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MindswapNovel
Robert Sheckleystandalone novel1966
About body swap and aliens.
Big PlanetSeries
series2 books1952
completed
Science fiction, adventurous in tone, about survival, set in far future and other star systems.
“Jack Vance's 1957 novel — an early landmark of the fully realized planetary-romance setting — got a single sequel decades later, Showboat World, revisiting the same world without continuing Glystra's story.”
from the catalogue
Start with Big Planet →
Empire of ManSeries
series4 books2001
Space opera, tense in tone.
Start with March Upcountry →
Central ControlSeries
series2 books1953
completed
Science fiction, adventurous in tone, set in far future and other star systems.
“Andre Norton's Central Control novels are a loose future history that sketches the rise of a galactic empire through events echoing Norton's own reading of Terran history rather than following one continuing cast.”
from the catalogue
Start with Star Rangers →
DuneUniverse
universe78 books1963
Space opera, about political intrigue.
“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 Sequels, Dune Prequels, Heroes of Dune, Background of the Dune Universe
Catteni SequenceSeries
series5 books1970
completed
Space opera, about slavery and aliens.
“The Catteni series is a tetralogy of science fiction novels by American writer Anne McCaffrey.”
from the catalogue
Start with Freedom's Landing →