Questions tagged [space-colonization]
Space colonization is the permanent human habitation outside of Earth.
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Story with a colonization ship that awakens embryos too early
I read this quite some time ago (I think around the '90s). I'm pretty sure the author is Orson Scott Card, but I looked through the bibliography and I couldn't find it.
The story is about a ship that ...
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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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A story about Mars, authorities/new colonists("gringoes") vs "local"/old colonists(humans), and a search for a native aliens base/hideout
What I remember so far:
Medium-sized novel
Probably written before 90s (at least not later than 1998)
Male? author
All events happen on Mars (though it may be Venus or even something else)
There are ...
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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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SF colony novel, most likely from before 1972 [duplicate]
A librarian friend received the following query about a novel a customer read long ago. I hope somebody can help.
The situation is that it can be foreseen that the Earth will collapse/break down — ...
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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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Novel set in the future with mind reading aliens and a planet about to be destroyed by a supernova
The story is about a star that becomes a supernova. A colony on a planet is about to be wiped out from it , but the government keeps it under wraps because they won't be able to evacuate everyone. The ...
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Spanish-language (translated?) comic containing multiple short stories (Atlantis, time-travel, space colonisation...)
This comic would probably be from the 70s and belonged to my father, but unfortunately got lost when moving house. It was in Spanish, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was translated from a different ...
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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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Story on a planet with very long seasons from the 80s or earlier
I read this at least 25 years ago. It is short fiction, but I think it is
a novelette rather than a “short story” per se.
It takes place on a planet where the cycle of the seasons lasts about 30 of
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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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70s or older story about an outcast that deals with feces [duplicate]
I am presently reading a novel in present-day India about an outcast (Dalit) woman who has to clean the latrines of her neighbors in a small village.
This brought back to my mind a story I read very ...
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Families escape from a dystopic Earth on a starship, but turn on each other during the trip
I read this novel about 20 years ago, and I'd like to identify it.
In the not so distant future, Earth society is collapsing due to rampant violence, crime, sociopathy and so on (the problems are ...
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An episode of a TV series, late 60s early 70s l think
Huge rocket ship carrying humans to a distant destination to resettle. The bridge of the craft is inaccessible except for a tube where food is sent up. The passengers revere "the tree".
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Space colony novel where space pirates attack a planet and take a boy hostage who fights his way back eventually
I think it was a 1970s novel and might have been simply titled "Colony". These days it would likely be classed as young-adult, but I don't think such a category existed back then. I probably read it ...
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