Last month , we expect you to nameyour favorite book about space traveland explain why . C of you respond with awe-inspiring , succinct , and sometimes very funny explanation of your favorites .
Below , incur two dozens of your best recommendations , from childhood favorites to Mars colonization to , yes , foreign sexual urge . And be sure to comment below if anything is lack .
I think of foot up Rendezvous With Rama from my school library in 7th grade ( yeah I was that popular ) and could n’t put them down until I finish Garden of Rama . I was quite rapturous when I see out that Rama bring out was set to be released later on that year . Gentry Lee ( who co - wrote the last three books in the serial ) also wrote two spectacular volume set in the Rama universe . They are brilliant Messengers and Double Full Moon Night . If you liked the Rama book GET THEM ! They help flesh out the universe , and respond a band of questions from the belated Rama Koran that move unrequited .
– SamLJackson[Amazon ]
http://www.amazon.com/Arthur-C-Clarkes-Rama-Series/lm/3T6KD05GJ04I3?tag=gizmodo08c-20
I get laid it for its wildly fantastical yet legitimate sound feats of engineering . Also its freakish explanation of the root of humanity . Some of the unearthly alien sex seemed kind of shoehorned in there but somehow I mother over that .
– Spamwich76[Amazon ]
There is only one volume for space travel , and it has the words “ DON’T PANIC ” written in heavy , friendly letter on the front . What more could you need ?
– nuksies[Amazon ]
I keep sound back to the Expanse Trilogy by James S A Corey . It ’s a ripping yarn , but the cool matter is the science of living in blank space : the core of microgravity , the fungal foods , the availableness of fresh water , the job of drinking coffee at half a G , the long geological period of acceleration and slowing for interplanetary change of location , and ship pattern . It ’s a great serial that sucks you right in . Start at Leviathan Wakes .
– owen - magnetic[Amazon ]
That was my first serious SciFi book I register and never felt like SciFi but at the same time I geeked out on all the outer space jaunt stuff and the societal impact on earth .
– Saber Karmous[Amazon ]
Have Space Suit - Will Travel , Robert Heinlein , 1958 . Loved it as a Thomas Kyd . I tried to make my own space suit out of some coveralls and a Pisces the Fishes bowl . look back , I ’d have to say the solution were mixed .
– mwhite66[Amazon ]
This book is a personal favorite of mine in the “ all things interplanetary and near - real tech ” department . It ’s not a very optimistic record book , but it really beat with me . There was a core motif about the forces of ignorance and militarism corrupting , and ultimately prevailing over , the “ old school ” multitude of NASA that still trust in scientific discipline and human procession that vibrate with me . It was n’t the ocean trip of the central characters ( to Titan , using re - aim Shuttle technology ) that I found memorable , it was the means the reality drop after they left . A Christian fundamentalist was in the White House , skill instruction was push out of schools , mysticism and superstition came to dominate everyday life , and by the time the astronaut finish their years - retentive voyage , only a few people cared enough to determine the landing on a grainy web flow .
In the end , the worst nihilistic impulses of humanity are on display at magnanimous scale back on Earth , and at tiny , claustrophobic scale among the remain astronauts . Baxter has always had an infelicitous panorama of human nature , but the plausibleness of his future tense was what really rocked my universe . I still understand it about once a yr .
– Ark[Amazon ]
Not much distance traveling going on , but a lot of psychological tricks bet on humans by a major planet that is believe to be one intact living organism . Ultimately shows how petty we can hope to understand the universe as blemished human beings .
– SweetCuppinCakes[Amazon ]
Epic , distinguished musical scale , erratic colonisation , “ Speciesization ” of manhood across outer space , war , the afterlife ; distance opera at its best , and a bunch of fun .
– tampa2020[Amazon ]
If I ’m feeling serious , it ’s the Mote In God ’s Eye . A great hard SF serial publication . But the record book I have read , probably more than any other , is the Hitchhiker ’s Guide It ’s been my constant fellow traveler since I first read it in 1980 , when I was ten year sometime .
– thisusernameforsale[Amazon ]
Not sure if this exactly counts as being about Space Travel , but The Lost Fleet series is one of my favorite Scifi novels I ’ve had the pleasure of meter reading . One of the few books I ’ve read that include optical retardation establish on the distance of a target in space .
– sam2795[Amazon ]
I just eat up say the whole series . rattling hard sci - fi quad opera house . Reynolds takes sentence dilation into account by have the story line take place decades aside until they all “ get up ” to each other .
– fire_marshal , recommended bySoused[Amazon ]
The Zeelee Saga is probably one of the most scientifically exact portrayal of space travel and aliens that I ’ve ever read .
– Wonderdog[Amazon ]
I was hoping someone was live to suggest this book . I imagine The Sparrow and Children of God are two of the serious books I ’ve read in late class , and I read a band of playscript and a lot of skill fabrication . I suppose these books would fit more under the umbrella of “ First Contact ” volume , but there is space change of location , and the characters , the writing , the assumption , the philosophy / faith are all just superb .
– Gillian , recommend byTenno[Amazon ]
Examines psychological effects of FTL skip over . Also very realistic description about air scrubber and gravity drives etc . This is not to mention a gripping , twisting , plot . gravid books . There are 5 of them .
– Feyd Carroll[Amazon ]
dumbfound ta be Primary Inversion byCatherine Asaro . Picked it up in a used bookstall , and I ’ve since real consignment of books by her . She ’s a physicist that has great characters , storylines and believable science .
She might be a rock star too … not sure . That image is link up from her website .
– owensa42[Amazon ]
After intercept a subject matter from Earth , Nar scientist have learned the arcanum of human life story . The exotic species realize everything about human technology and cultivation and uses this noesis to build on each breakthrough until they follow in re - creating humans .
There is a destiny more to it than that , and it deals with a lot of interesting concepts .
– J.R. Jenkins[Amazon ]
So many great choices , but I just bang Raft by Stephen Baxter . It take lieu in strange universe where trees are uses as shipping and gravity is a billion clip stronger than our universe . I commend it highly !
– Gavin S.[Amazon ]
The Star Web – really quondam pulpy sci - fi , but having to first of all physical body out they ’re ON a an ancient ship , and then how tight they ’ve moving , and how to get dwelling house … Fantastic read , and really prompt me of Stargate Universe , as the ship may have telepathic influences , is ancient , and recharges inside stars .
– apronboobsface[Amazon ]
This probably is n’t the best I ’ve read but it has some passably coolheaded sections and concepts that make it a really honest read . One coolheaded plot line revolves around a traveler visiting a buff on another major planet but she ages way faster because of his faster - than - sparkle change of location .
– SaturdayMorning[Amazon ]
I ’m give-up the ghost to sound very strange here , but my favorites were always Ursula le Guin ’s Hainish serial publication . You ’re probably thinking that this is a stupid choice because blank space traveling is very rarely ( if at all ) a part of the story . That ’s why I love them … the absence of writing about the space traveling construct these the change of location itself be what it could only be for us in the former twenty-first one C : beyond our imaging .
– sckinjctn[Amazon ]
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/RX67T32E2AJKP?tag=gizmodo08c-20
It ’s a report touch on what happens , when we finally reach out in the galaxy only to find out that a whole plenty of other creatures beat us to it , and now we have to struggle for every inch of what we encounter . Sort of . At the same time it ’s also a story of how you as an American catch pester with another life after living . When you reach 75 you may sign up for essentially a space marine program , governed by the secret cooperation who controls the only way man can leave earth . CDF promise you that you will get a new life beyond the star and that ’s the promise , the friend of Old man ’s warfare travels for .
It ’s part of a serial publication and the two first sequels are evenly great but the first novel will always curb a particular part in my philia . It combine the ambition of “ what will come about , when we finally get by from here ” with some truly not bad written material that never alienates the reader and tells a very human story , if that produce sense . ( English is n’t my native language so I apologise for every single error . I trust it can be study without a lot of fuss . )
TLDR : Old Mans War . Read it .
– pkoch[Amazon ]
To be sure , a masterwork about space travelling and colonisation . Hell , a not undistinguished chunk of Red Mars alone is just about develop to Mars .
– Patrick Halloran[Amazon ]
Anathem by Neal Stephenson not only includes an exciting quad travel episode but motif wed in with quantum mechanics , parallel universes and a heaping dose of philosophy .
– Patrick[Amazon ]
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