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Hard Science Fiction Books
Showing 1-50 of 2,108
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,252,573 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 — 470,489 ratings — published 2006
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.50 — 942,863 ratings — published 2021
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
by (shelved 59 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 209,190 ratings — published 2008
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.86 — 87,591 ratings — published 1992
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 180,784 ratings — published 1973
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 51,798 ratings — published 2006
Seveneves (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 52 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 123,473 ratings — published 2015
Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 60,586 ratings — published 2000
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
by (shelved 47 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.41 — 163,129 ratings — published 2010
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 164,002 ratings — published 2015
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 332,163 ratings — published 1968
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 308,508 ratings — published 2011
Artemis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.69 — 313,398 ratings — published 2017
Diaspora (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,839 ratings — published 1997
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 585,306 ratings — published 1951
A New Eden (The Betaverse, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.65 — 330 ratings — published 2023
Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
by (shelved 32 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 127,610 ratings — published 1970
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 65,640 ratings — published 1992
Permutation City (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 12,472 ratings — published 1994
House of Suns (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.24 — 31,769 ratings — published 2008
Redemption Ark (Revelation Space, #2)
by (shelved 27 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 31,979 ratings — published 2002
Tau Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 16,530 ratings — published 1970
Pushing Ice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 21,723 ratings — published 2005
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 116,369 ratings — published 2016
Spin (Spin, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 43,873 ratings — published 2005
Chasm City (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 27,162 ratings — published 2001
Absolution Gap (Revelation Space, #3)
by (shelved 23 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.02 — 24,805 ratings — published 2003
Dragon's Egg (Cheela, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,623 ratings — published 1980
Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 177,141 ratings — published 2012
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 149,679 ratings — published 2013
I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.21 — 372,495 ratings — published 1950
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,456,768 ratings — published 1985
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 178,021 ratings — published 1974
Aurora (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.78 — 27,317 ratings — published 2015
2010: Odyssey Two (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,221 ratings — published 1982
The Prefect (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 21,414 ratings — published 2007
Eon (The Way, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.88 — 30,020 ratings — published 1985
Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 40,460 ratings — published 1993
Contact (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 150,759 ratings — published 1985
Mission of Gravity (Mesklin #1)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 7,535 ratings — published 1954
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.38 — 83,833 ratings — published 2017
The Fountains of Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 31,392 ratings — published 1979
Accelerando (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 22,062 ratings — published 2005
Voice (Ceti Conflict, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.42 — 130 ratings — published
Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 57,279 ratings — published 2019
Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
by (shelved 18 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 95,288 ratings — published 2016
Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5)
by (shelved 18 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 111,025 ratings — published 2015
The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.83 — 23,570 ratings — published 2010
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.23 — 218,686 ratings — published 2005
“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, fusion – I don’t make up the laws. The where and when of me are easy questions to answer. What am I? That’s a bit more difficult, but ultimately I was born a human, and nothing can change that. The how and the why of me – now there are two questions that are impossible to answer.”
― The Hyperverse Accord
― The Hyperverse Accord
“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
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hard-sci-fi, hard-scifi, hard-sf, hardsciencefiction, science-fiction-hard, and sf-hard
