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Rocket Ship GalileoNovel

Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1947

Adventurous and hopeful in tone, about coming of age.

“Three teenage boys do backyard experiments on powerful model rockets.”
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Prelude to SpaceNovel

Arthur C. Clarkestandalone novel1951

Hard science fiction.

The Rolling StonesNovel

Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1952

Adventurous and lighthearted in tone, set in space.

“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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Have Space Suit - Will TravelNovel

Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1958

Space opera, adventurous in tone, about aliens.

“One minute Kip Russell was walking about in his own backyard, testing out an old space suit and dreaming about going to the moon - and the next he was out cold and the captive of an insidious space pirate.”
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A Fall of MoondustNovel

Arthur C. Clarkestandalone novel1961

Hard science fiction, tense and adventurous in tone, about survival.

“One of the high points of each tour is a cruise around the Sea of Thirst, a body of volcanic dust, in a specially designed vessel called the Selene On a perfectly routine voyage one day the Selene suddenly disappears.”
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CavorSeries

series2 books1901

Adventurous in tone, about aliens, set in early 20th century.

“H. G. Wells's 1901 novel The First Men in the Moon is narrated by the businessman Bedford, who joins the reclusive scientist Cavor after Cavor invents cavorite, a gravity-blocking substance that carries the two men to the Moon.”
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