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Hard Science Fiction Books
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The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,275,453 ratings — published 2011
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 94 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 486,005 ratings — published 2006
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,057,220 ratings — published 2021
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
by (shelved 62 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 216,456 ratings — published 2008
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 88,372 ratings — published 1992
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
by (shelved 54 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 53,449 ratings — published 2006
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 54 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 183,188 ratings — published 1973
Seveneves (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 52 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 124,543 ratings — published 2015
Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 61,435 ratings — published 2000
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 171,153 ratings — published 2015
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
by (shelved 48 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.41 — 169,234 ratings — published 2010
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 315,679 ratings — published 2011
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 335,016 ratings — published 1968
Diaspora (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 11,087 ratings — published 1997
Artemis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.69 — 321,782 ratings — published 2017
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 592,790 ratings — published 1951
A New Eden (The Betaverse, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.64 — 340 ratings — published 2023
Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
by (shelved 33 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 128,534 ratings — published 1970
Permutation City (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 12,835 ratings — published 1994
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 66,367 ratings — published 1992
House of Suns (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.24 — 32,403 ratings — published 2008
Tau Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 16,897 ratings — published 1970
Redemption Ark (Revelation Space, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 32,366 ratings — published 2002
Pushing Ice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 22,142 ratings — published 2005
Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)
by (shelved 25 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 181,151 ratings — published 2012
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 121,563 ratings — published 2016
Chasm City (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 27,483 ratings — published 2001
Dragon's Egg (Cheela, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,771 ratings — published 1980
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
by (shelved 23 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 153,001 ratings — published 2013
Spin (Spin, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 44,295 ratings — published 2005
Contact (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 151,991 ratings — published 1985
Absolution Gap (Revelation Space, #3)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,135 ratings — published 2003
Aurora (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.78 — 27,655 ratings — published 2015
Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 40,787 ratings — published 1993
Mission of Gravity (Mesklin #1)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 7,606 ratings — published 1954
I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.21 — 377,234 ratings — published 1950
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.38 — 86,098 ratings — published 2017
Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 113,613 ratings — published 2015
2010: Odyssey Two (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,693 ratings — published 1982
The Prefect (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 21,654 ratings — published 2007
Accelerando (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 22,243 ratings — published 2005
Eon (The Way, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 30,145 ratings — published 1985
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,468,253 ratings — published 1985
Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 60,461 ratings — published 2019
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 179,717 ratings — published 2003
Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 97,651 ratings — published 2016
The Fountains of Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 31,637 ratings — published 1979
Voice (Ceti Conflict, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.42 — 132 ratings — published
The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 23,823 ratings — published 2010
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.23 — 222,697 ratings — published 2005
“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
“Here was the same sense of awe and mystery, and the sadness of the irrevocably vanished past. Yet the scale here was so much greater, both in time and in space, that the mind was unable to do it justice; after a while, it ceased to respond. Norton wondered if, sooner of later, he would take even Rama for granted.”
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hard-sci-fi, hard-scifi, hard-sf, hardsciencefiction, science-fiction-hard, and sf-hard
