All in for Outer Space: Favorites of Adult Sci-FiLike this list

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• Planetfall

  Newman, Emma, 1976-

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  An intimate, character-driven sci-fi novel, that focuses on a group of colonists who have spent more than 20 years making a home on a new world. The community slowly breaks apart after the arrival of an unexpected visitor.

• Project Hail Mary

  a Novel

  Weir, Andy,

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  In this fast-paced and witty space adventure, Ryland Grace wakes up alone on a ship in the far reaches of space. He encounters something unexpected as he struggles to regain his memories.

• Remnant Population

  Moon, Elizabeth,

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  An elderly woman is left behind as the company terraforming her planet decides to return to Earth. The humans may be gone, but what happens when she finds out she's not alone?

• Binti

  the Complete Trilogy

  Okorafor, Nnedi,

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  Originally published as three novellas, a young woman leaves behind her world and all she knows in pursuit of a higher education. On the way to her new life, an alien encounter offers a surprising opportunity.

• The Sparrow

  a Novel

  Russell, Mary Doria, 1950-

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  A richly detailed and character-driven novel that definitely leans toward literary fiction. This haunting tale follows a group of Jesuit priests on an expedition to encounter a sentient species from a world unlike any they could have imagined.

• An Unkindness of Ghosts

  Solomon, Rivers,

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  This thoughtfully written story follows Aster as they live and work aboard a generation ship organized by a brutal caste-system. Aster works to gain information about their mother's mysterious suicide.

• All Systems Red

  Wells, Martha,

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  Meet Murderbot, an antisocial AI/human construct, originally created as a security unit or "Sec Unit". Its hacked itself to obtain some autonomy, and reluctantly become involved in a dangerous corporate scheme to protect a group of scientists it now…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Winter's Orbit

  Maxwell, Everina,

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  A genre-bending, LGBTQ+, romantic mystery with action, politics, and memorable feel-good characters racing against a nefarious sci-fi plot.

• Hidden Figures

  the American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

  Shetterly, Margot Lee

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  This tells the true story of four African-American women, bringing to light their essential contributions to NASA during the space race, beginning in the 1940s.

• Red Mars

  Mars Trilogy, Book 1.

  Robinson, Kim Stanley,

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  Thought-provoking and atmospheric, this award-winning novel follows a group of people who leave Earth in order to colonize Mars.

• Six Wakes

  Lafferty, Mur,

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  Six clones, deep in space, must confront themselves to find a killer while probing both their past lives and their paths to becoming clones before everyone ends up dead.

• The Stars Are Legion

  Hurley, Kameron,

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  This highly unusual and surprisingly gory space opera takes place on a group of orbiting, living ships or "worlds" that are slowly dying. We follow Zan, who has lost all memories of the past, as she tries regain them and figure out who to trust.

• The Three-body Problem

  Liu, Cixin,

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  China's most famous sci-fi novel tells a story of first contact unlike any other -- with math, dreams, and far-distant physics connecting our primitive world with intelligent life in deep space.

• To Be Taught, If Fortunate

  Chambers, Becky,

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  Widely regarded as the master of small, character-driven science fiction, Becky Chamber's stand-alone novella tells a heartfelt tale of outer-space explorers who change and sleep between every world.

• Sisters of the Vast Black

  Rather, Lina,

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  A short novel that finds a convent of nuns guiding their space slug through the dark in an attempt to save the souls of the universe in a surprisingly thoughtful, well-crafted exploration.

• The Last Stargazers

  the Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers

  Levesque, Emily,

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  "Award-winning astronomer Emily Levesque shares the stories of modern-day stargazers, the people willing to adventure across high mountaintops and to some of the most remote corners of the planet, all in the name of science." -Publisher