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  • Cover of Uplift Universe
    UpliftUniverse

    universe · 13 books · 1980

    Space opera, 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 Storm, Uplift

  • Cover of Old Man's War
    Old Man's WarSeries

    series · 16 books · 2005

    Military science fiction and space opera, about war.

    “Sign a document at 65, saying you intend to join up 10 years later.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Old Man's War →

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  • Cover of The Talents
    The TalentsUniverse

    universe · 18 books · 1959

    About psychic powers.

    “Somewhere a Prime holds a Tower, gathers the gestalt of a generator's power, and flings a starship — or a single frightened child — across the light-years between worlds.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Rowan →

    similar byscience fiction+4 more

    includes Tower and the Hive, Talents (Anne McCaffrey)

  • Cover of Catteni Sequence
    Catteni SequenceSeries

    series · 5 books · 1970

    completed

    Space opera, about slavery and aliens.

    “The Catteni series is a tetralogy of science fiction novels by American writer Anne McCaffrey.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Freedom's Landing →

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  • Cover of Heorot
    HeorotSeries

    series · 4 books · 1987

    Science fiction, about space colonization, set in far future and other star systems.

    “Reproduction and fertility expert Dr Jack Cohen acted as a consultant on the book, designing the novel life cycle of the alien antagonists, the grendels.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Legacy of Heorot →

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  • Cover of Honorverse
    HonorverseUniverse

    universe · 83 books · 1993

    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.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with On Basilisk Station →

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