Ashes of Man (Sun Eater)
Christopher Ruocchio
2022 · 2023 edition
544 pages
The most popular hard science fiction books of 2022
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 2022.
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Star Wars
Mike Chen
2022 · 2023 edition
384 pages
Eversion
Alastair Reynolds
Published 2022
352 pages
Time Shelter A Novel
Georgi Gospodinov
Published 2022
336 pages
Black Tide
KC Jones, K.C. Jones
Published 2022
256 pages
A Half-Built Garden
Ruthanna Emrys
Published 2022
352 pages
Child Zero
Chris Holm
Published 2022
352 pages
Quantum of Nightmares
Charles Stross
Published 2022
368 pages
August Kitko and the Mechas from Space
Alex White
Published 2022
464 pages
The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories A Collection of Chinese Science Fiction and Fantasy in Translation from a Visionary Team of Female and Nonbinary Creators
Regina Kanyu Wang, Yu Chen
2022 · 2023 edition
400 pages
Medusa's Gauntlet New Eden - Book 3
Kishore Tipirneni
Published 2022
308 pages
To Each This World
Julie E. Czerneda
Published 2022
480 pages
Fault Tolerance A Novel
Valerie Valdes
Published 2022
416 pages
HellSans
Ever Dundas
Published 2022
456 pages
Reckoning
W. Michael Gear
2022 · 2023 edition
464 pages
The Extractionist
Kimberly Unger
Published 2022
290 pages
Terraform
Sam Biddle, James Bridle, Jennifer Marie Brissett, Tobias S. Buckell, Tori Cárdenas, Shannon Chamberlain, Chloe Cole, Nan Craig, Malon Edwards, Omar El Akkad, Meg Elison, Rose Eveleth, Fernando A. Flores, Paul Ford, Sarah Gailey, Peter Milne Greiner, Malcolm Harris, Porpentine Charity Heartscape, Eric Holthaus, Andrew Dana Hudson, Sahil Lavingia, Tao Lin, Geoff Manaugh, Tim Maughan, Joanne McNeil, Lincoln Michel, Sam J. Miller, Lia Swope Mitchell, Gus Moreno, Kevin Nguyen, Russell Nichols, Frankie Ochoa, Tochi Onyebuchi, Laurie Penny, Zora Mai Quỳnh, Robin Sloan, EMILY J. SMITH, Julian Mortimer Smith, Bruce Sterling, Seamus Sullivan, Wole Talabi, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Ellen Ullman, Debbie Urbanski, Jeff VanderMeer, Marlee Jane Ward, Elvia Wilk, Max Wynne, E. Lily Yu, Jess Zimmerman
Published 2022
496 pages
Summer's End
John Van Stry
Published 2022
368 pages
Hot Moon
Alan Smale
Published 2022
476 pages
Resurrection
Randolph Lalonde
Published 2022
218 pages
The Dao of Drizzt
R. A. Salvatore
Published 2022
432 pages
The Janus File
David Weber, Jacob Holo
Published 2022
368 pages
The Last Scion of Ra
K. Aten
Published 2022
500 pages
Tomorrow's Parties Life in the Anthropocene
Jonathan Strahan
Published 2022
232 pages