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Red Mars
Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
Year: 1992
Rating: 3.86
In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of research & cutting-edge science in the 1st of a trilogy chronicling the colonization of Mars:For eons, sandstorms have swept the desolate landscape. Fo…
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Rendezvous with Rama
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Year: 1973
Rating: 4.1
At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at an inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthi…
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Revelation Space
Author: Alastair Reynolds
Year: 2000
Rating: 3.98
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
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Year: 1968
Rating: 4.15
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
Author: Larry Niven
Year: 1970
Rating: 3.96
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
Author: Isaac Asimov
Year: 1951
Rating: 4.17
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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