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universe39 books1972

Adventurous in tone, set in far future and other star systems.

“Two species that ought, by every buried instinct, to recoil from one another instead clasp hand to truhand and build a galaxy together.”
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Start with For Love of Mother-Not →

includes Pip & Flinx, Icerigger Trilogy, The Founding of the Commonwealth

Viagens InterplanetariasSeries

series23 books1949

completed

Space opera, adventurous in tone, set in other star systems and far future.

“Set in the future in the 21st and 22nd centuries, the series is named for the quasi-public Terran agency portrayed as monopolizing interstellar travel, the Brazilian-dominated Viagens Interplanetarias.”
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Start with The Queen of Zamba →

Agent to the StarsNovel

John Scalzistandalone novel2005

First contact, funny in tone, set in contemporary and north america.

“There's just one problem: They're hideously ugly and they smell like rotting fish.”
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Sector GeneralSeries

series36 books1957

Set in far future and space station.

“The Hospital was founded to promote peace after humanity's first interstellar war, and in the fourth book the authorities conclude that its emergency services are the most effective way to make peaceful contact with new species.”
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Start with Hospital Station →

Martians, Go HomeNovel

Fredric Brownstandalone novel1955

Humor, funny in tone, set in our world and contemporary.

Swordsman of MarsSeries

series2 books1960

completed

Adventurous in tone, set in mars.

“The two novels share Kline's Mars and some characters without directly continuing one plot, and were written partly in rivalry with Edgar Rice Burroughs's Barsoom novels.”
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Start with The Swordsman of Mars →

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