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The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 64 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.08 — 505,567 ratings — published 2006
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,308,641 ratings — published 2011
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.00 — 55,377 ratings — published 2006
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.12 — 185,947 ratings — published 1973
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.86 — 89,234 ratings — published 1992
Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
by (shelved 41 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.93 — 129,545 ratings — published 1970
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.18 — 338,376 ratings — published 1968
Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.99 — 62,298 ratings — published 2000
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
by (shelved 33 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.40 — 176,178 ratings — published 2010
Diaspora (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.10 — 11,429 ratings — published 1997
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.40 — 225,002 ratings — published 2008
Seveneves (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.00 — 125,838 ratings — published 2015
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,329,956 ratings — published 2021
Schild's Ladder (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,191 ratings — published 2002
Dragon's Egg (Cheela, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,971 ratings — published 1980
Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.95 — 33,375 ratings — published 1996
Permutation City (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,265 ratings — published 1994
Tau Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.83 — 17,285 ratings — published 1970
Quarantine (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,401 ratings — published 1992
Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 25 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.96 — 41,166 ratings — published 1993
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.13 — 67,210 ratings — published 1992
Eon (The Way, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.88 — 30,370 ratings — published 1985
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.17 — 601,750 ratings — published 1951
Echopraxia (Firefall, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.83 — 12,989 ratings — published 2014
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.30 — 180,180 ratings — published 2015
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.31 — 324,481 ratings — published 2011
Pushing Ice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.07 — 22,680 ratings — published 2005
2010: Odyssey Two (Space Odyssey #2)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,243 ratings — published 1982
Raft (Xeelee Sequence, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.68 — 4,945 ratings — published 1991
House of Suns (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.24 — 33,094 ratings — published 2008
Second Foundation (Foundation, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.28 — 204,650 ratings — published 1953
Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.22 — 228,586 ratings — published 1952
I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.21 — 382,230 ratings — published 1950
The Ringworld Engineers (Ringworld #2)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.88 — 34,022 ratings — published 1979
Contact (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.15 — 153,538 ratings — published 1985
The Gods Themselves (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.08 — 69,308 ratings — published 1972
Chasm City (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.13 — 27,849 ratings — published 2001
The Mote in God's Eye (Moties, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.07 — 73,310 ratings — published 1974
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.14 — 181,759 ratings — published 1974
The Fountains of Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.95 — 31,939 ratings — published 1979
Time (Manifold #1)
by (shelved 17 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,130 ratings — published 1999
Aurora (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.78 — 28,030 ratings — published 2015
Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.39 — 185,922 ratings — published 2012
The Forge of God (Forge of God, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.87 — 16,479 ratings — published 1987
A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.32 — 35,279 ratings — published 1999
Darwin's Radio (Darwin's Radio, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.73 — 16,739 ratings — published 1999
Accelerando (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.87 — 22,446 ratings — published 2005
3001: The Final Odyssey (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.60 — 28,329 ratings — published 1999
Ring (Xeelee Sequence, #4)
by (shelved 15 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,904 ratings — published 1994
Redemption Ark (Revelation Space, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.16 — 32,792 ratings — published 2002
