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A list of all of the books mentioned in Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials.
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The Word for World Is Forest
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4.06 avg rating — 41,491 ratings
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Hospital Station (Sector General, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 2,299 ratings
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Midnight at the Well of Souls (Saga of the Well World, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 4,917 ratings
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Strange Relations
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3.68 avg rating — 389 ratings
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At the Mountains of Madness
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3.79 avg rating — 62,212 ratings
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Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 127,775 ratings
score: 165,
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Downward to the Earth
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3.92 avg rating — 3,869 ratings
score: 159,
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Cycle of Fire
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3.72 avg rating — 493 ratings
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The Black Cloud
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3.90 avg rating — 5,211 ratings
score: 98,
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Masters of the Maze
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3.28 avg rating — 83 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Conscience Interplanetary
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3.52 avg rating — 66 ratings
score: 95,
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The Jupiter Theft
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3.77 avg rating — 239 ratings
score: 94,
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A Little Knowledge
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3.23 avg rating — 47 ratings
score: 93,
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A Plague of Demons
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3.60 avg rating — 458 ratings
score: 91,
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Cage a Man
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3.20 avg rating — 100 ratings
score: 90,
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The Right Hand of Dextra
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2.91 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 89,
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Spacial Delivery (Dilbia, #1)
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3.71 avg rating — 219 ratings
score: 88,
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Spacepaw (Dilbia, #2)
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3.69 avg rating — 250 ratings
score: 87,
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Planet of Adventure: City of the Chasch / Servants of the Wankh / The Dirdir / The Pnume
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4.25 avg rating — 2,203 ratings
score: 86,
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Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers
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3.57 avg rating — 770 ratings
score: 85,
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Whipping Star (ConSentiency Universe, #1)
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3.67 avg rating — 3,878 ratings
score: 84,
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The Dosadi Experiment (ConSentiency Universe, #2)
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3.83 avg rating — 7,985 ratings
score: 83,
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Dune (Dune #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 1,591,973 ratings
score: 82,
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Fire Time
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3.43 avg rating — 465 ratings
score: 81,
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A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 1,269,825 ratings
score: 80,
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The Voyage of the Space Beagle
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3.84 avg rating — 3,985 ratings
score: 79,
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1 person voted
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A Case of Conscience (After Such Knowledge, #4)
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3.61 avg rating — 7,217 ratings
score: 78,
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The Tripods Trilogy (The Tripods, #1-3)
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4.20 avg rating — 3,022 ratings
score: 77,
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The Legion of Space (Legion of Space, #1)
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3.48 avg rating — 529 ratings
score: 76,
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Ensign Flandry (Flandry, #1)
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3.87 avg rating — 2,431 ratings
score: 75,
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1 person voted
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Mission of Gravity (Mesklin #1)
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3.90 avg rating — 7,544 ratings
score: 74,
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Legacy
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3.82 avg rating — 435 ratings
score: 72,
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1 person voted
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Childhood’s End
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4.12 avg rating — 171,368 ratings
score: 70,
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The Pnume (Planet of Adventure, #4)
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score: 69,
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Memoirs of a Spacewoman
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3.58 avg rating — 526 ratings
score: 67,
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Kesrith (The Faded Sun, #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 2,485 ratings
score: 66,
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1 person voted
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The Alien Way
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3.72 avg rating — 347 ratings
score: 65,
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Wildeblood's Empire (Daedalus Mission, #3)
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3.70 avg rating — 86 ratings
score: 64,
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The Age of the Pussyfoot
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3.60 avg rating — 416 ratings
score: 63,
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Kirlian Quest (Cluster, #3)
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3.64 avg rating — 924 ratings
score: 62,
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The Gods Themselves
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4.09 avg rating — 67,883 ratings
score: 61,
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Solaris
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3.99 avg rating — 126,761 ratings
score: 60,
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Who Goes There?
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3.78 avg rating — 11,762 ratings
score: 58,
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The World of Ptavvs (Known Space)
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3.80 avg rating — 3,491 ratings
score: 57,
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Icerigger (Icerigger, #1)
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3.87 avg rating — 2,280 ratings
score: 56,
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Rule Golden
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4.03 avg rating — 35 ratings
score: 55,
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Up the Walls of the World
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3.90 avg rating — 852 ratings
score: 54,
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Have Space Suit—Will Travel
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3.93 avg rating — 31,152 ratings
score: 53,
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Triplanetary (Lensman, #1)
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3.66 avg rating — 7,463 ratings
score: 52,
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Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials: Great Aliens from Science Fiction Literature
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4.14 avg rating — 1,195 ratings
score: 51,
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