Questions tagged [space-colonization]
Space colonization is the permanent human habitation outside of Earth.
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Help with identifying a story with wooden sailing ships in space and with FTL(?)
While similar questions have been asked before none of them seem to be the series I am looking for, so I'll try to explain the little I remember of it. It is possible that I misremember some things ...
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Short story about intelligence being only an evolutionary stage to ensure interstellar propagation [duplicate]
Main character is a schoolteacher on one of the first human colonies in space. He is puzzled over and concerned with the uniform lack of intellect he is observing in his students, especially since ...
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Short story about alien creatures fleeing their home planet to terraform another
I read this many years ago in a collection of sci-fi stories - almost certainly Silverberg & Greenberg's Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century.
An cat-like alien race decides to terraform an ...
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Short story set in human colony on another planet about an old woman who takes in an android
I read a short story in one of those "best of the year" sci fi anthologies a year or so ago. It was about an old woman living in a human colony on an alien planet. She is a hermit and takes ...
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Looking for a story with a man riding a mechanical frog in an alien swamp
I read this in the 90s, probably in an anthology of short stories (though it might have been a novelette), and it was not new then.
A ship carrying colonists had landed on a planet. The trip had ...
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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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I am looking for a book about four or five people leaving Earth
They left Earth because the sun was going into super nova.
Two men and two women go to one of outer planets, they eventually die. Over time they are bought back to life and 2 people (a man and a woman)...
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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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A story (c. 2018) about interstellar colonization via nanomachines
This story has been visible on the internet, but likely no more because I cannot find it now with search engines despite a considerable effort. Written in English in 2017 or 2018 (or possibly one year ...
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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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Obscure 90's movie/cartoon set in space, pioneer boy makes friends with alien [duplicate]
Way back in the 90's I watched a movie/cartoon on TV about a boy on an alien planet. He becomes friends with an alien called Willard or Wilbur or Willis or something like that. Towards the end the ...
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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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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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