The 10 books on this stack
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Robert Charles Wilson 2005
Why it's on the stack
You'll keep turning it over for days · told in two timelines
It shares this with 8 more books on this stack
One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out.
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Carl Sagan 1986 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
Full of big ideas · meeting beings from another world
It shares this with 4 more books on this stack
In the year 1999 a multinational team of astronauts sets out to discover the secrets of the universe.
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Strugatsky 1978
Why it's on the stack
It messes with your head · it gets under your skin
It shares this with 8 more books on this stack
The Strugatsky brothers' poignant and introspective novel of first contact that inspired the classic film Stalker Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those strange misfits who are compelled by some…
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Stanisław Lem 2002 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
The truth comes out bit by bit · meeting beings from another world
It shares this with 5 more books on this stack
Kris Kelvin lands on the space station Solaris only to face a cruel miracle.
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Jeff VanderMeer 2014 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
Nothing is quite what it seems · a narrator who doesn't tell you the truth
It shares this with 8 more books on this stack
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades.
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Michael Crichton 1987
Why it's on the stack
The truth comes out bit by bit · a place nobody can leave
It shares this with 5 more books on this stack
In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface, a huge vessel is unearthed.
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Arthur C. Clarke 1953
Why it's on the stack
Nothing is quite what it seems
It shares this with 8 more books on this stack
The multi-award-winning SF masterpiece from one of the greatest SF writers of all time Rama is a vast alien spacecraft that enters the Solar System.
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Arthur C. Clarke 1994 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
Full of big ideas · meeting beings from another world
It shares this with 4 more books on this stack
From the savannas of Africa at the dawn of mankind to the rings of Saturn as man ventures to the outer rim of our solar system, 2001: A Space Odyssey is a journey unlike any other.
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Alastair Reynolds 2022
Why it's on the stack
It's hiding a secret · in search of a lost world or a treasure
It shares this with 5 more books on this stack
Eversion is a superb, original Gothic SF novel. A small group of intrepid explorers are in search of a remote and mysterious artefact.
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Martin MacInnes 2023
Why it's on the stack
You'll keep turning it over for days · meeting beings from another world
It shares this with 8 more books on this stack
Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as a refuge from her unhappy home life and volatile father.