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1) 2001

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Clarke, Arthur C

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The year is 2001, and cosmonauts uncover a mysterious monolith that has been buried on the Moon for at least three million years. To their astonishment, the monolith releases an equally mysterious pulse—a kind of signal—in the direction of Saturn after it is unearthed. Whether alarm or communication, the human race must know what the signal is—and who it was intended for.

The Discovery and its crew, assisted by the highly

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2) Abaddon's Gate

Author

Corey, James S. A

Series

Expanse volume 3

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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For generations, the solar system -- Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt -- was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has appeared in Uranus's orbit, where it has built a massive gate that leads to a starless dark. Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artifact. But behind the scenes, a complex...

Author

Robinson, Kim Stanley

Series

Mars trilogy volume 3

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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On the brink of completing the terraforming effort on Mars, colonists find their work complicated by a crisis on Earth, new colonization projects on Jupiter and Saturn, and the onset of a Martian ice age.

4) A chain across the dawn

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Universe after volume 2

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It's been three years since Esa joined the ranks of the Justified. Together, Esa and fellow Justified agent Jane Kamali travel from planet to Pulse-ravaged planet, searching for other children with Esa's supernatural abilities. But on a visit to an extremely remote planet to rescue a gifted Wulf boy named Sho, they learn that the Justified are not the only people searching for gifted children. There is a creature with unexpected powers who will stop...

5) Childhood's End

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Clarke, Arthur C

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Arthur C. Clarke Collection

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In the Retro Hugo Award–nominated novel that inspired the Syfy miniseries, alien invaders bring peace to Earth—at a grave price: “A first-rate tour de force” (The New York Times).

In the near future, enormous silver spaceships appear without warning over mankind’s largest cities. They belong to the Overlords, an alien race far superior to humanity in technological development. Their purpose...

6) The City and the Stars

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Clarke, Arthur C

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Arthur C. Clarke Collection

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This grand space adventure explores the fate of humanity a billion years in the future— A visionary classic by one of science fiction’s greatest minds.

Far in the future, Earth’s oceans have evaporated and humanity has all but vanished. The inhabitants of Diaspar believe their domed city is all that remains of an empire that had once conquered the stars. Inside the dome, the citizens live in technological...

7) The Collapsium

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Queendom of Sol

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A MODERN SCIENCE FICTION CLASSIC FROM WIL MCCARTHY

In the eighth decade of the Queendom of Sol, three commodities rule the day. The first is wellstone, a form of programmable matter capable of emulating almost any substance: natural, artificial, even hypothetical. The second is collapsium, a deadly crystal composed of miniature black holes, vital for the transmission of information and matter—including humans—throughout the

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8) The Fountains of Paradise

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Clarke, Arthur C

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This Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel is reissued in this trade paperback edition. Vannemar Morgan's dream of linking Earth with the stars requires a 24,000-mile-high space elevator. But first he must solve a million technical, political, and economic problems while allaying the wrath of God. Includes a new introduction by the author.

9) The Garden of Rama

Author

Clarke, Arthur C

Series

Rama series volume 3

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The third novel in the Rama series from the legendary “colossus of science fiction” and creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey (The New Yorker).

Continuing from the end of Rama II, three astronauts—Nicole, Richard, and Michael—remain trapped in a labyrinthine alien spaceship bound for deep space. Creating the best semblance of a life they can, Nicole bears five children and they spend...

Author

Robinson, Kim Stanley

Series

Mars trilogy volume 2

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

On Mars, a war of independence is brewing in an effort to end the exploitation of the planet by Earth-based multinational corporations. In a bid to forestall the conflict, Earth sends Art Randolph to negotiate with the revolutionaries.

11) The Hammer of God

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Clarke, Arthur C

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From one of the bestselling science fiction authors of all time comes this heart-stopping far future novel of an asteroid on a collision course with Earth.

A century into the future, technology has solved most of the problems that have plagued our time. However, a new problem is on the horizon—one greater than humanity has ever faced. A massive asteroid is racing toward Earth, and its impact could destroy all life on...

12) Leviathan wakes

Author

Corey, James S. A

Series

Expanse volume 1

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Book, CD audio book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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When Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw the entire system into war. Attacked by a stealth ship belonging to the Mars fleet, Holden must find a way to uncover the motives behind the attack, stop a war and find the truth behind a vast conspiracy that threatens the entire human race.

13) Nexus

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Andromeda saga volume 2

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eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Mercenary Androma finds herself stranded on an ice planet and seeks the help of Arachnid, the one person who can help her end the reign of the bloodthirsty Queen Nor.

14) Rainbows end

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Clarke, Arthur Charles

Series

Rama series volume 2

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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In the sequel to the multi-award winning sci-fi novel Rama, a second Raman spaceship enters our solar system and “offers one surprise after another” (The New York Times).

Years ago, the enormous, enigmatic alien spacecraft Rama sailed through our solar system as mind-boggling proof that life existed—or had existed—elsewhere in the universe. Now, at the dawn of...

16) Ready player one

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Ready player novels volume 1

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"Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his grim, poverty-stricken real life. Along with millions of...

Author

Robinson, Kim Stanley

Series

Mars trilogy volume 1

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel • Discover the novel that launched one of science fiction’s most beloved, acclaimed, and awarded trilogies: Kim Stanley Robinson’s masterly near-future chronicle of interplanetary colonization.

“A staggering book . . . the best novel on the colonization of Mars that has ever been written.”—Arthur C. Clarke
For centuries, the barren, desolate...

18) Rendezvous with Rama

Author

Clarke, Arthur C

Series

Rama series volume 1

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During the twenty-second century, a space probe's investigation of a mysterious, cylindrical asteroid brings man into contact with an extra-galactic civilization.

19) Robogenesis: a novel

Author

Wilson, Daniel H

Series

Robopocalypse novels volume 2

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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A sequel to the best-selling Robopocalypse is told through a series of narratives that finds new and former characters fighting to rebuild a war-stricken world under threat of the surviving Archos machine code.

20) Robopocalypse: a novel

Author

Wilson, Daniel H

Series

Robopocalypse novels volume 1

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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In this terrifying tale of humanity's desperate stand against a robot uprising, Wilson has written the most entertaining sci-fi thriller in years in the form of an oral history, told by an international cast of survivors who experienced this bloody confrontation with the machines.