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  • Cover of The Rolling Stones
    The Rolling StonesNovel

    Robert A. Heinlein · standalone novel · 1952

    Set in the moon.

    “The Stone family, lunar-born, technically minded, and perpetually restless, buy a secondhand spaceship and set off from the Moon on a family tour of the solar system.”

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of Podkayne of Mars
    Podkayne of MarsNovel

    Robert A. Heinlein · standalone novel · 1963

    Space opera, about coming of age and political intrigue.

    “Poddy has one goal in life, to be the first female starship captain.”

    from the catalogue

    similar byspacenear futureadventurousscience fiction+1 more

  • Cover of Islands in the Sky
    Islands in the SkyNovel

    Arthur C. Clarke · standalone novel · 1952

    About space colonization, set in 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 Have Space Suit - Will Travel
    Have Space Suit - Will TravelNovel

    Robert A. Heinlein · standalone novel · 1958

    Space opera, about aliens and survival.

    “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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  • Cover of Rama
    RamaUniverse

    universe · 7 books · 1973

    About aliens, 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 Humanx Commonwealth
    Humanx CommonwealthUniverse

    universe · 39 books · 1972

    About aliens, set in far future and other star systems.

    “Two species that ought, by every buried instinct, to recoil from one another instead clasp hand to truhand and build a galaxy together.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with For Love of Mother-Not →

    similar byadventurousspacescience fiction+1 more

    includes Pip & Flinx, Icerigger Trilogy, The Founding of the Commonwealth