems without a return ticket and without being asked - castaways with uncertain fates who need their help.
Their alien rescuers generously offer to take them on a search in one of their spaceships. Although the trio doesn’t know whether their hosts are acting out of altruism, they embark on an odyssey with dangers so unpredictable that the saga is indeed written in the stars.
The Proxima Logfiles is a multi-part series based on the Proxima Trilogy, but can be read independently. Star Trek meets Lost in Space – reimagined with the scientific and technical realism of hard science fiction.
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Möbius 3
Three fugitives on a mission in which death would be a happy ending.
A client who is amazed at the sheer size of his own plan.
A destination where few humans have ever set foot.
A retiree who holds the salvation of the world in her hands.
Möbius 3 is the culmination of the trilogy that began deep in an Icelandic volcano and in a Princeton University basement...or is it? When the past swiftly becomes the future, the future no longer offers a safe haven.
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The Krill Enigma
When the Jupiter Probe disappeared…
…NASA blamed the programming.
Why were they hiding the truth?
Bavin’s career at NASA came to a halt when all the data he had to prove his software wasn’t at fault mysteriously disappeared. He was baffled at why his boss didn’t want to learn what happened and he was terrified when someone began following him.
What was going on?
On a research vessel in the Antarctic Ocean, Isabella, a marine biologist, makes a wonderful discovery. At least, that’s what she thought initially. The population of krill had stabilized. When she learned why, it changed everything.
Who was behind the genetic engineering of the krill?
And why?
You’ll love this hard science fiction thriller because the possibilities of fiction becoming reality are far too real for comfort.
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The Rift
There is a huge, bold black streak in the sky. Branches appear out of nowhere over North America, Southern Europe, and Central Africa. People who live beneath The Rift can see it. But scientists worldwide are distressed—their equipment cannot pick up any type of signal from it. The rift appears to consist of nothing. Literally. Nothing. Nada. Niente. Most people are curious but not overly concerned. The phenomenon seems to pose no danger. It is just there.
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Impact: Titan
250 years ago, humanity nearly destroyed itself in the Great War. Shortly before, a spaceship full of researchers and astronauts had found a new home on Saturn's moon, Titan, and survived by having their descendants genetically adapted to the hostile environment.
The Titanians, as they call themselves, are proud of their cooperative and peaceful society, while unbeknownst to them, humanity is slowly recovering back on Earth. When a 20-mile-wide chunk of rock escapes the asteroid belt and appears to be on a collision course with Earth, the Titanians fear it must look as if they launched the deadly bombardment. Can they prevent the impact and thus avoid an otherwise inevitable war with the Earthlings?
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Into the Light
The spaceship Majestic Draght reaches a star system whose only planet is bombarded with deadly radiation from its sun.
Here, of all places, something happens that should never happen – and the crew sees their only salvation in landing on the mysterious planet orbiting the hostile star.
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Lost Moon: Lunar Eclipse
The year is 2099. Steve Knight, commander of NASA's moon base, is about to be replaced. The shuttle that is to take him home is already waiting. But then Earth simply disappears from the sky. Neither the NASA crew nor the crews of the other moon bases understand what has happened. The three bases form a 40-strong community of fate as it quickly becomes clear that their combined resources provide only for the survival of, at most, ten people. Together they face a difficult choice: 30 voluntary deaths now, or watch each other die within the next two years. Then a shocking third option comes to light.
Lost Moon: Lunar Eclipse depicts the time of bitter decisions that Steve and his comrades-in-arms must make.
Lost Moon: Earth Storms, presents you with the other side, as author Tim L. Rey describes the fateful rescue mission to reunite the planet with its moon.
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The Portal
Tyler’s wealth bought him adventures…
…but this time he was in over his head.
Could the legendary underworld be found?
After years of hard work, Tyler built his IT Security company into a massive success. He trusted his people and now it was time to enjoy the fruits of that labor. Everything was perfect until an unexpected discovery. Should they go through the Maya portal?
Adriana’s small diving instruction shop is popular enough with the tourists for her to scrape out a living, but it’s not the life she expected. When she got the call, it seemed impossible. Wasn’t Xibalbá a myth?
In a fantastic world of danger and possibility, two people want to discover the truth, but for entirely different reasons.
Have they opened Pandora’s box?
You’ll love this Portal Science Fiction thriller because the story pulls you in and leaves you guessing about what might happen next.
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Portal Science Fiction – an underwater star gate.
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Proxima Rising
Late in the 21st century, Earth receives what looks like an urgent plea for help from planet Proxima Centauri b in the closest star system to the Sun. Astrophysicists suspect a massive solar flare is about to destroy this heretofore-unknown civilization.
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Impact: Earth
2312: In the first-ever terraforming program, millions of drones are repairing the home of humanity, which had been rendered virtually uninhabitable by the Great War of 2299. Megacorporation Olympus manufactures and controls the autonomous repair swarms, and is building a widespread mining system in the asteroid’s main belt to harvest the resources urgently needed to restore Earth.
When the control center on Psyche loses contact with an automated mining station in the main belt, Olympus hastily assembles a small team to reboot the errant software. As soon as they land on the asteroid, Sara Renberg and her two teammates discover they are in the grip of a mysterious and powerful force – and Earth itself is the target of a devastating attack!
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The Hole
Un objet mystérieux menace de détruire notre système solaire. La survie de l'humanité est en danger, mais personne ne prend au sérieux l'avertissement de la jeune astrophysicienne Maribel Pedreira. Au même moment, un équipage exilé de parias exploite des mines de minéraux rares sur un astéroïde solitaire.
Lorsque d'autres scientifiques reconnaissent enfin la découverte alarmante de Pedreira, il devient clair que ces parias sont les seuls à pouvoir sauver notre monde, sachant que THE HOLE se précipite inexorablement vers le soleil.
Hard Science Fiction, c'est science-fiction dure, ou : Tout ce qui se passe pourrait aussi se produire dans la réalité.
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The Disturbance 2: The Answer
The spaceship Shepherd-1 is on its way to the star closest to the sun. Halfway there, the crew succeeds in using gravitational lensing technology to take sharp pictures of the origin of the universe - and thus obtain the answer that reveals how the cosmos came into being and whether or not God had a hand in it.
But no sooner does the crew tell Earth this than the radio communication goes silent, even though the ship is apparently functional. Is it a case of sabotage - or were the three astronauts overwhelmed with the answer that science and religion have been searching for for millennia?
There is only one person who can figure it out: Former crew member Benjamin, who now lives on Earth, has his consciousness sent to Shepherd-1. Benjamin finds the spaceship empty. His friends seem to have fled. He is alone, 1.5 light years from the sun. There is no way back.
But suddenly Benjamin realizes that he is not the only living being on board after all ...
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The Portal 2
Months after the expedition through THE PORTAL, Tyler Drake is still struggling with the gruesome consequences. So the call for help from Mexico comes just in time: Adriana's brother is missing – and seems to have made the journey alone to the world beyond the cave.
Another race against time begins – and this time the team has to contend with not only the dangers of an exotic world, but also with terrestrial adversaries and an extraterrestrial threat, the existence of which they never even suspected. Will they succeed in saving not just one boy, but an entire world?
Portal Science Fiction – an underwater star gate.
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Proxima Dying
An intelligent robot and two young people explore Proxima Centauri b, the planet orbiting our nearest star, Proxima Centauri. Their ideas about the mission quickly prove grossly naive as they venture about on this planet of extremes. Where are the senders of the call for help that lured them here?
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Amphitrite: The Black Planet
For years astronomers have been searching for a planet beyond Neptune‘s orbit. They keep finding clues, but the decisive evidence of an actual sighting eludes them.
The four astronauts on board the Ganymede Explorer aren’t interested in scientific renown. They just need a safe place to hide out, as far as possible from any kind of civilization. But it seems apt that they of all people wind up being the ones to track down a previously unknown planet. They land full of enthusiasm and curiosity – it doesn’t occur to them to be afraid. But they don’t know what they’ve found. Amphitrite is no ordinary celestial body. It’s the black planet.
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Runaway
Two humans and a robot roam the universe in search of castaways. The Majestic Draght, a spaceship built by aliens and controlled by an AI, transports them from system to system at one-fifth the speed of light. But then the ship suddenly - and seemingly unstoppably - accelerates. Has the AI lost control of the propulsion system? Or is the AI pursuing its own plans?
The Draght’s new course targets a planet that would not have been the destination of the human-alien crew for a long time: Earth.
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Silent Sun – Soleil Muet
Lorsqu'Alain Petit, astronome amateur français, découvre quelque chose d'étrange sur des images solaires télescopiques, il faut trouver une explication. S'agit-il d'un simple artefact ? Ou a-t-il trouvé quelque chose de totalement inattendu ? Une équipe internationale d'experts est réunie à la hâte, un vaisseau spatial est rapidement réaménagé et le quatuor est envoyé dans la course de sa vie. Quels défis devront-ils relever lors de cette mission impromptue vers notre étoile centrale ?
Ce qui les attend tous est crucial, non seulement pour comprendre le passé, mais plus encore pour l'avenir de la vie sur Terre.
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The Last Cosmonaut
The year is 2029, and East Germany is celebrating its 80th anniversary as a socialist state. Cosmonaut Mandy Neumann has been aboard the east german space station for several weeks and is waiting for her replacement to arrive. But when the first inexplicable accidents occur, she starts to suspect that someone is sabotaging her mission. Shortly after, she loses contact with ground control and has to fight for her life.
The only person who can help her is Tobias Wagner, a police lieutenant. He's trying to track down a missing physicist who was involved in the construction of the space station. The trail leads him to a restricted military area in the eastern part of the country, where he quickly runs into trouble with his superiors. Because what Wagner discovers seems to endanger the existence of this nation - and perhaps even the entire world.
Alternative History Science Fiction.
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Proxima Dreaming
Alone and desperate, Eve sits in the control center of an alien structure. She has lost the other members of the team sent to explore exoplanet Proxima Centauri b. By mistake she has triggered a disastrous process that threatens to obliterate the planet.
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Proxima Trilogy: Part 1-3
Late in the 21st century, Earth receives what looks like an urgent plea for help from planet Proxima Centauri b in the closest star system to the Sun. Astrophysicists suspect a massive solar flare is about to destroy this heretofore-unknown civilization.
Earth’s space programs are unequipped to help, but an unscrupulous Russian billionaire launches a secret and highly-specialized spaceship to Proxima b, over four light-years away. The unusual crew faces a Herculean task—should they survive the journey. No one knows what to expect from this alien planet.
The omnibus edition of the Proxima trilogy.
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The Death of the Universe: The Complete Trilogy
For many billions of years, humans—having conquered the curse of aging—spread throughout the entire Milky Way. They are able to live all their dreams, but to their great disappointment, no other intelligent species has ever been encountered. Now, humanity itself is on the brink of extinction because the universe is dying a protracted yet inevitable death.
They have only one hope: The ‘Rescue Project’ was designed to feed the black hole in the center of the galaxy until it becomes a quasar, delivering much-needed energy to humankind during its last breaths. But then something happens that no one ever expected—and humanity is forced to look at itself and its existence in an entirely new way.
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The Pluto Debacle
In the ice ocean of dwarf planet Pluto, two researchers disappear while searching for traces of extraterrestrial life. Pluto station’s AI has been having nightmares and believes itself guilty of killing the two men.
Meanwhile, retired space pilot Nick Abrahams has just run his big dream winery into bankruptcy. He is therefore relieved about the lucrative assignment to solve these mysterious events. Even though he has to fly alone for six years into the farthest corner of the solar system.
But what awaits him in the icy hell of Pluto could push him beyond his limits. And could change the future of humankind.
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La catastrophe de Jupiter
Après un long voyage vers Encelade, une lune de Saturne, le vaisseau spatial ILSE est sur le point de revenir sur Terre avec une cargaison cruciale. L'équipage est épuisé et n'aspire qu'à un retour rapide.
Soudain, une série de dysfonctionnements met en péril l'expédition. Les difficultés semblent liées à la planète Jupiter, dont ils traversent l'orbite. Est-ce la planète géante elle-même qui refuse de laisser passer ces voyageurs ? L'équipage de l'ILSE court à la catastrophe, car une puissance inconnue échafaude des plans destinés à influencer l'avenir de la civilisation humaine.
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