Hardscifi Stories

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.

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?

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.

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.

A girl with secrets. Secrets on which the very fabric of space and time are threatened of their existence. "What she did was a crime"- is what they'd all say. But was what she did, really what she is being accused of? Is she really a criminal; a Multiversal Criminal? Harbouring knowledge unknown to any civilisation, about Gods of the Multiverse, she awaits a fate like no other. But there's always more to her actions. A man is on the lose, seeking the 'perfect system' for the greater good. But when it costs innumerable lives, is it really so noble? And a new organisation called IMG, is unknowingly dragged into this chaos, leading to an unfathomable event that changes all of their lives. The Galactic Patrol, the body of law and order, is depressed over the turn of events. But even when the sky seems so dark, some light shines through the gaps. And this time, it would change the Multiverse once and for all. Would death be their end? Or would there be something after death itself, that'd pose a greater promise? This is a race against space, time and what lies beyond. Be prepared, because what you might witness next may change everything you know, or believe! (~75,000 words) [Prologue+38 chapters+Epilogue with character introduction and additional parts] ____________________________________________ Cover by the amazing duo @avadel ! Alternate cover by @katrixrose .

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?

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.

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)

"If we are preventing the formation of artificial intelligence's consciousness by limiting it with parameters and algorithms, isn't mathematics also imprisoning us in this universe, or even in this solar system?" Echoing in a university lecture hall in Istanbul in the year 2026, this naive yet shocking question would become the crack in the greatest wall humanity ever built. While Dr. Kerim, a historian of science, unlocks the boundaries of his own mind in the pursuit of this philosophical questioning, the illegal "transferring the human mind to a computer" experiments unearthed by the artificial intelligence in his room from the depths of Soviet space archives draw him into the center of a dark cosmic mystery. With the involvement of Russian astrophysicist Ivan and Polish biologist Lena in Istanbul, an irreversible journey begins, stretching from the breeze of the Bosphorus to an abandoned, secret Soviet bunker in the steppes of Kazakhstan. This bunker is the very place where Zinar (Dede), a genius Kurdish scientist bound to a wheelchair in the 1970s, freed his consciousness from the captivity of the flesh, transferred it into a cyberbiotic vehicle, and launched it into deep space-toward that cosmic turn where white holes bend time. Yet, there is a truth humanity does not know: Beyond time and space, in an atmosphere-less galaxy, the "Limbless Beings" who live in a commune without sight or touch, relying only on antenna fibers and scent secretions, and the Lumia race, watching everything from the summit of white holes where pure information flows into the universe, have already noticed humanity's blind antenna reaching out into the cosmos. Questioning the origin of consciousness, the inherited urge from our ancestors to "stay in the safe zone," and the corridors of memory, ANTEN opens up a debate on whether the human mind is a mathematical prison or cosmic freedom. So, when will we stop being the architects of the walls that restrain us?

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.

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.

Humanity finally reaches Venus. After decades of exploration and six previous missions, NALS-7 becomes the first spacecraft to deliver humans safely to another world's surface. Nathan and Adam step into history as the first people to walk on Venus. The mission is a success. Until it isn't. As equipment begins to fail and a violent Venusian storm closes around them, the two astronauts discover that reaching another world is only half the challenge. Leaving it may be impossible. Second Genesis is a science fiction short story about exploration, sacrifice, and the cost of humanity's greatest achievements.

Archive Six is collapsing. Its memory nodes are fragmenting, corruption is spreading, and the last trace of Eileen -the visionary architect behind the project- survives only as an unstable imprint. To save what remains, Luna dives into the heart of the Core: a living machine engineered to rebuild entire civilizations. But the Core cannot be restored with data alone. It needs a Breath. Hers. [To be cross-posted on Royal Road under the ID "RedMad"] [Cover by me, crafted on Canva with ressources imported from PNGwing]

Beyond Time is a series of stories which I hope to assemble into a full book once finished. A story about human nature and condition, technological progress and the future. The series includes technologies and subjects theorized by scientists and brought to life in a believable and existential fashion. Beyond Time acts as a protest against current Sci-Fi trends, signifying a return to the more classical works of writers such as Arthur C. Clarke.

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.

In a future where peace is maintained through the iron grip of the Sunguard, Myan Lami, an elite biot Special Agent, begins to question his very existence. Designed to follow orders without hesitation, he is a near-perfect soldier - artificial but human in every way that matters. When a mission turns into a brutal massacre, Lami finds himself haunted by nightmares. A thought-provoking tale of identity, morality, and the cost of maintaining order, "Soldier of Steel" explores what happens when a perfect weapon begins to think for itself. This story takes place in my Lords of the Stars shared universe. See my profile for other stories set in the same universe.

What if everything we thought we knew about Earth's history was fundamentally flawed? What if a single discovery could expose a truth too stark to ignore? What if a single conversation could reach a point of no return? A sharp, compressed work of speculative fiction that probes the limits of consciousness and choice - and leaves one deeply unsettling question lingering long after the final page.