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DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Space opera.

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

HonorverseUniverse

universe83 books1993

Space opera and military science fiction.

“At the center stands one officer, Honor Harrington — captain, then something far larger — and the six-limbed empathic treecat who rides her shoulder.”
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Start with On Basilisk Station →

includes Expanded Honorverse, Honor Harrington, Saganami Island, Worlds of Honor anthologies, Wages of Sin, Manticore Ascendant, Honor Harrington Universe short fiction, Star Kingdom (Honor Harrington)

The GapSeries

series5 books1990

Space opera, about aliens, set in spaceship.

“Here, Donaldson gave a loose retelling of Wagner's Ring cycle.”
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Start with The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story →

The Dosadi ExperimentNovel

Frank Herbertstandalone novel1977

Space opera, about aliens and survival.

“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, The Hinder Stars, Unionside, Hanan Rebellion, Mri Wars, Era of Rapprochement, Age of Exploration

The Kindom TrilogySeries

series3 books2023

Space opera, about rebellion and revolution.

“A star system away, preternaturally stoic Chono and brilliant hothead Esek - the two most brutal clerics of the Kindom - are tasked with hunting Jun down.”
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Start with These Burning Stars →

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