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1960's-1970's (possibly older) sci-fi story about a man stuck on an inhabited planet with a twist [duplicate]
The story was about a man who crashed on an uninhabited planet and was wandering around for a few years looking for another crashed spaceship to use its parts to repair his spaceship. He had a small ...
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Young adult sci fi book where a team of human explorers wind up stranded on a planet, while covertly surveilling a less advanced civilization
Some time in the future, an advanced civilization has found a marker left by precursors, pointing at habitable worlds. The first intelligent life they find by following the marker is humans.
They form ...
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Book about a world where things improve when being used [duplicate]
In the '90s, I read a book that about a world where things improve when being used.
In the book, people on Earth have some kind of device that remotely scans the universe, looking for worlds/...
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Trilogy in the 80’s about space travel to another world
Growing up in the 80's my mother introduced me to a trilogy she read. I don’t remember the name but they traveled to another world and worked to colonize it. 2064 or something idk. The books were ...
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Book about a female protagonist travelling through space with alien creatures called the Leviathan
The main character of the book was selected to travel space with these aliens that also were able to act as spaceships called the Leviathan. They were helpful to Earth in fixing its problems.
As they ...
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Looking for a novel about a mysterious sphere/cube shaped object
I read a story years ago that revolved around a mysterious ‘ship’ (it was a basic shape - I believe the name of the book was also around this shape) found in the universe. It had some species worried ...
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Book where a space ship journeys to the center of the galaxy to find all the stars had gone supernova
Looking for the book where a space ship made from a giant atomic atom journeys to the center of the galaxy only to find all the stars had gone supernova.
A, Clark-Card-Heinlien-Bova?
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Old book about an alien encased in a deposit of diamond
I'm looking for the name of an old sci-fi book. In it, a spaceship’s crew goes to a planet to mine a large deposit of diamond. However, they find an alien entity encased in the diamond. They also go ...
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Sci Fi book about xenoarchaeology and a beetle like culture
Circa late 60s, 70s, or early 80s, written in English.
A group of Xenoarchaeologists are exploring ruins on a distant planet. The inhabitants were beetle like. One researcher (mentally unstable?) ...
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Series where Earth kicked out of alien club, then invited back because we are savage
Copying from a Reddit post last year where someone looked for the same:
"...book where the human race made contact with a galactic race, part of a group of civilizations in the galaxy. Earth wanted ...
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A kids' fiction book about a space explorer who sketches what he sees [closed]
I'm looking for a kids' book with a space explorer who sketches the animals and plants he encounters. His space ship looks like a glass bubble but that's all I can remember.
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Novel with boy space traveler and his alien buddy
I read this book probably 5-6 years ago.
The main plot was about a boy who travels through space to individual planets with an alien buddy of his or something like that. I remember that they lived in ...
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What book has tall transparent cylindrical column-shaped aliens defending massive mega-structures?
I registered to ask for some help identifying a book. It was likely the very first space opera / science fiction novel I read, but I was a pre-teen/early teen exploring my older siblings' bookshelves ...
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Book about a killer planet where only plastic weapons can be used
I'm looking for a book I read as a kid in high school. All I remember of it is:
2 characters (possibly male and female) travel to a "killer" planet where no metal can be present so take only plastic ...
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Planet with hexagons with either magic or technology
I read a good book a while ago and can't remember the title.
It is the story of people stuck on a planet made of hexagons, where the level of technology is set depending on the type of hexagon. Some ...
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