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Does anyone know any Hard Sci Fi books about humans surviving without any hospitable worlds?
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People already mention the Mars series by Orson Scott Card, the Expanse series by Corey, and Seveneves by Stephenson, which are all fantastic and all fit your request well. Two others you might consider are:
Corey goes into pretty good detail about how they made Eros, Ganymede, and the generation ship livable. Seems like they qualified.
Hmmm, I just read that to mean there was some reason people had to terraform or create an artificial habitat, not that it had to be that specific plot point.
The belters make a pretty solid example of what it sounds like OP is looking for. The entire setting doesn't match to a T but there's enough interaction with inhospitable environments to be worth looking into, I think.
Do you mean the Mars series by Kim Stanley Robinson?
Lol, I do! Not sure why I was thinking about OSC. Maybe just another writer known by three names.