Re: Sci-Fi criticism
Allen Steele
Larry Niven
Jerry Pournelle
L. Neil Smith
And you can't go wrong rereading all the good old stuff.
You're right--it isn't easy finding a lot of authors willing to do "hard SF" nowadays. I just realized how few SF books I have bought in the last few years.
The Locus site is a good way to keep up with what's going on in SF.
