Books set in space
Books set among the stars: spaceships, distant planets, colonies and the long silence between them. Andy Weir's The Martian strands an astronaut on Mars with only his wits, Ender's Game trains children for battle in orbit, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy treats the universe as one long joke. Carl Sagan's Cosmos is here too, for readers who want the real thing.
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- 1Project Hail Mary
9.09.0 / 10 - 2Cosmos
8.98.9 / 10 - 3The Martian
8.88.8 / 10 - 4Dune
8.88.8 / 10 - 5Ender's Game
8.88.8 / 10 - 6Skyward
8.78.7 / 10 - 7Hyperion
8.68.6 / 10 - 8Leviathan Wakes
8.68.6 / 10 - 9The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
8.68.6 / 10 - 10Children of Time
8.58.5 / 10 - 11The Sunlit Man
8.58.5 / 10 - 12Ender's Shadow
8.48.4 / 10 - 13Brief Answers to the Big Questions
8.48.4 / 10 - 14We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
8.48.4 / 10 - 15Atmosphere
8.48.4 / 10 - 16Cress
8.48.4 / 10 - 17Pale Blue Dot
8.48.4 / 10 - 18Anathem
8.48.4 / 10 - 19Red Rising
8.48.4 / 10 - 20House of Suns
8.38.3 / 10 - 21All Systems Red
8.38.3 / 10 - 22Old Man's War
8.38.3 / 10 - 23A Memory Called Empire
8.38.3 / 10 - 24Illuminae
8.38.3 / 10 - 25Pandora's Star
8.28.2 / 10 - 26The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
8.28.2 / 10 - 27Gideon the Ninth
8.28.2 / 10 - 28Prelude to Foundation
7.97.9 / 10 - 29Rocannon's World
7.47.4 / 10 - 30Consider Phlebas
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