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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Mike Stellar	K. A. Holt	Mike is suspicious when his family joins an expedition to Mars at the last minute, and his fears are confirmed when all of the adults on the colonizing mission, including his parents, begin to act st…	OL11810028W
Hunter's Run	George R. R. Martin	Like so many others, Ramon Espejo ran from the poverty and hopelessness of the Third World to the promise of a new world—joining a host of like-minded workers and dreamers aboard one of the great sta…	OL14909498W
A Gift of Dragons	Anne McCaffrey	For more than thirty years, Pern has conjured visions of brave men and women mounted upon the backs of dragons. As anyone knows who has been touched by the storytelling magic of Anne McCaffrey, to re…	OL14912677W
Fuzzy Nation	John Scalzi	Jack Holloway works alone, for reasons he doesn't care to talk about. Hundreds of miles from ZaraCorp's headquarters on planet, 178 light-years from the corporation's headquarters on Earth, Jack is c…	OL15414758W
Pathfinder	Orson Scott Card	The book begins with Rigg, a boy that has the strange ability to see the path of any living being, no matter how long ago it existed. He spends his time hunting with his father in the mountains, trap…	OL15505449W
Masters of Everon	Gordon R. Dickson	Jef Robini was heading for Everon with a highly controversial cargo. For eight years on Earth Jef had tried to rear the maolot cub which was the final legacy from his brother. But the maolot had fail…	OL155484W
Star Trek - Across the Universe	Pamela Sargent,George Zebrowski	The Hawking left Earth during the 21st century on a one-way mission to colonize a distant world. Due to the relativistic effects of pre-warp travel, its crew has aged only thirty years while two cent…	OL15716587W
Judas unchained	Peter F. Hamilton	The previous novel, Pandora's Star, introduced the Intersolar Commonwealth, a star-spanning civilization of the twenty-fourth century. Robust, peaceful, and confident, the Commonwealth dispatched a s…	OL15739965W
Moon base	Michael D. Cole	Describes the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, explains the need for establishing a moon base, and speculates about future situations in which the base would be used.	OL16101437W
The quiet war	Paul J. McAuley	"Twenty-third century Earth, ravaged by climate change, looks backwards to the holy ideal of a pre-industrial Eden. Political power has been grabbed by a few powerful families and their green saints.…	OL16955645W
On The Steel Breeze	Alastair Reynolds	Sequel to Blue Remembered Earth [https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16532269W/Blue_remembered_Earth][1] [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16532269W/Blue_remembered_Earth	OL17079159W
Seveneves	Neal Stephenson	"What would happen if the world were ending? A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an…	OL17829905W
King David's spaceship	Jerry Pournelle	Four levels of technology collide in this fascinating sci-fi thriller about a Renaissance general racing to extract the secrets of space flight from a forgotten library guarded by barbarians on horse…	OL1840476W
Darkship Revenge	Sarah A. Hoyt	309 pages ; 24 cm	OL19369681W
Landfall	Jerry Aubin	The Ship, its towering structures perched upon the foundation of a massive asteroid, was launched as the last gasp of a dying Earth. The Mission -- seed the universe with one billion colonists who wa…	OL19650873W
Weird space	Eric Brown	A first installment in a wacky new space-opera series introduces the world of Weird Space, where human smugglers, veterans, ne'erdowells and the adversarial Vetch Empire are targeted by an evil race …	OL19841724W
Starbreak	Phoebe North	After five hundred years, the Earth ship seventeen-year-old Terra and her companions were born and raised on arrives at Zehava, a dangerous, populated world where Terra must take the lead in establis…	OL19982118W
Mobile suit Gundam, the origin	Yoshikazu Yasuhiko	"[In] this ... tenth volume of Vertical's amazing English translation of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin, we move towards the end of the One Year War. But not without devastating losses on both sides …	OL20017478W
Daughters of an emerald dusk	Katherine V. Forrest	Late in the twenty-second century, 4,000 women escape the tyranny of a male-dominated Earth and colonize the planet of Maternas. Katherine V. Forrest’s influential 1984 novel, Daughters of a Coral Da…	OL2008008W
The book of freedoms	Anne McCaffrey	The Catteni conquerors swooped down on an unsuspecting Earth as they had on many another world. Strikin fifty key cities around the globe, they carried off countless human slaves to be sent to the ne…	OL20889442W