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CAPTCHA? B__LWhat is the more common name of the RB-79?
 
 
Hard SF Anonymous 2018-03-19 10:34:24Z No. 33
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Lately, I find myself looking for more grounded SF with less hand-waving -- or at least a strict focus on consistency. Some of Heinlein's stuff is good for this, also Stanisław Lem's. Gunbuster is good. Too often, though, (*cough* Bova *cough*) the author seems to make a character drama against a cool background.
 
Jerry Pournelle's CoDominion, which I'm reading now, is quite good. He lets in FTL and a few utility technologies, but the various governments have (in order to prevent super-weapons) clamped down on scientific research, and seeded technical archives with false data.
 
What's some other good, hard SF?
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Anonymous 2018-09-15 01:23:59Z No. 39
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>>33
Warhammer 40K :^)
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Anonymous 2018-09-30 15:51:24Z No. 42
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Seconded. There's a lot of in-depth comparison of various propulsion systems, for example.
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Anonymous 2018-10-16 11:24:41Z No. 44
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Not really fiction, but The High Frontier is a good read, and probably the hardest you'll get outside of a textbook.
 
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