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Tagged with space-colonization hard-sci-fi
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Linked novellas where humans are engineered to adapt to a variety of environments
As a child I remember having a book with a collection of novellas that revolved around a common theme that went like this:
Survivors of an ill-fated expedition arrive on a distant planet and create, ...
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Searching for a sci-fi short story read to me from a hardbound textbook around 1974-1976 so copyright was probably '60's [duplicate]
The story was about people living on another planet (for whatever reason) that was always dark and cold except for one day every 100+ years or so when the sun shone on the planet for only a few hours. ...
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Dangerous Planet
A while back I read a soft cover book, I have looked around and found similar titles but not it exactly. The first part is about a colony on a dangerous planet covered in forest. The second part in ...
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Sci-fi with space-mining scientists, personal internet - book identification help, please
About a year ago, my kindle was stolen and I'm really more upset that I can't track down the name of the book I had just sampled and was planning to purchase. I've since replaced the kindle, but I ...
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