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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Illustrated Man	Ray Bradbury	The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of eighteen science fiction short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. A recurring theme throughout the eighteen stories is the conflict of the cold mecha…	OL103128W
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
Halo	William C. Dietz	Fleeing the destruction of the planet Reach, the Master Chief and a few human survivors crash-land on Halo, where they race to unravel its secrets in order to gain control of a great source of power …	OL15141485W
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
Earth 2	Michael Duggan,Melissa Crandall,Carol Flint	Novelization of the pilot episode of the television series. The aliens have landed. But this time, the aliens are us. Planet G889 -- humanity's last hope. Fueled by her passion to save her dyin…	OL15553199W
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
Assemblers of infinity	Kevin J. Anderson	It is the 21st century. Earth's space program is thriving, with a colony on the Moon. Then an incredible discovery is made on the lunar farside. A massive structure is being erected by living machine…	OL16018178W
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
Blue remembered Earth	Alastair Reynolds	One-hundred-and-fifty years from now, the moon and Mars are settled, and colonies stretch all the way out to the edge of the solar system. But something has come to light on the Moon--secrets that co…	OL16532269W
Only superhuman	Christopher L. Bennett	"2107 AD: A generation ago, Earth and the cislunar colonies banned genetic and cybernetic modifications. But out in the Asteroid Belt, anything goes. Dozens of flourishing space habitats are spawning…	OL16646361W
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
Space Case	Stuart Gibbs	Dashiell Gibson, who lives on Moon Base Alpha, has to solve a murder of one of the moon's most prominent doctors.	OL17081171W
Red sky, blue moon	Bruce Golden	Ancient aliens seed the primordial oceans of Earth with protoplasmic material found on other worlds, then return millennia later to see what they have wrought. They not only observe the human civiliz…	OL17837749W
Survival Colony 9	Joshua David Bellin	Querry Gen, a member of one of the last human survivor groups following global war, is targeted by the monstrous Skaldi, although Querry has no memory of why.	OL17875649W
In space	Gail Stewart	Describes what life may be like in a space colony, how such a place might be constructed, and what functions it might fulfill.	OL19423818W
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
Semiosis	Sue Burke	"Colonists from Earth wanted the perfect home, but they'll have to survive on the one they found. They don't realize another life form watches...and waits...Only mutual communication can forge an all…	OL19734824W
The End of All Things	John Scalzi	Humans expanded into space... only to find a universe populated with multiple alien species bent on their destruction. Thus was the Colonial Union formed, to help protect us from a hostile universe. …	OL19912869W