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This is a list of science fiction books and series that take place in the future of our own solar system. Look for such familiar destinations as our moon, Mars, and the asteroid belt!
Many of these novels explore characters just as well as they explore outer space within our solar system. And the more epic the novel is in scope, the larger the cast of characters!
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The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel
Mary Robinette Kowal - Tor Books
Format: Paperback
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On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This... |
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Leviathan Wakes
James S.A. Corey - Orbit
Format: Paperback
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Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars are still out of our reach.
Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble... |
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Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card - Tor Science Fiction
Format: Book
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Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. The result of genetic experimentation, Ender may be the military genius Earth desperately needs in a war against an alien enemy seeking to destroy... |
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The Marsco Dissident
James A Zarzana - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Book
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The Marsco Dissident is the first of four speculative science fiction novels in The Marsco Saga. It is set in a world ruled by a single megacorporation that emerged from the ashes of plagues and wars, when cyber-warfare rendered computer systems nearly inoperable. Now, Marsco commands Earth... |
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Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson - Spectra
Format: Book
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For eons, sandstorms have swept the desolate landscape. For centuries, Mars has beckoned humans to conquer its hostile climate. Now, in 2026, a group of 100 colonists is about to fulfill that destiny.
John Boone, Maya Toitavna, Frank Chalmers & Arkady Bogdanov lead a terraforming... |
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Luna: New Moon
Ian Mcdonald - Tor
Format: Book
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The Moon wants to kill you.
Maybe it will kill you when the per diem for your allotted food, water, and air runs out, just before you hit paydirt. Maybe it will kill you when you are trapped between the reigning corporations-the Five Dragons-in a foolish gamble against a futuristic... |
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War Dogs
Greg Bear - Orbit Us
Format: Book
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They made their presence on Earth known thirteen years ago.
Providing technology and scientific insights far beyond what mankind was capable of. They became indispensable advisors and promised even more gifts that we just couldn't pass up. We called them Gurus.
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The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories
Philip K. Dick - Citadel; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick to have been the greatest science fiction writer on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount and his reputation has been enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip... |
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The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu - Tor Books
Format: Book
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The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.
Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project... |
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Autonomous
Annalee Newitz - Tor Books
Format: Book
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Autonomous features a rakish female pharmaceutical pirate named Jack who traverses the world in her own submarine. A notorious anti-patent scientist who has styled herself as a Robin Hood heroine fighting to bring cheap drugs to the poor, Jack’s latest drug is leaving a trail... |
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Artemis: A Novel
Andy Weir - Crown
Format: Book
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Jazz Bashara is a criminal.
Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts... |
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Blue Remembered Earth
Alastair Reynolds - Ace; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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One hundred and fifty years from now, in a world where Africa is the dominant technological and economic power, and where crime, war, disease and poverty have been banished to history, Geoffrey Akinya wants only one thing: to be left in peace, so that he can continue his studies into the elephants... |
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