Welcome to the Essential Science Fiction Novels book series, where you will find a selection of endless tales about the incredible technologies of the future, time travel and its consequences, adventures in interstellar spaceships, strange post-apocalyptic worlds, dangerous alien invasions and everything else the authors dreamed of or feared for th...

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French astronomer Camille Flammarion (1842–1925) called the study of the heavens \"the science which concerns us most\". He believed that learning \"what place we occupy in the infinite\" could delight and instruct, and might even promote an end to war and strife....