43 Seconds: A Hayden’s World Hard Science Fiction Short Story

Earth to Mars in 12 Minutes

James Hayden has a dream, and the Riggs test vehicle is going to take him there. But when failure after failure leads to his last chance exploding spectacularly, he must partner with an AI and gamble everything for one last shot at the stars.

Seven Sci-Fi Adventures

Survival tales in the skies of Uranus, desperate struggles at the solar system's edge, and near-lightspeed interstellar expeditions await in this hard science fiction collection of seven Hayden’s World short reads: 43 Seconds, Silver-Side Up, Erebus, Signal Loss, Last Stand, Aero One, and Titan’s Shadow.

Go Interstellar

Voyage to the icy worlds of the Oort Cloud, survive first contact with hostile aliens, and discover the mysteries of the Centauri system in this hard science fiction collection of longform stories from the Hayden’s World Series: Janus 2 and Bernard’s Promise.

Listen to an excerpt from 43 Seconds, narrated by Shamaan Casey:

Listen to an excerpt from Hayden’s World: Volume 1, narrated by Shamaan Casey: