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Ender's Game
Dune
CoDominium
Alliance-Union
Forever War
Known Space
Halo
Vatta
Honorverse

universe39 books1977

Science fiction, set in far future.

“To beat your enemy you must first understand him so completely that you love him — and in the instant you love him, you destroy him.”
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DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, about political intrigue.

“The desert planet, where empire runs on a single substance: the spice melange, which folds space, prolongs life, and unlocks prescience, and which exists nowhere else in the known universe.”
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CoDominiumUniverse

universe98 books1971

Military science fiction and science fiction, set in far future and other star systems.

“The body of work runs along a few hard threads rather than one line.”
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Alliance-UnionUniverse

universe173 books1976

Science fiction, set in far future.

“Around that spine cluster the merchanter novels of trader Families, the Faded Sun trilogy of human envoys among the martial alien Mri, and the Chanur books, narrated from the hierarchical, whiskered viewpoint of the hani.”
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Forever WarSeries

seriesJoe Haldeman10 books1972

Set in space.

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Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

About aliens, set in space.

“Give a clever species a few centuries and a working fusion drive, and it will fill the sky with problems.”
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HaloUniverse

universe70 books2001

Set in space.

“The shelf grows out of a 2001 video game, but it reads as its own body of military science fiction, built by many hands.”
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VattaUniverse

universe10 books2003

Space opera, set in space.

“Get kicked out of the Academy and the family still hands you a ship.”
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HonorverseUniverse

universe83 books1993

Space opera, set in space.

“At the center stands one officer, Honor Harrington — captain, then something far larger — and the six-limbed empathic treecat who rides her shoulder.”
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