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.

Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)
Brushfire (Expeditionary Force, #11)
Breakaway (Expeditionary Force, #12)
Match Game (Expeditionary Force, #14)
Earthside (Quantum Earth, #2)
Homefront (Expeditionary Force, #7.5)
The Expert System’s Champion (Expert System, #2)
Critical Mass (Delta-v, #2)
Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories
Light Chaser
Generation Ship
Bone Silence
Wherever Seeds May Fall (Seeds, #1)
3zekiel
Rubicon
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
The Martian
Project Hail Mary
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
Seveneves
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
Watership Down by Richard  AdamsAnimal Farm by George OrwellBlack Beauty by Anna SewellThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonRedwall by Brian Jacques
Through Another's Eyes: Xenofiction
414 books — 210 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
381 books — 716 voters

Project Hail Mary by Andy WeirChildren of Time by Adrian TchaikovskyOld Man's War by John ScalziThe Forever,Part 1, Books 1-2 by Craig    RobertsonThe Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
Books Like The Bobiverse
39 books — 5 voters
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Star Force
17 books — 2 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le GuinStories of Your Life and Others by Ted ChiangA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le GuinSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
SFF: Best Themes
14 books — 7 voters


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