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Starman JonesNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1953
Space opera, about coming of age, set in spaceship.
“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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Heart of the CometNovel
David Brin & Gregory Benfordstandalone novel1986
About survival.
Islands in the SkyNovel
Arthur C. Clarkestandalone novel1952
About space colonization, set in 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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Known SpaceUniverse
universe142 books1964
About aliens.
“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
The Rolling StonesNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1952
Lighthearted in tone, set in the moon.
“The Stone family, lunar-born, technically minded, and perpetually restless, buy a secondhand spaceship and set off from the Moon on a family tour of the solar system.”
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Prelude to SpaceNovel
Arthur C. Clarkestandalone novel1951
Set in the moon.