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A Time of ChangesNovel
Robert Silverbergstandalone novel1971
About faith and religion.
The Man in the MazeNovel
Robert Silverbergstandalone novel1969
About psychic powers and loneliness.
TeixcalaanSeries
series2 books2019
Space opera, tense in tone, about political intrigue.
“A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace pair court intrigue with Mahit's conflicted, outsider fascination with an empire she can't help admiring.”
from the catalogue
Start with A Memory Called Empire →
RadchaaiUniverse
universe11 books2012
Space opera, about political intrigue.
“Civilization is what the Radch calls itself, and civilization is a courtesy extended at gunpoint.”
from the catalogue
Start with Ancillary Justice →
includes Imperial Radch
Citizen of the GalaxyNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1957
Space opera, adventurous in tone, about coming of age and slavery.
“On a planet far distant from Earth, a lame beggar buys a young boy slave who has forgotten his origins.”
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TritonNovel
Samuel R. Delanystandalone novel1976
Challenging in tone, about gender and society and political intrigue.