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Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1953

About space exploration and coming of age, set in spaceship and other star systems.

“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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Known SpaceUniverse

universe142 books1964

About aliens, set in other star systems.

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

includes Ringworld, Fleet of Worlds, Man-Kzin Wars

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

About political intrigue, set in 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.”
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Start with Dune →

includes Dune, Dune Sequels, Dune Prequels, Heroes of Dune, Background of the Dune Universe

Citizen of the GalaxyNovel

Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1957

About coming of age and identity, set in other star systems.

“On a planet far distant from Earth, a lame beggar buys a young boy slave who has forgotten his origins.”
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Ender's GameUniverse

universe39 books1977

Science fiction, set in far future.

“To beat your enemy you must first understand him so completely that you love him — and in the instant you love him, you destroy him.”
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Start with Ender's Game →

includes Ender's Shadow, Ender Wiggin, Fleet School, First Formic War, Second Formic War

FoundationUniverse

universe123 books1940

About robots.

“There is a science that reads the future of quadrillions the way an astronomer reads the orbits of stars.”
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Start with Foundation →

includes Trantorian Empire, Foundation, The Positronic Robot Stories, Foundation (Original Stories), Second Foundation Trilogy, The Collected Fiction of Isaac Asimov

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