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  • Cover of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Universe
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyUniverse

    universe · 18 books · 1979

    Science fiction and humor, funny in tone, set in far future and space.

    “The Earth is scheduled for demolition to make way for a hyperspace bypass, and honestly, nobody filed the paperwork properly.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy →

    similar byscience fictionfar futurefunnyspacehumor+7 more

    includes Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dirk Gently

  • Cover of The Stainless Steel Rat
    The Stainless Steel RatSeries

    series · 21 books · 1957

    completed

    Science fiction and space opera, funny and adventurous in tone, about con artists, set in far future and space.

    “An adolescent boy on a dull planet resolves to live by his wits outside the law, and enacts a plan which leads to risk and reward.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born →

    similar byscience fictionfar futurefunnyadventurousspacespace operacon artists+3 more

  • 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 →

    similar byscience fictionfar futurespaceother star systemsaliens+3 more

    includes Ringworld, Man-Kzin Wars, Fleet of Worlds

  • Cover of Foundation Universe
    FoundationUniverse

    universe · 123 books · 1940

    Science fiction, about robots, set in far future.

    “There is a science that reads the future of quadrillions the way an astronomer reads the orbits of stars.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Foundation →

    similar byscience fictionfar futurerobots+3 more

    includes The Positronic Robot Stories, Trantorian Empire, Foundation, Second Foundation Trilogy, The Collected Fiction of Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Original Stories)

  • Cover of The Culture
    The CultureUniverse

    universe · 21 books · 1987

    About artificial intelligence, set in galactic scale.

    “No money, no laws, no hunger, no death you didn't choose; a galaxy-spanning anarchy of humans and drones administered, gently and with enormous irony, by superintelligent Minds who name their warships things like *Frank Exchange Of Views*.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Consider Phlebas →

    similar byscience fictionfar futurespace opera+3 more

    includes Culture

  • Cover of Bill, the Galactic Hero
    Bill, the Galactic HeroSeries

    series · 10 books · 1964

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

    “Harry Harrison's Bill, the Galactic Hero is a satire of militaristic science fiction, following a hapless draftee named Bill through a galactic war run by an absurd, dehumanizing military bureaucracy.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Bill, the Galactic Hero →

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