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The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 201 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.08 — 532,596 ratings — published 2006
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 179 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,371,017 ratings — published 2011
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,826,330 ratings — published 2021
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
by (shelved 107 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.40 — 240,113 ratings — published 2008
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
by (shelved 106 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.00 — 58,527 ratings — published 2006
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
by (shelved 99 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.40 — 185,918 ratings — published 2010
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 3.85 — 90,617 ratings — published 1992
Revelation Space (The Inhibitor Sequence, #1)
by (shelved 93 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 3.99 — 63,804 ratings — published 2000
Leviathan Wakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.31 — 336,923 ratings — published 2011
Seveneves (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 85 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.00 — 127,821 ratings — published 2015
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.12 — 189,983 ratings — published 1973
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.30 — 194,454 ratings — published 2015
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.17 — 613,457 ratings — published 1951
Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)
by (shelved 56 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.39 — 192,777 ratings — published 2012
Diaspora (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.10 — 11,908 ratings — published 1997
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.18 — 343,266 ratings — published 1968
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
by (shelved 50 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.28 — 162,644 ratings — published 2013
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.13 — 68,405 ratings — published 1992
Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
by (shelved 49 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 3.93 — 130,988 ratings — published 1970
Artemis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 3.67 — 361,948 ratings — published 2017
Permutation City (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.04 — 13,844 ratings — published 1994
Contact (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 46 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.15 — 155,946 ratings — published 1985
Redemption Ark (The Inhibitor Sequence, #2)
by (shelved 44 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.16 — 33,365 ratings — published 2002
House of Suns (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.24 — 34,249 ratings — published 2008
Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
by (shelved 41 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.24 — 134,566 ratings — published 2014
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,699,805 ratings — published 1965
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.28 — 316,505 ratings — published 1989
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.24 — 143,195 ratings — published 2016
I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
by (shelved 38 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.21 — 389,123 ratings — published 1950
Echopraxia (Firefall, #2)
by (shelved 37 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 3.82 — 13,548 ratings — published 2014
Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 37 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 3.96 — 41,693 ratings — published 1993
Absolution Gap (The Inhibitor Sequence, #3)
by (shelved 36 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,017 ratings — published 2003
Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 34 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 3.95 — 33,787 ratings — published 1996
Aurora (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 3.78 — 28,551 ratings — published 2015
Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5)
by (shelved 33 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.45 — 121,209 ratings — published 2015
Tau Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 3.83 — 17,786 ratings — published 1970
Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
by (shelved 32 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.26 — 104,203 ratings — published 2016
Pushing Ice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.07 — 23,585 ratings — published 2005
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)
by (shelved 31 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.38 — 92,104 ratings — published 2017
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.14 — 184,844 ratings — published 1974
Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)
by (shelved 31 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.22 — 233,091 ratings — published 1952
Dragon's Egg (Cheela, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,225 ratings — published 1980
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,500,936 ratings — published 1985
The Mote in God's Eye (Moties, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.07 — 73,892 ratings — published 1974
Chasm City (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.13 — 28,305 ratings — published 2001
Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 3.84 — 103,740 ratings — published 1987
Anathem (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.17 — 76,827 ratings — published 2008
Schild's Ladder (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,306 ratings — published 2002
Accelerando (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 3.87 — 22,768 ratings — published 2005
A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)
by (shelved 29 times as hard-sci-fi)
avg rating 4.32 — 35,694 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
“Angelo," he said, and felt the bed rock as Angelo shuddered, caught halfway between REM atonia - the inhibition of movement caused by the shutdown of monoamines in the brain - and waking.”
― Carnival
― Carnival
