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series3 books2023

Science fiction and space opera, tense and dark in tone, about political intrigue and rebellion and revolution, set in far future and space.

“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 →

DuneUniverse

universe78 books1963

Science fiction and space opera, about political intrigue, set in far future and other star systems.

“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

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

“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, Wages of Sin, Worlds of Honor anthologies, Manticore Ascendant, Honor Harrington Universe short fiction, Star Kingdom (Honor Harrington)

VattaUniverse

universe10 books2003

Adventurous in tone.

“Get kicked out of the Academy and the family still hands you a ship.”
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Start with Trading in Danger →

includes Vatta's War, Vatta's Peace

Xan-Sskarn WarSeries

series1 book2010

About aliens and war.

“Under her petite exterior is a spine of solid steel and a disposition to laugh in the face of impending death.”
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Start with Ragnarok →

Red RisingSeries

series13 books2014

Dystopia, about class conflict.

“Pierce Brown's Red Rising follows Darrow, a lowborn 'Red' miner on a colonized Mars who discovers his caste's suffering is a lie sustained by the ruling Gold elite, and infiltrates their ranks to destroy the system from within.”
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Start with Red Rising →

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