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Solar System
Description
Books about moving out into the solar system, beyond Earth and Mars (which has its own list).
Rank
Title
Author
Added
1
Floating Worlds
by
Cecelia Holland
474 members
8 reviews
½
3.4
Score 2
Added 2014-01-13, 08:53 PM
2 Members
aulsmith
,
questbird
Explanations
questbird
: Clash of cultures between outer and inner planets
2
2001: A Space Odyssey
by
Arthur C. Clarke
15,135 members
247 reviews
4
Score 1
Added 2014-01-13, 07:56 PM
Member
questbird
Explanations
questbird
: Discovery seeks a strange signal beyond Jupiter
3
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
by
Robert A. Heinlein
11,491 members
211 reviews
4.1
Score 1
Added 2021-01-10, 08:47 PM
Member
questbird
Explanations
questbird
: The Loonies start to fight Earth for their independence.
4
2010: Odyssey Two
by
Arthur C. Clarke
7,849 members
89 reviews
½
3.6
Score 1
Added 2014-05-14, 07:52 AM
Member
questbird
Explanations
questbird
: Moons of Jupiter
5
The Stars My Destination
by
Alfred Bester
6,955 members
197 reviews
4
Score 1
Added 2014-11-10, 06:05 AM
Member
questbird
Explanations
questbird
: War between outer and inner planets is the background, though this is mostly set on Earth
6
Olympos
by
Dan Simmons
3,167 members
45 reviews
3.8
Score 1
Added 2014-11-10, 06:11 AM
Member
questbird
Explanations
questbird
: Robots colonised the outer worlds, now have returned to find out why the earth has gone silent
7
2312
by
Kim Stanley Robinson
2,538 members
130 reviews
½
3.4
Score 1
Added 2014-11-10, 06:05 AM
Member
questbird
Explanations
questbird
: Almost everywhere *but* Mars
8
Imperial Earth
by
Arthur C. Clarke
2,434 members
25 reviews
½
3.5
Score 1
Added 2024-05-21, 09:58 PM
Member
questbird
Explanations
questbird
: A Titanian journeys to Earth as a rite of passage.
9
The Rolling Stones
by
Robert A. Heinlein
2,336 members
30 reviews
½
3.7
Score 1
Added 2014-01-13, 08:53 PM
Member
aulsmith
10
Triton
by
Samuel R. Delany
1,490 members
24 reviews
½
3.5
Score 1
Added 2014-01-13, 08:52 PM
Member
aulsmith
11
Take Back Plenty
by
Colin Greenland
501 members
6 reviews
½
3.4
Score 1
Added 2022-08-02, 02:06 AM
Member
questbird
Explanations
questbird
: Starts on Mars and ping-pongs around a Solar System closed off by aliens
12
Saturn's Children
by
Charles Stross
320 members
17 reviews
3.2
Score 1
Added 2014-11-10, 06:06 AM
Member
questbird
Explanations
questbird
: Humans are too squishy for space travel, and besides they are extinct. Lucky they left robots behind to colonise the solar system.
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Started
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January 2014
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