Hard sci-fi has a reputation problem. Say the phrase out loud, and most people picture a 700-page brick full of equations, where the plot stops every 20 pages so the author can explain how a fusion drive works. Greg Egan's Diaspora gets brought up constantly for burying its plot under pages of theoretical physics that read like a textbook. William Gibson's Neuromancer is a genre-defining classic, but plenty of readers admit they feel lost trying to keep up with its dense, jargon-heavy prose.
Bengali (Bangladesh) · 
English (United States) ·