Any good _hard_ science fiction? I'd ask /lit/ but I'm

>>8110163
Anything Michael Crichton
Don't listen to /lit/ about him BTW they're probably still storing jars of piss

>>8110163
Greg Egan if you want hard as fuck sci-fi.

>>8110163
C. J. Cherryh actually wrote nice ones.

a physics textbook you manchild

>>8114067
Physics textbooks are fictional?

>>8115527
yes

I know the true nature of things

>>8115527
Pretty much yes.

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Larry Niven, everything he wrote is good.
Not biased at all.

>>8110163
VR is getting hot (again).
Curriculum then is everything by
- Bruce Sterling
- William Gibson
- John Shirley
- Richard Kadrey
- Neal Stephenson
... and the rest of the cyberpunk crew.

>>8115552
>Larry Niven
>Hard sci-fi

>>8113539
That's Crichton's main flaw. If you like the hard sci-fi jargon and technical explanations of everything its great, but his characters are not very memorable or well developed. I remember the plots of his books and not the character names.

>>8110163
I recall reading a self-described "hard" sci-fi novel, which featured some artifact that produced a really long megastructure, a guy who replaced half his brain with a robot, a butch female and a hybrid alien loli. Forgot what it was called.

>>8115537
>>8115533
>>8115527
>>8114067

SHUT IT DOWN

>>8113539

Timeline was mediocre, and his next two novels after that, Prey and State of Fear, were pure trash. Stick to mid Crichton.

>>8110163
Blindsight by Peter Watts. (Ebook is free on authors site)

You can also ask in the /sff/ general on /lit/ they will probably give you what you are looking for.

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>>8110163
Hellicornia is really really good.