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Originally Posted by GeoffR
Broadly speaking the genre is Hard SF. But as usual, while it is easy to give examples of books that belong to the genre, is can be a hard to pin down an exact definition. Roughly: stories based on plausible speculation from known facts, high degree of scientific accuracy, often with an emphasis on ideas from the the physical (hard) sciences, engineering and mathematics.
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I think assuming the reader likes Hard SF is jumping to conclusions. One might equally assume based on his known tastes that he simply likes a good SF yarn.