Thread: Recent (hard) Sci-Fi Short Story Collections
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Old 08-14-2014, 12:34 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by gmw View Post
I see Greg Egan has been a busy boy since I last looked his way, I'll be sure to check some out (there's even a short in one of the books Meeera suggested). Thanks.

As for the "insanely" and "diamond" hard labels (but not saying anything about Greg Egan) I do expect even hard science fiction to have an accessible and entertaining story and reasonable characters. A few authors guilty of forgetting this are among the reasons why I parted ways with hard SciFi for so long.
You may want to check out anything by Karl Schroeder, if you haven't already. He's a hard sci-fi guy, probably as hard as anyone not named Greg Egan, but his strength is definitely his ability to integrate hard science into a highly readable adventure novel type framework.
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