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  • Cover of Known Space
    Known SpaceUniverse

    universe · 142 books · 1964

    About aliens.

    “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 →

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    includes Ringworld, Man-Kzin Wars, Fleet of Worlds

  • Cover of CoDominium
    CoDominiumUniverse

    universe · 98 books · 1971

    Military science fiction.

    “The body of work runs along a few hard threads rather than one line.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Mote in God's Eye →

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    includes Moties, Falkenberg's Legion, Laurie Jo Hansen, War World

  • Cover of Starman Jones
    Starman JonesNovel

    Robert A. Heinlein · standalone novel · 1953

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

    “Starman Jones, a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, features a farm boy who wants to go to the stars.”

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of Citizen of the Galaxy
    Citizen of the GalaxyNovel

    Robert A. Heinlein · standalone novel · 1957

    About coming of age and identity.

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

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of Dune Universe
    DuneUniverse

    universe · 78 books · 1963

    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 →

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

  • Cover of Heechee
    HeecheeSeries

    series · 19 books · 1972

    completed

    About aliens and space exploration.

    “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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