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Tagged with books hard-sci-fi
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SciFi Book Find - Alien Precursor Attack Before a Large Scale Invasion (not in series)
Some overall details;
A book series I listened to as audiobooks in 2019-2022. They were newish books so published in the range 2010-2022. It had somewhere around 3 - 4 books. There was never a large ...
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Hopeful sci-fi book where humans are immortal, and both they and crabs love mathematics
I remember reading about this book in a blog post one time. There’s a group of people on a spaceship who are immortal, who spend 5000 years proving a mathematical theorem, simply because they can. ...
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Trying to find two short sci-fi stories [closed]
A man, some sort of functionary arrives to a planet. The planet is I habited by aliens that are literally incomprehensible.
He talks to some of the scientists that try to establish contact, then, ...
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Book where a generation ship is sent to avenge the Earth after it was destroyed by alien probes
Trying to identify a book where the Earth is destroyed by aliens, using some probes. A generation ship is sent to find and destroy the aliens.
Edit: more things I remember about the story (this was a ...
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Book about a man who is turned into a quadruped while searching for a colony ship on an alien world
A man in a ship lands on a planet with nothing but sharp grass and quadrupeds. He is trying to find out what happened to a colony ship that supposedly landed there. I don't remember why, but he starts ...
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Science Fiction novel which takes place on a large cylindrical spaceship traveling through space
When I was in college in 1987, I read a science fiction book that I'd like to reread. But I cannot remember the name or author.
The key features that I recall, are
It takes place on a large ...
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A prison in the corona of a star holds society's only murderer
I'm trying to find this sci-fi book, I remember there was a prison, I think made of a hollow asteroid, orbiting inside the corona of a star.
It was built by this advanced society to hold their only ...
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Sci-fi book featuring xenophobic aliens with hydraulic activated limbs
I am looking for the title of a sci-fi book with an interesting plot and have had no luck finding it.
The Plot:
Humans working at the edge of the solar system discover a xenophobic alien race that ...
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Book about an escape from a prison planet
Main plot is escape from a prison planet, and I can remember the artwork from the cover. Also one of the other inmates was a mind raper who psychically raped people. Time frame was pre 90s
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Hard SciFi book in which worm robots do maintenance and self assemble [duplicate]
In this book there is a female engineer who uses 3 types of robots to do a lot of the maintenance. The type that interests me is "worm". These robots could join together into a longer links for ...
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Book: Earthlings find (new) nearby planet that also hosts humans and an inorganic species robot-knowledge depository
I am trying to remember the title of a book that I read years ago. I have not had success in recent months in finding the title.
Plot Summary (from what I remember):
Earth is overpopulated and ...
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Sci Fi book about society sprung from a prison ship coexisting with giant squid predators [duplicate]
I read this book two years ago at a local library and can't remember the name of it. The book is really old, written in the 60s. It has a peach cover with multicolored text.
It's about a man living ...
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Book with uncontrolled/subconscious teleportation across worlds
I read this book maybe 10 years ago. I read it in German; I don't think it was a native German book though, but rather a translation.
There was a protagonist whom we followed across this book. The ...
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Science Fiction Series about human scientists forced to live on high gravity planet by stronger aliens
I'm trying to find the name of a series about a ship of scientists captured by aliens and forced to live on a planet with a gravity force greater than Earth's. The aliens are much stronger and faster ...
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A sci-fi novel about augmented mental power
I read a sci-fi novel 14 years ago (April/May 2003) that haven't been able to find since then. It was in a shared book locker in a reception battalion barracks at Ft. Leonard Wood, MO. The book was ...
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