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Sci-Fi Suggestions Here are a number of science fiction recommendations from Spacers at 1000 Planets. Did we miss anything indispensible? Amazon.com provides excellent customer service and a wide range of shipping options to both U.S. and worldwide customers. Amazon.com also includes a few pages of excerpts for many books. Click through to buy these volumes that belong in any library: 
Foundation Based on the Roman Empire decline, Asimov projects his imagination into the far future, at the fall of humanity first galactic empire and the struggle of a group of scientists to shorten the barbaric times ahead to a mere 1000 years by the establishment of a Foundation to preserve knowledge. Isaac Asimov. 2001 - A Space Odyssey When an enigmatic monolith is found buried on the moon, scientists are amazed to discover that it's at least 3 million years old. Even more amazing, after it's unearthed the artifact releases a powerful signal aimed at Saturn. What sort of alarm has been triggered? Arthur C. Clark. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress A gripping tale of revolution on the moon in 2076, where "Loonies" are kept poor and oppressed by an Earth-based Authority that turns huge profits at their expense. A small band of dissidents, including a one-armed computer jock, a radical young woman, a past-his-prime academic and a nearly omnipotent computer named Mike. Robert A. Heinlein. Dune On this science fiction masterpiece, Herbert blends the complex interaction of the social, economical, political and ecological factors of a single desert-planet, Arrakis, and the dependence of humanity on itís unique product, the spice, a geriatric drug with prescience properties which permits FTL space travel. Frank Herbert. Childhood's End The first contact with an extraterrestrial civilization and the future that awaits for humanity. A must for any reader for its mind-breaking end. Arthur C. Clark. 
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide In this classic story, Arthur Dent, a lovable and easily-confused Earthling gets dragged on the journey of a lifetime as Earth is destroyed by a group of Vogons to make way for a hyperspace by-pass. He is joined by the easy-going researcher for the Hitchhikker's Guide to the Galaxy Ford Prefect; the hyper Two-Headed President of the Galaxy Zaphod Beeblebrox; and Marvin the paranoid android. Together, they are off to explore the galaxy, travel through time, eat dinner at the end of the universe, meet the man who designed Norway, redefine "improbability," patronize and annoy countless alien races, and continue the eternal quest to find out why 42 is so darn important. Doublas Adams. Contact It is December 1999, the dawn of the millennium, and a team of international scientists is poised for the most fantastic adventure in human history. After years of scanning the galaxy for signs of somebody or something else, this team believes they've found a message from an intelligent source--and they travel deep into space to meet it. Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sagan injects Contact, his prophetic adventure story, with scientific details that make it utterly believable. Carl Sagan. Ender's Game Intense is the word for Ender's Game. Aliens have attacked Earth twice and almost destroyed the human species. To make sure humans win the next encounter, the world government has taken to breeding military geniuses -- and then training them in the arts of war... The early training, not surprisingly, takes the form of 'games'... Ender Wiggin is a genius among geniuses; he wins all the games... He is smart enough to know that time is running out. But is he smart enough to save the planet? Orson Scott Card. Red Mars opens with a tragic murder, an event that becomes the focal point for the surviving characters and the turning point in a long intrigue that pits idealistic Mars colonists against a desperately overpopulated Earth, radical political groups of all stripes against each other, and the interests of transnational corporations against the dreams of the pioneers. This is a vast book: a chronicle of the exploration of Mars with some of the most engaging, vivid, and human characters in recent science fiction. Citizen of the Galaxy explores just what freedom really is as it follows a young man as he matures from boy to man. Starting as a slave sold to a most unusual beggar, we see the first aspect that many equate with the opposite of freedom. The society he paints here is vivid and believable (though the economics of slavery in a star-travelling culture has always seemed a little dubious to me). Sent to live with the Free Traders, Thorby discovers another aspect of freedom: a person's ability to do as he wishes is severely constrained by the culture in which he lives. Robert A. Heinlein. More Science Fiction literature can be viewed here. Do your interests coincide with ours? Think we need your help and advice? Please let us know! Click here to go back to theMarketplace.
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