I have noticed that educational institutions (.edu in the US, .ac in the UK) usually have staff pages in the format /~[name].
I don't think I have seen this elsewhere. Is there a reason?
Are there any contemporary hard sci-fi authors comparable to Isaac Asimov, Arthur C Clarke and others of their era?
I have recently been reading Stephen Baxter and Kim Stanley Robinson and would like to find other comparable authors.
The problem I have with modern sci-fi is that it is blurred with Tolkien-style fantasy and it's often difficult to know where a particular book fits on the spectrum.
