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Ender's Game
Known Space
CoDominium
Forever War
Childe Cycle
Dune
H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds
Alliance-Union
Old Man's War

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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Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

About aliens, set in other star systems.

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

universe98 books1971

Set in other star systems.

“The body of work runs along a few hard threads rather than one line.”
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Forever WarSeries

seriesJoe Haldeman10 books1972

Science fiction and military science fiction, set in space and far future.

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Childe CycleSeries

seriesGordon R. Dickson & David W. Wixon19 books1957

Set in other star systems.

“The related short stories and novellas all center on the Dorsai, primarily members of the Graeme and Morgan families.”
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Start with Act of Creation →

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera, about political intrigue, set in other star systems.

“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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Start with Dune →

H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse

universe65 books1898

Alien invasion.

“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The War of the Worlds →

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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Old Man's WarSeries

seriesJohn Scalzi16 books2005

Space opera, set in other star systems.

“Sign a document at 65, saying you intend to join up 10 years later.”
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What should I read after Murphy's Lawless: Mission Critical?: Ender's Game — the closest match to Murphy's Lawless: Mission Critical on what it is about, not on what sells.
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