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VorkosiganUniverse
universe27 books1986
Space opera.
“Beyond his backwater lies the wormhole nexus: a scatter of human worlds strung along unstable jump-routes, where a blood-and-honor warrior aristocracy, a coolly egalitarian utopia, and a hundred lesser polities trade, spy, and go to war.”
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Start with Shards of Honor →
includes Cordelia Vorkosigan, Miles Vorkosigan, Quaddies
Defy the Stars (Claudia Gray)Series
series3 books2017
Space opera, about artificial intelligence.
“Noemi Vidal is seventeen years old and sworn to protect her planet, Genesis.”
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Start with Defy the Stars →
The Xenith TrilogySeries
series3 books2017
Space opera, tense in tone, about political intrigue.
“Kidnapped by the princess's head bodyguard, Ruckus, and imprisoned in an alien palace, Delaney is forced to impersonate the princess until Olena can be found.”
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Start with Amid Stars and Darkness →
Ender's GameUniverse
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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Start with Ender's Game →
includes Ender Wiggin, Ender's Shadow, First Formic War, Second Formic War, Fleet School
Song of ScarabaeusSeries
series2 books2010
Space opera.
Start with Song of Scarabaeus →
The Ophelia ProphecyNovel
Sharon Lynn Fisherstandalone novel2014
Tense in tone, about amnesia.
“Asha and Pax -- strangers and enemies -- find themselves stranded together on the border of the last human city, neither with a memory of how they got there.”
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