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  • Cover of Old Man's War
    Old Man's WarSeries

    series · 16 books · 2005

    Military science fiction, about war.

    “Sign a document at 65, saying you intend to join up 10 years later.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Old Man's War →

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  • Cover of Known Space
    Known SpaceUniverse

    universe · 142 books · 1964

    Science fiction, about aliens, set in far future and space.

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

    from the catalogue
    Start with Ringworld →

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    includes Ringworld, Man-Kzin Wars, Fleet of Worlds

  • Cover of Uplift Universe
    UpliftUniverse

    universe · 13 books · 1980

    About uplift.

    “No species, the Galactics insist, ever climbs to sapience alone.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Sundiver →

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    includes Uplift Storm, Uplift

  • Cover of Rama
    RamaUniverse

    universe · 7 books · 1973

    Set in spaceship.

    “Something is falling through the solar system on a hyperbolic orbit, and it is not a comet.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Rendezvous with Rama →

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    includes Rama (2)

  • Cover of Cities in Flight
    Cities in FlightSeries

    series · 10 books · 1950

    completed

    Science fiction and space opera, about space colonization, set in far future and space.

    “The stories cover roughly two thousand years, from the very near future to the end of the universe.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with They Shall Have Stars →

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  • Cover of The Talents
    The TalentsUniverse

    universe · 18 books · 1959

    About psychic powers.

    “Somewhere a Prime holds a Tower, gathers the gestalt of a generator's power, and flings a starship — or a single frightened child — across the light-years between worlds.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Rowan →

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    includes Tower and the Hive, Talents (Anne McCaffrey)