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Red Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson · 640 pages

Red Mars is the first novel of the Mars trilogy, published in 1992. It follows the beginnings of the colonization of Mars, from the arrival of the First Hundred to the First Martian Revolution.

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Hellhole

Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson

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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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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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We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

Dennis E. Taylor · 322 pages

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Spin

Robert Charles Wilson · 454 pages

One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout. It would shape their lives. The effect is worldwide. The sun is now a featureless disk

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Caliban's War

James S.A. Corey · 608 pages

The second book in the NYT best-selling Expanse series, Caliban's War shows a solar system on the brink of war, and the only hope of peace rests on James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante's shoulders. Now a Prime Original series. We are not alone. On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a

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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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The Blighted Stars

Megan E. O'Keefe · 491 pages

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The Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury · 222 pages

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 Mars, initially sharing the planet with a handful of Martians. When Earth is devastated by nuclear war the colony is left to fend for itself and the co

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Mars Life

Ben Bova · 432 pages

Jamie Waterman discovered the cliff dwelling on Mars, and the fact that an intelligent race lived on the red planet sixty-five million years ago, only to be driven into extinction by the crash of a giant meteor. Now the exploration of Mars is itself under threat of extinction, as the ultraconservative New Morality movement gains control of the U.S. government and cuts off all funding for the Mars

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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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Colony One Mars

Gerald M. Kilby · 240 pages

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Man Plus

Frederik Pohl · 215 pages

From back cover Orb Trade paperback May 2011: **Earth is in crisis.** There simply isn't enough water and arable land to support the burgeoning population. As the threat of nuclear war looms, the United States looks to Mars for the precious resources that could save humanity. But somebody must actually journey to the Red Planet to effect a solution, and it would be far too difficult and cost

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Song of Scarabaeus

Sara Creasy · 354 pages

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Cosmonaut Keep

Ken MacLeod · 352 pages

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On Blue's Waters

Gene Wolfe · 382 pages

Space hero Horn battles shapeshifting vampires who want to use humans as cattle. It happens on planet Blue where Horn is searching for the planet's missing leader. First volume in a trilogy.

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Old Man's War

John Scalzi · 319 pages

John Scalzi channels Robert Heinlein (including a wry sense of humor) in a novel about a future Earth engaged in an interstellar war against more advanced species. Citizens volunteer for the Colonial Defense Forces after retirement, in exchange for which they have their consciousness transferred into a young body, cloned from their DNA but enhanced. If, against the odds, they survive two years o

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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 Fuzzy Papers

H. Beam Piper · 309 pages

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The Search for Fierra

Stephen R. Lawhead · 436 pages

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Foreigner

C.J. Cherryh · 378 pages

The story of humans stranded on an alienplanet where registered assassination is a way of life. They are the descendants of a space ship which lost itsway 500 years earlier. They live on an island and theonly contact they are allowed with the mainland isthrough one human, the foreigner of the novel.

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Prelude to Foundation

Isaac Asimov · 434 pages

Voici une occasion tant pour ceux qui ont lu les cinq volumes du cycle ##Fondation## d'en constater la prȟistoire, que pour ceux qui ne les ont pas lus d'inaugurer la lecture d'un des chefs-d'oeuvre de la science-fiction contemporaine. [SDM].

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