Hard science fiction
Also known as: hard SF
A subgenre emphasizing scientific accuracy and rigorous, plausible extrapolation of known physics and technology.
Hard science fiction in fiction: 13 works
The story turns entirely on rigorous orbital-mechanics constraints with no reprieve.
Its meticulous depiction of spaceflight and vacuum grounds the film in rigorous physics.
Its clinical procedural detail of laboratory science defines a technothriller mode of hard SF.
The engineering of the vast ring-shaped megastructure is worked out with physical rigor.
The novel rigorously extrapolates relativistic effects on interstellar warfare.
Its grounding in radio astronomy and physics exemplifies hard SF.
Its detailed engineering of terraforming and Martian geology exemplifies hard SF.
Its rigorously worked-out, technical treatment of time travel exemplifies hard SF.
Its rigorous neuroscience and physics of consciousness and contact exemplify hard SF.
Its physics of orbital chaos, unfolding protons, and interstellar contact is rigorously extrapolated.
The novel solves survival through rigorously accurate chemistry, botany, and orbital mechanics.
Its physically grounded relativity, black holes, and time dilation exemplify hard SF.
Its problems are solved through rigorous, worked-out physics, chemistry, and biology.