'Ancillary justice' , 'Ancillary sword', 'Ancillary Mercy' by Ann leckie
A Memory Called Empire - by Arkady Martine (there's a human-run galactic empire with wormholes with an emperor but aside from that it's hard sf?)
'walkaway', 'Makers', and 'down and out in the magic kingdom' and a few others by cory doctorow
Neptune's brood by charles stross
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
The handmaiden's Tale by Margaret Atwood (not much STEM but apparently every horror in it has happened at some point in history)
the MIT technology review's '12 tomorrows has some really good short stories
https://www.amazon.com/Twelve-Tomorrows-...0262535424
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/series/twelve-tomorrows
A Memory Called Empire - by Arkady Martine (there's a human-run galactic empire with wormholes with an emperor but aside from that it's hard sf?)
'walkaway', 'Makers', and 'down and out in the magic kingdom' and a few others by cory doctorow
Neptune's brood by charles stross
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
The handmaiden's Tale by Margaret Atwood (not much STEM but apparently every horror in it has happened at some point in history)
the MIT technology review's '12 tomorrows has some really good short stories
https://www.amazon.com/Twelve-Tomorrows-...0262535424
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/series/twelve-tomorrows