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Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the twenty-first century, wakes from hibernation into an uneasy peace with the Trisolarans and is handed a responsibility that will decide the fate of the solar system.
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2001: A Space Odyssey
A mysterious black monolith guides human evolution from ape to astronaut, culminating in a voyage to Jupiter that transforms a man into something beyond human.
Blindsight
First contact with an alien species so incomprehensible that the crew sent to meet them questions whether consciousness itself is an evolutionary dead end.
Seveneves
When the Moon is shattered by a mysterious agent, humanity has two years to get enough people off Earth before the hard rain of debris makes the surface uninhabitable.
Diaspora
In 2975 most of humanity lives as software in polises, and Yatima, a mind born of no parents, comes into being in one of them, not long before a disaster in space threatens the flesh-and-blood humans left on Earth.
House of Suns
Six million years from now the Gentian Line, a thousand clones of one woman, criss-cross the galaxy and meet every two hundred thousand years to share their memories. Campion and Purslane, two of them who have fallen in love against the Line's rules, are running late for the reunion.
Children of Time
Spiders inherit a terraformed world meant for humans and evolve into a civilisation, until the last human ark ship arrives to claim what was never theirs.
Revelation Space
On Resurgam, a barely settled world, the archaeologist Dan Sylveste digs up evidence of the Amarantin, an alien race wiped out nine hundred thousand years ago, while a vast lighthugger crewed by cyborgs crosses the dark to find him.
The Mote in God's Eye
In 3017, a thousand years after humanity spread to the stars, a probe arrives from the Mote, a star nobody has ever visited, and the Second Empire of Man sends the battlecruiser MacArthur to meet whoever sent it.
Rendezvous with Rama
A massive, empty alien spacecraft enters the solar system, and a crew of explorers boards it to discover its purpose.
Solaris
Kris Kelvin, a psychologist, arrives at the research station hovering over the ocean planet Solaris to find one of its three scientists dead, the other two barely holding together, and people walking its corridors who should not be there.
Project Hail Mary
An astronaut wakes up alone on a spaceship with no memory of his mission, and must solve an interstellar puzzle with the help of an unlikely alien friend.
A Fire Upon the Deep
When a research team awakens an ancient evil at the edge of the galaxy, two children escape to a medieval world ruled by the Tines, doglike aliens who think in packs, and a rescue mission races across a galaxy where the laws of physics change with distance from the core.