Best Hard Science Fiction of the 21st Century

1.
The Martian
The Martian
by: Andy Weir
4.42 avg rating — 1,238,625 ratings
2.
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by: Liu Cixin
4.08 avg rating — 460,739 ratings
3.
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1) 4.27 avg rating — 114,090 ratings
4.
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
by: Liu Cixin
4.40 avg rating — 204,543 ratings
5.
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
by: Liu Cixin
4.41 avg rating — 159,251 ratings
6.
Seveneves
Seveneves really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 122,805 ratings
7.
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1) 4.31 avg rating — 304,554 ratings
8.
Project Hail Mary
Project Hail Mary
by: Andy Weir
4.50 avg rating — 868,568 ratings
9.
Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 60,087 ratings
10.
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
Blindsight (Firefall, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 50,876 ratings
11.
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) 4.23 avg rating — 1,266,746 ratings
12.
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 159,979 ratings
13.
For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2)
For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2) 4.37 avg rating — 68,533 ratings
14.
Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1) 4.23 avg rating — 52,779 ratings
15.
Anathem
Anathem 4.17 avg rating — 74,547 ratings
16.
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 112,798 ratings
17.
All These Worlds (Bobiverse, #3)
All These Worlds (Bobiverse, #3) 4.40 avg rating — 60,132 ratings
18.
House of Suns
House of Suns 4.24 avg rating — 31,340 ratings
19.
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1) 4.27 avg rating — 656,801 ratings
20.
Dark Matter
Dark Matter 4.14 avg rating — 664,758 ratings
21.
Spin (Spin, #1)
Spin (Spin, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 43,588 ratings
22.
The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur, #1)
The Quantum Thief (Jean le Flambeur, #1) 3.83 avg rating — 23,442 ratings
23.
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1) 4.23 avg rating — 216,446 ratings
24.
Accelerando
Accelerando 3.87 avg rating — 21,991 ratings
25.
Chasm City
Chasm City 4.13 avg rating — 26,993 ratings
26.
Pushing Ice
Pushing Ice 4.07 avg rating — 21,502 ratings
27.
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 115,492 ratings
28.
Redemption Ark (Revelation Space, #2)
Redemption Ark (Revelation Space, #2) 4.16 avg rating — 31,767 ratings
29.
The Windup Girl
The Windup Girl 3.75 avg rating — 77,340 ratings
30.
Echopraxia (Firefall, #2)
Echopraxia (Firefall, #2) 3.83 avg rating — 12,122 ratings
31.
Singularity Sky (Eschaton, #1)
Singularity Sky (Eschaton, #1) 3.84 avg rating — 15,963 ratings
32.
Blue Remembered Earth (Poseidon's Children, #1)
Blue Remembered Earth (Poseidon's Children, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 12,004 ratings
33.
Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)
Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3) 4.22 avg rating — 48,680 ratings
34.
The Hydrogen Sonata (Culture, #10)
The Hydrogen Sonata (Culture, #10) 4.20 avg rating — 25,109 ratings
35.
Aurora
Aurora 3.78 avg rating — 27,123 ratings
36.
Rainbows End
Rainbows End 3.77 avg rating — 18,764 ratings
37.
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 335,048 ratings
38.
Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy (Remembrance of Earth's Past, #1-3)
Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy (Remembrance of Earth's Past, #1-3)
by: Liu Cixin
4.61 avg rating — 7,746 ratings
39.
Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2) 4.05 avg rating — 55,753 ratings
40.
Surface Detail (Culture, #9)
Surface Detail (Culture, #9) 4.26 avg rating — 29,669 ratings
41.
Schild's Ladder
Schild's Ladder
by: Greg Egan
3.94 avg rating — 4,029 ratings
42.
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 65,232 ratings
43.
Century Rain
Century Rain 3.94 avg rating — 11,776 ratings
44.
Absolution Gap (Revelation Space, #3)
Absolution Gap (Revelation Space, #3) 4.02 avg rating — 24,623 ratings
45.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 175,360 ratings
46.
Daemon (Daemon, #1)
Daemon (Daemon, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 47,821 ratings
47.
2312
2312 3.52 avg rating — 21,485 ratings
48.
The Peripheral (Jackpot #1)
The Peripheral (Jackpot #1) 3.89 avg rating — 32,579 ratings
49.
Reamde
Reamde 3.99 avg rating — 56,788 ratings
50.
Diaspora
Diaspora
by: Greg Egan
4.10 avg rating — 10,685 ratings
51.
Matter (Culture, #8)
Matter (Culture, #8) 4.11 avg rating — 29,297 ratings
52.
Look to Windward (Culture, #7)
Look to Windward (Culture, #7) 4.23 avg rating — 28,822 ratings
53.
Saturn Run
Saturn Run 3.92 avg rating — 15,751 ratings
54.
Galactic North
Galactic North 4.12 avg rating — 9,319 ratings
55.
The Freeze-Frame Revolution
The Freeze-Frame Revolution 3.95 avg rating — 6,700 ratings
56.
The Golden Age (Golden Age, #1)
The Golden Age (Golden Age, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 3,340 ratings
57.
Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)
Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 367,298 ratings
58.
Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)
Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2) 4.08 avg rating — 59,022 ratings
59.
Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1)
Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1) 3.82 avg rating — 15,221 ratings
60.
Influx
Influx 3.93 avg rating — 17,832 ratings
61.
Starfish (Rifters, #1)
Starfish (Rifters, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 10,069 ratings
62.
The Algebraist
The Algebraist 4.04 avg rating — 23,915 ratings
63.
Ilium (Ilium, #1)
Ilium (Ilium, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 31,804 ratings
64.
Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4) 4.23 avg rating — 121,984 ratings
65.
The Water Knife
The Water Knife 3.85 avg rating — 27,627 ratings
66.
The Void Trilogy (Void #1-3)
The Void Trilogy (Void #1-3) 4.60 avg rating — 1,611 ratings
67.
Proxima
Proxima 3.81 avg rating — 7,185 ratings
68.
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
To Be Taught, If Fortunate 4.20 avg rating — 52,533 ratings
69.
Stories of Your Life and Others
Stories of Your Life and Others 4.25 avg rating — 120,086 ratings
70.
The Line of Polity (Agent Cormac, #2)
The Line of Polity (Agent Cormac, #2) 4.14 avg rating — 7,840 ratings
71.
Great North Road
Great North Road 4.07 avg rating — 17,918 ratings
72.
Olympos (Ilium, #2)
Olympos (Ilium, #2) 3.95 avg rating — 20,212 ratings
73.
Time (Manifold #1)
Time (Manifold #1) 3.79 avg rating — 7,964 ratings
74.
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7) 4.38 avg rating — 82,558 ratings
75.
Incandescence
Incandescence
by: Greg Egan
3.67 avg rating — 2,256 ratings
76.
On the Steel Breeze (Poseidon's Children, #2)
On the Steel Breeze (Poseidon's Children, #2) 4.04 avg rating — 6,925 ratings
77.
Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6) 4.25 avg rating — 93,933 ratings
78.
The Phoenix Exultant (Golden Age, #2)
The Phoenix Exultant (Golden Age, #2) 4.13 avg rating — 1,958 ratings
78.
New York 2140
New York 2140 3.60 avg rating — 15,386 ratings
80.
Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1) 3.80 avg rating — 21,097 ratings
81.
Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5)
Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5) 4.44 avg rating — 109,572 ratings
82.
Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)
Freedom™ (Daemon, #2) 4.26 avg rating — 29,891 ratings
83.
Unanimity (Spiral Worlds, #1)
Unanimity (Spiral Worlds, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 143 ratings
84.
Dragon's Egg
Dragon's Egg 4.12 avg rating — 9,558 ratings
85.
Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
by: Sue Burke
3.91 avg rating — 14,586 ratings
86.
Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days
Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12,080 ratings
87.
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell 3.58 avg rating — 19,656 ratings
88.
New Moon (Luna, #1)
New Moon (Luna, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 8,570 ratings
89.
The Golden Transcendence (Golden Age, #3)
The Golden Transcendence (Golden Age, #3) 4.16 avg rating — 1,841 ratings
90.
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom 3.56 avg rating — 14,022 ratings
91.
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3) 4.28 avg rating — 147,855 ratings
92.
Heaven's River (Bobiverse, #4)
Heaven's River (Bobiverse, #4) 4.29 avg rating — 33,177 ratings
93.
Delta-v (Delta-v, #1)
Delta-v (Delta-v, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 9,872 ratings
94.
Saturn's Children (Freyaverse #1)
Saturn's Children (Freyaverse #1) 3.59 avg rating — 8,072 ratings
95.
Space (Manifold, #2)
Space (Manifold, #2) 3.91 avg rating — 5,282 ratings
96.
Terms of Enlistment (Frontlines, #1)
Terms of Enlistment (Frontlines, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 32,564 ratings
97.
The Swarm
The Swarm 4.10 avg rating — 29,051 ratings
98.
A.I. Apocalypse (Singularity #2)
A.I. Apocalypse (Singularity #2) 4.04 avg rating — 3,987 ratings
99.
Planet Ignis
Planet Ignis 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings
100.
Raven Stratagem (The Machineries of Empire, #2)
Raven Stratagem (The Machineries of Empire, #2) 4.09 avg rating — 9,576 ratings
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