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Capital City Reads: To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
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To Be Taught, If Fortunate
by Becky Chambers
While on a mission to ecologically survey four habitable worlds, Ariadne O’Neill and a team of explorers, shifting through space and time, discover that the culture back on Earth has been transformed and must make a difficult decision.
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Read-alikes for To Be Taught, if Fortunate
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The Martian
by Andy Weir
Stranded on Mars by a dust storm that compromised his space suit and forced his crew to leave him behind, astronaut Watney struggles to survive in spite of minimal supplies and harsh environmental challenges that test his ingenuity in unique ways.
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Aurora
by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Hugo Award-winning author of the Mars trilogy presents a major new work that imagines humanity's first voyage beyond the solar system. Generations after leaving Earth on humanity's first voyage beyond the solar system, a starship draws near to a planet that may serve as a new home world for those on board, but their best laid plans may not be enough to survive.
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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
by Becky Chambers
Joining the crew of the aging Wayfarer, a patched-up ship that has seen better days, loner Rosemary Harper must unexpectedly risk her life when they are offered the job of a lifetime, which teaches her valuable lessons about love and trust, and that having a family isn't the worst thing in the universe.
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All Systems Red
by Martha Wells
A murderous android discovers itself in "All Systems Red", a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial intelligence. In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn't a primary concern. On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied 'droid -- a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as "Murderbot." Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is. But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.
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Ancillary Justice
by Ann Leckie
Now isolated in a single frail human body, Breq, an artificial intelligence that used to control of a massive starship and its crew of soldiers, tries to adjust to her new humanity while seeking vengeance and answers to her questions.
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The Three-Body Problem
by Cixin Liu
Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project's signal is received by an alien civilization on the brink of destruction, which plans to invade Earth; meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion.
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The Calculating Stars
by Mary Robinette Kowal
In 1952, a meteorite strike causes a climate cataclysm that will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, forcing an accelerated effort to colonize space, and Elma York's experience as a WASP pilot and mathematician earns her a place as a calculator in the International Aerospace Coalition's attempts to put man on the moon, but soon her drive to become the first Lady Astronaut is so strong that even the most dearly held conventions of society may not stand a chance against her.
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I Hope You Get This Message
by Farah Naz Rishi
When Earth receives messages from another world, claiming that the planet is their created colony and that they are planning to destroy it within a week, three teens are forced to confront the mistakes of their past before they run out of time.
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The Forever War
by Joe W. Haldeman
Drafted into the ranks of Earth's interstellar warriors, private William Mandella finds his fight against the Taurans secondary to the side-effects of faster-than-light space travel, which affects the rate at which he ages.
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Learn more about exoplanets and the search for extraterrestrial life
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The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
by Sarah Stewart Johnson
A Georgetown University planetary scientist presents a deeply personal account of the search for life on Mars, tracing her own journey as a scientist while exploring the work of historical scientists and artists whose achievements were inspired by the planet.
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Infinite Worlds: An Illustrated Voyage to Planets Beyond our Sun
by Ray Villard
Internationally renowned astronomical artwork, the latest images from the world's top observatories, and up-to-the-minute scientific findings on subjects including stellar evolution are brought together in this exploration of the cosmos and of far-flung planets that exist outside our Solar System.
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The Vinyl Frontier: The Story of the Voyager Golden Record
by Jonathan Scott
Tells the whole story of how the Record of music, sounds and pictures that painted a picture of Earth for any alien races that may come into contact with NASA’s Voyager probe was created, from NASA’s project proposal to the moment Carl Sagan and his team watched the Record rocket off into space.
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Life As We Do Not Know It: The NASA Search for (and Synthesis of) Alien Life
by Peter Douglas Ward
A revealing exploration of the latest NASA research into the possibility of extraterrestrial life also poses a hypothesis about the origins of life on Earth, examining the controversial idea of creating non-DNA life in a laboratory as well as the scientific possibilities of the range of life throughout the universe.
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