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Simon & Schuster. 04/01/1990. Reprint. In 2063, when a massive energy crisis has forced the U.S. to revert almost entirely to coal and wood for fuel, a reclusive millionaire, tormented by his own inadequacies, embarks on a space trip to discover a new source of fuel. Originally published at $4.50 You save 57% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 09/01/2004. Reprint. 549 pgs. On 28th-century Earth, the rulers have decreed that while all humans have the right to live there, there is no longer any room for animals on the planet. Jewel, a secret "arkist"--someone who works to save animals--travels to the mysterious planet Moss, where she will encounter seemingly inscrutable aliens, a lost human colony, and a portal to another dimension. Originally published at $7.99 You save 87% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 08/01/1997. Illustrated. 462 pgs. There is tension among the ruling class as The Pontifex--ruler of the world of Majipoor--lies on his deathbed. The Coronal Lord Confalume is set to succeed The Pontifex, but no one has been named as The Coronal's successor. In defiance of tradition that he cannot succeed his father, The Coronal's ambitious son, Korsibar, seizes power, thereby igniting a bloody civil war in Majipoor. Originally published at $23.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 11/01/1997. In an alternate history, the United States' efforts at space exploration resulted in a NASA landing on Mars in 1986. Winner of the 1996 Sidewise Award for Alternate History. Originally published at $7.99 You save 75% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 05/01/1998. The discovery of a corpse on the water planet of Blueheart exacerbates the tensions between the factions of colonists who favor genetically engineered survival techniques and those in favor of wholescale terraforming. Originally published at $6.50 You save 83% off the cover price!

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Berkley Pub Group. 10/01/2001. Reprint. In this novel, a part of the Hanish Cycle though not dependent on the previous volumes, the Earthborn Sutty is assigned to gather data on a distant world controlled by the sinister Corporation. Once there, she slowly begins to learn about life on the planet before the Corporation took over, including the mysterious religion, the Telling, that the inhabitants used to practice. Originally published at $13.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 03/01/2002. The book was written in two parts: "The Coming of the Martians", which details the Martians' landing and conquering; and "The Earth Under the Martians", which is a post-apocalyptic account of the Martians' reign and their subsequent vanquishing by microbes which they are unprepared for. Mars, and the possibility of life on it, had apparently intrigued Wells for some time. In an interesting aside, as Bernard Bergonzi notes in his "Early H. G. Wells", the author also had some fun writing scenes in which the aliens destroyed characters modeled on his neighbors. Adapted by Orson Welles and Howard Koch for the notorious 1938 Halloween radio broadcast, this story sent hundreds of frenzied families onto the highways in an attempt to escape the alien threat. Originally published at $5.95 You save 73% off the cover price!

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Lightning Source Inc. 11/01/1989. Reprint. Originally published at $17.95 You save 94% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 08/01/1976. Originally published at $8.95 You save 89% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 02/01/2001. 238 pgs. Disasters strike on the first expedition to Alpha Centaruri; there is a mutiny, a death, a birth--none of which are particularly good for crew morale. All this, though, is nothing compared to what the crew finds once it reaches it's destination. Originally published at $22.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 09/01/1993. Reprint. 382 pgs. Notions of death and its effects, on both victims and survivors, are explored and revised as a group of people on an alien planet face mortality in a manner that they have never experienced. Written late in her life, this is another classic work by Tiptree. Originally published at $9.95 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Tor Books. 05/01/1996. Reissue. This prequel to "Eon", the fluid nature of time is stretched in a tunnel through time and space, called the Way, that has exits to a million different worlds. Olmy Ap Sennon has been ordered to follow a group of dissenters who have illegally colonized Lamarkia, a forbidden world, and to investigate this beautiful but perilous planet. Originally published at $7.99 You save 77% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 05/01/1995. When Joshua Ali Quare wakes up, he finds himself on Mars in 2109, years after his last conscious memory, with a mysterious appointment in only a few days. Piecing together his past from from the decidedly sketchy notations his former self left on a computer, he learns how his exceedingly violent tendencies were put to use as a soldier and enforcer by a cryptic group called the Organization. As his memory slowly returns, Quare sets off for the meeting, unsure how the past will affect his chances of surviving the present. Originally published at $21.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 07/01/1997. 318 pgs. Celinde Fortune is an entertainer on the planet Persephone. When she combines two computer chips to try to enhance the presentation of her act, she accidentally produces a viable form of artificial intelligence. But this kind of technology is highly controversial on Persephone, and it could get her killed. Originally published at $22.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 10/01/1999. 319 pgs. When a group of scientists vanish from a remote planet where they were involved in a first-contact mission, Ross Murdock and Eveleen Riordan are sent to investigate. This is a novel was written as part of the Time Traders series, the first volume of which appeared in 1958. Originally published at $23.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 05/01/1997. 284 pgs. A virus, apparently transmittable from one species to another, threatens the staff and patients of the hospital. This is the 10th book in the elaborate world of the Sector General series. Originally published at $22.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 05/01/1996. 350 pgs. This book is a sequel of sorts to the the novel "Second Nature". That book depicted two and a half centuries in which the descendents of a space ship's crew live on a planet they named Rhomary, evolving but slowly losing their grasp of technology and all but the most basic scientific principles. When a second space ship is forced to evacuate its crew, the planet's inhabitants do their best to find the castaways. This book, "Signs of Life", focuses on the misadventures of the crew from the second ship as they try to locate their crewmates, unaware that the planet is inhabited, and nearly destroying themselves through internal conflict. Originally published at $23.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Tor Books. 04/01/2003. Originally published at $5.99 You save 83% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 06/01/1999. 351 pgs. Originally published at $24.95 You save 95% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 09/01/1998. 349 pgs. A group of children, genetically altered to survive on a remote planet, fall prey to corporate entities who decide to terraform the planet, creating conditions under which the children could not survive. Meanwhile, though years of research suggest otherwise, the planet may be under the control of alien forces. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998. Originally published at $24.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 11/01/2000. Illustrated. 351 pgs. In the distant future, the immortal crew of a space cruiser stumbles across a bizarre mystery: deep within the previously unexplored bowels of their massive ship, they discover a planet-sized object. Dispatching a team to investigate, they soon find themselves trapped on the planet with no hope of escape for the next 5,000 years. Originally published at $25.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Tor Books. 11/01/2000. 214 pgs. From a distance, Isis seems to be a planet with many Earthlike qualities, but when traveling to it becomes possible, the planet turns out to be extremely toxic to humans. As Earth's own resources dwindle, a researcher is genetically engineered to explore the surface of Isis, but in doing so, she uncovers things about the planet that threaten the stability of life on Earth. Originally published at $6.99 You save 82% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 05/01/1999. 296 pgs. On New China, a planet colonized by Chinese immigrants, an Earth-bound governmental agency in the process of tracking a rebellion mysteriously loses touch with a highly placed double agent within the planet's government. When their attempts to regain contact leave one agent dead, Rčjean Tanner is sent to sort out the situation. Originally published at $23.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Tor Books. 08/01/2000. 311 pgs. In this 12th book in the Sector General series, the hospital receives transmissions from several different distress beacons, all located within the same star system. Sent to investigate, Dr. Prilicla and his team are confronted with two sets of casualties (including the crew of the first Federation vessel on the scene) and two previously unknown species, one of which seems intent on starting a war. Originally published at $6.99 You save 73% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 07/01/1999. 240 pgs. In the 24th century, humanity is threatened by a culture comprised of intertwined human and computer elements. Leading the defense is Ellen May Ngwethu, a starship commander in the Cassini Division, Earth's primary defense force. Originally published at $22.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 12/01/2000. 330 pgs. Following the death of a crewmate and irreparable damage to their craft, the survivors of an ill-fated Mars expedition decide to scrap the mission and trek across the hostile surface of Mars towards the planet's north pole, where they hope to be able to adapt an abandoned ship from a previous landing. The problem is that not all of them will fit in the second ship, and as they begin their journey, one by one the remaining crew perish under highly suspicious circumstances. Originally published at $24.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Tor Books. 05/01/2001. 405 pgs. Van, the black-sheep son of a wealthy industrialist, agrees to search for the remains of his brother, who died while on the surface of Venus two years earlier. Van's crew, naturally enough, have their own hidden agendas in making the mission, but when their ship is attacked by various parasites, they are forced to put aside their differences if they are to have any chance of surviving, let alone completing the mission. Originally published at $7.99 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Tor Books. 12/01/2000. After their starship crashes on an inhabited planet somewhat short of their intended destination, a group of colonists try to fit, as best they can, into this new society. This is the first volume in the Seas of Kilmoyn series. Originally published at $6.99 You save 75% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 07/01/1990. Reissue. After 40 years, Kai and Varian awaken to discover the planet Ireta riddled with unrest following a hostile invasion. Originally published at $6.99 You save 72% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 05/01/1990. Reprint. 330 pgs. Originally published at $7.99 You save 75% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 05/01/1979. A linguist, studying languages on a previously unknown alien planet, begins to suspect that humans may have visited the planet at some time in the past. Originally published at $8.95 You save 78% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 03/01/1987. Reissue. This book is the first of the Pip and Flinx novels, and it follows the adventures of a young man and his friend, a flying dragon-like snake, as they leave their home for the first time a travel into outer space. Originally published at $6.99 You save 85% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 05/01/1990. Reissue. Two biologists, cataloguing flora and fauna on an apparently uninhabited alien world, discover that the planet is, in fact, teeming with sentient life--and not all of it is friendly... Originally published at $5.99 You save 83% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 01/01/1985. In this, the sixth volume of the Sector General series, Doctor Conway receives a long-deserved promotion to Diagnostician, and a dangerous assignment--he is sent to a planet where he is confronted with an alien species that, whenever they feel the slightest bit threatened, fly into an involuntary rage, destroying anything within reach. Originally published at $2.75 You save 28% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 11/01/1990. Reissue. In this juvenile science-fiction adventure, colonists on Ganymede are faced with impossible conditions when they try to set up farms to provide for themselves. Winner of the 1951 Retro Hugo Awards for Best Novel. Originally published at $6.99 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 04/01/1991. Reissue. The Thranx were blissfully unaware of the existance of humankind until a document refering to them fell into the hands of a young Thranx agricultural expert. After reading it, the space raiders that ruthlessly attacked his homeworld seemed rather tame in comparison to the evil humans. Originally published at $4.95 You save 80% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 07/01/1992. Reissue. 158 pgs. The third book in the Barsoom series finds the Princess, John Carter's love, trapped inside the Temple of the Sun for one whole Martian year--unless he can break her out without angering the gods, not to mention the mortals. Originally published at $6.99 You save 79% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 01/01/1991. Reprint. The book ties together author Asimov's two most well-known series, Robots and Foundation, appearing as the sixth book in the former and the eighth in the latter. Originally published at $5.99 You save 83% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 01/01/1990. Reissue. The first book in the Barsoom series introduces author Burroughs's second-most-famous recurring character, John Carter. Hiding in a cave in the Arizona hills, Carter accidentally discovers a portal, on the other side of which lies the planet Mars. Originally published at $6.50 You save 69% off the cover price!

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Bantam Books. 08/01/1993. Reprint. Originally published at $7.99 You save 75% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 05/01/1990. Reissue. 252 pgs. Originally published at $6.99 You save 72% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 12/01/1992. Reprint. The residents of Pern are on the edge of discovering about their past following the discovery of the remnants of the planet's original colony. Originally published at $7.99 You save 82% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 01/01/2000. 361 pgs. A young Lady takes over her father's empire after his death, only to find herself transported through a wormhole to another part of the galaxy in this novel by McCaffrey. Originally published at $6.99 You save 75% off the cover price!

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Ballantine Books. 02/01/1999. 464 pgs. In this sequel to "The Sparrow", Father Emilio Sandoz returns to Rakhat to find that the Runa have taken control of the planet. Originally published at $14.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 09/01/1998. 52 pgs. After the Earth's population hits critical levels in the 23rd century, the crew of the "Mother Night" is sent out to explore nearby solar systems. When they land on Alpha Centuri, the crew is able to discern that three separate intelligent races had colonized there, but none survived. Originally published at $6.99 You save 79% off the cover price!

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Ultramarine Pub Co. 03/01/1983. An apparently mobile, alien intelligence is preventing humans from colonizing Ganymede in this 1983 Nebula Award nominated book by hard sf specialist Benford. Originally published at $25.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 04/01/1999. 534 pgs. The residents of Newholme--a matriarchal, largely agrarian planet--have several reason to be concerned. The planet's six moons will soon reach a rare alignment, which is fabled to bring disaster, and there is also an impending visit from the Questioner II, a high-tech machine which judges the relative merit of entire worlds and has the capacity to mete out severe punishment to those it finds flawed. Originally published at $6.99 You save 79% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 05/01/1999. Reissue. In an alternate world Festina Ramos is a member of the Explorer Corps, a group of citizens who are all smart and efficient, but who are expendable because they have a physical deformity. The Explorer Corps travel to other planets to contact alien cultures, and they don't usually come back. Now Festina has been sent on what she knows is meant to be her last mission, but she plans to track down other lost members of the Explorer Corps and change her destiny. Originally published at $6.99 You save 72% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 07/01/2000. Reissue. 544 pgs. The future of Mars is hotly debated among the scientists, guides, and crew of a mission to the planet, all of whom approach the issue from a number of different political and moral positions. Jamie Waterman, a Navajo and the nominal director of the mission, finds himself caught among these individual conflicts, the cumulative effects of which threaten not only the success of the mission, but the future of the planet itself. Originally published at $7.99 You save 81% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 03/01/1999. 352 pgs. Originally published at $5.99 You save 83% off the cover price!

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Tor Books. 09/01/2002. Originally published at $6.99 You save 72% off the cover price!

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Berkley Pub Group. 09/01/1992. Reissue. The first volume of Varley's "Gaean Trilogy". Originally published at $7.99 You save 81% off the cover price!

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Berkley Pub Group. 04/01/1991. Reissue. The fourth book in the "Dune" series, tracing the transformation of Leto II in his quest to return the planet Arrakis to its true state. Originally published at $7.99 You save 75% off the cover price!

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Berkley Pub Group. 06/01/1996. Reissue. 324 pgs. In this first installment of a new series, the Earth is attacked and enslaved by the powerful Catteni aliens. One brave young women escapes to live free in the jungle until her inevitable capture. She is then transported to another planet, where she works with other enslaved humans to set up another Catteni colony--and learns powerful Catteni secrets. Originally published at $7.99 You save 76% off the cover price!

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Putnam Pub Group. 04/01/1996. 256 pgs. When Benton Hawkes gets on the wrong side of his bosses yet again, they ship him off to govern the planet Mars. Although it is a remote assignment, the situation on Mars is a complicated one. The colonists are virtually enslaved in factories. Though management seems to want to change things and despite seemingly amicable negotiations, the talks are getting nowhere. Who wants discord and disparity to thrive on the planet Mars? Originally published at $22.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Berkley Pub Group. 06/01/1998. 327 pgs. A group of slaves are stranded on the planet Botany by their Catteni masters. With the help of the Catteni exile, Zainal, they build a thriving colony. But with each growing community comes dissent--some want to return to Earth and help their Brethren fight the Cattenis, while others want to continue their quiet life on Botany, the best they have ever known. Originally published at $7.99 You save 76% off the cover price!

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Berkley Pub Group. 09/01/1983. Reissue. A marooned astronaut has to deal with his clingy family while he searches for other stranded people on a remote planet. This is author Farmer's first novel. Originally published at $2.50 You save 60% off the cover price!

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