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Tagged with space-colonization novel
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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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SF book with alien planet, whose plant life lacks chlorophyll / is not green and is being outcompeted by Earth plants
Does anyone happen to recall the title or author of a science fiction novel with the following major plot elements?
My recollection, not a quote:
On an alien planet, whose plants are not green (...
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Sci-Fi About Colonizing Planet With Dumb Humans [duplicate]
The beginning of the book is a little fuzzy to me but here goes. Humanity is intergalactic sometime far in the future. The main character from what I can remember isn't one of the rich elite, but he ...
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Sci-fi novel about a war between humans and bipedal alien deer
I read this maybe 30 years ago. but to be safe let's say somewhere between 1986 and 1995, but probably right in the middle of that span.
Science fiction paperback, average length. I don't recall ...
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Sci-fi book from 90's-ish about aliens and apathy and weird souls
I couldn't tell you quite when I read this.. I would guess somewhere mid-late 90s. (Possibly as late as the early '00s, but I'm pretty sure it was the 90s.) I think it had a blue cover on it, and it's ...
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Novel about a human visiting a colonised planet where the natives are like humans with tails
There is a human from another long-colonized planet, visiting. He sees only female natives, who are being exploited. He finds the hidden males and discovers that they are human, descendants of a ...
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'80s science fiction novel involving dangerous crystal towers and weird little animals, both of which turn out to be sapient
I want to recommend this book to someone else but I can't remember the title or the author. Searching for it on the internet appears to be nearly impossible because it wasn't very successful and ...
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Book or series about a group of teens in a space colony who discover telepathic creatures
I have been trying to find this series that I read in grade school. Some of the info I remember is:
They have hover technology, hover bikes that the kids hack to remove safety restraints, and hover ...
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Sci-fi youth novel with a young female protagonist who is watching over the development of another planet [duplicate]
It's a lovely romantic youth novel that I read many years ago in German. It's about a girl who is part of a crew that is observing the development of other planets. They are from a very well-evolved ...
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Novel with a modified space shuttle seeding a colony on another planet
I would have read this novel in the mid to late 1990s to the early 2000s. I believe it would have been before 2003 and the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
The story revolves around a space shuttle (I ...
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Graphic novel about a spaceship crash landing on a planet, and the stranded inhabitants of the ship forming a colony and a new society there
I have been looking for this book for quite some time. I recall starting to read it in the late '70s. It was a color graphic novel.
At the beginning of the novel, there was a crash landing of a ...
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Fantasy novel about a medieval society formed by the descendants of human colonists, on a planet that brings their nightmares to life
So here's what I remember;
It takes place on another planet, thousands of years after the colonists from Earth arrived. There is a prologue where they describe how the first colonists are attacked by ...
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Eric Flint's "Mother of Demons" Enagulishuc language rules?
I've been trying to figure out the rules for Enagulishuc, the English dialect spoken by Gukuy (and demons) in Eric Flint's 1997 first novel "Mother of Demons". The Gukuy are alien mollusks with ...
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A novel where contract breach is worse than femicide, from the 70’s or earlier [duplicate]
I read this novel at least 40 years ago.
It is clearly SF, some of the action is not on Earth. I don’t remember interstellar travel, only within solar system, Moon and/or Mars and/or Venus and/or ...
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Science fiction book about a generation ship sent to seed or colonize a planet [duplicate]
This is what I think I remember. A ship was sent to colonize a planet with a new generation of humans to save the species from problems on Earth. Once the ship arrived at the destination planet, it ...
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