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An astronaut stranded on Mars must science his way to survival, one potato at a time.
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Artemis
A smuggler living in humanity's first lunar city gets caught up in a conspiracy that threatens the entire moon colony.
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.
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.
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.
Double Star
Lorenzo Smythe, an out-of-work actor, is hired to impersonate a kidnapped political leader for a single ceremony on Mars, and finds the role growing far bigger than he bargained for.
Old Man's War
On his seventy-fifth birthday, John Perry joins the Colonial Defense Forces, which give him a young, enhanced body in exchange for leaving Earth for ever and fighting humanity's wars across the stars.
Rendezvous with Rama
A massive, empty alien spacecraft enters the solar system, and a crew of explorers boards it to discover its purpose.
Red Mars
The first hundred colonists on Mars attempt to terraform the planet while their ideological differences threaten to tear the mission apart.
Rite of Passage
A girl on a vast generation ship must pass a deadly coming-of-age trial: survive alone on an alien planet for thirty days.
Man Plus
As the Cold War edges towards nuclear war, NASA turns Roger Torraway, an astronaut, into a cyborg built to live unprotected on the surface of Mars.
Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red
A socially anxious security robot hacks its own governor module and must decide whether to protect its human clients or binge-watch TV shows.
Ringworld
Explorers discover a massive ring-shaped artificial world orbiting a distant star and must survive its ancient, dangerous wonders.