Hardsciencefiction Stories

Christiana is currently facing an incredibly hard decision, the most agonizing choice of her young life. Because of laws preventing males from receiving any formal educa...

The discovery of the Mariner's Codex-an indestructible, 12,000-year-old crystalline manuscript found in a non-Euclidean chamber beneath the Atlantic-shatters the line be...

By the time a System Administrator learns the truth behind the scientist he's been working for, it's all too late.

A collection of the essays of Kathryn Cramer. More will be added as I go along. I expect to include "Science Fiction and the Adventures of the Spherical Cow,"...

After waking from stasis, security officer Alex Vasquez finds out that there had been a catastrophic accident on the colony ship he had been aboard. Alex was the sole su...

They were never supposed to wonder. In a sealed lab buried beneath layers of red tape and ambition, microbiologist Lyla Mycayster spent three years crafting evolution in...

~ Sci-Fi Comedy These are short stories from my collection, 'Chronicles of the Silica G-P Spacecraft.' It centers around a group of beings travelling and working upon th...

Four brave explorers land an a distant world, armed with curiosity and the thrill of discovery. They meet a multitude of strange life forms, some friendly, others not so...

Different realities. Different time. More parts coming along the way.

They said it was safe. They were wrong. Rain Eden is a genius with numbers and a mind built for impossibilities. It was buried below the desert floor in Arizona-miles fr...

The beginning of a science fiction story about a woman from an advanced starfaring civilization mentoring a young man on an undeveloped planet. I will add to this peri...

Sunguard Special Agent Rehema Nyasi has upheld peace in the Terran Federation for over five centuries. But when an anti-insurgency mission on Jerr ends in a civilian mas...

*** A work in progress, that will likely be heavily edited as I go. An attempt at "Hard Science-Fiction" *** A colony ship is en route to a habitable world 49...

Tiggy and Bernard are researching artificial intelligence and its relationship to memories. They have just had a breakthrough, but there might be a problem. This story...

Christiana is facing a truly agonizing choice. Her Sister Haruhi has been the victim of a horrific accident and it has left her with a terrible decision. Let Haruhi-nee...

Preview prerelease of Chapters 1 - 6 • Hard SF first-contact thriller with techno-procedural suspense. A The Martian-grade craft meets Arrival-style rule puzzles; no han...

When Polaris was a little girl, she watched the first space probe reach the star system of Alpha Centauri. Growing up, she dreams of one day being able to travel to its...

Border was a dull planet. Nothing to do there except mining and playing cards, which was all good and dandy with Maya. It was exactly the kind of boring life she wanted...