[{"n": "2001: A Space Odyssey (novel)", "u": "/e/hard-science-fiction-novels/2001-a-space-odyssey-novel/", "s": "A 1968 novel by Arthur C. Clarke, developed with Stanley Kubrick."}, {"n": "Across the Sea of Suns", "u": "/e/hard-science-fiction-novels/across-the-sea-of-suns/", "s": "Second novel in Benford's Galactic Center Saga."}, {"n": "Ark (novel)", "u": "/e/hard-science-fiction-novels/ark-novel/", "s": "Humanity's last ark sails on nuclear pulse and warp."}, {"n": "Ball Lightning (novel)", "u": "/e/hard-science-fiction-novels/ball-lightning-novel/", "s": "A hard SF novel about ball lightning as a weapon."}, {"n": "Beggars in Spain", "u": "/e/hard-science-fiction-novels/beggars-in-spain/", "s": "A novel exploring genetic modification, sleeplessness, and societal inequality."}, {"n": "Bone Dance", "u": "/e/hard-science-fiction-novels/bone-dance/", "s": "A genre-blending novel set in a post-war climate-modified Minneapolis."}, {"n": "Camelot 30K", "u": "/e/hard-science-fiction-novels/camelot-30k/", "s": "Hard SF novel about alien life at 30 Kelvin."}, {"n": "The Children of the Sky", "u": "/e/hard-science-fiction-novels/the-children-of-the-sky/", "s": "Sequel set on Tines World, ten years after A Fire Upon the Deep."}, {"n": "The Color of Distance", "u": "/e/hard-science-fiction-novels/the-color-of-distance/", "s": "A first-contact novel about human adaptation among intelligent amphibians."}, {"n": "Contact (novel)", "u": "/e/hard-science-fiction-novels/contact-novel/", "s": "A 1985 novel about humanity's first contact with extraterrestrial intelligence."}, {"n": "The Faith of Beasts", "u": "/e/hard-science-fiction-novels/the-faith-of-beasts/", "s": "Second entry in The Captive's War trilogy."}, {"n": "Finity", "u": "/e/hard-science-fiction-novels/finity/", "s": "A 1999 novel blending alternate history and quantum mechanics."}, {"n": "A Fire Upon the Deep", "u": "/e/hard-science-fiction-novels/a-fire-upon-the-deep/", "s": "A 1992 space opera set in the Zones of Thought."}, {"n": "Jurassic Park (novel)", "u": "/e/hard-science-fiction-novels/jurassic-park-novel/", "s": "A cautionary novel about genetic engineering and chaos theory."}, {"n": "The Martian (Weir novel)", "u": "/e/hard-science-fiction-novels/the-martian-weir-novel/", "s": "A stranded astronaut survives on Mars using ingenuity."}, {"n": "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress", "u": "/e/hard-science-fiction-novels/the-moon-is-a-harsh-mistress/", "s": "A 1966 novel about a lunar revolt and libertarian ideals."}, {"n": "Quarantine (Egan novel)", "u": "/e/hard-science-fiction-novels/quarantine-egan-novel/", "s": "A hard SF novel fusing quantum mechanics with a detective plot."}, {"n": "Raft (novel)", "u": "/e/hard-science-fiction-novels/raft-novel/", "s": "A hard SF novel set in a high-gravity alternate universe."}, {"n": "The Three-Body Problem (novel)", "u": "/e/hard-science-fiction-novels/the-three-body-problem-novel/", "s": "First novel in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy."}, {"n": "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas", "u": "/e/hard-science-fiction-novels/twenty-thousand-leagues-under-the-seas/", "s": "A science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne."}, {"n": "Xeelee Sequence", "u": "/e/hard-science-fiction-novels/xeelee-sequence/", "s": "A hard SF series spanning billions of years of cosmic history."}]