{"id":314,"date":"2014-02-18T20:37:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T00:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?page_id=314"},"modified":"2014-02-18T20:37:39","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T00:37:39","slug":"hard-sf","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?page_id=314","title":{"rendered":"Hard SF"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hard SF novels<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kim Stanley Robinson, 2312 (2012)
\nJames S.A. Corey, The Butcher of Anderson Station (unread) (2011), Leviathan Wakes (2011), Caliban’s War (unread) (2012), Gods of Risk (unread) (2012), Abaddon’s Gate (unread) (2013), Cibola Burn (unread) (2014)
\nPaolo Bacigalupi, The Windup Girl (2009)
\nRobert J. Sawyer, Wake (2009), Watch (2010), Wonder (2011) (WWW trilogy)
\nCory Doctorow, Little Brother (2008)
\nCharles Stross, Accelerando (2005)
\nCharles Stross, Glasshouse (2006)
\nVernor Vinge, Rainbows End (2006)
\nRobert J. Sawyer, Hominids (2002), Humans (2003), Hybrids (2003) (The Neanderthal Parallax)
\nGregory Benford, The Martian Race (1999), The Sunborn (unread) (2007) (Adventures of Viktor & Julia)
\nNeal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon (1999)
\nBruce Sterling, Holy Fire (1996)
\nNeal Stephenson, The Diamond Age (1995)
\nNeal Stephenson, Zodiac (1995)
\nJohn Barnes, Mother of Storms (1994)
\nBruce Sterling, Heavy Weather (1994)
\nNancy Kress, Beggars in Spain (1993), Beggars and Choosers (1994), Beggars Ride (1996) (The Sleepless)
\nNeal Stephenson, Snow Crash (1992)
\nVernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (1992)
\nDavid Brin, Earth (1990)
\nGreg Bear, Queen of Angels (1990), Heads (unread) (1990), Moving Mars (1993), Slant (unread) (1997), (Queen of Angels)
\nBruce Sterling and William Gibson, The Difference Engine (1990)
\nBruce Sterling, Islands in the Net (1988)
\nJoan Slonczewski, A Door Into Ocean (1986), Daughter of Elysium (unread) (1993), The Children Star (unread) (1998), (unread) Brain Plague (2000) (Elysium Cycle
\nOrson Scott Card, Ender’s Game (1985) (The Ender series)
\nGreg Bear, Blood Music (1985)
\nWilliam Gibson, Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986), Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988) (Sprawl)
\nVernor Vinge, The Peace War (1984), Marooned in Realtime (1986) (Across Realtime)
\nJack L. Chalker, Spirits of Flux and Anchor (1984), Empires of Flux and Anchor (1984), Masters of Flux and Anchor (1985), The Birth of Flux and Anchor (1985), Children of Flux and Anchor (1986) (Soul Rider)
\nDavid Gerrold, A Matter for Men (1983), A Day for Damnation (1985), A Rage for Revenge (1989), and A Season for Slaughter (1993) (The War Against the Chtorr)
\nC. J. Cherryh, Downbelow Station (1982)
\nRudy Rucker, Software (1982), Wetware (1988), Freeware (1997), Realware (2000) (The Ware Tetralogy)
\nJohn Varley, Titan (1979), Wizard (1980), Demon (1984) (Titan Gaea Trilogy)
\nLarry Niven, A World Out of Time (unread) (1976), The Integral Trees (1984), The Smoke Ring (1987)
\nJerry Pournelle and Larry Niven, The Mote in God’s Eye (1975), The Gripping Hand (1993) (Moties)
\nJohn Brunner, The Sheep Look Up (1972)
\nLarry Niven, Ringworld (1970)
\nJohn Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
\nHal Clement, Mission of Gravity (1954)
\nFrederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth, The Space Merchants (1953), Frederik Pohl The Merchant’s War (1984)<\/p>\n

Space hard SF novels<\/strong>
\nPeter Watts, Blindsight (2008)
\nBen Bova, The Precipice (2001), The Rock Rats (2002), The Silent War (unread) (2004), The Aftermath (2007) (The Asteroid Wars)
\nBen Bova, Moonrise (1996), Moonwar (1998) (Moonbase Saga)
\nBen Bova, Mars (1994), Return to Mars (1999)
\nWilliam Hartmann, Mars Underground (1997)
\nKim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (1993), Green Mars (1994), Blue Mars (1996)
\nJohn M. Ford, Growing Up Weightless (1993)
\nCharles Sheffield, Cold as Ice (1992), The Ganymede Club (1995), Dark as Day (2002) (Cold as Ice)
\nJohn Varley, (unread) The Ophiuchi Hotline (1979), Steel Beach (1992), (unread) The Golden Globe (1998)
\nBruce Sterling, Schismatrix (1985)
\nRobert L. Forward, Flight of the Dragonfly (1984), Return to Rocheworld (unread) (1993), Marooned on Eden (unread) (2000), Ocean Under the Ice (unread) (2000), Rescued from Paradise (unread) (1995) (Rocheworld)
\nJames P. Hogan, Code of the Lifemaker (1983)
\nJoan Vinge, The Outcasts of Heaven Belt (1978), Legacy (1980) (Heaven Chronicles)
\nGregory Benford, In the Ocean of Night (1977) (Galactic Center Saga)
\nArthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (1972)
\nRobert Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966)
\nRobert Heinlein, Have Space Suit\u2014Will Travel (1958)<\/p>\n

Suggested (unread)<\/strong>
\nUp Against It by M.J. Locke (2012)
\nThe Quantum Thief (2010) by Hannu Rajaniemi
\nBruce Sterling, The Caryatids (2009)
\nHurricane Moon (2007) by Alexis Glynn Latner
\nRiver of Gods (India 2047 #1) by Ian McDonald (2006)
\nAlastair Reynolds, Pushing Ice (2005)
\nBuilding Harlequin’s Moon (2005) by Larry Niven and Brenda Cooper
\nShadows Of Medusa by Brian Enke (2004)
\nEveryone in Silico by Jim Munroe (2002)
\nRobert Zubrin, First Landing (2001)
\nNeal Asher, Gridlinked (2001) (Ian Cormac series)
\nWil McCarthy, The Collapsium (2000) (The Queendom of Sol #1)
\nGeoffrey A Landis, A Walk in the Sun (1998), Mars Crossing (2000)
\nStarfish (1999) (Rifters, #1) by Peter Watts
\nMichael F. Flynn, Firestar (1996), Rogue Star (1998), Lodestar (2000), Falling Stars (2001) (Firestar series)
\nVoyage (1996) by Stephen Baxter
\nLinda Nagata, The Bohr Maker (1995), Tech-Heaven (1995), Deception Well (1997), Vast (1998) (The Nanotech Succession)
\nThe Color of Distance by Amy Thomson (1995)
\nSynners by Pat Cardigan (1991)
\nOrbital Resonance (1990) (Century Next Door #1) by John Barnes
\nCyteen by C. J. Cherryh (1988)
\nLilith’s Brood by Octavia E. Butler (Xenogenesis trilogy) (1987\u201389)
\nA Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick (1977)
\nTau Zero by Poul Anderson (1970)
\nNeutron Star (1968) by Larry Niven
\nSolaris by Stanislaw Lem (1961)<\/p>\n

Non-fiction<\/strong>
\nSheffield, Charles, Borderlands of Science (2000)
\nStine, G. Harry, Living in Space: A Handbook for Work & Exploration Beyond the Earth\u2019s Atmosphere. (1997)
\nMullane, R. Mike, Do Your Ears Pop In Space and 500 Other Surprising Questions About Space Travel (1997)
\nRobert Zubrin and Richard Wagner, The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must (1996)
\nSchmidt, S. and Zubrin, R. editors (1996) Islands in the Sky – Bold New Ideas for Colonizing Space
\nMallove, Eugene F., and Matloff, Gregory L., The Starflight Handbook: A Pioneer\u2019s Guide to Interstellar Travel (1989)
\nT. A. Heppenheimer, Colonies in Space (1977) (online<\/a>)
\nGerard K. O’Neil, The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space (1976)<\/p>\n

Resources<\/strong>
\nexoplanets.org<\/a>
\nExtrasolar Planets Encyclopedia<\/a>
\nPlanet Quest<\/a>
\nThe Planetary Society’s Catalog of Exoplanets<\/a>.
\n3-D starmaps, Winchell Chung’s Project Rho<\/a>
\nSolStation.com<\/a>
\nChView<\/a>
\noverview of orbital mechanics<\/a>
\nColonizing Outer Space: Human Expansion in the Space Age<\/a>
\nAstrosynthesis<\/a> StarGen<\/a>
\nSpace Settlements<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hard SF novels Kim Stanley Robinson, 2312 (2012) James S.A. Corey, The Butcher of Anderson Station (unread) (2011), Leviathan Wakes (2011), Caliban’s War (unread) (2012), Gods of Risk (unread) (2012), Abaddon’s Gate (unread) (2013), Cibola Burn (unread) (2014) Paolo Bacigalupi, The Windup Girl (2009) Robert J. Sawyer, Wake (2009), Watch (2010), Wonder (2011) (WWW trilogy) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-314","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}