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Elder Race
Adrian Tchaikovsky
In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to...
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Deathless
Catherynne M. Valente
A glorious retelling of the Russian folktale Marya Morevna and Koschei the Deathless from Catherynne M. Valente, set in a...
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Dialogues
Stanislaw Lem
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A Closed and Common Orbit
Becky Chambers
A Publishers Weekly "Best Books of 2017" pick! Nominated for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel! Shortlisted for the...
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The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
Becky Chambers
Return to the sprawling, Hugo Award-winning universe of the Galactic Commons to explore another corner of the cosmos--one often mentioned,...
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Record of a Spaceborn Few
Becky Chambers
Return to the sprawling universe of the Galactic Commons, as humans, artificial intelligence, aliens, and some beings yet undiscovered explore...
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Memoirs of a Space Traveler
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