Outer Space
Here are some suggestions for your 2026 Book Bingo NW category: Outer Space. Book Bingo is our annual adult summer reading program presented in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures and King County Library System.
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Remina
Graphic Novel Fiction. 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)
Format: Graphic Novel
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The Stardust Grail
Fiction. A reformed thief sets out on one final heist across the universe. (Kirkus)
Format: Book
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The Spare Man
Fiction. An engineering magnate gets swept into a murder investigation in this vibrant space mystery from Kowal. (Publishers Weekly)
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Interstellar Megachef
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)
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The Dispossessed
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 determined to reunite the two planets, which have been divided by centuries of distrust. (Publisher description)
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Who Owns the Moon?
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)
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Surviva
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)
Format: Book
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In Ascension
Fiction. A Dutch scientist travels farther than humankind ever dreamed possible to explore the origins of life itself in this extraordinary novel. (Booklist)
Format: Book
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A Brief History Of The Universe (and Our Place In It)
Nonfiction. Particle physicist Malik debuts with a broad overview of humanity’s quest to understand the cosmos. (Publishers Weekly)
Format: Book
Availability: On order
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The Milky Way
Nonfiction. The history of the universe as recounted by a chatty Milky Way. (Kirkus)
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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