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Red Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook

Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel, Red Mars is the first book in Kim Stanley Robinsons best-selling trilogy. Red Mars is praised by scientists for its detailed visions of future technology. It is also hailed by authors and critics for its vivid characters and dramatic conflicts....
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Aurora

Kim Stanley Robinson - Orbit
Format: Paperback

A major new novel from one of science fiction's most powerful voices, AURORA tells the incredible story of our first voyage beyond the solar system.
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The Martian

Andy Weir - Crown
Format: Hardcover

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadSix days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there.After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate...
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Revelation Space

Alastair Reynolds - Ace Books
Format: Print book

This highly-acclaimed first novel is destined to establish Alastair Reynolds as one of science fiction's most intelligent and revolutionary new voices. Revelation Space is a sprawling operatic novel that ranges across vast gulfs of time and space to arrive at a terrifying conclusion.When...
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Foundation (Foundation Novels)

Isaac Asimov - Spectra; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve...
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Downbelow Station

C.J. Cherryh - Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestselling Author Winner of the Hugo Award A legend among sci-fi readers, C.J. Cherryh?s Union-Alliance novels, while separate and complete in themselves, are part of a much larger tapestry-a future history spanning 5,000 years of human civilization. Downbelow Station...
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Rendezvous With Rama

Arthur C. Clarke - Harcourt; 1st edition

In the year 2130, a mysterious and apparently untenanted alien spaceship, Rama, enters our solar system. The first product of an alien civilisation to be encountered by man, it reveals a world of technological marvels and an unparalleled artificial ecology. But what is its purpose in 2131?...
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