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Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.86 — 89,256 ratings — published 1992
Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)
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avg rating 3.96 — 41,169 ratings — published 1993
Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy, #3)
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avg rating 3.95 — 33,382 ratings — published 1996
A New Eden (The Betaverse, #1)
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avg rating 3.66 — 349 ratings — published 2023
2312 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.52 — 21,964 ratings — published 2012
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 180,418 ratings — published 2015
The Terraformers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.33 — 7,472 ratings — published 2023
Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
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avg rating 4.05 — 64,110 ratings — published 2019
Seveneves (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 125,873 ratings — published 2015
The Martian (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,309,715 ratings — published 2011
Plutoshine (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 524 ratings — published 2022
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 43,172 ratings — published 2020
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
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avg rating 4.26 — 129,554 ratings — published 2016
Komarr (Vorkosigan Saga, #11)
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avg rating 4.30 — 18,709 ratings — published 1998
The Empress of Mars (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 1,111 ratings — published 2009
Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 48 ratings — published
X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 146 ratings — published
The World as an Architectural Project (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 9 ratings — published
The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia (Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology)
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avg rating 4.38 — 29 ratings — published
The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 45 ratings — published 2015
For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2)
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avg rating 4.37 — 75,703 ratings — published 2017
The Martians (Mars Trilogy, #3.5)
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avg rating 3.60 — 2,342 ratings — published 1999
Last and First Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 7,049 ratings — published 1930
Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
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avg rating 3.93 — 129,577 ratings — published 1970
Elder Race (Elder Race #1)
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avg rating 4.09 — 25,587 ratings — published 2021
Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World (Sexual Cultures, 53)
by (shelved 2 times as terraforming)
avg rating 4.45 — 170 ratings — published 2020
Scientific Cosmology and International Orders (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 147)
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avg rating 4.00 — 8 ratings — published
Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics beyond Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 18 ratings — published
Intelligence and Spirit (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 159 ratings — published 2018
Waste Tide (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.32 — 2,986 ratings — published 2013
Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 438 ratings — published
The Anthrobscene (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 84 ratings — published 2014
Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (Mit Press)
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avg rating 4.00 — 284 ratings — published 2011
Genesis Redux: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 7 ratings — published 2007
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,511 ratings — published 1988
Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds (Experimental Futures)
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avg rating 3.88 — 59 ratings — published 2016
God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)
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avg rating 3.88 — 150,091 ratings — published 1981
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 96,037 ratings — published 2005
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
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avg rating 4.28 — 304,121 ratings — published 1989
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
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avg rating 4.31 — 324,690 ratings — published 2011
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.27 — 831,631 ratings — published 2014
Building Harlequin's Moon (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 1,482 ratings — published 2005
House of Suns (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 33,114 ratings — published 2008
Farmer in the Sky (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 10,309 ratings — published 1950
The Sands of Mars (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 5,112 ratings — published 1951
Cascade Failure (Ambit's Run, #1)
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avg rating 3.88 — 4,130 ratings — published 2024
The Rainseekers (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 130 ratings — published 2026
Torn (Arcadia Book #1)
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avg rating 4.36 — 50 ratings — published 2016
The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)
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avg rating 3.59 — 10,238 ratings — published 2023
The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)
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avg rating 3.90 — 3,279 ratings — published 2024
“This will be the first of a thousand worlds that we will give life to. For we are gods, and we are lonely, so we shall create.”
― Children of Time
― Children of Time
“We had already realized from the disaster on Mars that transplanting Earth ecology wouldn't work. Crops would not grow without specific symbiotic fungi on their roots to extract nutrients, and the exact fungi would not grow without the proper soil composition, which did not exist without certain saprophytic bacteria that had proven resistant to transplantation, each life-form demanding its own billion-year-old niche. But Mars fossils and organic chemicals in interstellar comets showed that the building blocks of life were not unique to Earth. Proteins, amino acids, and carbohydrates existed everywhere. The theory of panspermia was true to a degree.
I had found a grass resembling wheat on our first day on Pax, and with a little plant tissue, a dash of hormone from buds, and some chitin, we soon had artificial seeds to plant. But would it grow? Theory was one thing and farming was another.
Then a few days before the women had died from poisoned fruit, Ramona and Carrie had seen the first shoots, ...”
― Semiosis
I had found a grass resembling wheat on our first day on Pax, and with a little plant tissue, a dash of hormone from buds, and some chitin, we soon had artificial seeds to plant. But would it grow? Theory was one thing and farming was another.
Then a few days before the women had died from poisoned fruit, Ramona and Carrie had seen the first shoots, ...”
― Semiosis
