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series2 books2012

Hopeful in tone, about space exploration, set in mars.

“Using scientific improvisation and dark humor, Watney works to keep himself alive long enough for a rescue to reach him.”
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Start with The Martian →

TripodsSeries

series4 books1967

completed

Post-apocalyptic and alien invasion, about rebellion and revolution.

“The first two books were the basis of a science fiction TV series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.”
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Start with When the Tripods Came →

H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse

universe65 books1898

Alien invasion.

“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
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Start with The War of the Worlds →

includes The War of the Worlds

The Andromeda StrainSeries

series2 books1969

About plague and pandemic, set in contemporary.

“Daniel H. Wilson's authorized 2019 sequel The Andromeda Evolution revisits the same threat five decades later.”
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Start with The Andromeda Strain →

Forge of GodSeries

series2 books1987

completed

Dark in tone.

“Earth faces destruction when an inscrutable and overwhelming alien form of life attacks.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Forge of God →

The Hammer of GodNovel

Arthur C. Clarkestandalone novel1993

About space exploration, set in space and asteroid belt.

“Set in the year 2109, it deals with the discovery of an asteroid to be on course to collide with Earth and depicts the mission for deflecting the asteroid by using fusion thermal rockets.”
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