Hard Science Fiction

Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by an emphasis on scientific or technical detail, or on scientific accuracy, or on both. It is characterized by rigorous attention to accurate detail in the natural sciences, especially physics, astrophysics, and chemistry, or on accurately depicting worlds that more advanced technology may make possible. Hard science fiction is driven more by ideas than characterization. Plausible science and technology are central to the plot.

Exodus (Archimedes Engine #1)
Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories
Inhibitor Phase (The Inhibitor Sequence, #4)
The Object
Cold Eyes
Critical Mass (Delta-v, #2)
Wherever Seeds May Fall (Seeds, #1)
Theft of Fire (Orbital Space #1)
Light Chaser
Galaxias
The Flight of the Aphrodite
The Disturbance (The Disturbance, #1)
The Never Wars
Darkome
Our Lady of the Artilects
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
The Martian
Project Hail Mary
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
Revelation Space (The Inhibitor Sequence, #1)
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
Seveneves
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Mote in God's Eye by Larry NivenA Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor VingeThe Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinDune by Frank Herbert
Intriguing Aliens
270 books — 159 voters

Terraformer by Scott McElhaneyRed Mars by Kim Stanley RobinsonGreen Mars by Kim Stanley RobinsonDominion by Scott McElhaneyBlue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Synthetic Ecologies
19 books — 25 voters
The Martian by Andy WeirThe Forever War by Joe HaldemanLeviathan Wakes by James S.A. CoreyAltered Carbon by Richard K. MorganRendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Hard SF reading group
86 books — 58 voters

Super Powereds by Drew  HayesSteelheart by Brandon SandersonFirefight by Brandon SandersonSuper Powereds by Drew  HayesSuper Powereds by Drew  Hayes
Super Powered Characters Worth Reading
212 books — 218 voters
The Pythagorean by Alexander MorpheighPiranesi by Susanna ClarkeBefore the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu KawaguchiDune by Frank HerbertRecursion by Blake Crouch
Mind-bending Science Fiction
247 books — 218 voters


Scott Kaelen
Ah, Drilos. I wanted someone to talk to, but I never counted on a conversation quite so hilarious. Not only are you saying I’m the multiverse, but also that I’m becoming something devoid of existence? Ridiculous. Right now I’m just a disembodied consciousness, but as long as I exist in a void then the void won’t be a void. Right now I consist of energy rather than matter; it’s just nature’s way of compensating for the random space-time shifts of a being it apparently doesn’t want to die. Fission ...more
Scott Kaelen, The Hyperverse Accord

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