Books like Out of the Silent Planet
Elwin Ransom, a Cambridge philologist on a walking holiday, is drugged and kidnapped by two men who take him by spaceship to Malacandra, where they mean to hand him over to its inhabitants.
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Dark Eden
On Eden, a sunless planet lit and warmed by glowing trees, the five hundred members of Family, all descended from two stranded humans, huddle in one valley waiting for rescue from Earth, until a teenager named John Redlantern decides to leave.
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Four astronauts on a mission funded by people back on Earth reshape their own bodies to survive the life-bearing worlds they have come to survey around a distant star, and record what they find for whoever is still listening at home.
Rendezvous with Rama
A massive, empty alien spacecraft enters the solar system, and a crew of explorers boards it to discover its purpose.
Ringworld
Explorers discover a massive ring-shaped artificial world orbiting a distant star and must survive its ancient, dangerous wonders.
In Ascension
Leigh Hasenbosch, a marine biologist who grew up in Rotterdam, joins the study of a vast trench newly found in the Atlantic whose vents seem to hold the origins of life, and is drawn from there into a space mission to follow it further.
Gateway
Prospectors board abandoned alien ships whose destinations they cannot control, knowing most trips end in death and a few make you rich, and Robinette Broadhead, one of the lucky ones, tells his therapist why he cannot enjoy it.
Shikasta
Reports and documents from the emissaries of Canopus, a benevolent galactic empire, on the troubled planet Shikasta, which is Earth.
The Martian Chronicles
Human colonists on Mars encounter the ghostly remnants of a dead civilisation, and the planet slowly remakes them in its image.
A Case of Conscience
Father Ramon Ruiz-Sanchez, a Jesuit biologist on a commission to the planet Lithia, finds an alien race living in perfect reason and goodness without any God, and decides it must be the Devil's work.
The Telling
An observer on a distant world discovers that the planet's authoritarian government has banned storytelling itself, and the act of reading becomes resistance.
A Wizard of Earthsea
A young wizard on an island archipelago unleashes a shadow from the land of the dead and must chase it across the world to make himself whole.
A Wrinkle in Time
A gawky middle-school girl, her genius little brother, and a boy from school are pulled across the universe by three old women to find her missing physicist father in a totalitarian elsewhere.