Best Hard Science Fiction of the 21st Century

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Manifold: Origin
Manifold: Origin 3.71 avg rating β€” 3,282 ratings
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The Quantum Magician (The Quantum Evolution, #1)
The Quantum Magician (The Quantum Evolution, #1) 3.98 avg rating β€” 6,603 ratings
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Axis (Spin, #2)
Axis (Spin, #2) 3.55 avg rating β€” 9,807 ratings
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Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)
Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2) 4.39 avg rating β€” 174,903 ratings
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Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1) 4.18 avg rating β€” 31,000 ratings
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Existence
Existence 3.78 avg rating β€” 7,068 ratings
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Explorer (Foreigner, #6)
Explorer (Foreigner, #6) 4.32 avg rating β€” 3,506 ratings
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The Frozen Sky (Frozen Sky, #1)
The Frozen Sky (Frozen Sky, #1) 3.55 avg rating β€” 2,927 ratings
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2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1) 4.17 avg rating β€” 330,494 ratings
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Neptune's Brood (Freyaverse, #2)
Neptune's Brood (Freyaverse, #2) 3.85 avg rating β€” 5,820 ratings
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Poseidon's Wake (Poseidon's Children, #3)
Poseidon's Wake (Poseidon's Children, #3) 3.82 avg rating β€” 3,950 ratings
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Terminal World
Terminal World 3.77 avg rating β€” 8,642 ratings
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Termination Shock
Termination Shock 3.83 avg rating β€” 19,998 ratings
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Ultima
Ultima 3.67 avg rating β€” 3,430 ratings
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Mickey7 (Mickey7 #1)
Mickey7 (Mickey7 #1) 3.79 avg rating β€” 44,826 ratings
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Force Field a Taste of the Sun
Force Field a Taste of the Sun it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
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A New Eden (The Betaverse, #1)
A New Eden (The Betaverse, #1) 3.66 avg rating β€” 324 ratings
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Excession (Culture #5)
Excession (Culture #5) 4.20 avg rating β€” 33,412 ratings
119.
Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3) 4.01 avg rating β€” 27,320 ratings
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Omega Rising (Omega Force, #1)
Omega Rising (Omega Force, #1) 4.11 avg rating β€” 6,339 ratings
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Aftershocks (The Palladium Wars #1)
Aftershocks (The Palladium Wars #1) 4.12 avg rating β€” 10,540 ratings
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Recursion
Recursion 4.17 avg rating β€” 290,758 ratings
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HomΓ­nidos
HomΓ­nidos 3.80 avg rating β€” 13,733 ratings
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Nexus (Nexus, #1)
Nexus (Nexus, #1) 4.04 avg rating β€” 20,823 ratings
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Void Star
Void Star 3.67 avg rating β€” 2,445 ratings
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Quarantine
Quarantine
by: Greg Egan
3.91 avg rating β€” 6,141 ratings
127.
Distress
Distress
by: Greg Egan
3.85 avg rating β€” 2,764 ratings
128.
Critical Mass (Delta-v, #2)
Critical Mass (Delta-v, #2) 4.18 avg rating β€” 4,285 ratings
129.
Time's Eye (A Time Odyssey, #1)
Time's Eye (A Time Odyssey, #1) 3.72 avg rating β€” 8,596 ratings
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Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)
Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1) 4.24 avg rating β€” 159,068 ratings
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Calculating God
Calculating God 3.87 avg rating β€” 10,175 ratings
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Permutation City
Permutation City
by: Greg Egan
4.06 avg rating β€” 12,307 ratings
133.
Ringworld's Children (Ringworld #4)
Ringworld's Children (Ringworld #4) 3.77 avg rating β€” 9,470 ratings
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Sunstorm (A Time Odyssey, #2)
Sunstorm (A Time Odyssey, #2) 3.85 avg rating β€” 5,823 ratings
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Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)
Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2) 3.92 avg rating β€” 38,481 ratings
136.
The Frontiers Saga: Episodes 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
The Frontiers Saga: Episodes 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
by: Ryk Brown
4.29 avg rating β€” 1,701 ratings
136.
A Fire Within (Sekret Machines #2)
A Fire Within (Sekret Machines #2) 4.07 avg rating β€” 931 ratings
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Gradisil
Gradisil 3.43 avg rating β€” 288 ratings
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Casimir Bridge (Anghazi #1)
Casimir Bridge (Anghazi #1) 4.22 avg rating β€” 336 ratings
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U-10
U-10 4.33 avg rating β€” 110 ratings
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The Naiyro and the Beckoning Eroded Stone
The Naiyro and the Beckoning Eroded Stone 4.25 avg rating β€” 8 ratings
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Reincarnated in an Alien's Body: Trapped on an Alien version of our Own Universe
Reincarnated in an Alien's Body: Trapped on an Alien version of our Own Universe 4.50 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
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The Gazebo (Series of Doors #1)
The Gazebo (Series of Doors #1)
by: A.C. Zito
4.84 avg rating β€” 50 ratings
136.
The Day I Killed God
The Day I Killed God 3.22 avg rating β€” 18 ratings
136.
The Weight of Dusk
The Weight of Dusk 4.67 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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Sharper Mind Darker Dreams
Sharper Mind Darker Dreams it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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Dark (The Dark Trilogy #1)
Dark (The Dark Trilogy #1) 3.88 avg rating β€” 200 ratings
136.
Hong on the Range
Hong on the Range 3.74 avg rating β€” 19 ratings
136.
Interchange (Junction, #2)
Interchange (Junction, #2) 4.40 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
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The Jellyfish Device
The Jellyfish Device 4.14 avg rating β€” 14 ratings
136.
Spider (Kitto Ashton # 1)
Spider (Kitto Ashton # 1) 4.36 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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Arcady (Church of Ill Repute, #1)
Arcady (Church of Ill Repute, #1)
by: J. Hare
3.30 avg rating β€” 23 ratings
136.
Baby Steps (Genetic Pressure, #1)
Baby Steps (Genetic Pressure, #1) 3.57 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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Bisentient
Bisentient 4.20 avg rating β€” 10 ratings
155.
Crypto (Chimera Foundation, #1)
Crypto (Chimera Foundation, #1) 3.90 avg rating β€” 29 ratings
155.
The House on Infinity Loop (The Dimensional Alliance #1)
The House on Infinity Loop (The Dimensional Alliance #1) 4.38 avg rating β€” 53 ratings
155.
In Times of Peace: Dance of Darkness and Light Episode 1
In Times of Peace: Dance of Darkness and Light Episode 1 4.71 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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The Starseed
The Starseed it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
155.
Astræa (Kitto Ashton # 3)
Astræa (Kitto Ashton # 3) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
155.
Mars Nation (Mars Nation, #1-3)
Mars Nation (Mars Nation, #1-3) 3.80 avg rating β€” 100 ratings
155.
Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5) 4.47 avg rating β€” 113,929 ratings
162.
Humanoid Artificial Intelligence
Humanoid Artificial Intelligence 4.30 avg rating β€” 10 ratings
162.
The Bystander
The Bystander it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
162.
Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, #2)
Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, #2) 4.19 avg rating β€” 18,456 ratings
162.
Purity (Kitto Ashton #2)
Purity (Kitto Ashton #2) 4.50 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
162.
Solaris
Solaris 3.99 avg rating β€” 124,284 ratings
167.
This Mortal Coil (This Mortal Coil, #1)
This Mortal Coil (This Mortal Coil, #1) 4.12 avg rating β€” 11,501 ratings
167.
Zero World
Zero World 3.80 avg rating β€” 3,100 ratings
167.
All Is Dust (Kitto Ashton #5)
All Is Dust (Kitto Ashton #5) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
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Last Day on Mars (Chronicle of the Dark Star, #1)
Last Day on Mars (Chronicle of the Dark Star, #1) 3.92 avg rating β€” 2,830 ratings
170.
Ball Lightning
Ball Lightning
by: Liu Cixin
3.79 avg rating β€” 14,202 ratings
172.
The Oceans Between Stars (Chronicle of the Dark Star #2)
The Oceans Between Stars (Chronicle of the Dark Star #2) 4.24 avg rating β€” 1,173 ratings
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Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker, #1)
Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker, #1) 3.75 avg rating β€” 44,736 ratings
173.
Columbus Day (Expeditionary Force, #1)
Columbus Day (Expeditionary Force, #1) 4.26 avg rating β€” 31,274 ratings
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The Ministry for the Future
The Ministry for the Future 3.87 avg rating β€” 39,955 ratings
176.
The Neptune Project (The Neptune Project, #1)
The Neptune Project (The Neptune Project, #1) 4.26 avg rating β€” 3,647 ratings
177.
Limit
Limit 3.81 avg rating β€” 4,741 ratings
178.
Gemina (The Illuminae Files, #2)
Gemina (The Illuminae Files, #2) 4.43 avg rating β€” 80,254 ratings
178.
Memory's Legion
Memory's Legion 4.36 avg rating β€” 9,899 ratings
180.
Obsidio (The Illuminae Files, #3)
Obsidio (The Illuminae Files, #3) 4.45 avg rating β€” 56,806 ratings
181.
Coalescent (Destiny's Children, #1)
Coalescent (Destiny's Children, #1) 3.80 avg rating β€” 2,753 ratings
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Bowl of Heaven (Bowl of Heaven, #1)
Bowl of Heaven (Bowl of Heaven, #1) 3.41 avg rating β€” 2,695 ratings
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The Clockwork Rocket (Orthogonal, #1)
The Clockwork Rocket (Orthogonal, #1)
by: Greg Egan
3.65 avg rating β€” 2,350 ratings
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