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Monk & robot volume 1

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"In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk & Robot series gives us hope for the future. It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor...

2) Walkaway: a novel

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Doctorow, Cory

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3) The long way to a small, angry planet

"Hubert, Seth, and their ultra-rich heiress friend Natalie are getting a little old to hang out at the "Communist parties," techno-raveups in abandoned industrial spaces, full of insta-printed drugs and toys. And Natalie was finished, years ago, with her overcontrolling zillionaire dad. And now that anyone can manufacture food, clothing, shelter with equipment comparable to a computer printer, there seems to be little reason to to stick with the world...

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Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 1

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The acclaimed modern science fiction masterpiece, Hugo Award winner for Best Series!

Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space—and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe—in this light-hearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star.

Rosemary Harper doesn't expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer.

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4) A closed and common orbit

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Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 2

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Lovelace was once merely a ships artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in a new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of what came before. As Lovelace learns to negotiate the universe and discover who she is, she makes friends with Pepper, an excitable engineer, who is determined to help her learn and grow.Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that no matter how vast space is, two people can fill it together.The...

5) Record of a spaceborn few

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Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 3

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National Bestseller!

Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Series!

Brimming with Chambers' signature blend of heart-warming character relationships and dazzling adventure, Record of a Spaceborn few is the third standalone installment of the Wayfarers series, set in the sprawling universe of the Galactic Commons, and following a new motley crew on a journey to another corner corner of the cosmos—one

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6) The galaxy, and the ground within

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Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 4

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"With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has going for it is a chance proximity to more popular worlds, making it a decent stopover for ships traveling between the wormholes that keep the Galactic Commons connected. If deep space is a highway, Gora is just your average truck stop. At the Five-Hop One-Stop, long-haul spacers can stretch their legs (if they have legs, that is), and get fuel, transit...

7) A prayer for the crown-shy

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Monk & robot volume 2

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"After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent on a quest to determine what humanity really needs) turn their attention to the villages and cities of the little moon they call home. They hope to find the answers they seek, while making new friends, learning new concepts, and experiencing the entropic nature of the universe. Becky Chambers's new series continues to ask: in a world where people...

8) Noumenon

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Lostetter, Marina J

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Noumenon volume 1

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With nods to Arthur C. Clarke's Rama series and the real science of Neal Stephenson's Seveneves, a touch of Hugh Howey's Wool, and echoes of Octavia Butler's voice, a powerful tale of space travel, adventure, discovery, and humanity that unfolds through a series of generational vignettes. In 2088, humankind is at last ready to explore beyond Earth's solar system. But one uncertainty remains: Where do we go? Astrophysicist Reggie Straifer has an...

9) A history of what comes next

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Neuvel, Sylvain

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Take them to the stars volume 1

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"Always run, never fight. Preserve the knowledge. Survive at all cost. Take them to the stars. Over 99 identical generations, Mia's family has shaped human history to push them to the stars, making brutal, wrenching choices and sacrificing countless lives. Her turn comes at the dawn of the age of rocketry. Her mission: to lure Wernher Von Braun away from the Nazi party and into the American rocket program, and secure the future of the space race....

10) Blackfish City

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Miller, Sam J

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A team of outsiders unite to save a city of refugees and elites on a drowned Earth in this "action-packed science fiction thriller" (Washington Post).

A Best Book of the Month: Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, Tor.com, B&N Sci-Fi Fantasy Blog, Amazon

"An ambitious, imaginative, and big-hearted dystopian ensemble. . . . Miller has crafted

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11) Gamechanger

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Beckett, L. X

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The bounceback volume 1

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Rubi Whiting is a member of the Bounceback generation. The first to be raised free of the troubles of the late twenty-first century. Now she works as a public defender to help troubled individuals with antisocial behavior. That's how she met Luciano Pox. Luce is a firebrand and has made a name for himself as a naysayer. But there's more to him than being a lightning rod for controversy. Rubi has to find out why the governments of the world want to...

12) Persephone Station

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Leicht, Stina

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Persephone Station

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"On the backwater planet of Brynner, at Persephone Station, a community of android refugees, all female, are hiding since they were able to awaken their AI and escape servitude. But the Serrao-Orlov Corporation is nothing if not tenacious, especially about it's proprietary AI's, and it wants their property back. However, Persephone is run by Rosie, and they are in charge of an organized group of beneficent criminals and assassins, along with a bunch...

13) Cascade failure

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Sagas, L. M

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Ambit's run volume 1

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There are only three real powers in the Spiral: the corporate power of the Trust versus the Union's labor's leverage; between them the Guild tries to keep everyone's hands above the table.

14) A half-built garden

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Emrys, Ruthanna

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