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  • Cover of Rama
    RamaUniverse

    universe · 7 books · 1973

    Set in spaceship.

    “Something is falling through the solar system on a hyperbolic orbit, and it is not a comet.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Rendezvous with Rama →

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    includes Rama (2)

  • Cover of Voyagers (Ben Bova)
    Voyagers (Ben Bova)Series

    series · 4 books · 1981

    completed

    Science fiction and first contact, set in near future.

    “Even if he loses the only woman he's ever really loved.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Voyagers →

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  • Cover of All Judgment Fled
    All Judgment FledNovel

    James White · standalone novel · 1968

    About space exploration.

    “From the front flap of the Rapp first edition: It is the spring of 1978 and a gigantic alien spaceship has entered the solar system and taken up an orbit some sixty million miles from the Sun.”

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of Known Space
    Known SpaceUniverse

    universe · 142 books · 1964

    Set in far future and other star systems.

    “Give a clever species a few centuries and a working fusion drive, and it will fill the sky with problems.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Ringworld →

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  • Cover of Starplex
    StarplexNovel

    Robert J. Sawyer · standalone novel · 1996

    Space opera, about space exploration and war, set in spaceship.

    “For nearly twenty years Earth's space exploration had exploded outward, thanks to a series of mysterious, artificial wormholes.”

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of Have Space Suit - Will Travel
    Have Space Suit - Will TravelNovel

    Robert A. Heinlein · standalone novel · 1958

    Space opera, adventurous in tone, about space exploration.

    “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.”

    from the catalogue

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