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    Childhood's EndNovel

    Arthur C. Clarke · standalone novel · 1953

    Bittersweet and reflective in tone, about technological singularity and identity.

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    Project Hail MaryNovel

    Andy Weir · standalone novel · 2021

    About amnesia and survival.

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    Encounter with TiberNovel

    John Barnes & Buzz Aldrin · standalone novel · 1996

    Set in other star systems.

    “A working title, used on some advance covers for the British edition, was The Tides of Tiber.”

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  • Cover of Stranger in a Strange Land
    Stranger in a Strange LandNovel

    Robert A. Heinlein · standalone novel · 1961

    About faith and religion and psychic powers, set in north america.

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    All Judgment FledNovel

    James White · standalone novel · 1968

    Mysterious and tense in tone.

    “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.”

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  • Cover of Contact
    ContactNovel

    Carl Sagan · standalone novel · 1985

    Reflective in tone, about faith and religion, set in contemporary.

    “The Message, awaited for so long, its very possibility doubted by so many, arrives.”

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