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Matter (Culture, #8)
by (shelved 17 times as colonies)
avg rating 4.11 — 29,536 ratings — published 2008
Shadow of the Giant (The Shadow #4)
by (shelved 16 times as colonies)
avg rating 4.01 — 56,139 ratings — published 2005
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as colonies)
avg rating 4.15 — 137,862 ratings — published 1966
Lord of Light (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as colonies)
avg rating 4.05 — 35,202 ratings — published 1967
Farmer in the Sky (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as colonies)
avg rating 3.78 — 10,184 ratings — published 1950
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as colonies)
avg rating 4.16 — 282,624 ratings — published 1950
Ender in Exile (Ender's Saga, #5)
by (shelved 7 times as colonies)
avg rating 3.92 — 53,104 ratings — published 2008
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as colonies)
avg rating 4.23 — 220,353 ratings — published 2005
All the Weyrs of Pern (Pern, #11)
by (shelved 5 times as colonies)
avg rating 4.23 — 26,976 ratings — published 1991
Legend (Legend, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as colonies)
avg rating 4.15 — 559,792 ratings — published 2011
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as colonies)
avg rating 4.01 — 42,936 ratings — published 1965
The Tower and the Hive (The Tower and the Hive, #5)
by (shelved 4 times as colonies)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,351 ratings — published 1999
Fallen Angels (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as colonies)
avg rating 3.55 — 2,397 ratings — published 1991
The Dolphins of Pern (Pern, #12)
by (shelved 4 times as colonies)
avg rating 4.03 — 19,225 ratings — published 1994
The Renegades of Pern (Pern, #10)
by (shelved 4 times as colonies)
avg rating 3.93 — 21,117 ratings — published 1989
Nemesis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as colonies)
avg rating 3.81 — 19,057 ratings — published 1989
The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as colonies)
avg rating 4.18 — 101,336 ratings — published 2009
The Dragonriders of Pern: Books 1-3 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as colonies)
avg rating 4.28 — 31,089 ratings — published 1988
Beowulf's Children (Heorot, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as colonies)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,903 ratings — published 1995
Redemption Ark (Revelation Space, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as colonies)
avg rating 4.16 — 32,121 ratings — published 2002
Chasm City (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as colonies)
avg rating 4.13 — 27,277 ratings — published 2001
Fuzzy Nation (Fuzzy Sapiens, #7)
by (shelved 3 times as colonies)
avg rating 4.15 — 31,972 ratings — published 2011
Dragon's Kin (Pern, #16)
by (shelved 3 times as colonies)
avg rating 3.98 — 10,889 ratings — published 2003
The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as colonies)
avg rating 3.98 — 203,242 ratings — published 2008
The Stars, Like Dust (Galactic Empire, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as colonies)
avg rating 3.74 — 26,073 ratings — published 1951
Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as colonies)
avg rating 4.08 — 142,947 ratings — published 1968
The Masterharper of Pern (Pern, #14)
by (shelved 3 times as colonies)
avg rating 4.26 — 25,424 ratings — published 1998
The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall (Pern, #11.5)
by (shelved 3 times as colonies)
avg rating 4.08 — 18,004 ratings — published 1993
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as colonies)
avg rating 4.15 — 434,552 ratings — published 2022
The Vaster Wilds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as colonies)
avg rating 3.75 — 42,039 ratings — published 2023
. . . If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as colonies)
avg rating 4.02 — 657 ratings — published 1969
Glasshouse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as colonies)
avg rating 3.88 — 11,609 ratings — published 2006
A Bride Most Begrudging (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as colonies)
avg rating 3.94 — 15,037 ratings — published 2005
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as colonies)
avg rating 3.93 — 35,252 ratings — published 1980
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as colonies)
avg rating 3.89 — 45,712 ratings — published 2006
Ghost Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as colonies)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,478 ratings — published 2013
Heart of the Sun (Star Trek: The Original Series #83)
by (shelved 2 times as colonies)
avg rating 3.51 — 322 ratings — published 1997
Challenger (Star Trek: The Original Series #94, Star Trek: New Earth #6)
by (shelved 2 times as colonies)
avg rating 3.79 — 263 ratings — published 2000
The Flaming Arrow (Star Trek: The Original Series #92, Star Trek: New Earth #4)
by (shelved 2 times as colonies)
avg rating 3.75 — 265 ratings — published 2000
Gardens of the Sun (The Quiet War, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as colonies)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,042 ratings — published 2009
Moonrise (The Grand Tour, #5; Moonbase Saga, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as colonies)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,930 ratings — published 1996
White Mars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as colonies)
avg rating 2.72 — 143 ratings — published 1999
Dinosaur Planet Survivors (Dinosaur Planet, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as colonies)
avg rating 3.65 — 3,002 ratings — published 1984
Precursor (Foreigner, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as colonies)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,882 ratings — published 1999
Phule's Company (Phule's Company, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as colonies)
avg rating 4.00 — 10,180 ratings — published 1990
A Place Called Freedom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as colonies)
avg rating 4.07 — 45,446 ratings — published 1995
The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as colonies)
avg rating 4.12 — 94,832 ratings — published 2006
Heaven's Devils (StarCraft II, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as colonies)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,570 ratings — published 2009
A Brave Vessel: The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown and Inspired Shakespeare's The Tempest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as colonies)
avg rating 3.60 — 325 ratings — published 2009
Half a Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as colonies)
avg rating 3.24 — 4,603 ratings — published 2001
“Then a severe frost succeeds which prepares it to receive the voluminous coat of snow which is soon to follow; though it is often preceded by a short interval of smoke and mildness, called the Indian Summer.”
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“The messages coming back flooded the comm buffers with rage and sorrow, threats of vengeance and offers of aid. Those last were the hardest. New colonies still trying to force their way into local ecosystems so exotic that their bodies could hardly recognize them as life at all, isolated, exhausted, sometimes at the edge of their resources. And what they wanted was to send back help. He listened to their voices, saw the distress in their eyes. He couldn't help, but love them a little bit.
Under the best conditions, disasters and plagues did that. It wasn't universally true. There would always be hoarders and price gouging, people who closed their doors to refugees and left them freezing and starving. But the impulse to help was there too. To carry a burden together, even if it meant having less for yourself. Humanity had come as far as it had in a haze of war, sickness, violence, and genocide. History was drenched in blood. But it also had cooperation and kindness, generosity, intermarriage. The one didn’t come without the other.”
― Babylon’s Ashes
Under the best conditions, disasters and plagues did that. It wasn't universally true. There would always be hoarders and price gouging, people who closed their doors to refugees and left them freezing and starving. But the impulse to help was there too. To carry a burden together, even if it meant having less for yourself. Humanity had come as far as it had in a haze of war, sickness, violence, and genocide. History was drenched in blood. But it also had cooperation and kindness, generosity, intermarriage. The one didn’t come without the other.”
― Babylon’s Ashes
