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The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 208 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.08 — 544,616 ratings — published 2006
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 184 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,393,533 ratings — published 2011
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,927,561 ratings — published 2021
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
by (shelved 111 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.40 — 245,514 ratings — published 2008
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
by (shelved 106 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.00 — 60,186 ratings — published 2006
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
by (shelved 103 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.40 — 190,273 ratings — published 2010
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 3.85 — 91,261 ratings — published 1992
Revelation Space (The Inhibitor Sequence, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 3.99 — 64,440 ratings — published 2000
Leviathan Wakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.31 — 342,170 ratings — published 2011
Seveneves (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 88 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.00 — 128,778 ratings — published 2015
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.30 — 200,824 ratings — published 2015
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.12 — 191,736 ratings — published 1973
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.17 — 619,077 ratings — published 1951
Caliban’s War (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.39 — 195,794 ratings — published 2012
Diaspora (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.10 — 12,168 ratings — published 1997
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.18 — 345,370 ratings — published 1968
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
by (shelved 50 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.28 — 165,085 ratings — published 2013
Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
by (shelved 50 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 3.93 — 131,639 ratings — published 1970
Artemis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 3.67 — 371,250 ratings — published 2017
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.13 — 68,967 ratings — published 1992
Permutation City (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,150 ratings — published 1994
Contact (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.15 — 156,980 ratings — published 1985
House of Suns (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.24 — 34,886 ratings — published 2008
Redemption Ark (The Inhibitor Sequence, #2)
by (shelved 44 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.16 — 33,619 ratings — published 2002
Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
by (shelved 41 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.24 — 136,687 ratings — published 2014
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,724,686 ratings — published 1965
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.28 — 322,602 ratings — published 1989
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.23 — 149,192 ratings — published 2016
Echopraxia (Firefall, #2)
by (shelved 38 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 3.82 — 13,829 ratings — published 2014
I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
by (shelved 37 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.21 — 392,609 ratings — published 1950
Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 37 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 3.96 — 41,936 ratings — published 1993
Absolution Gap (The Inhibitor Sequence, #3)
by (shelved 36 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,239 ratings — published 2003
Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 34 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 3.95 — 33,979 ratings — published 1996
Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
by (shelved 33 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.26 — 105,977 ratings — published 2016
Aurora (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 3.78 — 28,819 ratings — published 2015
Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5)
by (shelved 33 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.45 — 123,142 ratings — published 2015
Pushing Ice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.07 — 23,957 ratings — published 2005
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.14 — 186,183 ratings — published 1974
Tau Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 3.82 — 18,075 ratings — published 1970
Dragon's Egg (Cheela, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,382 ratings — published 1980
Anathem (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.17 — 77,257 ratings — published 2008
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)
by (shelved 31 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.38 — 93,763 ratings — published 2017
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,509,123 ratings — published 1985
Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 3.84 — 104,779 ratings — published 1987
The Mote in God's Eye (Moties, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.07 — 74,189 ratings — published 1974
Chasm City (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.13 — 28,549 ratings — published 2001
Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.22 — 235,303 ratings — published 1952
Schild's Ladder (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,344 ratings — published 2002
Accelerando (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 3.87 — 22,938 ratings — published 2005
A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)
by (shelved 29 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.32 — 35,894 ratings — published 1999
“The silence was absolute.
It was so quiet in the laboratory; you could have heard a cell divide.”
― Brid: Fight or Flight
It was so quiet in the laboratory; you could have heard a cell divide.”
― Brid: Fight or Flight
“I am naked as I type this. I was naked writing the whole damn book.”
― Echopraxia
― Echopraxia
