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RamaUniverse

universe7 books1973

About aliens, 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 →

includes Rama (2)

UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

About uplift and aliens, set in far future and other star systems.

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

Start with Sundiver →

includes Uplift Storm, Uplift

Alliance-UnionUniverse

universe173 books1976

Set in far future.

“Around that spine cluster the merchanter novels of trader Families, the Faded Sun trilogy of human envoys among the martial alien Mri, and the Chanur books, narrated from the hierarchical, whiskered viewpoint of the hani.”
from the catalogue

Start with Heavy Time →

includes Company Wars, Chanur, The Hinder Stars, Mri Wars, Unionside, Hanan Rebellion, Era of Rapprochement, Age of Exploration

Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

About aliens, set in far future and other star systems.

“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 →

includes Fleet of Worlds, Ringworld, Man-Kzin Wars

Legion of SpaceSeries

series7 books1947

completed

About aliens, set in far future and other star systems.

“The Medusae bear a vague resemblance to jellyfish, but are actually elephant-sized, four-eyed, flying beings with hundreds of tentacles.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Legion of Space →

The Lost FleetUniverse

universe27 books2006

Military science fiction, set in far future.

“A war a hundred years old has forgotten how to fight it.”
from the catalogue

Start with Dauntless →

includes The Genesis Fleet, Outlands (The Lost Fleet), Beyond the Frontier, The Lost Stars

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