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- LySanTer (Future Fantasy Romance)
series3 books1990
completed
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- Anna Nestor-Sigrid / The Aighors
series4 books1975
completed
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Beyond Heaven's River follows Yoshio Kawashita, a soldier abducted mid-battle during World War II and stranded by unknown aliens on a distant world he can never leave, whose only tie back to meaning is Anna Nestor, a ruthless interstellar power broker who first treats him as a curiosity before the two are forced to confront who took him and why. Greg Bear wrote it as a standalone 1980 novel rather than the start of a series.
- Dare
Philip José Farmerstandalone novel1965
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Jack Cage lived on the planet Dare. He knew that he was human, and that he was the oldest son of a wealthy human farmer. But he hardly dared admit to himself, let alone to his family, the keen interest he felt in the 'native' inhabitants of Dare - those spectacularly beautiful humanoid creatures whose magnificent hair, growing clear down to the base of the spine, had given them their name of "horstel". It was death for any human to consort with any horstel after they became adult. For the humans of Dare still lived by the standards and mores of three hundred years before when they had been mysteriously whisked away from Earth and brought to this new planet. Except that Jack Cage suspected this was no mystery to the horstels... (from the back cover of the Ballantine Books first edition)
- Hestia
C. J. Cherryhstandalone novel1979
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Hestia is a 1979 science fiction novel by American writer C. J. Cherryh. It is an early novel in her career, about colonists on an alien world and their interactions with the catlike natives, centering on a young engineer sent to solve the colonists' problems, and his relationship with the young native cat-woman in scanty clothing on the cover.
- The Eternal Frontiers
James H. Schmitzstandalone novel1973
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- Pip & Flinx
series18 books1972
part of Humanx Commonwealth
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The Pip & Flinx novels follow Flinx, a young man with an unusual, mysterious origin, and his ever-present animal companion Pip, across Alan Dean Foster's Humanx Commonwealth setting. Beginning with The Tar-Aiym Krang (1972) — chronologically the second entry, since Foster later filled in Flinx's earlier life — the series grew to fifteen novels published between 1972 and 2017, mixing planetary adventure with a slowly unfolding personal mystery.
- The Sardonyx Net
Elizabeth A. Lynnstandalone novel1981
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From the flaps of the Putnam first edition: "The Sardonyx Net, also known as the Yago Net: a vast starship owned and operated by the Family Yago, captained by Zed Yago. It visits all planets in the Sardonyx Sector of space, picking up special cargo - convicted felons who will serve our their terms as dorazine-drugged slaves to the wealthy land and factory owners on the planet Chabad. But often their ordeal begins even before the are sold, for Zed Yago is a man with a taste for sadism. The slave trade is the most lucrative business on Chabad. It is controlled totally by the Family Yago, headed by Zed's older sister Rhani, who is the only woman Zed has truly loved. Rhani is a shrewd businesswoman with only one weakness: a heart as compassionate as her brother's is perverse. While the authorities of the Sector's other planets look away, the Families of Chabad purchase dorazine from representatives of a secret, unlocatable source known as The Pharmacy, and use it to keep their slave-based economy healthy. Not one protests, for Chabad's illegal and inhumane activities keep prisons empty, criminals under control, and Chabad's valuable exports flowing. Despite constant underground revolutionary activity, the situation has maintained. But he long-lived stability of this sanctioned trade in illegal drugs and human beings is now threatened by two unexpected events: a worsening shortage of dorazine which is sparking more rebellion, and the arrival of Starcaptain Dana Ikoro. Dana, as drug smuggler, is captured by the Net and delivered from Zed's hands to Rhani. He is to be her bodyguard, but becomes much more. Against this incredible background, Lynn tells an irresistible story of adventure, intrigue, revolution and romance. It is a story of people snared in a net of warring passions, a net which will prove to be even stronger than the power of the Sardonyx Net."
- Phule's Company
series6 books1990
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Phule's Company is a series of comic military science fiction novels by Robert Asprin, beginning with Phule's Company and ending with Phule's Errand.
- Hainish
series33 books1964
completed
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The Hainish Cycle consists of a number of science fiction novels and stories by Ursula K. Le Guin. The cycle is set in a future history that features civilizations of human beings on planets orbiting a number of nearby stars, including Terra ("Earth"); these humans are contacting each other for the first time and establishing diplomatic relations, as well as setting up a confederacy under the guidance of the oldest of the human worlds, the peaceful planet Hain. In this history, human beings did not evolve on Earth, but they were instead the result of interstellar colonies planted by Hain in the distant past, after which interstellar travel ceased for an extended period. Some of the human races have new genetic traits, a result of ancient Hainish experiments in genetic engineering; this includes people who can dream while awake, and a world of hermaphroditic people who only enter active sexuality once per month, not knowing which sex will manifest in them. In keeping with Le Guin's narrative approach, she uses varied social and environmental settings to explore the anthropological and sociological outcomes of human evolution in those environments. The author often discounted the characterization of a so-called "Hainish Cycle".
- Planet Nerak / Nerakian Quest
series4 books2007
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- Finders Keepers
Linnea Sinclairstandalone novel2001
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From the back cover of the Bantam paperback: "Independent trader Trilby Elliot is making some not-quite-legal modifications to her starfreighter, when an unexpected visitor falls out of space. Literally. He's crashed onto the uninhabited planet of Avanar in a crippled 'Sko fighter - the last place you'd expect to find a Zafharin military officer because the 'Sko and the Zafharin have been at war as long as Trilby can remember. Rhis Vanur is your typically arrogant Zafharin. But to Trilby's surprise, he doesn't look down on her or her slapdash ship. Still, Trilby's learned the hard way that even though she found Rhis, she can't keep him. She's just a low-budget jump jockey as far as men like him are concerned. She's not falling for his offer to help... until Port Rumor reports her best friend missing and Trilby learns that the 'Sko are hunting both her and Rhis. Now they're in it together for better, for worse-or till death blasts them to oblivion...."
- Karres
series5 books1949
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The Witches of Karres, James H. Schmitz's 1966 space opera, follows a young merchant-ship captain who impulsively frees three strange sisters from indentured servitude and finds himself dragged into interdimensional invaders, space pirates, and magic far stranger than his cargo runs prepared him for. Schmitz never wrote a follow-up himself, but the story was continued decades later by other hands — The Wizard of Karres, The Sorceress of Karres, The Shaman of Karres — carrying Captain Pausert and the Karres witches forward.
- Burning Bright
Melissa Scottstandalone novel1993
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Governed by two political rulers, the planet Burning Bright is the location of the biggest virtual reality game in the universe. Quinn Lioe is tangled in a web of love and suspense when she becomes determined to play at the center of the virtual reality world and gets stuck in the war between the two empires. This science fiction adventure is one of Scott's best and the complex futuristic world is unforgettable.
