Questions tagged [hard-sci-fi]
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Sci fi book that has a tunnel. Depending on where you go through wall, go to different planet
If I remember rightly, there were also fights going on within the tunnels also.
Not sure if same book, but people started off being "born" within virtual reality and had to prove themselves, ...
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siblings/clones tour the galaxy giving technical help to collapsed societies
This is a novel from the the 2010 decade. Its title may be of the form "The <flower><group>". The novel isn't obscure, it is by a well-known author it might even have won a prize,...
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Embedded black hole in a manned spaceship counteracts the propulsive force
A colleague of mine explained this concept in the early 1990s; he sounded like he read it in a (printed) sci-fi story: whether novel, novella, short story or radio-drama script I have no idea.
The ...
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Is there a full comic of the crab-like alien explorers I remember?
I remember some years ago seeing a few images from a comic project about a crab-like people and their alien technology posted on the web. I remember two images in particular: the first showed their ...
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Short story about astronauts exploring the interior of a giant organism in space
Trying to find any info about a short story I read in a sci-fi monthly digest in the early '90s.
The basic gist is a team of astronauts is exploring and researching the interior of a large asteroid/...
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Title of story about living a long time by cleansing cellular mutations?
What is the name of a sci fi book about a man who gets his cellular damage/mutations reset? His wife cannot get it done because she had radiation for cancer when she was younger. Consequently, she ...
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Titan by Stephen Baxter- why land in 3 vehicles?
In Titan by Stephen Baxter, a heavily modified space shuttle with two capsules in its cargo bay lands on Titan, but the two capsules detach and land separately before the shuttle re-enters.
Since they ...
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Short sci-fi story about exploring a planet to be terraformed
Looking for the title and author of a short story. It’s AT LEAST 15-20 years old.
The story follows a pair of humans exploring a frigid planet to be terraformed. The premise was that they are ...
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Sci Fi short story about characters exploring an alternate pocket universe [duplicate]
Sci Fi short story I found in an anthology.
I think the story dates back to at least the 1990's.
I believe the characters are exploring an alternate pocket universe.
They require special suits to ...
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Book about crowns that enhance mental abilities
I am looking for a book set in the future in "outer space" where children wear different colored crowns that enhance mental abilities.
The book starts at a boarding school where the kids are ...
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Short nerdy sci-fi story where scientists discover that the Earth is falling into a black hole
I remember finding a PDF of this on the internet a few years ago, so it may not be a published work. It is about a scientist who observes unnatural behavior in the sky, and after some analysis ...
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Alien invasion movie, including the line: "We are the food"
I saw this sci-fi movie once on TV, around the second half of the 90's.
In this movie, a huge UFO was found near the North Pole (or was it the south?) and an expedition is called to go inside.
Inside ...
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What is the earliest example of LLMs used for AI in hard-sci-fiction before 2018?
All the AI in fiction, and none that I came across thought it could be helped by brute-forcing language in statistical models.
What is the earliest example of large language models or something ...
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Old military sci fi book about a spaceship on the edge of disaster
This was a secondhand book I read back in the 90s, so it probably dates back to the 70s or 80s.
The basic plot was set on an old spaceship where morale is low and the captain has basically abandoned ...
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Planets in interstellar space run on "slow speed" with people awaking for a few years, then sleeping for centuries
The book is no more than ~15 years old, and may have been reviewed on Boing Boing.
Set far in the future, civilizations on rogue planets in interstellar space (or perhaps orbiting brown dwarfs?) have ...
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