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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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Start with Dune →
includes Dune, Dune Sequels, Dune Prequels, Heroes of Dune, Background of the Dune Universe
The Dosadi ExperimentNovel
Frank Herbertstandalone novel1977
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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Alliance-UnionUniverse
universe173 books1976
Science fiction, set in far future.
“Around that spine cluster the merchanter novels of trader Families, the Faded Sun trilogy of human envoys among the martial alien Mri, and the Chanur books, narrated from the hierarchical, whiskered viewpoint of the hani.”
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Start with Heavy Time →
includes Company Wars, Chanur, Hanan Rebellion, Mri Wars, Age of Exploration, Era of Rapprochement, The Hinder Stars, Unionside
Pushing IceNovel
Alastair Reynoldsstandalone novel2005
Hard science fiction and first contact, about space exploration and aliens.
The OutposterNovel
Gordon R. Dicksonstandalone novel1972
About space colonization and class conflict.
“If your number came up, you joined the rest of the losers marked for exile from overcrowded Earth.”
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WolflingNovel
Gordon R. Dicksonstandalone novel1969
Adventurous in tone, about aliens and political intrigue.
“Jim was just another wolfling to Afuan - a lesser being from a backward colony world.”
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