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Hard Science Fiction Recommendations

Nova by Samuel R Delaney
A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness In the Sky by Vernor Vinge
Dragon’s Egg and StarQuake by Robert L. Forward
Robert Heinlein -- "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" - "Starship Troopers"
Joe Haldeman - "The Forever War"
Ray Bradbury - "The Martian Chronicles"
Harry Harrison - "Deathworld"
Harlan Ellison - "Dangerous Visions"
William Gibson
Charles Stross, especially Iron Sunrise and Singularity Sky and Glasshouse
Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos
Alastair Reynolds
Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga and Void Trilogy
Robert J. Sawyer
Neil Stephenson
Peter Watts, especially Blindsight
Richard K. Morgan
The Light of Other Days by Bob Shaw
The Light of Other Days by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter.
The Gentle Seduction by Marc Stiegler
Allen M Steele's Coyote series of books.
Steve Jordan's "Factory Orbit"
"Ringworld", Inferno, and Escape from Hell by Larry Niven
"Rendezvous With Rama" by Arthur C. Clarke
"The Engines of God" and "Deepsix" by Jack McDevitt
Anything by James P. Hogan
'Rosinante' series by Alexis A. Gilliland:
Hal Clement's Heavy Planet, A Mission of Gravity
Mike Brotherton's _Star Dragon_
Michael McCollum's PROCYON'S PROMISE
Michael McCollum's Antares series
Charles Sheffield's Between the Strokes of Night and The Web Between
Charlie Stross Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill!
Eon, Blood Music, "Moving Mars" by Greg Bear
Ben Bova's Grand Tour series
Stephen Baxter Xelee books
Cities in Flight by James Blish
Eric Frank Russell Next of Kin
"Dragon's Bard" by Tracy and Laura Hickman
Excession, some of the Culture novels by Iain M. Banks
- Arthur C. Clark's Rama books
- CJ Cherryh's Alliance/Union series
- Peter Hamilton's Night's Dawn and Commonwealth Sagas
- David Feintuch's Seafort series
- David Zindell's Requiem for Homo Sapiens books (including Neverness)
- Niven/Pournelle (the Motie books, Ringworld, Footfall,Lucifer's Hammer
- William Gibson's Sprawl books (Neuromancer, etc)
Harry Turtledove - Guns of the sSouth
Philip Jose Farmer Riverworld series
Jack Vance Dying Earth series
"The Time Ships". Stephen Baxter
Do androids dream of electric sheep? by Phillip K Dick
Solaris, by Stanisław Lem
The Black Cloud, The Inferno by Fred Hoyle
Camp Concentration, by Thomas M. Disch
Red Thunder, by John Varley (Titan is rather good too).
The Wooden Ships trilogy, by Bob Shaw.
The Tschai books, by Jack Vance
"Star Soldier" by Heppner
Timescape by Gregory Beneford
E. E. Doc Smith Lensman, Skylark series


Rudy Rucker's "White Light"
Iain M. Banks's Culture books
Neal Asher's Polity universe
The Holographic Universe
Ray Bradbury