Can anyone recommend me some science fiction survival-horror novels where the primary tension comes from people surviving the environment, rather than a conflict with a hostile alien or with each other?
Preferably with zero modern politics.
I'm fed up with modern science fiction where people either sabotage their own survival by arguing amongst themselves and making survivable situations into death traps because they're always acting against each, or where they're fighting an enemy that's a carbon copy of the Xenomorph or some kind of space fascist that's a thinly veiled allegory of modern day America.
Colonists on a hostile planet, a rescue team boarding a badly damaged ship, explorers on a derelict hulk with failing life support. Posidean adventure in space This kind of thing.
Preferably hard science fiction that's well grounded in modern technology rather than time travel, parallel universes, and interdimensional stuff.
Preferably no modern themes, nothing pushing a modern political agenda, and no sex.
I'm a fan of the early Expanse novels (Up until they get political), Semiosis (Before it got political), and Rama, and movies like Event Horizon and Aliens.
by ZombiesAaargh
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old man’s war has some good parts where the environment tries to kill everyone but it might get bit political later on, also the martian is basically just guy vs mars for most of it
Refugium by Eric Nicholas.