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Top 25 Best Science Fiction Books About the Moon (cover not available)

Top 25 Best Science Fiction Books About the Moon

The Moon hangs clear above us. It is the only celestial body (other than the sun) that we can see as more than a dot. For that reason, it has...

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Leviathan Wakes

Leviathan Wakes

Showing that new space opera is just as relevant as more traditional space opera, Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, writing under the pen-name James S.A. Corey, offer a 2011 sci-fi...

James S.a. Corey Buy on Amazon
Caliban's War

Caliban's War

The second book in the NYT best-selling Expanse series, Caliban's War shows a solar system on the brink of war, and the only hope of peace rests on James Holden...

James S.a. Corey Buy on Amazon
Abaddon's Gate

Abaddon's Gate

An alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a...

James S.a. Corey Buy on Amazon
Cibola Burn

Cibola Burn

"The gates have opened the way to a thousand new worlds and the rush to colonize has begun. Settlers looking for a new life stream out from humanity's home planets....

James S.a. Corey Buy on Amazon
Nemesis Games

Nemesis Games

The crew of the Rocinante scatter to deal with trouble at home just as the solar system begins to come apart. A Belter faction strikes at Earth and the inner...

James S.a. Corey Buy on Amazon
The Mercy of Gods

The Mercy of Gods

A spectacular new space opera that sees humanity fighting for its survival in a war as old as the universe itself.How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost...

James S.a. Corey Buy on Amazon
Leviathan Falls

Leviathan Falls

The biggest science fiction series of the decade comes to an incredible conclusion in the ninth and final novel in James S.A. Corey’s Hugo-award winning space opera that inspired the...

James S.a. Corey Buy on Amazon
Tiamat's Wrath

Tiamat's Wrath

Tiamat's Wrath is a science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey, the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, and the eighth book in their series The Expanse....

James S.a. Corey Buy on Amazon
Persepolis Rising

Persepolis Rising

The seventh book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Persepolis Rising finds an old enemy returning home with more power and technology than anyone thought possible, and the crew of...

James S.a. Corey Buy on Amazon
Babylon's Ashes

Babylon's Ashes

The Expanse Saga continues in the 6th installment. The Free Navy – a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships – has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign...

James S.a. Corey Buy on Amazon
N.e.r.d.s

N.e.r.d.s

It's a well-known trope that nerds, and the kids that are picked on today, will become the leaders of tomorrow. N.E.R.D.S. takes that trope and runs with it. Instead of...

Michael Buckley Buy on Amazon
The Quiet War

The Quiet War

For some reason, the New Space Opera seems to have been particularly successful with British writers. Just look at names like Banks and Reynolds, Hamilton and Baxter, not to mention...

Paul Mcauley Buy on Amazon
The Sparrow

The Sparrow

Few debut novels since Neuromancer have had the impact that Mary Doria Russell achieved with The Sparrow. After this novel and its sequel, Children of God, she turned to writing...

Mary Doria Russell Buy on Amazon
A Darkling Sea -

A Darkling Sea -

When a bunch of Hugo and Nebula award winners queue up to praise a first novel from a brand new writer, and when they compare it to Hal Clement and...

James L. Cambias Buy on Amazon
A Case Of Conscience

A Case Of Conscience

From Arthur C. Clarke's "The Star" to Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz, there was something of a trend in the 1950s for bringing Catholicism into a science fiction...

James Blish Buy on Amazon
Thrice Upon A Time

Thrice Upon A Time

Sending objects back in time—that is, from the 'now' to somewhere before the 'now'—is pretty much the same things as sending 'information' in general. Same goes for the future. The...

James P. Hogan Buy on Amazon

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