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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.”
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Start with Dune →
includes Dune, Heroes of Dune, Dune Prequels, Dune Sequels, Background of the Dune Universe
VorkosiganUniverse
universe27 books1986
Science fiction and space opera, set in far future and other star systems.
“Beyond his backwater lies the wormhole nexus: a scatter of human worlds strung along unstable jump-routes, where a blood-and-honor warrior aristocracy, a coolly egalitarian utopia, and a hundred lesser polities trade, spy, and go to war.”
from the catalogue
Start with Shards of Honor →
includes Cordelia Vorkosigan, Miles Vorkosigan, Quaddies
The TalentsUniverse
universe18 books1959
Science fiction, about psychic powers.
“Somewhere a Prime holds a Tower, gathers the gestalt of a generator's power, and flings a starship — or a single frightened child — across the light-years between worlds.”
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Start with The Rowan →
includes Tower and the Hive, Talents (Anne McCaffrey)
The Dosadi ExperimentNovel
Frank Herbertstandalone novel1977
Tense in tone, about aliens and 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.”
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Federation (Lauren Dane)Series
series2 books2008
Romance, tense in tone.
“Now she must obey the one man she can't stand—and can't stop thinking about.With the enemy Imperialists gaining ground, a covert team is assembled by Ash Walker.”
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Start with Undercover →
The Xenith TrilogySeries
series3 books2017
Romance, tense in tone, about aliens, set in space.
“Kidnapped by the princess's head bodyguard, Ruckus, and imprisoned in an alien palace, Delaney is forced to impersonate the princess until Olena can be found.”
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Start with Amid Stars and Darkness →