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2016-08-16 09:52:00 Post No. 8403391
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Anonymous 2016-08-16 09:52:00 Post No. 8403391 [Report]

What are some good scifi books that focus primarily on humanity's first steps in interstellar travel, colonization and discovering the unknown in a time where space flight is still dangerous? I.e. not some high-flying space opera bullshit.

Anonymous 2016-08-16 09:54:55 Post No.8403394
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Anonymous 2016-08-16 09:54:55 Post No.8403394 [Report]

>>8403391
Lem's stories about Pilot Pirx.
also, >>>/sfg/

Anonymous 2016-08-16 11:08:45 Post No.8403504
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Anonymous 2016-08-16 11:08:45 Post No.8403504 [Report]

Foundation Trilogy.

Anonymous 2016-08-16 11:10:51 Post No.8403507
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Anonymous 2016-08-16 11:10:51 Post No.8403507 [Report]

>>8403504
That's not like what OP wants at all.

Anonymous 2016-08-16 11:21:14 Post No.8403526
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Anonymous 2016-08-16 11:21:14 Post No.8403526 [Report]

Edward Elmer Smith's Skylark Series

Anonymous 2016-08-16 18:34:34 Post No.8404723
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Anonymous 2016-08-16 18:34:34 Post No.8404723 [Report]

>>8403394
Fuck off nerd. The general is terrible for getting recs beyond the superficial. He's more like to get a response in a thread that night only get a dozen responses.

CS Lewis's Space Trilogy does this. Sadly it's not a sub genre that receives much attention.

Anonymous 2016-08-16 22:32:08 Post No.8405530
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Anonymous 2016-08-16 22:32:08 Post No.8405530 [Report]

I think Martian Chronicles comes close to what you're looking for, but I haven't read it so idk.

Anonymous 2016-08-16 22:58:16 Post No.8405615
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Anonymous 2016-08-16 22:58:16 Post No.8405615 [Report]

>>8404723
The space trilogy books are just fantasies in space, though.

>>8403391
>>>/sffg/

Anonymous 2016-08-17 02:21:09 Post No.8406289
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Anonymous 2016-08-17 02:21:09 Post No.8406289 [Report]

>>8405530
Marian Chronicles is bullshit

2001 comes to mind.

Anonymous 2016-08-17 02:24:07 Post No.8406297
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Anonymous 2016-08-17 02:24:07 Post No.8406297 [Report]

>>8403391
KSR's Red Mars. It's not the most exotic as regards exploration, but nothing in hard-sci really is.

Anonymous 2016-08-17 02:49:29 Post No.8406359
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Anonymous 2016-08-17 02:49:29 Post No.8406359 [Report]

>>8403504
Not foundation but the robots trilogy, that's exactly what anon wants.

Anonymous 2016-08-17 02:50:40 Post No.8406363
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Anonymous 2016-08-17 02:50:40 Post No.8406363 [Report]

>>8406289
Martian Chronicles are at least nicely written if very early (and therefore very unrealistic). In the same vein, if you can stomach Heinlein you could do Farmer in the Sky or Double Star. Also the Mars Trilogy might be up your alley.

Anonymous 2016-08-17 02:54:05 Post No.8406372
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Anonymous 2016-08-17 02:54:05 Post No.8406372 [Report]

Nemesis by Asimov

Anonymous 2016-08-17 03:36:57 Post No.8406486
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Anonymous 2016-08-17 03:36:57 Post No.8406486 [Report]

Not interstellar but maybe The Moon is a Harsh Mistress?