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Originally Posted by Wordcrasher
What about Stephen Baxter ? I'm reading his Xelee books and I find them very well written and full of interesting hints to contemporary science (strings, supersimmetry, dark matter, etc.)
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I also highly recommend Stephen Baxter, I think he is BY FAR the best hard sci-fi author currently writing with his Xeelee Sequence series of books the best of his best.
When you read his books you frequently have to go online to reference some of the subjects he's writing about. I honestly learned more about physics from him then in the basic college classes I took.
He also writes some excellent alternate history and a bit of "near future" hard sci-fi, won't use the term cyberpunk cause it's not but books like his 'Flood' series are second to none.
If you want a taste, read a short story on his website called "Pilot." Its from his Xeelee stories but you don't need to know everything to enjoy it, just that Earth is currently being occupied by an oppressive alien species. The entire series of books and short stories covers some five million years though.
http://www.stephen-baxter.com/stories.html#pilot
If you want to jump in head first, I recommend "The Time Ships". It's a big book but it's also the official sequel to Wells's "The Time Machine." Unlike the original, this is some seriously hard sci-fi with time travel (obviously), alternate realties, and a Dyson Sphere.