Lives of Bitter Rain
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Published 2025
126 pages
The most popular hard science fiction books of 2025
Hard science fiction takes its science seriously. The physics is real, the engineering is worked out, and the plot often turns on solving a technical problem with what is at hand. If you enjoy orbital mechanics, first contact done plausibly, or survival by ingenuity, you will find the books here rewarding. This list shows the ones first published in 2025.
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Minds in Transit
Joan Slonczewski
Published 2025
300 pages
Roads Not Yet Travelled Transport Futures For 2050
Marcus Enoch
Published 2025
176 pages
Artificial Intelligence - A Martian Odyssey Beyond Human, Beyond Machine-The Rise of Robo Sapiens
Alireza Mehrnia
Published 2025
322 pages
The Forever Factor
Tom Hogan, Amanda Iles
Published 2025
412 pages
The Noema Cycle
Salvatore Cataudella
Published 2025
105 pages
War's Edge Berserkers
Ryan W. Aslesen
Published 2025
774 pages
The Human Countermove
Logan Sidwell
Published 2025
320 pages
The Multiverse War (Captain Future)
Allen Steele
Published 2025
212 pages
The Receiver A Hard Sci-Fi First Contact Techno-Thriller
Seth Jaffe
Published 2025
510 pages
The Minotaur (First Contact)
Peter Cawdron
Published 2025
307 pages
Contact
Joshua T. Calvert
Published 2025
312 pages
Dark Prophet (Dark Law)
Wick Welker
Published 2025
508 pages
Stationary Objects A Science Fiction Short Story
Robert J. McCarter
Published 2025
42 pages
Deep Sahara
Mike Maykin
Published 2025
338 pages
And I Will Grow Wings
Felice Austin
Published 2025
614 pages
Quantum Reversal - When Memory Fractures, the Future Rewrites Itself
ROHIT. PATEL
Published 2025
220 pages
Ex Orbis
Ben Giles
Published 2025
342 pages
Homo Deus
Felicity Harley
Published 2025
186 pages
Homo Machina A Post-Apocalyptic Hard Sci-Fi Genetic Engineering Thriller
P.A. Vasey
Published 2025
271 pages
The Dawn of Homo Technologicus
C.FIRAT ÇALIŞKAN, CEM FIRAT ÇALIŞKAN
Published 2025
192 pages
Mother Revolution
SAPPHY. LORE
Published 2025
282 pages
ephemeral echoes
Anthony L Abraham
Published 2025
184 pages
The Iron Wastes
K.E. Filmmaker
Published 2025
301 pages