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I like good Sci-Fi. By good, I prefer people who work out the math, like Heinlein, who spent a week calculating geo-stationary orbit. Or Asimov with the robot short stories, where you have to deduce the issue with the change in the three laws.

The Martian (thanks to you guys here!) fits in this. So does the Expanse series.

I've begun reading "Saturn Run". Seems, so far, to fit in with the above end of the Sci-Fi.

Any other suggestions in this direction? it is tough finding really good, scientifically accurate stuff out there.

Yea, something that is not post apocalypse, dark and violent, and not Star Trek or Star Wars.

I am enjoying the Expanse.

I will look for recommendations on this thread.

Awesome idea...

The silo series is good for post-apocalyptic, and I loved the expanse series of books... looking forward to the rest.

I quite liked the Red Rising series. Doesn't quite fit with what you are looking for, but was good nonetheless...

passengers is surprisingly good, Rogue One is a winner, if you follow

Sorry, should be clear. I'm looking for books.

Ah Books... I was about to recommend Expanse as a series, come to find it's based on a book series.

There's also Bloom, and the Dune series has always been satiating for me.

Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Wool by Hugh Howey (Silo series, not space sci-fi but good)
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
Red Rising by Pierce Brown (already mentioned but very good series)
Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C Clarke (and others by him)

I also enjoy Nick Cole, but it's not technical sci if. That's a good list to start with...

Bill

Old Man's War by John Scalzi, indeed, good book

Dune is very good but doesn't have the technical content of Asimov. Check out his Foundation series.

Just finished CTRL ALT Revolt! by Nick Cole. I laughed out loud through much of it, and yet it also gave me a lot to think about. I'm currently reading Soda Pop Soldier.

Ryk Spoor and Eric Flint did a trilogy called Boundary. Pretty good stuff.

If you want real hard sci-fi, look at the works of Charles Sheffield. He was a genuine physicist/mathematician by training and took his writing seriously. I particularly enjoyed Aftermath and its sequel Starfire, and the Cold as Ice trilogy.

My absolute favorite stories are by Cordwainer Smith. There are collections of his work floating around out there. A close second is Alfred Bester's oeuvre. Both of these guys were "golden age" writers but I'd put their work up against anything that has been written since.

Seconds ago I finished the final edit of a Sci-Fi novel. Woo Hoo!!

I will be posting about it when it becomes available, hopefully soon. I'm probably going to self-publish it, but my editor may have some leads with agents and publishers. The Martian started as a self-published book, so I'm not too worried about it.

Eternity's Mind, Kevin Anderson. Odd opening chapter but gets it together afterwards.

Kim Stanley Gardner's Mars trilogy is good hard sci-fi. It's about the first colonists to Mars and follows about 100+ years of the planet being terraformed. I'm currently reading his Green Earth book, a 1000 page novel about environmental remediation after we melt the ice caps.

Here's an off-the-wall choice: Exo by Steven Gould. It's the latest sequel to his Jumper novel that has the original character's teen-age daughter work out how to reach orbit, and the impact she has as a private citizen that can reach and potentially de-orbit satellites, and it's very clever how she uses her abilities to build her own space station. Lots of engineering talk.

gibson invented ciber-punk
Stephenson cripto . reamde The Baroque Cycle [not scifi but good]
brin -best aliens
stirling dies the fire
Brunner -sheep look up ,, stand on Zanzibar

John Ringo's -Looking Glass series has lots of physics, I learned quite a bit about quarks, bosons and such. Ringo gathers dudes who know that stuff to help him write it.
A.G. Riddle's -Atlantis Gene series leans genetics
Joe Haldeman-Forever War written in 1974, and you'd be hard pressed to think Old Mans War by Scalzi didn't copy it somehow. The similarity is hard to pass.

Jack Campbell's- The Lost Fleet series is the best of all in military scifi in my opinion...its not aliens vs. humans until about seven novels in..

I lean military scifi so I was trying to come up with hard science, backed stuff.-WW

ps. I have tons more good reads, if any of these amuse anybody.

Good ones Wet, I have read all of those as well.

Another vote for The Forever War.

I'm just finishing Hyperion but I just couldn't get into it. I kept pushing to the end due to the praise the book has received, but it's been a chore.

I think I enjoyed the follow up books better than the first one....

But yeah, I read a lot, and know exactly what you mean.

Bill

Nothing worse than a book that you have to wait for the hook or is a chore to read. More often than not, they go to the immediate return pile of Library books.

OR, a re-jacketed, re-released book you have already read....worse if on the road and you buy the stupid thing.