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Science Fiction Books
 Title (with Amazon.com link)  Rating   Book Cover   Author   Description 
Ender's Game 10 O. Scott Card One of the all time sci-fi classics. A good read even if you aren't into this genre at all. A must read if you like SciFi.
The Time Traveler's Wife 9.8 Audrey Niffenegger One of the best, and most mindblowing books I have ever read. It’s the story of a man who can time travel and his long, and time twisted relationship with his wife. So mind warping with the time element totally chaotic yet totally gripping throughout. Just a great, great, great read and you don't have to be sci-fi fan at all to enjoy it.
Lucifer's Hammer 9.6 Niven Pournelle Fantastic real world sci-fi. A comet is spotted and nobody is sure if it will hit the earth. It doesn't loook like it. The book is set in 1977. Once the comet does hit several threads are followed of how people survive. Great stuff. Not much science, but plenty of interesting stories an drama takes place as folks follow different paths to survival.
The Titan's Curse 9.3 Rick Riordan Percy Jackson is back again taking on the bad Gods and helping the good ones in the 3rd book of The Olympians series. This is as good as the first one. Great stuff.
Moonfall 9.3 Jack McDevitt Story of a comet hitting the moon and what happens afterwards. Good disaster tale with interesting characters and some well thought out future discoveries.
Moonwar 9 Ben Bova
Mars 9 Ben Bova


Science
 Site   Rating    Description
NASA's EarthObservatory 9 News, articles, reaseach, gloassay, images, and more.
How Stuff Works 9 Learn how tons of different things work. From car transmissions to cameras to composting.
CNN Science 9 News and info.
FirstScience.com 9 Great site having tons of info and other things including quizzes, games, a large article archive.
BBC Science 9 The news in science from a British point of view.
ABCNews Science 9 Overview of what's happening in science with a news perspective.
Popular Science 9 All around science site from the magazine.
NewScientist 8.5 Very good science news site.
Online Conversion 8 Convert anything to anything except Bin Laden to a Zionist.
SciTech Daily Review 7 All that's going on in science including links to many news sites.
Nova 7 Nova's science news.
The Learning Channel 7 News including the Junkyard Wars.
Science Daily 5 Science news.


Space and Astronomy
 Site   Rating    Description
NASA 10 A list of all the NASA sites. Very cool.
Space.com 9 News and info about space.
Space Daily 9 "Your Portal to Space". Everything newsworthy happening in space.
RedNova 8 Plenty of info on space exploration.
International Space Station 8 An overview of the International Space Station.
Space Image Libraries 8 Tons of space pictures.
Popular Science Space 7 Some articles from the magazine.
Sky and Telescope 6 The Astronomy magazine's site.
Smithsonian Pictures 6 Some pictures from the Smithsonian Center for Earth and Planetary Studies.
Some pictures from the Space Shuttle.
Comets and Meteors 5 Lists all the commets and meteors along with the calendar of events.


Miscellaneous
 Site   Rating    Description
SuperStringTheory.com 8 All you ever wanted to know about Super String Theory.


Environment
 Site   Rating    Description
World Environment 9 All the news fit to print.
MarineBio 8 Cool marine biology site.
MSNBC 8 News about the earth and the environment.
Nova 8 The Environment section of Nova's site.

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