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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
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
The stone gods	Jeanette Winterson	This new world weighs a yatto-gram. But everything is trial-size; tread-on-me-tiny or blurred-out-offocus huge. There are leaves that have grown as big as cities, and there are birds that nest in…	OL13493125W
Lord of Light	Roger Zelazny	A colony of humankind is subjugated by the First Colonists, the crew of the starship that brought them to their new home 1000 years before. They have taken control of ancient technologies and enhance…	OL13992W
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
Colonizing the Planets and Stars	Isaac Asimov	Explores the possibility of establishing colonies in space, traveling by starship to other galaxies, and meeting extraterrestrials.	OL14958995W
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
Star Trek - Heart of the Sun	Pamela Sargent,George Zebrowski	When an abandoned space habitat is found within a distant asteroid belt, the Starship Enterprise is sent to investigate. Captain Kirk and his crew discover an artificial world full of technological m…	OL15141770W
Galileo's Dream	Kim Stanley Robinson	In a novel of stunning dimensions, the acclaimed author of the Mars trilogy brings us the story of the incredible life – and death – of Galileo, the First Scientist. Late Renaissance Italy still abou…	OL15170687W
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
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
Enigma	C. F. Bentley	High Priestess Sissy and Confederated Star System Agent Jake begin negotiations to establish diplomatic relations between long-isolated Harmony and the wider universe.	OL15588467W
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
Mars	Ben Bova,Stefan Rudnicki	From the back cover of Bantam paperback July 1993: It is a world shrouded in mystery -- a planet pocked by meteors, baked by ultraviolet light, and covered by endless deserts the color of dried bl…	OL15833W
Crossfire	Nancy Kress	"Crossfire is the story of a human colony settling on a distant planet, a colony formed by Jake Holman - a man trying to escape a dark past. But as this diverse group of thousands comes to terms with…	OL15842257W
Leaping to the stars	David Gerrold	Charles Dingillian learns that the Lunar Authority is threatening to cancel all interstellar launches to the colonies and decides to smuggle himself and his family out on a starship, along with the H…	OL15855854W