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Colonization in Science Fiction
Science Fiction and Fantasy related to the Colonization of New Worlds and Planets.
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Colonization (Colonization #1-5)
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Kepler Moon Alpha (Colonization, #1)
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Dominion
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The Deep Space Collection
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Planet Ignis
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Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
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The Last Colony (Old Man's War, #3)
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Ammonite
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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The Forever War
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Skyracos: The Mining Mess
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Darkover Landfall
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The Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, #1-3)
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The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
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The Empress of Mars
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The Lotus Caves
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The Eye of the Heron
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Proxima
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Aliens
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These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)
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Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
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The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)
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Red Planet
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The Puppet Masters
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At the Mountains of Madness
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Dread Companion
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Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)
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To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1)
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Time Out of Joint
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Martian Time-Slip
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(Breaking Away parts 1-5)
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Under the Thelián Sky: Beyond the Great Unknown
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The Tears of Things (New Breed, #1)
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The Red
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Raffle's Name (Dog Aliens #1)
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Drifting Away
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The Engines of God (The Academy, #1)
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In the Days of Humans: Third Exodus
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Fire Wind (The Wind Drifters, #1)
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Cobalt Slave
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Half Way Home
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Leaving Safety (Safety Trilogy Book 1)
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Voyage from Yesteryear
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Artek (Seven Brides for Seven Alien Brothers, #1)
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Brute Force
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Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1)
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The Last Colony (Old Man's War, #3)
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The Long Earth (The Long Earth, #1)
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This Shattered World (Starbound, #2)
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The Rowan (The Tower and the Hive #1)
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The City in the Middle of the Night
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Charlie Jane Anders (Goodreads Author)
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Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
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The Sky So Big and Black
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Titan A.E.
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Leviathan Wakes (Expanse, #1)
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James S.A. Corey (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 307,916 ratings
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Hellhole (Hellhole, #1)
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The Complete Fuzzy (Fuzzy Sapiens, #1-3)
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Red Planet Blues
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Desperate Hours
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A Colder War
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Charles Stross (Goodreads Author)
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In the Courts of the Crimson Kings (Lords of Creation, #2)
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Dark Eden
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Lovelock (Mayflower Trilogy, #1)
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How to Vote
To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
