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Space exploration

Voyages into the great unknown.

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1,661 books in space exploration

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Space opera2006

Tempest (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, Book 3)

Troy Denning

3.3(3)Open Library rating out of 5

The Dark Between the Stars: The Saga of Shadows, Book One

Kevin J. Anderson

3.3(3)Open Library rating out of 5

The Dig

Alan Dean Foster

3.3(3)Open Library rating out of 5

Space exploration2007

The Stone Gods

Jeanette Winterson

3.3(3)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2007

Vorpal Blade (Looking Glass)

John Ringo; Travis S. Taylor

3.3(3)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2005

Building Harlequin's moon

Larry Niven; Brenda Cooper

3.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Claws that catch

John Ringo

3.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Headlong Flight

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Dayton Ward

3.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Jem

Frederik Pohl

3.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2008

Manxome Foe (Looking Glass)

John Ringo

3.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Mother, May I (Remnants, #08)

Katherine Applegate

3.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2001

Oxygen

a mission gone desperately wrong-- and no way out short of blind faith--

Randall Scott Ingermanson

3.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Space exploration2007

Passage at Arms

Glen Cook

3.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2007

Red Lightning

John Varley

3.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Space exploration1980

Skylark DuQuesne

Edward E. Smith

3.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2003

The Risen Empire

Scott Westerfeld

3.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera1981

The Klingon Gambit

Star Trek #3

Robert E. Vardeman

3.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2002

The Skinner

Neal L. Asher

3.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2004

The wreck of the River of Stars

Michael Flynn

3.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Titan

Stephen Baxter

3.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Space exploration2008

Wanderlust

Ann Aguirre

3.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2012

Weird space

The devil's nebula

Eric Brown

3.0(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2015

Binti

Nnedi Okorafor

3.9(50)Open Library rating out of 5

Cachalot

Alan Dean Foster

2.0(1)Open Library rating out of 5

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