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All Judgment FledNovel
James Whitestandalone novel1968
Tense in tone, about space exploration.
“From the front flap of the Rapp first edition: It is the spring of 1978 and a gigantic alien spaceship has entered the solar system and taken up an orbit some sixty million miles from the Sun.”
from the catalogue
StarplexNovel
Robert J. Sawyerstandalone novel1996
Space opera, about space exploration and war, set in spaceship.
“For nearly twenty years Earth's space exploration had exploded outward, thanks to a series of mysterious, artificial wormholes.”
from the catalogue
Mission to MethoneNovel
Les Johnsonstandalone novel2018
Tense in tone, about space exploration, set in asteroid belt.
“Chris Holt, working at the Space Resources Corp., discovers that one of the asteroids he surveying for mining is actually a derelict spaceship.”
from the catalogue
RamaUniverse
universe7 books1973
Set in spaceship.
“Something is falling through the solar system on a hyperbolic orbit, and it is not a comet.”
from the catalogue
Start with Rendezvous with Rama →
includes Rama (2)
CradleNovel
Arthur C. Clarke & Gentry Leestandalone novel1988
About robots, set in north america and underwater.
“The premise of the novel is the contact between a few humans from the Miami area in 1994 and the super robots of a damaged space ship submerged off the Florida coast.”
from the catalogue
Minervan Experiment / GiantsSeries
series5 books1977
completed
Hard science fiction, about space exploration, set in far future.
“The Giants series is a quintet of science fiction novels by James P. Hogan, published between 1977 and 2005.”
from the catalogue
Start with Inherit the Stars →