Hard Science Fiction

Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by an emphasis on scientific or technical detail, or on scientific accuracy, or on both. It is characterized by rigorous attention to accurate detail in the natural sciences, especially physics, astrophysics, and chemistry, or on accurately depicting worlds that more advanced technology may make possible. Hard science fiction is driven more by ideas than characterization. Plausible science and technology are central to the plot.

Exodus: The Archimedes Engine (Archimedes Engine, #1)
Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories
Inhibitor Phase (The Inhibitor Sequence, #4)
The Object
Cold Eyes
Critical Mass (Delta-v, #2)
Wherever Seeds May Fall (Seeds, #1)
Theft of Fire (Orbital Space #1)
Light Chaser
Galaxias
The Flight of the Aphrodite
The Disturbance (The Disturbance, #1)
The Never Wars
Darkome
Our Lady of the Artilects
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
The Martian
Project Hail Mary
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
Revelation Space (The Inhibitor Sequence, #1)
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
Seveneves
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
Terraformer by Scott McElhaneyRed Mars by Kim Stanley RobinsonGreen Mars by Kim Stanley RobinsonDominion by Scott McElhaneyBlue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Synthetic Ecologies
19 books — 25 voters
Ringworld by Larry NivenRendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke2001 by Arthur C. ClarkePushing Ice by Alastair ReynoldsRevelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
Big Dumb Objects
68 books — 77 voters

The Martian by Andy WeirRevelation Space by Alastair ReynoldsFoundation by Isaac AsimovDune by Frank HerbertRendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
best hard science fiction
444 books — 865 voters

The Martian by Andy WeirRendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. ClarkeThe Pythagorean by Alexander MorpheighLife After Life by Kate AtkinsonBefore the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Ultimate Hard Science Fiction
140 books — 206 voters
The Martian by Andy WeirThe Forever War by Joe HaldemanLeviathan Wakes by James S.A. CoreyAltered Carbon by Richard K. MorganRendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Hard SF reading group
88 books — 59 voters


Clyde DeSouza
No, Krish . . . we’re not playing God. We’re only attempting to set things right.
Clyde DeSouza, Maya

David Alan Woods
The silence was absolute. It was so quiet in the laboratory; you could have heard a cell divide.
David Alan Woods, Brid: Fight or Flight

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