What are your favourite comfy hard scifi novels?

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2016-01-01 22:50:53 Post No. 7528932
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Anonymous 2016-01-01 22:50:53 Post No. 7528932 [Report]

What are your favourite comfy hard scifi novels?

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Anonymous 2016-01-02 02:16:19 Post No.7529640
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Anonymous 2016-01-02 02:16:19 Post No.7529640 [Report]

The End of Eternity
The Time Ships, if it wasn't for that ending
The robot series isnt strictly speaking good but damn if they aren't comfy

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Anonymous 2016-01-02 04:27:34 Post No.7530029
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Anonymous 2016-01-02 04:27:34 Post No.7530029 [Report]

>>7528932
Rendezvous with Rama. It's about exploring and there's (almost) no conflict, it's just really comfy.

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Anonymous 2016-01-02 09:32:06 Post No.7530730
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Anonymous 2016-01-02 09:32:06 Post No.7530730 [Report]

>>7528932
Nivin Known Space stuff is soooo comfy

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Anonymous 2016-01-02 09:52:49 Post No.7530763
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>>7528932
>I'm a Russian cosmonauta; I can program these super-duper robots that never break down or screw up in just a day!
>Muh potluck economics
>Look at all these different cultures working together without much hiccups!
>OMG WE'RE A UTOPIA NOW AND 40 MILLION PEOPLE NOW LIVE ON CRETE!
>corporations are evil!
>we all mixed race now
>eat this perchlorate-enriched dirt for my gaia-religion so we can run out into the middle of nowhere with minimal supplies that will somehow last us years!
>super-helix-diamond space tether!
>dude we invented a cure for aging in our lab!
>we're all 7 ft now because someone didn't tell the author that people are only a couple inches taller off the Earth due to less spinal compression, not because gravity is stopping their bones from growing

>hard sci-fi
Not hard enough. Nonetheless, I liked the Mars Trilogy quite a bit although I thought the series steadily declined after the first book. On an unrelated note, KSR definitely has a femdom fetish.

I really like the Martian even though the dust storm was entirely unrealistic. A 300 kph wind would feel like a breeze at .06 Bar.

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Anonymous 2016-01-02 09:54:48 Post No.7530766
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Anonymous 2016-01-02 09:54:48 Post No.7530766 [Report]

>>7530763
.006 Bar*

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Anonymous 2016-01-02 10:32:07 Post No.7530820
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Anonymous 2016-01-02 10:32:07 Post No.7530820 [Report]

>>7529640
>The robot series isnt strictly speaking good
ayyy lmao

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Anonymous 2016-01-02 10:41:49 Post No.7530837
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Anonymous 2016-01-02 10:41:49 Post No.7530837 [Report]

You guys think the TV adaptation of the Mars trilogy is gonna be any good?

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Anonymous 2016-01-02 10:46:16 Post No.7530845
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Anonymous 2016-01-02 10:46:16 Post No.7530845 [Report]

>>7530837
Wait what, they're actually doing it?

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Anonymous 2016-01-02 10:48:23 Post No.7530850
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Anonymous 2016-01-02 10:48:23 Post No.7530850 [Report]

>>7530845
http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/red-mars-spike-series-order-1201656112/

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Anonymous 2016-01-02 10:51:25 Post No.7530854
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>>7530837
Lisa Edelstein for Maya please

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Anonymous 2016-01-02 10:53:46 Post No.7530857
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Anonymous 2016-01-02 10:53:46 Post No.7530857 [Report]

>>7529640
>The robot series isnt strictly speaking good but damn if they aren't comfy
No need to hedge your bets against peer pressure, if you like it, you like it.