Outer Space

The Planets

Ackerman, Diane

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 fantasy, satire, myth, and reflection. (Publisher description)

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Battle of the Big Bang

Afshordi, Niyayesh

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 offer both a call for new physics and a riveting story of scientific debate. (NoveList)

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Beautyland

Bertino, Marie-Helene

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)

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Sweep of Stars

Broaddus, Maurice

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 oppressive governments of Earth in 2050. (Publishers Weekly)

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Dawn

Butler, Octavia E.

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)

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Meru

Divya, S. B.

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

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Counterweight

Djuna

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)

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Orbital

Harvey, Samantha

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

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In Light-years There's No Hurry

Heemstra, Marjolijn van

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

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Painting the Cosmos

Imara, Nia

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)

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