5 Next Level Hard Sci-Fi Books You Need To Read

Today, we’re exploring 5 next level hard sci-fi books you need to read.
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MY SCI-FI NOVELS

After her family is killed and her homeworld occupied, young Kathreen Martin is sent to the distant world of Furoris for re-education. She will live the rest of her life as a serf – to be bought and sold as a commodity of the Imperial Network.

When her only chance of escape is ruined, a chance mistaken identity offers her a new life as the orphaned daughter of a First-Citizen Senator and heiress to a vast fortune.

She vows to claw her way into power to sit among the worlds’ elite. Then, with her own hands, she will reap bloody vengeance on them all.

But to beat them, she must play their game. And she must play it better than them all.

Prometheus has the chance to bring his wife back from the dead, but doing so will mean the destruction of Earth.

Spanning time, planets and dimensions, Black Milk draws to a climactic point in a post-apocalyptic future, where humanity, stranded with no planet to call home, fights to survive against a post-human digital entity that pursues them through the depths of space.

Five lives separated by aeons are inextricably linked by Prometheus’s actions:

Ystil.3 is an AI unit sent back in time from the distant future to investigate Prometheus’s discovery...

The mysterious Lydia has devoted her life to finding a planet that the last remaining humans can call home…

Tom Jones (he’s a HUGE fan!) is an AI trapped inside a digital subspace, lost and desperate to find his way back to his beloved in real-time…
Dr Norma Stanwyck is a neuroscientist from 24th Century Earth whose personal choices ripple throughout time...

Prometheus must learn the necessity of death or the entire universe will be swallowed by his grief.
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[johnulmer]

Wow, you're the first person who's actually recommended a Greg Bear novel. I admit I've never read Darwin's Radio, but Eon, and Blood Music are a couple of my favorite sci-fi books.

[frankiesscifiobsession]

I'm a big scifi reader and I love that you still show me books that I either never heard of or heard of but never got to.
Can't wait to read one of your books

[JK-upvz]

I would also recommend “Blindsight” by Peter Watts. It’s the book that got me into hard sci-fi.

[Mark]

A reviewer once said that Greg Egan burns through more strange and bizarre ideas in one chapter than most other authors do in their entire careers.

[windfire]

"Inherit the Stars" has been one of my favorites since I read it in the early 1980s. No antagonist. No action. Just a fun story. Enjoyed the 2 next sequels too. I've re-read that trilogy several times and love it each time.

[stevendocker]

I'm really glad that Inherit The Stars by James P. Hogan is on your list. I was lucky to find it when it was first published in 1977 and it turned me into a fan of Hogan for life. All of the subsequent sequels are very good too, especially the second book, The Gentle Giants of Ganymede.

[just_kos]

You cited two of my favorite authors, James P Hogan and Greg Bear. Another by Greg Bear I'd recommend is "The Hammer of God." I won't spoil it, but toward the end this one section was so well-written that I literally felt ill, being able to picture it all. Makes me shudder to think of it, but I've re-read it many times it's that great!

Also, "Dragon's Egg" by Robert L. Forward, in which a race of intelligent beings evolves on the surface of a neutron star. Reviews from other well-known hard sci-fi authors like Asimov and Clarke were very glowing!

[yw]

You may want to mention David Brin's 'Earth', that back in 1989 was the most comprehensive forecast for the next 30 years. Mostly optimistic but very grounded in facts

[coltonm.strawn]

Stephen Baxter’s Evolution is my all-time favorite novel. I’m glad you included it in this list because it really deserves more recognition.

I haven’t read the others on this list, but I’ll try getting around to them sometime.

[askani]

GREG EGAN
My favorite author of all times 🔥🔥🔥

His novel Schild's Ladder is, in my opinion, his absolute masterpiece. It's pure hard sci-fi, but with deeply touching characters, a beautiful fusion of mathematics, speculative quantum physics and genuine human connection.

[ashwinrajeev]

Wonderful list, thank you for this. Can’t wait to check out Evolution and Flight of the Aphrodite.

[spencerbookman]

James P. Hogan and Greg Bear are high on my list of favorite sci-fi writers. Code of the Lifemaker and The Two Faces of Tomorrow by JPH and Blood Music by GB are three other fairly hard sci-fi books I've enjoyed very much. The Two Faces of Tomorrow is about mankind's need and attempt to create strong A.I., basically (had that term been invented yet?). However, both Code of the Lifemaker and Blood Music are about intelligence manifesting in unexpected places. I can forgive Bear for likely mischaracterizing quantum physics at the end of his book, and not sticking the hard sci-fi landing, because the rest of Blood Music is kinda mind blowing!

[DuckRon]

I read Darwin’s Radio a bunch of years ago when I was on a Greg Bear streak. I’m thinking I need to read that one, and a couple others of his, again.

[OutOfElmo]

Everything Baxter writes fills me with hopelessness, dread and alienation.
So of course, I've read every book he's ever written. Some, a couple of times.

Most hard SF makes me feel like that. Benford, Bear, Clarke, Baxter, have a special talent for sucking the joy out of me. I treat it by reading masses of Neal Asher and Charles Stross. Techno-porn Space Opera and British Cthulhu spy comedy are just the thing.

[laggybum]

I would love to see a video on military sci-fi or space operas that are not the normal candidates.

[OnTheRiver]

Thank you for this video. Stephen Baxter and Greg Bear are two of my favorite authors.

[pauldinardo]

Have read "Darwin's Radio" a couple times. I agree with your assessment. Will look forward to reading the rest of the list.

[apeculiarproject]

I love that these aren't all new releases. There are so many great SF books to read!

[borusa]

I thoroughly enjoyed Inherit the Stars when it came out and recently re read it and its sequels. Great stuff. I certainly agree that Fire Upon the Deep should be on this list.Hal Clement's Mission of Gravity is a seminal hard sf novel, Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy would satisfy the requirements of hard SF too.

[phgofficial]

I learned about phages from Darwin’s Radio. Now ph4g3 is my music artist name. Great book.