u/mighty_spaceman

Looking for good near future hard science fiction of a certain type

I tend to like a variety of (hard) scifi, but I really crave the ones that pay particular attention to the minute workings of spaceflight in particular... and I realize now, that sounds like the precise definition of hard science fiction in the context of space, but it's not quite what I'm saying.

What I mean is science fiction where those workings are at least half of the focus. For example, all of the books by Andy Weir of course (possibly excluding Artemis). Importantly, while I love it, The Expanse does not fit into this category as while realistic doesn't go into too much detail about the mechanics of things outside of a fairly qualitative (but still good) explanation.

I have also begun reading the NASA series by Stephen Baxter, which I am thoroughly enjoying and consider the best example of what I am talking about here. Finding this is what spurred me to make this post, because I thought that this genre of hard scifi was fairly niche and didn't come to think that there could be others, which I would not want to miss out on.

Many people complained about Project Hail Mary (the book) going into too much depth about the workings of things (Called things like "Science porn", etc). Anything like this is exactly what I want.

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u/mighty_spaceman — 1 day ago