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Date Type Language Title Authors Parent Title Parent Authors Tags
2005-09-00 SHORTFICTION English Second Person, Present Tense Daryl Gregory     science fiction (2), literary sf (1), hard sf (1), psychology (1), psychologist (1), Buddhism (1), false memories (1), memory (1), memories (1), alternate personality (1), drug use (1), drugs (1), drug (1), daughter (1), near future (1)
2005-04-00 NOVEL English Spin Robert Charles Wilson     science fiction (1), Kurd Laßwitz Award: Best Foreign Novel (1), hard sf (1)
2005-03-00 NOVEL English Sunstorm Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke     science fiction (1), near future (1), hard sf (1), london (1), solar flare (1), Entropy (1), aliens (1), artificial intelligence (1), higher intelligence (1)
2005-11-00 NOVEL English The Cunning Blood Jeff Duntemann     artificial intelligence (1), nanotechnology (1), hard sf (1)
2004-01-00 NOVEL English Forty Signs of Rain Kim Stanley Robinson     climate change (2), science fiction (1), politics (1), Buddhism (1), global warming (1), climate control (1), near future (1), Washington, DC (1), NSF (1), only humans (1), female protagonists (1), hard sf (1), disaster (1), climate fiction (1), cli-fi (1), sea level rise (1), storms (1), flood (1)
2004-02-00 NOVEL English Pandora's Star Peter F. Hamilton     space opera (3), dyson sphere (1), wormholes (1), genetic engineering (1), far future (1), aliens (1), artificial intelligence (1), science fiction (1), nanotechnology (1), hard sf (1)
2004-04-00 SHORTFICTION English The Ocean of the Blind James L. Cambias     science fiction (1), hard sf (1), aliens (1), aquatic aliens (1), aquatic expedition (1), underwater (1), scientists (1), alien contact (1), contact with aliens (1), first contact (1), undersea (1), echolocation (1), horror (1), stealth diving suit (1), interstellar travel (1)
2004-00-00 NOVEL Chinese
球状闪电?Qiúzhuàng shǎndiàn
 Cixin Liu     science fiction (1), hard sf (1), physics (1), genius (1), education (1), mathematics (1), scientists (1), russia (1), lightning (1), weapons research (1), China (1), first person point of view (1), sailing (1), tornadoes (1), weather control (1), Schrödinger's cat (1)
2003-10-02 NOVEL English Maul Tricia Sullivan     science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
2003-10-00 NOVEL English Spin State Chris Moriarty     artificial intelligence (1), female main character (1), lesbian (1), transhuman (1), hard sf (1), quantum physics (1)
2002-00-00 NOVEL English Altered Carbon Richard Morgan     cloning (2), action-adventure (2), noir (2), science fiction (2), mind cloning (1), sleeve (1), envoy (1), into-tv (1), hard sf (1), cyberpunk (1), brain implant (1), San Francisco (1)
2002-11-00 NOVEL English Coyote Allen Steele     science fiction (1), Coyote (1), hard sf (1)
2002-04-00 NOVEL English Everyone in Silico Jim Munroe     hard sf (1), science fiction (1), cyberpunk (1), near future (1)
2002-10-00 NOVEL English Light M. John Harrison     space opera (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
2002-08-00 COLLECTION English Phase Space Stephen Baxter     science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
2002-11-00 ANTHOLOGY English The Hard SF Renaissance Kathryn Cramer and David G. Hartwell     hard sf (1)
2001-00-00 NOVEL English Chimera Mark W. Tiedemann     hard sf (1), murder mystery (1), robots (1), asimov's laws (1), cyborg (1), artificial intelligence (1), extrasolar colonies (1), science fiction (1)
2001-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Fast Times at Fairmont High Vernor Vinge     science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
2001-12-00 SHORTFICTION English Grey Earth Stephen Baxter     science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
2001-08-00 NOVEL English Origin Stephen Baxter     science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
2000-07-00 SHORTFICTION English Built Upon the Sands of Time Michael F. Flynn     hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
2000-01-00 SHORTFICTION English Different Kinds of Darkness David Langford     science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
2000-02-00 SHORTFICTION English Great Wall of Mars Alastair Reynolds     mars (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
2000-10-00 SHORTFICTION English On the Orion Line Stephen Baxter     hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
2000-03-16 SHORTFICTION English Reality Check David Brin     hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
2000-04-00 SHORTFICTION English Reef Paul J. McAuley     hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
2000-03-00 NOVEL English Revelation Space Alastair Reynolds     space opera (1), nanotechnology (1), war with machines (1), science fiction (1), far future (1), hard sf (1), first contact (1), archaeology (1)
2000-05-00 SHORTFICTION English Sheena 5 Stephen Baxter     hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
2000-08-00 NOVEL English Space Stephen Baxter     science fiction (1), war with machines (1), hard sf (1)
2000-12-00 NOVEL English The Coming Joe Haldeman     science fiction (1), dystopia (1), social commentary (1), politics (1), near future (1), academia (1), alien visitation (1), hard sf (1), climate change (1)
2000-03-00 NOVEL English The Light of Other Days Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke     wormholes (2), time viewer (2), science fiction (2), virtual reality (2), surveillance (2), Seattle (2), privacy (2), comet impact (2), global computer network search engine (1), hard sf (1), weather control (1), resurrection (1), religion (1), invention (1), tattoos (1), tigers (1), extinction (1), cloning (1), climate change (1), electromagnetic pulse (1), antigravity (1), artificial intelligence (1), mind control (1), shared mind (1), nuclear waste (1), storms (1), set in 2030s (1), set in 2040s (1), set in 2080s (1), set in 22nd century (1), nanotechnology (1), london (1), russia (1), antarctica (1), United Kingdom (1), Uzbekistan (1), Rome (1), africa (1), mathematics (1), genealogy (1), hominins (1), psychologists (1), war (1), torture (1), invisibility (1), physicists (1), evolution (1), archaeology (1), journalists (1), drought (1), American civil war (1), music (1), Crusades (1), Abraham Lincoln (1), Albert Einstein (1), jesus (1), Moses (1), Christopher Columbus (1), William Shakespeare (1), Pierre de Fermat (1), Ötzi (1), Ludwig van Beethoven (1), sea level rise (1), social change (1), viewing the past (1), viewing of past (1), view past/future (1), past/future viewer (1), past time viewer (1), FBI (1), brain implant (1), wormhole (1), journalist (1), amoral billionaire (1), billionaire (1), father and sons (1), father and son (1), half-sister (1), brothers (1), remote surveillance (1), near future (1), comet (1), comet collision (1), comet-caused disaster (1), time viewing (1), past viewer (1)
2000-06-00 SHORTFICTION English The Shoulders of Giants Robert J. Sawyer     science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1999-03-00 NOVEL English A Deepness in the Sky Vernor Vinge     space opera (2), nanotechnology (2), alien perspective (1), transhuman (1), first contact (1), 3-award-winner (1), Kurd Laßwitz Award: Best Foreign Novel (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1999-04-00 SHORTFICTION English Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars Kim Stanley Robinson     mars (1), science fiction (1), baseball (1), hard sf (1)
1999-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Exchange Rate Hal Clement     science fiction (2), hard sf (2), far future (1), first contact (1), hostile environment (1), trade with aliens (1), mysterious aliens (1), earthquakes (1), organic technology (1), high gravity (1)
1999-07-00 SHORTFICTION English Galactic North Alastair Reynolds     science fiction (1), far future (1), hard sf (1), pirates (1), war with machines (1)
1999-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Hatching the Phoenix Frederik Pohl     science fiction (1), time travel (1), hard sf (1)
1999-05-00 SHORTFICTION English Huddle Stephen Baxter     hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
1999-10-00 SHORTFICTION English Kinds of Strangers Sarah Zettel     science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1999-02-00 SHORTFICTION English Mount Olympus Ben Bova     science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1999-07-00 SHORTFICTION English People Came from Earth Stephen Baxter     hard sf (1), science fiction (1), far future (1)
1999-04-00 SHORTFICTION English Sexual Dimorphism Kim Stanley Robinson     mars (1), science fiction (1), genetic engineering (1), paleontology (1), domestic abuse (1), dolphins (1), dolphin (1), hard sf (1)
1999-07-00 NOVEL English Starfish Peter Watts     science fiction (1), water (1), gel (1), deep sea trough (1), genetic engineering (1), hard sf (1)
1999-00-00 NOVEL English Time Stephen Baxter     science fiction (1), hard sf (1), squid (1), End of the Universe (1), spaceflight (1)
1998-10-00 SHORTFICTION English Taklamakan Bruce Sterling     China (1), hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
1998-09-00 NOVEL English The Children Star Joan Slonczewski     hard sf (1), religion (1)
1998-08-00 NOVEL English Vast Linda Nagata     nanotechnology (1), posthuman (1), hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
1997-03-00 SHORTFICTION English A Time to Kill David Weber     mercy (1), interstellar travel (1), war with aliens (1), morality of war (1), hard sf (1), military sf (1), war (1), artificial intelligence (1), artificial intelligence point of view (1), alien point of view (1), genocide (1)
1997-02-00 NOVEL English Deception Well Linda Nagata     nanotechnology (1), hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
1997-09-00 NOVEL English Diaspora Greg Egan     nanotechnology (1), virtual reality (1), cosmic (1), artificial intelligence (1), transhuman (1), transdimensional (1), science fiction (1), femtotechnology (1), picotechnology (1), hard sf (1)
1997-00-00 NOVEL English Fool's War Sarah Zettel     artificial intelligence (1), hard sf (1), space opera (1), science fiction (1)
1997-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Madam Butterfly James P. Hogan     science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1997-07-00 SHORTFICTION English Marrow Robert Reed     hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
1997-04-00 SHORTFICTION English Reasons to Be Cheerful Greg Egan     science fiction (2), cancer (1), hard sf (1), brain tumor (1), endorphins (1), depression (1)
1997-04-00 SHORTFICTION English Second Skin Paul J. McAuley     genetic engineering (1), Quiet War (1), hard sf (1), terraforming (1), outer planets (1), intrigue (1), personality overlay (1), spy story (1), unreliable narrator (1), microgravity (1)
1997-04-00 SHORTFICTION English The Mendelian Lamp Case Paul Levinson     hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
1997-04-00 COLLECTION English Vacuum Diagrams Stephen Baxter     hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
1996-02-00 SHORTFICTION English An Ever-Reddening Glow David Brin     hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
1996-01-00 SHORTFICTION English Bicycle Repairman Bruce Sterling     hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
1996-04-00 NOVEL English Blue Mars Kim Stanley Robinson     science fiction (3), mars (3), terraforming (2), space elevator (2), nanotechnology (1), colonization (1), near future (1), climate control (1), climate change (1), Mercury (1), Titania (1), longevity (1), revolution (1), genetic engineering (1), 2-award-winner (1), hard sf (1), asteroid belt (1), immigration (1), Corporations (1), memory loss (1)
1996-12-00 SHORTFICTION English Halo Karl Schroeder     hard sf (1), interstellar warfare (1), science fiction (1)
1996-03-00 SHORTFICTION English Immersion Gregory Benford     hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
1996-05-00 NOVEL English Remnant Population Elizabeth Moon     first contact (2), linguistics (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1996-11-00 SHORTFICTION English The Lady Vanishes Charles Sheffield     hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
1995-12-00 SHORTFICTION English For White Hill Joe Haldeman     hard sf (1), s (1), art (1), romance (1), time dilation (1), slower than light travel (1), exterminator nanobots (1), postapocalyptic earth (1), interstellar society (1), war with aliens (1), first person point of view (1), cryosleep (1), body regeneration (1), terraforming (1), cold sleep (1)
1995-12-00 SHORTFICTION English Genesis Poul Anderson     hard sf (1), science fiction (1), simulation (1), repopulaton of earth (1), lifecycle of the sun (1), avatars (1), composite minds (1), distant future (1), love (1), no aliens (1), far future (1), uploaded consciousness (1), uploaded personality (1)
1995-11-00 SHORTFICTION English Gossamer Stephen Baxter     science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1995-06-00 NOVEL English Legacy Greg Bear     science fiction (1), hard sf (1), evolution (1), parallel universe (1)
1995-08-00 SHORTFICTION English Microbe Joan Slonczewski     hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
1995-08-00 NOVEL English Slow River Nicola Griffith     science fiction (2), strong female characters (1), 2-award-winner (1), hard sf (1), lesbian (1), Hull (1), Kingston upon Hull (1), UK (1), Britain (1), Great Britain (1)
1995-12-00 NOVEL English Tech-Heaven Linda Nagata     nanotechnology (1), cryonics (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1), cryogenics (1)
1995-04-00 NOVEL English The Bohr Maker Linda Nagata     nanotechnology (2), science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1995-11-00 NOVEL English The Color of Distance Amy Thomson     first contact (1), alien culture (1), aliens (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1995-02-00 NOVEL English The Diamond Age Neal Stephenson     nanotechnology (4), steampunk (3), cyberpunk (2), near future (2), science fiction (2), neo-victorian (1), postcyberpunk (1), 3-award-winner (1), hard sf (1), sociology (1), education (1), post-cyberpunk (1), matter duplication (1), computers (1), artificial intelligence (1)
1995-12-15 SHORTFICTION English The Good Rat Allen Steele     science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1995-06-00 SHORTFICTION English Think Like a Dinosaur James Patrick Kelly     science fiction (2), fantasy (1), hard sf (1), death (1), reptiles (1), Reptilian aliens (1), sentient reptiles (1), teleport duplication (1), teleportation (1), teleportation device (1), teleporter (1), first person point of view (1), first person (1), first person narrative (1), alien technology (1), teletransporter (1), teletransportation (1)
1995-05-04 SHORTFICTION English Wang's Carpets Greg Egan     hard sf (1), science fiction (1), sentience (1), simulation (1), interstellar travel (1)
1994-02-00 NOVEL English Foreigner C. J. Cherryh     first contact (2), science fiction (1), alien culture (1), hard sf (1)
1993-04-00 NOVEL English Beggars in Spain Nancy Kress     nanotechnology (1), sleep (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1993-04-00 NOVEL English Forward the Foundation Isaac Asimov     science fiction (1), galactic empire (1), hard sf (1), autobiographical (1), psychohistory (1), telepathy (1)
1993-10-00 NOVEL English Green Mars Kim Stanley Robinson     science fiction (3), mars (3), terraforming (2), colonization (2), space elevator (2), nanotechnology (1), near future (1), Mars colonization (1), genetic engineering (1), revolution (1), longevity (1), economics (1), politics (1), 2-award-winner (1), Seiun Award for best foreign language novel nominee (1), hard sf (1), sea level rise (1), underground city (1), orbital mirrors (1), coup (1)
1993-07-00 SHORTFICTION English Into the Miranda Rift G. David Nordley     only humans (1), Miranda (Uranus moon) (1), marriage (1), spelunking (1), intelligent robots (1), survival (1), first person point of view (1), hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
1993-09-00 SHORTFICTION English Lost Legion S. M. Stirling     military sf (2), war (1), Latin America (1), revolutionaries (1), strong female character (1), artificial intelligence (1), hard sf (1), guerrillas (1)
1993-11-00 NOVEL English Moving Mars Greg Bear     mars (2), nanotechnology (1), 2-award-winner (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1), robots (1), interplanetary war (1), teleportation (1), cosmology (1), interplanetary travel (1), artificial intelligence (1), moon (1), Earth (1), moving planets (1)
1993-05-00 NOVEL English Nightmare Asylum Steve Perry     military sf (1), war with aliens (1), hard sf (1), science fiction (1), female soldier (1)
1993-11-00 NOVEL English Rama Revealed Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee     cosmogony (1), alien culture (1), alien artifact (1), megastarship (1), hard sf (1), science fiction (1), xenophobia (1)
1992-04-00 NOVEL English A Fire Upon the Deep Vernor Vinge     space opera (3), nanotechnology (1), alien perspective (1), artificial intelligence (1), transhuman (1), galactic culture (1), science fiction (1), 2-award-winner (1), war with machines (1), hard sf (1)
1992-07-00 SHORTFICTION English Barnacle Bill the Spacer Lucius Shepard     science fiction (1), hard sf (1), space station (1), alien animals (1), terrorism (1), political intrigue (1), mental retardation (1), colonization (1), exploration (1)
1992-07-00 SHORTFICTION English Breakups Harry Turtledove     alien artifacts (1), ancient aliens (1), aliens (1), interstellar travel (1), hard sf (1), Crab Nebula (1)
1992-07-00 SHORTFICTION English Fighting Words Janet Kagan     hard sf (1), aliens (1), diplomacy (1), interstellar travel (1), strong female character (1), cats (1), alien psychology (1), religious prejudice (1)
1992-07-00 SHORTFICTION English One Man's Meat Lawrence Watt-Evans     alien culture (1), robots (1), palace intrigue (1), interspecies diplomacy (1), hard sf (1), interstellar travel (1), poison (1)
1992-09-00 NOVEL English Red Mars Kim Stanley Robinson     mars (4), science fiction (2), terraforming (2), space elevator (2), nanotechnology (1), colonization (1), near future (1), revolution (1), longevity (1), climate control (1), Mars colonization (1), genetic engineering (1), politics (1), 2-award-winner (1), Coyote (1), hard sf (1), Corporations (1), Phobos (1), underground city (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1)
1992-09-28 SHORTFICTION English The Hammer of God Arthur C. Clarke     hard sf (1), science fiction (1), asteroid impact (1), asteroids (1), Fundamentalism (1), religion (1), artificial intelligence (1)
1991-10-00 SHORTFICTION English A Walk in the Sun Geoffrey A. Landis     near future (1), hard sf (1), moon (1), science fiction (1), survival (1), rescue (1)
1991-02-00 SHORTFICTION English Beggars in Spain Nancy Kress     science fiction (2), genetic engineering (2), near future (1), alcoholism (1), hard sf (1), alcoholic (1), stepmother (1), twins (1), twin sisters (1), sisters (1), unusual children (1), billionaire (1), Lawyers (1), lawyer (1), Harvard (1), Chicago (1), doctors (1)
1991-07-00 NOVEL English Fallen Angels Michael F. Flynn and Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle     fandom (1), recursive sf (1), fanfic (1), near future (1), hard sf (1), social criticism (1), science fiction (1), environmentalism (1), Ice age (1), social collapse (1)
1991-06-00 SHORTFICTION English Gene Wars Paul J. McAuley     hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
1991-01-00 SHORTFICTION English Griffin's Egg Michael Swanwick     moon (2), science fiction (2), hard sf (1), insanity (1), bioweapon (1), global war (1), the moon (1), solar flare (1), lunar industry (1), moon base (1), moonbase (1), Moon colony (1), lunar colony (1)
1991-10-00 NOVEL English Lunar Descent Allen Steele     luna (1), hard sf (1), only humans (1), near future (1), science fiction (1), construction on Luna (1), striking workers (1), financial crime (1), substance abuse (1), disk jockey (1)
1991-03-08 SHORTFICTION English Matter's End Gregory Benford     hard sf (1), science fiction (1), particle physics (1), proton decay (1), india (1), religion (1), mysticism (1)
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