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- Cosmic Trilogy (C. S. Lewis)
series4 books1938
completed
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The Space Trilogy is a series of science fiction novels by British writer C. S. Lewis. The trilogy consists of Out of the Silent Planet (1938), Perelandra (1943), and That Hideous Strength (1945). A philologist named Elwin Ransom is the protagonist of the first two novels and an important character in the third.
- Podkayne of Mars
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1963
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From the back cover of the Baen 1995 edition: "Meet Podkayne Fries, a thoroughly modern Martian Ms. who thinks that Earth is not really fit for habitation and that humanity evolved in the now-exploded Fifth Planet. Poddy has one goal in life, to be the first female starship captain. She has her strategy all scoped out, and with her determination, looks and I.Q. she'll get there, never you doubt! But all work and no play would make Poddy a Dull Girl, so when a chance comes her way to travel to distant Earth via Venus with her elderly uncle, Poddy jumps at it, even if it does mean having her loathsome little brother along for the trip: Travel, Adventure, the chance to cuddle up (in a nice way) with real spaceship officers and ruthlessly pump their brains - she'll have it all. What Poddy doesn't know is that "Unca Tom" is more than her warmly supportive relative: he is also the Ambassador Plenipotentiary from Mars to the Three Planets Conference (travelling not quite incognito enough) and that certain people will stop at nothing to gain control of his vote - including kidnapping and doing terrible things to sweetly innocent Poddy Fries..."
- Space Merchants
series2 books1953
completed
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The Space Merchants (1953) is a satirical science fiction novel by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth that follows an advertising executive navigating a future where aggressive consumer capitalism has swallowed politics and daily life. The authors reunited three decades later for a direct sequel, The Merchants' War (1984), returning to the same satirical world. Together the two books form a compact bookend pair rather than an ongoing series.
- Between Planets
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1951
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A teenager is pulled from his earthside boarding school when tensions rise between Earth and the Venus and Mars colonies. He is charged to bring an artifact to his scientist parents on Mars, but when hostilities break out, flights are cancelled and he is put down on Venus.
- Space Cadet
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1948
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Space Cadet is a 1948 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about Matt Dodson, who joins the Interplanetary Patrol to help preserve peace in the Solar System. The story translates the standard military academy story into outer space: a boy from Iowa goes to officer school, sees action and adventure, shoulders responsibilities far beyond his experience, and becomes a man. It was published as the second of the series of Heinlein juveniles and inspired the media franchise around the character Tom Corbett, including the 1950s television series Tom Corbett, Space Cadet and radio show which made "Space Cadet" a household phrase whose meaning later shifted in popular culture.
- 2312
Kim Stanley Robinsonstandalone novel2012
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In the eponymous year, when Earth's ecology is degraded and humanity has settled throughout the solar system by terraforming and genetic engineering, mysterious disasters strike some human communities and an assortment of human types from throughout the system seek to find and eliminate the cause.
- A Columbus of Space
Garrett P. Servissstandalone novel1911
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The year was 1909 and Garrett Putnam Serviss was already a respected science writer for the Hearst newspaper group. Serviss’ reputation was such that his articles appeared in almost every major American magazine. Beginning in January of that year Frank Munsey’s All-Story magazine began the serialization of Serviss’ epic science fiction adventure A Columbus of Space. Just three months earlier the visionary rocket pioneer, Robert Goddard, had submitted an article to Popular Science magazine about the possibilities of nuclear propulsion for space travel. Goddard’s article was rejected, but Serviss had no such problem with his science-fiction adventure story. In August of 1926 Serviss’ story was resurrected in the pages of Hugo Gernsback’s Amazing Stories magazine. In fact Serviss was featured in eight of the first eleven issues of Amazing. A Columbus of Space is an adventure thriller written at a time when Venus was still believed to only show one hemisphere to the sun and Venusian life was still thought to be possible.
- Venus Equilateral
series15 books1942
completed
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The Venus Equilateral series is a set of 13 science fiction short stories by American writer George O. Smith, concerning the Venus Equilateral Relay Station, an interplanetary communications hub located at the L4 Lagrangian point of the Sun-Venus system. Most of the stories were first published in Astounding Science Fiction between 1942 and 1945.
- The World Jones Made
Philip K. Dickstandalone novel1956
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The World Jones Made is a 1956 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, examining notions of precognition, humanity, and politics. It was first published by Ace Books as one half of Ace Double D-150, bound dos-à-dos with Agent of the Unknown by Margaret St. Clair.The story takes place after a nuclear war in which society is dominated by relativism, which rejects absolute truths and preaches tolerance as the highest principle. The mutant Floyd Jones, who can see into the future, plans to overthrow the system and colonise space. The story ends with the defeat of Jones, whose plans fail despite his ability to see the future due to the immutability of fate.
- Lucky Starr
series8 books1952
completed
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The Lucky Starr books, published under the pseudonym Paul French, are Isaac Asimov's juvenile science-fiction series following David "Lucky" Starr, an agent of an interplanetary Council of Science, as he and his sidekick Bigman Jones investigate crimes and conspiracies across the solar system — starting with a poisoned-food-shipment plot from Mars in the debut, David Starr: Space Ranger. Conceived partly as a science-fictional take on the Lone Ranger, the six-book series lets Asimov work real planetary science into old-fashioned adventure plots.
- A Meeting with Medusa
series2 books1971
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Arthur C. Clarke's A Meeting with Medusa follows an astronaut, badly injured in an earlier disaster, on a solo balloon expedition into Jupiter's atmosphere, where he encounters vast floating lifeforms unlike anything previously catalogued. Decades later, Stephen Baxter and Alastair Reynolds continued the story in The Medusa Chronicles, following the same protagonist across a much longer span of future history. The original novella won the 1972 Nebula Award.
- Keeps
series4 books1943
completed
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Keeps collects a cycle of adventure stories set on a colonized, hostile Venus, beginning with Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore's original 1940s tales of fortified underwater 'keeps' and mercenary conflict on the planet's surface, continued decades later by David Drake in Surface Action and Seas of Venus. The stories follow different protagonists across the same harsh Venusian setting rather than one continuous plot.
- Beyond Apollo
Barry N. Malzbergstandalone novel1972
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Beyond Apollo is a science fiction novel by American writer Barry N. Malzberg, first published in 1972 in a hardcover edition by Random House. Malzberg credits the inspiration for the novel to "I Have My Vigil", a 1969 short story by fellow science fiction writer Harry Harrison.
- Sentinels from Space
Eric Frank Russellstandalone novel1953
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Sentinels From Space is a science fiction novel by English writer Eric Frank Russell, first published in 1952 by American company Bouregy & Curl, Inc.. It was adapted from a story that appeared in the November 1951 issue of Startling Stories.
- Starship Troupers
series3 books1991
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Starship Troupers is a series of science fiction novels by American author Christopher Stasheff. It includes three books: A Company Of Stars, We Open On Venus, and A Slight Detour. It also occupies the same continuity as Stasheff's Warlock of Gramarye and Rogue Wizard series. Set in the 26th century, after the human race has established colonies on distant planets and interstellar commerce supports Terra and the Terran Sphere of worlds, the novels follow the establishment and subsequent journeys of the Star Theater Company, the first-ever interstellar theatre troupe. The series title, Starship Troupers, was intended as a play on Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers novel.
- Clane
series7 books1946
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A. E. van Vogt's Clane duology reimagines the political intrigue behind ancient Rome (the same history that inspired Robert Graves's I, Claudius) roughly ten thousand years in the future, following the disfigured but brilliant Clane Linn as he navigates a dynasty ruled in the name of living 'Atom Gods.' Empire of the Atom, a fix-up of five 1946-47 Astounding novelettes, follows Clane's rise from despised outcast to power broker; The Wizard of Linn completes the story as he confronts a mysterious alien threat.
- The Killer Thing
Kate Wilhelmstandalone novel1967
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A robot destroys its inventor and programs itself to kill all life. How much must be sacrificed to stop it?
