Recent Hard SciFi

[Mind Guild]

I haven't keep up with the genre lately. Besides Andy Weir's "The Martian" and "Project Hail Mary" and Liu Cixin's "Three Body Problem" what other recent authors of Hard SciFi (based on physics and math) are there?

I'm an old fart, so for me in the past it was Arthur C. Clarke (2001, Childhood's End, Rendezvous with Rama), Issac Asimov (The Gods Themselves, Nemesis), Robert Forward (Dragon's Egg), Rudy Rucker (Software, Wetware...). Sir Fred Hoyle (The Black Cloud, A for Andromeda, October the First is Too Late), Poul Anderson (Tau Zero and Brain Wave) and a bit more recently Carl Sagan (Contact).

 

[Filip Larsen]

Off the top of my head:
The Expanse by pen name James S. A. Corey.
Venus Prime by Paul Preuss, which interestingly weaves a number of Arthur C. Clarke short stories into the plot (but for hard sci-fi you may want to skip the last book. Later: hardly "recent" as the topic requested, but which I missed noticing at first).

 

[Mind Guild]

Off the top of my head:
The Expanse by pen name James S. A. Corey.
Venus Prime by Paul Preuss, which interestingly weaves a number of Arthur C. Clarke short stories into the plot (but for hard sci-fi you may want to skip the last book. Later: hardly "recent" as the topic requested, but which I missed noticing at first).

Interesting. I knew about Clarke's collaborations with Gentry Lee on the Rama sequels, and I've read "Light of Other Days" with Stephen Baxter. Did not know about Paul Preuss. Thanks.

 

[sbrothy]

I haven't keep up with the genre lately. Besides Andy Weir's "The Martian" and "Project Hail Mary" and Liu Cixin's "Three Body Problem" what other recent authors of Hard SciFi (based on physics and math) are there?

I'm an old fart, so for me in the past it was Arthur C. Clarke (2001, Childhood's End, Rendezvous with Rama), Issac Asimov (The Gods Themselves, Nemesis), Robert Forward (Dragon's Egg), Rudy Rucker (Software, Wetware...). Sir Fred Hoyle (The Black Cloud, A for Andromeda, October the First is Too Late), Poul Anderson (Tau Zero and Brain Wave) and a bit more recently Carl Sagan (Contact).

I know (or I assume) that this is an unpopular opinion but I actually liked the film "2010" more than "2001". I'm not trying to belittle "2001". For it's age the special effects were sublime (especially how they "filmed" the ballpoint pen "flowing" around in zero G). Note that I'm not comparing the books; only the films.

With regards to the books Gentry Lee was a lot better at character development than Clarke, but of course that's not what a nerd like me reads them for.

Rama was a masterpiece overall.

 

[sbrothy]

Also, perhaps not recent but this is a good read too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_(novel)

EDIT: OK, but admittedly not as "hard" as Clarke.