Hard SF discussion

Hard science SF has fallen on hard times, that is, it's not as popular as it once was. But I think many SF readers prefer stories that have a basis in science. Many novels in different genres are based on settings in the future and have incorporated a little SF. It's like romance, which is now part of most novels.
My question to readers of the Goodreads Hard SF group is:
What other mixture of genres (cross-genres) do you like to read?

I'm not sure what is or isn't cross-genre.
I'm for instance rather fond of fantasy that takes place in a futuristic/post-apoc setting and/or that has magic that feels a bit like technology. Like Dune, Life in Wartime, Metropolitan and so forth (sticking to old stuff). The thing is, some people do not recognize this stuff as fantasy in the first place.
I suppose anything halfway innovative will be seen as cross-genre by some while others try to shoehorn in established genres.

Since I like Historical fiction I also like to read Science Fiction that takes place in historical times. Some of it involves time travel, some doesn't.

I like SF mysteries.

I like the occasional Dystopian tome. You know, a small group struggles to survive following cataclysmic world disaster
Still really like 'Day of the Triffids', which i read as a youngster & again, about a year ago.

Outis wrote: "I'm not sure what is or isn't cross-genre.
I'm for instance rather fond of fantasy that takes place in a futuristic/post-apoc setting and/or that has magic that feels a bit like technology. Like Du..."
I'm with you- some of my 5 star books are really hard for me to pigeonhole- for instance as we have learned, what seems like fantasy today may be science tomorrow. Books that might be considered cross-genre or hard to categorize that I like include

Lexicon
Brilliance
Souls in the Great Machine
Daemon
The Brief History of the Dead
The Windup Girl

Ken wrote: "Since I like Historical fiction I also like to read Science Fiction that takes place in historical times. Some of it involves time travel, some doesn't."
Quite like historical fiction. Some of the authors who write 'Alternative Historical' novels can be quite good.
Robert Harris springs to mind. Also Robert Conroy & Harry Turtledove.

There's the question of where "future society fiction" gets categorized. Novels about possible political, economic, cultural, etc. forms might develop (and their implications and desirabilities) may not have significant references to the physical sciences. They may or may not try to incorporate knowledge from the study of the social sciences. For my personal purposes, I put these books together with "science fiction", since one of the reasons I read SF is to explore future possibilities. (Since I'm particularly inclined to "possibilities" which don't seem to conflict with known evidence, I'd prefer books without clear discrepancies with social sciences.) That being said, I also refer to such books as "future society fiction" because there is a question where others would categorize them.

I know what you mean, David. I'm a writer of spy-fi, a cross between espionage and SF. I'm also the president of sfnovelist.com, an international group of writers devoted to hard science SF.
I write a series with one protagonist, Jake Dani, a professional spy who lives and works on another planet around the year 2105. The first novel in this series will be published in 2015.
My focus is on "future society fiction." Like you, I read SF to explore future possibilities. That means I like to read realistic SF. SF in which the characters are all bright, educated, and technical don't seem realistic to me. Most folks bring a lot of their mental baggage with them when they emigrate to another colony. They are mostly NOT astronauts with PHDs in engineering or science. So I prefer stories that "tell it like it will be," not some author's vision of "what it should be."