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  • Cover of Rama
    RamaUniverse

    universe · 7 books · 1973

    Set in spaceship.

    “Something is falling through the solar system on a hyperbolic orbit, and it is not a comet.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Rendezvous with Rama →

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  • Cover of Heechee
    HeecheeSeries

    series · 19 books · 1972

    completed

    Space opera, about space exploration, set in far future and other star systems.

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

    from the catalogue
    Start with Gateway →

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  • Cover of Have Space Suit - Will Travel
    Have Space Suit - Will TravelNovel

    Robert A. Heinlein · standalone novel · 1958

    Space opera, adventurous in tone, about space exploration.

    “One minute Kip Russell was walking about in his own backyard, testing out an old space suit and dreaming about going to the moon - and the next he was out cold and the captive of an insidious space pirate.”

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of All Judgment Fled
    All Judgment FledNovel

    James White · standalone novel · 1968

    About space exploration.

    “From the front flap of the Rapp first edition: It is the spring of 1978 and a gigantic alien spaceship has entered the solar system and taken up an orbit some sixty million miles from the Sun.”

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of Academy / Priscilla (Hutch) Hutchins
    Academy / Priscilla (Hutch) HutchinsSeries

    series · 16 books · 1983

    About space exploration, set in far future and other star systems.

    “Beginning with The Engines of God, the series treats deep time and the near-total absence of intelligent alien life as its central mystery, favoring slow-burn discovery over action.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Engines of God →

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  • Cover of Starplex
    StarplexNovel

    Robert J. Sawyer · standalone novel · 1996

    Space opera, about space exploration and war, set in spaceship.

    “For nearly twenty years Earth's space exploration had exploded outward, thanks to a series of mysterious, artificial wormholes.”

    from the catalogue

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