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Originally Posted by epbrown
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.
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Kim Stanley Robinson. Mars trilogy was good, as well as some of his early stuff. More recently, he's been focusing more on environmental disasters than hard SF.
Give Alastair Reynolds a look as well.
If you like stuff written by real scientists, check out Vernor Vinge and Gregory Benford.
Gary