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Space Colonization Books
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A New Eden (The Betaverse, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 3.66 — 348 ratings — published 2023
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 3.86 — 89,051 ratings — published 1992
Aurora (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 3.78 — 27,945 ratings — published 2015
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 4.26 — 127,432 ratings — published 2016
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,479,314 ratings — published 1985
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 4.23 — 226,335 ratings — published 2005
Hella (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 3.52 — 881 ratings — published 2020
Goldilocks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 3.72 — 5,746 ratings — published 2020
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 4.30 — 178,206 ratings — published 2015
Planetfall (Planetfall, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 3.73 — 12,892 ratings — published 2015
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 3.99 — 119,735 ratings — published 2013
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,564 ratings — published 2010
The Last Colony (Old Man's War, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 4.11 — 73,583 ratings — published 2007
Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 3.96 — 41,098 ratings — published 1993
Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 3.95 — 33,321 ratings — published 1996
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 4.13 — 67,029 ratings — published 1992
Foreign Land (This Foreign Universe #1)
by (shelved 2 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 3.43 — 51 ratings — published
Arkhangelsk (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 4.16 — 728 ratings — published 2022
Mickey7 (Mickey7 #1)
by (shelved 2 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 3.78 — 56,297 ratings — published 2022
Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,975 ratings — published 2017
Far from the Light of Heaven (Audiobook)
by (shelved 2 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 3.49 — 5,031 ratings — published 2021
Shielded Heart (The Infinite City)
by (shelved 2 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,622 ratings — published 2019
The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space (Apogee Books Space)
by (shelved 2 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 4.21 — 559 ratings — published 1977
The Integral Trees (The State, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 3.76 — 9,524 ratings — published 1984
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 4.17 — 187,268 ratings — published 2014
The Word for World Is Forest (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 4.07 — 44,713 ratings — published 1972
The Fated Sky (Lady Astronaut Universe, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 4.26 — 15,655 ratings — published 2018
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 3.95 — 38,134 ratings — published 2018
Artemis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 3.68 — 331,374 ratings — published 2017
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 4.12 — 447,255 ratings — published 2015
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 4.12 — 376,898 ratings — published 2017
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,016,197 ratings — published 2012
Proxima (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 3.81 — 7,351 ratings — published 2013
Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch #2)
by (shelved 2 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 4.09 — 60,856 ratings — published 2014
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 4.08 — 501,804 ratings — published 2006
Dark Eden (Dark Eden, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,588 ratings — published 2012
Zoe's Tale (Old Man's War, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 3.78 — 39,951 ratings — published 2008
The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 4.12 — 97,405 ratings — published 2006
Embassytown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 3.90 — 34,796 ratings — published 2011
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 4.31 — 322,597 ratings — published 2011
Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 4.22 — 227,899 ratings — published 1952
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as space-colonization)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,641,043 ratings — published 1965
Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as space-colonization)
avg rating 4.05 — 63,202 ratings — published 2019
Terrestrial History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-colonization)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,079 ratings — published 2025
Oasis: Last World Volume I (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as space-colonization)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published
Exiles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-colonization)
avg rating 3.64 — 6,322 ratings — published 2025
Wayward Stars (Intrepid Saga, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as space-colonization)
avg rating 4.32 — 102 ratings — published
Dream Missions: Space Colonies, Nuclear Spacecraft and Other Possibilities (Springer Praxis Books)
by (shelved 1 time as space-colonization)
avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published
Dark Skies: Space Expansionism, Planetary Geopolitics, and the Ends of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-colonization)
avg rating 3.69 — 75 ratings — published
Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as space-colonization)
avg rating 3.90 — 97 ratings — published 2004
“The science done by the young Einstein will continue as long as our civilization, but for civilization to survive, we'll need the wisdom of the old Einstein -- humane, global and farseeing. And whatever happens in this uniquely crucial century will resonate into the remote future and perhaps far beyond the Earth, far beyond the Earth”
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“Against all our historically-minded culture (out of compassion for our present state), the only excitement is to be found in anticipation (out of impertinence towards our future state).
Infinite spaces (Pascal would have nothing to fear today) have become advertising spaces. It is advertising which will fuel all the sidereal infrastructure of communication. No more silent stars or astrological signs. It is advertising which will fuel the no-osphere. The more we colonize virgin space, the more we enter the blackmail space of the fully developed advertising form.
Embryos frozen, unfrozen and then reimplanted in the mother's womb. What becomes of frozen embryos whose parents have died accidentally? Orphans of artificial insemination? Billionaire foetuses? Fortunately there is a committee for embryo-genetic control and a commission for the ethics of human reproduction. But the orphans of the concept? What becomes of a frozen concept whose parents have died accidentally?”
― Cool Memories
Infinite spaces (Pascal would have nothing to fear today) have become advertising spaces. It is advertising which will fuel all the sidereal infrastructure of communication. No more silent stars or astrological signs. It is advertising which will fuel the no-osphere. The more we colonize virgin space, the more we enter the blackmail space of the fully developed advertising form.
Embryos frozen, unfrozen and then reimplanted in the mother's womb. What becomes of frozen embryos whose parents have died accidentally? Orphans of artificial insemination? Billionaire foetuses? Fortunately there is a committee for embryo-genetic control and a commission for the ethics of human reproduction. But the orphans of the concept? What becomes of a frozen concept whose parents have died accidentally?”
― Cool Memories
