Editing Hard science fiction (section)

===Novels===
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 Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: Ends in LSD trip, by consensus (talk page) not hard sf, Fall of Moondust is better ACC hard sf example
 The Expanse, as the stories violate the hell out of physics – should never have been added in the first place; see talk page, but essentially even author says it's not hard SF.
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* [[Aldous Huxley]], ''[[Brave New World]]'' (1932)<ref name=Brin>{{cite book |last1=Brin |first1=David |author-link1=David Brin |title=Hard Science Fiction |chapter=Running Out of Speculative Niches: A Crisis for Hard SF? |pages=[https://archive.org/details/hardscienceficti00slus/page/8 8–13] |year=1986 |editor1-last=Seiters |editor1-first=Dan |publisher=Southern Illinois University Press |isbn=0809312344 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/hardscienceficti00slus/page/8 }}</ref>
* [[Hal Clement]], ''[[Mission of Gravity]]'' (1953)<ref name="hartwell1997"/>
* [[Fred Hoyle]], ''[[The Black Cloud]]'' (1957)<ref name=Benford/>
* [[James Blish]], ''[[A Case of Conscience]]'' (1958)<ref name=Gunn/>
* [[Jack Vance]], ''[[The Languages of Pao]]'' (1958)<ref name=Gunn/>
* [[Arthur C. Clarke]], ''[[A Fall of Moondust]]'' (1961)<ref name="westfahl1996" />
* [[Stanisław Lem]], ''[[The Invincible]]'' (1963)<ref name="niezwy">{{cite web|url=https://instytutksiazki.pl/en/news,2,the-book-institute-has-supported-the-portuguese-translation-of-stanislaw-lems-novel-%E2%80%9Cniezwyciezony%E2%80%9D,10287.html|title=The Book Institute has supported the Portuguese translation of Stanislaw Lem's novel "Niezwyciężony"|date=2024-01-05|website=instytutksiazki.pl|publisher=Instytut Książki|access-date=2024-08-05|quote=The novel 'The Invincible' can certainly be classed as one of Stanislaw Lem's most important works. It is also a rather special novel in his oeuvre - falling into the hard science fiction genre, where there is a strong emphasis on science and technology issues.}}</ref>
* [[John Brunner (novelist)|John Brunner]], ''[[Stand on Zanzibar]]'' (1968), ''[[The Jagged Orbit]]'' (1969), ''[[The Sheep Look Up]]'' (1972), ''[[The Shockwave Rider]]'' (1975)<ref name=Gunn/>
* [[Philip K. Dick]], ''[[Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?]]'' (1968)
* [[Michael Crichton]], ''[[The Andromeda Strain]]'' (1969),<ref name=Brin/> ''[[Jurassic Park (novel)|Jurassic Park]]'' (1990)
* [[Larry Niven]], ''[[Ringworld]]'' (1970)<ref>{{cite web| url = http://bestsciencefictionbooks.com/best-hard-science-fiction-books.php| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131122052958/http://bestsciencefictionbooks.com/best-hard-science-fiction-books.php| archive-date = 2013-11-22| title = Top 25 Best Hard Science Fiction Books {{!}} Best Science Fiction Books}}</ref>
* [[Poul Anderson]], ''[[Tau Zero]]'' (1970)<ref name=Benford/>
* [[James E. Gunn (writer)|James Gunn]], ''[[The Listeners (novel)|The Listeners]]'' (1972)<ref name=Benford/>
* [[Larry Niven]] and [[Jerry Pournelle]], ''[[The Mote in God's Eye]]'' (1974)
* [[Bob Shaw]], ''[[Orbitsville]]'' (1975)<ref name=Gunn/>
* [[James P. Hogan (writer)|James P. Hogan]], ''The Two Faces of Tomorrow'' (1979)<ref name="westfahl1996" />
* [[Robert L. Forward]], ''[[Dragon's Egg]]'' (1980)<ref>{{cite web |last=Aylott |first=Chris |title=The Humans Were Flat but the Cheela Were Charming in 'Dragon's Egg' |website=[[Space.com]] |url=http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/books/dragons_egg_000330.html |access-date=2009-01-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080611100632/http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/books/dragons_egg_000330.html |archive-date=2008-06-11 }} Some editions also include a preface by [[Larry Niven]], admitting that "I couldn't have written it; it required too much real physics"</ref> and its sequel ''[[Starquake (novel)|Starquake]]'' (1985)
* [[Steven Barnes]] and Larry Niven, ''The Descent of Anansi'' (1982)<ref name=Brin/>
* [[Carl Sagan]], ''[[Contact (novel)|Contact ]]''
* [[Kim Stanley Robinson]], The ''[[Mars trilogy]]'' (''Red Mars'' (1992), ''Green Mars'' (1993), ''Blue Mars'' (1996))<ref>{{cite web |last=Alyott |first=Chris |title=The Vanishing Martian |date=2000-06-20 |url=http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/mars_three_visions_991130.html |access-date=2008-07-20 |publisher=SPACE.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000818141216/http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/mars_three_visions_991130.html |archive-date=2000-08-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Horton |first=Richard R. |title=Blue Mars review |date=1997-02-21 |url=http://www.sff.net/people/richard.horton/bluemars.htm |access-date=2008-07-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511164344/http://www.sff.net/people/richard.horton/bluemars.htm |archive-date=2008-05-11 }}</ref>
* [[Nancy Kress]], ''[[Beggars in Spain]]'' (1993)<ref name="hartwell2002"/>
* [[Charles R. Pellegrino]] & [[George Zebrowski]], ''[[The Killing Star]] (''1995)
* [[Allen Steele]], ''[[The Tranquillity Alternative]]'' (1996)
* [[Greg Egan]], ''[[Schild's Ladder]]'' (2002)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gregegan.net/SCHILD/SCHILD.html|title=Schild's Ladder}}</ref>
* [[Alastair Reynolds]], ''[[Pushing Ice]]'' (2005)<ref>{{cite news |author=Jon Courtenay Grimwood |title=Cold comforts |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/nov/05/featuresreviews.guardianreview15 |work=The Guardian |date=2005-11-05}}</ref>
* [[Liu Cixin|Cixin Liu]], ''[[Remembrance of Earth's Past]]'' (trilogy, 2006–2016)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Steiner |first=Philip |date=2022-10-31 |title=Modern Hard SF: Simulating Physics in Virtual Reality in Cixin Liu's "The Three-Body Problem" |url=https://journals.umcs.pl/lsmll/article/view/13674 |journal=Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature |language=en |volume=46 |issue=3 |pages=57–66 |doi=10.17951/lsmll.2022.46.3.57-66 |issn=2450-4580}}</ref>
* [[Andy Weir]], ''[[The Martian (Weir novel)|The Martian]]'' (2011),<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Martian by Andy Weir: Superb Hard Science Fiction Storytelling|url=http://sequart.org/magazine/49779/the-martian-by-andy-weir-superb-hard-science-fiction-storytelling/|access-date=2022-12-29|website=Sequart Organization|language=en-US}}</ref> ''[[Project Hail Mary]]'' (2021)<ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-05-05 |title=Alone on a Spaceship, Trying to Save the World - The New York Times |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/books/review/andy-weir-project-hail-mary.html |access-date=2024-03-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505011441/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/books/review/andy-weir-project-hail-mary.html |archive-date=2021-05-05 |last1=Nevala-Lee |first1=Alec }}</ref>