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Starman JonesNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1953
About space exploration and coming of age, set in other star systems.
“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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The Stainless Steel RatSeries
series21 books1957
completed
About con artists.
“An adolescent boy on a dull planet resolves to live by his wits outside the law, and enacts a plan which leads to risk and reward.”
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Start with A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born →
Against a Dark BackgroundNovel
Iain M. Banksstandalone novel1993
Tense in tone, about magical artifacts, set in other star systems.
NovaNovel
Samuel R. Delanystandalone novel1968
About quests and revenge, set in other star systems.
“The plot concerns the spaceship captain Lorq Von Ray's search for a nova, which will produce the essential power source Illyrion, and his vendetta with the Red family, who seek to kill him.”
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Keiko / Dark RunSeries
series3 books2015
Tense in tone.
“Captain Ichabod Drift attempts to make a dark run, delivering a special cargo to Earth aboard the Keiko, a ship full of smugglers, soldiers of fortune and adventurers, who are actually the good guys in a corrupt galaxy.”
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The Sirens of TitanNovel
Kurt Vonnegut & Jr.standalone novel1959
About aliens, set in mars.