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Alan Voss is a veteran technology architect and lifelong astronomy enthusiast who writes hard science fiction grounded in real physics.

His COSMIC THRESHOLDS collection puts working scientists in front of the universe's most extreme phenomena and asks what happens next. A solar physicist discovers a magnetar close enough to sterilize Earth's atmosphere. A governor leads 2,000 colonists onto a tidally locked planet where the wind never stops. An astrobiologist descends through twenty one kilometers of ice into an ocean on a rogue planet drifting between the stars. An astrophysicist builds a telescope to peer into the one region of the sky no one has ever seen, and the data starts looking back. Each story starts with a real object, a real proc ...more

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	The Pull: A Hard Science Fiction Quest Beyond the Blind Spot 4.56 avg rating — 27 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Terminator: Hard Science Fiction on a World That Never Turns 4.63 avg rating — 16 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Starquake: Hard Science Fiction at the Edge of Survival 4.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wanderer: Hard Science Fiction from the Darkest Ocean 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cosmic Thresholds, Volume I: Three Hard Science Fiction Stories 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cold Trap: Hard Science Fiction from the Lunar South Pole it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Der Sog: Hard Science Fiction jenseits des blinden Flecks (Kosmische Schwellen) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Alan Voss liked Fiona Fuentes's review of The Pull: A Hard Science Fiction Quest Beyond the Blind Spot (Cosmic Thresholds): "Hard Sci-Fi With a Heart! The Pull is more than a child seeking to continue with legacy of parent story. It also goes beyond seeing what’s on other side of the Milky Way Galaxy cluster. This story is what happens when a discredited scientist from Afri" Read more of this review »
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Alan Voss and 1 other person liked Stella's review of Terminator: Hard Science Fiction on a World That Never Turns (Cosmic Thresholds): "I’m on my third novelette by this author. Each story explores a fascinating, terrifying scientific concept and does it really well."
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Alan Voss and 9 other people liked Dan's review of Terminator: Hard Science Fiction on a World That Never Turns (Cosmic Thresholds): "This novella is reasonably priced at $1.99 and is definitely in the hard science wing of SF, which is not usually my favorite. Correspondingly, the relationships among the characters are not there for their own sake, but to fuel plot developments. St" Read more of this review »
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Alan Voss made a comment in the group Shut Up & Read — New Hard Science Fiction \| Free to read topic " Hello everyone, Please check out my new short story called Dead Frequency here https://alanvoss.substack.com/p/dead-... Its about the implications of a ...more "
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