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Ringworld by Larry Niven

Four travelers come to the ringworld. . . Why did these disparate individuals come together? How could they possibly function together? And where, in the name of anything sane, were they headed?

Year: 1970
Genre: Hard SF, Science Fiction

The future is here...in an adventure of cosmic dimension. When a signal is discovered that seems to come from far beyond our solar system, a multinational team of scientists decides to find the source. What follows is an eye-opening journey out to the stars to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who--or what--is out there? Why are they watching us? And what do they want with us?

Year: 1985
Genre: Alien Contact, Hard SF

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that's striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about infocalypse.

Year: 1992
Genre: Cyberpunk, Hard SF, Science Fiction

Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan

In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person's consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloaded into a new body (or "sleeve") making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen.

Year: 2002
Genre: Cyberpunk, Hard SF, SF Detective

Prey by Michael Crichton

In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles--micro-robots--has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive. It has been programmed as a predator. And we are the prey.

Year: 2002
Genre: Hard SF, Nanotechnology, Technological Thriller

Titles

Want It	Got It	Read It	Year	Title

			1925	Ralph 124C 41+	by Hugo Gernsback	Action & Adventure SF, Hard SF
			1969	Ubik	by Philip K. Dick	Hard SF
			1970	Ringworld	by Larry Niven	Hard SF, Science Fiction, Ringworld
			1977	In the Ocean of Night	by Gregory Benford	Alien Contact, Hard SF, Space Exploration, Galactic Center Saga
			1979	Ringworld Engineers	by Larry Niven	Hard SF, Ringworld
			1980	Timescape	by Gregory Benford	Hard SF, Speculative, Time Travel
			1982	White Plague	by Frank Herbert	Hard SF, Virus Pandemic
			1984	Across the Sea of Suns	by Gregory Benford	Hard SF, Space Exploration, Galactic Center Saga
			1985	Blood Music	by Greg Bear	Cyberpunk, Hard SF
			1985	Contact	by Carl Sagan	Alien Contact, Hard SF
			1987	2061: Odyssey Three	by Arthur C. Clarke	Hard SF, Space Exploration, A Space Odyssey
			1987	Great Sky River	by Gregory Benford	Hard SF, Galactic Center Saga
			1987	The Forge of God	by Greg Bear	Apocalpyse, Hard SF
			1988	Eternity	by Greg Bear	Action & Adventure SF, Hard SF, The Way
			1989	Tides of Light	by Gregory Benford	Hard SF, Space Exploration, Galactic Center Saga
			1990	Heads	by Greg Bear	Hard SF, Quantum Logic
			1990	Queen of Angels	by Greg Bear	Hard SF, Near Future, Technological Thriller, Quantum Logic
			1992	Anvil of Stars	by Greg Bear	Action & Adventure SF, Hard SF
			1992	Red Mars	by Kim Stanley Robinson	Hard SF, Mars Trilogy, Mars
			1992	Snow Crash	by Neal Stephenson	Cyberpunk, Hard SF, Science Fiction
			1993	Green Mars	by Kim Stanley Robinson	Action & Adventure SF, Hard SF, Mars Trilogy, Mars
			1993	Moving Mars	by Greg Bear	Hard SF, Political SF, Quantum Logic, Mars
			1994	Furious Gulf	by Gregory Benford	Hard SF, Galactic Center Saga
			1995	Legacy	by Greg Bear	Action & Adventure SF, Hard SF, The Way
			1996	Children of the Mind	by Orson Scott Card	Hard SF, Enders Quartet
			1996	Sailing Bright Eternity	by Gregory Benford	Hard SF, Galactic Center Saga
			1996	The Ringworld Throne	by Larry Niven	Hard SF, Ringworld
			1997	3001 the Final Odyssey	by Arthur C. Clarke	Hard SF, Space Exploration, A Space Odyssey
			1999	Cryptonomicon	by Neal Stephenson	Hard SF, Technological Thriller, Espionage, WWII: European Theater
			1999	Darwin's Radio	by Greg Bear	Hard SF, Virus Pandemic
			1999	The Martian Race	by Gregory Benford	Hard SF, Adventures of Victor & Julia, Mars
			2000	Eater	by Gregory Benford	Hard SF
			2002	Altered Carbon	by Richard K. Morgan	Cyberpunk, Hard SF, SF Detective, Takeshi Kovacs
			2002	Prey	by Michael Crichton	Hard SF, Technological Thriller, Nanotechnology
			2003	Darwin's Children	by Greg Bear	Hard SF
			2004	Market Forces	by Richard K. Morgan	Hard SF
			2004	Ringworld's Children	by Larry Niven	Hard SF, Ringworld
			2005	The Sunborn	by Gregory Benford	Hard SF, Space Exploration, Adventures of Victor & Julia, Mars
			2005	Woken Furies	by Richard K. Morgan	Hard SF, Takeshi Kovacs
			2007	Sixty Days and Counting	by Kim Stanley Robinson	Eco-Disaster, Hard SF, Near Future, Political Thriller, Science in the Capital
			2012	2312	by Kim Stanley Robinson	Action & Adventure SF, Hard SF, Space Opera
			2012	Bowl of Heaven and Shipstar	by Gregory Benford	Hard SF
			2014	The Peripheral	by William Gibson	Hard SF, Political SF, Jackpot Trilogy
			2016	The Swarm	by Orson Scott Card	Hard SF, Military SF, Formic Wars
			2017	For We Are Many	by Dennis E. Taylor	Alien Contact, Hard SF, Bobiverse
			2020	Attack Surface	by Cory Doctorow	Hard SF, Technological Thriller
			2020	Glorious	by Gregory Benford	Alien Contact, Hard SF
			2020	The Hive	by Orson Scott Card	Hard SF, Military SF, Formic Wars