Any good _hard_ science fiction? I'd ask /lit/ but I'm wanting hard hard science fiction not just science fiction. Pic related?
hard
>>8110163
Anything Michael Crichton
Don't listen to /lit/ about him BTW they're probably still storing jars of piss
>>8110163
Greg Egan if you want hard as fuck sci-fi.
>>8110163
C. J. Cherryh actually wrote nice ones.
a physics textbook you manchild
>>8114067
Physics textbooks are fictional?
>>8115527
yes
I know the true nature of things
>>8115527
Pretty much yes.
Larry Niven, everything he wrote is good.
Not biased at all.
>>8110163
VR is getting hot (again).
Curriculum then is everything by
- Bruce Sterling
- William Gibson
- John Shirley
- Richard Kadrey
- Neal Stephenson
... and the rest of the cyberpunk crew.
>>8115552
>Larry Niven
>Hard sci-fi
>>8113539
That's Crichton's main flaw. If you like the hard sci-fi jargon and technical explanations of everything its great, but his characters are not very memorable or well developed. I remember the plots of his books and not the character names.
>>8110163
I recall reading a self-described "hard" sci-fi novel, which featured some artifact that produced a really long megastructure, a guy who replaced half his brain with a robot, a butch female and a hybrid alien loli. Forgot what it was called.
>>8113539
Timeline was mediocre, and his next two novels after that, Prey and State of Fear, were pure trash. Stick to mid Crichton.
>>8110163
Blindsight by Peter Watts. (Ebook is free on authors site)
You can also ask in the /sff/ general on /lit/ they will probably give you what you are looking for.
>>8110163
Hellicornia is really really good.
