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Watership DownSeries
series21 books1972
completed
Fantasy, about quests and found family, set in countryside & village.
“Adams returned to the same world in 1996 with Tales from Watership Down, a collection of nineteen short stories mixing rabbit folklore with further adventures of characters from the novel.”
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The Apocalypse TrollNovel
David Weberstandalone novel1999
Alien invasion, tense in tone, about aliens and war.
JumperSeries
series6 books1992
Tense in tone, about psychic powers.
“Steven Gould's series continues across Reflex, Impulse, and Exo, later following his and his wife's daughter as a second-generation jumper.”
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FootfallNovel
Larry Niven & Jerry Pournellestandalone novel1985
Alien invasion and first contact, tense in tone, about aliens.
“When aliens travel to Earth from Alpha Centauri, differences between alien and human psychology result in an unprovoked invasion, and the resulting resistance results in the aliens' use of a devastating weapon.”
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The Andromeda StrainSeries
series2 books1969
Tense in tone, about plague and pandemic.
“Daniel H. Wilson's authorized 2019 sequel The Andromeda Evolution revisits the same threat five decades later.”
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BromeliadSeries
series3 books1989
completed
Fantasy, about transported to another world.
“The trilogy tells the story of the Nomes, a race of tiny people from another world who now live hidden among humans.”
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