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 (Archimedes Engine #1)
Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories
Inhibitor Phase (Revelation Space, #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)
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
Seveneves
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
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
137 books — 222 voters
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Best Intelligent Sci-Fi
284 books — 300 voters

The Pythagorean by Alexander MorpheighPiranesi by Susanna ClarkeHomo Machina by P.A. VaseyBefore the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu KawaguchiDune by Frank Patrick Herbert
Mind-bending Science Fiction
245 books — 225 voters

Super Powereds by Drew  HayesSteelheart by Brandon SandersonFirefight by Brandon SandersonSuper Powereds by Drew  HayesSuper Powereds by Drew  Hayes
Super Powered Characters Worth Reading
212 books — 218 voters
Project Hail Mary by Andy WeirSiouca Remembers by James MurdoMemory's Legion by James S.A. CoreySowing the Dragon's Teeth by Jonathan E. HernandezThe Saints of Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton
Space Opera Magnificentus!
60 books — 32 voters


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