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CosmicNovel
Frank Cottrell Boycestandalone novel2008
Funny in tone, about coming of age.
“Super-sized, eleven-year-old Liam makes a giant leap for boy-kind by competing with a group of adults for the chance to go into space.”
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Starman JonesNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1953
Space opera, about coming of age, set in far future.
“Starman Jones, a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, features a farm boy who wants to go to the stars.”
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Known SpaceUniverse
universe142 books1964
About aliens, set in far future and other star systems.
“Give a clever species a few centuries and a working fusion drive, and it will fill the sky with problems.”
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includes Ringworld, Fleet of Worlds, Man-Kzin Wars
Time for the StarsNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1956
Hard science fiction, about psychic powers and coming of age.
“Explorer spaceships need a way to communicate back to earth in a timely manner when they are light years away.”
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Space CadetNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1948
Military science fiction, hopeful in tone, about coming of age.
Islands in the SkyNovel
Arthur C. Clarkestandalone novel1952
About space colonization, set in near future and space station.
“Clarke wrote the story as a travelogue of human settlement of cislunar space in the last half of the twenty-first century.”
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