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  • Cover of Known Space
    Known SpaceUniverse

    universe · 142 books · 1964

    About aliens, set in other star systems.

    “Give a clever species a few centuries and a working fusion drive, and it will fill the sky with problems.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Ringworld →

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    includes Ringworld, Fleet of Worlds, Man-Kzin Wars

  • Cover of Foundation Universe
    FoundationUniverse

    universe · 123 books · 1940

    About robots.

    “There is a science that reads the future of quadrillions the way an astronomer reads the orbits of stars.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Foundation →

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    includes Trantorian Empire, Foundation, Second Foundation Trilogy, The Positronic Robot Stories, The Collected Fiction of Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Original Stories)

  • Cover of Heechee
    HeecheeSeries

    series · 19 books · 1972

    completed

    About aliens and space exploration, set in other star systems.

    “The Heechee are an advanced alien race that visited the Solar System hundreds of millennia ago and then mysteriously disappeared.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Gateway →

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  • Cover of Starman Jones
    Starman JonesNovel

    Robert A. Heinlein · standalone novel · 1953

    About space exploration and coming of age, set in other star systems.

    “Starman Jones, a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, features a farm boy who wants to go to the stars.”

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of The Colors of Space
    The Colors of SpaceNovel

    Marion Zimmer Bradley · standalone novel · 1963

    About aliens and space exploration, set in other star systems.

    “The Lhari seem peaceful and friendly, but they go to some lengths to protect their monopoly on faster-than-light travel.”

    from the catalogue

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  • Cover of Solar Queen
    Solar QueenSeries

    series · 7 books · 1955

    Science fiction and space opera, set in far future and spaceship.

    “Andre Norton's Solar Queen novels follow the crew of a free-trader starship under Captain Jellico as they scrape by hauling cargo and making first contact on the fringes of settled space.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Sargasso of Space →

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