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SciFi book, about a human colony on the moon. A central computer becomes sentient and forms an alliance or teams up with the main character
SciFi book, about a human colony on the moon. A central computer becomes sentient and forms an alliance or teams up with the main character.
Read 40-50 yr ago. Maybe school suggested it for general ...
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Book series about Moon base
Book series following life of a man from pilot, to first man to have sex in space, then later as an astronaut he kills a female astronaut, later he becomes leader of Moon base who has conflict with ...
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1990s novel with sleeping alien machine inside the moon that teleports to another galaxy
I read a book a few years ago that looked like a mass-market paperback from the 1990s or so.
It was about humans just barely colonizing our own solar system and doing wormhole experiments around Pluto/...
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Old SF novel with underground Moon civilization, water very precious
Sometime in the 1960s I read a paperback SF novel with one or more Earthmen on the Moon. There was a nonhuman Moon civilization living underground. It may have been a dystopian society and water was ...
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American astronaut abducted from moon, placed in alien zoo, must work with time-traveling Roman soldier
I found this novel in English at my local library in the mid-1990's, but the book itself looked like it was from the 1950's or 60's. If I remember correctly, it had a picture of an astronaut in a ...
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ID Help: Soviet SciFi Novel - moon colonization, pre-1958
I'm searching for a Soviet-era science fiction novel, in which rocks are evaporated by chemical means into gases in order to form an atmosphere.
It may then continue on to describe hydrogen and carbon ...
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Mid-1990s novel where astronauts visit a moon base and discover the ghosts of the previous crew
I don't remember much about this American novel published in the mid-1990s - I didn't finish it - but now I have a hankering to. It involves astronauts visiting a moonbase that has been abandoned for ...
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Novel where anti-gravity devices are attached to a submarine and it floats to the moon
I'm trying to remember a novel I read (probably in the early 70's) about an inventor that develops an anti-gravity device that looked rather like window blinds. These devices are attached to a small ...
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Novel about 'magic' on the moon where a woman loses her memory when a silver needle is inserted into her head
This is a story I read as a teenager, if I remember correctly, more than 40 years ago and I only remember vague glimpses that I find hard to put into words, so I do realise it may be a very tall order....
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Sci fi novel with a male protagonist who eventually has his mind installed in robot that tends a giant net
Novel with male protagonist who is led to discoveries of alien engineering of solar system planets by an enigmatic Japanese? woman
Crystal 'flower' on moon, one planet has bands of metal that turn it ...
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Scifi novel. Colony on the moon, nanotech, sex changing journalist main character
I read a book years ago about a colony on the moon. Nanotechnology played a huge part in the story. No, it wasn't either of the Ben Bova moon books. In this one, the main character (and almost all the ...
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Earth's moon shortens human lifespan [duplicate]
I checked out this novel, probably young adult, from my hometown library sometime in the late 80s or early 90s.
The plot follows a human looking race of aliens that come to earth to investigate why ...
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