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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.
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Permutation City
In 2050, when the rich can have themselves scanned and live on as Copies in virtual worlds, Paul Durham runs experiments on his own Copy and then offers a few wealthy Copies a way to live for ever beyond the reach of the real world's computers.
Aurora
Nearly two centuries into its voyage, a generation ship carrying two thousand people approaches Tau Ceti, where they mean to settle, and the ship's computer, asked by the chief engineer to tell their story, starts learning how to narrate.
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.
Ringworld
Explorers discover a massive ring-shaped artificial world orbiting a distant star and must survive its ancient, dangerous wonders.
The Three-Body Problem
During the Cultural Revolution, astrophysicist Ye Wenjie answers a signal from space, and decades later nanomaterials researcher Wang Miao, investigating a wave of scientists' suicides, is drawn into a strange virtual-reality game and the secret behind it.
Rendezvous with Rama
A massive, empty alien spacecraft enters the solar system, and a crew of explorers boards it to discover its purpose.
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.
Excession
An artefact older than the universe appears at the edge of the galaxy, and the Culture's ship Minds, a rival empire and a pair of estranged lovers are caught up in what to do about it.
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.
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.
Ancillary Justice
A warship's AI, trapped in a single human body after the destruction of its ship, uncovers a galactic conspiracy at the heart of a brutal empire.
Accelerando
Manfred Macx, a venture altruist who gives away ideas, is rushing round Europe in the early twenty-first century as the pace of change runs away from humanity, and the book follows three generations of his family through the century that follows.