How do you define hard science-fiction? I always think of Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke etc as Golden era science-fiction (60s and 70s), which is a fairly distinct style.
I guess by your definition, writers like Alistair Reynolds, Stross, Kim Stanley Robinson would be contemporary hard sci-fi writers (but writers like Iain Bank, CJ Cherryh, Peter F Hamilton and Neil Asher would be closer to the space opera genre).
(stopped reading Asher and Hamilton because of their problematic writing of female characters).
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How do you define hard science-fiction? I always think of Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke etc as Golden era science-fiction (60s and 70s), which is a fairly distinct style.
I guess by your definition, writers like Alistair Reynolds, Stross, Kim Stanley Robinson would be contemporary hard sci-fi writers (but writers like Iain Bank, CJ Cherryh, Peter F Hamilton and Neil Asher would be closer to the space opera genre).
(stopped reading Asher and Hamilton because of their problematic writing of female characters).