Hard Science

Didome

A planet where the day lasts almost half an Earth year, and human civilizations have adapted to the unique climate.

Hard Science Medieval Science Fiction Speculative

Isaac Atomic Solar System

The year is 2247. The solar system has long since been colonized with a total population of around 23 billion, but most people still live on earth, around 20 billion of them. Mars long ago separated from earth, and the gas giants have formed together...

Hard Science Science Fiction Speculative

Proxima Rising

It's the 40th century. Humanity has spread across the stars, settling thousands of worlds, adapting to the ones they couldn't terraform. They fought wars, explored and invented. They changed along the way, growing stronger, smarter, and sometimes bet...

Adult 18+ Hard Science Science Fiction Space Opera Speculative

Wouraiya

An archipelago of island-continents, each with its own governance, culture, and economy. Traditions and resources determine the fates of wars and peaces well before the battles themselves take place. Designed for a grounded experience, each species i...

Exploration Fantasy, Low Magic Hard Science Medieval Military

Celeritas

Celeritas takes place at the beginning of the 24th century, around 2317 Humanity has over the last three centuries advanced to all but the farthest corners of the solar system from the icy rings of Saturn to the hellish orbit of Mercury. Human ingenu...

Cyberpunk Hard Science Science Fiction Space Opera

Pearl Directive

Cyberpunk Hard Science Mystery Science Fiction, Modern Space Opera

Diaspora

The Diaspora is an exploration of humanity’s future within the local stellar group. The various projects set within the universe explore humanity’s path to the stars and their interactions with the oth...

Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction Speculative

Shelder

The "perfect" Earth clone... only 23 million light years away! Planet Shelder. Four billion and a half years of evolution to get here, now: explosive bio-diversity ranging from the micro to the macro. Danger lurking behind every c...

Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction Speculative

Legacy of Sol

"Legacy of Sol" is a science fiction setting focused on a hypothetical early expansion of mankind into outer space. It draws inspiration from a wide variety of sources and is intended to primarily feature the exceptional men and women that pilot the...

Exploration Hard Science Mecha Military Science Fiction

Parastellis

The future is a strange, yet familiar place. Humanity has achieved its dream of space colonization, going interstellar with wormhole stargates. Over a century after a terrible dark age ended, civilization enjoys an age of peace united in the Stellar...

Exploration Hard Science Political Science Fiction Space Opera

2807

The year is 2807 A.C.E. Humanity has spread to the stars, and maintains an interstellar empire 10,000 light years in radius in the Milky Way. Long ago, humans discovered basic single-cell life in other places in the Solar System and Galaxy. This indi...

Exploration Hard Science Post-modern Science Fiction Space Opera

Xahverse

In the distant future, humanity has expanded far from their home system of Sol. Millions of stars have been colonised and humans now number in the quintillions. Whilst most of the galaxy remains dark and unexplored, some star systems are bustling wit...

Hard Science Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy Space Opera Transhumanism

The Influx

It's been two months since The Influx. No one was prepared for the world to get flipped on its head; magic, psionics, technology, aliens, and ancient whispers collide to create a new mess for all of the races and species in this galaxy to figure out...

Cyberpunk Hard Science Science Fiction, Modern Superheroic

Blue Way

Blue Way, our first laser highway, is complete and more, to other stars, are in construction. We made it far into to the darkness, but we are still only dipping our toes in the deep cosmic ocean and who knows, what lurks in the deep.

Atompunk Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction Speculative

Orion Spur

Adult 18+ Cyberpunk Hard Science Horror Science Fiction

The Seas of Steel

The Seas of Steel. An inhospitable, global ocean, surrounding the continent of Valemar. Few can navigate the windy sea, with its forbidding currents and deadly inhabitants. But some don't have a choice. Some must navig...

Fantasy Hard Magic Hard Science Medieval

Long War

Contrary to humanity's expectations, neither leaving Earth nor expanding throught the Galaxy could change human nature. When Mankind expanded throughout the stars, its problems expanded as well. Both in number and in scale. Most of them will...

Dystopia Hard Science Political Science Fiction Space Opera

The Firmament Universe

Adult 18+ Hard Magic Hard Science Science Fiction Transhumanism

Athena Minerva

A slight alteration in the history of mammals causes a subtle but powerful shift in human societies far into the future. As early human women are much more likely to survive childbirth, (and perhaps a bit more self-centered than the human women of P...

Adult 18+ Cyberpunk Hard Science Science Fiction Solarpunk

The Sol System

Hard Science Science Fiction Space Opera

The DRUniverse

What do you get when you cross George Miller cosplayers, a low fantasy kingdom, god knows how many mercenaries and a bandit problem? Apparently this. The DRUniverse is a strange multimedia shared universe, set in a post-apocalyptic/low fantasy world...

Fantasy, Low Magic Hard Science Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy

White Reach

Overview In the distant future, mankind has gone to the stars, and taken war with them. As they spread out across hundreds of star systems, a unifying presence came to exist with the Star League. From Terra, the First Lord was supposed...

Hard Science Mecha Military Political Science Fiction

Obsidian

After 5000 years of human civilization, humanity has finally claimed its rightful place among the stars. But not all is well in their secluded corner of the milky way. The Splinter group of Noctra has been rampaging through known space, taking system...

Hard Science Political Science Fantasy Science Fiction Young Adult (YA)

Alt Earth

Hard Science Military Science Fiction

Earth

This is the Earth in the year 2034 AD. This world was created for the Tale Foundry competition.

Hard Science Horror Science Fiction, Modern Supernatural

Universe: 68: Halorus

Halorus exists in The Divide for the Originals

Fantasy, High Magic Hard Science Modern Science Fantasy

Angaran Expansion Project

The angara from Bioware's Mass Effect: Andromeda are a fascinating race. However, our meeting with them takes place so quickly and during such a complex series of events that there would have been a lot of confusion and missing information... Where w...

Fanfiction Hard Science Informational Science Fantasy Science Fiction

Galaxy in Eclipse

Adult 18+ Hard Science Science Fiction Space Opera

The Dust and Cold (Themis)

The basic setting is that some humans travels to a distant star system on a fleet of colonial ships. They planned to establish colonies on this habitable desert planet named Themis. But something happened which I'm still slightly undecided on which c...

Comedy Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction Western

The Colossuss Galaxy

Far from the limits of our universe, far from all things you could think about, and far away in the massive black thing that space is, theres a spot, called the Colossuss Galaxy, in which races, exotic planets and even dark obscure things happen dail...

Hard Science Military Political Science Fiction, Modern Space Opera

Terra Sapia

What if certain other animals evolved human-level intelligence alongside us? What if they evolved big brains like us, advanced through the stone age and iron age with us, built cities and civilisations and technology and mathematics and arts and...

Alternative History Clockpunk Hard Science Science Fantasy Speculative

Andalusada

As far as the world is concerned, today is 22 Nisan 5690, the final day of Passover. Today is 20 April 1930, Easter Sunday. Today is 22 Dhu'l-Qi'dah 1348, a day for Muslims to ignore the ulama, bring dessert to someone else's holiday, and get drunk....

Alternative History Dieselpunk Hard Science Political Speculative

Opposition: Mars

They say Mars is the graveyard of ambitions. Partially terraformed and populated largely by tribes of genetically modified colonists, one might wonder why the nations of Earth have any interest in a hostile planet like Mars. For a diverse group of No...

Hard Science Military Political Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction

Abyssal Planes Prototype

Abyssal Planes is a (web)comic I’m working on. The basic idea is a reaction to the archetypical village/town/country/continent/world sized dungeon we see so often in fantasy. Why would anyone build a dungeon so big? How? What for? The ideas e...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Fantasy, Dark Hard Science Horror

Arcverse

The Arcverse is a fictional version of our own universe heavily based in scientific fact and plausible speculation. The canonical history of the Arcverse stretches from the Big Bang that began the universe to the final extra-universal migration of al...

Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction Space Opera Speculative

Orphaned Worlds

Humanity climbed to transcendent heights at some point in the past, but some millennia ago paradise fell. Some say the gods' magic still exists, but the gods stopped sharing it with humanity.  Deprived of godlike powers to animate metal slaves, to se...

Hard Science Mecha Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction Superheroic

Era'guya

What if you knew how things came to be? What if dragons, gods and men are lost toys dropped in a box by a fickle superpower? What if the dirt was magic? What if you were dropped in this world with no context and no way home? Era'guya is a world wh...

Adult 18+ Alternative History Ancient Atompunk Biopunk

Novum

Hard Science Horror Mecha Science Fiction

Aetherverse

The Aetherverse....is it the past? The present? The future? Who knows, no one knows... It is a distant galaxy, or maybe just an alternate universe? It isn't our Milky Way that's for sure. The Aetherverse is a galaxy full of wonders, the tech...

Hard Science Military Science Fantasy Science Fiction Speculative

Davel

Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern Speculative

Patron Saints

Space is a wide, wild place. Sometimes, the lines between good and evil are blurred and you have to start wondering: are the monsters right?

Hard Science Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern

Fane

Fane is a world that was long at one war or another. Over the last century and a half, however, there has been nearly uninterrupted peace. This period began in the year 1512 WI when the entire population of Rilas capital of Neglos mysteriously vanish...

Clockpunk Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Flintlock Hard Science

Ereya

Every ending is a new beginning. From the smoking shells of cities, survivors emerge to build a volatile society after a catastrophic war that pruned ancient lineages and families that had ruled for generations–the promised Third Apocalyp...

Fantasy Hard Science Military Science Fantasy Science Fiction, Modern

After Earth

In the early 1970s, scientists warned of the consequences of climate change. Greenhouse effect, polar ice melt, droughts, dying forests and storms. But these warnings were dismissed as scaremongering or ignored. Even at the beginning of the 2...

Hard Science Science Fiction, Modern

The Frontier

The Frontier world takes place in the mid 23rd century when humanity has established itself in the galactic community among other space fairing races. Humanity must adapt to their new galactic environment and either work with or against the numerous...

Exploration Hard Science Military Political Science Fantasy

The Sealed Kingdoms

In the far-away region of IC 1848 - also known as the Soul Nebula - lies a sphere of inhabited space measuring roughly 100 light years across. This region is known as the Sealed Kingdoms by those who live there - 'sealed' both for the envelope of ga...

Cyberpunk Exploration Hard Science Space Opera

Hidden Roads to Hegemony

2762. The Centaurian Hegemony once represented the apex of human civilization. With the discovery of an artificial structure partially encircling Proxima Centauri, human technological development was pushed forward by hundreds of years, powere...

Exploration Hard Science Political Space Opera Speculative

Stellar Journey (working title)

2876. Humans have established a foothold in space, and have forged an interstellar civilization. With the advent of FTL travel in the 2660s, travel between stars has never been easier. An action-adventure-type story about a robot and his buddies g...

Hard Science Science Fiction Speculative

Tales of the void

Hard Science Mecha Science Fiction, Modern

Ishtar

Welcome to the year 2414 AD (314 AE). After centuries of scientific discovery and thousands of lost pioneers, our new home of Ishtar has started to grow into the mold we set 304 years ago. Ever since our exodus, the survival of Terran humanity had be...

Cyberpunk Hard Science Science Fiction

Tamyrh

Welcome! Here on World Anvil - "Tamyrh", you'll have access to my world-building bits, side-stories, timelines, maps, notes, and all the other details that form the foundation for the adventures of Nash...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Hard Science Political Science Fiction

Talifar

Talifar is the setting for the Tales From Talifar novels. In development for over two decades from the mother-and-son team of Josh Foreman and Rose Foreman. Rose is a science fiction / fantasy author and writing teacher. Josh has been building worlds...

Fantasy Hard Science Science Fantasy

Sagas of a Solar System

After the colonization of the Solar System and further expansion into space, the United Earth Federation is the head of the now Solar Government. With every planet and moon having a human presence on it; from small outposts and mining colonies to vas...

Hard Science Military Political Science Fiction Space Opera

The Bordermarch

Welcome to Outpost 83, also known as Marconi Station. It is a time of unprecedented cooperation between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire. The Federation has been invited to ru...

Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction Space Opera

Emergence

The mysteries of space unfold to the citizens of the Galactic Planet Federation. Nearly 200 years ago, humankind discovered the great power of warp travel. With this, they set out upon the stars to explore the last great frontier. Corporations a...

Hard Science Science Fiction Space Opera

The Bijourn Cluster

Space is empty We give it names: the expanse, the black, this territory or that We try to fill it with people and ships and colonies, so that every pinprick of light may no...

Hard Science Science Fiction

Voerenhutz-Sektor

Die Menschheit hat seit Hunderten von Jahren Teile der bekannten Milchstraße besiedelt, nicht zuletzt aufgrund des von dem kauzigen Wissenschaftler Dr. Tiberius Crohn entwickelten Spike-Antriebs, der durch Verschiebungen der, das Einstein-Universum ü...

Hard Science Neo Noir Political Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction

15th Realm of Secrets

Welcome to the 15th Realm of Secrets (15ROS for short). In this magicless sciency themed fantasy world you will leaf through my pet project fictional world with many creatures, nations, peoples, environments, histories, cultures and more. From the ha...

Ancient Fantasy Hard Science Military

Reborn Stars

For millenia, the galaxy was empty. Its previous inhabitants wiped out, their monuments razed, leaving barely a trace behind. All that is left of their greatness are a few precious scraps for the next generation of species to squabble over. The galax...

Hard Science Political Science Fiction Speculative

The Oasisian Systems

On Oasisa, the world was in chaos. Entities with no rational explanation haunted the people of the world. Then a refugee camp surviving from a massacre came together under the Protector. This nation was small, and attempted to market baskets along wi...

Hard Science Science Fiction

Utope

PART A - THE LAB No one knows why their DNA is so different. There’s no genetic pattern, no natural causes. The fact is that some people are more powerful than others, and obviously, these individuals shouldn’t be permitted to interact with the publ...

Fantasy, Low Magic Hard Science Science Fiction Supernatural Weird

Project : Eden

Hard Science Science Fiction

Flesh and Chrome

Three times humanity has surged out into the wide blackness of the galaxy. Three times have the massive black-hole powered path-making ships gone forth among the stars so that those after them could settle distant worlds. At first, humanity knew n...

Crime Cyberpunk Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction

transhuman world

Hard Science Science Fiction

Paradigm

Someone once told me that we tell only the stories that are memorable, the stories that have novel experiences and interesting conclusions. It wasn't until much later in my life that I understood what that stranger meant. We may consider life mundane...

Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, High Magic Hard Science Political

Mavuzog-Sektor

1110 nach der Gründung des 3. Imperiums. Während sich das Imperium in kleineren Koloniekriegen verliert und die Wunden des Solomani-Krieges leckt, geht im Outer-Rim das Leben weiter wie bisher. Die Probleme der Core-Welten sind weit entfernt und ein...

Hard Science Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern Space Opera Surreal

Triad: Operation Spearhead

[quote] The universe is big. In the Milky Way Galaxy alone there are millions of stars, with millions of planets orbiting them. We know that at least some of them must harbor life, and that at least some of that life must be intelligent. At least som...

Exploration Hard Science Military Science Fiction

Ramiss

It is a tidally locked planet.

Ancient Exploration Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, High Magic

Reality Layer M70263N472740E191432

Cyberpunk Hard Science Military Science Fiction, Modern Sword & Sorcery

TEST WORLD

to test features and try to break Dimitris's work (Sorry pal, it's for your own good :D ) ----- Please create a note with the description of the bug and how it happened if you can. Something like: I had an article crash with error 500....

Adult 18+ Alternative History Ancient Atompunk Biopunk

World-Tree Human World

Ongoing. South of the Obsidian mountain lies the Sicilia empire and its fertile lands. North of the Obsidian mountain is the unexplored wild.

Fantasy, High Magic Fantasy, Romantic Hard Magic Hard Science Oriental

Project Daedalus

A near(ish)-future hard sci-fi To die is human. It is part of the experience of all humans, no matter what race, religion, or nationality, to confront our own mortality. So what does that make those who transcend our biological and Hayflick limits...

Alternative History Cyberpunk Hard Science Science Fiction Space Opera

Coven

The Sphere is a world where magic has been a part of society since humans sensitive to it have begun practicing it. Living on the sidelines of society, witches have always been the subject of curiosity and prejudice. When individuals with powers f...

Fantasy, High Magic Hard Science Political Sword & Sorcery

Apogee

Earth is divided, with the great powers of humanity's homeworld leveraging their power across the solar system. Mars is the site of numerous proxy wars waged by city-states, while the Jovian moons and the network of space stations in the asteroid bel...

Hard Science Military Science Fiction Space Opera

Verge of the Void

[quote] [p]Aus den Sternen kamen wir. Aus den leeren Weiten formten wir Ursprung.[/p] [p]Genötigt von unserer Gier, gefunden von unseren Ahnen, gemacht von unserer Hand; mannigfaltig sind unsere Wege, die u...

Crime Hard Science Science Fiction Transhumanism Western

Avalon 2118

[quote]"War, war never changes."[/quote] The year is 2118, a hundred years have past since the beginning of the of the end. The year 2018 a sudden and utterly unexpected change in the Golf Stream triggered a massive change in the environment o...

Atompunk Hard Science Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction

Outside

In the year 2117, the walls rose. All over the U.S, the populace was truly split into the haves and the have-nots. Nearly two centuries later and the have-nots still struggle, still fight, fight for their survival, for their humanity. Inside the lush...

Cyberpunk Dystopia Hard Science Science Fiction

Voidbrood

Adult 18+ Hard Science Science Fiction Speculative Weird

Alantia Station

Alternative History Hard Science Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction

The Simulation Hypothesis

If we do not survive to the posthuman stage, to Aetherium, then we are the reality. We achieved Aetherium. If we do not run full universe simulations, the Final Simulacrum, then we are reality. We ran the Final Simulacrum. If we fulfill...

Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction Space Opera

Vicilague

Introduction to the End On the continent of Voalus lies the accursed earth of the once glorious Vicilague. Now laid to waste by vile greed and treachery and malice. The once open and thriving trading center of Voalus has since bec...

Gothic Hard Magic Hard Science Horror Victorian

Emergence

Emergence is the setting of the author's debut novel "Identity". Set less than two centuries in the future, the Solar System has just come out of its first interplanetary war, and finds itself in a situation resembling both the Cold War between the...

Hard Science Political Science Fiction Space Opera

Eclypse : Point zéro

Wiki du futur space-opera "Eclypse" Je suisUn monde futuriste où le monde est peuplé d’êtres anthropomorphique, vivant sur plusieurs colonies à travers l'espace. « On ne condamne pas un guerrier pour ces convictions, on le juge par sa bravo...

Hard Science Military Science Fiction Space Opera Transhumanism

Bartugk

Die Welt entstanden aus der Gnade der Götter Bartugk ist eine Welt, die von den Göttern geformt wurde - manchmal im Guten und manchmal im Schlechten. Viele Kreaturen bewachen wertvolle Schätze, andere sind geschaffen um der Menschhei...

Fantasy, Low Magic Hard Science Post Apocalyptic Science Fantasy

Okanverse

Three thousand years have passed since Transhumanity was abducted from the known Universe, and cast into the the Bulk. The Local Habitable Nexus is a cluster of universes situated in a fortunate region of hyperspace that can support familiar forms...

Cyberpunk Hard Magic Hard Science Science Fiction Space Opera

North East 2186

Welcome to Newcastle Upon Tees. Hyper Conurbation M3. Otherwise known as HyCob 3. [color:#d9f4ff]The most divided of the 3 HyCobs, the division of the haves and have not's is unprecedented. An over stretched and under resourced police force is b...

Cyberpunk Hard Science Science Fiction Science Fiction, Modern

Avron

Their star is dying, yet the gruesome war that has dominated this system for years sees no sign of ceasing. Within a mere 150 years, their doomed sun will go supernova, promptly annihilating any planets within the system. That is, if the war doesn't...

Exploration Hard Science Military Science Fiction, Modern

The Drums of Atlant

The Drums of Atlant takes place on a future Earth, or Terra as it is generally called by that time, starting in the year 2048. On Terra a culture of science has developed out of the ashes of a near-miss of a world war that almost became a nuclear war...

Exploration Hard Science Science Fiction Space Opera

Radical Futurism

In 1999 the millennium bug got everyone from the white house to the Kremlin scared so the nations decided to digitally back up their collective knowledge into a super computer in Antarctica. When the apocalypse didn't happen they felt the scare was...

Adult 18+ Fanfiction Hard Science Post Apocalyptic Solarpunk

The Dreamscape

"The Dreamscape" is a binary world containing two worlds within it: the first is the Conscious Self -- in essence, a scifi edition of our universe containing at least partially realistic physics -- an...

Alternative History Hard Science Science Fantasy Surreal

Tales from Night City

Crime Cyberpunk Dystopia Hard Science Science Fiction

Xeno-IV

Cyber-Organic Planet Originally Roamed the Jarowins. They were a smart race constantly creating and building. They built a Cyber Race, they Called them Exo's. Together as Man and Machine they built together for thousands of years until a plague. The...

Cyberpunk Exploration Hard Science Military Political

Expleo

Expleo is a universe much like our own. It contains galaxies, solar systems and planets, each of which tell their own unique stories, most of which have not yet been uncovered.

Hard Science

Licentia

[quote] Our zombies are different!|Literally every writer ever[/quote] Welcome to the landing page for everything related to this world! Please be aware that some content on both my twitter accounts and this website might be graphic, so considering...

Biopunk Hard Science Political Post Apocalyptic

Astra Rho

The worlds of sector Astra Rho were hit hard by the Scream, and it left many of them ruined, broken, and isolated from one another. But with the rediscovery of old spike drives and ships on several worlds and moons across the sector in the past few c...

Hard Science Political Science Fiction Space Opera

Gala Supercluster

Cyberpunk Hard Science Military Science Fantasy Space Opera

Ectharion

the Planet of Etharion is a world of high unstable magic, high stakes conflict and grand invention, A land of divided cultures, and the races at one another's throats to strive is these harsh lands, filled with danger and adventure! the two moons han...

Clockpunk Fantasy, High Magic Hard Science MagiPunk Political

Twinsverse [tbd]

Some fantasy requires a whole new world - and sometimes, fantasy is just what lies out of sight, beyond our star and the iron curtain pulled tight by hard-lined gods. Twins Life and Death, they regulate where celestial force meets Earth, monitoring t...

Alternative History Fantasy Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Low Magic Hard Science

Eternity is not Immortal

Nothing is truly immortal, save that which we leave behind us, written into the sands of time. Eventually the winds pick up those sands and blow them around the world, sometimes they will be obliterated by the footsteps of later and greater beings, b...

Dystopia Hard Science Mecha Military Political

WoD: After the Fall

The fifth possibly final fall of man, the one prophesied by gods and by billions of mortal men and best has come and gone. Worlds destroyed or left in ruin, inter races wiped out or on the brink of extinction. Yet we have recovered. On the ruins...

Cyberpunk Hard Magic Hard Science Post-modern Science Fantasy