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Novel involving the destruction of Jupiter, two alien species, and a neat star drive
The novel, which I read in the 1980's or so, opens with the arrival in the Sol system of a huge starship that ignores Earth and starts to refuel using way too much of Jupiter's atmosphere.
Expeditions ...
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SF Novel: Task force tries to fake sentience in a humanoid species to protect a planet from exploitation
I'm certain it was published before 1998, fairly sure before 1994, in paperback.
The background setting of the novel was the distant future, when humanity was part of an interstellar, possibly ...
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Dinosaur eggs preserved by alien hatch, alien comes back for them?
I'm looking for a novel about intelligent dinosaurs and aliens.
Probably published in the early 90's. Paperback, English.
Cover was a green alien resembling a small, predatory dinosaur (similar to ...
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80's or earlier first contact novel: scientists decode alien signal, only to discover the alien civilization is now long dead [closed]
First contact novel read in the 80's where scientists decode alien signal only to discover the alien civilization is now long dead.
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Distant aliens receive signal with instructions on how to construct humans, long after Earth is extinct
I'm looking for a specific scifi book that I read years ago, I only partially remember the story, and I don't remember the author or the title.
What I remember of the story is:
An alien race picks ...
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Which novel involves vampires, burning satellites, space travel, and body modification?
About a decade ago, I encountered a novel or a novella that I cannot locate.
The setting was Earth, about one century into the future. I remember vampires and a mesh of satellites around the Earth ...
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Looking for a sci-fi novel about first contact
Male author who did not typically write science fiction.
Novel came out in the 1990's I think.
It seemed initially to be a story about a serial killer but it turns out the protagonist was merely ...
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