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One Way

S.J. Morden · 358 pages

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The Blighted Stars

Megan E. O'Keefe · 491 pages

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The Knife of Never Letting Go

Patrick Ness · 496 pages

An unflinching novel about the impossible choices of growing up, by an award-winning writer.Imagine you're the only boy in a town of men. And you can hear everything they think. And they can hear everything you think. Imagine you don't fit in with their plans... Todd Hewitt is just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man. But his town has been keeping secrets from him. Secrets th

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Mickey 7

Edward Ashton · 369 pages

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Operation Bounce House

Matt Dinniman · 449 pages

A man must fight for his planet against impossible odds when gamers from Earth attempt to remotely annihilate it in this epic, fast-paced novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the smash-hit Dungeon Crawler Carl. All colonist Oliver Lewis ever wanted to do was run the family ranch with his sister, maybe play a gig or two with his band, and keep his family’s aging fleet of intelligent

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Shades of Earth

Beth Revis · 369 pages

Leaving the walls of the spaceship Godspeed behind, Amy and Elder are ready to build a home on Centauri-Earth. But they must race to discover who--or what--else is out there if they are to have any hope of saving their struggling colony and building a future together.

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Darkover Landfall

Marion Zimmer Bradley · 160 pages

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Freedom's Landing

Anne McCaffrey · 339 pages

Kristin Bjornsen lived a normal life, right up until the day the spaceships floated into view above Denver. As human slaves were herded into the maw of a massive vessel, Kristin realized her normal life was over and her fight for freedom was just beginning… ...

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Beowulf's Children

Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes · 384 pages

A new generation is growing up on the island paradise of Camelot, ignorant of the Great Grendel Wars fought when their parents and grandparents first arrived from Earth.

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Colony One Mars

Gerald M. Kilby · 240 pages

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Space Prison

Tom Godwin · 156 pages

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Wheelworld

Harry Harrison · 181 pages

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Planetfall

Emma Newman · 320 pages

"From Emma Newman, the award-nominated author of Between Two Thorns, comes a novel of how one secret withheld to protect humanity's future might be its undoing ... Renata Ghali believed in Lee Suh-Mi's vision of a world far beyond Earth, calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal the truth about our place in the cosmos, untainted by overpopulation, pollution, and war. Ren believed in that v

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Speaker for the Dead

Orson Scott Card · 415 pages

Ender Wiggin, the young military genius, discovers that a second alien war is inevitable and that he must dismiss his fears to make peace with humanity's strange new brothers.

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The Fifth Head of Cerberus

Gene Wolfe · 244 pages

Bien loin de la Terre, deux planètes soeurs, Sainte-Anne et Sainte-Croix, ont été colonisées par des Français qui ont détruit la population indigène de la seconde. Des décennies plus tard, après que les colons ont été eux-mêmes vaincus et dispersés, un ethnologue consacre sa vie à retrouver les traces de cette culture effacée et oubliée.

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Ammonite

Nicola Griffith · 397 pages

Change or die. These are the only options available on planet Jeep. Centuries earlier, a deadly virus shattered the original colony, killing the men and forever altering the few surviving women. Now, generations after the colony lost touch with the rest of humanity, a company arrives to exploit Jeep—and its forces find themselves fighting for their lives. Terrified of spreading the virus, the comp

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The Search for Fierra

Stephen R. Lawhead · 436 pages

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Drifter, Vol. 1: Out of the Night

Ivan Brandon

"In its frantic rush to survive itself, humanity has spread across the universe, colonizing and strip-mining countless planets. Abram Pollux barely survives a crash landing on Ouro, a lawless backwater world where life is cheap. After miraculously surviving not only the crash, but also a one-sided gunfight, Pollux finds himself in a ramshackle town, filled with other survivors shipwrecked on this

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The Martian

Andy Weir · 383 pages

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long be

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The Sands of Mars

Arthur C. Clarke · 216 pages

Martin Gibson, a famous science fiction author, is travelling to Mars, as a guest of the crew of the spaceship Ares. After arriving at Space Station One, in the orbit of Earth, from which all interplanetary journeys start, he makes the trip to Mars. The youngest crew member, Jimmy Spencer, who is still in training to be an astronaut, is assigned the task of answering his questions about the techn

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Destiny's Road

Larry Niven · 433 pages

The book follows the life of Jemmy Bloocher, (who changes his name several times) as he travels the planet called Destiny, a colony founded over 200 years earlier. The "Road" is a long trail laid down by the founders. Only the Caravans travel the full length of the road as they bring (or sell) "speckles" to settlers who, without them, would suffer severe potassium deficiency leading to brain dam

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Crisis on Doona

Anne McCaffrey, Jody Lynn Nye · 409 pages

RETURN TO DOONA ... More than twenty-five years ago, the first Humans had set foot on Doona and had found a beautiful, unspoiled planet ... but they had also found that they were not alone there. Their early survey had completely ignored or missed the fact that the planet was already settled by the alien feline-like Hrrubans. The ensuing conflict led to the historic Decision at Doona—a socia

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Crossfire

Nancy Kress · 364 pages

"Crossfire is the story of a human colony settling on a distant planet, a colony formed by Jake Holman - a man trying to escape a dark past. But as this diverse group of thousands comes to terms with their new lives on a new world, they make a startling discovery; primitive humanoid aliens. There are only a few isolated villages, and the evidence seems to indicate the aliens aren't native to the p

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Hellhole

Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson

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