I'm aware that hard science fiction is a no true Scotsman sort of thing. But some of these books have no place on this list. Enders Game is a lot of great thin

I'm aware that hard science fiction is a no true Scotsman sort of thing. But some of these books have no place on this list. Enders Game is a lot of great things, but hard science fiction is not one of them. I've never heard anybody describe it as such. The sequels get pretty into metaphysical, religiousy weirdness. They are excellent reads, but not hard sf. And Three-Body Problem.... This one is interesting because it often gets billed as hard science fiction, but it's about as hard as unset Jell-O. That it's derivative, full of tired tropes and utterly devoid of character development is irrelevant to this conversation. The science presented in it make no sense, even at my intermediate layman's level of understanding. It made it impossible to suspend my disbelief, and the whole thing reads like a bad first draft. This is the first book I've ever finished just so I can decide how much I hated it. What's weirder is that TBP is mentioned in almost every thread on /r/printsf. It's constantly promoted in these sorts of articles.