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UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

Space opera.

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

Start with Sundiver →

includes Uplift, Uplift Storm

Terro-Human Future HistoryUniverse

universe48 books1952

Science fiction, set in far future and other star systems.

“History does not repeat, Piper's chroniclers are fond of saying — it rhymes, and it rhymes in iron.”
from the catalogue

Start with Little Fuzzy →

includes Terro-Human, Terro-Human (Wehr)

Beast MasterSeries

series5 books1959

Science fiction, set in far future and other star systems.

“Andre Norton's Beast Master series follows Hosteen Storm, a Navajo veteran of an interstellar war who resettles an alien frontier world with a team of specially trained animals bonded to him by touch-telepathy.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Beast Master →

HonorverseUniverse

universe83 books1993

Space opera and military science fiction.

“At the center stands one officer, Honor Harrington — captain, then something far larger — and the six-limbed empathic treecat who rides her shoulder.”
from the catalogue

Start with On Basilisk Station →

includes Star Kingdom (Honor Harrington), Honor Harrington, Saganami Island, Worlds of Honor anthologies, Wages of Sin, Manticore Ascendant, Expanded Honorverse, Honor Harrington Universe short fiction

Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

Science fiction, 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 Ringworld, Man-Kzin Wars, Fleet of Worlds

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 →

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