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  The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Book 1

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  by Douglas Adams

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  Hubble Revisited: New Images From the Discovery Machine

  by Daniel Fischer

  Arguably the single most successful scientific instrument ever built, the Hubble Space Telescope continues to dazzle us. In recent months it has been at the front lines of all the most pressing questions in astrophysics. What is the age of the Universe? How are stars born? Are extrasolar planets similar to those in our galaxy? In Hubble Revisited: New Images from the Discovery Machine, the authors of the... (more)
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  Federation

  by Mark Lenard, Star Trek (Related Recordings), Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens

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  Manseed

  by Jack Williamson

• AMERICA 2040, #1 (America Two Thousand Forty)Evan Innes

  

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  AMERICA 2040, #1 (America Two Thousand Forty)

  by Evan Innes

  In the year 2033, the American president is given an ultimatum by his mad Russian counterpart: Let the Soviets take over the world or it will be destoyed. The president orders a spaceship built so that Americans can colonize a far-distant planet. War breaks out as the vessel lifts off, and communications are conveniently sabotaged so the fate of Earth is never known. High melodrama ensues on the ship, culminating... (more)
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  Expanding Universe (DK Essential Science)

  by Mark A. Garlick

  Big ideas made simple -- six books in an incredible new series that explains important scientific ideas more clearly than ever before. How the universe formed, what it consists of, and how it will end are central concerns of physicists, astronomers, and other residents of planet Earth. This book explains it all, from the creation theory to the Big Bang, from gas giants to black holes. This stimulating new... (more)
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  Mind Over Ship

  by David Marusek

  The year is 2135, and the international program to seed the galaxy with human colonies has stalled as greedy, immoral powerbrokers park their starships in Earth’s orbit and begin to convert them into space condos. Ellen Starke’s head, rescued from the fiery crash that killed her mother, struggles to regrow a new body in time to restore her dead mother’s financial empire. And Pre-Singularity AIs conspire to join... (more)
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  Eyewitness Visual Dictionaries: The Visual Dictionary of the Universe

  by DK Publishing

  Come explore the universe from the inside out. This visual dictionary examines the planets, the stars, and the mysteries of space.
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  Galaxy : Exploring the Milky Way

  Fall River Press: Over two hundred and fifty thousand trillion miles away, amid the bright star clouds of Sagittarius, lies the point about which the Milky Ways 200 billion stars all revolve. Such distances, such numbers, such a view defy the imagination. Yet the incredible advances of modern science have built a compelling portrait of our cosmic habitat and armed with this hard-won knowledge, we can now... (more)