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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 — 1,275,432 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 — 485,992 ratings — published 2006
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,057,133 ratings — published 2021
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
by (shelved 62 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.40 — 216,446 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 — 53,446 ratings — published 2006
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 54 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 183,183 ratings — published 1973
Seveneves (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 52 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 124,542 ratings — published 2015
Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 61,433 ratings — published 2000
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 171,149 ratings — published 2015
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
by (shelved 48 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.41 — 169,229 ratings — published 2010
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 315,677 ratings — published 2011
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 335,010 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 — 321,774 ratings — published 2017
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 592,777 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 — 66,366 ratings — published 1992
House of Suns (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.24 — 32,401 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 — 22,140 ratings — published 2005
Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)
by (shelved 25 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 181,147 ratings — published 2012
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 121,558 ratings — published 2016
Chasm City (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 27,481 ratings — published 2001
Dragon's Egg (Cheela, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,770 ratings — published 1980
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
by (shelved 23 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 153,000 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 — 151,990 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 — 40,786 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 — 377,233 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 — 113,611 ratings — published 2015
2010: Odyssey Two (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,692 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 — 1,468,248 ratings — published 1985
Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 60,459 ratings — published 2019
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 179,713 ratings — published 2003
Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-science-fiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 97,649 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 — 222,694 ratings — published 2005
“No, Krish . . . we’re not playing God. We’re only attempting to set things right.”
― Maya
― Maya
“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
