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The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1599 times as space)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,261,079 ratings — published 2011
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1309 times as space)
avg rating 4.50 — 986,756 ratings — published 2021
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 688 times as space)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,990,715 ratings — published 1979
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 683 times as space)
avg rating 4.17 — 180,091 ratings — published 2014
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 669 times as space)
avg rating 4.12 — 352,190 ratings — published 2017
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
by (shelved 655 times as space)
avg rating 4.31 — 311,227 ratings — published 2011
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 639 times as space)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,461,077 ratings — published 1985
Artemis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 577 times as space)
avg rating 3.69 — 316,575 ratings — published 2017
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 540 times as space)
avg rating 3.95 — 59,884 ratings — published 2010
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 538 times as space)
avg rating 4.17 — 62,280 ratings — published 2013
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 499 times as space)
avg rating 4.08 — 203,079 ratings — published 2017
Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)
by (shelved 477 times as space)
avg rating 4.24 — 160,256 ratings — published 2015
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
by (shelved 448 times as space)
avg rating 4.25 — 204,218 ratings — published 2018
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 443 times as space)
avg rating 4.40 — 157,197 ratings — published 1980
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 411 times as space)
avg rating 4.27 — 709,103 ratings — published 2014
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 403 times as space)
avg rating 4.18 — 333,262 ratings — published 1968
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 403 times as space)
avg rating 4.23 — 55,261 ratings — published 1979
Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
by (shelved 383 times as space)
avg rating 4.24 — 163,530 ratings — published 2018
Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
by (shelved 367 times as space)
avg rating 4.37 — 144,285 ratings — published 2018
Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 359 times as space)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,345 ratings — published 2000
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 353 times as space)
avg rating 4.30 — 166,768 ratings — published 2015
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 351 times as space)
avg rating 4.17 — 588,179 ratings — published 1951
Across the Universe (Across the Universe, #1)
by (shelved 344 times as space)
avg rating 3.77 — 119,259 ratings — published 2011
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 337 times as space)
avg rating 4.21 — 472,730 ratings — published 1988
Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
by (shelved 337 times as space)
avg rating 4.47 — 120,521 ratings — published 2020
A Man on the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 335 times as space)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,593 ratings — published 1994
Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)
by (shelved 333 times as space)
avg rating 4.39 — 178,757 ratings — published 2012
Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 321 times as space)
avg rating 4.09 — 73,420 ratings — published 2019
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
by (shelved 319 times as space)
avg rating 4.23 — 220,310 ratings — published 2005
Skyward (Skyward, #1)
by (shelved 318 times as space)
avg rating 4.46 — 163,574 ratings — published 2018
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 314 times as space)
avg rating 4.39 — 10,075 ratings — published 1994
Orbital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 312 times as space)
avg rating 3.52 — 124,120 ratings — published 2023
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 303 times as space)
avg rating 4.21 — 22,680 ratings — published 2017
These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)
by (shelved 299 times as space)
avg rating 3.89 — 71,423 ratings — published 2013
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 294 times as space)
avg rating 4.34 — 39,082 ratings — published 1994
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 288 times as space)
avg rating 3.99 — 117,118 ratings — published 2013
A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)
by (shelved 285 times as space)
avg rating 4.37 — 86,565 ratings — published 2016
To Be Taught, If Fortunate (Paperback)
by (shelved 284 times as space)
avg rating 4.20 — 54,749 ratings — published 2019
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 282 times as space)
avg rating 4.08 — 476,465 ratings — published 2006
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 278 times as space)
avg rating 4.49 — 6,624 ratings — published 1974
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
by (shelved 266 times as space)
avg rating 4.28 — 150,951 ratings — published 2013
Gemina (The Illuminae Files, #2)
by (shelved 263 times as space)
avg rating 4.43 — 80,758 ratings — published 2016
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
by (shelved 262 times as space)
avg rating 4.49 — 434,559 ratings — published 2015
Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
by (shelved 261 times as space)
avg rating 4.29 — 98,681 ratings — published 2021
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 253 times as space)
avg rating 4.27 — 118,221 ratings — published 2016
Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3)
by (shelved 247 times as space)
avg rating 4.40 — 400,438 ratings — published 2014
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
by (shelved 245 times as space)
avg rating 4.19 — 177,616 ratings — published 2019
Dead Silence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 243 times as space)
avg rating 3.79 — 36,579 ratings — published 2022
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as space)
avg rating 3.96 — 112,818 ratings — published 2016
“Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.
PART SUN AND MOON by Suzy Kassem”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
PART SUN AND MOON by Suzy Kassem”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
― Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
― Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
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