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Pew Pew Pew – science fiction novels set in space


The Abyss Beyond Dreams by Peter F. Hamilton

In the Void, the laws of physics are not as expected and magic-like powers are common. When humans and a merciless alien species are both trapped in the Void, will they fight each other or band together against their common enemy?

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Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

In this winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke awards (!), sentient ships control human bodies to extend their empire. But what happens when one of the ships’ AI decides to seek revenge?

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Blindsight by Peter Watts

A linguist with Multiple Personality Disorder, a human cyborg biologist, a pacifist warrior, a vampire, and a synthesis: this is the team assembled to seek out and make contact with an alien intelligence whose intentions are unknown.

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Dune by Frank Herbert

The best-selling science fiction novel of all time, Dune introduces the desert planet Arrakis, home to giant sandworms and the only source of the mind-expanding spice “melange,” crucial for space navigation.

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Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

George R.R. Martin calls this “interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be written.” Conspiracies, crime noir, political maneuvering, all set in our colonized solar system.

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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

The next mission for the motley crew of the Wayfarer is to build a wormhole to an alien planet. What could possibly go wrong?

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Old Man’s War by John Scalzi

On one hand, humans have reached interstellar space. On the other hand, they and many other races are in a battle for inhabitable planets. So on his 75th birthday, John Perry has joined the army.

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Prador Moon: A Novel of the Polity by Neal Asher

The Polity Collective has taken its civilization into space. But when their first contact with alien life is a hostile race of crablike carnivores, the Prador, warfare is inevitable.

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The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

A scientific mission making first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life is led by Fr. Emilio Sandoz, a linguist and Jesuit priest. What begins as a promising encounter soon degrades into devastation.

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Trading in Danger by Elizabeth Moon

After being thrown out of the military academy, Kylara Vatta is given a second chance as captain of a delivery ship in her family’s transport business. But after the ship makes a detour, she has no choice but to engage in combat.

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