Space Operas and Interplanetary Travel

Updated December 16, 2025
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Dune
Herbert, Frank.
Paper Book
Paul Atreides moves with his family to the planet Dune and is forced into exile when his father's government is overthrown. The first book in the series. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
The eternity artifact
Modesitt, L. E., Jr.
Paper Book
5,000 years in the future, humankind has spread across thousands of worlds, and more than a dozen different governments exist in an uneasy truce. But human beings have found no signs of other life anywhere approaching human intelligence. This changes when scientists discover a...
The first men in the moon
Wells, H. G.
Ebook
A pair of unlikely explorers journey to the moon in this imaginative tale of science and adventure from the author of The War of the Worlds Hounded by creditors, Mr. Bedford retreats to a remote English village, where he meets the eccentric Mr. Cavor. Though he may not...
The Hunter A Scientific Novel
Genta, Giancarlo.
Ebook
The 24th century: humankind has become a spacefaring civilization, colonizing the solar system and beyond. While no alien forms of life have yet been encountered in this expansion into space, colonists suddenly encounter machines of alien origin - huge robots able to reproduce themselves. Called...
Nova
Delany, Samuel R.
Ebook
A quest for a priceless element--and revenge--fuels this far-future interstellar adventure that "reads like Moby-Dick at a strobe-light show" ( Time).   In 3172, the universe is divided between three political units: the stars and worlds of Draco,...
The Protos mandate a scientific novel
Kanas, Nick
Ebook
In the 25th Century, the effects of overpopulation and global warming on Earth have led to the formation of human colonies on the Moon, Mars and elsewhere in the Solar System, yet the limited number of viable places forces humanity to look to the stars. A crash program has been developed to send...
Rendezvous with Rama
Clarke, Arthur C.
Paper Book
For use in schools and libraries only. During the twenty-second century, a space probe's investigation of a mysterious, cylindrical asteroid brings man into contact with an extra-galactic civilization.

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