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Book where an Earth woman travels with human-like aliens to their planet, where all men are bald
I vaguely remember reading this as a child in the late 90s or early 2000s.
What I remember is that a woman either agrees to go or has to leave Earth under dire circumstances with an alien woman (these ...
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Book about aliens coming back to Earth to recover a lost spaceship
There was a book I listened to a long time ago about an alien ship traveling through deep space to come to Earth. The premise was that there was a ship lost on Earth around the time of the great ...
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Sci-fi book in which an artist with polio is abducted by aliens, cured of his infirmity, and joins an interstellar crew [duplicate]
Looking for a science fiction book, probably from the 50s or 60s. I read it in middle school in 1990-91.
The protagonist is an artist who suffered from polio, but when he is abducted by aliens, they ...
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Looking for SciFi Book name from 1990's or 80's about Mars [duplicate]
I read this book, it was trilogy I think. It was about Mars being settled and had oceans. There is an alien race there as well and the main characters had to eventually fight them. The antagonist ...
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Looking for a book about exploring a planet heading out of the galaxy
I read this book in the late 90s, and I suspect it may have been old-ish then. Male author, I believe, with fairly hard science writing.
Earth discovers a world leaving the Milky Way which interests ...
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Scifi novel with portals, hostile insectoids, and alliances
I read this book some years ago. It was probably a paperback book in the library. It is not Starship troopers or the Ender series or the "Sand ??" series that CoPilot suggested that appears ...
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Book series. Humans have made contact with many, interacting alien species. Female protagonist marries junkyard owner, with dog, on space station
Several books, with same setting and characters. Read online, recently, after 2017.
The junkyard is on a spacestation owned and run by an AI. More recently created AIs have robot bodies. The dog gets ...
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Looking for the title of an old sci-fi book where a human newspaper columnist is secretly married to an alien woman
In the book, the human man and his wife help her people to search the Earth for tiny, rice sized particles that have immense power. They need to find the particles first, in order to to keep a ...
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Book where alien craft land on Earth and allow people to be resurrected as missionaries of the aliens
I read this book a good 20 years ago it was at my dad's and he can't remember it.
Alien craft land all over Earth in shape of a triangle. (I think) Dead humans can be put in craft and brought back to ...
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Book series written 1980-2010s about a boy with supernatural hunting skills finds out he's an alien experiment
The book was written around the 1980's - 2010s. I believe it is the first book of a series. Can't seem to find it anywhere. Maybe banned for its science fiction or just no copies since it was last ...
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Book identification. Very old Sci-Fi picture book with spaceships traveling in space and taking off from the Earth and strange aliens on other planets
I am looking for an old Sci-Fi picture book I had in the 80s. This book had large color pictures of spaceships traveling in space and taking off from the Earth. Plus it also had pictures of strange ...
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Help identifying a novel about repeated doomed expeditions to a deadly alien structure [duplicate]
Years ago, there was a sci-fi novel that I read about a series of ill-fated expeditions to explore an alien structure in space. It popped into my head for some reason, and it's been driving me crazy ...
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SF book with humans landing on an alien planet where the Brutons are one of the main races
I read this back in the 70's or possibly the early 80's.
The book took place on an alien planet, the Brutons being an aggressive race; I just cannot remember that much about the plot. I believe the ...
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Choose-your-path book in which a spaceship breaks apart, forcing a kid to jettison onto a planet where he encounters aliens
I'm looking for a Choose-your-path book that starts with a research spaceship breaking apart, forcing a kid to jettison onto a planet that has breathable air. Some of the adventures cause him to ...
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Book involving a global race to reach a distress beacon from an alien ship in space
I’m looking for the title. I think it was a series of books with an Asian-like title.
The plot involved:
Futuristic space travel.
A global race to get to a distress beacon from an alien ship in space....
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