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Forge of GodSeries
series2 books1987
completed
Tense in tone.
“Earth faces destruction when an inscrutable and overwhelming alien form of life attacks.”
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Start with The Forge of God →
ThornsNovel
Robert Silverbergstandalone novel1967
Space opera, about love triangle and loneliness.
“Whose butchered body had been put together by aliens, with artificial and alien replacements.”
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The Stars My DestinationNovel
Alfred Besterstandalone novel1956
Space opera, adventurous in tone, about revenge and identity.
HeecheeSeries
series19 books1972
completed
Space opera.
“The Heechee are an advanced alien race that visited the Solar System hundreds of millennia ago and then mysteriously disappeared.”
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Start with Gateway →
Pushing IceNovel
Alastair Reynoldsstandalone novel2005
Hard science fiction and first contact, tense in tone, set in spaceship.
The Dosadi ExperimentNovel
Frank Herbertstandalone novel1977
Space opera, tense in tone, about political intrigue.
“Dosadi is rumored to be an experimental planet, and the experimenters are the froglike Gowachin, whose culture is founded upon a strange legal system in which McKie is the only human ever trained.”
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