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Originally Posted by red-beard
Any other suggestions in this direction? it is tough finding really good, scientifically accurate stuff out there.
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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.