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  • Cover of Forge of God
    Forge of GodSeries

    series · 2 books · 1987

    completed

    Science fiction, dark and tense in tone, about aliens and survival.

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

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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.”

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  • Cover of The Hammer of God
    The Hammer of GodNovel

    Arthur C. Clarke · standalone novel · 1993

    About space exploration, set in 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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  • Cover of The Ganymede Takeover
    The Ganymede TakeoverNovel

    Philip K. Dick & Ray Nelson · standalone novel · 1967

    Set in our world.

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  • Cover of Rogue Moon
    Rogue MoonNovel

    Algis Budrys · standalone novel · 1960

    Set in the moon.

    “A project to transport humans by matter transmission becomes the means to send explorers to the Moon when the US discovers an alien artifact on the dark side, but anyone who enters dies, so a hardened adventurer is given the job.”

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  • Cover of The 5th Wave
    The 5th WaveSeries

    series · 4 books · 2013

    Post-apocalyptic, set in north america.

    “Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them.”

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