quintessential hard was SF Re:  Hard SF
The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 29 Nov 2012
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nate jarvis — 29 Nov 2012, 16:40

 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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