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The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,382,270 ratings — published 2011
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,878,821 ratings — published 2021
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,078,558 ratings — published 1979
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,504,824 ratings — published 1985
Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.23 — 164,655 ratings — published 2015
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,711,385 ratings — published 1965
Artemis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as outer-space)
avg rating 3.67 — 366,518 ratings — published 2017
These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as outer-space)
avg rating 3.89 — 72,091 ratings — published 2013
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.16 — 197,904 ratings — published 2014
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.10 — 411,114 ratings — published 2017
Across the Universe (Across the Universe, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as outer-space)
avg rating 3.77 — 119,712 ratings — published 2011
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.27 — 987,006 ratings — published 2014
Gemina (The Illuminae Files, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.43 — 83,063 ratings — published 2016
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
by (shelved 22 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.51 — 613,693 ratings — published 2015
Leviathan Wakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.31 — 339,408 ratings — published 2011
Atmosphere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,049,265 ratings — published 2025
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.24 — 236,785 ratings — published 2018
Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.09 — 75,953 ratings — published 2019
Obsidio (The Illuminae Files, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.44 — 59,222 ratings — published 2018
Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4)
by (shelved 20 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.41 — 320,918 ratings — published 2015
Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3)
by (shelved 18 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.40 — 414,952 ratings — published 2014
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.18 — 344,317 ratings — published 1968
A Million Suns (Across the Universe, #2)
by (shelved 17 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.01 — 55,338 ratings — published 2012
Life on Mars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as outer-space)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,552 ratings — published 2017
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.19 — 325,409 ratings — published 1980
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.17 — 197,920 ratings — published 2019
Saga, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.15 — 371,296 ratings — published 2012
Shades of Earth (Across the Universe, #3)
by (shelved 15 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.06 — 34,668 ratings — published 2013
Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
by (shelved 14 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.36 — 166,861 ratings — published 2018
Ice Planet Barbarians (Ice Planet Barbarians, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as outer-space)
avg rating 3.61 — 222,518 ratings — published 2015
Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3)
by (shelved 14 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.16 — 256,424 ratings — published 1982
Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
by (shelved 13 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.23 — 189,547 ratings — published 2018
Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
by (shelved 13 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.55 — 498,565 ratings — published 2016
This Shattered World (Starbound, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as outer-space)
avg rating 3.93 — 22,559 ratings — published 2014
Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.23 — 472,799 ratings — published 2013
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as outer-space)
avg rating 3.99 — 123,542 ratings — published 2013
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,036,362 ratings — published 2012
Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
by (shelved 12 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.46 — 139,728 ratings — published 2020
Binti (Binti, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as outer-space)
avg rating 3.83 — 82,850 ratings — published 2015
Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.39 — 194,189 ratings — published 2012
Starflight (Starflight, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as outer-space)
avg rating 3.85 — 13,718 ratings — published 2016
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)
by (shelved 12 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.08 — 189,751 ratings — published 1984
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.17 — 616,223 ratings — published 1951
Orbital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as outer-space)
avg rating 3.47 — 171,426 ratings — published 2023
Skyward (Skyward, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.46 — 174,301 ratings — published 2018
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Fractalverse, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as outer-space)
avg rating 3.80 — 73,722 ratings — published 2020
Aurora Burning (The Aurora Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.24 — 41,793 ratings — published 2020
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.08 — 217,100 ratings — published 2017
Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as outer-space)
avg rating 4.12 — 278,056 ratings — published 1986
Redshirts (ebook)
by (shelved 11 times as outer-space)
avg rating 3.87 — 121,650 ratings — published 2012
“There were only the great diamonds and sapphires and emerald mists and velvet inks of space, with God's voice mingling among the crystal fires.”
― The Illustrated Man
― The Illustrated Man
“Then they wondered if there were men in the stars. Why not? And as creation is harmonious, the inhabitants of Sirius ought to be huge, those of Mars middle-sized, those of Venus very small. Unless it is the same everywhere. There are businessmen, police up there; people trade, fight, dethrone their kings.
Some shooting stars suddenly slid past, describing a course in the sky like the parabola of a monstrous rocket.
‘My Word,’ said Bouvard, ‘look at those worlds disappearing.’
Pecuchet replied: ‘If our world in its turn danced about, the citizens of the stars would be no more impressed than we are now. Ideas like that are rather humbling.’
‘What is the point of it all?’
‘Perhaps there isn’t a point.’
‘Yet…’ and Pecuchet repeated the word two or three times, without finding anything more to say.”
― Bouvard and Pécuchet
Some shooting stars suddenly slid past, describing a course in the sky like the parabola of a monstrous rocket.
‘My Word,’ said Bouvard, ‘look at those worlds disappearing.’
Pecuchet replied: ‘If our world in its turn danced about, the citizens of the stars would be no more impressed than we are now. Ideas like that are rather humbling.’
‘What is the point of it all?’
‘Perhaps there isn’t a point.’
‘Yet…’ and Pecuchet repeated the word two or three times, without finding anything more to say.”
― Bouvard and Pécuchet
