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Space Books
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The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1597 times as space)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,252,509 ratings — published 2011
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1283 times as space)
avg rating 4.50 — 942,411 ratings — published 2021
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 684 times as space)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,982,495 ratings — published 1979
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 670 times as space)
avg rating 4.17 — 178,076 ratings — published 2014
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 659 times as space)
avg rating 4.12 — 346,158 ratings — published 2017
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
by (shelved 652 times as space)
avg rating 4.31 — 308,485 ratings — published 2011
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 639 times as space)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,456,728 ratings — published 1985
Artemis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 572 times as space)
avg rating 3.69 — 313,375 ratings — published 2017
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 539 times as space)
avg rating 3.95 — 59,699 ratings — published 2010
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 536 times as space)
avg rating 4.17 — 62,092 ratings — published 2013
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 499 times as space)
avg rating 4.08 — 201,828 ratings — published 2017
Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)
by (shelved 477 times as space)
avg rating 4.24 — 159,845 ratings — published 2015
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
by (shelved 444 times as space)
avg rating 4.25 — 200,373 ratings — published 2018
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 440 times as space)
avg rating 4.40 — 156,560 ratings — published 1980
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 410 times as space)
avg rating 4.27 — 688,233 ratings — published 2014
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 400 times as space)
avg rating 4.18 — 332,150 ratings — published 1968
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 397 times as space)
avg rating 4.23 — 55,121 ratings — published 1979
Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
by (shelved 379 times as space)
avg rating 4.24 — 160,440 ratings — published 2018
Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
by (shelved 364 times as space)
avg rating 4.37 — 141,539 ratings — published 2018
Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 358 times as space)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,289 ratings — published 2000
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 353 times as space)
avg rating 4.17 — 585,286 ratings — published 1951
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 351 times as space)
avg rating 4.30 — 163,981 ratings — published 2015
Across the Universe (Across the Universe, #1)
by (shelved 346 times as space)
avg rating 3.77 — 119,203 ratings — published 2011
Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)
by (shelved 337 times as space)
avg rating 4.39 — 177,132 ratings — published 2012
A Man on the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 336 times as space)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,561 ratings — published 1994
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 335 times as space)
avg rating 4.21 — 470,441 ratings — published 1988
Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
by (shelved 332 times as space)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,161 ratings — published 2020
Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 322 times as space)
avg rating 4.09 — 73,128 ratings — published 2019
Skyward (Skyward, #1)
by (shelved 317 times as space)
avg rating 4.47 — 162,528 ratings — published 2018
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
by (shelved 314 times as space)
avg rating 4.23 — 218,672 ratings — published 2005
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 312 times as space)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,963 ratings — published 1994
Orbital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 304 times as space)
avg rating 3.53 — 117,878 ratings — published 2023
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 303 times as space)
avg rating 4.21 — 22,601 ratings — published 2017
These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)
by (shelved 300 times as space)
avg rating 3.89 — 71,364 ratings — published 2013
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 295 times as space)
avg rating 4.34 — 38,907 ratings — published 1994
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 288 times as space)
avg rating 3.99 — 116,457 ratings — published 2013
A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)
by (shelved 281 times as space)
avg rating 4.37 — 85,765 ratings — published 2016
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 279 times as space)
avg rating 4.08 — 470,423 ratings — published 2006
To Be Taught, If Fortunate (Paperback)
by (shelved 279 times as space)
avg rating 4.20 — 54,079 ratings — published 2019
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 276 times as space)
avg rating 4.49 — 6,576 ratings — published 1974
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
by (shelved 268 times as space)
avg rating 4.28 — 149,666 ratings — published 2013
Gemina (The Illuminae Files, #2)
by (shelved 264 times as space)
avg rating 4.43 — 80,562 ratings — published 2016
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
by (shelved 261 times as space)
avg rating 4.49 — 420,583 ratings — published 2015
Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
by (shelved 256 times as space)
avg rating 4.30 — 96,700 ratings — published 2021
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 248 times as space)
avg rating 4.27 — 116,359 ratings — published 2016
Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3)
by (shelved 246 times as space)
avg rating 4.40 — 398,890 ratings — published 2014
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
by (shelved 244 times as space)
avg rating 4.19 — 175,508 ratings — published 2019
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as space)
avg rating 3.96 — 112,525 ratings — published 2016
Dead Silence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 240 times as space)
avg rating 3.79 — 35,775 ratings — published 2022
“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
“We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.”
― The Poetics of Space
― The Poetics of Space
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