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Have Space Suit - Will TravelNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1958
Space opera, about aliens and survival.
“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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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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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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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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A Columbus of SpaceNovel
Garrett P. Servissstandalone novel1911
About aliens, set in venus & inner planets and early 20th century.
“The year was 1909 and Garrett Putnam Serviss was already a respected science writer for the Hearst newspaper group.”
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Known SpaceUniverse
universe142 books1964
About aliens, set in far future.
“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