Books I consider the archetype of hard sf would be Rendezvous with
Rama, The Invincible and His Master's Voice
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Baxter's Manifold: Time and Egan's Diaspora, for me. Vinge's Rainbows End.
(Though I've yet to read Alastair Reynolds.)
Nate.
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