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Tagged with space-colonization books
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Young adult science fiction book about unique children born on a new colony
I read this book back in early 1980's. Can't remember the title or author.
Colonists to a new planet. Unable to have children until 6 children were mysteriously born. 3 males and 2 females. 1 child ...
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Book about a boy on a colony planet who flees the male-only village he was raised in and meets a girl who arrived in a scout ship
Read around 2012-2016, written probably within ten years before that - likely less. First in a series, I believe.
The book is set on a planet where every animal that lives on or lands on the planet (...
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Looking for the title to very old SciFi book about space colonists who live in a tree and have to spit in the tree's flowers to get access
My dad gave me this book and my husband left it on a plane by accident.
A group of space colonists have adapted and evolved to fit into the planet where they live. The planet is largely trees. The ...
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Book series about a group of humans who colonise another planet after the Earth is destroyed by the Sun going nova
Trying to find a series - two books from memory - in which the Earth was destroyed by the Sun going nova. A smallish group fled to a science base to make it a colony. The world was not really suitable ...
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Book featuring a computer that used pantropy to colonize worlds, and a girl with a socket in her head [duplicate]
I read a book about 20 years ago about a computer that used pantropy to colonize worlds with modified humans. I think that the purpose was to ensure that humanity would not go extinct. What I ...
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Sci-fi book about humans living on another planet and reflecting on Earth origins
I came across a book recommendation that really piqued my interest, and am having trouble remembering the details to sufficiently find it via search engines.
Here is what I can remember:
I remember ...
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Young adult sci-fi novel about a young female human slightly modified to survive on on a jungle planet
I started a book where the main character was a young female human (school age) slightly modified to survive on a planet with only slightly more gravity than Earth. There is a non-modified boy that ...
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Trilogy in the 80’s about space travel to another world
Growing up in the 80's my mother introduced me to a trilogy she read. I don’t remember the name but they traveled to another world and worked to colonize it. 2064 or something idk. The books were ...
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Book series: Space Navy based Space Opera, several alien species warring for generations
There’s a series of books I read, probably 10 years or more ago that I just can’t seem to pinpoint.
Here are some things I recall:
Space Navy based Space Opera
Space ships could jump between solar ...
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Book about human colonization of a planet without rain, youngest member names the planet and later narrates the story to children [duplicate]
During my elementary years, I remember a book about a group of humans venturing off of Earth to colonize a new planet.
One of the things I specifically remember is how they had the youngest member of ...
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Sci-fi book series featuring insectoid aliens, motorized armor and main character in anabiosis [duplicate]
I remember not too much about this book series, but I know exactly:
It was written before 2000 (70-80's maybe).
Series includes at least 3 books, maybe more.
Space opera.
Main character is a male ...
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Book where people are sent to a distant destination and babies are awakened out of sleep when nearby, problems ensue
I read this book MANY years ago. A space mission is sent to a destination many light years away. A set of babies and people to tend/raise them are frozen and awakened when near the destination. The ...
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Planet Colonization book with benevolent AI [duplicate]
I am looking for the name of this series.
It starts with an intelligent ship and a crew of engineers that get a planet ready for colonization. After all of the engineers die the ship remains in ...
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Book series with a double planet system and poisonous bubbles that float around
I read this book many years ago. It is set on a double planet with a shared atmosphere. The people on the planet have a caste system, they are either military or thinkers. There are giant trees on the ...
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Older scifi book about a woman who lives on a barge on a colonized water world. Gets involved in political intrigue when she meets a man
The setting was a largely water world colonized by humans. Since colonization it has been isolated and experienced technological regression. The protagonist is a young woman who works on her own, ...
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