What are the best fiction/sci-fy books about Space?

18 hours ago ... Here are some of the science fiction books Space.com's writers and editors have read and loved — an incomplete (but growing) list. read more

Click to see the best of: Space Books for Kids; Astronomy and Astrophysics; Spaceflight and Space History; Space Photography; Science Fiction; We hope there's something on our lists for every reader of every age. We're also eager to hear about your favorite space books, so please leave your suggestions in the comments, and let us know why you love them. read more

Arrow Books/Orb Books The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein (1966) A number of Heinlein's sci-fi stories have not aged particularly well (the man-from-Mars saga Stranger in a Strange Land and the oft-fanatical Starship Troopers, for example), but his best and most polished novel is this invigorating tale of a "Rational Anarchist" revolution on the moon. read more

To some readers, books about space refers to space-opera, a subset of sf that sets much of its action in space the same way the Western genre in fiction sets its stories in an Old West that owes more to Hollywood movies than anything that ever occurred in the actual West. read more