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Westworld
2016 American science fiction television series
Jurassic Park
1990 novel by Michael Crichton
Steins;Gate
Steins;Gate is a 2009 science fiction visual novel game developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus. It is the second game in the Science Adventure series, following Chaos;Head. The story follows a group of students as they discover and develop technology that gives them the means to change the past. The gameplay in Steins;Gate includes branching scenarios with courses of interaction.
hard science fiction
science fiction with emphasis on scientific or technical detail, or on scientific accuracy
The Lost World
1995 novel by Michael Crichton
Rendezvous with Rama
1973 novel by Arthur C. Clarke
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
novel by Robert A. Heinlein
Planetes
is a Japanese hard science fiction manga written and illustrated by Makoto Yukimura. It was serialized in Kodansha's manga magazine Morning between January 1999 to January 2004, with its chapters collected into four volumes. It was adapted into a 26-episode anime television series by Sunrise, which was broadcast on NHK from October 2003 through April 2004. The story revolves around the crew of a space debris collection craft in the year 2075.
Syd Mead
American concept artist (1933–2019)
The Gods Themselves
1972 novel by Isaac Asimov
The Invincible
novel by Stanisław Lem
Ringworld
Ringworld is a 1970 science fiction novel by Larry Niven, set in his Known Space universe and considered a classic of science fiction literature. Ringworld tells the story of Louis Wu and his companions on a mission to the Ringworld, an enormous rotating ring, an alien construct in space in diameter. Niven later wrote three sequel novels and then cowrote, with Edward M. Lerner, four prequels and a final sequel; the five latter novels constitute the Fleet of Worlds series. All the novels in the Ringworld series tie into numerous other books set in Known Space. Ringworld won the Nebula Award in
Contact
novel by Carl Sagan
Space Brothers
Japanese manga series
A Fall of Moondust
1961 novel by Arthur C. Clarke
The Door into Summer
1957 novel by Robert A. Heinlein
Real Humans
Swedish science-fiction television series
Mars trilogy
science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson
Prey
2002 novel by Michael Crichton
Blindsight
hard science fiction novel by Peter Watts
The Expanse
series of space opera novels by James S. A. Corey (collective pseudonym)
Imperial Earth
1975 novel by Arthur C. Clarke
Tau Zero
1970 novel by Poul Anderson
Tales of Pirx the Pilot
1965 short stories by Stanisław Lem
Better Than Us
television series
Armored Trooper VOTOMS
Japanese anime television series
Pantheon
animated television series
The Time Ships
1995 novel by Stephen Baxter
Dragon's Egg
1980 novel by Robert L. Forward
Beggars in Spain
1993 novel by Nancy Kress
Footfall
Footfall is a 1985 science fiction novel by American writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. The book depicts the arrival of members of an alien species called the Fithp that have traveled to the Solar System from Alpha Centauri in a large spacecraft driven by a Bussard ramjet. Their intent is conquest of the planet Earth.
Schild's Ladder
2002 novel by Greg Egan
Osmosis
French science fiction television series
Permutation City
1994 novel by Greg Egan
Quarantine
1992 novel by Greg Egan
Diaspora
1997 novel by Greg Egan
Ball Lightning
2004 hard science fiction novel by Liu Cixin
The Children of the Sky
2011 novel by Vernor Vinge
Mission of Gravity
1953 novel by Hal Clement
Timescape
Timescape is a 1980 science fiction novel by American writer Gregory Benford (with unbilled co-author Hilary Foister, Benford's sister-in-law, who is credited as having "contributed significantly to the manuscript"). It won the 1981 Nebula and 1980 British Science Fiction Award, and the 1981 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. It won the 1981 Ditmar Award for Best International Fiction. The novel was widely hailed by both critics of science fiction and mainstream literature for its fusion of detailed character development and interpersonal drama with more standard s
Encounter with Tiber
1996 novel by John Barnes
Seveneves
Seveneves is a science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson published in 2015. The story tells of the desperate efforts to preserve Homo sapiens in the wake of apocalyptic events on Earth after the unexplained disintegration of the Moon and the remaking of human society as a space-based civilization after a severe genetic bottleneck.
Matthias Matting
German science fiction writer
In the Ocean of Night
1977 novel by Gregory Benford
Rocket Girls
Japanese light novel series
Voyage
1996 novel by Stephen Baxter
Iron Sunrise
2004 novel by Charles Stross
Orion's Arm
Science fiction world-building project
Mickey7
Mickey7 is a 2022 science fiction novel by Edward Ashton. Its sequel, Antimatter Blues, was released in March 2023.
2001 Nights
Japanese manga series