For hard SF done well, try Kim Stanley Robinson. Kim's a guy -- Stanley is a middle name, not maiden name as my husband first thought. *g*
We both enjoyed his Mars trilogy very much. (It's sort of a tetralogy, as there is a collection of short stories that fit in and around the three novels.) I'm just now reading the Science in the Capital trilogy and liking that too. Haven't tried the Three Californias books yet.
Robinson's stories center around climatology. Although his characters do tend to cluster toward the geeky end of the scale, they're not bloodless -- I ended up caring about the First Hundred settlers of Mars very much.
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We both enjoyed his Mars trilogy very much. (It's sort of a tetralogy, as there is a collection of short stories that fit in and around the three novels.) I'm just now reading the Science in the Capital trilogy and liking that too. Haven't tried the Three Californias books yet.
Robinson's stories center around climatology. Although his characters do tend to cluster toward the geeky end of the scale, they're not bloodless -- I ended up caring about the First Hundred settlers of Mars very much.