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Originally Posted by ATDrake
I always liked Joan D. Vinge (used to be married to Vernor, whose last name I have found out via Robert J. Sawyer's WWW: Watch novel is actually pronounced "vin-jee" and I've been mangling it all along). Not strictly hard, but definitely mostly hard-ish. Plenty of scientifically-grounded tech and space exploration to go with the social consequences thereof.
World's End is more-or-less standalone (though part of the award-winning Tiamat cycle) and the hardest of the lot, I think. She's also got Heaven Belt Chronicles which though probably less easy to find, may be even more so. |
Yes. The Heaven Belt Chronicles has the innovative time system based on seconds instead of days, which makes a lot of sense if you live in asteroids instead of on planets.
http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3an.html#time