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The TalentsUniverse
universe18 books1959
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 →
includes Tower and the Hive, Talents (Anne McCaffrey)
HainishSeries
series33 books1964
completed
Reflective in tone.
“The Hainish Cycle consists of a number of science fiction novels and stories by Ursula K. Le Guin.”
from the catalogue
Start with Rocannon's World →
Cities in FlightSeries
series10 books1950
completed
Space opera.
“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 →
IsisSeries
series3 books1980
completed
About coming of age.
“The trilogy continues through The Guardian of Isis and The Isis Pedlar, later collected together as The Isis Trilogy.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Keeper of the Isis Light →
UpliftUniverse
universe13 books1980
Space opera, about uplift.
“No species, the Galactics insist, ever climbs to sapience alone.”
from the catalogue
Start with Sundiver →
includes Uplift Storm, Uplift
Old Man's WarSeries
series16 books2005
Military science fiction and space opera, 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 →