Questions tagged [space-exploration]
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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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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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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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What was the first written Russian-language story featuring travel to another inhabited celestial body?
What was the first written Russian-language story, whether a novel, play or poem, that featured travel to another inhabited celestial body, such as a planet, satellite or comet?
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Could You Portkey To Other Planets in the Potterverse?
As far as I can tell from my own research and from reading official sources, there are no physical or theoretical limits on the distance a portkey can take you, unlike brooms, which seem to have a ...
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I can't find a short sci-fi horror story about a solitary man on a desolate planet
I've been trying to find this story for ages. It is a short story I read in a small anthology, around 2012, but I think it's much older. I got it out of my middle school library. None of the other ...
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short story about seeding a planet with humans
A family travels to another planet in order to seed it with humanity. Meanwhile earth's technology surpasses that of the ship and gets to that planet before the ship. There's also a subplot involving ...
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Novel where moon is dead because of time warp
An old science fiction novel, originally published or reprinted in paperback in the 1960s, in the English language.
The first expedition to the moon eventually discovers that the reason why it is ...
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Short story about a decades-long mission to collect a soil/rock sample from a far away planet. There are multiple generations of astronaut children
I read a short story excerpt from a textbook in high school. I would love to continue the story.
The story starts with astronauts beginning a deep space mission to collect a soil sample. I remember ...
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Is A. C. Clarke's "Death and the Senator" really a jab at William Proxmire?
I've seen this claimed repeatedly, but no authoritative evidence, and I am not convinced. Was Proxmire really that famous as anti-space crusader by May 1961 (minus however long the story was in the ...
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Terrans land on a planet with cat-like aliens and start going missing, two of the crew are werewolves that think it is the perfect place
I just remember a glimpse from around 40 years ago. The story may be older.
An exploration space ship from Terra is landing on an alien planet. The Earthlings are coming in contact with the alien cat-...
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Shape changer in space frontier story collection
It was one of the stories in a space frontier collection. A hunter was after the most dangerous game. When killed it had the shape of a small seemingly harmless wormlike creature. But the creature ...
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How does traveling between Spaces work in "Folding Beijing"?
Folding Beijing just won the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novelette.
When I read the story, I have trouble visualizing how the three "Spaces" are physically located relative to each other, so the ...
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Author and Title of a SF story from 60s, most probably read it in Fantasy and Science Fiction, possibly Analog or If
3 male astronaut-explorers land on a new planet about a mile away from an obviously artificial construct, a massive cube. Each starts setting up his equipment for the surveys they need to make. The ...
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80s or 90's science fiction book series
I'm trying to remember the name of the author and/or books in a science fiction paperback book series I read years ago. There were at least 2 ships that left earth, but due to a disagreement about ...
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Kids’ picture book involving a friendly robot taking kids around the galaxy
I recall reading a book frequently in the late-80s or early-90s, but cannot remember the name and would love to find the book for my son.
In the book, a group of kids are taken around the galaxy by a ...
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Illegal aliens, the string and little fruit?
In “Illegal Aliens” the assasin’s weapon of choice is a string and a little fruit. My question is this: how does the assasin use the fruit/string combo or even what the little fruits name is, if it’s ...
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Male and female astronaut fall in love on a mission and fall into the sun
I am looking for the title of a SF book about a male and female astronaut that are to go to the sun and back. They fall in love, missing the key moment to brake, which causes them to fall into the sun ...
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Could Buzz Lightyear's crew ever have returned to the world before their accident?
In Lightyear, Buzz's primary motivation is to help the crew of the Turnip return to their lives before the crash. However, it's unclear if the crew ever could have gone back to "life as normal&...
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Is there an explanation for how Taylor returned to Earth?
Planet of the Apes (1968) spoilers
Cpt Taylor and his crew launched towards the Orion constellation and at some point of their journey they put themselves into artificial sleep. At the time Taylor ...
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