Hard Science Fiction
Emphasises scientific accuracy and logic, often involving advanced technology, space exploration, and planetary colonisation.
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- Artemis by Andy Weir
- The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
- Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Life by Gwyneth Jones
- Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
- Crash by Guy Haley
- Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear
- Up the Walls of the World by James Tiptree Jr.
- 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Halting State by Charles Stross
- Earth by David Brin
- Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Ark by Stephen Baxter
- Incandescence by Greg Egan
- Eternity by Greg Bear
- Ball Lightning by Liu Cixin
- Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
- 2001: A Space Odyssey by Sir Arthur C. Clarke
- Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Podkayne of Mars by Robert A. Heinlein
- Legacy by Greg Bear
- Redemption by Stephen Baxter
- Galaxias by Stephen Baxter
- Eversion by Alastair Reynolds
- The Crucible of Time by John Brunner
- Quarantine by Greg Egan
- Moving Mars by Greg Bear
- Permutation City by Greg Egan
- Needle by Linda Nagata
- Proxima by Stephen Baxter
- The Oxygen Farmer by Colin Holmes
- In the Ocean of Night by Gregory Benford
- Genesis by Poul Anderson
- Eon by Greg Bear
- Immortality Inc. by Robert Sheckley
- Aristoi by Walter Jon Williams
- Moonfall by Jack McDevitt
- Manifold: Time by Stephen Baxter
- Diaspora by Greg Egan
- Existence by David Brin
- Vengeance by Stephen Baxter
- Mars by Ben Bova
- Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds
- The Stars Like Dust by Isaac Asimov
- Space Platform by Murray Leinster
- Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
- Endurance by Stephen Baxter
- Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
- The Currents of Space by Isaac Asimov
- The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
- Death's End by Liu Cixin
- Return to Mars by Ben Bova
- Anvil of Stars by Greg Bear
- Natural History by Justina Robson
- Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov
- The Medusa Chronicles by Stephen Baxter
- Red Planet by Robert A. Heinlein
- The Martian Race by Gregory Benford
- Rescue Mode by Ben Bova
- Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer
- World Engines: Destroyer by Stephen Baxter
- Other Days Other Eyes by Bob Shaw
- Cosm by Gregory Benford
- Crucible by Nancy Kress
- The Jagged Orbit by John Brunner
- Jupiter by Ben Bova
- The Eternal Flame by Greg Egan
- Daughter of Elysium by Joan Slonczewski
- City at the End of Time by Greg Bear
- Glory Season by David Brin
- Plutoshine by Lucy Kissick
- Speaking Bones by Ken Liu
- Adiamante by L. E. Modesitt Jr.
- Schild's Ladder by Greg Egan
- Bloom by Wil McCarthy
- The Return by John Barnes
- Collapsium by Wil McCarthy
- Beyond Infinity by Gregory Benford
- Flashforward by Robert J. Sawyer
- City on Fire by Walter Jon Williams
- Flood by Stephen Baxter
- Ring by Stephen Baxter
- Flux by Stephen Baxter
- The Light of Other Days by Stephen Baxter
- Earthlight by Sir Arthur C. Clarke
- The Lights in the Sky Are Stars by Fredric Brown
- Transcendent by Stephen Baxter
- Helliconia Spring by Brian Aldiss
- The Forge of God by Greg Bear
- Brothers by Ben Bova
- Tides of Light by Gregory Benford
- They Shall Have Stars by James Blish
- Venus by Ben Bova
- Griffin's Egg by Michael Swanwick
- Heart of the Comet by David Brin
- In the country of the blind by Michael Flynn
- Moonrise by Ben Bova
