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Sci-Fi book series where a man awakens to find his brain inside a space probe launched into space
This is a trilogy about a man waking up with his brain implanted into a space probe. His eyes and ears are the sensors. He travels through space learning about the universe.
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Teen space Sci-Fi book/series that was turned into cartoon, copyright issues with Star Trek
My co-worker is looking for a book/series from probably the 70's or 80's that was turned into a cartoon in the 80's or 90's but both the book and the cartoon ran into copyright issues with Star Trek ...
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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 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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Lost colony expands into space, discovers automated manufacturing shipyard left for them
This was a book I read recently, probably somewhere around 2000. As stated, a planet which had been part of a multi-system polity had lost contact. I think it was a few hundred years before but not ...
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70's/80's book about a woman who comes to be able to use a sunstone
This is a book I borrowed from the library when I was in junior/senior high.
The plot revolved around a young woman who could use something called a sunstone (not sure if it was one word or two) and ...
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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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Boy from Earth who later finds out he can teleport accused for the murder of the leader of another planet
A boy is arrested for the murder of some important leader of a planet. He is transported to space using multi-dimensional teleportation or something.
I think he might be kidnapped at some point by ...
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Sci-fi book series about the ragtag crew of a spaceship who rescue a superhuman, female scientist imprisoned on an icy planet by a gang of pirates
I'm pretty sure that the cover of one of the books shows a giant lizard that is standing on two feet and has some kind of cyborg parts on his noggin. He's facing outwards, looking at another gigantic ...
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SF book about one or more mysterious, pyramid-shaped artefacts that appear at the edge of Earth's solar system
I've been looking for this book for decades. :) I read it in the mid 90s which makes me think it was probably written around that time or in the 80s. It could be part of a series or a standalone book.
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Obscure sci-fi illustration book showing speculative alien life forms on other worlds
This book has to have been published in the early '90s or before.
It was an illustration book showing speculative alien life forms on other worlds. I checked it out from the library at school every ...
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Book about a girl who gets a substance in her that gives her really strange powers
There was this book I read a few years ago.
It was about a girl who gets this substance in her that gives her really strange powers. Like one is the ability to pick up any item, study it for a moment, ...
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Book I read back in the 90’s, about a boy who became a space pilot
I can’t remember a lot of the body of the book but it’s set in an undetermined place in space (not Earth). It had a boy who was orphaned by his mother because he had some mental ability (empathic?) ...
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Alien plant from another planet moves around a spaceship during the night and finds a sleeping human body to take root in
A man takes an alien plant from another planet into his spaceship. But what this man doesn't know is that the plant has its own mind, and it moves around during the night looking for somewhere warm. ...
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Book involving a protagonist in control of a new kind of spaceship, who visits human colonies which are all in danger from a superior enemy
I'm looking for the name of a mid-to-late century sci-fi book. I recall little of the book, other than enjoying it.
The main protagonist is a human male who somehow ends up in control of a new kind of ...
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