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completed
About aliens, set in spaceship.
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The Final ArchitectureSeries
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About aliens and war.
“Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed by an alien 'Architect'.”
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DuneUniverse
universe78 books1963
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.”
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The Dosadi ExperimentNovel
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About political intrigue and aliens.
“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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Pushing IceNovel
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