2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Neal Stephenson's 2015 hard science fiction novel in which the Moon explodes and humanity has two years to preserve its genetic diversity in orbit before a bombardment kills all life on Earth — notable for its rigorous orbital mechanics and civilization-rebuilding detail.
James S.A. Corey's (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck's) nine-novel hard science fiction series set in a colonized solar system — praised for its rigorous physics, political complexity, and exploration of how humanity's divisions follow it into space.