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  • Cover of Man Plus
    Man PlusSeries

    series · 2 books · 1976

    Tense in tone.

    “Thomas T. Thomas wrote the sequel Mars Plus, continuing the story of the Martian colony years later.”

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    Start with Man Plus →

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  • Cover of Cities in Flight
    Cities in FlightSeries

    series · 10 books · 1950

    completed

    Space opera, set in space and far future.

    “The stories cover roughly two thousand years, from the very near future to the end of the universe.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with They Shall Have Stars →

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  • Cover of The Martian Chronicles
    The Martian ChroniclesSeries

    series · 30 books · 1946

    completed

    Reflective in tone.

    Start with The Million Year Picnic →

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  • Cover of Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)
    Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)Series

    series · 36 books · 1982

    Set in far future.

    “Ultimately more utopian than dystopian, the story focuses on egalitarian, sociological, and scientific advances made on Mars, while Earth suffers from overpopulation and ecological disaster.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Red Mars →

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  • Cover of Islands in the Sky
    Islands in the SkyNovel

    Arthur C. Clarke · standalone novel · 1952

    About space exploration, set in space and space station.

    “Clarke wrote the story as a travelogue of human settlement of cislunar space in the last half of the twenty-first century.”

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of Code of the Lifemaker
    Code of the LifemakerSeries

    series · 2 books · 1983

    completed

    About aliens.

    “Code of the Lifemaker follows first contact between human explorers and the Taloids, self-replicating robotic beings who have built their own civilization on Saturn's moon Titan after their original programming drifted over generations.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Code of the Lifemaker →

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