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
- From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
- Artemis by Andy Weir
- The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
- Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Life by Gwyneth Jones
- The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells
- Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
- Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear
- Anathem by Neal Stephenson
- 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Halting State by Charles Stross
- Reamde by Neal Stephenson
- 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
- Proxima by Stephen Baxter
- 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
- Space Platform by Murray Leinster
- Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
- Endurance by Stephen Baxter
- Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
- Fall or Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson
- Hella by David Gerrold
- The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
- Death's End by Liu Cixin
- Return to Mars by Ben Bova
- Anvil of Stars by Greg Bear
- The Medusa Chronicles by Stephen Baxter
- Red Planet by Robert A. Heinlein
- The Martian Race by Gregory Benford
- Rescue Mode by Ben Bova
- 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
- City at the End of Time by Greg Bear
- Climbers by M. John Harrison
- Plutoshine by Lucy Kissick
- Schild's Ladder by Greg Egan
- Bloom by Wil McCarthy
- The Return by John Barnes
- Collapsium by Wil McCarthy
- Beyond Infinity by Gregory Benford
- 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
- 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
- Moonrise by Ben Bova
- Crossfire by Nancy Kress
- His Master's Voice by Stanislaw Lem
- Farside by Ben Bova
- Artifact by Gregory Benford
- Manifold: Space by Stephen Baxter
- Across the Sea of Suns by Gregory Benford
- Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod
- The Precipice by Ben Bova
- Helliconia Winter by Brian Aldiss
- Wormhole by Eric Brown
- Dagger of the Mind by Bob Shaw
- Privateers by Ben Bova
