43/ Orion Shall Rise, by Poul Anderson. Again, set a thousand years after the nuclear war. There are several interestingly evolved future cultures, all vying for supremacy. I need to reread this.
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44/ Hardwired, by Walter Jon Williams. Great cyberpunk-ish smuggling tale.
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45/ Deep Drive by Alexander Jablokov. The solar system has been visited by dozens of aliens, but they won't sell humans the technology to travel to the stars. Intrigue happens.
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46/ Farewell Horizontal by K. W. Jeter. A very weird setting that haunts the entire tale: everything takes place on the outside of a very (infinitely ?) tall building.
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47/ Beggars in Spain, Nancy Kress. In a near future where a fraction of 1% of people produce 99% of the value, and everyone else lives off of welfare which they "earn" by voting, what responsibility does the 1% have for the others? Nancy answers the question incorrectly.
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48/ Red Mars, etc. trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. An epic tale of teraforming, politics, and ecoterrorism.
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49/ Against a Dark Background, by Iain M Banks. A stand alone novel, outside of his culture universe, set in a world that is far far far from any galaxies, and which therefore is trapped in tens or hundreds of thousands of years of rise-and-fall-and-rise history
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50/ and speaking of endless cycles The Mote in God's Eye by Niven and Pournelle. Best first contact novel ever, IMO. I s̶t̶e̶a̶l̶ pay homage to one particular scene in Aristillus 4.
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