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Book written early 80s or before about a 2m tall student on a school spaceship [duplicate]
Book is about several students from different planets but all human on a school spaceship.
The main character is at least 2 meters tall. This comes into the plot because when they visit earth he has ...
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Expedition to explore ocean under ice on solar system's planet satellite
I've read the book easily 15 years ago (~2008); I borrowed it from a public library in Atlanta Ga. The book was paperback. I can't recall the look of the cover with any certainty. The author was one I ...
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Book about 2 spaceships one of which was trying to contain a zombie outbreak
Written in the form of logs.
One of the ships seems evil at first but as the story goes on it's revealed that it was trying to contain a zombie outbreak but the story was narrated from the POV of ...
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Book about a spaceship with cities, deserts, lakes, and artificial sun and stars
I am looking for a book that has a spaceship with cities (including a "New London") as well as lakes and an artificial sun and stars. The ship starts to crack and the authorities try to hide ...
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Story where a spaceship realizes that it has been hit by an asteroid that destroyed its ability to detect being hit by asteroids
There was a science fiction story that I read at some point (I can’t remember if it’s a self-contained story or part of a larger book) that’s centered around an ai in a spaceship that realizes it has ...
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Space opera-type book where human ships fight with lasers and use sand as a defensive technique
The book in question is a space navy-/space opera-type book. The human ships in the book(s) used primarily lasers as their weapons. As such they have countermeasures that I think were known as "...
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Book: Civilisation has limited time to progress from medieval to space travel
Here is a difficult one: I only read the blurb on the back, and didn't read it at the time. Now I wonder what it was... It must've been early 90's, late 80's.
It was something like: "The ...
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Sci-Fi young adult book read 1995-2001 with a not quite human boy in an egg-like space capsule on a beach
Looking for a fantasy or sci fi book about a boy found in a capsule on a beach.
I do not know the title, or the author's name. I also don't know when the book came out originally. I believe the author ...
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A book about a spaceship with a forest interior
Looking for a book I read as a kid. Hard science fiction, read probably in the mid-to-late eighties out of a school library. It might have been an older book - it had the flavor of older science ...
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Sci-fi book series about an ex-soldier who's kidnapped from Earth by a spaceship-stealing robot, and goes on to create a mercenary band
A series of multiple books (recent; still writing more in the series). An ex-soldier living in their parents' cabin stumbles on a damaged spaceship in the woods, is kidnapped by the robot captain (who ...
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Guy is drugged and wakes up on a spaceship and has to fight aliens to protect new earth
It's a book about a guy that was in the military but he is drugged and wakes up on a spaceship I think called the Ark. The ship has traveled to a new world and now they have to fight the aliens that ...
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Sci-fi book where main characters play multidimensonal chess aboard a spacecraft
Humans travelling in space play multidimensional chess games (7 dimensions?). One of the female characters may have a name "stormy..." or similar. I read it in italian translation as a kid ...
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Book series about two men training to be wizards, whose powers come from lost tech from a crashed spacecraft [duplicate]
Trying to remember a series I read years ago. I believe there were three books.
It was about two men who were training to be wizards and fighting other races. Later in the story, we find that their ...
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Fantasy/sci-fi book about a boy who travels to space and learns to manipulate metal
Book is about a boy who travels to space and learns to manipulate metal.
He gets a few friends one of them dies from an alien prisoner, I think her name was Kate.
They go to a planet where barely any ...
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Book about two friends on galactic adventure, who inherit a starship (one has big, spiky blue hair)
I rediscovered this 3-book series a couple years ago, then forgot it again. Pretty sure from before the '90s.
Two guys adventuring amongst the planets; I think one inherited a starship with ancient ...
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