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• The Planets

  a Cosmic Pastoral

  Ackerman, Diane, 1948-

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  Nonfiction. From Marginalian Editions comes a gorgeous reissue of celebrated poet and naturalist Diane Ackerman’s debut: a soaring ode to our solar system, planet to planet, blending science and imagination, astronomy and cosmology, as well as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Battle of the Big Bang

  the New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins

  Afshordi, Niyayesh, 1978-

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  Nonfiction. A prominent cosmologist and a science communicator present a tour of the peculiar possibilities - bouncing and cyclic universes, time loops, creations from nothing, multiverses, black hole births, string theories and holograms - and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Beautyland

  Bertino, Marie-Helene,

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  Fiction. The triumphant latest from Bertino offers a wryly comic critique of social conventions from the perspective of a woman who also happens to be an alien from another planet. (Publishers Weekly)

• Sweep of Stars

  Broaddus, Maurice

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  Fiction. Broaddus opens his Astra Black trilogy with this powerful, sweeping Afrofuturist space opera that introduces Muungano, a cooperative society of pan-African people stretching through the solar system and founded after seceding from the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dawn

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  Fiction. The human race, now infertile, fights to maintain its identity when the alien species, Oankali, offers to trade genetic material and bioengineering at the price of metamorphosing a new kind of being. (NoveList)

• Meru

  Divya, S. B.

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  Fiction. A galaxy-spanning space opera about two lost souls determined to prove themselves. (Kirkus)

• Counterweight

  Djuna

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  Fiction. The future of humanity hangs in the balance as a group of rival forces with a far-flung range of grievances race to be the first to retrieve data that is powering a space elevator on the Korean island of Patusan. (NoveList)

• Orbital

  Harvey, Samantha, 1975-

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  Fiction. Six astronauts on a space station orbit the planet over the course of a single Earth day. (Kirkus)

• In Light-years There's No Hurry

  Cosmic Perspectives on Everyday Life

  Heemstra, Marjolijn van, 1981-

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  Nonfiction. An escape from doomscrolling social media to the vantage point of the Hubble telescope, 340 miles above the Earth’s surface. (Kirkus)

• Painting the Cosmos

  How Art and Science Intersect to Reveal the Secrets of the Universe

  Imara, Nia

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  Nonfiction. What is our place in the universe? Where do art and science overlap? How can we use these disciplines to better understand the universe--and how do they help us shape our reality? (Publisher description)

• Remina

  Itō, Junji, 1963-

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  Fiction Graphic Novel. In an unspecified future, a brilliant scientist identifies a new planet and names it Remina, after his teenage daughter, who reluctantly embraces her newfound celebrity. (Library Journal)

• The Stardust Grail

  Kitasei, Yume

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  Fiction. A reformed thief sets out on one final heist across the universe. (Kirkus)

• The Spare Man

  Kowal, Mary Robinette, 1969-

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  Fiction. An engineering magnate gets swept into a murder investigation in this vibrant space mystery from Kowal. (Publishers Weekly)

• Interstellar Megachef

  Lakshminarayan, Lavanya

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  Fiction. Lakshminarayan sets this delicious, futuristic flight of fancy nearly 2,000 years after humans first settled on the planet Primus, which has since far outstripped Earth in cultural and technological development. (Publishers Weekly)

• The Dispossessed

  a Novel

  Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018,

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  Fiction. A bleak moon settled by utopian anarchists, Anarres has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother planet, Urras—a civilization of warring nations, great poverty, and immense wealth. Now Shevek, a brilliant physicist, is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Who Owns the Moon?

  and Other Conundrums of Exploring and Using Space

  Levinson, Cynthia

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  Young Adult Nonfiction. A primer on what to know for a future in space includes facts, stories and new ways of thinking about the challenges of space, such as how to handle space debris and coping with the growth of space tourism. (NoveList)

• Surviva

  a Future Ancestral Field Guide

  Luger, Cannupa Hanska, 1979-

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  Fiction. Interdisciplinary Native American artist Luger delivers a daring work of speculative fiction set in a future in which the wealthy and non-Indigenous have fled the Earth they ravaged. (Publishers Weekly)

• In Ascension

  MacInnes, Martin

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  Fiction. A Dutch scientist travels farther than humankind ever dreamed possible to explore the origins of life itself in this extraordinary novel. (Booklist)

• A Brief History of the Universe (and Our Place in It)

  Malik, Sarah Alam

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  Nonfiction. Particle physicist Malik debuts with a broad overview of humanity’s quest to understand the cosmos. (Publishers Weekly)

• The Milky Way

  An Autobiography of Our Galaxy

  McTier, Moiya,

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  Nonfiction. The history of the universe as recounted by a chatty Milky Way. (Kirkus)