Hard Sci-Fi Reading List

General Sci-fi

Strata - Terry Pratchett
Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds
The Dreaming Void - Peter F Hamilton
The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi
Hominids - Robert J Sawyer
Seeker - Jack McDevitt
Camouflage - Joe Haldeman
Childhood's End - Arthur C Clarke
Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C Clarke
Gateway - Frederik Pohl
Hyperion - Dan Simmons
A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge
A Deepness in the Sky - Vernor Vinge
Who Goes There? - John W Campbell
Triplanetary - EE Smith
The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell

Hard Sci-fi

Mission of Gravity - Hal Clement
Dragon's Egg - Robert Forward
Starquake - Robert Forward
Rocheworld - Robert Forward
Tau Zero - Poul Anderson
Ringworld - Larry Niven
Schild's Ladder - Greg Egan
Quarantine - Greg Egan
Incandescence - Greg Egan
Between the Strokes of Night - Charles Sheffield
The Fountains of Paradise - Arthur C Clarke
A Fall of Moondust - Arthur C Clarke
Lilith's Brood - Octavia Butler
Matter - Iain M Banks
Mars Trilogy - Kim Stanley Robinson
Flood - Stephen Baxter
Ark - Stephen Baxter
Black Cloud - Fred Hoyle

Time Travel Sci-fi

Blackout - Connie Willis
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
The Accidental Time Machine - Joe Haldeman
The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers
Millennium - John Varley
Timescape - Gregory Benford

Alternate History

Axis of Time - John Birmingham
Resurrection Day - Brendan DuBois
Voyage - Stephen Baxter
World War Tetralogy - Harry Turtledove
Colonization Trilogy - Harry Turtledove
1942 - Robert Conroy

Nanotechnology

Engines of Creation - K Eric Drexler
The Collapsium - Wil McCarthy
The Wellstone - Wil McCarthy
Prey - Michael Crichton
The First Immortal - James L Halperin
The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson

Cyberpunk

Neuromancer - William Gibson
Count Zero - William Gibson
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Accelerando - Charles Stross
Glasshouse - Charles Stross
Altered Carbon - Richard K Morgan
True Names - Vernor Vinge

Military Sci-fi

Hammer's Slammers - David Drake
Dorsai - Gordon R Dickson