Tag: Space Travel
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Enigma is the second book in the Trigon Disunity trilogy by Michael P. Kube-McDowell. It jumps forward a little in time from the previous book as it starts with humanity having made contact with several colonies after the discovery of other humans in space that occurred at the end of the previous book. The story…
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2001: A Space Odyssey was written by Arthur C. Clarke and based on the movie of the same name. It opens back in the stone age with some unusual rocks randomly appearing all over Earth and training or teaching early humans tools and tricks to help them progress. Eventually the mysterious rocks disappear as fast…
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Shards of Earth is the first book in The Final Architecture series by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It tells the story of Idris Tellemier, a man who is also something known as an intermediary. The intermediaries were a group of humans that were experimented on to gain extrasensory powers fifty years previous to help fight a war…
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To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is the first book in the Fractal Verse by Christopher Paolini. It tells the story of Kira Navarez, a young exobiologist who is working on a survey mission on a supposedly uncolonized planet. When she stumbles upon an unknown alien relic things start getting difficult though. The rest…
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3D printing a human body, I have to admit that it not something that I have come across before. That is however a primary theme in the book Re-printed Matter by Peter I. M. Merrins. The book opens just a few decades into our future, at a time when 3D printing has progressed into quantum…