Hard SF : Suggested Reading : Suggestions From Hard SF Readers
List from Steve (Yahoo hardsf group)
Nancy Kress – Beggars in Spain
Orson Scott Card – Speaker for the Dead
Isaac Asimov – Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation
David Brin – Sundiver, Startide Rising, Uplift War
Greg Bear – Blood Music
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle – The Mote in God's Eye
Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
Vernor Vinge – Marooned in Realtime
Frank Herbert – Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune
Daniel Keyes – Flowers for Algernon
Best Humor:
Douglas Adams – Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Young Reader’s Selection (not a kid’s book):
Nancy Farmer – House of the Scorpion
Fell off the list (culturally aged):
Ursula K. LeGuin – The Left Hand of Darkness
Robert Heinlein – Stranger in a Strange Land
List from Ron (Yahoo hardsf group)
Stanislaw Lem – Solaris
William Gibson – Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive
Larry Niven – Ringworld
the Strugatskys – Roadside Picnic
Robert Heinlein – The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Alastair Reynolds – Revelation Space
Linda Nagata – Limit of Vision
Samuel Delany – Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand
Philip K. Dick – Flow My Tears the Policeman Said
Iain Banks – Use of Weapons
List from Ignacio (Yahoo hardsf group)
Arthur C Clarke – Rendezvous with Rama
Greg Egan – Permutation City
Neal Stephenson – Snow Crash
Octavia Butler – Xenogenesis
Peter Watts – Starfish
Orson Scott Card – Ender's Game, Songmaster
Stephen Baxter – Exultant
Suggested by Aleus (Yahoo hardsf group)
Dan Simmons – Hyperion Tetralogy
Stephen R. Donaldson – Gap Series
List from Chris (Yahoo hardsf group)
E. E. ‘Doc” Smith – The Lensman Series
Gregory Benford – Timescape
Gregory Benford & David Brin – Heart of The Comet
Vernor Vinge – A Fire Upon the Deep
Alastair Reynolds – Pushing Ice
Robert Charles Wilson – Spin
Robert A. Heinlein – The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Larry Niven – Ringworld
Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle – The Mote in God's Eye
Frank Herbert – Dune
A Long List from Fred (a member of Yahoo groups) can be found at:
http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/2006/01/best-fiction-while-you-get-glimpse-of.html
List from Archren (hardsf.net)
Hal Clement – Mission of Gravity
David Brin – Earth
Kim Stanley Robinson – Red Mars
Greg Egan – Schild's Ladder
Charles Stross – Accelerando
Larry Niven – Ringworld