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Children of Time

Adrian Tchaikovsky · 616 pages

The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home. Following their ancestor's star maps, they discovered the greatest treasure of a past age - a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New monsters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare

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Dust

Elizabeth Bear · 368 pages

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Building Harlequin's Moon

Larry Niven, Brenda Cooper · 400 pages

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Destination Void

Frank Herbert · 276 pages

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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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Outsystem

M.D. Cooper · 305 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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Earthfall

Orson Scott Card · 384 pages

The Wetchik tribe is ready to return to Earth to enlist help in fixing the Oversoul. The continuing bitter dispute between Nafai and Elemak threatens the success of this mission.

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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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The Ballad of Beta 2

Samuel R. Delany

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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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Orphans of the Sky

Robert A. Heinlein · 128 pages

**Menschen zwischen den Sternen** Das Universum ist fünf Meilen lang und besitzt einen Durchmesser von 2000 Fuß. Das denken die Bewoh- ner des Schiffes, denn sie haben das Erbe und die Mission ihrer Vorväter längst vergessen. Sie kennen die Sterne nicht mehr, und sie glauben nicht daran oder wollen nichts davon wissen, daß außerhalb des Schiffes, ihres Universums, überhaupt etwas existiert.

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I, Robot

Cory Doctorow · 48 pages

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Annabel Scheme

Robin Sloan

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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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On a Red Station, Drifting

Aliette de Bodard · 106 pages

For generations Prosper Station has thrived under the guidance of its Honoured Ancestress: born of a human womb, the station’s artificial intelligence has offered guidance and protection to its human relatives. But war has come to the Dai Viet Empire. Prosper’s brightest minds have been called away to defend the Emperor; and a flood of disorientated refugees strain the station’s resources. As d

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Press Enter

John Varley · 148 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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Old Twentieth

Joe Haldeman · 304 pages

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True Names: and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier

Vernor Vinge · 275 pages

"A marvellous mixture of hard-science SF and sword-and-sorcery imagery.... You wish the author were present so you could applaud." - *Analog*

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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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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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The Tale of The Wicked

John Scalzi · 32 pages

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Flame

Amy Kathleen Ryan · 326 pages

"Waverly, Kieran, and Seth struggle to survive on board the New Horizon--and take down their enemies before it's too late"--Provided by the publisher. Waverly, Kieran, and Seth struggle to survive onboard the "New Horizon" and take down their enemies before it is too late. The plot contains profanity and violence. Book #3

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