Hard SF discussion

After discovering Snow Crash, The Culture Series, A Song Called Youth, The Expanse Trilogy, Fallen Dragon, The Hyperion books and rereading The Forever War I'm trying to find more hard Science Fiction novels that combine exciting action with smart/smartly executed story telling. Now to clear things up, by "action" I don't necessarily mean Military Sci-Fi or Space Opera(although those shouldn't be excluded), but I'd like more variety like cyberpunk or present based science fiction.

Have you tried Jack Campbell's The Lost Fleet books? Pretty great series, especially if you like military space combat.

Matt wrote: "Have you tried Jack Campbell's The Lost Fleet books? Pretty great series, especially if you like military space combat."
I might, but I don't want to be burnt out on space opera.

You should try Alastair Reynolds. His Revelation Space series, short stories, standalone books are all pretty smart and imaginative.

Player of games from Iain Banks. Recommended read.

Michel wrote: "Player of games from Iain Banks. Recommended read."

Have read it, loved. Currently finishing up a rereading of Use of Weapons.

Michael Mccollum is a retired aero space engineer from nasa. Gibraltar earth series and antares dawn series are close to the perfect definition of hard sf.

If memory serves, Alistair Reynolds wrote a book called ancient shores which is present dat and takes place in Minnesota. It's a pretty good scifi/archeology read.

A book from the 60s I read not to long ago, called "The Ceres Solution" is an interesting departure if you're looking for variety.

Out of those you listed, I've read Ready Player one, and The Stars My Destination. Both were great.

I've also read Nexus, and it's sequel. Both are great, and I eagerly await a third book.

Great tips guys. Nexus and Dragon's Egg are now on my to read list. First I need to finish Seeds of Earth from Cobley. But somehow its a slow read and I cant get into the zone. Ready Player One and Daemon are my favorites for this reading year btw.

Michael wrote: "If memory serves, Alistair Reynolds wrote a book called ancient shores which is present dat and takes place in Minnesota. It's a pretty good scifi/archeology read.

A book from the 60s I read not t..."

Ancient Shores is by Jack McDevitt. The Ceres Solution sounds interesting too! Thanks!

Gregory Benford wrote the Galctic Center Saga. They are excellent. Greg Bear wrote both The Forge of God and Blood Music and they are excellent.

Just to be clear here, I'm not allowed to recommend my own book, even though he's asked for a recommendation and I believe it qualifies, Is that correct?

Russell wrote: "Just to be clear here, I'm not allowed to recommend my own book, even though he's asked for a recommendation and I believe it qualifies, Is that correct?"

I think you just did.

I suppose in a round about way, I did. I forgot you could click on the name. I don't spend that much time in here. And I don't want to hijack the thread, but I still wouldn't mind an answer to that question.

I'm also an author, so I probably have a biased view, but I'm an avid hard scifi reader too, and Russell's comment didn't bother me.

I think it's always good to find new hard scifi writers. They are few and far between. The authors we consider the masters today had to be found by readers somehow, right?

As an author of both historical fiction and hard science fiction I found this book to be a gem, considering its time of creation. Written just before the outbreak of WWI, the author pushes the envelope of then current technology to cast a tale in the best "space cowboy" tradition. The writing style is of the era and not to today's standards, but I still found it a delightful read and suggest you try it.

A.G. Kimbrough, Author/Publisher

Plugging my own new hard SF-thriller, free until Tuesday:

http://www.amazon.com/Red-Queen-Subst...

"Red Queen is a story about the yearning for freedom and agency in a world dominated by bureaucrats and propagandists, and it would not have been published by a major house. The world of Red Queen is just a decade or two away, and looks very much like the world we live in, just a few steps worse. In the tradition of Heinlein's If This Goes On--, I have extrapolated from current trends and imagined the politics that result. The authoritarian tendencies we see in modern western states will probably be reversed at some point--but what if they just keep getting worse? This is especially true of the US, with its 9/11-justified surveillance and interception of every citizen's email and message metadata, and a penal-industrial complex that imprisons about one in three black men at some point in their lives, often for victimless crimes like drug possession. A more serious terrorist incident might lead to even more restrictions on freedom and privacy. And that's where Red Queen begins."

SomaxxGary Tibbetts

Somaxx is my first work of fiction. It follows a book of scientific history I published in 2012, 'How the Great Scientists Reasoned: the Scientific Method in Action'.

Somaxx tells the story of Scott Palmer, who desperately risks everything to escape his unraveling life in 2014 by constructing pod that allows him so sleep almost without ageing. He awakens in 2045 to find a future which has solved many of the vexing problems of his time, but still has serious challenges. His guide to 2045 is a helpful but arrogant robot. His love life becomes a mess once again after a sizzling experience with computer-aided simsex throws him off kilter. Scott soon learns that the future is not as benign as he had anticipated, as evidence mounts that he is being stalked. His effort to escape the tentacles of an international conspiracy plays out in an explosive conclusion which ranges from an abandoned tin mine in war-torn Rwanda to a quiet lake in northern Michigan.

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My new book will be titled "Freedom" and is set on another planet. It's loaded with "hard science."

Victory Crayne

hi i am new here and i came with 2 recs Aurora & Seveneves.