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Does anyone know any Hard Sci Fi books about humans surviving without any hospitable worlds? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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I'm looking to get inspiration for my own writing. I need a hard sci fi series where earth (and earthlike worlds) are too rare, inaccessible, and/or previously spoiled beyond ability to sustain life. Bonus points if it is set on a multi-generational space station or starship without any other options and goes into detail about life support, living space, mineral mining and expansion of the station to accomodate a growing population, and daily life of it's residents.

If anyone remembers Drifter Colonies from Titan A.E., that's what's in my head.

I'm looking for The Martian levels of realism, and I'm fine with a bit of "Unobtanium" clichés if they're not core to the story.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't quite fit the bill as there's a planet eventually but Children of Time by Tchaikovsky is excellent and half the book follows a generation ship. The other half follows a successive evolution of uplifted spiders. It's reasonably hard sci-fi not Martian levels of detail about the science but very well written and enjoyable. Could be worth a go for some inspiration.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

@Berttheduck

The other half follows a successive evolution of uplifted spiders

This is the book I didn't know I wanted to read until now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It does a really good job of making you empathize with giant spiders. I can also recommend the audio book, very well done.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

@Berttheduck awesome. I love relatable non-human characters that are genuinely alien not just crypto humans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It owns. Haven't read the third one yet. Not even sure if it's out but if it is it's next on the list.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

@Lemonparty cool I've been looking for a series.