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3001: The Final Odyssey
by Arthur C. Clarke  Publisher Comments One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. But...
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Orphan's Destiny (Jason Wander)
by Robert Buettner Publisher Comments At twenty-five, General Jason Wander has fought and won man's only alien conflict. Now, after long years in space, he's coming home...but to what? Earth's desperate nations, impoverished by war damage and military spending, are slashing defense budgets...
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Children of the Mind (Ender Wiggins Saga #4)
by Orson Scott Card Publisher Comments The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But once against the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy...
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Seeker
by Jack McDevitt Publisher Comments Thousands of years after the unsolved disappearance of an entire colony, antiquities dealer Alex Benedict stumbles upon a cup that appears to be from the Seeker, one of the colony's original ships, and, while attempting to estable the artifact's...
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Red Mars (Mars Trilogy)
by Kim S Robinson 
Synopsis In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of research and cutting-edge science in the first of three novels that will chronicle the colonization of Mars. For eons, sandstorms have swept the barren...
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Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson
Publisher Comments Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison — a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer and Snow Crash is such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and...
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Spook Country
by William Gibson
Powells.com Staff Pick Spook Country is Gibson at the top of his game, with gorgeous detail, page-turning suspense, and fascinating characters. If you've never read this author in the past because his work was categorized as science fiction, pick up this book, which is all too...
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Edenborn
by Nick Sagan Publisher Comments In the wake of the microbial plague that decimated the world, the bioengineered children of Idlewild have spent the last eighteen years raising the next generation to inherit the Earth-a generation both human and post-human, divided into factions by the...
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Moon Flower
by James P Hogan Publisher Comments Something strange is happening on the planet Cyrene, which is in the early phases of being "developed" by the mammoth Interworld Restructuring Corporation. Terrans from the base there have been disappearing. Myles Callen, a ruthlessly efficient...
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The Caves of Steel (The Robot Series #01)
by Isaac Asimov Publisher Comments A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City...
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Dust
by Elizabeth Bear Publisher Comments On a broken ship orbiting a doomed sun, dwellers have grown complacent with their aging metal world. But when a serving girl frees a captive noblewoman, the old order is about to change.... Ariane, Princess of the House of Rule, was known to be fiercely...
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A Deepness in the Sky
by Vernor Vinge
Publisher Comments After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds. The group...
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Heritage Trilogy #01: Semper Mars: Book One of the Heritage Trilogy
by Ian Douglas Publisher Comments Chapter One 2040 Wednesday, 9 May Cycler Spacecraft Polyakov, three days from Mars Transfer 1517 hours GMT (shipboard time) This wasn't the first time the Marines had ventured into space, not by a long shot. On February 20, 1962, Colonel John Glenn...
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Empire
by Orson Card Publisher Comments The American Empire has grown too fast, and the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point. The war of words between Right and Left has collapsed into a shooting war, though most people just want to be left alone. The battle rages between the...
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Heritage Trilogy #02: Luna Marine:: Book Two of the Heritage Trilogy
by Ian Douglas Publisher Comments The revelations on Mars -- a half-million year-old legacy of the vanished star-traveling Builders -- have fed the flames of catastrophic war.A beleaguered United States and its Russian and Japanese allies struggle to hold their own against the...
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Redemption Ark
by Alastair Reynolds Publisher Comments The direct sequel to British author Alastair Reynolds' first novel "Revelation Space....
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Glasshouse
by Charles Stross Publisher Comments "When people ask me what I did during the war, I tell them I used to be a tank regiment. Or maybe I was a counter-intelligence agent. I'm not exactly sure: my memory isn't what it used to be." When Robin wakes up in a clinic with most of his memories...
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Startide Rising (Bantam Spectra Book)
by David Brin
Powells.com Staff Pick Put a dolphin on the cover of a sci-fi book and I'm all but hooked! Here, the Earth ship Streaker — carrying a crew made up mostly of dolphins — has had to crash land on an aquatic planet to make repairs. Can the crew fix the ship, stave off...
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Sixty Days and Counting
by Kim Stanle Robinson Synopsis The bestselling author of "Fifty Degrees Below" concludes his intelligent trilogy of suspenseful, near-future eco-thrillers set in world ravaged by global warming....
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Earth
by David Brin Synopsis The long-awaited new novel by the award-winning, bestselling author of Startide Rising and The Uplift War--an epic novel set fifty years from tomorrow, a carefully-reasoned, scientifically faithful tale of the fate of our world. "One hell of a novel . . ....
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