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)
Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)
Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories
Critical Mass (Delta-v, #2)
Theft of Fire (Orbital Space #1)
The Human (Rise of the Jain, #3)
Lake of Darkness
Jack Four
Galaxias
Weaponized
Cold Eyes
The  Quantum War (The Quantum Evolution, #3)
The Disturbance (The Disturbance, #1)
The House of Styx (Venus Ascendant, #1)
Observer
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)

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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