Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
2021 · 2022 edition
476 pages
The most popular hard science fiction books of 2021
Hard science fiction takes its science seriously. The physics is real, the engineering is worked out, and the plot often turns on solving a technical problem with what is at hand. If you enjoy orbital mechanics, first contact done plausibly, or survival by ingenuity, you will find the books here rewarding. This list shows the ones first published in 2021.
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The Echo Wife
Sarah Gailey
Published 2021
256 pages
The Extinction Trials
A. G. Riddle
Published 2021
463 pages
Termination Shock A Novel
Neal Stephenson
Published 2021
708 pages
In the Quick
Kate Hope Day
Published 2021
251 pages
The Spare Man
Mary Robinette Kowal
Published 2021
384 pages
Far from the Light of Heaven
Tade Thompson
Published 2021
370 pages
Kingdoms of Death (Sun Eater)
Christopher Ruocchio
2021 · 2023 edition
672 pages
Perhaps the Stars
Ada Palmer
Published 2021
608 pages
The All-Consuming World
Cassandra Khaw
Published 2021
288 pages
Activation Degradation
Marina J. Lostetter
2021 · 2024 edition
378 pages
Sea of Dreams
Cixin Liu
Published 2021
87 pages
Only a Little Blood
Hieronymus Hawkes
Published 2021
399 pages
Adrift
W. Michael Gear
Published 2021
512 pages
The Book of All Skies
Greg Egan
Published 2021
236 pages
Unity
Elly Bangs, Gilles Goullet
Published 2021
304 pages
The Fallen
Ada Hoffmann
Published 2021
368 pages
Eve-0
Danielle Gomes
Published 2021
482 pages
Hunters
Randolph Lalonde
Published 2021
466 pages
The Godel Operation
James L. Cambias
2021 · 2022 edition
384 pages
The Truth and Other Stories
Stanislaw Lem
Published 2021
344 pages
Shadows of Eternity
Gregory Benford
Published 2021
496 pages
The Unraveling
Benjamin Rosenbaum
2021 · 2022 edition
416 pages
Recorder
Cathy McCrumb
Published 2021
304 pages