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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, Fleet of Worlds, Man-Kzin Wars

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    ThistledownSeries

    series · 5 books · 1978

    completed

    Hard science fiction.

    Start with The Wind from a Burning Woman →

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  • Cover of CoDominium
    CoDominiumUniverse

    universe · 98 books · 1971

    Science fiction and military science fiction, set in far future and other star systems.

    “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, War World, Laurie Jo Hansen

  • Cover of Uplift Universe
    UpliftUniverse

    universe · 13 books · 1980

    Space opera, adventurous in tone, about uplift and aliens.

    “No species, the Galactics insist, ever climbs to sapience alone.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Sundiver →

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    includes Uplift, Uplift Storm

  • Cover of Central Control
    Central ControlSeries

    series · 2 books · 1953

    completed

    Adventurous in tone.

    “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 →

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  • Cover of Heechee
    HeecheeSeries

    series · 19 books · 1972

    completed

    Space opera, about aliens.

    “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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