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Space exploration

Voyages into the great unknown.

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Space exploration1999

On Blue's Waters

Volume One of 'The Book of the Short Sun' (Book of the Short Sun)

Gene Wolfe

4.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Pawn

a chronicle of the Sibyl's War

Timothy Zahn

4.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Space exploration2003

Red thunder

John Varley

4.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Remnants

Destination Unknown

Katherine Applegate

4.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Space exploration1948

Skylark Three

Edward E. Smith

4.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Smek for president!

Adam Rex

4.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Space exploration2007

Spindrift

Allen M. Steele

4.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Star Trek

Mike Johnson

4.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2012

The Eternal Flame

Greg Egan

4.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

The Solar Queen

Andre Norton

4.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Space exploration1958

The Space Child's Mother Goose

Frederick Winsor

4.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera1986

Time for Yesterday

Star Trek #39

A. C. Crispin

4.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera1983

Yesterday's Son

A. C. Crispin

4.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Space exploration1986

"Die, Chameleon!"

novel

Glen A. Larson

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Space exploration1971

... and all the stars a stage.

James Blish

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

3 x T

Harry Turtledove

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

A Call to Vengeance

David Weber; Timothy Zahn; Thomas Pope; Thomas Pope

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2013

A Ceremony of Losses: The Fall, Book Three

Star Trek

David Alan Mack

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2011

A Choice Of Catastrophes

Star Trek

Michael Schuster; Steve Mollmann

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Space exploration1990

A Gathering of Stars

(#2) (Book Two of the Mechanical Sky)

Donald Moffitt

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Space exploration1991

A Handful of Stars

Dana Stabenow

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

A journey in other worlds.

A romance of the future

Astor, John Jacob

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera1988

A Matter of Oaths

Helen S. Wright

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

Time travel1994

A New Collection of Three Complete Novels

Congo / Sphere / Eaters of the Dead

Michael Crichton

4.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

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