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Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds book cover

Revelation Space

Author: Alastair Reynolds

Year: 2000

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Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repe…

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2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke book cover

2001: A Space Odyssey

Author: Arthur C. Clarke

Year: 1968

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On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered.So great are the implications of this discovery that for the first time men are sent out deep into our solar system.But long before their destination is reached, things begin to go horribly, inexplicably wrong...On…

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Ringworld by Larry Niven book cover

Ringworld

Author: Larry Niven

Year: 1970

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The artefact is a circular ribbon of matter six hundred million miles long and ninety million miles in radius. Pierson's puppeteers, the aliens who discovered it, are understandably wary of encountering the builders of such an immense structure and h…

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Foundation by Isaac Asimov book cover

Foundation

Author: Isaac Asimov

Year: 1951

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For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future -- to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will las…

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Dauntless

Author: Jack Campbell

Year: 2006

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The Alliance has been fighting the Syndics for a century--and losing badly. Now its fleet is crippled and stranded in enemy territory. Their only hope is a man who's emerged from a century-long hibernation to find he has been heroically idealized, be…

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The Forever War by Joe Haldeman book cover

The Forever War

Author: Joe Haldeman

Year: 1974

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The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand—despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy that they would oppose is inscrutable, unconquerable, and very far away. A reluctant conscript drafted into an elite Military unit, Private Wi…

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The Stars, Like Dust by Isaac Asimov book cover

The Stars, Like Dust

Author: Isaac Asimov

Year: 1951

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Biron Farrell was young and naïve, but he was growing up fast. A radiation bomb planted in his dorm room changed him from an innocent student at the University of Earth to a marked man, fleeing desperately from an unknown assassin. He soon discove…

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Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton book cover

Pandora's Star

Author: Peter F. Hamilton

Year: 2004

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Critics have compared the engrossing space operas of Peter F. Hamilton to the classic sagas of such sf giants as Isaac Asimov and Frank Herbert. But Hamilton's bestselling fiction--powered by a fearless imagination and world-class storytelling skills…

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2010, odyssey two by Arthur C. Clarke book cover

2010, odyssey two

Author: Arthur C. Clarke

Year: 1982

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When 2001: A Space Odyssey first shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s, the novel was quickly recognized as a classic. Since then, its fame has grown steadily among the multitudes who have read the novel or seen the film based on…

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The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury book cover

The Martian Chronicles

Author: Ray Bradbury

Year: 1950

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This is a collection of science fiction short stories, cleverly cobbled together to form a coherent and very readable novel about a future colonization of Mars. As the stories progress chronologically the author tells how the first humans colonized M…

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