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series13 books2014

Dystopia and space opera, dark in tone, about rebellion and revolution.

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

FoundationUniverse

universe123 books1940

About robots.

“There is a science that reads the future of quadrillions the way an astronomer reads the orbits of stars.”
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includes Trantorian Empire, Foundation, The Positronic Robot Stories, The Collected Fiction of Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation Trilogy, Foundation (Original Stories)

WolflingNovel

Gordon R. Dicksonstandalone novel1969

Space opera, adventurous in tone, about aliens, set in space.

“Jim was just another wolfling to Afuan - a lesser being from a backward colony world.”
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To the Stars (Harrison)Series

series3 books1980

completed

Dystopia, about rebellion and revolution.

“One of the elite stumbles onto the knowledge that news and opinions are being carefully managed to whitewash the situation, which leads him to throw his lot in with those who oppose it.”
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The Status CivilizationNovel

Robert Sheckleystandalone novel1960

Dystopia, about prison escape and amnesia.

“On Omega, his only chance to advance himself -- and stay alive -- is to commit an endless series of violent crimes.”
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