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Scott Sigler · 448 pages
"In Alive, Scott Sigler introduced readers to an unforgettable young heroine and a mysterious new world reminiscent of those of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Red Rising. Now he expands his singular vision in the next thrilling novel of this powerful sci-fi adventure series"--
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.
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.
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.
The Ghosts of Heaven
Marcus Sedgwick · 359 pages
Timeless, beautiful, and haunting, spirals connect the four episodes of The Ghosts of Heaven, the mesmerizing new novel from Printz Award winner Marcus Sedgwick. They are there in prehistory, when a girl picks up a charred stick and makes the first written signs; there tens of centuries later, hiding in the treacherous waters of Golden Beck that take Anna, who people call a witch; there in the hal
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.
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.
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
Chill
Elizabeth Bear, Alma Cuervo · 310 pages
The generation ship Jacob's Ladder has barely survived cataclysms from without and within. Now, riding the shock wave of a nova blast toward an uncertain destiny, the damaged ship remains a war zone. Even as Perceval, the new captain, struggles to come to terms with the traumas of her recent past, the remnants of rebellion aboard the ship threaten the crew's survival.
The Eternal Flame: Orthogonal Vol. 2
Greg Egan
"In an alien universe, the generation ship Peerless has set out to save its home world from annihilation. But the Peerless is facing urgent problems of its own. It does not carry fuel to return home, so without a new form of propulsion it will remain stranded in space. A population explosion has stretched life support to its limits, and the biology of the travellers offers only one way to prevent
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
Nowhere Land
Katherine Applegate · 169 pages
There's a reason for the strange environment of the world the Remnants have landed on. It's not a real world at all. It's a ship and the ship's landscape is computer generated. Technically enhanced. And when the group finds a power node, a green-glowing cone that's racing with electricity, they realize that they too can be in control of their bizarre surroundings.
Six Wakes
Mur Lafferty · 391 pages
"A space adventure set on a lone ship where the clones of a murdered crew must find their murderer -- before they kill again. It was not common to awaken in a cloning vat streaked with drying blood. At least, Maria Arena had never experienced it. She had no memory of how she died. That was also new; before, when she had awakened as a new clone, her first memory was of how she died. Maria's vat was
Learning the World: A Scientific Romance
Ken MacLeod · 368 pages
A great sunliner is nearing the end of a four-hundred-year journey. A ship-born generation is tense with expectation for the new system that is to be their home. Expecting to find nothing more complex than bacteria and algae, the detection of electronic signals from one of the planets comes as a shock.
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.
Fleet of Worlds
Larry Niven, Edward M. Lerner · 304 pages
Humanity has been faithfully serving the Citizens for years, and Kirsten is among the best and the brightest of the humans. she gratefully serves the race that rescued her ancestors from a dying Starship, gave them a home world, and nurtures them still. If only the Citizens knew where Kirsten's people came from. A chain reaction of supernovae at the galaxy's core unleashes a wave of lethal r
Defiance: A Colony Ship Thriller (The Exodus Project 1)
Elizabeth Byron · 452 pages