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Forever WarSeries
series10 books1972
Military science fiction.
Start with Hero →
DuneUniverse
universe78 books1963
Science fiction and space opera, about political intrigue, set in far future and other star systems.
“The desert planet, where empire runs on a single substance: the spice melange, which folds space, prolongs life, and unlocks prescience, and which exists nowhere else in the known universe.”
from the catalogue
Start with Dune →
includes Dune, Dune Prequels, Dune Sequels, Heroes of Dune, Background of the Dune Universe
ConfederationUniverse
universe19 books1991
Science fiction and space opera, set in far future and space.
“In the twenty-seventh century humanity has spilled across nearly nine hundred star systems and calls the loose weave that binds them the Confederation.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Reality Dysfunction →
includes Night's Dawn Trilogy, Confederation Universe Stories
The Dosadi ExperimentNovel
Frank Herbertstandalone novel1977
About survival.
“Dosadi is rumored to be an experimental planet, and the experimenters are the froglike Gowachin, whose culture is founded upon a strange legal system in which McKie is the only human ever trained.”
from the catalogue
Debatable SpaceSeries
series3 books2008
Science fiction and space opera, set in far future and space.
Start with Debatable Space →
Known SpaceUniverse
universe142 books1964
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 →
includes Ringworld, Fleet of Worlds, Man-Kzin Wars