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Defiance: A Colony Ship Thriller (The Exodus Project 1)

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Landfall

Jerry Aubin

The Ship, its towering structures perched upon the foundation of a massive asteroid, was launched as the last gasp of a dying Earth. The Mission -- seed the universe with one billion colonists who wait in cryostorage for their chance at a new homeworld. Five thousand years into a journey that was supposed to take one hundred, both the Ship and its society are starting to fray. Fifteen-year-old

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Earthseed

Pamela Sargent · 289 pages

Before Zoheret and her companions can populate a new planet, they must learn to conquer those same instincts that almost destroyed their ancestors on Earth over one hundred years ago.

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Coyote

Allen Steele · 424 pages

A group of political dissidents and their families escape the repressive world of twenty-first-century Earth to seek new lives as interstellar colonists, placing themselves in cold sleep for a two-century odyssey to the habitable world of Coyote.

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Starbreak

Phoebe North · 432 pages

After five hundred years, the Earth ship seventeen-year-old Terra and her companions were born and raised on arrives at Zehava, a dangerous, populated world where Terra must take the lead in establishing a new colony.

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Rite of Passage

Alexei Panshin · 254 pages

After the destruction of Earth, humanity has established itself precariously among a hundred planets. Between them roam the vast Ships, doling out scientific knowledge in exchange for raw materials. On one of the Ships lives Mia Havero. Belligerent soccer player, intrepid explorer of ventilation shafts, Mia tests all the boundaries of her insulated world. She will soon be tested in turn. At the ag

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Building Harlequin's Moon

Larry Niven, Brenda Cooper · 400 pages

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On the Steel Breeze

Alastair Reynolds · 513 pages

Sequel to *Blue Remembered Earth* [https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16532269W/Blue_remembered_Earth][1] [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16532269W/Blue_remembered_Earth

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Variable Star

Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson · 320 pages

Two young lovers are forced apart by pride, power, and the immensity of interstellar time and space, in an authorized version of an unfinished novel by Hugo Award-winning late science fiction master Robert Heinlein.

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The Jesus Incident

Frank Herbert, Bill Ransom · 405 pages

From the back cover: Frank Herbert, author of the world-famous Dune, is one of today's leading futurist thinkers. Bill Ransom is a poet, a Pulitzer and National Book Award nominee. Together, in a bold and unprecedented collaboration, they have crafted a book that combines the outward sweep of SF at its farseeing best with the intense inward laser of the poet's eye. As demanding and spectacul

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Alive

Scott Sigler · 345 pages

A young woman awakes trapped in an enclosed space. She has no idea who she is or how she got there. With only her instincts to guide her, she escapes her own confinement -- and finds she's not alone. She frees the others in the room and leads them into a corridor filled with the remains of a war long past. The farther these survivors travel, the worse are the horrors they confront. And as they slo

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Bowl of Heaven

Gregory Benford, Larry Niven · 414 pages

A human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by the discovery of an immense bowl-shaped structure in space that leads to hostile alien encounters and profound revelations about humanity's place in the universe.

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Dust

Elizabeth Bear · 368 pages

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Litany of the Long Sun

Gene Wolfe · 544 pages

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Way Down Dark

J.P. Smythe, James Smythe

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Aurora

Kim Stanley Robinson · 489 pages

"Generations after leaving earth, a starship draws near to the planet that may serve as a new home world for those on board. But the journey has brought unexpected changes and their best laid plans may not be enough to survive. "--

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Glow

Amy Kathleen Ryan

**If a violent battle destroyed the only world you’ve ever known, would you be brave enough to save who was left? Would love be strong enough to survive the fight? Either way, there’s no turning back.** The Empyrean is the only home 15-year-old Waverly has ever known. Part of the first generation to be successfully conceived in deep space, she and her boyfriend Kieran will be pioneers of New Ea

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Inside

Maria V. Snyder · 456 pages

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Ark

Stephen Baxter · 538 pages

High in the Colorado mountains the US governement built an ark. Not an ark to ride the waves but an ark that will take a select few thousand people out into space to start a new future for mankind. In deep space the crew carry the hope of a new beginning but as ages pass purpose is lost and madness grows. Back on Earth life and man find a new way.

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The Garden of Rama

Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee · 441 pages

Book 3 of Clarke's Rama series is about an alien ghost ship that enters the solar system. This book picks up with the story of the crew who stayed aboard Rama at the end of Rama 2.

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The Arrows of Time

Greg Egan · 354 pages

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The Blighted Stars

Megan E. O'Keefe · 491 pages

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