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  • Cover of Known Space
    Known SpaceUniverse

    universe · 142 books · 1964

    About aliens.

    “Give a clever species a few centuries and a working fusion drive, and it will fill the sky with problems.”

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    Terry Pratchett · standalone novel · 1981

    Humor, funny in tone.

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    Arthur C. Clarke · standalone novel · 1956

    About immortality.

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    Robert A. Heinlein · standalone novel · 1953

    Space opera, about coming of age, set in spaceship.

    “Starman Jones, a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, features a farm boy who wants to go to the stars.”

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  • Cover of Heechee
    HeecheeSeries

    series · 19 books · 1972

    completed

    Space opera, about aliens.

    “The Heechee are an advanced alien race that visited the Solar System hundreds of millennia ago and then mysteriously disappeared.”

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    Imperial EarthNovel

    Arthur C. Clarke · standalone novel · 1975

    Hard science fiction, about cloning and space colonization, set in outer planets & moons.

    “The plot follows the protagonist, Duncan Makenzie, on a trip to Earth from his home on Titan, in large part as a diplomatic visit to the U.S. for its quincentennial in 2276, but also to have a clone of himself produced.”

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