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Hard Sf Books
Showing 1-50 of 2,408
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.08 — 469,797 ratings — published 2006
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,251,683 ratings — published 2011
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
by (shelved 50 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.01 — 51,755 ratings — published 2006
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.12 — 180,675 ratings — published 1973
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.86 — 87,557 ratings — published 1992
Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
by (shelved 40 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.94 — 127,584 ratings — published 1970
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.18 — 332,053 ratings — published 1968
Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.99 — 60,557 ratings — published 2000
Diaspora (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,834 ratings — published 1997
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
by (shelved 30 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.41 — 162,852 ratings — published 2010
Seveneves (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.00 — 123,427 ratings — published 2015
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
by (shelved 27 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.40 — 208,848 ratings — published 2008
Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.95 — 32,802 ratings — published 1996
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.50 — 937,981 ratings — published 2021
Schild's Ladder (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,060 ratings — published 2002
Tau Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.83 — 16,515 ratings — published 1970
Quarantine (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,173 ratings — published 1992
Permutation City (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.06 — 12,462 ratings — published 1994
Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 25 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.96 — 40,448 ratings — published 1993
Eon (The Way, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.88 — 30,016 ratings — published 1985
Dragon's Egg (Cheela, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,618 ratings — published 1980
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.13 — 65,602 ratings — published 1992
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.17 — 585,000 ratings — published 1951
Echopraxia (Firefall, #2)
by (shelved 22 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.83 — 12,281 ratings — published 2014
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.31 — 308,217 ratings — published 2011
Pushing Ice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.07 — 21,709 ratings — published 2005
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.30 — 163,723 ratings — published 2015
Second Foundation (Foundation, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.27 — 199,129 ratings — published 1953
Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.22 — 222,020 ratings — published 1952
I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.21 — 372,315 ratings — published 1950
House of Suns (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.24 — 31,743 ratings — published 2008
Contact (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.15 — 150,717 ratings — published 1985
2010: Odyssey Two (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,207 ratings — published 1982
Raft (Xeelee Sequence, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.68 — 4,683 ratings — published 1991
The Ringworld Engineers (Ringworld #2)
by (shelved 18 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.88 — 33,623 ratings — published 1979
Chasm City (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.13 — 27,150 ratings — published 2001
The Gods Themselves (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.09 — 67,705 ratings — published 1972
The Mote in God's Eye (Moties, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.07 — 72,442 ratings — published 1974
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.14 — 177,958 ratings — published 1974
The Fountains of Paradise (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.95 — 31,388 ratings — published 1979
Time (Manifold #1)
by (shelved 17 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,978 ratings — published 1999
Aurora (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.78 — 27,304 ratings — published 2015
Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.39 — 176,974 ratings — published 2012
The Forge of God (Forge of God, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.86 — 16,176 ratings — published 1987
A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.32 — 34,747 ratings — published 1999
Darwin's Radio (Darwin's Radio, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.73 — 16,482 ratings — published 1999
Accelerando (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 3.87 — 22,059 ratings — published 2005
Redemption Ark (Revelation Space, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.16 — 31,968 ratings — published 2002
Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.00 — 12,146 ratings — published 2001
Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
by (shelved 14 times as hard-sf)
avg rating 4.25 — 95,173 ratings — published 2016
