Science based Science Fiction
So, I'm finally reaching my limit for romance novels. I love reading them, and thought I could never get enough, but up til now I've always balanced out the sugar with some good clean science fiction. But in the last two or three years or so, I've noticed an upsetting trend: my romance genre is sneakily infiltrating my SF. It used to be I loved a good SF book that had a strong romantic tension in it...but now it seems that the (so called) SF I'm reading is just a romance-formula plot tied up with shiny magic/science ribbons. It's getting a bit annoying. Then today, my father asked me to recommend some good SF authors (who were still writing SF, rather than genre romance) and I realized I couldn't actually think of any. Aside from the classics, that is. Sure, there's always Orson Scott Card, Ursula LeGuin, Neil Stephenson, etc. But is there anyone out there writing good science-based SF that got their start in the last decade or so? I'm open to any and all suggestions, before the paranormal romance set makes my teeth fall out.